All search engines have their own algorithms to determine the value and, therefore, positioning of websites. While the majority of SEO work tends to concentrate on Google because of the sheer weight of searches they receive it would be foolish to discount or ignore the other major search engines.
Yahoo is considered one of the big three along with Google and MSN and by concentrating a little more time and effort on Yahoo optimization it is quite possible to gain a good amount of traffic. With ultra competitive keywords it may actually provide an easier way to generate search traffic than gearing all your efforts solely towards Google.
The Most Important Yahoo Optimization Factor
The first, and most pertinent point is that Yahoo judges content to be the most important factor in their algorithms. They do still consider inbound links and other factors but they are attuned to the way of the content site and they love sites that provide keyword-optimized content in large mass. While that may make it sound easier than concentrating on generating a huge base of inbound links as you would for Google, Yahoo optimization presents its own challenges and its own unique quirks that you should consider.
Looking At Keyword Density
Because of the relevance that Yahoo places on the content within your site, the keyword once again becomes a vitally important aspect of your research. While Google have been striving to promote sites that use organic content and webmasters and SEOs have been optimizing with around 2% to 3% keyword density Yahoo prefers a much greater density level. The danger, of course, is that giving Yahoo what they want may cause Google to deem your content as being keyword stuffed but there is another difference between the two algorithms that can help to counteract this problem.
Using Stems, Inflexions, And Variants Of Keywords
Yahoo is very heavily language based. This means that it is, strictly speaking, more aware of the nuances of the written language. It will include synonyms and inflexions of a keyword when considering your keyword density; something that Google does not consider to the same extent. This means that it is possible to optimize for both without diminishing your ranking with one another.
How To Optimize For Yahoo
Without Getting Penalized By Google Google likes a density of around 2% and Yahoo likes a density as high as 7% or even 8%. This means that you can effectively use 4 variations of a single keyword or phrase and a density of 2% for each. This offers further advantages. With Google you are now gearing your content towards four different keywords and offering the level they want, and you are still providing Yahoo with the much higher density rate that they require. Because you can include plurals and further stems of keywords this means you can write in a much more natural tone.
Using The Near Forgotten Meta Tags
One area that a lot of SEO professionals and webmasters alike now tend to overlook is the Meta tag. However, Yahoo appears to still give consideration to the keyword and description tags in particular. This is quite rare in the case of most search engines and Google certainly do not look for keywords in your Meta tags. Do not attempt to dupe Yahoo, though, and only include keywords that genuinely appear on your page and are relevant to your topic.
Regular, Fresh Content Is King
You've probably heard the saying that "content is king" and this is even truer when considering Yahoo optimization. The more content you provide the better. This may mean making regular additions to your site but it will generate the kind of results you are looking for. Blogs are also a very good way to continue adding relevant content to your site that Yahoo will smile down on.
The Lazy Yahoo Bot
Compared to other search engine spiders the Yahoo bot is a comparatively lazy animal. It doesn't crawl as often as other bots and it certainly doesn't crawl as deep into your site to find all of your pages and index them. This means you should pay extra attention to creating a legible sitemap and keeping it updated as regularly as possible. Yahoo has a sitemap submission feature that is similar to Google's and using this is heavily recommended to try and ensure that Yahoo stays on top of the infrastructure of your site and ranks you accordingly.
Inbound Links And Controlling
Them Yourself Inbound links are still important to Yahoo, but again a lot of emphasis is placed on content. Textual relevance seems to be one of the most important factors so having control over your inbound links and being able to determine the pages where they appear and the anchor text of each is important. Perhaps the best way to generate inbound links for Yahoo optimization is to use the article directories to your benefit.
Yahoo Optimization Conclusion
Google may be the search engine that everyone talks about and optimizes for but ignoring Yahoo would be foolish. This is especially true because while the Yahoo algorithm is quite different to the Google one and other algorithms, it is still quite easy to optimize for both. The most important factors to remember are to use relevant Meta tags for every single page of your site, include as much content and update your site with new content as often as possible, and update a sitemap both on your website and with the Yahoo sitemaps function.
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Make Money Online - Without Spending a Dime
Even with no product and no Web site, you can get paid for what and who you know
Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.
But it’s hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on “make money online” and “making money online“, and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, “Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?”
So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:
Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money
Don’t require you to have your own Web domain or your own products
Don’t involve any hard-selling
Aren’t just promoting more Internet marketing
Give a good return on your time investment
In the interest of objectivity, none of the links below are affiliate links, and none of them have paid or provided any other consideration for their presence here.
Help friends find better jobs.
Sites like H3.com and JobThread connect employers with prospective employees, many of whom are already employed and not actively job-hunting, via networking - the people who know these qualified candidates. Rewards for referring a candidate who gets hired range from a few hundred dollars to as much as $5,000 - not chump change. This is a great way to break into the recruiting business with no overhead. JobThread is intriguing in that they can set up a job board for your site or your organization (you don’t even have to have a web site) at no cost to you — no merchant account required. You determine the posting fees and split the revenue with them.
Connect suppliers with buyers.
Referral fees are a common practice in business, but they haven’t been used much in online networking sites because there was no way to track them. InnerSell provides that. Vendors set the referral fees they’re willing to pay, then when a deal happens, you get 70% of the referral fee.
Provide business contact information.
One of the greatest challenges in sales is getting accurate contact information about prospective customers. A growing number of services have launched in the past couple of years to help address this, but most rely on members to maintain their own contact information. Jigsaw, on the other hand, pays members to help keep information up-to-date on the people they know, not just themselves, and pays them to do so ($1 for each unique new qualifying contact you put into the system). According to Jigsaw, in their first payout after launch, the top ten point-earns each received more than $750.
Become a semi-pro reporter.
Creative Reporter is a new program from Creative Weblogging that lets just about anyone become a paid reporter/blogger. They’re looking for people to create original, but non-exclusive, blog posts / articles of 250-500 words on topics including parenting, celebrities, travel, mobile technology, and more.
Pay is $10 per 1,000 page views on your posts (that’s excellent pay for Web writing, although there’s no telling how much traffic/money you’ll actually get).
Advertise other people’s products.
