Zulit

This article was written by Roderick Eash, who is relatively new at the Internet marketing game. There’s a good chance he has been hanging around the Warrior Forum, judging by his Internet marketing methods. Notice how his methods are completely different than what we have discussed on Zulit. He uses ezines, avoids PPC to some degree, and the link he provides goes to a PIP (Plugin Profit) site.

This is what I love about Internet marketing – there are so many different ways to earn money it’s boggles my mind. IN the end though…it all comes down to lots of fresh content. Our online businesses live and die by fresh content. Roderick submitted this article for the same reason we write in our blogs – we need to have fresh, quality content, constantly streaming into cyberspace.

Below Is Roderick’s Article (more…)

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Well the test is in for my Bidvertiser Ads. The ads went up on the 25th, so for 3 days. I had a total of 84 clicks and they paid and average of 25 cents a click. Not bad I suppose, but Adsense pays much more. Bidvertiser has been advertising that they are paying more and more per click, but it’s still not as lucrative as Adsense.

I noticed during the test, that I really hated the look of the ads on my home page. Just because of the layout and the choices I made (as pointed out by someone in the comments area), but because I realize that I just can’t stand advertising on my home page. I run Adsense on my permalink pages of course, and there are affiliate links sprinkled where they make sense, but I just don’t like any money making links on the main index page. I know I would make more if I exploited the home page, but so much that I want to ruin the look of the blog.

Did you notice that my index page loaded slower? Well it did for me. That alone is reason enough to keep the javascript ads of your index page. We want the fastest possible rendering for our home pages in order to keep weak Internet connections on board for loading.

So it was fun little test, but it’s on to the next, and the next. I’ll be back posting on this blog a few times this week. I’ll be busy building a blog for a friend in Saskatoon. The blog is www.mariebrenton.com. Hopefully she finds using her blog easy and worthy of her time. Most people who start blogs post for a short time and then they stop or fade away. It’s too bad, because a wee little blog can grow up to be a fat old blog with floods of traffic, and great streams of income.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Well, I’ve heard allot about Bidvertiser over the last year. Many Adsense publishers who lose their Adsense accounts look for alternatives to Adsense. Bidvertiser is one of them. As you can see by my home page, I’m now testing Bidvertiser on this blog. I’ll let you know the results in a week or so.

Bidvertiser is claiming to pay much more than they used to pay, so let us see for ourselves shall we. I noticed that there are not nearly as many companies using Bidvertiser, but their control panel was easy to use, and apparently they pay their publishers on time. (which is a big thing for me)

Just so you know, you can’t use other contextual ads (such as Bidvertiser or Ads by Yahoo) on the same page that has Google Adsense on it, so watch that you don’t do that.

I had a Bidvertiser banner on Zulit yesterday, but pulled it off again today. I just have trouble with anything that flashes too much. When I see a site that flashes things at me, or pops things up at me, I’m gone and gone. I will use Google Ads on other websites if the ads look like they will take me to what I’m looking for. This is why contextual ads are king these days. (can’t see that form of advertising going down the tubes any time soon)

Let me know your opinion on the Bidvertiser ads now presented on this home page. Curious to know if they are making my precious blog UGLY!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

I’ve heard bloggers mention that linking to other blogs or sites is not a good thing to do. They say it bleeds off page rank and shows that you don’t have anything original to say. I disagree.

You need to link to other blogs and sites (periodically) when there is information on another Internet page that can be of value to your readers. The search engines love this kind of participation, and so will your readers. For instance, I would link to this article at ctbizblogs.com because it reads well on the same subject as this post.

Here is another great article on the virtues of outbound linking over at successful-blog.com.

Another plus your blog gets when your article links to another on-topic Internet page is this; when you create a link you are adding to the number of keywords found in your page code. In other words, when you add a link in a post, you add the URL address of the page you are linking to, which will likely have keywords in it that are on-topic to your post. You will again be adding critical keywords to your code when you title the link. This is a powerful realization. This all has to do with spider bait for the search engines.

I’ve also heard bloggers mention that posting on other blogs is not important due to the fact that most have blogs have no-follow tags for comments URLs. I disagree.

First of all; Some blogs do not use no-follow tags in the comment URL presentation. Second of all; it’s very important to keep in the loop by posting your comments on other blogs. Let em know you’re there! Let other bloggers see your idea(s) and let them see a link to your blog or site. This is critical when you are just starting out with your blog. If you are new to this and want to learn how to make a comment, just click the comments link at the bottom of this post, and leave your bit. If you don’t have a web site or blog, simply leave the URL field blank.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

There was a time back in the dark old days of Internet optimization (like 2 years ago), when webmasters simply gathered as many inbound links as possible – and I’m talking about any old links. Link farming was almost the status quo, if you can believe that. Webmasters would gather inbound links by the hundreds every month from web sites that had nothing in common with their own.

It worked very well too – if you could recruit over 1000 inbound links to your site, you could rank very high in the search engines. (especially Google). But that game is all over now, and if you are still doing that kind of linking your site has likely been punted from Google, and perhaps MSN as well. The game has changed dramatically, so I want to update some of the new players who might be reading this.

The kind of linking you need to do is what I call “natural linking” – meaning the procurement of inbound links that makes sense to the search engine algorithms. Try to only add a handful of good links to your site per month. 5-10 inbound links every month will do fine. Below is my definition of a “good link”.

Definition of a good link:

a) An inbound link from a pagerank (PR) of 3 or higher
b) An inbound link from a page that is on topic with your web site or blog

Avoid linking with sites that have nothing to do with yours. This a sure fire way to get Google’s shirt in a knot. They’ll penalize you for that kind of linking, so don’t be tempted to load up on inbound links with some kind of fancy software or script. Just be natural about it.

You must be sure not to add other sites by large numbers per month, or harvest inbound links in droves every month. Google sees that as “unnatural linking” as well.

The best way to get unbound links is slowly, and from other bloggers or webmasters that are pointing out your content to their visitors. This is a very natural process, and the search engines will love your site or blog for it.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites