If you are interested in Making Money Online you need to generate traffic and you need to generate backlinks. One of the best ways to accomplish these goals is to submit your website or blog to Directories.
Web directories offer categorized list of sites to offer visitors a resource for finding information on the web. Utilizing directories offers two valuable things for website administrators. First, directories bring traffic from their sites to yours. Second, listing your website or blog on directories provides backlinks (links to your site from other websites) for search engines to find. The more backlinks you have generally increases your Page rank in the larger search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Also, if a directory already has a high Page rank it will potentially improve the rank of your site based on the keywords used in your sites title or description.
Below is a list of OVER 100 web directories in which you can submit your website or blog. Next to the directory listing is the actual Page Rank of the directory. Page ranks are rated from 1-10 with the highest number being the most popular directories. Generally you can find a "submit site" type link on the directory's home page in order to submit your website or blog. (Note: thumb through the Directory site to make sure your website or blog is appropriate for each directory. Some are for specific categories such as children only, women only, or for a specific geographical area)
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ 7
1 http://www.boingboing.net/ 6
2 http://www.femina.com/ 6
3 http://www.seznam.cz/ 6
4 http://www.accoona.com/ 6
5 http://www.ananzi.co.za/ 6
6 http://www.anybrowser.com/directory/ 6
7 http://www.aviva-directory.com/ 6
8 http://www.best.sk/pridat.asp?k=12&p=In%9Atit%FAcie 6
9 http://www.bezvaportal.cz/ 6
10 http://www.bloggapedia.com/ 6
11 http://www.canadaone.com/ 6
12 http://kat-reg.centrum.cz/reg2.php 6
13 http://www.ehealthdirectory.eu/ 6
14 http://www.ezilon.com/ 6
15 http://www.globeofblogs.com/ 6
16 http://www.kormidlo.cz/aaa/modules/links/ 6
17 http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/ 6
18 http://www.maven.co.il/ 6
19 http://www.mxdu.com/ 6
20 http://www.mygreencorner.com/ 6
21 http://www.nzs.com/ 6
22 http://www.payvand.com/yp/ 6
23 http://www.planning-directory.com/ 6
24 http://www.poweredbywp.com/ 6
25 http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ 6
26 http://www.searchwords.com/ 6
27 http://www.searchzone.com.au/ 6
28 http://www.stopdog.com/ 6
29 http://www.szm.sk/ 6
30 http://www.thefreewebsite.net/ 6
31 http://www.uncoverchina.com/ 6
32 http://www.wezp.com/ 6
33 http://www.worldhot.com/ 6
34 http://www.zoznam.sk/ 6
35 www.pandia.com/plus 6
36 http://www.thelivinglink.net/ 6
37 http://www.mygreencorner.com 6
38 http://jayde.com 6
39 http://www.directory.ldmstudio.com 5
40 http://www.theshoppings.com 5
41 http://www.niche-listings.com 5
42 http://www.linkslive.info/ 5
43 http://www.re-quest.net/ 5
44 24. http://www.kcindex.com/ 5
45 http://www.webworldindex.com/ 5
46 http://www.re-quest.net/ 5
47 http://www.psychnet-uk.com/ 5
48 http://www.clickey.com/ 5
49 http://www.cantufind.com/ 5
50 http://www.elib.org/ 5
51 http://www.lsblogs.com/ 5
52 http://www.5starblogs.com/ 5
53 http://a1-website-hosting-directory.com/ 5
54 http://www.abilogic.com/ 5
55 http://www.adventuretraveltips.com/ 5
56 http://alik.idnes.cz/ 5
57 http://www.anoox.com/ 5
58 http://az.ezilon.com/ 5
59 http://www.azet.sk/ 5
60 http://www.blogannounce.info/ 5
61 http://www.bloghints.com/ 5
62 http://www.brightsidexdr.com/ 5
63 http://www.builder.cz/ 5
64 http://directory.candomultimedia.com/ 5
65 http://www.canlinks.net/ 5
66 http://www.caramba.cz/ 5
67 http://directory.classifieds1000.com/ 5
68 http://www.clickfire.com/directory/ 5
69 http://www.csdir.org/ 5
70 http://www.czlist.cz/ 5
71 http://www.tcpls.net/ 5
72 http://www.microbicides2004.org/ 5
73 http://www.diroot.com/ 5
74 http://www.discoverireland.net/ 5
75 http://websitespromotiondirectory.com/ 5
76 http://alfa.elchron.cz/ 5
77 http://www.em-design.cz/shop/pages-links/index.html 5
78 http://search.ezilon.com/ 5
