It is obvious that the one way links have more value than the reciprocal links. People usually do link exchange with blogs in their niche which is a pure reciprocal link. 3 way linking provide a solution to this problem. With this linking strategy both the parties can get one way links with their link exchange. Let’s see how it works,

For 3 way linking, you must create a second blog or website in the same niche as your main blog. If possible buy a website with high PR as this will reduce your work.

After you have set up your second blog, email the webmaster of the blog you want to get link from. Ask him to link your main blog and offer him a link from your second blog. Most webmasters will accept this as they will be benefited from the one-way incoming link. This process is a bit time taking but for sure, it’ll work well.

Search engines are the major source for the targeted traffic. If you want to rank higher positions for your major keyword, you must analyze your competitors. Here are some points of considerations for SEO competitor analysis.

Page Title:
Analyze what kind of title your competitors use. Do they include the keywords in their title or filled their title just with marketing messages?

No of Indexed pages:
Analyze how many pages of your competitor have been indexed by major search engines. Compare relevant content of your competitor in the indexed pages with your indexed pages.

External Links:
Determine how many external links are pointing to your competitor. It is almost possible to get links to your blog/website from the page where your competitor has their link.

Keyword Density:
Analyze the keyword density of your competitor for your major keywords. Compare it with yours’. You can check the keyword density here.

META-Data:
Analyze the META description. Check how your competitor used the major keywords with in the description.

Rankings:
Determine at what position your competitor is ranked for your major keywords in search engines. If they ranked higher, analyze why?

After analysis update your site based on your analysis. Wait for some more time to see your site at google’s front page for your major keyword!

Keyword research is the very important step in any business online. If you want to start a general website or if you want to sell your own product or even if you’re promoting other’s product as an affiliate then you must know about Keyword research.  Keyword research is the only way to get organic traffic (Traffic from Search Engines like Google, Yahoo etc…).

What is Keyword Research?
Keyword research is basically, finding keywords related to your website which has most searches. Once you got keywords which have most searches, you then concentrate on optimizing your website with those keywords. Your site will be then picked by search engines and your site will get the top rankings at Google for the keyword.

How to do keyword research?
To do keyword research you need to go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/. This is one of the famous Keyword Research Tools available online.

Let’s say, the product which we selected to promote is a Diabetics Meal Manager (There are lot of such products available to promote). So let’s start our Research with the keyword “Diabetics Diet”. When I typed “Diabetics Diet” at Wordtracker the result is as follows.

The keyword “diets for diabetics” is getting around 61 searches per day. This is not a bad number. Now we need to look at the competition for this keyword at Google. Just put the keyword at Google and look at the number of result pages.

There are 1,270,000 pages for the keyword “diets for diabetics”. I usually select a low competitive keyword to achieve descent profits in quick time. A keyword with less than 1 million result pages at Google is a low competitive keyword. So, the keyword “diets for diabetics” is not the one for us.

We’re going to promote a product which directly related to Diabetics. Most people who search for “Diabetics” may interest with Diabetics Meal Manager. So let’s retry our keyword research with the keyword “Diabetics”.

Here is a keyword “recipes for diabetics” which has 126 searches a day and it is a similar keyword to “diets for diabetics”. Let’s do a Google search with the keyword “recipes for diabetics”.

Voila! It has only 118,000 result pages. This is the keyword for us.

Now we need to create a webpage to promote our sample product. Write an article about Diabetics Recipes stuffed with the keyword “recipes for diabetics”. Make sure the keyword exists at least once in Title and Meta description of the page. There is no need to buy a separate domain for promoting this product. You can use your already existing domain by just adding a webpage to it or you can use Blogger to create a free blog with a post about Diabetics Recipes. At the end of the article add something like this,

“The diabetes experts at dLife understand that meal planning can be the toughest part of diabetes. Knowing which food plan works best for you and understanding how certain foods impact blood sugar can make a difference in living a healthier diabetes life.

The dLife Diabetes Meal Management Program will help you better manage your diabetes! Click here to get a 30 days FREE trial at dLife Diabetes Meal Management Program. “

The above is a description which I got from one of my affiliate network. Also add some banners about dLife Diabetes Meal Management Program and Adsense around the page.

Write articles about Diabetics Diet and submit them to article directories. Don’t forget to add your URL in the resource box.

I highly recommend commenting on DoFollow blogs as they are the easy and quick way to build Backlinks. Remember not to do spam comments! If you do comment spam your comment will be deleted by the blog owner. Try to add a value to the blog post with your comment!
You can start your DoFollow blog search from www.backlinkarchitect.com.

As we’re going to target only low competitive keywords, SEO is the best and easy option for getting targeted traffic and to make cash in a very quick time.

Rinse and Repeat this technique with many product/site to make more money online for lifetime.

