Have you ever gone down a list of resources for 'make money', 'investing' and 'business start up' only to find that the good ones are gone? Here are a few friends I've made over the summer. Each one has taught me something.
Learn how to start an email marketing campaign that works - for less than $100. www.waystogetnoticed.com is full of articles to help you build an email list, and market emails. This isn't another email list generating company or an affiliate website. The owner of this site actually owns an email marketing host site. He teaches the 'inside' info on email marketing.
Marc S. is a creative director in a NY advertising agency. He has three websites. If you want a NY ad agency to make your logo, website or help with a marketing campaign then visit www.virtualadagency.com, if you have a new business and want to network
www.scrappyupstarts.com , and if you want the inside scoop on advertising then visit www.madisontomain.com.
Learn more about blogging and making money online at the wealthy-writer website. Find Resources, Reviews, and News. The website was 'down' for the summer but it is back up now.
If you want to learn the 'ins and outs' of investing in Forex, property, or stocks without feeling pressured to buy, then visit www.getrich.net. Ray has a great website with more than 100 articles to help you learn 'how to invest smart.'
These will help you get started. If you want to follow me, I am SmBiz99 at twitter.
12.11.08
New Business Resources
29.9.08
New Logo Design
I bought a new logo design from www.virutaladagency.com I'll let you see it when ready. I find that a good logo is the most imporant part of an advertising campaign. When I get it finished, I'll post it here for everyone to see.
24.9.08
26.5.08
Spring ??
I feel really weird in my office in the spring. First, it smells like outdoors. But, when I look around the room is filled with plastic plants. It is almost surreal, I smell plants but they are not real. Some times it takes a couple of seconds to make the connection. My silk flowers were expensive. I thought they would be non-allergenic.
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Technorati Favorits
If you want to help promote friends, then consider 'faving' their blogs on technorati. This is a good tool. Not as good as Stumbleupons web page feature which lets viewer see a full page of your website as a 'view' (you won't see these people in your stats.)But, it is good for promotion.
It also helps promote your technorati by giving you more content and a better read. The problem with most writers is that they write on writing and making money as writers - whether they are doing well or not. I recently talked to one person who wanted to know why their blog 'successful writing' was not making money. I asked how long she had been a writer. Her answer - 3 weeks.
If you want to promote, work with people who are accustomed to promoting. If you want to write - then write about something you know.
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Increase Technorati Rank
What is Technorati authority? It is the number of blogs that link to your website in the last six months. Many new blogmasters believe they can increase their Technorati rank by linking dozens of times between different blogs. This doesn’t work.
Technorati only gives 1 to each blog linking – not the number of links.
A blogmaster needs at least 3000 different websites to link to their blog – in the last six months- to reach the top 100 on the Technorati list. Of course, the number one way is to get people to link to your blog – but this is not easy. Telling people that they may put an excerpt of your blog on their site will work – but this will not build 3000 links.
There is a good reason why you need to build your Technorati rank. First – it brings up your Alexa rank because many people who use Technorati have the Alexa toolbar.
One of the most popular methods of increasing Google rank is to build 50 – 100 blogs and create your own network. Within weeks you have 500 legal links, and PR3. This will also increase your Technorati rank and using ‘duplicate content’ will also keep the relevance. (remember to only promote one blog so it earns high PR… creating a link farm will not work)
Claim your blogs on Technorati.
You can purchase links (legally) through forums:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58 Just be careful. The problem is that you can’t please everyone. You cannot increase your Google and Technorati ranks. You need to chose which is most important to you. As for me? I get very little of my 4m hits a year from Google, so it doesn’t bother me whether Google likes my links or not.
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Weight PT2
I've talked about diet pills. There is another way to loose weight, exercise. I have been looking for fitness equipment that fits into my office. I want something that is close at hand so I don't feel like I am leaving my work.
I have started to take breaks lately after Sharon told me, and Mary came down with RSI last fall and still isn't back to work. I couldn't handle it if that happened to me.
Getting Started With Alexa Rank PT2
Step 5: Join Social groups such as Digital Point, Stumble upon, and technorati. These sites send visitors to your site, and build ‘inbound’ links. Do not limit yourself when building exposure. I’ve even used yahoo answers!
Step 6: Set your website as your homepage. Alexa is set to limit the number of requests it accepts from a website, per day. However, if you have a laptop, an office computer, a home PC, then the access count up. Do not set up FireFoxes ‘reload’ feature. This may seem like a good idea, but Alex is smart enough to stop that type of black hat SEO.
Step 7: Include the widget on your site. There’s no evidence that the Widget improves traffic ranking. It only informs Alexa that your site exsists and ensuring your inclusion in the Alexa service.
Step 8: Create sub domains instead of several domains on similar topics. Alexa will combine them into one page rank.
