Archive for July, 2007

Get Traffic Fast and Cheap

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Now, I’m going to admit right off the bat, this won’t be for everyone (some won’t be eligible), but I suspect for many of you this will be a windfall of information, netting you around 600 clicks for $10.

You’re probably thinking “What’s this scam?”.  However, you’re also curious, “Where do I go?”, “What do I do?”

The first answer is a flat no.  I don’t run scams on this site.  I always give the best, most trustworthy and reliable information I can.

Secondly, I’ll tell you where to go, but keep reading before you click on the links.  The links are:

microsoft ads

yahoo ads

These links both give new sponsored search users $50 for a $5 deposit.  If you have an existing or previous account, I don’t think you can redeem the ppc promo codes.  If you haven’t had an account all you do is have to sign up and you have $50 worth of ads for $5 to play with.

I recommend you keeping your key words very limited to get the exact niche of traffic you are looking for - and thus most likely to be attracted to your site.

If you need more information, email me at contact@iwantmoney.net and I’ll help you out.

Have Dignity When Promoting

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

If you think spamming 10 forums a day is going to net you traffic, you are mistaken.  Spamming may have been successful when the Internet first broke, but 95% of people are wise to spam nowadays.

When you spam, what you are really doing is sending the message that you are unprofessional and gimmicky.  You have 0 credibility and while some people may look at your site, no one is going to buy.  A quick link with nothing behind it probably hurts you more than it helps.

If you want to provide a quick link, make sure it is in a designated spot where it is ok to advertise your site blindly.  For example, sites such as Intelbank.com, Byros.com, and Australians.ws have areas for you to advertise free.  I found all of these sites by looking in the free advertising section of another site.  It is very accepted for a quick link in this designated area.  It is egregious to your website to post in the regular area of another spot.

Thus, if you’re going to advertise for free, do it the right way.  There are plenty of avenues out there and so no reason to spam and bring down your website before it ever has the chance.

Build your website/company around a strong foundation of ethics, credibility, good service, and good product and you will be the one rewarded in the long run.  Spammers may enjoy a small bump in traffic for their big spam run in blog comments, forums, email, etc. but ultimately end up in a ditch because of who they are.

If you really want a link on a site, try asking.  The worst they can say is no and they’ll usually quote you a price on that link - for most third and fourth tier sites looking to add revenue and traffic, the cost is very cheap or free if you meet the right person. 

Make Money by changing your ads

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Ok, so your ads aren’t working.

If you have the traffic, but aren’t getting the revenue, this is a concern.

What should you do?

Change your ads.

There is so much conventional wisdom out there saying to blend your ads in with your website themes, try something different.   Why not make your ads jump out at you?

Also, make them cool colors.  People love yellow and red coloring (ever notice how McDonalds and so many other places incorporate red and sometimes yellow?).  Do this against a black or white background.

Change the layout around a little bit.  Maybe your site has gotten stagnant and people are just focusing directly on avoiding the ads rather than gathering the overall scope of your site.

Use a search button, this helps because anything hit on while search counts towards your account.

Basically, if what you have isn’t working, try something new to make money.  If you’ve gone a substantial while without seeing what you’re website should be bringing in, change it up and see what happens.

The worst that happens is you stay where you are and you can always go back.

Money is very important.  Go get it.

Know 2 languages? You are in demand

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

If you know two languages, that is fantastic news for you because you just increased your earning power.

Speaking multiple languages is a huge asset that many people do not possess.  Depending on the language and your region, you could be up for a significant raise, but even if not you are a specialist in a field few probably speak in your locale.

Either way, you are worth more money to any company and you should demand more.

Don’t know a second language, learn one.

I suggest picking an easier language to pick up.  Chinese would not be one of them.  Spanish is.

But its expensive to learn, right?

Not necessarily, you can pick up some audio book cds on the Internet for pretty cheap and listen to them while you are in your car doing nothing anyways.  Its a win-win.  You keep your time and learn.

Efficiency and marketability combined in one.

You are becoming more successful.

Your education fluctuates your money

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

If you are thinking of attending college in the future, make sure you pick the right degree.

Bachelors degrees of many majors are virtually worthless on the market right now.  You need to major in something worthwhile.  Computers and engineering are money fields.

Political science, english, history, art, philosophy, and so on are all very well and good, but don’t in most cases don’t account for much when applying to jobs.  If you stop at a bachelors degree, make sure the field is lucrative in that subject.  Otherwise you may be stuck in a situation where you don’t make significantly more (if at all more) than a high school diploma and if you didn’t have a scholarship, you will be in some nice debt.

GPA definitely counts.  Try as hard as you can to get above a 3.0.  It seems like the cutting line for most companies and could be the difference between a job and not.  Companies look at the extra curricular activities too, but GPA is the separates.

Furthermore, don’t be so sure a masters degree will aid you either.  If you pick the wrong degree - and thus wrong market - you could be in even more debt for a distinguishment that doesn’t really doesn’t raise any eyebrows.