In the web 2.0, Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller etc. are the easy and free way for website owners to place their website before thousands of people. Unless you hit the front page of these social bookmarking websites, you’re not going to have any fruits. There is no instant method to reach the front page of social bookmarking websites. I’m now going to give you some tips which will help you reach the front page of social bookmarks.

The Title:
To hit the front page of social bookmarking websites you need to draw the attention of people. If you look at the front page of Digg, the title of almost all articles at the front page draw your attention. Develop a catchy title. Don’t give a false title to attract the people. You’ll be banned.

Description:
Description is the next part which will bring the visitors to your site. Once you grabbed the attention of people with title they will look for the description. You need to put a brief explanation about your website/article in just around 200 words. Your description should be short and informative enough to make the reader visit your site.

First Paragraph:
Now you got visitors from social bookmarking sites to your website. Make the first paragraph of your article compelling. Don’t post crap or false info just to hit the front page. Most visitors look the first paragraph and leave away if it is not compelling. Your first paragraph must make the visitor read the full article.

To hit the front page, you need your visitor’s contribution too. They have to submit your article to the social bookmarks. People don’t do this unless you give them any option to do this. Put Social Bookmark buttons below your article. If you have a blog, then you can use Sociable Plugin. If you have a Html page then you can use http://www.addtobookmarks.com

These are the basic steps you need to follow in order to hit the front page of Social bookmarking sites. Also having an active profile with social bookmarking sites will help a lot to reach the front page. Having an active profile means, you need to have lots of friends, nice reputations and so.

Remember to analyze the articles at the front page before writing your article.

All the best. Let’s meet you at Digg’s FrontPage!

Targeted traffic is the most important key factor for success in any business online. Coined by Mike Filsaime, there are three ways of getting targeted traffic.

Buying Traffic:
Buying links, banner spaces, PPC etc…
Creating Traffic:
Distributing free ebooks, viral marketing etc…
Borrowing Traffic:
Using other people’s mailing list, using forums etc…

All the above three ways will get you targeted traffic. Now, I’m going to tell about buying traffic. Buying traffic is an instant way to get targeted traffic immediately. Buying banner space or links will get you a less amount of traffic compared to PPC. But PPC traffic is usually high cost depends on your niche. There is one way to get targeted traffic for very cheap cost. You can get 1000 targeted visitors for just $1. It doesn’t matter about the geographic location. It is possible to get all the traffic even from USA (USA traffic is usually worthier than traffic from other locations).You can enjoy this traffic by using Adbrite’s Full Page Ads.

Most people never know about this cheap traffic. When I tried the keyword “make money online”, with USA as geographic location, I saw the available impressions are 1.20 million per day on 187 websites. The minimum amount you can choose is $5 per day.

What are Full page ads?
Full page ads will show your website in an iframe occupying 80% of the screen. These ads are better than PopUp ads because.

Here is a sample Full page ad (wait for at least 5 seconds for the Ad to load)

http://www.adbrite.com/mb/country_tabs.php

Will this traffic convert into sales?
This traffic is better than the traffic from Digg, Stumblepon or any other social bookmarking sites, though the conversion rate is very small. One of my friends tried these ads with his Diet tips e-book. The conversion rate is 2% which is not bad for this type of traffic. But the conversion rate purely depends on your niche and your landing page.

Why Bill Gates left Microsoft?
because of my email to him.. Here is the email I sent to him.

Subject: Problems with my new computer

Dear Mr. Bill Gates,

We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some problems, which I want to bring to your notice.

1. There is a button ’start’ but there is no ’stop’ button. We request you to check this.

2. One doubt is whether
any ‘re
-scooter’ is available in system? I find only ‘re-cycle’, but I own a scooter at my home.

3. There is ‘Find’ button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot trace the key with this ‘find’ button, but was unable to trace. Please rectify this problem.

4. My child learnt ‘Microsoft word’ now he wants to learn ‘Mi crosoft sentence’, so when you will provide that?

5. I bought computer, CPU, mouse and keyboard, but there is only one icon which shows ‘My Computer’: when you will provide the remaining items?

6. It is surprising that windows says ‘MY Pictures’ but there is not even a single photo of mine. So when will you keep my photo in that.

7. There is ‘MICROSOFT OFFICE’ what about ‘MICROSOFT HOME’ since I use the PC at home only.

8. You provided ‘My Recent Documents’. When you will provide ‘My Past Documents’?

9. You provide ‘My Network Places’. For God sake please do not provide ‘My Secret Places’. I do not want to let my wife know where I go after my office hours.

Regards,
Arun

Last one to Mr. Bill Gates:
Sir, how is it that your name is Gates but you are selling WINDOWS?

This is an email which I received from my friend. I edited it just for you!