Getting Started With Alexa Rank Pt 1
Step one: You need to understand that Alexa rank is skewed towards blogs with a large techie audience. (Much the same way digg is) because the techies are the ones with the toolbars. If you want to increase your page rank, then you need to convince your blog members and RSS subscribers that the Alexa toolbar is an important download.
Is this a defect? Well, you can look at it two ways. If you can get these people reading your pages, then by default, your blog is considered to have good/original well-thought-out content.
Step 2: Get off Blogspot and wordpress.com. I’ve talked to several people who have moved blogs off the community blog platforms and watched their daily traffic trends increase from somewhere in the millions to less than 100 000 within two or three months.
This is not a guarantee. www.inspiredauthor.com has more than 350 000 hits a month, more than 10 000 pages on line, is pinged daily, has 150 members who blog, has PR4, and is not in the top 100 000 at the moment. But then, it is not a site that techies would be interested.
Step 3: Consider buying traffic to get started. This will bring visitors to your site, help you determine what the best topics to write about are, and increase your rank. If you make the perfect match (read more on how to make the most of traffic buying and revenue generating in the web promotion section of this blog)
Step 4: Download the Toolbar
IE http://www.alexa.com/site/download/
FireFox http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
The firefox version
Getting Started With Alexa Rank
Step 5: Join Social groups such as Digital Point, Stumble upon, and technorati. These sites send visitors to your site, and build ‘inbound’ links. Do not limit yourself when building exposure. I’ve even used yahoo answers!
Step 6: Set your website as your homepage. Alexa is set to limit the number of requests it accepts from a website, per day. However, if you have a laptop, an office computer, a home PC, then the access count up. Do not set up FireFoxes ‘reload’ feature. This may seem like a good idea, but Alex is smart enough to stop that type of black hat SEO.
Step 7: Include the widget on your site. There’s no evidence that the Widget improves traffic ranking. It only informs Alexa that your site exsists and ensuring your inclusion in the Alexa service.
Step 8: Create sub domains instead of several domains on similar topics. Alexa will combine them into one page rank.
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Home Entertainment
You've invested in a home theater, but have you thought ofhome theater seating. I took a look at these and thought they'd be great. First, they will be easy to keep clean. They are built so that you can vacuum all the corners. They can also be washed with detergent.
The main reason I hate television rooms is that they get so dirty. Everyone eats while they are watching movies. Drinks are spilled. Garbage is left behind. That is the reason I'd be interested in theater seating.
Starting a New Biz
My daughter in law is starting a new online biz. She has been learning and reading for a few weeks and is ready to get started. It is so much easier to get started now than when we started in the blogging world 2 - 3 years ago. It is amazing how the Internet world has evolved over the last few years.
All bloggers evolve. I've evolved mainly due to the fact that my websites have grown. www.inspiredauthor.com now has 17 million page views a year. It takes a lot more to manage now. I did help my daughter in law avoid one mistake I made. She didn't start on a small site first. I had her start on something that can grow.
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Why You Need the Alexa Toolbar on FireFox
At this time I have not tried IE, just Firefox. Download Here:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
This tool will give you Google, Alex, and Complete rank. It offers a far more accurate image than Google does.
For example. http://www.healthafter40.blogpsot.com/ has dropped from PR4 to PR0 in the last 3 months. However, it has increased 75% on the Alexa rank an increase of more than 1 million. It is currently around 2 million in ranking, getting about 5000 hits in 3 months. This is not good traffic, but it does show that (unlike Google) the website has increased in popularity, hits, and repeat traffic.
After downloading the toolbar, go to the bottom right of the browser. Click the Alexandria bar.
Now you can see all the stats on page rank and information that you could possibly want to see.
For example, I found that 33% of my readers are from the UK, and I have a large percentage of visitors 15% from India. This will have a dramatic effect on how I write to my customers.
I clicked incoming link and it opened up the tabs to show my incoming links from different browsers. For example, I have 1098 that Google recognizes, and 1973 that Yahoo recognizes. I also know that my rank is 1 398 600 . I don’t have far before I start ranking high enough to make better money as a blogger.
Just owning the Alexa toolbar will increase the Alexa rank of the websites you visit. It might be a good idea to post that you have the Alexa toolbar. If you visit a site and increase their rank, they ‘may’ return the favor. At least, if you are working with a group of professionals who want to increase their page rank then they must all have the alexa toolbar.
Adding the Alexa widget to your website is vital for attracting new members to your website.
The last benefit is that you can see a webpage’s Google PageRank, and Alexa’s Page rank.
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Weight
Did you gain weight last winter? Most work at home people gain weight over the winter. I've had a couple people tell me that I need exercise. I had my doctor tell me to lose weight. There is always lipovox but I've never used diet pills before. I'm wondering if it isn't time to get started.