If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands - they’re easier to sell. To promote those products:
Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site
Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control
Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product
They all work - it just depends on how much time you have to spend on it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing.
Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.
But it’s hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on “make money online” and “making money online“, and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, “Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?”
So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:
Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money
Don’t require you to have your own Web domain or your own products
Don’t involve any hard-selling
Aren’t just promoting more Internet marketing
Give a good return on your time investment
In the interest of objectivity, none of the links below are affiliate links, and none of them have paid or provided any other consideration for their presence here.
Help friends find better jobs.
Sites like H3.com and JobThread connect employers with prospective employees, many of whom are already employed and not actively job-hunting, via networking - the people who know these qualified candidates. Rewards for referring a candidate who gets hired range from a few hundred dollars to as much as $5,000 - not chump change. This is a great way to break into the recruiting business with no overhead. JobThread is intriguing in that they can set up a job board for your site or your organization (you don’t even have to have a web site) at no cost to you — no merchant account required. You determine the posting fees and split the revenue with them.
Connect suppliers with buyers.
Referral fees are a common practice in business, but they haven’t been used much in online networking sites because there was no way to track them. InnerSell provides that. Vendors set the referral fees they’re willing to pay, then when a deal happens, you get 70% of the referral fee.
Provide business contact information.
One of the greatest challenges in sales is getting accurate contact information about prospective customers. A growing number of services have launched in the past couple of years to help address this, but most rely on members to maintain their own contact information. Jigsaw, on the other hand, pays members to help keep information up-to-date on the people they know, not just themselves, and pays them to do so ($1 for each unique new qualifying contact you put into the system). According to Jigsaw, in their first payout after launch, the top ten point-earns each received more than $750.
Become a semi-pro reporter.
Creative Reporter is a new program from Creative Weblogging that lets just about anyone become a paid reporter/blogger. They’re looking for people to create original, but non-exclusive, blog posts / articles of 250-500 words on topics including parenting, celebrities, travel, mobile technology, and more.
Pay is $10 per 1,000 page views on your posts (that’s excellent pay for Web writing, although there’s no telling how much traffic/money you’ll actually get).
Advertise other people’s products.
If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands - they’re easier to sell. To promote those products:
Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site
Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control
Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product
They all work - it just depends on how much time you have to spend on it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing.
Don't Expect To Earn Fast Money Online
I've spent the last three years working towards actually earning money online. In most of that time period though, the money has been leaving my wallet faster than it has been coming into my wallet.
"EARN MONEY FAST OPPORTUNITIES"
In my first year online, I tried all kinds of "earn-money-fast opportunities" --- everything from MLM to turnkey websites. I hate to admit this, but if I didn't make any money the first couple of months after I had signed up for one of these programs, I just gave up and moved on to the next opportunity.
Then I would begin the whole process all over again. I found a new site that promised to all who joined, that they would earn a lot of money fast, and they would earn their money without hard work.
I know the truth now, it was just another line of bulls**t!!!!
Twelve months later, all I had to show for my first year online, was many wasted hours and lots of wasted money.
THE MAKING OF A WEBSITE
As I began my second year, I realized that I had to make my own website. I didn't know anything about HTML. And, I knew nothing about where to find a hosting company, or even why I needed one. So the first six months of that second year, I was learning the basics of how to become a webmaster. I read through all the forums about web-mastering and SEO that I could find on the Internet, and tried to build a website that finally could make me some money.
I finally got my website up and running.
For the first 8 months that I had my website, I did not earn any real money for all of my hard work. The worst thing that could happen to a person began to happen to me... I began to lose hope. I began to believe that making money from the Internet was just a far-fetched dream that I could never attain on my own.
I was not alone. Hundreds of thousands of people have met or will meet this same crossroad in their Internet careers. Some will take the easy road and walk away from their dreams. Others will push on, not willing to let their dreams die.
I decided to push on.
I added new pages of content to my website every week. I exchanged links with other websites as often I could. Slowly and steadily, the visitors were starting to come to my little corner of the internet to browse and buy.
In the early stages, I had 30-50 visitors each day. Then, I began to see 100-150 a day. And soon, the first small amount of money was earned through my website.
Now it's 4 months after my first payday, and the traffic is still getting higher each week. Even though I'm not earning a whole lot of money now, I believe it's just a matter of time until I can leave my day job.
THE FIRST LESSON LEARNED
Looking back on these last three years, I have learned a few things that I would like to share with you today.
First of all, you should never join any of those scam sites that claim you will make a lot of money fast without working hard.
The cold, hard truth is that there is no way that you can make money online unless you are willing to work hard!
The next time you read about an opportunity where the promoter is telling you that you will not have to work hard to be successful, Stop! Stop and ask yourself "how hard this person is working" to part you with your money?
What about that email opportunity you are reading, where this anonymous person is telling you that you will not have to send other people email in order to make money? If he is being honest with you about the nature of his business, why did he have to send you an email to get Your business? If his way is best, why is it that he is not practicing what he preaches?
You have to approach new programs with your eyes wide open! Be willing to read between the lines to see if the promoter is lying to you to part you with your money. Be willing to research on the internet what other people have said about the program that you are looking at. Be willing to discover and separate the people who are trying to sell the program, from the people who are giving you an honest appraisal of the program, from the people who are just complaining about everything to hear themselves talk.
In the end, it comes down to this. If you get involved with one of the myriad of scam opportunities floating around out there, you will end up spending all of your money with zero rewards in your pocket for your time or effort.
THE SECOND LESSON TO BE LEARNED
Find a niche product to sell or promote. And then make your own website. If you don't know anything about how to become a webmaster, use Google to find forums about the subject. Or, you can buy a ebook about web-mastering.
Don't expect to earn much money the first year your website is online. Look at it as your learning period. Be persistent and don't take any shortcuts. It takes time to build a money making business, whether you make your business online or offline.
And finally, try to have fun while you are working on your website. It's much easier to become successful if you like the work you are doing.
Good luck!
"EARN MONEY FAST OPPORTUNITIES"
In my first year online, I tried all kinds of "earn-money-fast opportunities" --- everything from MLM to turnkey websites. I hate to admit this, but if I didn't make any money the first couple of months after I had signed up for one of these programs, I just gave up and moved on to the next opportunity.
