All Bloggers and Webmasters want to rank higher in SERPs (search engine result pages) for as many highly searched keywords as possible - this is quiet natural because a high position in SERPs for different keywords highly increases the chances of getting free, targeted and vital search engine traffic. The primary aim of most bloggers is to earn a decent income from their blogs and it is seen search engine traffic is the most valuable in terms of monetizing your blog as they are searching for some targeted information so they are most likely to click on relevant affiliate or CPC ads so more money can be made. Thus more Search Engine Traffic is equivalent to more Opportunities to Make Money Online. Traffic from other sources such as social media, forums, classifieds and etc seem to be less targeted and are much less monetizable. This post - TEN VITAL SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION TIPS FOR BLOGS has been written to give you an idea of the important points that you must remember while writing your blog posts so that they are properly optimized for the search engines.

Achieving a high position on SERPs for different highly searched keywords can be difficult, but with proper planning and focus on writing your blog posts applying basic search engine optimization techniques, you can boost your position for specific keyword searches and thus increase your blog's traffic. Just follow these basic 10 Search Engine Optimization tips while writing a post on your blog to get the better results :-


1. Do Keyword Research - It is very important to do keyword research before you start writing a post. Keyword research will let you know which topic is people wanting to read about and are being actively searched for in search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and etc. This is essential because if you want to get traffic from search engines then you must be knowing what topics people search for in search engines. Then you need to write posts on those topics. To know which topics are hot in a particular niche you can take help of tools such as Google Adwords Keyword Tool, Google Trends, Yahoo Buzz Index or Wordtracker etc. These tools will also help you to find out the exact number of times different keyword phrases or search terms that the people use to obtain or search information on a particular topic. Note down the keyword phrases or search terms with their respective search volume.

2. Picking The Most Effective Keyword Phrases - Select a topic to write a post and then pick a relevant keyword phrases from the list that you have built in the previous step to optimise your post. Pick one or at most two keyword phrase for a particular post. Picking more keyword phrases for a particular post will confuse the search engines and give you poor results.

3. Keyword Length - Do not choose short generic keyword phrase to optimise a post like "make money" or "make money online" because competition will be very high and it will take a lot of time (building thousands of keyword optimised back links) to get to the first page of SERPs. But rather choose more specific terms like "make money online promoting affiliate products" or "make money online starting a blog" etc. You must also remember that long tail keywords are searched less in compared to short generic keywords. But if you can have say 25 or 50 posts optimised for long tail keywords with average traffic volume then the combined effect will be much more powerful. Moreover the home page is to be optimised with the high traffic short generic keywords.

4. Use Keywords In The Post Title - Search engines be it Google or Yahoo or MSN give high value to titles will ranking pages in search results of relevant terms. So definitely include the keyword that you want to optimize your post for in the post title. Try to format the title in such a way that the keywords come in the beginning as the search engines reads from left to right. Also make the titles as short as possible by striking out unnecessary words as lesser the number of words that are there in the title more will be the weight given to each word.



5. Subtitles and Sub-Headings - Break down your post into small sections and use sub-titles or sub-headings to name each section. Include your keywords into these sub-titles. Also make the sub-titles bold. This has three utilities :-

• It breaks the post into small sections thus making it easier for the reader to scan the post in one-go (which many readers want).
• It makes the post easily comprehensible and visually appealing.
• It gives additional chances for you to use your keywords thus making the post much more optimized for the search engines for that search term for which you want to optimize your post.

6. Use Your Keywords In The Post Body - Include the keyword or keywords that you want to optimize the post for in the post body. But do not over do it by just stuffing the post body with keywords as this will be considered keyword spamming by the search engines and also it will not make any sense to your readers. So include keywords just in a natural way to the point that it makes sense to your readers and you will avoid keyword spamming automatically. Bold your keywords only once or twice in the whole body as search engines seem to give importance to bold words. Also use different variations of the keywords in different parts as far as possible to give a natural look to keyword inclusions.

7. Optimize Your Pictures - Include your keywords in the alt tags and in the name of your pictures - this will give further relevance to your post and help it in ranking higher for relevant search terms as the search engines including Google gives importance specially to the alt tags. Also using relevant keywords will also help you in getting traffic from the Image Search feature of different search engines including Google. Remember to use different variations of your keywords in the alt tags to make this look natural to the search engines. Never repeat the keywords within the same alt tags and do not use more than one keyword or keyword phrase in one image as that will be equivalent to spam.

8. Optimize Internal Links - Link each page from other pages in your blog and do this as often as possible as search engines gives special importance to these internal links. More the number of internal links a page receives from the other pages more is its importance in the eyes of search engines. Use relevant anchor text that is your keywords relevant to the page to which you are linking in the anchor text when doing internal linking. You may also consider using the Title Tag which tells something more to the search engines about the page to which you are linking. Also as much as possible make the surrounding text of the link relevant to the page to which you are linking as this gives greater relevance to the page to which you are linking because Google attaches more relevance to links coming from relevant pages and for doing so it considers the surrounding text. Of course it is not always possible to follow these rules strictly but so just try to do as much as possible.

9. Optimize External Links - It is much more important to optimize the external links (links coming from other sites or blogs) in the same way as done to internal links. Though it is out of our capacity to control the links that are coming from blogs owned by others but we can control the links that we put in the articles that we have submitted in the article directories, we can control the links in our guest posts that is when we submit posts to be published in blogs owned by others and etc. All incoming external links are highly valued specially so if they come from relevant sites and pages with high page rank and with relevant anchor and surrounding text.

10. Miscellaneous - Avoid Block Quotes and Java Script as far as possible. Do not post only a video as a post but do give a heading and write a few words describing the video including your keywords as described above - this is because search engines cannot read videos but the text will help it in understanding what the video is about. Also upload the video in major video sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video etc to get extra traffic.


Follow the above points to get a better Search Engine Optimized Blog. This is not the Holy Grail to Search Engine Optimization but I can say that if you follow this basic rules you will get a blog that is better optimized for Search Engines. More on search engine optimization of blogs in my later posts - so watch out OR subscribe for free through my RSS feed or Email to get regular updates.

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The prime objective of most people (except a few insane ones) who comes to this wonderful online world is to make or earn some money online. There are many ways to make money online and this post - How To Start A Blog And Make Money Online ? will give you an insight into one of the most potent and popular ways to make money online - Blogging. For those who are new to this online world and don't have a clear idea of what a blog is please read - What Is A BLOG ? to get a clear idea so that it becomes easy to follow this post. This post will give a clear idea on "How to start a blog?" and "How to make money with a blog?" so go get yourself a cup of coffee and sit back as I take you through this pleasant trip of how to earn decent money online - Blogging.

HOW TO START A BLOG ?