Promo Codes Are Free Money

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Anyone shopping online should spend at least a few seconds checking to see if promo codes are available.

Most services offer promo codes as a way of generating excitement and the feeling of savings amongst customers.

Most domain registrars such as Godaddy and Namecheap have them.

So do many online stores and service outlets.

Basically when you are looking to buy online, first look to save. A simple Google search could easily knock 10% off the price in a minute.

Looking for a promo code you can’t find, email me and I’d be happy to help you look.

16 Tips On How To Increase Your Blog’s Traffic

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The people are there, you just have to real them in. Here are some nifty tips on getting asses in the seats (so to speak).

1. Post your blog on blog forums. This is usually expected and you may get a chance by a few passers by. If your blog is all that, then they’ll tell their friends and comeback.

2. Network. No one is above networking. Get some friends to link to you and link back. You grow stronger with the links.

3. Post your blog in your forum signature. The higher the forum page rank, the better.

4. Have a good looking design. I can’t emphasize enough how important the coolness of your webpage is. If you have a dull brown filling up your page around white text, you are in bad shape no matter how good you write. People simply won’t give you the chance. Your best bet is a dark font with a light background for reading color scheme purposes.

5. Write with flavor. Boring writing gets you boring results.

6. Give your readers a reason to link you and want to comeback. Whether that is you tell them you have more money making blog tips coming or whatever the case may be, get them thinking about reading your site in the future. If possible, get them hooked.

7. Submit to blog search engines and regular search engines. If you haven’t done this, do it. It may take awhile, but being submitted to places like Technorati get you read.

8. Write title tags for your site. Title tags are the words in the top left of the browser that tell search engines what your site contains or is about. This is big for SEO and more narrowly, page rank.

9. Your text needs to be rich in key word information. If your blog is about money, you better say money a lot of money times. Don’t get carried away though. Search engine crawlers are good at picking up jibberish. The point here is write keyword dense text.

10. Activate pings on your blog. Pings alert other blogs that you have made a new post.

11. Advertise. Yeah, sometimes you fork over a dime a click to get what you want.

12. Archive your site. Usually this is automatic, but you want to make sure your blog keeps your pages. Archived material is good for snagging on search engines.

13. Gather emails of your visitors when possible, so you can keep contact with them by sending them a site newspaper and remind them of why they can’t do without your site.

14. Write on new, hot topics when possible. For example, Chris Benoit, steroids, Barry Bonds, and Paris Hilton are all the search rage. If you can find a way to incorporate them into your blog, you’ll likely land your self in a search spot for these terms, especially if you get content up about something or someone before other more established sites can get to the presses.

14. Update your site. This is very important. Google likes it for search optimization purposes and readers like it because they have fresh material at their disposal. Best way to ditch the traffic is slack off your blog for a few weeks.

16. Is your domain memorable? If your domain is hard to remember, people may be diverted from visiting again, even if they do plan on giving you another look. Analyze your domain, can people remember it easy? Is it another Fatyou.com or are you blogonkitchens01.blogspot.com. If you’re still working off a network, let all your readers know, you are moving off on your own on a memorable date - say July 4th. Then send out emails to your email list. Pay the $7, get a cool name and set up shop.

Need help or have any questions on these tips, email me at contact@Iwantmoney.net or send me a comment.

Thank you very much for reading. I appreciate your viewership and would be greatful to answer any questions you may have.

:)

Common Sense Ways to Increase Your Revenue Streams/Save Money

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

1. Take on side projects. Do you have a neighbor or relative that needs their lawn mowed? Think about it, instead of watching that game you don’t care about on Saturday afternoon, you could pick up a quick $20-40 payday. That’s money in your pocket.

2. Build a website. If you already waste a lot of time on the Internet, why not build a website? There’s a lot too learn, which I can help you with, but why not? It could be fun and you are actually building an investment.

3. Sell your old dvds/cds/books that you will never use. Sure, you are getting pennies on the dollar, but realistically aren’t these items just taking up space anyway? Pick out some of your stuff, you’ll never have a reason for, take it to the book shop, and see if you can’t get a few dollars in your pocket.

4. Put your talent to use. What do you know or do very well? Graphic art, fitness, sports, cooking, movies. Concentrate on your strongest talent, produce with it, and promote your production whether it be online, in the newspaper, or in person.

5. Stop paying for convienence. Save your ATM card for emergencies. Don’t use it to withdraw $60 every other weekend. Depending on your bank’s program, you are costing your self $3-5 every month. That’s $36-60 a year just to get your own money. Withdraw at the bank.

6. Account for your business expenses. If you keep a shoebox inventory of your business reciepts at the end of the year, you will likely incur some sort of reimbursement for keeping track of these items.

7. Search for another passive income stream. Passive income is making money when you are not actively working for it. For example, having a website that makes $1/day while you are at the park playing basketball. Finding a passive income channel can create a nice surplus for you.

