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We've Moved!

2007-05-14T08:57:00.001-07:00

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So head on down there and check out all the new content we've got! Thanks for reading.

New Google Gadget Ads

2007-05-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

That's right guys... be on the look out for google's new "gadget ads". Some new google widget that is supposedly going to make things easier for publishers and advertisers, and get some advertisements in new 'hard to reach places'.

They sent out invites to start using, or testing their new advertisements to a few of their current publishers... unfortunately I wasn't one of them, but hey... I can understand as I just started using google adsense as of a couple days ago.

Using Cafepress To Make Money

2007-05-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

I've discovered that cafepress is probably one of the most simple and "internet noob" friendly ways to make money on the internet. With my two shops, ninja nights and the referrer, I have made more money without doing virtually any work than I have with a site I have spent hours on. (no games allowed). Of course if one really wanted to make the big bucks with site's like cafepress, they would be spending a lot of time on promoting their shops, and affiliating with other site's and shops. I actually made the shop ninjanights months ago and then decided to give up on cafepress since I wasn't getting any sales, but with that specific niche and a few good descriptions on the designs, I was picked up by the search engines. My shop began to make money without me even knowing! Eventually my shop built up to the $25 minimum at the end of the month and actually surpassed it. I was sent a check for 50 something dollars, and of course after being sent a check for doing *nothing* I was stoked and now I'm making quite a bit of money off of cafepress. If you work hard on your shop, add good descriptions to your products, and affiliate with other high traffic sites, then your shop could become one of the ones that makes $xx,xxx every year.

click the link below to signup :)

Life of an affiliate

2007-05-06T10:04:00.000-07:00

With the help of internet the job of an affiliate has been simplified because now he can do all his work by just sitting at his home. We can imagine a day when an affiliate will check out for new developments in the network while he is sitting at his home. The affiliates will have to keep themselves abreast with latest information and they will have to check the statistics at regular intervals.

A well designed site can attract a large number of prospective customers. We can compare a website with a showroom. Just as a showroom is decorated to attract more customers in the same way a site which has been beautifully designed can attract more customers.

After doing that it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. The best way of promoting the affiliate program is by getting your self registered with these directories.

Then comes the time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. In order to track them down we have with us their telephone order and their telephone numbers. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information might prove to be very useful in the near future.

Lots of resources are there to be sorted out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations are given out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. It is also the best way to stay visible and accessible too. An affiliate marketer should always keep in mind that there are questions to be answered to the visitors. This has to be done quickly. If this is not done properly then a customer can even drop out the idea of purchasing a product.

It is better to pay more attention on inquiries to find out whether the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently because now a day every body wants the affiliate to give proper attention to them. And so it is the duty of an affiliate to provide his customers with proper answers, which are likely to satisfy his query. The answer should be given in a professional manner and they should be given in a friendly way too.

In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.

Affiliate marketing is a process where one has to learn things on a continuous basis and where one is suppose to adapt new skills. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. One should welcome every one as there is no harm in assuming what opportunities are there ahead of us.

It is very important for an affiliate to keep track of the new things happening in the market because the newspaper and ezines were updated days ago. This information should be included in the publications that are supposed to be distributed among the existing as well as prospective customers.

An important tool is keeping your self up to date with the newly introduced products and these products should be included in the publications. The marketer has to put up a sale and promotion that the customers may want to know about. Moreover they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.

The time has now come to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in achieving their sales target and helping them in promoting their products. There is nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.

These will be definitely published in newsletters. Along with the most important information that has already been published.

Those who want credible sources for the products being promoted are being given written recommendations by these marketers.

The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join. Thus by this, two objectives are achieved in the same time. Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….

However, this may not be done in a single day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Now it rests upon you to find out that is that success looming in the distance or what?

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7 ways to get insane traffic

2007-05-06T10:03:00.000-07:00

Generating traffic is one of the most important things an entrepreneur can do to succeed in his online business. If you master traffic, you can create income on demand.

Here are some great ways to drive traffic to your site on a budget:

1. Post on forums. Forum marketing remains one of the best ways to drive traffic. It is free and you only need spend a little time each week or each day to post regularly to forums.