79 http://uk.ezilon.com/ 5
80 http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/ 5
81 http://www.gainweb.org/ 5
82 http://www.geniusfind.com/ 5
83 http://www.globalgateway.com/ 5
84 http://www.gmapsdirectory.com/ 5
85 http://www.hladat.sk/ 5
86 http://www.hotelbeam.com/ 5
87 http://www.imegamall.com/ 5
88 http://www.indiecoffeehouse.com/ 5
89 http://www.information.com/ 5
90 http://www.infotiger.com/ 5
91 http://www.internetoveobchody.cz/lin...id=&idcat=1212 5
92 http://www.isoctv.org/ 5
93 http://www.jamjaa.com/ 5
94 http://www.katalog.sk/ 5
95 http://www.la-toile.com/des_toiles/submit_proposer.html 5
96 http://www.luxpoint.lu/ 5
97 http://www.marketingpatch.com/ 5
98 http://www.mobilemost.com/site_ekle.php 5
99 http://directory.mrgoodfox.com/ 5
100 http://msn.katalog.atlas.cz/ 5
101 http://www.najdes.sk/index.php?act=90 5
102 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/webdir 5
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Using Add This to Generate Traffic on Social Bookmarking Sites
One of the keys to Making Money Online is bringing traffic to your site. After all, sales is a numbers game. The percentage of people who actually click on your ads is generally low; therefore, you will need a lot of visitors to generate clicks.
For example, if your CPM (Clicks per thousand impressions) is only 2%, then only 20 people click on your ads for every 1000 page impressions. Twenty clicks won't buy you a condo on the beach in your lifetime. If you get 10,000 page impressions your clicks jump up to 200. Over a year, 10,000 impressions per day may buy you a used car. If you reach 100,000 impressions per day you are now generating 2000 clicks per day. Now you're making some serious online income.
100,000 impressions per day may sound impossible but it is being done by the successful online marketers. How do they do it? They work at it very hard.
One of the best ways to generate high traffic is to get your site noticed on the social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati, Propeller, Reddit, etc., etc. These sites already have established traffic of millions of viewers every day. These sites also have high page rank in Google Search Engines. If you can grow in popularity on these sites your traffic will increase exponentially.
So how do you get noticed on these social bookmarking sites?
First, you need to write good articles which would be of some benefit to the readers. If your articles are newsworthy they will get noticed. When social bookmarking site users vote for your articles it snowballs and other users tend to read the articles which have the most votes.
Second, when you create a good quality article you need to get your article submitted to all of the social bookmarking sites. It can take hours if you submit your article individually to each site. Fortunately there are software applications which simplify the process. We use addthis.com. With add this you copy the code provided on their site and paste it into your blog or website. This adds a button to your site which allows your readers to easily submit your articles to over 50 social bookmarking sites. When they like an article they click on the add this button and choose the site they would like to submit your article to. If they are registered to the site your article is automatically submitted. You can see the "Bookmark" button on our blog on the right side of this page. If you click on the button a pop up box will open listing all of the social bookmarking sites. If you click on one of the sites (we love Digg), this article will be submitted to the Digg website. If it's already been submitted all you have to do is "Digg" the article and your vote is cast.
You can add your sites to the social bookmarking sites yourself...but be careful. If you only add your own articles you will be labeled as a spammer and you will get negative votes, no votes, or your account will be banned. It's very important that you submit articles from other websites and vote on articles from other sites. This gives you credibility with other users and your votes on others sites will often bring them to your site to see who voted for them.