If you want to make money online with a blog then naturally at first you must have a blog. Here are the steps that you need to go through to start a blog :-

1. Choose A Niche (Topic) - Before you start a blog you need to choose on what niche you will start a blog. You can also start a blog with no particular niche or topic and write on all sorts of topic that you want but if you are serious and your aim is to make money with your blog (which I'm sure is the case with you) then you must start a niche blog because niche blogs do much much better in terms of making money. Choose a topic which you are at least familiar with and which is quiet popular and is widely searched for on the Internet. The topic should be highly searched for because that shows a lot of people are interested in the topic so there is the possibility of getting a large volume of traffic which is directly proportional to the amount of money you can earn from your blog. Blogs make money mainly from advertisements so More Traffic = More Advertising Money. Read my post - How to choose A Profitable Niche (Topic) for Your Blog ? where I have explained each and every aspect in more details which will definitely help you in choosing a profitable niche to start a blog.

2. Choose A Domain Name - This is the address that you type in the address bar of your browser to reach a blog or website. For example the domain name of my blog is "http://www.makemoneyonline24hrs.com". Go through my post - "How To Choose A Domain Name?" to know what are the factors you need to consider when you choose a domain name.

3. Choose A Blogging Platform - After you have chosen your blog topic and domain name now you need to choose a blogging platform. There are three options available :-

• A Free Blogging Platform like Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad etc with the domain name as their sub-domain like "YourDomainName.blogspot.com for Blogger", "YourDomainName.wordpress.com for Wordpress" and "YourDomainName.typepad.com for Typepad" etc. This is a completely free option in which you don't have to pay either for the domain name or for the hosting.
• A Free Blogging Platform with a 'Custom' or 'Purchased' domain name in which your domain name will appear in place of the sub-domains as above. My blog is an example of this type where I am using the custom domain "MakeMoneyOnline24hrs.com" with the free blogging platform "Blogger" from Google.
  
• A Full Paid Option where you need to pay for the 'Domain Name' and also for the 'Hosting'.
  

You can visit my post - How To Choose The Right Blogging Platform? to get all the required details on choosing a blogging platform.

4. Choose A Title For Your Blog - This is the name of your blog. For example the name of this blog is "Online Money Making" (I can change this later). Include the keywords related to your niche in your blog title to make the title search engine friendly so that you can get free traffic from search engines. Read - How To Choose A Blog Title ? to know the details.

5. Your Blog Is Ready - Start posting good unique and informative content. Update your blog with fresh content as frequently as possible.



HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG ?

Now that your blog is ready its time to know how to earn money from your blog. As I have already mentioned in the starting that blogs mainly earn money from advertising revenue so its quiet obvious you need traffic or visitors to your blog to earn advertising revenue. More traffic = More Money. Also all the other ways that you can make money from your blog other then advertising also depends directly or indirectly on your traffic volume.


There are many sources to get traffic and here is the list of the most popular and effective ways to get traffic to your blog :-

1. Search Engines - Read - How To Increase Blog Traffic From Search Engines ?
2. Social Bookmarking Sites
3. Forums
4. Article Marketing
5. Blog Commenting and Guest Posts in other blogs.
6. Paid Advertisements like Adwords
7. Being active on social media sites like MySpace and FaceBook etc
8. Twitter
9. Blog Directories and Blog Search Engines like Technorati and Blogcatalog etc.
10. Publish niche related Videos on YouTube, MetaCafe etc.
11. Participate in Blog Carnivals through BlogCarnival.com.
12. Press Release and Classifieds. ETC.

Read - How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog? and How To Make Your Blog Visitors Stay Longer? to get all required information.


After you start getting consistent and considerable traffic to your blog its time to monetize it. There are uncountable ways and resources by which you can monetize your blog (more ways and resources are coming up each month too) but below I will give a list of some of the most effective and widely used ways to make money with your blog :-

1. CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) Ads - Like Adsense from Google and Bidvertiser.
2. PPS (paid per sale) Affiliate Marketing - Choose affiliate products from affiliate networks like Clickbank, Click2Sell, LinkShare, PayDotCom etc and promote them on your blog by placing the affiliate links on prominent places and writing reviews on the affiliate products with your affiliate links. You get paid whenever a person reaching the merchant site by clicking the affiliate links that you have placed on your blog makes a purchase. Commissions can be as high as 80%.
3. CPA (cost per action) or CPL (cost per lead) Affiliate Marketing from affiliate networks like Hydra and ClickBooth etc. You can promote the CPA and CPL affiliate links in the same way as above. But here no sale is required rather you get paid each time a prospect reaches the merchant site and completes a desired activity like filling up a form, downloading a free software or ebook, providing name and email address, giving opinion etc. Commissions are low as compared to the above but conversions are high and this factors more than compensates for the low commission rate.
4. Ebay and Commission Junction Affiliate.
5. Sell Advertising Space for Banners and Text Links.
6. In-Line Text ads.
7. Write Sponsored Reviews.
8. Sell Own Products like ebooks etc written by you.
9. Donations - Ask for donations for buying you a 'Mug of Bear' or 'To keep your spirits high' or 'To support the cost of running your blog' or whatever reasonable and acceptable cause that you can show by setting up a Paypal donation button.
10. Monetizing your RSS feed. ETC.

Read - How To Make Money From Your Blog ? to know further. Also wait for my upcoming post where I will be giving a list of more than 100 ways and resources to make money from your blog.


I hope you have got a good insight on "how to start a blog and make money". Read the other relevant posts on blogging and making money online (there are many and more to come up so remain updated by subscribing to my RSS feed) to learn everything you need to know to start a blog and make money online. Happy Blogging and making Money!

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Blogs or Websites mainly runs on content - more the quality and quantity of content one has more famous or popular it is thus more is its traffic and more is the money it can make. So "Content Is King" is very rightly said because this world of Make Money Online depends on content. This is why there is a huge demand of unique articles among bloggers and webmasters alike. And if you have the ability to fulfill this huge demand of articles then you can earn a lot of money - what you need is your ability to write unique informative articles in plain simple and grammatically correct English. You need not have to be the best article writer on a topic or you need not have to produce the best article each time you write but rather what you need is to write a simple comprehensible article that makes sense and contains some useful information.

This post - How to make money online with your article writing skills? is going to show you some ways by which you can earn some really good money online. I will list ways that are practical and are being used by many with success to make money online. Here are the ways that will help you to make money by writing articles :-


1. Promote Affiliate Products - You can write articles to promote your affiliate products. Write articles that are convincing and brings the feeling of the need of one of your affiliate products and submit them in article directories or as guest posts in different blogs. If you post the articles in article directories then give the affiliate link in the author's bio box. Most article directories accepts affiliate links only in the author's bio box, some also in the body and some do not accept affiliate links at all so read the author guidelines before submitting articles to any article directories. But if you have submit your articles as guest posts then you are generally allowed to place two to three links in the body so use one of the links to promote one of your affiliate products. Remember to promote just one affiliate product per article. Look for article directories or blogs that receive a high volume of traffic to get good results.

2. Start A Blog - Start a blog on a particular niche that is of common interest - write relevant articles frequently and post them on your blog. Learn a bit of SEO and optimize the posts. Remember to include unique information that will be of worth and add value to your blog. Promote your blog both online and offline and you will start to see growth of traffic. Read my post - How to increase traffic to your blog? that will help you. When you start getting considerable traffic slowly start monetizing your blog by placing different CPC ads, banners, text link ads and also your affiliate affiliate links. This is the process that thousands of bloggers are using to make thousands or even millions each month. You can know more on ways to earn money with a blog in my post - "Make Money With Your Blog".

