Thursday, June 25, 2009

Another PR update | June 2009

When was the last update? May. Google is really accelerating time this year. Now, maybe Google has seriously potentiating the action of its algorithms, the last time I wrote: 

[…]recently Google PR is updating very fast compared to past times. Who knows if it continues at this rate or is it just a temporary thing.


Well, at this pace, it will be a lot better to webmasters. More frequent the updates will be and more realistic will be the PR value on the green bar of the browser. Maybe in the near future there will be updates in real time.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Make money sharing files with Slingfile

SlingFile.com is a free file hosting service like Megaupload, Rapidshare, Sendspace, but there is a fundamental difference between them, SlingFile pays you for hosting files, every time they are viewed or downloaded.

Membership Benefits:

  • FREE Registration
  • Max. 1 GB per file
  • - You earn 1 point per file download/view
  • - 1000 points = $1 USD
  • - Payout via PayPal
  • - $50 payout minimum
  • - Payment is sent every month net 20 (20 days after the month ends)
  • Easy access and management of your files
  • Site available in various languages

Then, promoting your files will not be very hard, for example, Yahoo! Answer or YouTube are good (often if people like a video on YouTube, they will like more an URL to download it). There are a lot of places where to post them.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Internet business, how to build an e-commerce site

Often in this blog we talked about how to make money online, how to optimize a website, or a blog, how to get traffic, about scams and honest opportunities; now it’s time to learn something about how to open an electronic commerce site without too much work. Why e-commerce? I’m sure that you already know that people buy online a lot, a lot more than I thought three years ago. So, if you have something to sell and don’t want to invest a big amount of money to open a shop in your city, nothing is better than electronic commerce. E-commerce is still growing year after year.

Key-factors for success in e-commerce:

  1. Valuable and competitive product(s)
  2. Provide a detailed description for every single product. You have to be more explicative of a bored salesman in the shop along a city street.
  3. You need to build a good website with a good graphic. The right choose of colours is the major key, not too bright or too unfriendly. Ii is better to present each product with a photo.
  4. The discounts are always welcomed by customers.
  5. Reliability and security. See last periods of this post: Online shopping | relationship between scam, buyer and seller
  6. Payment protected. Paypal, HTTPS. Money back warranty for a limited time.
  7. Entrust your consignments to good postal services
  8. Know the law about online shopping and e-commerce websites in your country

E-commerce Script:

osCommerce FREE
CubeCart v3 FREE
Zen Cart FREE
CosmoSoft (fx) F-Cart Paypal Standalone (commercial) license price: $59,60
CS-Cart (commercial) license price: $265

Now, some other tips about the products you’re going to sell. What could you vend through an e-commerce site? Well, think about e-bay or Amazon, what they are if not e-commerce websites?
If you don’t have anything in mind yet, I can show some suggestions:

  1. Sell original items. To owe, or give like a gift, something unique is often the preferred choice by people:
    1. Embroideries, tablecloths, rag dolls, vintage fabrics
    2. Paints made by you or your family, jewellery made by you, trinket
    3. Wooden models, wooden boxes, etc.
  2. Sell clothes (You must have the rights to sell)
  3. Sell Books (You must have the rights to sell)
  4. Sell Personalized Item. T-Shirts, caps, key rings (you have to have professional machines for printing on fabric, like serigraphy)
  5. Sell Internet merchandise (You must have the rights to sell):
    1. Software, hardware
    2. Web Template
    3. Script
    4. E-books
  6. Etcetera, etcetera.

At last, there is no need to be an internet expert to run an e-commerce site and there is no need to spend a lot of money to find a good host: E-commerce hosting (Hostmonster and some others in the list have Simple Script, it will install and update CubeCart, ZenCart, OSCommerce automatically).

Helpful sources:

http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showforum=8
What is it the best traffic resource?
Traffic Detonator Pro, by Susan (Suzi) Phillips
EasyHits4u, not on autopilot but free traffic for real

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Articles, blogs and search engine conflicts. Hubpages, squidoo, ehow, zimbio.

What happens if you post the same article, that was previous posted in your blog, on one, or all, of these services? It will engendered what might be termed a conflict of interest, because this article will be considered like duplicate content by the most famous search engine.

How to avoid this? Yes, just what you’re thinking, the best thing to do is write different articles for each one of the service mentioned, with the same infos and links but changing the periods and some words.

