May 3, 2006 at 6:35 pm · Filed under SEO, Affiliate Marketing
A while back there was an article circulating about how Google had hired students to review websites and rate their content. The major question asked of the reviewer was similar to this…
If you removed the affiliate links, Google adsense or other contextual ads and RSS integration feeds from the site you are reviewing…would this site’s content still stand? Would this site be worth anything, or would it be an empty shell?
If the answer is no, then I believe that steps were taken to remove the offending site from the Google index. Whether or not the leaked Google article is true (as some have speculated), the point still hits home.
Why risk this? Why bother creating “scraped sites” with no original content? Instead, why not be that internet publisher that ads to the web by offering additional value and opinions that your visitors will want? In turn, you may find that…
You increase your visitor length
You increase your conversion
You increase your bottom line
For me, I want to focus on the long haul, building websites that will increase my online net worth. I want to build online riches.
Which road will you choose?
April 12, 2006 at 10:33 pm · Filed under Affiliate Marketing
There is an interesting post over at web publishing blog about using video to help promote your affiliate products. Here is an article snippet.
Website publishers often ignore video, first, because of the bandwidth, second because it appear to have minimal search engine optimization value (not exactly true) and secondly because of the effort and cost involved in producing it. Should you ignore it? After reading this interview you may have a different opinion.
This is a new area for me, and it is something that I really had not considered because of the bandwidth issue. However, I do know that James Martell uses them for his affiliate courses. It is something that I will look into over the next few weeks. I will keep you posted.
Feel free to comment.
April 6, 2006 at 8:30 am · Filed under Affiliate Marketing, Business
This is an interesting article that pretty much resounds of why I like conducting online business from home.
By Bill Schnarr
We’ve all been stretched to our limits at one time or another, whether our jobs take us to the factory, the office, and even those who work at home. Today’s working parents are under more pressure than ever to work longer, earn more money, and provide a stable environment for their children. At the same time, those same activities that are supposed to be enjoyable – spending time with family, taking the kids to soccer practice, and remembering to phone Aunt Martha on her birthday can easily become part of a hectic, stressful work week that leaves you exhausted and desperate for a break.
With all the stress and hassle of today’s modern life, it’s no wonder that more and more people are turning to alternative sources to generate income and ease the burden of day to day living. For many of those people, working at home on their computers for a few hours a week has become that stress relieving second income. And these people are beginning to see that a home based business can be an alternative to a soul-sucking job that leaves you exhausted and praying for the weekend.
There are a lot of good reasons why you should consider a home based business if you are searching for a way to improve the quality of your life. For example, working at home provides you with the ability to schedule your work around the important things that come up in everyday life, as opposed to waiting for a day off to take the kids to the dentist or missing a birthday dinner because you were stuck in traffic.
In fact, missing anything because of traffic would be a thing of the past, unless you count the line ups at the supermarket or the Doctor’s office. And here’s a little tip: there are no line ups at the supermarket when everyone is at work. It would just be you and a couple little old ladies in a foot race for the two bored cashiers waiting to serve you. Take my advice – a good hip check goes a long way to eliminating the competition, if you catch my drift.
But there are some really important things to consider if you are going to look for a way to work at home and make money on a home based business. For one thing, something like an internet based business can lead to all kinds of goodies. Things like residual incomes and streaming money. Royalties! Yes, your home based internet business will make money for you even while you’re sleeping in or spending the weekend on a romantic getaway with your significant other. Does your job at the toothpaste factory pay you to sleep? (Don’t answer that!)
Working at home on computer can afford you other luxuries as well. You may not have realized this, but an internet based business can be accessed and maintained from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a reliable internet connection and access to your email accounts. That means that you can spend an hour or two on your computer in the morning taking care of loose ends while your family prepares for a day at the beach…in Mexico!
You can work from your time share condo in Florida, your parent’s house in Wisconsin, or even that little two bedroom tree house in the Amazon Rain Forest you’ve always dreamed about…providing you can convince the local monkeys to provide you with some form of internet service.
The opportunity for additional income and freedom from the grind of daily living is sitting in your living room. Working at home is a trend being picked up by men and women every day; professionals, college students, and retirees are all working from home on computers and making money to improve their lives.
If your still considering it, no worries. Hopefully this article will give you something to think about next time your stuck in traffic, sucking on petrol fumes and wishing that monkeys were serving you Pina Colada’s in your little grass hut out in the middle of nowhere.
For more information, see work at home guides.
About The Author
Bill Schnarr is a single parent and freelance writer who works from his home in Calgary, Alberta. As well as writing about the various ways to start a home business and having dozens of online and print publishing credits, you can also look for him in the latest “Chicken Soup for the Single Parents Soul” which was published in February 2005.