Then I would begin the whole process all over again. I found a new site that promised to all who joined, that they would earn a lot of money fast, and they would earn their money without hard work.
I know the truth now, it was just another line of bulls**t!!!!
Twelve months later, all I had to show for my first year online, was many wasted hours and lots of wasted money.
THE MAKING OF A WEBSITE
As I began my second year, I realized that I had to make my own website. I didn't know anything about HTML. And, I knew nothing about where to find a hosting company, or even why I needed one. So the first six months of that second year, I was learning the basics of how to become a webmaster. I read through all the forums about web-mastering and SEO that I could find on the Internet, and tried to build a website that finally could make me some money.
I finally got my website up and running.
For the first 8 months that I had my website, I did not earn any real money for all of my hard work. The worst thing that could happen to a person began to happen to me... I began to lose hope. I began to believe that making money from the Internet was just a far-fetched dream that I could never attain on my own.
I was not alone. Hundreds of thousands of people have met or will meet this same crossroad in their Internet careers. Some will take the easy road and walk away from their dreams. Others will push on, not willing to let their dreams die.
I decided to push on.
I added new pages of content to my website every week. I exchanged links with other websites as often I could. Slowly and steadily, the visitors were starting to come to my little corner of the internet to browse and buy.
In the early stages, I had 30-50 visitors each day. Then, I began to see 100-150 a day. And soon, the first small amount of money was earned through my website.
Now it's 4 months after my first payday, and the traffic is still getting higher each week. Even though I'm not earning a whole lot of money now, I believe it's just a matter of time until I can leave my day job.
THE FIRST LESSON LEARNED
Looking back on these last three years, I have learned a few things that I would like to share with you today.
First of all, you should never join any of those scam sites that claim you will make a lot of money fast without working hard.
The cold, hard truth is that there is no way that you can make money online unless you are willing to work hard!
The next time you read about an opportunity where the promoter is telling you that you will not have to work hard to be successful, Stop! Stop and ask yourself "how hard this person is working" to part you with your money?
What about that email opportunity you are reading, where this anonymous person is telling you that you will not have to send other people email in order to make money? If he is being honest with you about the nature of his business, why did he have to send you an email to get Your business? If his way is best, why is it that he is not practicing what he preaches?
You have to approach new programs with your eyes wide open! Be willing to read between the lines to see if the promoter is lying to you to part you with your money. Be willing to research on the internet what other people have said about the program that you are looking at. Be willing to discover and separate the people who are trying to sell the program, from the people who are giving you an honest appraisal of the program, from the people who are just complaining about everything to hear themselves talk.
In the end, it comes down to this. If you get involved with one of the myriad of scam opportunities floating around out there, you will end up spending all of your money with zero rewards in your pocket for your time or effort.
THE SECOND LESSON TO BE LEARNED
Find a niche product to sell or promote. And then make your own website. If you don't know anything about how to become a webmaster, use Google to find forums about the subject. Or, you can buy a ebook about web-mastering.
Don't expect to earn much money the first year your website is online. Look at it as your learning period. Be persistent and don't take any shortcuts. It takes time to build a money making business, whether you make your business online or offline.
And finally, try to have fun while you are working on your website. It's much easier to become successful if you like the work you are doing.
Good luck!
100 Excellent Google Adsense Alternatives
For webmasters there is nothing more dreadful and disastrous than getting banned from Google Adsense program. It stops the main revenue stream and brakes complete business structure. It is when many realize that they have to go for an [b]Adsense alternative[/b] now (Although this is some thing one should worry before getting [b]banned from Adsense[/b]). Using [b]Adsense alternatives[/b] not only provides security from such cases but it also helps in maximizeing a site’s overall revenue.
Adsense from GoogleGoogle Adsense
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Adsense from GoogleGoogle Adsense
Adsense Alternatives
1.24/7 RealMedia
2.AdBrite
3.Advertising.com
4.Burst Media
5.Kanoodle
6.Link Share
7.ValueClick
8.Yahoo Publisher Network
8.Accelerator Media
9.Ad Agency
10.Ad Dynamix
11.AdEngage
12.Adgenta
13.Adhearus
14.AdKnowledge
15.AdPepper
16.ADServing Network
17.Adsmart
18.Adtegrity
19.AdZuba
20.Adversa
l21.Affiliate Future
22.Affiliate Sensor
23.Affiliate Fuel
24.AllFeeds
25.Auction Ads
26.AV Nads
27.Azoogle Ads
28.Banner Boxes
29.Banner Connect
30.Bardzo Media
31.BClick
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63.Hyperbidder
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How to Earn Money Online
From listing your top three cheeses to playing with Lego, you can earn cash (well, pennies) doing all sorts of tasks online. Simon Usborne clocks into the world of crowdsourcing
Published: 14 February 2007
Cheddar, feta, gruyère. It takes me a few seconds to type the words and click "submit". The next question pops up. What are your top three favourite soups? Hmm... tricky one. Lentil, spicy parsnip and goulash (does that last one even count?). And on we go with a seemingly endless quick-fire round of food-based questions. I go on to list my favourite nuts, pastas, meats, seafood, Italian dishes, and "top foods I never cook at home". Each time I earn $0.01. Yes, that's right. Half a penny.
Minutes earlier, I had signed up to Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk), a corner of the online retail empire where the only thing on sale is cheap labour. Mturk takes its name from a contraption invented in the late 1760s by an enterprising Hungarian called Wolfgang von Kempelen. He toured Europe with the machine, claiming it could beat any human at chess. Napoleon Bonaparte and chess fanatic Benjamin Franklin were among thousands checkmated by the Turk - a wooden automaton that comprised a small cabinet, a chess board and the torso of a turbaned mannequin. But Von Kempelen was soon exposed as a fraud; the cabinet concealed a human chess master, who operated mechanical arms. The Turk was a flashy bit of technology powered by human intelligence.
Amazon set up its site along a similar principle: Mturk helps companies find people to perform simple tasks that would defeat even the smartest computers, from evaluating beauty to language translations. Anyone with a bit of free time and an internet connection can undertake these Hits (Human Intelligence Tasks). "Turkers" earn money, and the company (requester) gets to exploit the "crowd" - a hidden and until now untapped pool of brain power.