How to do it? If you don’t want to write down, one by one, the articles there is another solution, automatic speech recognition softwares for dictation:

IBM ViaVoice – price: from $30 (standard) to $200 (Pro)
e-Speaking – price: $14
Dragon Naturally Speaking – price: from $99.99 (standard)

Otherwise, you can buy original articles at constant-content.com for example - see Constant Content: where to sell your articles, photos and video online.

Constant-Content is the place to purchase unique, original content. Browse through the large archives of articles that authors have listed for sale, request content for your project and liaise with new writers
– then add your links and post it, severals are really cheap.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

How to optimize your new Wordpress blog

Wordpress is a great free platform for bloggers but can’t be left as it is just after installation. It needed to do some SEO adjusting.

  • Don’t leave your post links like this: http://yourblogdomain/?p=152
    Settings --> Permalinks --> Custom Structure, add:
    /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

  • Post title, it’s better to place the title of your post before the blog’s title, or even better if it is showed just the post title: in your template header.php, delete whatever there is between <title></title> and add: 


  • <?php

    if ($paged!=0) {

    echo "Pagina ".$paged." - ";

    }

    if ( is_single() || is_page() ) { // single pages are the most visited; => top IF

    $post_custom = get_post_custom($post->ID);

    $custom_desc_value = $post_custom["title"][0];

    if($custom_desc_value) {

    echo $custom_desc_value;

    } else {

    wp_title('');

    }

    }

    else {

    if (is_home()) { bloginfo('name'); }

    else {

    if ( function_exists("is_tag") && is_tag()) {

    if (function_exists('single_tag_title')) single_tag_title();

    } else {

    wp_title('');

    }

    }

    }

    ?>



  • Add this canonical plugin to prevent duplicate content: Canonical URL's for WordPress (duplicate content is penalized by Google)

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Bing.com, new search engine by Microsoft

Bing, already with millions of pages indexed, the new search engine by Windows Live, created to replace the old Live Search, has a very simple interface like Google, with the difference of a background image that is randomly changed.

Keywords like "make money", "make money online" and "make money business" have millions of results, although in different positions, you will find the same sites on the first pages just like in Google.com

Bing is still in beta version, waiting for the definitive version, Microsoft says that in the coming months will ensure an improved service. According to the reports, Bing, in just few hours after its launch, May 31, reached 6% in the global market and on June 1st Bing handed the 6.35% of all searches made in the world.

Bing gives the impression of becoming a powerful rival to Google and Yahoo!.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Opera mirror list, a good chance to give and get

This post is directed to self hosted website/blog, therefore to webmasters that have complete control of their domain. To host a mirror download for Opera browser in return of a link on this page: Opera mirror list that create more public exposure for your site. I don’t have to say how many people go on that page everyday.

Opera Mirroring Specifications

Opera is striving to see its browser files mirrored on reputable file servers throughout the world. To this end, we'd like to offer you this opportunity to become an official Opera mirror.

After reading the following specifications, if you'd like rsync access to automatically mirror Opera's browser files on your server for public access, please fill out the mirror registration form.

Requirements:

You should have the following system options available:

  • Approximately 3.5 GB of server space
  • The following MIME Type settings should be set your mirror server:
    • application/x-redhat-package-manager rpm
    • application/x-debian-package deb
  • RSYNC read-only transfer protocols to auto-sync to Opera's FTP server.
    Note: You can reference this program at rsync.samba.org

Monday, June 1, 2009

What Google likes and what people look for connection

Google likes most:
  • Blogs
    • With original content
    • Updated regularly
    • Posts with a fairly good number of relative comments [No Spam]
    • Not too heavy to load [near to 100Kb is the best solution]
    • With links related, inbound and outbound
    • With emphasis [italic, stronger] on major keyword
    • With HTML code without too much error [The W3C Markup Validation Service]
  • Interactive sites
    • Forums, notice boards and similar.
    • With most original and a large number of pertinent topics
    • With a fairly good number of active users
    • Based on a SEO friendly script

Google likes also what people like most:

  • Good and informative content
    • If you write a unique article, there is a strong possibility to see your page above thousands of look alike pages.
  • Simplicity of navigation [not too many ads banners, advertises, and pop-ups]
  • Answers to the questions that they have in mind when they choose to type some keyword in a search engine like Google
    • If you title a page: “How to make money with private entrepreneurship”, don’t write a good 5000 words article about how to make money in general but focus on the specific topic “private entrepreneurship”, in order to satisfy the visitors that will come on your page with that keyword.
  • To say their opinion about anything [polls, comments, forum posts]
  • To find a page with the language appropriate to its own expectations. This can be assessed according to the visitors who are expected to read it, if children, adults, technicians, experts, etc.