3. Start A Content Website - You must have seen many websites that gives you information on a particular topic - these are content websites. You too can take up the same plan to start a content website. Start a content website on a topic that you have in-depth knowledge and write good informative articles on that topic and put them on your website. Do not forget to optimize your website with both on-page and off-page to get free search engine traffic. You can monetize your website by CPC ads, banners, text link ads, CPA and CPS affiliate links and etc. If you have some information to offer that can be of great value to your visitors and not available anywhere else than you can even charge a small membership fees for access to that information and thus make some more money.

4. Collect email addresses - You can collect email addresses from your blog or website visitors by offering them more useful free informative articles if they subscribe to your news letter. Collect their emails and occasionally send them recommendation of useful products with your articles - remember just do it occasionally or otherwise you may annoy the subscriber and he may stop the subscription. Affiliate products do get sold this way and this is one of the marketing strategies of the successful affiliate marketers.

5. Review Site - Start a review website or blog and write reviews on affiliate products you want to promote. Adopt optimum SEO and start promoting your site. Try to write the review articles in such a way so that they will produce an urge in the readers mind to buy the product - that is try to pre-sell and make the visitor click on the affiliate link and visit the merchant site with a positive frame of mind. This technique is quiet effective - try it and see for yourself. You can also sign up with sites like PayPerPost.com or ReviewMe.com or SponsoredReview.com to get to write review articles for their client's websites, blogs or products on your review blog and get paid straight forward for your reviews.

6. Drive Traffic To Blog Or Website To Make Money - Write quality informative articles and submit them to the popular article directories like EzineArticles.com, ArticleBase.com, ArticleCity.com and ArticleDashboard.com etc with your blog or website links in the author's bio section. You can get a regular flow of traffic to your site from your articles which you can use to monetize your blog or website. Also links from article directories are dofollow and oneway so they have much SEO value thus will also help in getting traffic from search engines by making your site or blog relevant for different search terms. Use proper anchor text for your links to get maximum SEO value.

7. Sell Articles - As I have already stated in the very starting that there is a huge demand for fresh unique content among webmasters and bloggers so you can sell your articles to relevant webmasters or bloggers for some quick and worthy cash. You can make direct offers to webmasters and bloggers for selling your articles or you can advertise on free classifieds, forums and ebay etc to sell them. Keep the price reasonable so that even an average webmaster or blogger can afford to buy them.

8. Revenue Sharing Sites - Start a Lens at Squidoo.com or a Hub at Hubpages.com or join eHow.com or HowHub.com to write "How To...?" articles and get a percentage share of the revenue that they earn from your article pages.

9. Paid Blogging Sites - Join some paid blogging sites which pays you to open a blog on their domain and maintain it with posting articles at regular intervals. Search through Google with the search term "paid blogging sites" or "paid blogging sites list" or with any other relevant search terms to get many such paid blogging sites.

10. Freelance Writer - Write articles for others as a freelance writer and make money. You can find many such freelance article writing projects at freelance sites like GetAFreelancer.com, Elance.com etc. Prepare some articles before hand to provide as samples to your employer to secure a project. Just complete the project on time and get paid. There are thousands of people working as freelance writers and making good money online.

The ways to make or earn money on Internet with your article writing skills are many but I have just made an attempt to give you an idea of some of the ways. If you are interested in knowing different ways in which you can make money online then do read my post - "Ways To Make Money Online" in which you will get a list of more than 100 practical ways to make money online. Let me end here and wish you earn decent money online with writing articles.

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This post - 25 Practical Ideas To Write A Blog post, has been written with the idea of giving clues to you and to myself about what to write about in a blog post. Because blogging by nature demands frequent updating with fresh content and it is seen that as a blog ages the blogger starts feeling the scarcity of ideas on which to write a blog post. This is not the scenario when you start a blog but rather when you start a blog there is so much ideas in your mind that you find it difficult to choose which one to write upon first. As time goes on you write more and more posts and gradually you start feeling the dearth of ideas. This is when this post will be of help to you and me both. I have listed this ideas and I will put this in the form of a post so that it helps me, you and all of our fellow bloggers. Moreover more posts means more diverse topics covered so more chances of getting visitors from search engines etc so more scope to make money online.

Here is the list of post ideas :-

1. How to ...?, Why to ...?, What is ...?, Ways to ... - These are tutorial type articles that generally teaches the basics on - how to do a particular thing?, why to do a particular thing?, what is the meaning or importance of a particular thing?, ways to do a particular thing etc. These type of articles speaks about some of the basics in your niche. They are in huge demand and are also heavily searched for in search engines mainly by the newcomers or persons wanting to know about something. Say for example in my niche - Make Money Online - I have written articles titled - How to start a blog?, What is RSS?, How to choose affiliate products?, How to promote affiliate products on Craigslist?, How to make money blogging? just to name a few and very recently - Ways to make money online. You can browse my How to? and What is? topics to get an idea.

2. List Of Resources - Write a post giving a list of useful resources both free and paid in your niche that you think may be of interest or help to the visitors.

3. List Of Tools - Write a post giving a list of useful and important tools in your niche or in general that you think your visitors will like.

4. List Of Why Not To Do? OR Why To Do? - You can also make a list giving reasons on - why one should not do a particular thing? or why one should do a particular thing?

5. List Of Tips - You can make a list of Tips that you think your visitors must follow to be successful in some venture or to avoid failure.

6. Recent Developments - The Internet is an ever changing place so you can always find it handy to write a post on latest developments taking place in your niche or in general that would be of interest to your visitors.

7. Your achievements - All bloggers improve slowly towards their path of success so you can occasionally say for example once in a month write a post giving your stats and showing your improvements and successes online. This will on one hand keep a record for you that you can use as a reference in future and also on the other hand help to build your visitors trust in you as we all like to follow persons who are successful and improving and it is always more convincing to talk showing your stats.

8. Reviews - Consider writing reviews on topics in your niche or on topics of general interest. For example you can think of writing reviews on products, other blogs or websites in your niche, books, tools and resources etc. You can also write reviews on your affiliate products.

9. Sponsored reviews - Write sponsored reviews on blogs, websites or products in your niche - this will give you a post on one hand and some sweet money on the other.

10. Link posts - You can occasionally write posts that is a collection of links to posts on a particular topic present in other blogs or your own blog.

11. Interviews - You can take and publish interviews with famous bloggers who have made a name for themselves in your niche. You can also speak about their online success story and how we can learn and follow their footsteps to achieve success.

12. Videos - You can prepare a video or share one that you have collected from a video site like YouTube or MetaCafe that is relevant to your blog or of general interest.

13. Blog Carnival - You can host a blog carnival on a particular topic in your niche where bloggers will approach you with links to relevant posts to be included in your carnival. Then you can sort them and put the links you have chosen in the form of post and publish it.