8. Be leary of sales and promotions. When you are about to agree to a deal or make a purchase, think to yourself, why are they doing this? What are they getting out of me? Is this a good deal all-around? Sometimes knowing the other party’s reasoning may disuade you from spending your cash/time.

9. Set budgets. Set budgets for everything. This curtails frivolous and impulse spending on your part by alerting your logical thinking should you exceed your budget. Cutting back on frivilous spending at the store can add up to 1000s by the end of the year.

10. Demand better prices. How much are you paying for your apartment? Are other tenants paying the same? When in a negotiable environment, never be afraid to question pricing and ask for a better deal.

You Need Money NOW!!!

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

It’s time to stop kidding yourself.  You’re not going to have that dream car or mansion unless you get off your ass and make it happen.

It can happen, but you’ve got to keep pushing yourself until it does.

You’re thinking, yeah right I make $10 an hour, how am I ever going to be rich?  You can be, but you have to be devoted and persistent. 

Rich people take risks, that’s why they’re rich.  You don’t get rich by just wanting to be rich.  You’ve got to MAKE IT HAPPEN.

I’m not talking about playing poker and I’m not suggesting going to work and telling your boss off so you can go get rich.  You need your income to build you up first.  Don’t go put all your money on a stock.  Don’t rob a bank.  Nothing like that.  Be smart.

Invest in some financial books.  Before you do that invest your time in reading what financial books make the most money.  Don’t slave away your life working for some guy that is just using you.  Your worth more than that.  Don’t work 40 hours so you can go party Friday night, lay on the couch, and get up early Monday morning.

Look, I’ll tell you a fact right now.  You aren’t getting any younger.  You need to think of some way to create other sources of income and propel that money into even more money.  That is a lot easier said than done, but it can happen if you want it to.

Decide for yourself right now, do you want to be rich and get out of your job by next year so you can start making some real money or do you want to keep working at your job where you might get $26,000/yr if they promote you.  Screw that.

Get thinking and get planning?

Need help, leave me a comment or email me.  I’ll give you some ideas. 

Remember, there’s plenty of money out there.  You just have to go find it.

Do you want your own blog where you keep 100% of the money?

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Want a money making blog with Google ads so you can make money too?

Are you just a regular person who doesn’t know how to build websites?

I can help you for free. No circles. Here it is.

First of all you will need a domain name. A domain name is what you type in to get to a website. For example, you type Google.com to get to the Google website. A domain name is very important because it identifies your website. The best domain names are short, simple, easy to spell, catchy, and .com. Obviously these are very hard to come by nowadays, but if you need help, let me know and I will help you with that.

To purchase a domain name, you will need to go to a domain name registrar. I recommend Namecheap.com for this as they have good prices, offer free privacy protection (no one can see who owns the website), and have a great reputation. One .com for a domain for a year costs roughly $9.oo. You can usually find some promo/discount code in a Yahoo or Google search for $1 off pretty easily.

Next, you will need a host server. Host servers are what allows your site to be up on the Internet. I recommend Hostmonster.com. Hostmonster has a 24/7 chat feature where they will help you and any time of day. They have a good reputation, their interface is easy to use, tons of features, you can have virtually unlimited domain names, and you can receive promotions such as a free $30 google coupon. Before you purchase this information, go to Hostingplanrebates.com. They will give you a $50 rebate for signing up with Hostmonster or another hoster. The best deal for you is signing up for 2 years. That will make it $5.95/month, but the charge is upfront which for one year is $120 if I remember correctly.  I’d recommend the two year plan if you plan on having a website for more than a year.

By the way, this is all stuff I have done personally. It really works.

Ok so now you have purchased your website maker. Right now, you are potentially 10 minutes away from launching your website.

First, you need to transfer the DNS servers on your domain name at Namecheap. Simply, login to the site and go to manage your domains and change the “DNS servers” to ns1.hostmonster.com and ns2.hostmonster.com if you signed up for Hostmonster. What this does is point your domain to your Hostmonster server so you can start managing it through Hostmonter. You will probably want to “lock” the domain after you are done.

Now you are ready to create your own blog. Login to Hostmonster.

You will come to your control panel.

You will need to first add your domain. This is pretty simple as there is a button on the top for “add domain.” Next, the form will ask you to name the folder of this domain. Call it your domain name without the .com.

Continuing, there is an application called Fantastico. This has all sorts of website tools like forums, templates, etc. You need Wordpress. Wordpress is the very format used for this blog. Install Wordpress to your domain name and so that your blog is your homepage, do not put anything in the field that asks you if you want to create a folder for the domain.

Finally you will have your basic website template from wordpress up and you are ready to type in your very own blog.

To have Google ads, you will need to sign up for Google Adsense and then implement the Google codes into your Wordpress html.

I will continue this blog later and explain some of these details. If you have questions, feel free to leave a comment or email me.

You are very close to having your own money making blog.