Free Web Money http://www.free-web-money.com/ Free Money from your Website :: Free Web Money offers you a variety of different ways that you can generate additional revenue from your existing Web site with remarkably little effort. en-us 2005-04-29T01:49:59+00:00 Google Adsense introduces... Tell A Friend! http://www.free-web-money.com/000729.html Here's an unusually fun update from Google that's oh, so reminiscent of the Google-sponsored Orkut friends networking tool: Tell A Friend! Yes, that's right, if you're finding that Adsense is a good thing - and you certainly should be if... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2005-04-29T01:49:59+00:00 What do I need to know about the new MSN Search Engine? http://www.free-web-money.com/000716.html Now that MSN has removed the wraps on its new search engine (beta.search.msn.com), intended to compete with both Google and Yahoo, the obvious question on the minds of SEO people everywhere is: what algorithm is MSN going to use for... search engine optimization (SEO) Dave Taylor 2005-04-22T03:24:33+00:00 Why You Should Avoid 'Page Swap' Link Exchange Proposals http://www.free-web-money.com/000573.html As is fairly common, I recently received an email from someone seeking to crosslink our two sites. It is always a wee bit of a surprise when these messages arrive, though, given my article How not to build traffic: respond... Building Web site traffic Dave Taylor 2005-04-19T16:29:23+00:00 Smart Tips on Maximizing Click-Thru on your Affiliate Links & Ads http://www.free-web-money.com/000568.html I bumped into the following tips and ideas about maximizing your placement of affiliate / pay-per-click advertisements on your page and thought they were some very sensible suggestions. The source of this material is the Equifax Affiliate Newsletter, which highlights... affiliate marketing Dave Taylor 2005-04-12T18:02:37+00:00 The Future of Online Advertising http://www.free-web-money.com/000556.html If you were lucky enough to be with me here at Gnomedex in Lake Tahoe, California, then you already know that Paypal's Dave McClure moderated a panel entitled "The Future of Online Advertising".... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2005-04-02T23:58:46+00:00 Explore an example of an SEO-designed site http://www.free-web-money.com/000539.html I've recently introduced a new Web site called College Finances.com and I'd encourage everyone to spend some time really looking at the layout of the site, the links between the pages, and much more: college-finances.com.... Building Web site traffic Dave Taylor 2005-03-19T05:29:26+00:00 Optimal placement of ads on your Web pages http://www.free-web-money.com/000535.html While many of the conclusions in the recent research released by the Poynter Institute where they analyzed how people view Web pages based on tracking eye movement are so painfully obvious that it's embarrassing to read the article, the overall... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2005-03-09T05:30:50+00:00 Interesting new Google Adsense Capabilities http://www.free-web-money.com/000534.html In case you haven't already signed up for Google's Adsense program (see Partner with Google and Make Money! for some great reasons why you should), you might not know that the company has just expanded the program and added some... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2005-03-01T16:25:33+00:00 How not to build traffic: respond to email solicitations of Link Exchanges http://www.free-web-money.com/000527.html Here's an email message that I received today, quite similar to email messages I receive at least a half-dozen times each day: I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in real life debt because it looks like... Building Web site traffic Dave Taylor 2005-02-27T21:00:51+00:00 What's Acceptable Search Engine "Spam" Technique? http://www.free-web-money.com/000518.html After hearing a lot about it, I went over to SitePoint and read an interesting article by a "search engine optimization expert" wherein he enumerates his list of fifteen of the most egregious techniques by which companies and individuals "spam"... search engine optimization (SEO) Dave Taylor 2005-02-10T04:08:32+00:00 Monetizing site searches with Google WebSearch http://www.free-web-money.com/000498.html If you've already signed up for Google Adsense, congrats. You're smart and you're probably finding out that pages and sites that have just been sitting around doing nothing are now generating a revenue stream for you. It's possible that it's... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2005-01-30T06:45:53+00:00 The one page all sites should have: a sitemap http://www.free-web-money.com/000494.html I admit it, a few years ago I was of the mindset that sitemaps were for Web sites that weren't well designed: after all, I reasoned, if the information layout made sense and the content was organized in a coherent... Building Web site traffic Dave Taylor 2005-01-29T05:54:21+00:00 The Right Way to Link To Pages On Your Site http://www.free-web-money.com/000489.html Here's a topic that should be obvious, but isn't: how should you best code links on your site from page to page? Should you use something like "page two" or "continued..." or "more" with the page filenames as the links?... search engine optimization (SEO) Dave Taylor 2004-12-25T03:45:06+00:00 You can sell ad space on your Web site! http://www.free-web-money.com/000483.html In previous articles, I've written about the terrific Google Adsense program (see Partner with Google and make money! for a good starter on the subject), but after the Internet bust of the late 1990's, I never realized that I could... pay per click (PPC) advertising Dave Taylor 2004-12-13T23:44:52+00:00 Maximizing your affiliate revenue with Amazon.com http://www.free-web-money.com/000481.html If there's one affiliate program that seems to have more members than any other, it must be Amazon.com. I've heard that they have over 900,000 affiliates, and the payout isn't too bad if you have any click thru sales at... affiliate marketing Dave Taylor 2004-11-11T06:30:26+00:00