14. Guest Posts - Offer guest posting opportunity on your blog and if your blog is a bit old, famous and gets a decent amount of traffic then you will find many bloggers approaching you to write a guest post in your blog (to get some traffic and a few links). Approve the ones that are from your niche and will write relevant content that will increase your blog's value.

15. Answer Comments - As time goes on you will find that it becomes increasingly difficult to answer to each comment posted in your blog so you can keep a track of comments and choose to answer common or related queries in the form of a post.

16. Ask For Suggestions - This is a good practice to occasionally write a post asking for suggestions from your readers on "how you can improve your blog design?" or on "what topics do they want you to write a post on?". This will give you many more new post ideas that you must not have even thought about and also will help you in building up a relation with your readers.

17. Contests - You can plan to hold a contest and write a post accordingly announcing the contest. Also state the rules, eligibility criteria and prizes to be won. People will love your blog and give you a lot of publicity.

18. Podcasts - As with sharing videos you can also record an audio on some topic and post a podcast to share it. You can also share a podcast that you liked and picked up from some other blog or website.

19. Your Pics - Occasionally you can also post your photographs that you have taken while you were on a trip or of a family function or event etc. This will let your readers know more about you and will naturally draw them more towards you as it is human nature to start liking a person more whom we know more about.

20. Referring Post - It often happens that when we are surfing the net and reading different blogs we come across posts that we like and feel like mentioning about it in our blog - but we can take this to the next level by writing a post on the same topic either elaborate or abridged version in your own words. But never forget to mention your source or include a link to the original post in your post.

21. Combining Posts - If you can find posts on a particular topic on multiple blogs then you can always mix up the posts and produce a post in your own version. Do mention your sources at the end.

22. Get Freelancers - If you do not mind spending a few bucks then you can always hire a freelance writer to write a post or two for you. Do mention your requirements when hiring a freelancer. This will give you a break and help you in coming up with new ideas to write posts on.

There are many ideas that can only be limited by ones imagination and I have mentioned just a few that are worth mentioning - I hope you too have your own ideas. If you want to include your ideas in this list then please leave a comment stating the idea and I will include it in this post.

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How To Increase Your Blog Traffic? - has been written to give a list of some of the steps that you can take to boost your daily or monthly visitor count. Visitors or Traffic is the "LIFE LINE" of all blogs or websites alike because basically nobody writes a blog or starts a website just for himself to see and read but rather we all have the deep wish that our blogs or websites get thousands or in fact millions of visits per month.

Also those of you (including me) who have the sacred intention of making money from their blogs or sites - traffic becomes the prime target to reach because all monetizing aspects has a direct proportionality relation with the traffic volume - More Traffic = More Money (Simple!). This is because blogs or websites mainly earn their revenue from displaying advertisements (CPC, CPA Text Links or Banners etc) and Affiliate sales etc so more the traffic to a site more will be the possibility for click throughs, impressions or sales so more revenue to be earned.



Here is a list of 25 Practical Tips, Ways or Measures that you can implement or follow to boost your blog traffic :-

1. Unique Informative Posts - "Content is King" is very rightly said because visitors (new and returning) come to your blog mainly looking for some information and not just to waste their spare time on your blog so if you give them the material that they are searching for then naturally they will be satisfied and find the good reason to return to your blog again and again. Give them valuable content that will help them and they will turn into valuable returning visitors. So do your research and gather information and then sit down to write good informative posts on topics that a person may be looking for. Write in a free flowing manner as if you are talking to the visitor one to one. Write in details and give examples wherever possible to make the posts interesting and comprehensible. Include links to resources that will help your visitors. Write in a convincing manner. Never ever try to manipulate or give information that you are not sure about because that will just make your visitors turn away from your blog.

2. Posting Frequency - Try to be consistent in your posting frequency that is if you are making three or two or even one post per week then maintain it. Bloggers talk about posting regularly or even twice or thrice daily but you must attempt it only when you are sure you can maintain it. Yes, a blog by nature is expected to be updated frequently with fresh content but you must do it to the point that you can maintain. Moreover according to me the quality matters much more than the quantity - what's the use of posting some crap regularly just for the shake of posting when nobody will enjoy reading it. I have seen bloggers posting regularly or even three times daily but most of their postings are just bs with no real information or purpose and even out of topic - this is naturally to happen because writing a good post takes time and energy. So rather concentrate on writing good and well researched informative posts that will add value to your blog. Try to write at-least one post per week. I personally write three to four posts a week - you can try this too and never mind if you miss sometimes because that is part and parcel of this game. Enjoy blogging rather than succumb to the pressure of writing posts as this will help you in producing good posts.

3. On-Page Optimization - You must follow on-page optimization techniques when writing blog posts so that search engines can find your post to be relevant for specific keyword phrases and display your posts in the results. Do keyword research to select and target one long tail keyword phrase with each post and try to optimize your post by including the keywords from the phrase in the post title, body, alt tags, title tags, file names and anchor texts etc. Use of alt and title tags with your images will help your blog receive visitors through the Image Search options of search engines. Read my post - Image Optimization Techniques. Bold, italicize or underline the keywords once or maximum twice in the body. This will make your post relevant for that long term keyword phrase in the eyes of the search engines thus ranking well in search engine result pages. Just think if you have 100 such well optimized posts and each post gives you 10 unique visitors per day on an average that is 1000 new visitors per day. There are many such long tail keywords present in each niche that can get your posts land in the first page of SERPs with just on-page optimization. In fact I too have some posts which ranks well in SERPs with just on-page optimization like my posts on Hubpages, Ehow, Craigslist, Blogging Platform, Choosing a Niche and many more. You can read my post - How to optimize blog posts for search engines? to get more in sight into on-page optimization methods. Of course off-page optimization is also important as I have discussed in the next point.

4. Off-Page Optimization - Off-page optimization is the most important thing that comes into play if you want to rank well for competitive niches or keywords. If you want to rank well for keywords in competitive niches then on-page optimization will not be sufficient but you will need to take up off-page optimization. Off-page optimization means to build backlinks from both your internal pages as well as from pages of external sites. More the page rank of the pages linking to you more higher will be the quality of links. But only quality is not sufficient you need quantity too. Moreover if the links are made with your chosen keyword phrase (and its combinations) as anchor text then more relevant will they be. But you will not always be able to control the external links as those depends upon the site owner (but there are ways in which you can get links with relevant anchor texts even from external sites which I will discuss in some other posts). Links from within the content surrounded by relevant words and made up of relevant anchor text are the most worthy. So try to gain as many optimized backlinks as possible as this will make your pages rank higher in SERPs thereby getting free and regular search engine traffic for your blog or site.

5. Social Bookmarking - Social Bookmarking sites are the new destinations for getting traffic. Millions of people are using social bookmarking sites today to find information regarding a particular topic or news etc. Social bookmarking takes time but if you want to get your share of traffic from these sites then you need to try to take out some time to bookmark atleast those posts that you think are worth getting attention. You can also use a bookmarking software that will significantly reduce the time needed. There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites with a few new ones being added to the list every year but it is not necessary to bookmark your pages in all the bookmarking sites, rather you can choose the most popular and traffic infested ones like Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Delicious.com, Reddit.com, Sphinn.com, Furl.net, Spurl.net and a few more.