Amazon is not the only company to realise the value in outsourcing to the crowd. The model that gave rise to Wikipedia - the user-generated web encyclopaedia - is increasingly being embraced by everyone from back-room software developers to multinational pharmaceuticals giants - and now there's money to be earned. The phenomenon was recognised by Jeff Howe, a writer and internet-observer for the US magazine Wired. He named it crowdsourcing and came up with this definition: "The act of taking a function traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people."
Praline... marzipan... fudge... This is getting tedious. The requester behind the endless food-based Hit is another company in the Amazon family. UnSpun invites thousands of people like me to rank things into lists, from the potentially useful - "best bakeries in Seattle" - to the puerile, such as "dumbest celebrity". If enough people contribute to the lists, UnSpun hopes the site will become useful to companies who might otherwise pay thousands of pounds to commission their own market research.
The amounts of money exchanged over Mturk are considerably less; after answering a dozen or so questions, I work out that I am being compensated at a rate of about 90p an hour. This seems more like virtual slavery than a chance to boost my salary, so I look for something more rewarding.
William Hallenbeck wants people to "plot musical instrument bitmaps" in Paint (the standard Windows drawing software). He needs a set of simple icons for a CD he is creating. His shopping list includes a "tango accordion" and something called a Shakuhachi (a traditional Japanese bamboo flute). I plump for the relatively simple double bass and get half an hour to complete my line drawing. It takes me 15 minutes to come up with something that resembles an instrument from the string section. I upload the file and await approval by Hallenbeck and my 10 cent fee. OK, that's a lower pay rate than the food rankings gave me, but at least I'm having fun (almost), and, after all, I could have lost thousands by playing poker.
I now have 23 cents in my Mturk account and I am on a roll. The more tasks you complete, the more the lucrative jobs start to come your way. Scanning the long list of Hits available to me, the offer of a "$1,695 weekly reward" catches my eye. The task: a NowNow research question. Another Amazon project, NowNow is an answering service. E-mail it a question - any question - and as if by magic an answer wings its way to your inbox. Behind the scenes, a global army of Turkers is scouring cyberspace, earning two cents per Hit.
I begin. "What's a good volumiser to use when you're styling dry hair?" Skip that one. "What are the differences between the 1995 Nissan Maxima SE, GLE and GXE?" Hmm. "Who are the top three sexiest women from Peru?" The only Peruvian I can name being Paddington Bear, I decide NowNow questions aren't worth the lure of a big-money reward, let a lone the penny I get for researching each one. I return to the available Hit lists.
Have "qualified" to take on bigger and better jobs, I accept a Hit posted by CastingWords, a New Mexico transcription service. As the MP3 file downloads, I warm up my typing fingers. This should be a bit more interesting...
"... And the universe is communicating with you all day long," says an American man in a dull drawl. "As part of this master-key system, I suggest you increase the channel through which the universe will communicate with you." For nine minutes he rambles on. It turns out a run-in with a coyote as he drove in Sedona (Arizona, apparently) got him thinking about life. What prompted him to pay me to transcribe his thoughts is not clear. Perhaps because he could - CastingWords' clients, who also include academics and journalists, pay just 20p per minute of audio file uploaded to the website, receiving proof-read text via e-mail a few days later.
The recording ends suddenly. I go back and clean up the typos, and run a spell-check. I feel like I've done a good job and submit the transcript in exchange for a handsome $1.06 fee. That's way over double what I've already earned, but it still works out at about 54p for 20 minutes.
One more Hit and my crowdsourcing days are over. This one's posted by an Oxford company called Geospatial Vision (GSV). They are looking for Turkers to do image tagging, which involves going through a series of digital photographs of a road in England and marking specific features, such as road signs, drainage points or bollards. The company uses this data to build 3D maps of the road network, which they sell to local authority asset managers and sat-nav companies. It's monotonous work and my reward for ploughing through dozens of photos is a measly 3p.
This really is slave labour, isn't it? "Not at all," says Nick Bolton, chief executive of Oxford Metrics Group, which owns GSV. "Jeff Bezos [the multi-billionaire Amazon chief] does image processing for us. I bet Bill Gates does it too. The fact is, most people who are spending time doing our Hits are treating it as a mental exercise that happens to have a real financial value to them, as well as being beneficial to us."
But Turkers do more than just save money, says Bolton. "We give them tasks that are beyond the capabilities of the most advanced image processing techniques," he says. "Obviously, it means a reduction in costs to us, but more important is the speed, accuracy and detail that the Turkers provide."
Jeff Howe is (like me) surprised by the success of Mturk. "Mturk is my anomaly," he says. "It's the crowdsourcing model that refutes my hypothesis. The amount of interest is in inverse proportion to the amount of pay - I hear about lawyers who earn 100 grand a year and they're coming back home and picking up a few dollars on Mturk. I don't get it." But what we should all get, says Howe, is that while still in its infancy, the model has a big future. He says anyone in the business of sourcing information should take notice of the crowd. "Things like focus groups and consumer surveys are like something out of the Stone Age," he says. "Companies are going to realise that having agents going out collecting information no longer makes sense, and that's going to shake a lot of things up."
A final glance at my Mturk "dashboard" shows my account is less than shaken. For the hour's work I have put in over three or four evenings, 23 Hits have earned me a fortune of $1.70 (88p). But I can only spend those pennies, I later discover, at Amazon. com - not co.uk - or transfer them to a US bank account. I consign them to cyberspace and leave the crowd behind, for now.
How I earnt my 88p
TASK ONE Ranking favourite foods, including types of pasta, nuts and soups, for UnSpun, a "community consensus ranking" site. I tackled 14 different foods.
Time taken Three minutes
Money earnt 8p
TASK TWO Researching questions submitted to NowNow, a web-based answering service owned by Amazon. I tried to answer three people's questions, but none of my answers were accepted.
Total time taken Two minutes
Money earnt Nothing
TASK THREE Drawing musical instruments for a man who wanted icons for a CD he was creating. I drew a double-bass.