I know a lot of the younger generation use them, but I don't know anyone who does, or if they did - they are not saying. I have heard that the new ones are much safer than the old ones, I just don't know if they are right for someone who works at home all the time.
Review: Wealthy Writer
Review: http://www.wealthy-writer.com/
There is a new website built for writers who are trying to turn their part-time work at home writing venture into a viable home based business: http://www.wealthy-writer.com/. This is one of the best sites I’ve found. First, it is truncated, this basically means that it is broken up so that readers can surf several posts on the home page and follow topics they want to read.
This makes it easy to learn everything you need to know. Unlike most sites, this one helps writers find agents, learn how to increase traffic, and understand how to use tools such as Technorati, or building Alexa Rank.
If you are looking for a one-stop free ‘how to start a writing business’ website – this is the one!
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Does IZEA Have a Double Standard?
I’ve been confused about the new ‘Did Google Spank You’ campaign. Yes, I am furious at Google. After all, what is the difference between selling an ad link in a blog post or putting google ads in a blog post?
What I’m having a hard time understanding is why IZEA also spanks bloggers who lose their Google Page Rank – especially when IZEA has their own ranking system? I’ve talked to several bloggers who lost their Google Page Rank – then suddenly IZEA stopped sending them Paid Posts.
I know a lot of bloggers who would love to leave Google behind and work with IZEA. Personally, I would rather spend my time generating new traffic instead of leaving comments in blogs so I have enough links to increase my PR. IZEA’s system tracks traffic – it sounds perfect…except that IZEA won’t stand up and support their bloggers.
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Secondary Computer
I've bought an external harddrive. The biggest benefit of it is that I can attach it to my notebook computer and then work as if I am on my PC with all my software and everything. I don't know what I'd do without my laptop. Actulally, Sharon on our group got me onto notebooks.
I tried docking them, but I prefer to use an external harddrive. My outfit is 5 years old. I update my computer every 3 years, but I haven't updated my notebook. It is about time.
Write to Increase the Alexa Page
Web fans (who have the alexa toolbar installed) love to read about ways to increase traffic. If you review friend’s Alexa page, write about Alexa, and build a site that attracts alexa fans – then your alexa rank will increase. You will also help spread the ‘good rank’ tool that is Alexa.
Write for webmasters. If you write content for webmasters and exchange reviews with bloggers who use sites like SocialSpark where they most likely have the Alexa toolbar ( you can insist that you only exchange posts with sites that have the Alexa widget on the blog).
Write to an international audience. I have a large audience of women from India. Alexa toolbar is big in India, so these ordinary bloggers can increase my Alexa rank without trying.
Create an Alexa category on your blog. Even if the blog is a general ‘how to attract traffic’ or ‘how to improve your page rank’ then you can still call it Alexa News. This is a purely marketing move. Visitors from Google will not help your rank. Google doesn’t care how many people visit your site, how many RSS subscribers you have, or whether 10 people digg your blog posts a day.
In fact, even building links to please Google doesn’t guarantee that you’ll build a good page rank – so don’t cater to Google fans.
Participate in Foreign Alex sites
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?&qterm=&p=DestTopSites
Asia uses Alexa. Getting on those sites, and reaching the top, will increase your rank even higher.
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How to Increase Alexa Rank
Most people do not realize that Amazon owns Alexa. The Alexa rank is measured based on the amount of users who visit the blog or web site – but only if they have the Alexa toolbar on their browser.
As Google becomes an unreliable tool for measuring Page Rank – face it, every time the webmasters learn how to use the algorithm, Google changes the rules restoring the elite positions of their advertisers. A blog or website that doesn’t work within their parameters is penalized, benched, and has to start all over somewhere else.
This is giving Alexa and RealRank more importance in the small business world. Haven’t you noticed more and more of the Paid Post sites adding Alexa and IZEA’s Real Rank to their blog ranking systems? ReviewMe, Text Link Ads ,SocialSpark and Sponsored Reviews are just a few.
Question #1, will increasing Alexa Rank increase the number of people who a) have the toolbar b) visit your site from the Alexa traffic pool.
One thing that Alexa has in its favor is the fact that it calculates traffic on a three month basis. It also calculates the number of pages viewed as well as the number of visitors.
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15.5.08
Your Internet Working Slow?
Are you paying for fast Internet service? Is it working as fast as it should? If not, then you need to visit this website http://www.firefold.com/Categories/HDMI-Products.aspx. You need good cables. All the cables in my system are gold coated. HDMI cables can make the difference between your computer speed to Internet and printer, fax, phone, working fast - or struggling. It can reduce the number of times a connection is dropped, downloads are interrupted, and you are left screaming in frustration.
If you are making a living on the net then you need good cables.