6. Guest Posts - Offer to write guest posts in blogs in your niche. But as there are thousands of blogs in each niche so you need to do a search (you can use Google's Blogsearch) to find out blogs that get a significant amount of traffic. Normally if you have something unique to offer in your guest blog post then your offer is never rejected. Guest blog posts feature in the front page of the blog so if your post is well written and informative then there are chances that the visitor may click your link and visit your blog. Moreover your post will stay in that blog for ever to fetch you more traffic in future. You also get some one way backlinks to your blog from your guest post.

7. Blogroll - Add some links to other good blogs in your niche in your Blogroll and approach those blogs to reciprocate by adding your link in their Blogroll. If your blog is relevant then you do get links from them in their blogroll. You will find it tough to convince high traffic blogs to add your link in their blogroll so approach ones with moderate traffic. When you have gained some authority in your niche then you can go for the high traffic ones. Visitors coming to those blogs have the possibility of clicking your link in their blogroll and visiting your blog. If your blog is worthy then then will return again and again.

8. Blog Commenting - Provide a comment form and respond to comments left by visitors in a positive way, answer their questions and queries, call them for action by asking them to express their views and etc so that a relation is formed between you and the visitors. When you build up a relation you get a long term visitor. Also comment in blogs of your niche and also in related niches or other niches. Give meaningful and relevant comments and never forget to leave your blog's URL in the comments so that any other visitor to that blog who may find your comment interesting may visit your blog by clicking on your blog link. This visitor may also turn into a returning visitor if he finds your blog informative and useful.

9. Forums - Participate in forums actively. Give to the point and relevant answers to posted questions, participate in discussions and also start new unique threads. Your Forum posts will have your links in your signature and worthy participation will in all possibility draw some visitors to your blog overtime as the posts are permanent.

10. Article Marketing - Write good informative articles and post them in high traffic article directories like EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, ArticleBase.com and ArticleCity.com etc. This way of getting traffic is though a old way but still now effective because popular article directories are the frequent visiting places of webmasters, bloggers and also newcomers - infact there are many article directories that receive millions of visits per day. Do not forget to include a link to your blog in the resource box so that a visitor can reach your blog. Article marketing is a time consuming affair if you want to post in multiple article sites so you can use an Article Submitting software to automate the process and save your precious time. You can also use an Article Spinner to get unique versions of your written article to post in multiple article directories to avoid the duplicate content issue.

11. Question And Answer Sites - Participate in question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers and WebAnswers etc to ask questions or give relevant helpful answers to establish your expertise. Do include a link to your blog. You can get some visitors overtime from the links included in the relevant and helpful answers.

12. Widgets - Include MyBlogLog or Google Friend Connect widgets in your blog so that whenever you visit a blog having these widgets then your picture will appear in the widget and the owner of the blog or some visitor visiting that blog may want to check who you are and thus visit your blog by clicking your picture.

13. Groups - Participate in Yahoo or Google groups and send relevant and interesting messages to the group members inviting them to visit your blog to find something important that may be of interest to them. Say for example if I send a message I will invite them saying that "if they are interested to know and learn how to make money blogging and affiliate marketing without spending a dime they may visit my blog". You can always tell a small enticing lie to lure them to visit your blog. Be innovative and try to guess what members of a particular group may be looking for and if need be write a post accordingly and then invite them.

14. RSS and Email - Set up a RSS feed with Feedburner (for free) and provide the option of subscribing to your blog updates both by RSS and Email (both types of options are available from Feedburner). This will let you remain connected to your visitors and turn them into loyal readers too. Consider giving full feed instead of partial feed.

15. Links and Trackbacks - Link to relevant posts on other blogs in your blog posts and ask for a courtesy linkback OR use trackbacks to automatically add a link to your post from the post on the other blog to which you have linked. This can occasionally give you a visitor or two (after all each visitor counts).

16. Blog Directories and Blog Search Engines - Submit your blog to blog directories and blog search engines like Technorati and Blogcatalog etc. Tag your posts with the keywords you have optimized your posts for. This is necessary because blog search engines display results by finding blogs based on these tags. Don't forget this step as millions of people use these blog search engines like Technorati to find blogs on their topics of interest.

17. Hubs and Lens - Make a few Hubs at Hubpages.com and a few Lens at Squidoo.com containing links to your blog. These sites get millions of visitors each day and they have the system of linking to posts on similar topics at the bottom of each page. This way you can get visitors to your Hubs or Lens and also to your blog finally. You can also try Ehow.com and other mini blogging sites.

18. Textlinks and Banners - You can buy Text links and Banner ads from high traffic blogs in your niche and connected niches. This also sends good amount of traffic to your blog.

19. CPC - Set up CPC campaign with Google AdWords for relevant keywords - though expensive but a very effective way to get quality targeted traffic to your blog. You can also use StumbleUpon.com to set up CPC campaign on their site - a very low cost CPC alternative but can send good amount of traffic.

20. Press Releases - Submit well written and smart press releases to press release sites like Free-Press-Release.com to get some traffic to your blog. Do not forget to include your blog link in the press release.

21. Blog Carnival - Use BlogCarnival.com to submit your posts to relevant blog carnivals at different sites. Though submitting posts to blog carnivals have become less effective because the blog carnivals are not promoted to that level that they should be but if you go on submitting some of your posts each week then you will start getting traffic overtime slowly as your posts spread over more domains. You can also organize a blog carnival on your blog on a particular topic or two occasionally to get some visitors.

22. Sponsored Reviews - Buy sponsored reviews from relevant, connected and high traffic sites to get a burst of traffic on the day the sponsored review is posted and after that some visitors each day because the post is there to stay. Though can be a very expensive affair to buy reviews from really high traffic sites so look to your pocket before jumping in. You can also try sites with average traffic instead. You can buy sponsored reviews from broker sites like PayPerPost.com, ReviewMe.com, SponsoredReview.com, BlogToProfit.com etc. You can exchange reviews with relevant blogs (this will not strain your pocket!).

23. Ebooks - Write informative ebooks on topics of interest in your niche including your blog link and post links often in the content. Distribute the ebooks for free through ebook directories, your blog, forums etc. This process is quiet effective to get long term viral traffic to your blog.

24. Videos - Make videos and upload them on YouTube, GoogleVideo, MetaCafe and other video sites watermarking them with your blog link or including your blog link in your profile or the text. You can get long term visitors and give a boost to your traffic volume.

25. Free Classifieds - Post ads in free classified sites. Can get you a handful of traffic to your blog for sure. You can also try low cost classifieds like USFreeAds.com and etc. Visit my post List Of Free Classifieds1 and List of free classifieds 2.


