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Keyword Research and Optimisation

To build a successful website you will usually need to rely on search engine listings. To do this research is essential, there is no point targeting a word that generates little or no search results.

To aid in this there are a number of tools available to find and evaluate keywords. One such tool is Wordtracker and although you need to pay a monthly fee, with the right keywords it easily pays for itself.

Take this article for instance; I knew I wanted to write about keyword research. I used word tracker to come up with the title of this post “Keyword Research and Optimisation”, and hopefully I will now get some traffic from Google. Where Wordtracker came into its own was that it not only suggested this title, but also told me that over 40 people a day search for it and that this title is a more popular search than “Keyword Research”.

There are of course some free tools available. One example is provided by SEO Tools, this provides a number of the features from Wordtracker. However it did not come up with the title of this article. In fact it didn’t come up with anything!

Currently Wordtracker does offer a free seven day trial. You will need your credit card to sign up, but if you do not like it then it is easy to cancel, although the chances are, like me, you will not want to.

I will detail my success with Wordtracker in future posts, so if in doubt, keep reading this blog and hear about the success I have had with it.

Free Blog Traffic

Getting traffic to your blog can be difficult. You have heard all the things you need to do like write good content, submit to directories, submit articles etc. These all work very well but say you want to get immediate traffic. How would you do it?

Well there is one little trick that I know, in fact I am doing it now, what you need to do is read through some busy web forums, find something of interest which is related to your blog. In this case it is people wanting to know how to get free traffic to their blog. Then you write a blog post, like this, about the subject in question.

The final step is simple, answer the forum post and include a link back to your blog. It probably won’t generate much traffic, maybe 10-20 people, but if they become regular readers then it is worthwhile. Additionally if you find a topic where people are always asking the same question, you can always post the same answer, with a link. Then the free traffic coming to your blog really adds up!

Are you Missing your Pagerank?

Has this ever happened to one of your sites? You go from a pagerank of 3 or 4 to 0 all of a sudden. The next few updates happen and you stay at zero?

This happened to a site that I recently purchased, Poultry Pages. In fact when I purchased it the pagerank was zero and it had a few other problems but that’s a story for another day.

The site had previously been selling links. Google does not like this and so manually they removed the pagerank. Reading various forums told me to build quality backlinks and it will come. This also made no difference; the site has links from education sites and DMOZ, which in my opinion are strong links.

Anyway I eventually found the solution under Google webmaster tools. They have a link there called “request reconsideration”. Here you can have your say about your lost page rank. I wrote a quick note to say that the site had previously been selling links but does not anymore and that all links on the site were now no-follow links. Just three days later I had the page rank back!

Adsense Optimization

When you first considered using Google Adsense how did you place your ads? Did you, like me, pick some ads that looked good, adjust the colour to your site and place them where they fit on your site. If so then the chances are these are not optimized. So how do we optimize our site for Adsense?

Google Adsense provides the answer to this. In their help files they provide details on where on the screen gets the highest click through, the best colours to use, which ad formats work best. They also have details on optimizing forums and blogs too.

If you really want to succeed with Google Adsense you should probably consider redesigning your site to fix the best performing Adsense blocks, rather than selecting the adsense blocks to fit the available space on your site.

Earn with Banners

Have you considered adding banners to your site to earn money?

No? What if the money is guaranteed and traffic is irrelevant? Now it gets more interesting….

Matched offers you £3 per page, per month that you display a banner. This is restricted to 5 pages per site. For a blog or website with a couple of hundred pages you could easily find five pages to add these banners to and earn an easy £15 a month. You can also add up to five websites. Again at five pages per site can bring this monthly payment to £75 (Approx $150).

You also get a bonus of £5 when you sign up. Payments are made to a UK bank account or Paypal.

Quick Freebee for Poker Players

You may not have heard of these offers, but they are growing in popularity.

These are free poker offers, you do not need to deposit, or make use of a credit card.

You will initially get $50, then usually another bonus after completing a number of points.

This may sound a strange offer but when you understand how it works it makes sense. The poker site makes money out of rake, a percentage of the pot. So if they offer you $50 for free, they can then make it back through the rake. Of course they do hope you become addicted and later deposit. In this case you can just move onto the next offer though.

So try out Poker Strategy who offer poker money at Party Poker, Full Tilit, Titan Poker, Mansion Poker and Poker Stars.

Please post in the comments how well you do!