2. Create a blog about your business! Post unique and compelling content to your blog so visitors will come back for more. Some people will even recommend your blog to others, bringing in even more traffic.

3. Link exchange. Find websites related to yours and request to exchange links. This also works well from a search engine optimization perspective. It’s a win-win situation.

4. Post articles to article directories. Article submission is free, and article marketing is certainly a great way to drive lots of traffic to your site.

5. Use a little Pay Per Click advertising. Since you are on a budget, you wouldn’t want to spend to much on pay per click advertising. However they can very effective. Just set a low daily budget and test your campaign. If it is profitable, increase your daily budget.

6. Submit press releases. Press releases are a great tool for branding and traffic purposes, so don’t discount it! It is completely free advertising that can bring in a ton of leads and sales.

7. Use video advertising. You can create a simple video and post it up to a video sharing site like YouTube. This is one of the top methods to get free traffic because sites like YouTube are highly-trafficked.

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Choosing an affordable hosting package

2007-05-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

There are many affordable web hosting packages available today. How do you decide which one is right for you? Even when the price is important, you should never buy your package based on this factor alone. Remember the old adage "You get what you pay for".

If you know what to look for when shopping for a cheap web hosting package, getting the right one for your needs is easy. Just make sure to check out the following:

1. Disk space and bandwidth limits

Some packages offer very limited amount of disk space and low traffic volume. The hosting company will charge you extra for additional disk space and bandwidth. Even if your website is small at the moment, you will need some extra space to allow for its future growth.

2. Included domain name

Unless you already have one, you will need a domain name for your website. The domain name can cost you between $6 and $30 a year depending on the registrar. If you decide to use private registration to hide your personal data in the domain names registry you will have to pay around $20 a year on top of the regular registration fee.

3. Included email accounts and mailbox size

Most web hosting companies offer email as a part of their packages. If you need to have email in yours, decide how many addresses you will need. Make sure that the package you are getting provides enough email addresses and adequate mailbox capacity.

4. FTP access

You will need to upload different files to your website. Check whether you will have an FTP access to your server - some companies will only provide a web browser-based file upload tool. It's always better to have more than one way of transferring files to your server.

5. Dynamic scripts support

If you will have anything other than simple HTML pages on your website, you will need you web server to support dynamic scripts such as PHP, CGI or Perl.

6. Technical support

You need to have access to tech support whenever you require it. A good hosting company will provide you with 24/7 phone and email support even for the smallest packages.

7. How to close your account

If you are not satisfied with your package, you should be able to close your account within reasonable period of time - at least 30 days - and get full refund. Make sure your web host provides this option.

Now you know how to select the hosting package that won't disappoint you.

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Planning your Website

2007-05-05T23:22:00.000-07:00

A well made website gives your business a corporate identity in web. Hence website should be interactive, communicative and user friendly. You need to keep track of several points before creating and uploading a website, it is important to plan as per the customers demand. It needs a meticulous approach to construct a good website. Following are the few important points which you should keep in mind before constructing a good website.

Objective

Websites provide you an internet presence. It is essential to define the exact objective of the website before planning the course of action. Your objective should focus on what the basic requirements of your customers and how can your website assist them. The objective should define what the website can achieve and what benefits users can get. As well beginning is half done; a clear purpose of the website can give you the fuel to construct a website. With your defined objective, you can easily identify your target audience. Setting short term and long term goal for the website will help you to make clear plans for the future when expansion, modification, and improvement will take place. You can also track your progress if you draw a clear goal setting objective.

Target Audience

You make website for the people, your customer, and audience. It is essential to know who’s going to visit your site and how can they benefit you. Defining the right target audience is the foremost step in the website planning process. Your audience or visitors will visit your site for a specific reason and, you need to understand the requirements of your visitors. Whether it's a business site or informative site, you should always identify the target audience for your site. You need to hold the attention of your visitors so that they will stay longer in your site. From visuals to appropriate content, you should know the specific preferences of your audience.

