Google Adwords Scam
A lot of advertisers have lost money with Adwords. If you visit the forums you can come across a lot of people who have given up on Adwords. Some of them think it's a scam. The fact is that Adwords pulls in Billions of dollars of revenue each year. If there wan't money to be made with Adwords the bottom would have fell out long ago and there would be no more Google Adwords. Adwords is not a scam!... Read internet business article
Tips for Blog Topics
Do you blog on a regular or somewhat regular basis, but sometimes have trouble coming up with topics for your blog? Here's a few helpful hints to get you going when writer's block strikes.
1. Google is your friend
Search Google to see what questions people have about the field you're in. Try combining one of the following phrases with a keyword related to your field of expert... Read internet business article
Getting High Page Rank Sites To Link To Your Site
The biggest craze on the internet today is linking between sites. Many webmasters spend many long hours searching for links to their site. Searching for links is not so much fun, actually, it could turn into a nightmare. You can search and search and with a little bit of luck, possibly come up with a site that links back to your site. That is, of course, if you link to their site first. An important thing to look for are links attained from high Page Rank sites. Unfortunately for the newcomer, it is next to impossible. This is true because webmasters are very, very picky on which sites they choose to link their websites with. Be prepared to receive more rejections than acceptances, especially if you are just starting out. Do not fall into the trap of countless hours of link searching, it could all be a waste of time.
Now, it is even possible to buy links to your site, however, this can be quite expensive. If you are willing to pay for links, the cheapest place to go to is eBay. Type in 'links' or 'backward links' in the search bar of eBay.com homepage. You will be surprised at how many people are selling links. Prices range anywhere to up to $50 for a PageRank of 6 to 8. Keep in mind that this link will only last a month. When that month is completed, you will have to start over again, and of course, pay again. Another thing to remember is that these sites may not even be related to your site at all. This means that if you get traffic from their site it is considered untargeted traffic. For this reason, it is important to be on topic or link only related sites.
Example Let's say you have a website on shoes. It simply makes sense to link back and forth with sites that are related to shoes. This is targeted linking. If you request a link from a sporting goods site, would you think these two sites are related in any way. Of course they are, if you think it through creatively. Every market can have a link back to another industry, you simply need to find the connection. So many of the most popular items today were unheard of years ago because it did not seem to be a popular request. But once creativity was brought in, many of these items are sought after by millions of people.
Any site with a PageRank is worth linking to. There is, however, a secret to ensure that this topic is related to your site. The higher you aim for in PageRank, the more difficult it is to achieve a link back to your site.
Here's the trick. Good content. That's it. Webmasters hunger for good quality content that will be valuable to their readers. Once you post a good article, you will find many links back to your site. That is just the way it goes. Without even having a link to their site, you'll have new traffic. Keep up the good content and you will be considered an expert in your field and site owners that once didn't want to link to your site will be doing so, for free. Just remember, all you need is catchy, informative, powerful content and webmasters will be lining up to link to your site.
How To Search For Links
There are many ways to search for a link. The first way, of course, is by using search engines. Simply type in the keyword of your industry in the search box and watch the results you get. Then type the keyword followed by 'add url' or 'add site'. Use some common sense and carefully think about what the webmaster will ask for when he wants a link to the site. It will be to either add or submit site. This is why we use these at the front of the keyword. When using it at the end of the keyword, it will produce different results. For example: add url boots boots add url
You can then go even further into your search by using other keywords to obtain other sites: shoes boots cowboy boots casual boots apparel, etc.
I think by now you are getting the picture.
You will then be asked for links directing you back to their first site, before they accept your site. It is always smart to visit the sites you want a back link from. This will give you positive results. For example, let's say you are in the cooking industry and you want backward links. You will type the keyword in the search box. You will then see the top ten entries for that particular keyword. Then you will enter the site which is on top of the list. Remember the Google toolbar, click on the 'I' icon, followed by 'backward links'. You will then see how many sites that site has linked back to them. It is probably hundreds. Now think about it, if hundreds of other sites are linking to the top site, then can you imagine the possibilities that they will in turn link back to your site. The possibility is about half. What you will need to do is to go to each site and request a link back to yours. For maximum results, follow their submission guidelines, for each site will vary. Most often, the site will want to know the topic of your site and will want to see it prior to approval.
There are various lists out there with everyone's top Wordpress plugins. I've gotten a few emails on what I would consider my best ones and the ones I use on Adsenseshack.