Using social bookmarking sites is a very important element in Making Money Online. It has been our #1 source of traffic/income for the entire existence of our blog. So go to http://addthis.com/ and get the button on your site ASAP. Go ahead and register the Social Bookmarking sites listed on the AddThis button and start generating some traffic. You won't be disappointed.
PS. If this article is helpful we hope you'll submit or vote for this article on your favorite Social Bookmarking Sites.
For example, if your CPM (Clicks per thousand impressions) is only 2%, then only 20 people click on your ads for every 1000 page impressions. Twenty clicks won't buy you a condo on the beach in your lifetime. If you get 10,000 page impressions your clicks jump up to 200. Over a year, 10,000 impressions per day may buy you a used car. If you reach 100,000 impressions per day you are now generating 2000 clicks per day. Now you're making some serious online income.
100,000 impressions per day may sound impossible but it is being done by the successful online marketers. How do they do it? They work at it very hard.
One of the best ways to generate high traffic is to get your site noticed on the social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati, Propeller, Reddit, etc., etc. These sites already have established traffic of millions of viewers every day. These sites also have high page rank in Google Search Engines. If you can grow in popularity on these sites your traffic will increase exponentially.
So how do you get noticed on these social bookmarking sites?
First, you need to write good articles which would be of some benefit to the readers. If your articles are newsworthy they will get noticed. When social bookmarking site users vote for your articles it snowballs and other users tend to read the articles which have the most votes.
Second, when you create a good quality article you need to get your article submitted to all of the social bookmarking sites. It can take hours if you submit your article individually to each site. Fortunately there are software applications which simplify the process. We use addthis.com. With add this you copy the code provided on their site and paste it into your blog or website. This adds a button to your site which allows your readers to easily submit your articles to over 50 social bookmarking sites. When they like an article they click on the add this button and choose the site they would like to submit your article to. If they are registered to the site your article is automatically submitted. You can see the "Bookmark" button on our blog on the right side of this page. If you click on the button a pop up box will open listing all of the social bookmarking sites. If you click on one of the sites (we love Digg), this article will be submitted to the Digg website. If it's already been submitted all you have to do is "Digg" the article and your vote is cast.
You can add your sites to the social bookmarking sites yourself...but be careful. If you only add your own articles you will be labeled as a spammer and you will get negative votes, no votes, or your account will be banned. It's very important that you submit articles from other websites and vote on articles from other sites. This gives you credibility with other users and your votes on others sites will often bring them to your site to see who voted for them.
Using social bookmarking sites is a very important element in Making Money Online. It has been our #1 source of traffic/income for the entire existence of our blog. So go to http://addthis.com/ and get the button on your site ASAP. Go ahead and register the Social Bookmarking sites listed on the AddThis button and start generating some traffic. You won't be disappointed.
PS. If this article is helpful we hope you'll submit or vote for this article on your favorite Social Bookmarking Sites.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Adsense is Great
I know a lot of internet marketers who don't care for Google Adsense. There are plenty of reasons or excuses and most center around "They don't pay enough" or "They banned my account for not reason".
These are the people who haven't learned how to utilize the service.
Face it. If you start a website or blog would you really have enough time to write your posts, bring in traffic, and then go out and call on advertisers to publish ads on your site? Even if you did call on the advertisers, do you think they would want to do business with a newbie?
What Google has done is create a platform for the "little guy" to advertise on their own website or blog without having to go out and sell ads on their site. Adsense can bring in large or small companies to your site, and because of Google's expertise in search marketing they are able to bring in Advertisers which relate to the content of your site. It's actually pretty amazing when you think about it. Let's say you decide to write an article on tractors. Well Google picks up your article and puts ads on your site which relate to tractors, farming, etc. The next day you decide to write an article on dating. Guess what happens to your ads? The ads change from tractor ads to dating service ads. This is a great service because your readers have an opportunity to find MORE information on the article you have written by clicking on a link.