Content

Content management is an integral part of any website. Your visitor judges you through the glasses of content and technology used. A well written content represents the authenticity of the website. Content evaluation and organization should be well defined while plotting a website. Building necessary content then organizing it according to the visitors need is a major step in website planning. Content has to be crisp, brief and right to the point. Ambiguous content may deter the audience's attention. Hence content should be well edited and it should accomplish target audience objectives. It is always better to conduct in depth research before putting the content in your site. Content involves every alphabet featured in your website. You need to categorize content with brief and descriptive words which should be lucid and attractive.

Compatibility

To become a familiar name among viewers, you need to create a website which is compatible with majority of web surfers. In today’s situation, market share of browsers, as depending on your target audience, the compatibility of your website with your audience is restricted. There's only one way to be certain about a particular platform that is to test it on that platform.

Storyboarding

Storyboarding is the final process of website planning. In this you take care of the purpose, audience and content to design most suitable format for the website. In storyboarding, you make a site map of your website. Storyboarding creates a visual portrayal of the web pages. There are different ways of making a storyboard for any website. It basically depends on the content and the pages involved in the website. Storyboard can be called a prototype model for the website.

Conclusion

Websites are never finished. It needs constant upgradation and fine tuning to get the best search engine listing. While building a website, your prime concern should be to make it feature rich and informative for the viewer. It should have the pertinent information which is desired by your visitors and search engines. To make an active site, you should plan accordingly and make every page attractive and informative. If your site features empty pages and is disorganized then it is just a failure. So, you should make your site look professional and effective and for which website planning is just the first step.

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The Plug Your Site Post

2007-05-05T21:34:00.000-07:00

Ok, here is a post where all of you desperate webmasters can plug a link to your site as a comment... of course if you don't want to because the blog is pr0 I understand... but I assure you the pr will increase... and with the blog's pr increase, your site will increase as well. And by the way... these links are everlasting, since I'm not going to be deleting this post or any of the comments if you follow these rules.

no porn links
no virus links
no bad links period k?

so the rules are simple enough, go ahead and plug your site now! :)

HTML color chart

2007-05-05T20:35:00.000-07:00

For all of you webmasters who need to know what the code is for a certain color you'd like to use in some sort of project, here is an html color chart I picked up off the web. So of course feel free to use it. :)

Video Blogging (by thetafferboy83)

2007-05-05T20:12:00.000-07:00

An Introduction to Video Websites
There's a lot of them about, a lot. Apart from the old-timers like ebaumsworld, Google's acquisition of YouTube has really seen them starting to eat up this market. The great thing is, that doesn't matter, videos are a disposal media - people look at them once, show their mates and then it's old news. You're only as good as your last video! What we're going to look at doing here is setting up a video website with minimal cost & time and maximising our profit.

Now, I'm not claiming this will make you a millionaire, but you can earn around £500 ($1000 to our American friends) per month without too much trouble. So it's well worth it for the day or two it will take to set up!

Step #1: Monetization Strategy
Okay, for this site we are going to make our bucks from a couple of different sources. Our main income will be made from Google Adsense. If you haven't got yourself a Google Adsense Publisher account, click the big button below and sign up. Adsense will display contextual adverts which you can neatly blend in with the design of your website, to make them non-intrusive, yet a natural click away. For this website we are aiming at generating a 25% click-through rate while staying well inside the Adsense Terms Of Service.

An important note: I'm going to give you some tips on optimising your Adsense placement and layout later, if you want to take the optimisation further, you may be pushing the limit on what Google does and doesn't allow. The Adsense team can be merciless at times if they think you are breaking their ToS, which can be quite "grey" at times. So, stick to the guidelines and you'll be fine, cross the line at your own risk!

Step #2: Setting up the website with Wordpress
Yay for Wordpress and its many uses! Wordpress gives you an off the shelf platform for out video blog (vlog). It allows comments, pings, trackbacks, easy archiving, it's SEO friendly and has loads of plugins. For this kind of mission, it's definitely the number one choice.

There are two ways you can go about getting Wordpress up and running:

1) You can go to wordpress.com and sign up for a wordpress account, they will provide you with a hosted blog such as myvideoblog.wordpress.com

or

2) You can go wordpress.org and download Wordpress and install it on your server. This is really the preferred option as it will give you the power to use some neat features in the future, which will smooth out the money making process! If you haven't got web hosting, I use Site5 (aff link) and they've always been good to me and are fairly priced.