Contemporary Furniture Review

Just landed on some furniture related website yesterday and saw some amazing furnitures. I was planning to buy some furnitures, like some stylish Italian beds and stuffs like that, so I started searching online, found this LA Furniture Store, which has some really great furnitures. I have a decent room, which can fill up almost everything starting from these beds to a TV rack and the sofa set etc. so the space was not a problem. But I knew where the problem was going to come, and yes it’s the price. So I quickly checked a few prices, and saw those really cheap prices, which made me jump.

I guess I got what I was looking for, so I though about making a review of it. These modern furnitures are really a great work of art. The moment you look at them the buying urge starts creeping into the mind. Here is another site, 22 Modern which is a great place to start buying furnitures.

Low Mortgage Rate Review

Remember the famous saying, “money saved is money earned”! The same saying is absolutely correct when you chose a mortgage plan. We need money from time to time and we take loans for our requirements. Most of the time we don’t check for the best mortgage rates before applying for a loan, but not any more. This website provides the best mortgage rates and quotes. Thus from now, choosing the right mortgage plan is no longer a problem.

Just go through the website, and you will find the simple and easy to use tool that will give you the current mortgage rates, which will help you to make a good choice. Just choose a nice mortgage plan that suits your needs. Just adding a final advice, in the time of needs its always hard to make the right decision so it is always advisable that you make your research well in advance, so that in the hour of need, you will have it easy.

Article Rewrite Tool – Bad Articles Review

Unique articles are required for all kinds of online business, whether you have any blog or website, or you have any ecommerce online shop you will need unique content to get your pages on top of search engines results. Recently I was in requiring of lots of article content and I came across a great online tool, which looks pretty promising.

The name of this Article Rewrite Tool is – Bad Articles. This is an absolute online tool that dose not require any installation. The system works only on IE6+ browser and requires MS word 2003. Though I have MS word 2000 and it still worked!

I opened up my IE6 browser, and loaded this website. Just followed the instruction opened up the Internet explorer properties and enabled the activeX stuff! Once that was done the system started working. I put up this article that I had written months back, and tested on the three different versions and here is what the results I got.

The Original article:

The human mind is a complex thing. But some times I think that this is all planned. Someone knows that what a human will do in his entire life. There must be someone who has programmed the human mind. What if it is true? Then lets take the example of a fish, the mother fish goes to a place far away to lay the eggs and when the eggs hatch the baby fish goes to the same place from the place it’s mama came from. Is it not that the little fish is programmed to do it. Yes for some people but the human’s case is different. The human baby gets knowledge by experience. As the baby grows it gains experience and it’s thinking expands. But still there is a probability that the mind is pre programmed. Perhaps I am writing this message because I have been programmed to do this. If the brain is programmed then there must be a limitation. Yes that’s my point. We have to search its limitation. But the problem is there is no limitation. The brain can think any thing. But it is possible that the brain thinks what it is programmed to think. Perhaps Einstein was programmed to think what he discovered. Now the question comes that can a brain think something what it is not programmed. Now take the example of a blind man, can he think of colors. Well if you ask a blind man to think of colors e.g. red he won’t be able to think. Can you think of an ultra violet color or an infrared color? But if you close your eyes then there will not be much of a difference between a blind man and you. But you can think of the red color. Red for fire, for blood. Is it very difficult to think red? But you have seen red color, that’s why it is easy for you to think. But is it impossible for a blind man to think about the red color. No, not impossible it’s just that he will never think of. Just think how will a fourth dimension look like. Our world is three-dimensional so it is quite impossible to imagine something like that. It is possible to think the unthinkable but it’s just that we will never think that.

The First Rewrite – this is by far the best re-write, only changed a few words so the article made proper sense.

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The second level – here a lot of words are changed, though the meaning of the article from the literary point of view stays as the original.

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The third level – a lot of words are changed to similar meaning words but it still reads cool.

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If you read clearly through the article, you will find that some sentences becomes a lot better after the re-writes, like, “Our system is three-dimensional so it is exceptionally hilarious to imagine great like that” or something like, “Now take the vanguard of a blindfold companion, can he see daylight of ensign. Well if you demand a blind lad to viewpoint of colors e.g. torrid he won’t be useful to assumption. Can you suspicion of an violently mauve shade or an cerise flush? But if you covert your faculty then there relinquish not be much of a squabble between a blind partner and you” and I just kept reading and found that on a few occations the re-writes are actually better than the original one!