Time taken 15 minutes
Money earnt 5p
TASK FOUR Scouring New York mortgage contracts for specific information for a research firm. I managed to scan four documents.
Time taken Eight minutes
Money earnt 2p
TASK FIVE Transcribing a voice recording for a New Mexico transcription services firm.
Time taken 20 minutes
Money earnt 47p
TASK SIX Marking out drains, signs and bollards on a series of photographs of UK roads for an
Oxford-based 3D mapping firm.
Time taken 12 minutes
Money earnt 26p
More ways to Crowdsource
Cambrian House
Founded a year ago, the Canadian company develops crowdsourced software. Anyone can submit an idea for a new application. Members of the Cambrian community then rate the ideas and the best enter monthly "IdeaWarz" tournaments. The crowd then writes the code and tests the software. Collaborators earn royalty points, which can be exchanged for cash.
InnoCentive
Corporations like Boeing and Procter & Gamble increasingly look to "garage" scientists to solve problems that stump their own R&D departments. Anyone can visit InnoCentive and take on one of these challenges, with rewards for cracking them ranging from $10,000 (£5,100) to $1m.
iStockphoto
This gives amateur snappers a chance to make money out of their images. The site, which has become the leading community-led marketplace for stock photography, boasts a library of well over a million photos. Businesses that previously relied on expensive picture agencies now save thousands at iStockphoto.
Lego
At Lego Factory, enthusiasts of any age can download software to build virtual models. Approved models go on show at the site's gallery, where anyone can place an order. Designers pick up royalties from any sales.
Second Life
The virtual world, or metaverse, could become the crowdsourcing capital of cyberspace. One first-life company, a US software developer, plans to build an island, where virtual passers-by test real software applications in exchange for money.
Ways to Make Money on the Side
Marcy Jones has been physically fit all her life. She started out as a gymnast in high school and has stayed active in sports. But when a friend asked for her help to get in shape, the 44-year-old Washington, D.C., executive assistant parlayed her athletic ability into a healthy sideline as a personal trainer. Today she does in-home personal training four to six days a week, seeing two or three clients an evening, with most of her business coming by word of mouth. Jones is just one of many Black women who have applied their talents and skills to create an additional source of income outside their nine-to-five gig. They join the nearly 14 percent of women business owners who turned a personal interest into a business, according to a report by the Center for Women's Business Research. "Black women are more likely to start a business while still working," says Beatryce Nivens, a New Jersey-based career-management counselor. "Some look at their situations and say, 'Gee, I'm not going to be CEO,' so they decide to use their talent and skills for themselves." Others are underpaid at work and must find additional ways to make ends meet. So they develop lucrative sidelines from activities they've always done and taken for granted, like sewing, baking or even creating wedding favors. These 15 ideas may help jump-start your sideline moneymaking:
1 BECOME A PERFORMER If you can sing or have theatrical talent, make the most of it by performing at weddings, parties and other events. Place an ad in your local paper or grocery-store bulletin, and let friends know you're available. Church-choir singers or musicians can make anywhere from $50 to $1,000 and more performing independently for weddings or parties. Sisters with theatrical talent can make between $40 and $150 an hour working children's parties as clowns, magicians or cartoon characters, painting children's faces, telling jokes, and creating balloon animals.
2 OFFER A CUSTOM SERVICE When Essie "Star" Dantzler, 44, bought her commercial embroidery machine in 1992, she intended to use it to design clothing. Today she runs a thriving logo-embroidery business. She has ten regular clients who place large orders for jackets, caps or T-shirts. They may order as many as 240 jackets, but most requests range between 50 and 150 items. She also embroiders baby bibs and blankets for gift baskets and sells them for $5 to $25. The embroidery machine cost $9,000, which Dantzler paid off in three years, thanks to her thriving business.
3 PROVIDE ANIMAL CARE Love animals? Become a pet sitter or dog walker. More and more people have pets and don't want to leave them alone, You can make up to $20 an hour per pet.
4 TEACH A CLASS If you have a specialty, teach it to others. Offer your services to a local community center or college. That's what technology specialist Phyllis Caraway-Franklin of Grand Prairie, Texas, did. She teaches seniors to use computers and charges $20 each to ten students for a one-hour class, which she holds twice a week. "When I get off work, I go there for an hour," Caraway-Franklin, 47, says. "I give back to the community, and I can see this being a lucrative business when I retire." For details on teaching a class, check out learningannex.com.
5 SELL USED BOOKS Are you an avid reader? Recycle your collection on amazon.com. Amazon sells both new and old books. First set up an account at the amazon.com site, list your item, and be ready to ship it to the buyer. Experiment to find what kinds of books do well; some say fiction paperbacks on relationships are popular sellers. Scout local used-book stores for inexpensive finds to mark up online. To price your book, check the site to see what similar ones have sold for; Amazon also offers guidelines. You collect payment from Amazon, which is credited to your account, minus Amazon's service fee. See amazon.com.
6 BECOME A VIRTUAL-OFFICE ASSISTANT Thanks to her computer, the Internet and telephone call forwarding, Victoria Parham, 37, of Emporia, Virginia, creates presentations, takes messages or transfers calls for the owner of a small business--all from the comfort of her home, charging $27.50 an hour. The virtual-office assistant says, "I can do it totally online for people all around the world."
7 SELL ON CONSIGNMENT This is a great way to get rid of lightly used clothing and furnishings you no longer want. Consignment shops will sell your goods for you at a cost of about 40 to 60 percent of the selling price.
8 BECOME A MYSTERY SHOPPER Also called consumer evaluators or secret shoppers, mystery shoppers help gather information on stores, restaurants or other marketing clients. Ayodele Branch, 39, of Teaneck, New Jersey, became a secret shopper after responding to an ad in her local newspaper. "The assignments vary," Branch says, including getting paid to go to the movies, where she evaluated everything from the number of people waiting in the ticket line to how soon the previews start to the theater staff's appearance. Secret shoppers can earn from $10 to $800 a month, depending on the number of assignments they take. But beware of scams that ask you to pay a fee to become a shopper. Check out Mystery Shopping Made Simple by Ilisha Newhouse (McGraw-Hill), justshop.org, bluebook.org or mysteryshop.org.