Once you've uploaded Wordpress to your server, follow the installation guide (it's pretty simple) to get your Wordpress installation and database up and running.

Step #3: Choosing a domain name
Probably the hardest part of building any website is finding a domain name! Don't worry too much about getting keywords in there, organic SEO isn't how we'll be doing the bulk of our promotion, try and focus on getting something short, snappy and memorable. (That means no hyphens!). If you can get something with a keyword or two (funny, video, comedy, humour - reach for your thesaurus) all the better, but as I say - don't sacrifice the name for it. Once that's sorted, point it at your server so it will have resolved by the time you're ready to launch.

Step #4: Plugins Galore
There are some great plugins for Wordpress that will save you a hell of a lot of time and coding. I've experimented with quite a few and whittled the list down to some essentials.

Viper's Video Quicktags - This plugin will save you having to rip out all the embed code from videos on major sites like YouTube, all you need to do is paste in the video ID and this plugin will do all the rest of the code & alignment for you. It's essential to make adding videos as quick as possible.

WP-Email - This plugin adds an "E-mail This To A Friend" option at the bottom of every post (which will be your videos). I've been using these for a while and although you don't get loads of people use them, personally recommendation is the best kind of marketing your website could hope for.

WP-PostRatings - This will add the "rate this video" 0-5 stars function at the bottom of each post. It's a nice addon to get people to try and interact with your site if the can't be bothered to post comments. Interaction is good - it's the first step in relation building with your visitors and ultimately trying to get them to come back.

Sociable - Adds a mini-bar of just about every popular social bookmarking site worth mentioning at the bottom of each post. Digg, Reddit, Bloglines, they're all there. Optimisation Tip: From experimenting, I found it is best not just to select all the social sites going, choose a maximum of 5 major ones, then rotate to see what is most successful. Having a line of 20 social bookmarking icons looks a bit confusing and seems to ultimately put people off using them.

StumbleUpon It! - StumbleUpon is a really great way to promote sites with entertainment and disposable content. This plugin gives you a "stumble it" button at the bottom of each post, which will play a part in our future marketing strategy.

Did You Pass Math? - Did you? This is just a basic anti-spam measure that puts one of those sums before you're allowed to comment. Spam is a major problem, so I'd recommend this one, just to save you some time.

Akismet - This should be present in your default Wordpress installation, you require a Wordpress API key - but this little gem has stopped more spam than anything else I've ever tried.

Step #5: Get Feedburnt
Okay, with further promotion in mind it's time to sign up to Feedburner. RSS is going to be one of the main ways we keep in touch with our readers, letting them know we've put more videos on our site and Feedburner offers a load of other ways to let people subscribe to your content.

..and here is Part 2...

Step #6: Theme Design
There are loads of great Wordpress themes at themes.wordpress.net. Have a good look through them until you find something you like. I would generally recommend going for something fairly simplistic and neat with an either 2 or 3 column design. Or, if you're feeling adventurous, you could always design your own!

Once you've got your theme and uploaded it, I'd suggest tweaking some of the graphics to make it your own. Get your branding up there, design a logo and base your site around the domain name. This is why we wanted something easy to remember and relevant earlier, it's no good calling your site "Video Hustler" then having www.my-funny-internet-videos.cc and hoping people will remember it.

Some Wordpress essentials
There are a couple of other tweaks you can do in Wordpress to make your job easier.

1) Add a few categories, I used "Funny Videos", "Extreme Videos" and "Sexy Videos" just so I could tag my content as I add it.

2) Use custom permalinks! This will make your URLs easier to remember and will help various bots crawl your site. To do this go to the "Options" menu, then "Permalinks" and at the bottom check the "custom" radio button and put /%postname%/ in the field.

3) Change page titles.

What we want to do is to swap the position of "Post Title" with "Blog Name". This is because:

* Search engines uses your Page Title as the linking text in its search engine results page (SERP).
* The search keywords are bolded for page titles in search engines
* It makes it easier for search engine users to know right away if what they are looking for is correct

Now, this will involve some editing to your template files, which is normally called "header.php". Find this:

and replace with:

And you're done!