These are the most effective ways of bringing or increasing traffic to your blog. Note that though this post has been written with blogs in mind but most of these ways also apply for increasing traffic to a website. Some of the ways that I have mentioned can bring you hoards of traffic and some a few but try to apply as many ways as possible because each visitor counts in this highly competitive Internet world. try to get as much visitor as possible and stress upon ways to make them permanent visitors as more the traffic volume you get per month more will be your chance to make or earn money online. If you have any more effective way of increasing traffic that you would like to include in this list then please leave a comment and I will surely consider including it in my list with a linkback to you (also, do consider linking back to me).

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WAYS TO EARN MONEY ON THE INTERNET - this is the 6th part of the on going series on "Ways To Make Money Online - BEST 101+" so if you have come to this part directly then please consider reading the series from the first part as I have noted some points in the first part of the series that you must read before you start reading the series so that you can understand the series better and make full use of it. Moreover starting from the first part will let you get the series in the same sequence as I have written it. You can go to the first part by clicking - "Best Ways To Make Money Online - 101+".

Here are the Internet money making ways of this part :-

86. WorkingSol.com - Working Solutions provides legitimate work-at-home opportunities for those caring for family members, looking for supplemental income, and wanting or needing to work from home. They partner with clients from many different lines of business, providing them with a very capable and flexible supplemental workforce, as well as a talented project management team. This company pays you to handle technical support for many large companies. You can work from home on the computer or by phone and decide what times you are available. Each project is paid differently, some by the record or entry, other by talk minutes, sales, or a combination of both. Some may be paid a set amount per project. Agents have earned the equivalent of anywhere from $7.20 per hour to $30 per hour, depending on the project. Your income will vary greatly based on the work you are doing, how successful you are, how much work is available, and how many hours you choose to work. They offer direct deposit or can send checks by mail, and checks are issued every other week to those who have invoiced for work completed. So a good opportunity for those who want want to earn money on the Internet by working as a Call-Centre Executive from home.

87. Apingo.com - A good site where you can join as a freelancer to complete projects on copy editing and proof reading and earn money on a per-project-completed basis. You need to submit your resume stating your skills, rates and availability. You can also submit some work samples. If approved you can start working on copy editing and proof reading projects. Pay rates are reasonable and upto the industry standard. An easy and simple way to earn money on the Internet.

88. Intelli-Shop.com - If you love to go shopping then here is an opportunity where you can make money by shopping. You will be required to go for a sponsored shopping to a store or mall in your area or nearby town or city and give a detailed feedback or review about your shopping experience. This feedback or review helps the sponsor to improve their store or mall so that they can provide a better facilities for the consumers thereby increase their customer base. You are paid for your service. You can choose your time and the shopping project that you want to complete. This type of job is also called Mystery Shopping. You will be paid fairly and quickly on completion of your assignments. A good way for part-time income. (Offers are mainly available in USA.)

89. RPoints.com - Another site that offers you mystery shopping opportunities (only UK).


90. OpuzzVoice.com - You can earn money by recording you voice and OpuzzVoice.com offers you this unique job opportunity. You need to apply with your sample voice recording. if approved they will set up a store for you stating your stats and whenever a client hiers you to record for them you will make money after you complete the recording assignment. Its really "fun + money" doing this type of job work. Try it!

91. SlashMySearch.com - You can make money by searching on Internet. Just download and install a browser and then search using the search engine of SlashMySearch.com to make money online.

92. ShareAPic.com - Upload the photographs that you take (infact any photograph you want) on ShareAPic.com and earn money. You need not be a professional photographer - you can put any photographs of any level. You will have to put your Bidvertiser code (free to sign up CPC publisher ad network like AdSense) to your image and gallery pages to earn revenue. You can upload unlimited pictures, create unlimited galleries and no restrictions on file sizes. They also pay you $0.22 per 1000 views which is highest in this industry. You also enjoy other facilities like one click posting of your pictures to Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Orkut and etc.

93. Yuwie.com - Yuwie.com is a social networking site like Facebook or MySpace or Bebo but with a difference - you can make money over here. You just need to register for free and set up your profile page and you are ready to go. Yuwie.com places "pay per 1000 impressions (CPM)" ads on your profile page to earn revenue and you receive a part of this revenue that they earn. More profile views = More earnings.

94. SubvertAndProfit.com - Earn Per Vote. Here at SubvertAndProfit.com you are paid to vote for their clients at Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Delicious, BlinkList and other social media websites. Your votes help their clients reach the frontpage of these social media sites which results in huge traffic and publicity for their sites. You need to register as a voter for free to start earning. Also you need to have accounts at each of the social media sites which of course you can also get for free. Pay rates are on a per-vote basis. If interested visit SubvertAndProfit.com for further details about their money earning program.

95. Make Money Playing Games Online - WorldOfWarcraft.com, SecondLife.com and Zapak.com are three gaming site where you can earn money by playing games online. visit the sites for details regarding there money making methods.

96. SliceThePie.com - SliceThePie.com is a website that was set up to help emerging and up-coming music artists to get noticed, allowing them to get people to listen to their music, to gain feedback on their music, and also to enable people to invest in the artists, giving the artists a much needed financial backing. But the good news for you is that SliceThePie.com pays people to listen and rate music online. Anyone can join the site for free, can go to the 'scouting room' and can listen, rate and review music tracks by unsigned artists to earn easy money from home.

97. Break.com - Upload your pictures, videos or short films at Break.com to make money online. Visit Break.com for details.

98. MTurk.com (Amazon Mechanical Turk) - An Amazon.com undertaking. You are paid for doing jobs that humans do better then computers. Join and browse the jobs area they call Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) to select the tasks you want to do. You can select a task according to your convenience. After selecting a HIT complete it according to the instructions and submit the work. You are paid as soon as the employer who requested the HIT approves the work. Money is deposited into your Amazon Payments account for you to withdraw.

99. Bing.com - An online shopping store owned by MSN which pays you to refer people to their site. You are paid a percentage of the purchases made by the people you refer that is you can make money each time your referred candidate buys from their online store.

100. UTest.com - A site that offers to test softwares before they are released. The software developers get to test their softwares and fix the bugs so that they can release a top quality software in the market. This site also offers you a freelance job opportunity of being a software tester if you are a software geek or understand this field. They have a strong community of 17k+ testers spread in 150 countries working for them - quiet impressive. You as a Software Tester can get paid for the bugs you find.

101. Refer People to Jobs - You can also make significant money online by referring worthy or suitable candidates to fill up vacant positions in different companies. There are sites where different companies lists their vacant positions and you need to sign up with these sites to get the list of positions to be filled up so that you can refer people and earn money. Indeed.com, H3.com and KarmaOne.com are three such sites which offers you this opportunity. You can earn $50 to $5000 or even more for each position filled up. Note - you only get commissions when you refer the right person for a vacant position and the company recruits you referred candidate. The amount of the commission that you can earn by filling up a vacant job position depends upon many aspects like - the urgency for the position to be filled up, the nature of the job, the position of the job, the salary of the job and etc differing from company to company and from network to network. The networks also offers you widgets called Job Boards (that displays the vacant positions present) and you can use these widgets in your websites or blogs. Visit indeed.com, KarmaOne.com and H3.com to get all necessary details about how you can make money from their Job Boards.