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1) Lets get this straight. Million dollar bank balances are numerical in nature. By that I mean a million bucks is not made up of 1 large million dollar bill. Its made up of exactly one million single's. Or to go to the lowest common denominator, its actually numerically made up of One thousand, million (or 1 billion) cents.
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They call out diversify when it comes to investing. Fair enough. Things change and relying on just one source for your income stream is dangerous. And it is. But there are two sides to every coin.
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So lets give you a little traction before you sieze your jets.
The following 5 strategies will give you the moves to take you to the first level. -A guy with a proven idea that can be replicated-(An enviable position to be in)
1) Lets get this straight. Million dollar bank balances are numerical in nature. By that I mean a million bucks is not made up of 1 large million dollar bill. Its made up of exactly one million single's. Or to go to the lowest common denominator, its actually numerically made up of One thousand, million (or 1 billion) cents.
Make money fast and easy by thinking of money as numerical and therefore exponential. A dollar that you hold in your hand is the same as $1 million dollars. No difference at all. Its a seed that grows into a tree, then that tree spurrs more seeds. (I apolgize for the metaphor, but how else can we put this so you understand the nature of the reality as it is)
2) When you approach your 1 million dollar goal, you are biting off much much more then you can chew thinking about that million.
To make money fast and easy always think small. Refine, refine, refine. Then duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. Are you with me? Is this making sense? Make a simple little mouse trap, then make lots of mouse traps exactly the same way.
3) Find demand and supply into that demand.
To make money fast and easy, even before you think about "what" you will do, you are going to research demand. You will become an expert at sniffing out needs. This skill is a millionaires bow and arrow. Let me tell you, most millionaires couldn't hit the side of a barn much less the bulls eye. But they DO know this. So their aim is not important. What is important is that the target is nice and gigantic. How can they miss?
Trust me, its what millionaires do, its how millionaires think. Always supply into Fat juicy demand where the pickin is easy. Do you want medals of bravery or a million bucks asap?
4) Have a structure you never deviate from.
They always failed to plan when they planned to fail. Once your research is done never deviate from it. Give it a good run but if it doesnt work out for you then move on without shedding a single tear. Chance and "chaos theory" are fascinating things. Probability is what millionaires deal with. They never delude themselves into believing in absolutes.
To make money fast and easy, you will not work backwards or second guess yourself. Plant yourself firmly in the middle of the road on the high side and go forward. Don't make it up as you go. Stick to what your demand planning told you to do. Many give up after 1 failure, but probability is a funny thing. We think we can control it, but even when all your ducks are lined up in a row, it may not work. But give it a chance and let it prove itself and you may find over a number of attempts you will get the results you expected.
5) Diversify AND Go deep.
They call out diversify when it comes to investing. Fair enough. Things change and relying on just one source for your income stream is dangerous. And it is. But there are two sides to every coin.
The pareto principle states that reality and probability are stacked unevenly. We as rational human beings think of everything as equal and even. However scientific evidence and business experience tells a different story. The pareto principle is also known as the 80/20 rule. It states that 80% of your results comes from 20% of your activities. Is this significant if true? You bet. It means that of every effort you make, of all the many things you do to manufacture your results, only 20% actually is responsible for a large proportion (in fact 80%) of them.
So what does this mean in English? It means you can easily quadruple your results by finding out what that special 20% activity is and stop doing everything else. By focusing on just that 20% activity you will not only increase results, but you will create a new pareto principle refined of the old one at a higher level. In this way you move forward and evolve your activities to higher and higher levels.
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Deliver new vehicles to dealerships
Manufacturers deliver new cars to dealerships by way of truck. But large specialty vehicles, such as RV's, vans, school buses, ambulances and limousines are driven to dealerships.
That's where money-making opportunities abound. In fact, delivering new cars is "the perfect hidden profession," said Craig Chilton, author of "How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel Without Selling Anything" and editor of Roadrat.com.
"People drive new vehicles to dealerships every day. We see it, but don't realize it's happening," said Chilton, who was in the business more than a decade and who estimates there are 100,000 drivers today. Half of them work part-time.
Pay runs about 35 cents a mile, plus air transportation home for drivers once deliveries are made. Trip lengths vary from quick 150-mile gigs to cross-country jaunts. You don't need a commercial driver's license to be a driver, but some states require a chauffeur's license, which you can get after taking a simple written test. Your driving record also must be fairly clean; a speeding ticket may be ok, but drunk driving is not, said Chilton.
Manufacturers deliver new cars to dealerships by way of truck. But large specialty vehicles, such as RV's, vans, school buses, ambulances and limousines are driven to dealerships.
That's where money-making opportunities abound. In fact, delivering new cars is "the perfect hidden profession," said Craig Chilton, author of "How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel Without Selling Anything" and editor of Roadrat.com.
"People drive new vehicles to dealerships every day. We see it, but don't realize it's happening," said Chilton, who was in the business more than a decade and who estimates there are 100,000 drivers today. Half of them work part-time.
Pay runs about 35 cents a mile, plus air transportation home for drivers once deliveries are made. Trip lengths vary from quick 150-mile gigs to cross-country jaunts. You don't need a commercial driver's license to be a driver, but some states require a chauffeur's license, which you can get after taking a simple written test. Your driving record also must be fairly clean; a speeding ticket may be ok, but drunk driving is not, said Chilton.
Be a movie extra
The best way to get your smiling face on the Silver Screen -- and earn extra bucks to boot -- is to register with a casting agent. Many film producers select extras from an album of headshots. Check out Cenex Casting, which charges extras a $20 photo/electronic image fee or Moviex.com, which charges potential actors $14.99.
You don't have to be in a union to land a gig. In fact, it's hard to get into the Screen Actors Guild, but union members do earn more than non-union extras -- up to $200 for eight hours of work if they make it into the movie, television show or commercial. Non-union members can pick up about $50 a day.
Walk a dog
Love animals? Dog walkers typically earn $10 to $15 an hour -- per pooch, so this is a great way to earn quick cash and get some exercise, too. Of course, it helps if you're skilled at handling a pack of dogs.