I'm not going to tell you how to design your layout pixel by pixel, because one of the keys with maximising your profit is experimentation. Here are some guidelines:

Adsense Placement & Optimisation
This is how you're going to make your money, so it's pretty important! On your main index page you want to have an Adsense content unit at the very top, below your site header, but above the first video. This for me, is by far the highest click though, achieving around 30-40%, with the right keywords later on we can marry these adverts up with your content beautifully.

In your Adsense control console, under Adsense for content, go into your "Ad Units". These will get you paid after 1 click, whereas link units require a click to bring you to a results page, then a click on the results to get paid. So select link unit and leave "text only" (default) selected. There is 468x60 pixel size which fits perfectly above your standard Google or YouTube Video.

You second biggest earner will be the ad unit which will create a gap between the first video and the rest of the videos on the site. Your first video will obviously be visible above the scroll, but being an average 10-30 second long funny clip, people will never be able to resist at least looking at the other videos on your front page. You must exploit this human curiosity! The 336x280px "large rectangle" unit fits the bill perfectly. Again it will fit in nicely below your video and will give a nice chunk of adverts. This ad unit must only be displayed below the first video as there are limits on the amount of ad units you are allowed on 1 page. You will however, want this ad unit again on the "single post" page. So, if somebody links directly to one of your videos, you still have max Adsense coverage.

I would recommend showing the first 5 videos on the first page. Having less, will reduce the chances of people looking at anything but the first video on your site and will effectively reduce the page size - minimising advert space. Having a lots of videos will distract people from using other parts of your site navigation (well, by this I mean will keep people too amused to click on your ads!). It's a fine line between wetting their appetite but then keeping them hungry for more.

It's also worth having a vertical unit (skyscraper) near your navigation. You want both of these units clearly visible without scrolling down, so you've got the top of the page and the central part covered in lovely adverts, which is where people’s mousey clicks tend to go!

It is important to blend your Adsense into your site and there are two schools of thought on this. The default "blue" hyperlinks on websites will get the most clicks, always. This colour has been drilled into our head since the dawn of the www and your brain just says "click", so if any of your other links on your site use this colour, you will need to use this colour for your Adsense titles. I however, think this colour is ugly, so I refrained from using it anywhere on my site at all. If you follow this approach as well, then you simply want to make your Adsense units the same colour as your standard hyperlinks. If you're using Firefox there is a great Colour Picker addon, which gives you the hex code for any colour, live on a web page. Since you're allowed a link unit on the page as well, I tend to put one of these in the footer, just because it looks okay and it does earn a few pennies every now and again.

Beating Adsense Smart Pricing
"Smart Pricing" is Google's way of trying to keep its advertisers happy by lowering the cost of junk traffic. Unfortunately, they do this at your expense. Having poor advertisers on your site, will lead to you users clicking the adverts, then leaving the horrible site they land on almost instantly. When people do this, Google will think you're sending out junky traffic, when actually it's the advertiser's site that is at fault. This will lead to the money you get per click, going down.

Fortunately, Google offer a "competitive ad filter", which allows you to block certain advertisers from showing ads on your site. Login to your Google Adsense account and go to "Adsense Setup" and you'll see a "Competitive Ad Filter" tab. Click this and you'll be given a box of URLs to block.

Copy & paste this list into your competitive ad filter and this should help you keep a strong amount per click.

Google Coop
Google Coop is a custom search engine (CSE) which basically allows you to click a few buttons and make a custom search engine. The great thing is, you can tie this in with your current Adsense account and it will pay out when somebody clicks on a sponsored result from your custom search engine. So, rather than leave in the standard Wordpress search, you might as well make some money from it!

Find the bit of code in your theme that shows the default Wordpress search box and comment it out. Create a Google Coop account and you will be presented with if you would like your search engine to search the entire web, with preference to selected sites, or simply search specific sites. Choose the option to select specific sites and just add your own URL. Don't forget to enter your Adsense Publisher ID!. Google will then generate a chunk of code for you, which you can paste in place of your current Wordpress search. Voila! Monetized search! My search box generates around an extra 30% of my site revenue.

