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How To Make Money Online Without Spending Any Money

Terry — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:09:42 +0000

If you want to know how to make money online without spending any money read this article and follow the advice given. Every day there are people deciding they want to make money online and most of them will put a lot of effort and enthusiasm into it, at first. They will read everything they can and buy lots of ebooks, guides and courses on how to make money online. They will spend a lot of money and I bet that 90% of them give up after a few months with their tail between their legs and they tell their friends this Internet thing doesn't work. They will look back and wonder if they were mugs to spend all that money and wonder where it all went wrong.

Well, they weren't mugs and it wasn't exactly that they went wrong but the internet can be a hard nut to crack when you are new to it all. There are billions of pounds, dollars and Yen being made every month online by companies large and small. There are people working in their bedrooms raking in significant amounts of money every day. It can be done but it takes time to learn and it is all too easy to end up buying information and advice that never quite seems to get you where you want to be.

I suggest you start with a different approach. In this way of working you spend nothing at all and you build up slowly and learn how the internet and internet marketing works before you start spending money and not the other way around.

You start out by going to How To Make Money With Hubpages and read the article there about making money with hubpages. Next you sign up for a free account of your own. Click the 'make new page' link and decide on a subject for your first article. Don't worry too much about the first one. Use it as a test run for learning how you go about writing, editing, adding extra features and so on. It is all very straightforward but it may seem a little strange at first like anything new does.

Having got your feet wet setting up and publishing your first page you can start developing things a bit more. There's an article here about How To Make $1000 Per Month On Hubpages which makes interesting reading and it seems perfectly doable to me.

All you have to do is write an interesting article when you have some spare time. At first you may wonder why you haven't made any money but stick with it. Write more articles and over time you will find more visitors reading your pages and more clicks on adverts which make you money.

You get the benefit of being part of an authority site that google rates very well and your articles have every chance of appearing near the top of the search engines and getting traffic to your hubpages. All this costs you nothing at all and you avoid the problems of managing websites and servers and registering domain names. If you want to know how to make money online without spending any money I think this is the best way available right now.

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Don’t Buy LG Monitors If You Expect It To Last Beyond The Warranty

Terry — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:28:21 +0000

I'm just going to have a brief rant here about my disappointment with a company I used to have a very good opinion about.

Three years and a couple of weeks ago I bought an LG monitor. Very fine it was two until the warranty ran out a couple of weeks ago and it stopped working earlier this week. I contacted the company thinking they would be as disappointed as I was that their product barely made it out of the warranty period so you can imagine my disappointment when they basically told me to get lost with the options of paying for an extended warranty or paying for a repair.

I didn't expect to get a new monitor for nothing but I did expect them to care that their product had failed. I won't ever buy another LG product after this experience but it could so easily have been different.

A lesson in marketing here is that if you get a customer for life you can make a lot of money from that customer and they are happy to pay you money. For a small cost to the company they could have reassured me that their brand was something special and goodness only knows how many products I would have bought from them in the future. Instead of that they have now lost a customer and I will in future advise people to avoid the brand.

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Another $2000 System Comes Out Of Its Lair To Tempt You

Terry — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:51:53 +0000

You may have heard there is another expensive system out on the market recently and there will be another one along tomorrow or next week. I say you 'May' have heard but if you are on any auto responder lists you will probably have got sick of having to delete yet more emails promoting the product today.

I guess we should not e too surprised. Here is a marketing lesson. Get lots of people on your list with free giveaways and when a big expensive launch comes along, hammer that list. Beat them into submission with a million emails and make them visit the sales page any way you can so you get the cookie on their computer and then hope they buy the package and you get the sale.

I don't know but I would guess the commission is in the region of 50% or so. 50% on a $2000 package is sweet music to the ears of any internet marketer. It is probably worth risking upsetting your list members for such a prize. No wonder there are so many impressive sounding bonuses being offered if you sign up through a particular marketers link.

Is this system worth the money? I have no idea. The build up was well done and it certainly developed a lot of interest. Interest is one thing but whether the package really offers anything significantly new remains to be seen. If you have the money and are prepared to put the work in then it will most likely work for you. Most systems, whether they cost $20 or $2000 seem to offer a route to success if you put the work in and follow the guidelines but most packages never really get used fully.

Unfortunately for the shoals of wannabe internet marketers the sharks are swirling around eager to take a bite out of your wallet and ask yourself this. If their product, guide, system or course is so effective why don't they spend their time working on it rather than selling it on to you? How successful is their system really and if it works why don't they simply outsource it to benefit themselves?