You can make money online with your computer for letting others to use your computer’s unused cycles for their projects. Sharing one’s computer when it is not used by him is called as Distributed computing. According to Wikipedia “Distributed computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network.”

Some potential projects like energy exploration, weather and environmental simulations and graphics rendering need a large computing power. It is impossible for the companies to get the whole computing power by their own. So they’ll use the computing power of people who are connected to Internet, when their computer is unused. You will be paid by companies for using your computer when it is not used by you. So don’t waste your computer by leaving it when you’re moving out of it instead make money online with it. Start here to make money from distributed computing.

I recently came across some blogs with really good content but with no images. I felt something is missing with those blogs though they have some good content. Images are must for blogs as they add some color and visual interest and will draw the attention of the visitors.

Just imagine a blog with lengthy but useful content and no images. You’ll get bored with even the interesting content in some minutes. It is not necessary to add images with all blog posts but it is must to add images where ever it is needed.

If you have a difficulty in explaining something, then you can use images.

Where to get images for websites?
Here are some sites which I usually use to get images. These images are not completely copyright free but they are licensed under Creative Common license.

www.sxc.hu
I very much like this website. I usually use images from this site for banners and headers when I used to flip sites.

Flickr
This is a community based site which has millions of images.

FotoGenika
StockCache

You can also search google for “royalty free images,  copyright free images,  free stock images “

In my previous post at Getting traffic to your blog from Youtube – It is simple!, I told you about making money with youtube. Here is the method as promised. This is one of the easy methods to earn money online. All you have to do with this method is to just spend some time. With one time work, money will start pouring into your paypal. This method is a little bit unethical but it will work fine. I know people who make a living from it. It is up to you to follow this method or not!

Making money with youtube involves, promoting CPA offers via youtube videos. CPA offers are advertisers that pay you for any action from your lead (they pay for free signups, free downloads etc…). There are lots of CPA offers to promote with youtube. Let’s take free ringtone offer for example. There are lots of affiliate network to promote free ringtones. Some popular networks to signup are azoogleads and CPA Empire.

To start with this method you need to download music videos of popular artists from youtube. Download as many videos as you can. You can download youtube videos by just entering the youtube video URL at www.keepvid.com. Download the video and rename it to videoname.flv. Make sure the file extension is “.flv”. Now it is necessary to convert this video into mpeg. You can use this free RIVA video converter for this. Start the RIVA encoder. Select your video file and save it with .mpg extension. This is self explanatory and is easy to do.

Now, create a Blogger blog. This blog can be used as your landing page. Don’t directly promote your affiliate URL with youtube. You’ve to set a redirect to your affiliate page from this blog. It is very simple. Here is how to setup a redirection to your affiliate page from blogger blog.

Select the template tab at blogger and click Edit Html.

Search for <body> tag at the html code. After the <body> tag add the following,

<script language=”javascript”>
document.location=’http://www.youraffiliateurl.com’;
</script>

Don’t forget to add the “http://” before your URL. This will redirect your blog to your affiliate URL.

Now create many accounts with youtube and upload all the videos. Why you’re going to create multiple accounts is because, youtube sometimes close your account due to duplicate videos. So, with multiple accounts, even if a account is closed, others will help. Upload all videos from each account. Add your blog url at the description as motioned in “Getting traffic to your blog from Youtube – It is simple!” Be creative with the description. It is better if you watermark the video with your URL. For ringtone offers, music videos work efficiently. You can use the description as “Get this music as ringtone for FREE”. This type of descriptions led you to more conversions.

Now sit back and watch the cash flowing into your account!

It was before 3 months, I came to know youtube videos will bring traffic to blogs. When I searched youtube, almost all (many…) videos there are to promote a website or product. Why not we utilize this youtube traffic machine to get some traffic to our blogs?

It is pretty simple to get started.

All you need is a Video editor or Video Maker! The Movie Maker with Windows is much more enough (No idea about Mac OS…Sorry!).

Search for youtube with your keywords. Look at the popular video in your niche. Check why that video is getting lots of views. Do the same with your video. Don’t exactly copy the idea from the popular one. Do some thing related to it. If possible create a video against the popular one (This really work).

It is enough to have just text and image in your video. Use simple transitions at Movie Maker. Add your URL for 5 sec at the starting and end of the video. Making your own video is really simple. Try it!

What I’m going to tell you now is the important part. It is must to have your URL at the description part. This part is going to get you traffic. Most users won’t come to your blog just by viewing your URL at the video. You need to give them an option to click! Here is how to do it.

Enter your URL in the first line of video description and then add the video description after 2 lines.

This will make your URL appear as in the following image at the description part. This will make the video viewers click your URL.

I’ll tell you how to make money with youtube videos in coming posts.