Get Feedburner on there
Login to your Feedburner account and get it to give you the code for an e-mail subscribe box. I've found I get more e-mail subscribers than RSS readers. I believe this is because RSS is really only embraced by the more "web savvy" user and they will be fully capable of finding videos on Digg, YouTube, Google and are more likely to be aware of the bigger sites. So for your regular Joe Blogs (heh), e-mail a nice, easy to understand way to get them to sign up to updates. If you can squeeze your Feedburner RSS subscribe button in above the scroll, all the better - but I have found people that want an RSS feed will find it.

Feedburner also offer "chicklets" which is a little button that shows the world how many subscribed readers you have. Generally, I'd advise not to install this until you have 100 or so readers, there's no point showing people how unpopular your site is to begin with! Leave it for bragging rights later. It is quite possible to achieve 500-1000 readers within 6-12 months.

Here's one I made earlier:

In Green: Our main above the scroll adsense
In Yellow: CPM advertising (we'll talk about this later, but save some banner space!)
In Red: Our monetized Google Coop box
In Brown: The feedburner subscribe bits

That's most of the design info covered.

Step #7: Sourcing and adding video content to your website

Okay, so how do we go about getting videos onto your site? Well there's a quick and profitable way and a longer but more profitable away.

The quick and profitable way
I don't recommend this method to begin with, even though it's quicker, this is only something you should be doing after your site is established, or if you are very short on time.

Go to digg.com/videos and see what other people find funny. Follow the link through to the video site, grab the video ID and pop it in a post.

When you are post a video, make sure every 2-3 videos you have the words "funny" and/or "video" in the post title. Wordpress uses header tags for these titles and it will help make your Adsense adverts more relevant. Below the video, type a couple of lines explaining the video (without giving too much away!). Be as funny/sarcastic as you like, but keep it short and interesting - and write your own descriptions!

The longer but more profitable way
Okay, this takes a bit more work, but will really, really help you promote your site. One neat thing about Google Video is that they allow you to download the videos. So, go have a search around Google Video and download 20-30 videos that you think are funny. Download them in "PSP" format which will give you a .mp4 format file.

If you have some decent video editing software that can handle mp4 files you can skip this step:

If you're stuck using Windows Movie Editor you'll have to convert the file before you can edit it. Now, if you can find a free program, let me know. I've been using Riverpast Video Cleaner, which will convert the mp4 files to avi without any real quality loss. It's $30 but it will be your only expense in this operation. Riverpast will be able to convert all your videos in batch, so go make yourself a cuppa.

Once you've got your video in .avi format, create yourself a bitmap image with your site logo and site URL on it. Use your video editing software to show your logo for 5 seconds at the beginning and end of your video, so it's all branded to you now!

Get your branded videos out there!
Once you've got branded videos, you're really onto a winner. I pull in around 500-800 visitors per day from YouTube alone. Google have a batch video uploader, so your first port of all is to re-upload your newly edited videos onto Google Video.

Once they are uploaded you can add the video information. Generally in the title I again try and get the words "funny video", "extreme video" or similar in. These help pick up a bunch of generic searches. I've found the description doesn't make a huge difference to whether the video is viewed, as long as the title is good. If you're uploading to Google, using the batch uploader there is a separate field to link to your website, which becomes an active link, so you may as well type a description. Keep it short and snappy to try and get as many views as possible. For tags, I use a set of standard: funny, video, humour, humor, comedy, laugh, lol, cool, extreme, stupid, insane, accident - then add a couple of video specific keywords on the end.

Repeat this process with YouTube. The only difference with YouTube is that there is no separate field for your own site URL. If you just pop your URL into the description, this will automatically become a clickable link. YouTube is a bit more of a pain because you can only upload 1 video at a time, but you can always do other stuff at the same time! The sheer amount of traffic that YouTube gets makes it worthwhile doing this.

Once you have a "base" of around 30 videos, you don't need to keep finding new ones. You just create a new YouTube account under a hotmail address every week or so, since you're a new user and uploading new content, your videos will more often or not appear on the front page briefly which will get you spurts of traffic.