In no particular order here are my picks:
1. AJAX Comments by Mike Smullin: With Google pushing AJAX back in front of developers I had to take a look at ways to implement this technology on my site. This plugin allows comments to be posted without refreshing the page.
2. Feedburner Feed Replacement by Steve Smith: A must have. Feedburner allows me to analyze my feed subscriber base and even offers an advertising program to sell or list your own ads directly on your feeds.
3. Google Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold: With sitemaps being the hot topic now with support from the major players in the field (see related post here), its no wonder that having a plugin to create and automatically update would be a top 10 pick. It pings Google automatically when a post is created or updated and even offers a gzip version of the sitemap. This is one that you install and forget about, which is how I like it.
4. WP-Translate by Scott Hough: When I first migrated Adsenseshack to Wordpress I read up a lot on SEO practices for the blogging platform. One in particular stood out in my mind, extending the reach of your site by making it accessible to foreign subscribers. After some research I've found this translation plugin to be the best for my needs. The only tweak I had to do with the code was change the path of the flag images since it would show up on some pages and not others when installed. My reader base has expanded over the Europe and Asia rapidly since this one went live and the SEs started crawling my site in the different languages.
5. Jerome's Keywords by Jerome Lavigne: Allows you to list keywords after your post which are linkable automatically to related posts with the same keywords. Great for SEO purposes in terms of meta tags or for Technorati if you match their tags. Really brings up the navigation of the site.
6. WP-PageNavi by GaMerz: Sticking to the plugins that improve the default navigation we have this one that fills some more of the nav void from a base install of Wordpress. This one is pretty simple, it just puts a page nav menu so you can scroll through different pages of posts in a category or off your index page. A must have for users to be able to browse your entire site.
7. Related Posts by Alexander Malov: This plugin does exactly what it's title says, give related posts. You can set the amount of posts you would like displayed and it lists them after your main body of text. I've seen my article views go up sharply right after implementing this.
8. Social Bookmarks by Apostolos Dountsis: Social bookmarking sites like Digg and Technorati are great places to get exposure for your content. Getting to the top of Digg has made many blogger famous in his/her circles. This plugin puts graphic links at the bottom of your posts making it easy for a reader to nominate or bookmark the article to some of the more popular bookmarking sites. Links are added or removed from the admin area and the whole setup is pretty easy. I wasn't able to modify the links shown on this site for some unknown reason so what you see below is the default.
9: HeadSpace2 by John Godley: Another SEO must have for Wordpress blogs. This allows modification of the info between the tags on each page. Stuff like meta tags, keywords, title, description and so on. You can either have the data pulled manually from the post or insert it manually. I don't think I'm using this to its full potential as yet but my pages are showing up on the SEs with the proper info and my keyword searches are going up.
10. Mighty Adsense by mightyhitter: The Adsense plugin used on this site. I've tried a few and this one meets and exceeds my requirements. You can save up to ten ad formats and position them on different places on single pages, post pages and the main page. The multiple ad slots are great for tweaking site placement and it makes experimentation so much easier. If I can get this to work with the Adsense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System I mention below it would be perfect.
Honorable Mention:
These didn't make the top 10 list but are no means inferior or less useful to the ones above.
Adsense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System by Atanas Yanev/ Harley Quine: This could possibly be my favorite but what I really want it to do is work with Mighty Adsense. The support off the site is amazing, Atanas replies to all comments or requests for help in a very small space in time and tries to make his plugin work in all situations. If he gets this working for me or in the next version then I may do a review on this plugin alone. I love the concept that much.
Wordpress Database Backup by Scott Merrill: Haven't used this much, but since my day job is a system admin I know the importance of backups. One 36 hour stretch of rebuilding servers and recovering data from a failed array will get you wise to this fact really fast. Hopefully I don't need to use it in the future but you never know what might happen. This plugin give you the ability to perform on-demand backups of your Wordpress DB.
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4. MySpace 101
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8. Web Hosting Tips
1. For choosing the one which is right for your business you need to understand the difference between shared, co-located, unmanaged dedicated servers and managed dedicated hostings.
9. Home Mortgage: Bad Credit Won't Rule Out a New Home
When you're looking for a way to afford your dream home, home mortgage bad credit options can offer a way to get you into the home that you want to buy. Not long ago, people with less than perfect cre... Read article
10. Erase Bad Credit With A Little Help
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Getting High Page Rank Sites To Link To Your Site
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