Think before you spend any money and make damn sure if you do buy a system you follow it rather than dithering about with it for a while and then give it up full of disappointment and the feeling that you may have been ripped off. Just about anything works if you put enough effort into it.

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Software To Help Boost Your Backlinks

Terry — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:09:25 +0000

We all want to get a ton of backlinks to our websites to help our websites achieve success in the search engine results but it can be a soul destroying task working away for hours to get a few more links back to our site. Just to rub salt into the wound many of those backlinks may never get indexed by the big search engines and maybe never even found by the smaller ones. So what are we to do?

I have just discovered some software to help boost your backlinks to get them found and indexed by the search engines and having bought it myself I thought I would share it with you. I only bought it a few minutes ago so I can't talk about any results yet but I can see no reason why it would not work very well. That's why I bought it )

It is a wordpress plugin which is simple to install on your wordpress blogs. You set up some Web 2.0 accounts and enter the details and setup a cron job. Don't go worrying that setting up a cron job sounds complicated. It isn't and there is a whole video showing exactly what you have to do. Once you have all this set up you simply add any URL or list of URLs you want to give a boost to into the plugin entry box from your WP dashboard settings page. Job done. The software then sends out posts including the links to the various web 2.0 sites boosting your backlinks which in turn boosts your main site.

The benefits of this software are not just that it helps get these backlinks to your website indexed but it also increases their value and importance and this is something a lot of people don't even think about. So many backlinks are almost worthless because they are seen as insignificant but using this plugin to boost those links will have a great effect on the value and benefit of all the links you use it to improve.

Check it out for yourself, it comes with a 60 day moneyback guarantee so you have plenty of time to prove it does the business for you. Read more here..Backlink Booster

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Proving I am Not An Autobot And The Problems Reading Captchas Tests

Terry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:44:47 +0000

We all want our websites to be popular and have lots of web users visiting them. To assist the popularity of websites backlinks are a big help. One useful way of building backlinks is to sign up for various websites and blogs that give you a profile name. The user names are to be used when you are commenting on their site. Many will have the option of adding a URL for a website address to your profile details and this will be counted as a link back to your site by the search engines. Some people spend a lot of time finding and building these backlinks as they are unlikely to disappear and they can sometimes be on high pageranking websites.

The spammers and black hatters have noticed this too, of course. Before long they started spamming the heck out of websites that offered anyone the opportunity to gain a link. The result of all this computerized spamming was the development of the CAPTCHA system whereby you have to type in the word or phrase shown to demonstrate you are a real person wanting to sign up.

The spammers were not going to let this stop them and they have constantly developed better and better captcha readers to continue with their automated activities. This has now got us to a position where some of these captchas are very difficult to read by us humans. I frequently type in the wrong words because I cant quite figure out what the letters and numbers are supposed to be.

I can see a day coming when the only website visitors that will be able to read the jumble of letters presented will be autobots controlled by computer systems. The only users to be able to get these website profile backlinks will be the computer controlled autobots. I have no idea where will that leave us and what we will do then. It may be we will see clips of video and be asked questions about what happened but the captcha system will need to be very sophisticated so it can understand a natural language reply.

It is in the nature of computer programs and computer systems that they are developed and get better and better at what they do. We poor humans are stuck with the eyes and brains we are born with. We can only hope that there will be some new development that makes it easier to tell a human from an autobot. To be honest I think that is unlikely to happen. Whatever they come up with you can be sure computer programers will find a way to overcome it and us poor humans will be forever struggling to prove we are a real person.

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Which Is Best DoFollow Links Or NoFollow Links?

Terry — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:09:42 +0000

It is important to get backlinks to your sites. If you have been following this blog you should know this by now. First it helps the search engines find your website and web pages but secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it adds importance to your site.

It makes a lot of sense that if a lot of different websites have a link pointing back to your site it would suggest your site is a valuable resource that is worth looking at. The search engines figure that if all these other websites rate your site enough to put a backlink to your site they should rank your site higher than others about the same subject that have fewer links pointing to them.

There is an important fact about ranking websites in the search engines hidden in that last paragraph and it is this... You do not have to make the best website in the world - you just have to make it better than your competitors sites. It is all about what the competition are doing and how they are able to convince search engines their site is better than yours and what you can do to change the 'opinion' of the search engines about the importance of your webpage.