One quick way to gain experience -- and potential references -- is to volunteer at dog obedience classes, said Dianne Eibner, author of "The Face in the Window: A Guide to Professional Dogwalking."
"When I started, I offered to take dogs to a trainer because the owners didn't have the time to do it and they wanted their dogs walked to calm them down. I was able to get experience and I didn't have to pay for the classes," Eibner said. She encourages new dog walkers to join the Professional Dog Walkers Association, which posts advice and training tips on its Web site. Membership requires a one-time fee of $20.
Be a personal chef
There's good reason fast-food is so popular; most people nowadays don't have time to cook. But not everyone is heading to the local drive-through window.
These days, 72,000 clients now rely on personal chefs for convenient, fresh food, according to the American Personal Chef Association and Institute. Many are double-income families with more disposable income than spare time.
"This is a really popular second career for people who don't want to go to culinary school," said Candy Wallace, executive director of APCAI. "We have one gal who's an opera singer. She cooks three days a week, studies voice two days a week and sings professionally on the weekends."
In most cases, you work with clients to set a mutually convenient schedule. Personal chef positions are best suited for people whose full-time job offers some degree of flexibility. That includes teachers, real estate agents and freelance writers.
Wallace began her own career by cooking three days a week -- and earning $35,000 in her first year. She now leads APCAI seminars nationwide, where personal chefs learn tips on how to get their businesses off the ground.
"It can be hard work," said Wallace. "But if you're thrilled at the prospect of fresh ingredients and the tastes and colors of fresh food, this is an absolute joy.
Be a personal organizer or assistant
Are you super organized? Do you have a knack for creating great filing systems or making your home run efficiently? Then why not put your talents up for sale as a professional organizer? You could make $40 to $200 an hour, according to the National Association of Professional Organizers.
"There are lots of ways people get into the business, but most professional organizers are people who have been organized in their lives and have experience organizing others -- either at work or in a home environment," said K.J. McCorry, public relations director of NAPO.
Want to know more about the business? NAPO has a referral program that puts potential organizers in touch with pros who can answer questions about getting started.
If you'd rather be a second pair of hands to someone, then offer your services as a personal assistant. You may be asked to schedule appointments, meet repairmen, pick up cleaning, make travel plans or help organize an event. You can let your skills dictate the kind of services you offer. Check out the American Errand Runners Association online discussion groups for ideas and information.
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10 Ways To Make Money Blogging
10 Ways To Make Money Blogging
I have seen a lot of BS artists come and go, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one who compares to guy named Jim F. Kukral. Here's a guy with a weblog ranked 439,979th on Alexa, writing an e-book called "Blogs To Riches" and charging $47 a pop for it, when NOBODY is getting rich blogging with the possible exception -- if your definition of rich is loose enough -- of Andrew Sullivan.
So let a blogger who averages more than 6000 daily uniques per weekday, has an Alexa rank of 35,487, and 20 advertisers currently, give you a little primer about making money via blogging. I may not have any fancy marketing degrees, but then again, I'm not going to charge you $47 to read this post either.
First off, if your primary motivation is to make money, don't bother with blogging. That's not to say that you can't make money blogging, but most people don't and it usually takes a long, long, time to make any serious lucre even if you do. Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, among political bloggers, I'm going to **guess** that there are maybe 4 or 5 political bloggers right now who could scratch -- and I do mean scratch -- out a living based solely on advertising revenue (Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, Josh Marshall, Daily Kos & Atrios). Out of that group, to the best of my knowledge, only Sullivan is really raking in what I think of as big time money with his huge fundraisers. Over time, the blogs getting that kind of traffic and therefore getting those kind of advertising opportunities are going to continue to grow, but for now, the numbers are small.
But, let's cut to the chase and talk about ways to make money blogging.
Amazon: I've tried selling Amazon products before, but really wasn't terribly impressed with them. For
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If you're looking at ways to supplement your income, here are some options other than working behind a bar or stacking shelves at a supermarket.1 Police ID paradesTaking part in identity parades is easy money - you just have to stand there - but work is irregular and may depend on your appearance. Many police forces now use video line-ups but you can still get a one-off fee of £10 for being filmed.
Average pay: £10 for the first hour, £5 for every hour after that.More info: ask at your local police station.
2 TV/film extraProduction companies need people of all shapes and sizes and if you're over 18 but look younger you'll be especially popular, as you can save them the cost of a chaperone for a child actor. Don't expect to meet the stars, though.
Average pay: £80 a day, with bonuses for things like providing your own costume or doing a 'walk-on'. Overtime is paid at around £11 an hour.More info: there's a list of extras agencies at UK Screen
3 Campus brand managerAll sorts of companies hire students to promote them on campus, from film distributors to sportswear firms. You'll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate your business acumen, but the work can be time-consuming.
Average pay: £300 a term, though some firms only pay on a commission basis.More info: look for notices on student job boards.
4 Trading on eBay'The World's Online Marketplace' has one million registered users in the UK alone so there's bound to be someone who'll pay for anything you have to sell. Start with stuff you don't want (old CDs, clothes, toys) to get a feel for it.
Average pay: the sky's the limit - but unless you're selling something rare or valuable, don't expect to make a fortune.More info: go to eBay and click on 'eBay explained'.
5 Pose as a life modelYou don't have to be beautiful or in particularly great shape but you do have to patient, able to sit still and perhaps not wince at what an artist makes of you. But good models are in demand.
Average pay: from £6 or so an hour clothed, to £7 or so an hour unclothed outside London; a little more in the capital.More info: contact art colleges and adult education colleges near you.
6 In-store demonstratorThere's lots of work for confident, personable people in supermarkets and department stores. You might be required to show off your ironing skills, hold a food tasting or demonstrate a new kitchen gadget, for example. Hours are often in the evenings or during weekends so can fit around your studies.
Average pay: varies, but can be up to £10 an hour.More info: search for 'field marketing agencies' on the Internet.
7 Event stewardingConcerts and sports fixtures employ a small army to help with organisation. The necessary training will be provided on the day but don't view the job as a free ticket. Stewards at football matches, for example, are expected to face the crowd, not watch the game.