102. Flixya.com - Get registered for free - create a profile - upload photos, share videos, start a blog - make friends - sign up for an AdSense account or use your old AdSense account to place contextual advertisement on your pages - keep 100% of the ad revenue generated from your content pages - no fees, no gimmicks, no spam and no website needed - secure and safe - join Today! One of the easy and most simple ways to earn money on the Internet.

103. YouTaz.com - Youtaz is a social portal, it has all the social gadgets (blogs, videos, forums...) as well as interactive content such as playing free arcade games, watching TV online, question and answers, news and product reviews. But there is a massive difference with most social networks: at Youtaz they give back 50% of all site revenue to all active users. You are paid to be active on their network that is you can add blogs, add videos, participate in forum discussions, ask or answer questions or add a link to an interesting news that you have read - all these activities earns you TAZ points which you can later convert to cash or buy products from YouTaz online store. You can request a payout once your account reaches $50. Payments are done through Paypal. They also have a referral program to let you earn more. If interested join as a free member now and start earning money for social activities.

104. PickJack.com - An unique Question and Answer site where you can get paid for answering or putting up multiple choice questions. You earn money based on how many questions and answers you submit and how well other members rate your questions and answers. The goal is to be the top money earner by writing the best, most relevant questions and answers. Registration is free and payments are via Paypal.

105. BKServ.net - A website (named - LookingForClues) that publishes articles that provide "Bite size nuggets of insight and entertainment". They buy articles from new and established freelance writers and pay between $10 and $25 per article - upfront. The article should be at least 6 paragraphs (800 words) and generally no more than 12 paragraphs (1600 words) in length. They are currently seeking articles from writers who are proud of their work and who want everyone to read their writing. If you have a website, blog, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube account or other social networking presence on the net - and are willing to link to your articles - then they want you to write for them and send them lots of traffic by linking to the articles you have submitted from your websites, blogs or different social accounts and they will reward you by paying you more for future articles. You can also earn by reviewing YouTube videos through them if you have YouTube account. Sign-up is free and payments are through Paypal.

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106. HowHub.com - A site (similar to eHow.com) where you can submit your "How to..?" articles to earn money. How-to articles are HOT right now. Just about every single internet user gets online to figure out how to do something. How many times have you searched how to clean a pet stain, cook a quick gourmet dinner, fix plumbing problems, etc? There are nearly 1,000 categories available, so no matter what your expertise is, there is a section for you! When you sign up, you immediately begin earning 50% of the Adsense revenue that your articles generate. You will be able to place your adsense code on the page...so you get paid directly from Google. You can check your stats via Adsense like you normally would for your own sites. You can also create channels to monitor your HowHub article revenue. When you sign up, you are given a referral link. You can post this link on your blog, send your friends/colleagues an email, etc. Once you refer 10 people to HowHub, you will automatically start receiving 100% of the Adsense revenue!! Thats right...simply invite 10 people to join HowHub and you earn 100% of the Adsense income from your articles!. This is retroactive too...so if you have 50 articles earning 50%, when you reach 100%, ALL of your articles begin receiving 100%! Again a great source to earn money without having a website or blog.

To be continued (updated!) ............

Let's take a BREAK buddy! But do come back to check this page as often as possible as I will update this page frequently with more and more Internet money making ways or resources to help you make more money online and also to keep you informed about all the new money earning opportunities coming up on the Internet so that you can always get the best programs to participate and earn lots and lots of money online. Have a fun time earning money on the Internet!

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This is the 5th part of the series - Easy and Best 101+ Ways To Make Money On Internet. So if anyone of you have reached this fifth part directly then I request you to please go back to the first part and read this series exactly in the same sequence as I have put it. You can get the 1st part of the series here - 101 Ways to make money online.

Here are some more easy and practical methods to make money online :-

66. Forum Moderator - Become a Forum Moderator whose work is to keep a forum clean of spam posts and earn for your service. Just search for some new upcoming forums or do a Google or Yahoo and you will get a handful of such forums which will pay you to do the job of a moderator.

67. Earn by Posting in Forums - Normally the new forums have less visitors because of less threads and discussions and moreover because nobody likes to post or start a new thread in forums which have less visitors or inactive forums. So owners of such type of forums hire persons who can start posting new threads and posts and make the forum active so that they can draw visitors. You can take up this work of "Making a Forum come alive" and get paid for your service. ForumBoosting.com and Crazoo.com are two such site that provides such jobs. Search famous forums like Forums.DigitalPoint.com or SitePoint.com etc where owners of small forums posts this type of job opportunities. You can also search freelance sites like Get-a-Freelancer.com or Elance.com etc to look for this type of freelance works. You can also search the net.

68. Earn Revenue By Participating in forums - You can also earn revenue by participating in forums like Bloggeries.com, Forums.DigitalPoint.com etc where you can get a revenue share from the revenue earned from the threads that you start or participate in.

69. Start A Forum - Starting a forum is easy. Just get a domain name, a hosting account and install a forum software and you are ready with your new forum. You can also attach a forum to your existing blog or website. Start a few threads yourself and promote your forum so that people come to your forum and start new threads or discussions. Put up some advertising to start earning revenue. You can do revenue sharing with your forum visitors (this is done by many high traffic and famous forums) as this will attract your visitors and give them one big reason to participate in your forum.

70. Teach Online - You can start teaching students online to earn a good monthly income. Just register with one of the sites that offer you tutoring work and you are ready to start your online tutoring work. You require to have the required qualifications on the subject which you want to teach. You can teach a wide variety of subjects. Sites like Tutor.com, Transwebtutors.com, Tutorvista.com, e-Tutor.com and many others provides you with this type of tutoring work.

71. Do Homework And Assignments - You can earn money by doing homework for others online. There are people or students who doesn't do their homework or don't have time to do it so they outsource their homework to be done by others in exchange for a few dollars - thus giving you an opportunity to earn money. Just join some sites which gathers these outsourced homework to be done by people like us. Sites like StudentOfFortune.com, Hwfirm.com, TransTutors.com, Indianchild.com, Academia-Research.com, ResearchEden.com and AllWriting.net etc provides you with this type of homework jobs. So get registered with these sites and start doing homework assignments and making money online.

72. Do Social Bookmarking - If you are used to doing social bookmarking in sites like Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Sphinn.com, Del.icio.us.com, Reddit.com, Furl.net, Spurl.com then you can earn money by doing social bookmarking for others. Social Bookmarking takes a lot of time (but is quiet essential for promoting one's site or blog as it gives free backlinks and also delivers traffic) so many webmasters and bloggers outsource this job to freelancers. You can find many such bookmarking job works at forums like DigitalPoint.com and Bloggeries.com etc if you search a little in their buy-sell-trade and services sections. You can earn decent money by directly contacting one of the webmasters who have posted such jobs asking for book markers to do bookmarking for them. Or you can do a post in a relevant thread stating that you do social bookmarking and give your rates with it so that you can be contacted by interested webmasters or bloggers. You just need an extensive list of social bookmarking sites which you can get easily by searching on net.