Now before you get all excited and set up an Adsense account and start telling all your friends how easy it is to Make Money Online, you need to make sure you FULLY understand Google's Adsense Terms of Service (TOS). If you don't follow their rules you will be banned from their service without any notice or explanation. Trust me on this one. We got banned once and it took forever to get reinstated (and we were one of the lucky ones because this rarely occurs). Here are some of the main things you need to be careful with.
1. DON"T Click on your own ads. This will get you banned very quickly.
2. DON'T ask others to click on your ads. Repeated clicks from the same IP address will get you banned in a heartbeat.
3. Be careful what you tell your friends about the program. They might go in and click on a bunch of ads to "help you out", and if you don't realize it you may get banned without ever knowing why.
4. Be careful with artificial traffic generating sites. Google frowns upon these tactics used to bring traffic to your site for the wrong reason.
5. Keep an eye on your account. If you see an extraordinary amount of clicks on your ads it is best to notify Google of the suspicious activity. This may keep you from getting banned. Also, there are some disgruntled people who may click on your ads repeatedly just to get you banned. Like it or not...these people exist.
In closing we are grateful to Google for giving us an opportunity to make money online even though we don't have advertising sales experience. It's fun to get checks in the mail...I promise.
These are the people who haven't learned how to utilize the service.
Face it. If you start a website or blog would you really have enough time to write your posts, bring in traffic, and then go out and call on advertisers to publish ads on your site? Even if you did call on the advertisers, do you think they would want to do business with a newbie?
What Google has done is create a platform for the "little guy" to advertise on their own website or blog without having to go out and sell ads on their site. Adsense can bring in large or small companies to your site, and because of Google's expertise in search marketing they are able to bring in Advertisers which relate to the content of your site. It's actually pretty amazing when you think about it. Let's say you decide to write an article on tractors. Well Google picks up your article and puts ads on your site which relate to tractors, farming, etc. The next day you decide to write an article on dating. Guess what happens to your ads? The ads change from tractor ads to dating service ads. This is a great service because your readers have an opportunity to find MORE information on the article you have written by clicking on a link.
Now before you get all excited and set up an Adsense account and start telling all your friends how easy it is to Make Money Online, you need to make sure you FULLY understand Google's Adsense Terms of Service (TOS). If you don't follow their rules you will be banned from their service without any notice or explanation. Trust me on this one. We got banned once and it took forever to get reinstated (and we were one of the lucky ones because this rarely occurs). Here are some of the main things you need to be careful with.
1. DON"T Click on your own ads. This will get you banned very quickly.
2. DON'T ask others to click on your ads. Repeated clicks from the same IP address will get you banned in a heartbeat.
3. Be careful what you tell your friends about the program. They might go in and click on a bunch of ads to "help you out", and if you don't realize it you may get banned without ever knowing why.
4. Be careful with artificial traffic generating sites. Google frowns upon these tactics used to bring traffic to your site for the wrong reason.
5. Keep an eye on your account. If you see an extraordinary amount of clicks on your ads it is best to notify Google of the suspicious activity. This may keep you from getting banned. Also, there are some disgruntled people who may click on your ads repeatedly just to get you banned. Like it or not...these people exist.
In closing we are grateful to Google for giving us an opportunity to make money online even though we don't have advertising sales experience. It's fun to get checks in the mail...I promise.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Reading this Post is Worth a minimum of $100
No, I'm not going to cut you a check, click your ads, or pay you for a review. There are plenty of sites which will do that, plus I don't want to get banned.
This article is mostly for US bloggers as the information is based on US taxes.
While your out there in the blogosphere trying to create a site which Yahoo or Google will swallow up for millions or at the very least make enough to quit your real job, there are a few things you can do to put a little money back in your pocket.
If you treat your website or blog as a business there are plenty of tax write off's you are entitled to as a business owner. Maybe you don't treat your blog/site as a business, but if you're making any revenue off of advertising, payperpost, etc. you have a businsess...plain and simple.