Average pay: rates start at £5 an hour; with training you can earn up to £15 an hour.More info: try Recruit Event Services.
8 Online surveysTo make money completing surveys, all you need is a computer and some opinions. You'll be asked what you think of various products and services, and sometimes be sent things to try out. However, there are scam survey websites so do some research.
Average pay: £3-£50 for each survey, depending on how long it takes. However, you'll have to pay a registration fee (around £20) up front.More info: UK Paid Surveys rates and reviews the best sites.
9 Mystery shoppingSome men would pay good money not to go shopping, but 'mystery shoppers', on the other hand, get paid instead. It's not just about going to shops but perhaps to restaurants, bars or to stay in a hotel and report on how the customer's being treated. You'll get all the money for your meals, drinks or bills repaid and you may get to keep the shopping, too - unless, of course, it's diamonds.
Average pay: from £6 a visit, but could be as much as £100 a day.More info: try the Mystery Shopping Agency on 020 8325 8974 or Retail Eyes
10 Internet researcherYou may have grown up taking the Internet for granted but there are plenty of people who aren't familiar with it or are too busy to spend time on it. So if you're skilled at extracting information from a web search, you can hire yourself out as a researcher for people like lawyers and writers.
Average pay: £10 an hourMore info: look for notices on student job boards or contact likely clients in your area.
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Google Blog Rank
I get pretty good ranking for Webmetricsguru.com on Blogger, I always have; now I know why. According to Google Operating System I’m doing well if I:
1. Get other well respected bloggers like Eric Peterson to put my site in their blogrolls.
2.Get a lot of links from Chats and Mail (well, I’m not too sure about that … because Google would be looking pretty closely at the URL referrals and see if it comes from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, etc…do they really do that?)
3.Posts tagged well (I guess Google can try to match up the content with the tagging and see if it matches).
4.Pagerank (obvious - you know they’d do that).
5. Number of Feed Subscribers (certainly, Google can figure out how many Google Reader or Google Personalized Home Page subscribers you blog feed has - and it’s probably not unlikely they can pull FeedBurner’s numbers for each blog feed as well - but I’m not 100% about that part).
6. Clicks in Search Results (that’s controversial - no one doubts that Google’s been doing this - but they’ve not really acknowledged it fully - but they’re certainly capable of it - especially if you’ve you have Google Webmaster Central installed).
What works against Blog Ranking?(Everyone should be care)
1.Automated posting that happens in regular periods (like every 3 hours)
2.Mismatch be blog text and RSS Feed (but why would someone do that? I find that one a little strange - like subscribing to feed and getting some other entirely different text ….I guess it’s easy to check so maybe that’s why Google might check this).
3.Duplicate Content (if your copying too much from other blogs or your blog post is a duplication of someone else’s …. and Google can figure out which one came first - your in the same boat as SEO Content that’s duplicated)
4.If you use the same words that appear in a lot of Blog Spam - Google might think your blog Spam.
5.Identical Size Posts (Weird…that’s a lot of work to pull off - and I don’t know why someone would even want to try to do this …but if your have posts that are identical in size, Google can detect it and will devalue your posts).
6.A large number of Ads (Ha, ha, ha…. really? Doesn’t Google sell Ads? I find that one a little hard to swallow. So if you use AdSense too much Google is going to Devalue your blog even though they make more money if they can get your blog ranked higher? I don’t buy it - but if I did, it would be someone else’s ads, not Google’s).
7.Location of Ads (again, I’m not really sure about this one).
I did not read the patent that’s being referred to or the drawings that go with it (they seem invisible in my browser). Seo By The Sea has more details.
1. Get other well respected bloggers like Eric Peterson to put my site in their blogrolls.
2.Get a lot of links from Chats and Mail (well, I’m not too sure about that … because Google would be looking pretty closely at the URL referrals and see if it comes from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, etc…do they really do that?)
3.Posts tagged well (I guess Google can try to match up the content with the tagging and see if it matches).
4.Pagerank (obvious - you know they’d do that).
5. Number of Feed Subscribers (certainly, Google can figure out how many Google Reader or Google Personalized Home Page subscribers you blog feed has - and it’s probably not unlikely they can pull FeedBurner’s numbers for each blog feed as well - but I’m not 100% about that part).
6. Clicks in Search Results (that’s controversial - no one doubts that Google’s been doing this - but they’ve not really acknowledged it fully - but they’re certainly capable of it - especially if you’ve you have Google Webmaster Central installed).
What works against Blog Ranking?(Everyone should be care)
1.Automated posting that happens in regular periods (like every 3 hours)
2.Mismatch be blog text and RSS Feed (but why would someone do that? I find that one a little strange - like subscribing to feed and getting some other entirely different text ….I guess it’s easy to check so maybe that’s why Google might check this).
3.Duplicate Content (if your copying too much from other blogs or your blog post is a duplication of someone else’s …. and Google can figure out which one came first - your in the same boat as SEO Content that’s duplicated)
4.If you use the same words that appear in a lot of Blog Spam - Google might think your blog Spam.
5.Identical Size Posts (Weird…that’s a lot of work to pull off - and I don’t know why someone would even want to try to do this …but if your have posts that are identical in size, Google can detect it and will devalue your posts).
6.A large number of Ads (Ha, ha, ha…. really? Doesn’t Google sell Ads? I find that one a little hard to swallow. So if you use AdSense too much Google is going to Devalue your blog even though they make more money if they can get your blog ranked higher? I don’t buy it - but if I did, it would be someone else’s ads, not Google’s).
7.Location of Ads (again, I’m not really sure about this one).
I did not read the patent that’s being referred to or the drawings that go with it (they seem invisible in my browser). Seo By The Sea has more details.
Top 10 Link Building Tools for SEO
A compiled list of top10 SEO Tools you should be using.
1.Page Strength
2.Google Webmaster Central (monitoring the actual incoming anchor texts: Statistics -> Page analysis)
6.URL Rewriting (through mod_rewrite)
10.URL Code Status Lookup
These are the top 10 tools that I use when I’m either looking at buying a link, contracting for a link exchange, submitting to a directory, or just generally looking at links that might work for my sites
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