73. Do Directory Submissions - Same as above except that you would have to do directory submissions for your clients which helps them get backlinks(SEO) and traffic. Follow the same process as above to get directory submission work. You can prepare your list of directories by searching the net.

74. Write Articles and Submit in Article Directories - You can write articles for other webmasters or bloggers and submit them in Article Directories in exchange for a few dollars. Process to find such work is same as in way no.72. Article directory submissions gives one way relevant backlinks and also traffic to websites and blogs. But as because it is a very time consuming job to do so the many webmasters outsource the work to freelancers and thus you can get a lot of such work available and make quiet a good amount of money delivering this service.

75. SEO Consultant - Search Engine traffic is the most valuable form of traffic and all webmasters want their sites to rank higher in SERPs so that they can get valuable traffic from search engines. But in most cases the webmasters are unaware of how to optimize their sites for search engines so here comes a job opportunity for you. If you are well-versed in on-page and off-page optimization techniques then you can start a SEO consultancy online to make money. You would have to review sites and detect defects in their on-page and off-page optimization. Then you would have to advice your clients how they can improve their on-page and off-page optimization so that their sites can improve their rankings in SERPs. You can charge a fee for your service. Moreover you can also offer the services that I have mentioned in 72, 73 and 74 and earn extra amount from your clients. This is really a vast field and their is a great demand for good SEO experts. You can open a Website for offering the SEO consultancy or you can also advertise without a website but having a website makes things easier as you can state your rates and everything you need to show to convince your clients. You can also get SEO jobs at freelance sites like Get-A-Freelancer.com, Elance.com, Guru.com, RentACoder.com and Scriptlance.com etc.


76. Website Designer - A good Website designer is also in high demand. You can start a career in website designing if you are well-versed in the art. A good website design makes a site unique and makes it stand out from the crowd of millions of websites. A person who is serious about starting in the online world always wants a well designed website to start with so they generally outsource the work to a website designer. Running websites or blogs also wants to have a makeover of their design so even more work for you. With thousands of websites and blogs getting online everyday this is an ever increasing field. You can start a website offering website designing services where you can put up your rates and some of your previous works to convince new clients. You can also get web designing jobs at freelance sites like Get-A-Freelancer.com, Elance.com, Guru.com, RentACoder.com and Scriptlance.com etc.

77. Start an Article Directory - Article Directories earn quiet a significant amount of money as advertisement revenue from content (articles) pages written by others. You too can start an article directory. After setting up one, you would have to promote it on the web which is the toughest part. You can earn revenue from your article directory mainly through advertisements. But everything depends on the amount of traffic you get. To get more traffic and more article contributors you can adopt a revenue sharing plan to entice your visitors. Keep the percentage above 50% for the contributors to encourage more participation. You can earn good money without doing any work other than promotion. You can also put up a plan to sell articles through your directory to webmasters and bloggers who look for unique content for their websites or blogs and charge a commission from the writer on every sale.

78. Start a Link Directory or Blog Directory - You can start a paid link or blog directory and charge a fee from websites and blogs interested in getting links from your directory. Keep the fee reasonable to attract more clients. Build up a good amount of incoming links to your directory(time consuming and tough job to do) so that it has a high PageRank because a high PageRank directory page can pass more link juice to a link and higher the PageRank of your listing pages more will be your demand and the more you can charge. You also need to promote your directory extensively to get good response.

79. Answer Questions - Believe it or not, people are being paid online just for answering questions. You’d be surprised at how much money people are willing to pay to get the information that they want. There are web sites online that allow you to give out your knowledge for profit. Some of these sites even allow you to bid on how much money your knowledge is worth. This is a great way to earn money online. You can choose to answer any question based on your area of expertise and you can answer as less or as many questions that you want. I have already listed JustAnswer.com and BitWine.com in Part4 here are a few more - ExpertBee.com, IWantYourAnswers.com, Qunu.com and Guruza.com.

80. Sell Websites or Blogs - You can buy and sell sites for a quick profit in much the same way as regular merchandise except in this case the market place is different. There are countless websites and domains for sell every day at places like DigitalPoint.com, SitePoint.com, DnForum.com, Sedo.com, BuyDomains.com, NamePros.com, GreatDomains.com, QuickInternet.com and etc. Find good bargains to buy a running website or blog and then sell it for a quick profit. Technically this is called Site Flipping.

81. Start and sell Websites or Blogs - You can start a website or blog on some popular niche and build it for a while by adding good content, doing link building and promoting it extensively. When the site starts to draw traffic and even some money from advertising you can sell it for nice profit (I personally discourage this because on the long run you will be a loser but anyway there are people who do this on a regular basis and earn good money). You can sell your sites at DigitalPoint.com, SitePoint.com, DnForum.com, Sedo.com, BuyDomains.com, NamePros.com, GreatDomains.com, QuickInternet.com and etc. The prices that you can get depends on many things like traffic, PageRank, Alexa Ranking, Monthly Earnings etc.

82. Drop Catching - Many domains get expired and are not renewed so if you can pick up few such good domains fast before they die off then you can build them up yourself and can get some good monthly earnings. You get additional traffic from links that has already been built by the previous owner. After registration you can also sell them for a good profit in market places I have mentioned in 80 and 81. You can find such expired or expiring domains at ExpiredDomains.com, Enom.com, Pool.com, SnapNames.com, NameJet.com and etc.

83. Buy Websites or Blogs - Buy a website or blog that is already earning good revenue for instant monthly earnings. There are many places to buy running websites or blogs as already stated in the above ways. You can buy an earning website or blog at roughly 10 to 12 times the amount that it is earning monthly - that is if a website or blog is earning $500 per month and is listed for sale then you can buy that site at roughly $5000 to $6000. Maybe you will be paying a big amount while buying but don't worry as it is a running site and you will surely get back your investment within months. If your budget is small then target a site with a lower price tag. But always try to buy a site in a niche that you are at least familiar with because that will help you in further adding content and promoting it. You can further increase the site's earning potential by adding content to it , optimizing it further by acquiring more one way links and promoting it vigorously. Go for this method if you want instant online success.

84. Resell Hosting Packages - Buy reseller Hosting packages from good hosting companies and sell it in parts to different parties who are interested in buying a hosting account. You just need a little bit of technical knowledge which you will get from the companies from whom you will buy the reseller hosting package. You can get good bargains to buy even unlimited reseller hosting packages at Ebay.com at a very cheap price. After you have bought a reseller hosting package you can sell it via Ebay listings or by making a website or by other ways.

85. Start an Ebook Directory - You can start an Ebook directory to list Ebooks for sale. Ebook writers will contact you to get their ebooks listed in your directory for sale and you can charge them a fee for the listing or a commission on sale or both as per your demand. Your work will be to promote your directory vigorously to get both potential advertisers and buyers. A nice way to make money on Internet but needs time, hard work and also a bit of investment for advertisement purposes before you can start getting good earnings.


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