Using your imagination, there are loads of places that accept video uploads that you can use. MySpace anyone? MySpace Video is taking off big-time at the moment, so if you have access to some large MySpace accounts, this can be a great way to get traffic. One other technique is taking a screenshot of your video at 00:00 then posting this picture on a MySpace profile or bulletin, so it looks like an embedded video, but will take people through to your site with the video on. Hey, that's pretty scrappy - but it works. Make sure you use the border="0" attribute on such images so you don't get a blue border around them!

Step #8: Kick Starting Promotion
Following this recipe so far, you'll probably make $5-$10 per day. If you want to get up to the $40 per day mark to make your $1,000 a month, you'll need to give your site a kick up the backside. Here's how:

Go to www.stumbleupon.com and register yourself with an account and install their browser toolbar.

Once you're all ready to rock with StumbleUpon, make your way over to www.stumblexchange.com. Stumblexchange is a system where you sign up, stumble a whole list of other people's sites, then in return they stumble you back. StumbleUpon is fairly simple - the more stumbles your site gets, the more traffic they send you. StumbleUpon has a ton of users and this step will get you 200 more uniques a day for months to come. So login, register your account details and stumble everyone's site. (If your so inclined, you could script this). Well done, you just added another $200 a month onto your earnings! There's also a diggxchange and deliciousxchange in this network, however I haven't experimented with them to comment on this.

Get some links
Everybody loves links, especially Google. There's a massive list at RSSTop55 of directories and blog aggregators. I would start with these:

*** Yahoo
*** Open Directory
*** Globe of Blogs
*** Blogarama
*** Blog Universe
*** Feed Shark

Next Steps
Now you've got some readers and some regular traffic, you can sign up for a CPA advertiser. Burst Media is quite easy to get into and has a large inventory. Having CPA ads will earn you money for page views, without clicks and makes for an excellent secondary income.

Above all, experiment, experiment, experiment! Let me know how you get on!

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2007-05-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

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domaine names	$26.00
register domain names	$25.83
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domain registration	$23.97
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yahoo webhosting	$22.05
domain registering	$21.78
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dedicated linux hosting	$18.35
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linux dedicated hosting	$18.20
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hosting domain registration	$17.87
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ca domain name	$16.64
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domain names canada	$16.53
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cheap domain names	$16.00
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Domain	$15.38
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uk dedicated hosting server	$15.36
unix dedicated server	$15.17
cheap domain register	$15.03
dedicated sql server	$15.03

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medifast weight loss	$48.18
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mesothelioma attorneys	$32.29
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mesothelioma	$24.03
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BEST PAYING REAL ESTATE KEYWORDS

eugene realestate	$27.69
realator school	$15.60
find a realator	$11.91

HIGHEST PAYING SOFTWARE KEYWORDS

software escrow	$31.24
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webroot spy sweeper	$13.83
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sprint cell phone accessories	$25.44
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sprint cell phone service	$10.07
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cingular wireless plans	$11.27
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TOP KEYWORDS - AUTOMOBILE RELATED

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YPN, (yahoo publisher network) the all about

2007-05-05T18:31:00.001-07:00

there is no earnings cap regarding terminated or audited accounts. people are being terminated who make 100 per month and people who are making xx,xxx per month are also being terminated. likewise, the opposite is true and all levels of publishers are still in the network.

terminations are happening due to “low conversion” for ypn advertisers. of course, this is impossible for us to track and adjust for, however, ypn has some way of determining who they want in and out of the program, regardless of revenue generated per month. i personally believe that the “low conversion” excuse is just a generalized way of saying, get out. every so often the reason changes, but the end is just the same.

and, not to make an assumption on your sites, ypn has come down hard on arcade / entertainment sites and myspace sites as well as a variety of others that “misuse” the category targeting options to get “higher” paying ads. as with any beta program, you are the mouse hunting for the cheese and they are the ones running the labyrinth.

also, if you don’t already have a ypn account or invite, you will likely not get one either. they are far and few between and ypn is keeping a keen eye on who is signing up with the invites they do send out. you could try and buy one, though your account would probably get terminated within a month if the actual sale wasnt a scam to begin with.

as always, you can search the forums to hear the horror stories regarding invites, auditing accounts, terminated publishers and the ramblings of a few mad men that cant seem to let go. i for one, would not put all my eggs into this basket as the bottom seems to be made out of paper and many publishers are falling through.

written by Karagold

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