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- Google Adsense introduces... Tell A Friend!
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...... [more]
- What do I need to know about the new MSN Search Engine?
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...... [more]
- Why You Should Avoid 'Page Swap' Link Exchange Proposals
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...... [more]
- Smart Tips on Maximizing Click-Thru on your Affiliate Links & Ads
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...... [more]
- The Future of Online Advertising
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"....... [more]
- Explore an example of an SEO-designed site
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....... [more]
- Optimal placement of ads on your Web pages
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...... [more]
- Interesting new Google Adsense Capabilities
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...... [more]
- How not to build traffic: respond to email solicitations of Link Exchanges
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...... [more]
- What's Acceptable Search Engine "Spam" Technique?
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"...... [more]
- Monetizing site searches with Google WebSearch
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...... [more]
- The one page all sites should have: a sitemap
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...... [more]
- The Right Way to Link To Pages On Your Site
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?...... [more]
- You can sell ad space on your Web site!
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...... [more]
- Maximizing your affiliate revenue with Amazon.com
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...... [more]
- Persistence pays with affiliiate program applications
A few weeks ago I signed up for the Register.com affiliate program for this very web site, Free Web Money and was therefore quite surprised when I recieved the following email from them......... [more]
- Matchmaking for Dollars? eHarmony's Affiliate Program
Maybe it's just me, but affiliate programs for books, DVDs, even computer gear make sense to me. Even an affiliate program for a flowershop or bicycle dealer. But did you realize that matchmaking sites also offer affiliate programs? To find...... [more]
- Earn excellent affiliate payouts promoting Paypal Merchant Accounts
Paypal, the online ecommerce transaction system owned by powerhouse eBay, has always broken down its customers into "regular" and "merchant" classes, but if you aren't a merchant, you might well not realize just how much more Paypal offers merchant account...... [more]
- Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
Most of the time here at Free Web Money I talk about proactive things you can do to improve your search engine findability, your site's relevance for a specific key word or key phrase. For example, keyword density and page...... [more]
- BlogAds: An Advertising Network specifically for Weblogs
If you run a weblog (aka "blog") you've probably already figured out that you can add Google Adsense to all your pages and make a few bucks from visitors (though don't forget to read some of the many articles here...... [more]
- How do you find cool domain names?
One question that comes up again and again with online entrepreneurs is whether it's worthwhile to register new domain names for different projects, and if it is, how the heck do you find good domain names!? First off, keyword-relevant domain...... [more]
- How does Google figure out what pages are more relevant? Pagerank.
A core question for anyone on the Web, and certainly a question you should be asking if you're trying to monetize your Web site, is how the heck does Google figure out what sites are more relevant to a given...... [more]
- Double your Adsense PPC click thru rate
In a previous article, I talked about the importance of tweaking your Google Adsense adverts, specifically issues of size and placement. If you haven't read that yet, I suggest that you start by reading Improving Your Adsense Click-Thru before you...... [more]
- Improving your Adsense Click-Thru
The leader in the pay per click (or PPC) market is Google, with its Adsense program, but if you're already an Adsense subscriber, with adverts on your own pages, you might not realize the importance of the design of your...... [more]
- The hidden importance of your page TITLE
Here's a search engine optimization concept that most people don't think about: make sure you have keywords and key phrases in your TITLE tag. You know what the TITLE tag is, it's the tag that gives you the name of...... [more]
- Finding Affiliate Programs II: CyberSitter 0, Guardian Software 1?
It only took 48 hours to hear back from CyberSitter, as discussed in my earlier entry to Free Web Money, and the response detailed three different choices for joining their program, the most interesting of which is:"The general Affiliate program...... [more]
- Understanding Keyword Density
Search engine optimization, or "SEO" in the biz, isn't only for people trying to turn their Web site into a revenue machine, to make money online, but can really be useful for everyone building Web sites. There are lots of...... [more]
- Finding Affiliate Programs Online
So you're ready to take the plunge but you're not sure you want to sign up for an affiliate network like Commission Junction. Okay, no worries. With a little bit of Google magic you can find affiliate programs in just...... [more]
- Affiliate Link of the day: Spamarrest spam blocker
An example of affiliate marketing: today I tried to send email to a new colleague and hit his spamarrest block, where it required that I confirm that I'm a human (not a dog, i suppose!) by entering an obscured word...... [more]
- Partner with Google and make money!
Imagine you were a really big company and walked into the offices at Google, saying "I'll offer you a deal: I'll add your advertisements to my Web Pages, you sell the ad space, and we'll split the revenue." Sound too...... [more]
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