Ping Services

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.31.2007 - 9:26 am

If you own a blog, then pinging your blog means a lot! Pinging notifies the directories and portals that your blog is updated.

You must post regularly and ping as soon as you post. This will help you in getting high amount of traffic. Below are the most used ping sites.:

http://pingoat.com/
>>>Pingoat offer pinging to plenty of server. Using pingoat can help you ping a lot of server in a few seconds only. The disadvantage is that you are allow to ping the same address only once per day.

http://www.pingomatic.com/
>>>Ping-o-matic offer good pinging service. You can Bookmark the result page of the ping and when you want to ping when you update your site. Just click the Bookmark address and it will ping automatically. No Need to re-type yur site address and site name again.

http://kping.com/pings/ping.php
>>>King Ping is another good pinging service. It also ping a lot of server at just a few second.

http://www.ipings.com
>>>iPING is very easy to use and fast.

http://ping.feedburner.com/
>>>Ping Feedburner can notify Feedburner about your updated feed.

JAPANESE SITE
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/xmlrpc

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

Allow French Blog Pinging only
http://www.weblogues.com/

Others pinging services:
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php?url=http://www.yourblog.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/



Contextual Backlinks

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.25.2007 - 2:24 am

If you have read about SEO techniques, it must be clear by now that if you want to perform well in search engine marketing, you need quality backlinks from quality sites. A backlink from a high PR site would be great.

Now, Contextual Backlinks will help you in two ways: One is SEO, plus you will be getting quality visitors to your site as the site linking to you, would have a content related to you.

To know more, log on to: LinkWords



Blogging

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.13.2007 - 1:02 pm

A BLOG is a short form of WEBLOG. It serves as your daily web journal. Now a days, Blogs are preferred over websites because of its ease of use. You can update your blog by simply typing text in a text box.

You can get a free blog at: Blogspot.com , Wordpress.com , etc. Or, you can go for a self hosted blog at a professional web hosting provider like: BlueHost.com.

The functionality of a blog will be same as that of a website. So, the promoting techniques and revenue generating techniques will be same as that of a website.

Paid to Blog:

As there is more demand for blogs rather than website, you can get paid for blogging about the things you love. You will just have to write reviews about some products or services. Join the following programs:

PayPerPost

SponsoredReviews

ReviewMe

More Promotion techniques:

In addition to the normal website promotion techniques, you can submit your RSS feed to RSS Directories in order to boost your traffic. Also, join online communities like MyBlogLog.com.

In order to get your blog noticed fast, follow the following steps:

1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15 services all at once.

2. Ping your blog after every post at http://pingomatic.com/

3. Here’s a real gem: Submit your blog to http://www.pingoat.com/ Pingoat will ping over fifty blog ping services all at once. So you don’t have to hunt for ping services and manually ping them. Pingoat pings over fifty blog ping servers (growing) with just one click.

4. Ping your blog after every post at Pingoat at http://www.pingoat.com/

5. Sign up for a free account at BlogExplosion.com and register your blog there: http://www.blogexplosion.com/ (Skip this step if you use Adsense on your site)

6. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html

7. Sign up for a “My Yahoo” at http://my.yahoo.com/ and attach your blog to your own “My Yahoo” account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo very quickly. This is worth the effort to stop what you’re doing right and do it, since Yahoo has a PR 9.

8. Use this code: “http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url= http://www.yourblog.com/urblog.xml” in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own “My Yahoo” account.

9. Sign up for a “My MSN” at http://www.my.msn.com/, and attach your blog to your own “My MSN” account. This will get your blog included in MSN very quickly. This is also invaluable because MSN has a PR 8.

10. Use this code: “http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id= rss&ut=http://www.urblogfeedaddress.com/urblog.xml” in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own “My MSN” account.

11. Place the link and description of your blog in your signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing Emails, Autoresponder Courses, etc, will promote your blog.

12. Post a link and description of your blog on each of your sites.

13. Place your blog on all the major search engines. AddMe.com will submit your blog free to the top 14 Search engines here:
http://www.addme.com/submission.htm


SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the top 20 Search engines here:
http://www.submitexpress.com/

14. Use Article Directories as a resource for articles to post on your blog. Here are a few:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://goarticles.com/
http://www.knowledge-finder.com/
http://www.informit.com/articles/

15. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place useful comments in their comment box. Be sure the blog and your comments are relavent to both your blog and theirs. Senseless posts won’t help you, they’ll hurt you.