I really enjoyed this article rewrite tool, and will be using it the future for sure.

Make Money from Adsense - Complete Guide

People do earn from a few hundred dollars to many thousand dollars per month from adsense. If you pay $4 a month to run a site and earn $140 from it every month, then you can expect what 10 or a 100 such sites do for you, just read through and you will find how it works.

We are mainly focusing on adsense on this article, but the same idea can be used in bidvertiser, Kontera, adbrite etc ads program. Am sure most people have not been able to earn much, from the other ads network, but since we are mainly focusing on creating niche adsense sites, so almost all ads network can bring clicks and dollars for you. To save some time, here are 2 articles to help you optimize your sites for bidvertiser and adbrite. You don’t have to do anything for Kontera, just get an account and start making money from Kontera.

Optimization tips for Bidvertiser
Optimization tips for Adbrite

We will be focusing on adsense from now on:

First off you need to get approved in adsense, for this I suggest you to make a blogger blog, and submit it to adsense for getting approval. Blogger blogs gets approved in adsense quickly. 5 to 10 articles in a blog will be good enough to get you approved. Once you get approved, just forget that blog as it is not going to make you rich by any way. For more details on this, please check this article - Guide to get approved in adsense.

Part1: Choosing a Niche:

Niche – Topic/subject/category
The most important part of adsense is to choose a profitable niche. A good niche is one that has less competition and more searches. So, that means more people are searching about that particular topic and there are few websites competing on the term. So, you can rank highly on such a term and start getting a lot of visitors without working that hard. Also, you will have to check that there is enough advertiser competition for that niche or not.

Here is a quick tip to find a good niche. ‘Cars’ could be a good niche; ‘Mercedes car’ could be a more targeted niche. Here just ask yourself, can you come on top of the serps for this keyword, like “Mercedes car” In my honest opinion, chasing such competitive terms is just a waste of time. Rather try to rank good for some less competitive words like, “car breakdown service” or “heavy duty truck breakdown services” which will be a lot easier.
[Note: the above keywords are just examples, they are not highly searched.]

When you choose your domain, the niche is very important. Forget about brandable domain; rather choose something that has all the keywords in it. If “African white elephant” is a keyword then you should try to get a domain like, Africanwhiteelephant.com or African-white-elephant.com, rather than a domain which dose not have these keywords in it.

For keywords research, I suggest these tools:
tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php
inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion

For checking advertisement competition you can try this tool, you can also use this to do keyword research. The more the advertisement competition, the better it is, as more ads and less websites means more money per click.
adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Make sure that the niche you are selecting has some traffic, and then go to google.com and make a search on that keyword on which you are setting up your website. If the niche has too much of competition, then leave it. Remember every niche will have some competition, so try to have a niche that has just enough competition that you can compete on. Also, try to find at least 50+ keywords on your niche. A keyword is something like, “heavy duty truck breakdown services” but remember, if the keyword is, “breakdown services duty truck heavy” then just forget that keyword, if you re-arrange that keyword it won’t bring you any traffic. And if you use such a jumble keyword in your article title or content, then search engines can simply ban your site or penalize you, or ban you from adsense. So, if you find keywords like those just ignore them. Try to find 4 to 5 words long keywords that make sense. This is called long-tail keywords, and it dose work. Will talk about this more in a later part of this article.

Part 2: Choosing hosting:

[Note: some people might find this section stupid, am one of them.]

For hosting I suggest Godaddy, all it takes is $4 a month, and gives about 10 GB of space and 300 GB of data transfer. Am hosting most of my sites with godaddy, and am pretty much satisfied by their service. Get a Linux hosting, comes with 10 database free. Last time I told this to a friend of mine, he said that he has window XP in his computer. Don’t worry about it, you don’t have to know about Linux and it dose not matters what OS you have in your computer.

Part 3: Choosing a script for making your website:

This is the most important part of this article. A good script can help you a lot, and a regular free script won’t take you any further. Lets talk here a bit,

Take the example of a local retailer. Say he has a commodity, which costs $4. When he sells that, he earns 10 to 50 cents on it. Take any example of an off line business, at max you can earn 40% to 50% on it. If he sells his product for $8 then he can make a profit of 100%, but there is always a MRP that says you can’t sell for a price so high, and thus you have a limitation of profits.

Now lets take one of my sites as an example, say I have a site that costs me $4 a month to run. And it has about 20 to 50 visitors a month. All my sites till now generated at least that much visitors from the first month, and it just keep increasing. So from 20-50 visitors I make $2 to $5 a day. So, I roughly make $120 a month from a site that costs $4 a month to run. That’s about 30 times profit, in other words 3000% profits. So if you plan to make such big profits, I do suggest you to use an adsense optimized script. And this is the reason why I created an adsense-optimized script. For more details on this, go here - article directory script

I was not happy with the same old blogs, the same type of columns, the same type of layout, people have become used to those, and now they just ignore them. This is the reason why I spent so much money and created such a script, but hey it just costs $25 per website.

Anyways, if you don’t have the money to buy that script, then you can try some free alternatives.

Part 4: Getting content for your website:

In the niche section, part 1 of this ebook, I have talked about keywords. If you have those 50+ keywords on your niche, your work will be lot easier. Those keywords must be related to your website/niche directly. Those keywords are the titles of your articles. Use that exact keyword as your article title, and write an article on it, then use that keyword once, in your article body and article description, just once. If you have like 50+ keyword rich articles, you can expect a lot of traffic coming from the search engines. Not just google, my niche sites gets traffic coming from, google.com, msn/live, aol, yahoo etc. and search engine visitors are the best kind of visitors.

Don’t add adsense codes to your website yet, have patience, and wait for the right time.

Am adding up a small little sub-section here to optimize your website:

Feedburner: here is a little feedburner guide:

If you use our script for making your website, then you will find a small little button that says, “RSS” in red. Click on that, that’s your website’s feed URL. Then go to feedburner.com and configure your feeds.

Once you configure your feed, you can copy the codes in your website and it will look something like this:

You can also put register in the feeds option at the end of your articles:

Then go to My blog log, and set up a community there and put the codes in your website, and it will look something like this:

The above site is http://technascent.com/ and it is running on our open article submission script. If you use this script then you can ask for any help regarding SEO or adsense to me anytime, I will try my best to help you all the time. Feel free to contact me from my website: http://openarticlesubmission.com/

Part 5: Traffic, Serps, SEO:

Before coming to this part, lets see what we have completed till now,
So we have a website, along with the hosting space.
We do have a script, hopefully open article submission, adsense optimized script.
The website has all the articles on it, so practically the website is already running and live.

Now the SEO: You don’t require to do huge SEO for this, do exactly as I say.
1) Social bookmarking: This will get your site indexed in the search engines too with this method. Since these social bookmarking sites have good authority in search engines, so the backlinks will be useful too. If you have the time and can take the effort, then go to google and search for “list of social bookmarking sites” or, “social bookmarks” etc. and you will get a hell lot of social websites. Now take a week off and register in each of those and submit your website, along with descriptions and keywords etc. It will save you lot of money, else you can take on some of these services, this one is mine, and it costs $6. It’s a bit expensive but has quality, as I have strong bookmarking profiles in the social websites. But you can search in google for such services and you will find a lot of cheap ones too.
2) Article marketing: here you signup on articles directories, and submit an article related to your website, and in the footer, “author resource box” put your website’s link. This is also a good way to increase link popularity. And yes, I do provide this service too, Am sure you must be thinking that am trying to market my service from this article, if you are thinking this then you are wrong, it’s just that I can’t stop myself from posting my website’s urls.
3) Free directory submission: Purchase featured links in free directories, that’s the fastest way to get into a free directory. You can also submit to new free directories as they accept websites quickly.

If you really want to do further seo then simply find blogs in your website’s nice and then contact the blogger. Then give the blogger an article, must be unique and good quality. Make sure the article is on your niche, and not on your website, just add one link in the article, that’s it. Even though I don’t suggest doing this as the first three steps is just enough. I can get your site to rank for any keyword that you want, it all depends on your budget, but spending hundreds of dollars on each website will cost you lots of money which is not a good idea as you want to earn easy money from adsense. Now try to create more websites, as this one is already ready!

Now is the time to use adsense codes. Just copy your adsense codes in your website and that’s it. Here is a small little guide to optimize your adsense ads, and you can read this article for a Guide.

Logon to your adsense control panel, and click on adsense setup:

1) Always use the bigger rectangles or the square ads, they are the best performing ads units.
2) The ads text and background color should be the same as your website’s text and background color.

Then you paste the code in your website:

When you complete, your ads should look something like this. The perfectly optimized ads.

Or square ads on article page along with top link unit.

Thanks for reading this article,
Regards,
Uttoransen,