So when it comes to links the search engines are always going to look at where the links are coming from and if there is anything odd about the number or the types of sites displaying those links.

Now, DOFOLLOW links are specifically saying to the search engine spiders, "follow this link because it matters" while NOFOLLOW links are saying here is a link but it is not so important to follow. The idea came from Google and it was to reduce the transfer of pagerank to only those links the webmaster considered important.

A lot of people worry that many of the links pointing to their site may be nofollow links which means they don't count with Google and other search engines. I believe they do count but in a different way.

What do you think they will make of a whole bunch of links that are all Do Follow links? I am pretty sure it would look odd to anyone, or any search engine autobot, to see ONLY DOFOLLOW links pointing at any site. The links will still count as links but they do not transfer any pagerank. You still get a credit for a link pointing to your site but perhaps more importantly it makes the linking look far more natural and organic.

If I were a search engine and I saw only dofollow links to a site I would think there was something odd about that because it is not likely to happen naturally from webmasters linking to your site. You would expect some to be dofollow and some to be nofollow. The conclusion must be that while dofollow links are best you should have a mixture of the two types of links pointing towards your site.

Most comments you leave on blogs are likely to use nofollow backlinks but many savvy webmasters use do follow links to encourage visitors to leave comments. You can find various software programs to help you find these sites but do remember to use other, no follow, sites as well so everything will appear natural to the search engines.

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Sharing The Secret To Making Money Online

Terry — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:25:15 +0000

If you found the secret to making money online, would you tell everybody else about it? I would say it is unlikely if you thought that other people knowing meant that you would make less money. There are plenty of ways to make money and thousands of different niches to focus on but if you had a specific answer to making money would you give it away?

So when you see people offering to sell you the secret you should ask yourself some questions.

1) If it makes thousands of dollars for a few hours work why are you selling it for $19.99,$47 or even $99? Surely it is worth more to the seller to keep and use that information than it would be to sell it even if they sold a couple of hundred copies. If it takes just a few hours to make a few hundred or a few thousand dollars it makes more sense for them to use their own system to make money rather than sell it and make less.

2)Is the system they are offering a complete package capable of achieving what they claim. If they try to sell you upgrades after you have purchased you should ask yourself if they are not being a little less than honest when the sales page claims to offer you the solution by itself. It could be they offer a way to automate the process that you would otherwise have to spend hours of tedious work to complete and that may be fair enough, so long as the sales page explains it will take you hours of tedious work unless you buy their upgraded package.

3) Is this a system that worked a year or two ago but is unlikely to work now? Many systems worked by hoodwinking the search engines in some way or another and the search engines are keen to close these loopholes as soon as they discover them.

4) How long did it take them to get all those visitors, or to make all that money. Claims like, I made xxx dollars in 1 hour 25 minutes sound great but it could be they spent 1 hour 25 minutes setting a website up and then months afterwards getting backlinks and promoting the site.

I am not picking on any particular seller or sales page here. All I am saying is that you should question any claims made and try to understand how much work will be required to use any of the plans, guides and systems on offer.

The simple fact is that most systems will work if you do it right and put enough effort and WORK into it. Yes, work. We may all dream of sitting on a beach enjoying the relaxing sound of the waves but most people who make a living online do have to spend quite a few hours actually working.

Pick a system that you understand and work at it. Focus is the key ingredient every successful person shares. You need a plan and you need to stay focused on the plan. Don't go getting side tracked by what someone with more mouth than trousers says on some forum. Many of the people who talk loudest on forums have very little actual experience and they are spouting off what they read somewhere else.

Put the effort into whichever system you plan to use and keep at it. Results may take a while to appear. Often it will be a couple of months before any significant changes will take place in the search engine results. There will be ups and downs and times when you wonder if you are wasting your time but stick with it and keep focused on each task until it is complete and the results will follow.

Learning is an important part of managing any business and you do need to stay up to date on what is happening but be careful with your time to ensure you don't end up wasting the time you could and should have been working building and promoting your websites.

The key lesson is to find the map to show you the right way and then remain focused on what you are doing and do it well until you complete it. That is the secret to success in business both online and off.

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Get Traffic By Finding The Keywords Web Users Are Looking For

Terry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:32:25 +0000

Before the internet appeared on the scene keywords would probably have been thought of as the important words in a speech or article but now keywords have a similar but far more important role.

When we talk about keywords we are talking about the words and phrases that people use that are specific to what they are looking for or what you are writing about on your blog or website. In this article the word "KEYWORDS" itself is the important keyword but keywords can mean a phase of 3,4 or even more words. It describes a word or words that people type in to a search engine search box and it is the word or words that you try to include in your web page title, heading and article so the search engines know what your page is about and, hopefully, they decide to rate your page well for that keyword and put you near the top of the search results when people search for that phrase.

The only problem is that we have no idea what people are searching for. You might think an article about 'trimming poodle toenails' will prove very popular but the reality may be that nobody, and I mean nobody, is searching for that particular phrase. The result will be that having slaved over your keyboard to produce a great article about that subject, nobody ever visits your web page. We need to know what people are looking for BEFORE we start writing that superb article for our website.

For some time now it has been possible to make use of the Google Keyword Tool to give you a lot of ideas but it has something of a reputation for inaccuracy when it comes to the numbers and it is limited in how many results it supplies you with. It is a whole lot better than nothing but we need something better to know what popular and more obscure search terms people really use.

Now the search engines care about this too. They want to make life easier for people using their search engines so they provide hints on what you might be searching for. When you start typing a search phrase on the main search engine pages it will pop up a list of things you might be searching for. These are lists of pages that people typed in before so we know these are popular search terms. If only we could capture all that valuable information.

In the past there wasn't a way to do this but now we can with a tool released by the highly regarded Jonathon Ledger who has a reputation fro producing top quality and reliable software tools to help webmasters achieve greater success. This product is being released on the 21st June 2010 but you can only buy this tool over a 5 day period after that it will be withdrawn from sale so don't hang about on this one. If you are reading this after it has closed I can only apologize.

There is an excellent video explaining exactly how you can use this software to find hundreds of keywords and keyword phrases that people are searching for on the internet and even if you have no interest in buying you will find it useful to watch and learn a little more about keywords and why they matter. Check it out here.. Keyword Snatcher

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WordPress 3.0 Released

Terry — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:25:27 +0000

The latest version of WordPress Version 3.0 has been released and you are looking at it. I just upgraded and it all went smoothly and all appears to be working just fine. The dashboard looks very similar to 2.9.2 but there is a lot more under the hood to be discovered.

The first thing I noticed which is a very welcome improvement is the simple update of multiple plugins which will be a bit of a timesaver for those who have lots of blogs to update when you discover several plugins have been updated since you last looked, which seems to happen to me quite often. It's telling me I have eleven to update here right now!

One welcome improvement is a change to the default worldpress theme. The new one, called Twenty Ten, is a very smart looking theme that looks great yet remains simple and clean.

Watch the video below to learn more about the new WordPress 3.0

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Is There Something Worthwhile On The Webpage You Are Promoting?

Terry — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:51:50 +0000

We talk about building traffic to our websites but the reality is we are trying to build up the popularity of the website. We need to make the website interesting enough that people have a reason to visit.

You can copy and past some of the content from a sales page on Amazon or Clickbank and add your affiliate link but what does that page offer a visitor that makes the page stand out in the search engines?

If you want to get the free traffic from search engines your page needs to be different. Forget about duplicate content penalties and whether they really exist or not. The true penalty is that if you have the same page as several other people there is no reason for the search engines to put your page in front of the others.

The last thing the search engines like Google want to do is display a page of very similar results. They go to great lengths to provide accurate and appropriate results because they know the person searching does not want ten results all giving the same information.

If you do something different and offer a slightly different interpretation of that same information together with your own opinions on the product or service you have a chance of making your page stand out from all the others.

You are reading this page because it offers you my opinion of a subject. You would not read it if it was the same as five other pages you already read today. It may not make the first page of the search engines for any particular term but at least it is different.

Search engines do not hate you and they are not trying to prevent you achieving success with your online business. It may feel like that sometimes but the reality is that they are in business too and their business is satisfying the people who use their websites so they continue to use them again and again.

You should try to do the same. Make sure that your pages offer your visitor something worth looking at. Make sure that your visitors would be happy to use your site again another time. Offer them a worthwhile experience.

Time seems to be in short supply these days because there are so many things we do and ways of using it. Most people do not want to spend their lives reading junk on the internet. Most want to find what they are looking for quickly and easily so, if your site can help them achieve that aim and they either click on an advert or buy a solution through your website both you and they will be happy.

All the backlinks in the world don't make a web page worth visiting so make sure that whatever page you are promoting with articles, blog comments and all the other ways people promote websies, just make sure there is something worthwhile for the visitors and web traffic that you get.

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