16. Once you get around 5 to 10 posts on your blog, start a PR campaign and announce it to all relevant channels.

17. Make a blog post as often as possible. More than once a day is not really necessary. Remember, if you can’t write that much, go to step # 14.



Paid Advertising

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.13.2007 - 12:09 pm

Although, you can earn a lot of money without investing anything, paid advertising can definitely give your traffic a boost.  Below are the paid advertising resources.

Pay-Per-Click Advertising: 

Google Adwords 

BidVertiser (Sign Up & get $20 bonus)

Miva

Other Resources: 

Text-Link-Ads 

Directory Submission 

ExactSeek - Top 10 Exposures across search engines

Ezine Advertising 



Search Engine Optimization

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.13.2007 - 10:55 am

In order to get your site displayed among the top results over search engines when someone inputs the keyword that is related to your site, you need to optimize your site.

The basics of SEO are:

  • Keyword Rich content with no spelling mistakes.
  • Large number of Backlinks. This can be done by submitting to directories and classified sites. Referre to Promotion.
  • Page title should contain keywords.
  • Backlink from other site should contain keywords.
  • Your source code should contain META TAGS.

To learn more about SEO, CLICK HERE.



Promotion

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.13.2007 - 10:42 am

You will have to promote your website in order to get visitors. The more visitors you get, the more revenue you can generate. Below are the methods which I have used to promote my site, and it is working quite good for me. Try them out.

Search Engine Submission

You will have to submit your website to search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, etc., so that they will index it. Submitting to search engine can drive a huge amount of traffic to you. Submitting your site manually could be cumbersome. SubmitExpress will submit your site to 40 different search engines automatically and for free.

Obviously, after you submit, your website will not necessarily be shown in the top results when a user will search for a particular key word, because there will be other pages competing. For this, you have to optimize your site. This is called Search Engine Optimization(SEO). To learn more about SEO, Click Here.

Directory submission

Getting listed in top online directories like Dmoz.org and Yahoo Directories will get you a huge amount of traffic. For a list of online directories where you can submit your site for free, Click HERE. Submit your site to as many directories as possible.

Classified Ad Submission

I’m sure everybody knows about Classified Ads. Most of the sites where you can post your affiliate ad are free, but can drive a lot of traffic. For a list of free classified sites, Click HERE.

Articles Submission & Press Release

Write articles about your site and the contents of your site, have a link to your site in the article and submit the article to article sites like ezinearticles.com. For a complete list of article site, click here. To submit your free press release, Click Here.

Instant Buzz

Instant Buzz is a kind of a traffic exchange site, but with a difference. It will drive a lot of traffic to your site. To join, Click Here.

Promoting using blogs

A blog is a short form of WEBLOG. It is actually your web journal. You can get a free blog at: Blogger.com or Wordpress.com, etc.

After you get a free blog, add content to your blog about your site and its contents. Read other’s blogs and post relevant comments with your site URL. DO NOT SPAM!

  • Blog And Ping
  1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15 services all at once.
  2. Sign Up to My Yahoo.
  3. Add your blogs RSS Feed to your My Yahoo account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo quickly.
  4. Ping your blog after every post.
  5. Post as frequently as possible.


Other ways to make money

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.13.2007 - 7:23 am

There are many other ways to make money apart from affiliation and ad networks. But, these would require some investment to get started. If you are not ready to invest, do not join. I joined the following programs and earned a lot of money.

Forex trading

The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over US$ 3 trillion.

Answering paid surveys




Could you use an extra $300 to $1,000 a month? Did you know you can make good money filling out online surveys sitting at home in your pajamas? I couldn’t believe it either, but SurveyScout showed me how - and I highly recommend that you check out their website.

 



Joining Affiliate Networks/ Affiliate Programs

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 10.11.2007 - 2:55 am

Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors and various types of affiliates/publishers who utilize a number of different methods to advertise the products and services of their merchant/advertiser partners.

The following are some of the top Affiliate Networks, where you will find number of merchants looking for affiliates in order to promote their product. So, select some products of your choice and start promoting products. You will get paid in terms of Pay-Per-Click, Pay-Per-Sale, Pay-Per-Lead, etc.

Comission Junction 

Clickbank.com

ClixGalore.com

Shareasale.com - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

In clickbank, you will find that there are number of products which offer a high payout rate. You will promote the products with your single Clickbank ID. The following Affiliate network is a viral marketing program called CBclicks. It will advertise your clickbank ID over thousands of site, and of course, there is a scope to fetch in a lot of money. This network is highly recommended.

To join CBclicks, Click Here.