So what if you've only made $14.53 in revenue this year. You've spent time and money to create, manage, and run your blog. In doing so you've created several tax deductions which may be eligible for write off.
Here are a few examples:
If your internet service costs $30/month that's $360 a yr. of expense incurred to "run" your blog. This alone is worth close to $100 a year in deduction "income".
If you're using your computer, or if you purchase a new computer, you could potentially depreciate the value of your asset computer)over time. An accountant would have to advise you of the depreciation schedule for equipment.
How about software on your computer? Anti virus, annual subscriptions, etc. are all necessary expenses for keeping your business running smoothly.
If you have business cards, hand out flyers, etc. you can deduct some of your office expenses as well.
You could also have some promotional items such as t-shirts or e-books which you give away for free to market your site. Promtional items are 100% deductible.
If you go to blogging seminars or conferences you can write yourself a check for mileage and potentially write off travel expenses such as airfare or hotel accomadations.
You could even buy me dinner to discuss how to save money and write off 50% of the meal. :)
How about ebooks and/or SEO submissions you purchase to improve your traffic generation? It could be considered a write off under dues & subscriptions.
You may even be able to write off your cell phone if you need to be contacted with new blog content or if your site is down.
Here's another. If you use part of your home as your "office" you can potentially write off a portion of your utilities and any office furniture or upgrades you do to your home office.
Now I'm not an accountant nor do I play one on TV so you'll need to consult with a professional accountant to determine what you can and can't utilize as deductions on your tax return. I do imagine you will be able to utilize some of these ideas to save yourself some dineros and decrease your taxes due or increase your refund.
How many of you actually take advantage of your website/blog expenses on your tax returns? If you utilize deductions how much do you write off?
Feel free to comment with any other deductions which MIGHT be of use to all of us in the website/blog community.
This article is mostly for US bloggers as the information is based on US taxes.
While your out there in the blogosphere trying to create a site which Yahoo or Google will swallow up for millions or at the very least make enough to quit your real job, there are a few things you can do to put a little money back in your pocket.
If you treat your website or blog as a business there are plenty of tax write off's you are entitled to as a business owner. Maybe you don't treat your blog/site as a business, but if you're making any revenue off of advertising, payperpost, etc. you have a businsess...plain and simple.
So what if you've only made $14.53 in revenue this year. You've spent time and money to create, manage, and run your blog. In doing so you've created several tax deductions which may be eligible for write off.
Here are a few examples:
If your internet service costs $30/month that's $360 a yr. of expense incurred to "run" your blog. This alone is worth close to $100 a year in deduction "income".
If you're using your computer, or if you purchase a new computer, you could potentially depreciate the value of your asset computer)over time. An accountant would have to advise you of the depreciation schedule for equipment.
How about software on your computer? Anti virus, annual subscriptions, etc. are all necessary expenses for keeping your business running smoothly.
If you have business cards, hand out flyers, etc. you can deduct some of your office expenses as well.
You could also have some promotional items such as t-shirts or e-books which you give away for free to market your site. Promtional items are 100% deductible.
If you go to blogging seminars or conferences you can write yourself a check for mileage and potentially write off travel expenses such as airfare or hotel accomadations.
You could even buy me dinner to discuss how to save money and write off 50% of the meal. :)
How about ebooks and/or SEO submissions you purchase to improve your traffic generation? It could be considered a write off under dues & subscriptions.
You may even be able to write off your cell phone if you need to be contacted with new blog content or if your site is down.
Here's another. If you use part of your home as your "office" you can potentially write off a portion of your utilities and any office furniture or upgrades you do to your home office.
Now I'm not an accountant nor do I play one on TV so you'll need to consult with a professional accountant to determine what you can and can't utilize as deductions on your tax return. I do imagine you will be able to utilize some of these ideas to save yourself some dineros and decrease your taxes due or increase your refund.
How many of you actually take advantage of your website/blog expenses on your tax returns? If you utilize deductions how much do you write off?
Feel free to comment with any other deductions which MIGHT be of use to all of us in the website/blog community.
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