Blog Success Plan: Explore True Meaning of Blogger, Traffic Strategies & Online Monetization

Affiliate marketing question - Should you join every affiliate program you can find or just a few? There are many thousands of affiliate programs on the net that you can join. Every man and his dog is running one. But how do you decide which ones to join? There are two trains of thought in this area. First you can take the scatter gun approach, which is quite popular on the net, and join as many programs as possible. This ensures that at least SOME of them will pay off. Well, that's the theory. The other alternative is to take the shot gun approach. Join some leading affiliate programs in just a few areas and put more effort into each one. Do some affiliate marketing research by reading as many articles on the subject as possible. This way you can narrow down your candidates. Well, as always there are pros and cons to both but why not do what everyone else is not doing. It seems to me most sites are taking the scatter gun approach. For example: We have 3,000 affiliate...

Are you stuck at a job that doesn't pay enough to cover all of your expenses?  Do you have computer skills and access to the internet?  Is your time stretched very thin?  THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  There are tons of jobs that can pay extra money and it is as simple as surfing the internet.  I know what you are thinking, where can I sign up!  All you have to do is go online and search 'work from home', or 'work at home jobs' and pick which one peaks your interest. There are some sites out there that scam people but there are also excellent websites that can help wean out the scams and set you up with a good job.  Online jobs can vary from freelance writing to data entry.  If you are interested in writing and how to get started, this may be a place for you to start. Just watch out for job offer scams.  Some of the telltale signs of a scam are: * Sites that ask you for money to apply * Jobs that charge a monthly service fee * Em...

According to Dean Schmidt, Vice President of the Affinity Program for TR Cutler, Inc., "We had to find a way for manufacturers to rapidly experience ROI from an aggressive PR campaign. 45 press releases in 90 days generates extraordinary traffic to manufacturers' websites and optimizes search engine rankings." Schmidt acknowledged that new website traffic from potential customers often helps to quickly identify missing "call-to-action" messages and results in revised or updated websites. Schmidt also noted, "With almost nine out of ten manufacturers employing less than fifty employees, tight margins, global competitiveness, and enticing spending alternatives, PR is often relegated to the "back burner." Cutler developed the PR Advantage Affinity program for manufacturing associations' members. TR Cutler suggested that, "Due to our leadership role in the manufacturing public relations arena, we have decided to introduce a program that ...

Google’s fixation on page speed continues with today’s addition of Page Speed, a new analysis tool in Google Labs. The tool analyzes any URL, gives it a grade (on a score of 0-100) and then offers a potentially long list of ways to make the page faster. The suggestions are divided into High, Medium and Low priority. The test, appropriately, runs in a matter of seconds. Search Engine Land has scored an 85 and 84 in the two tests I ran within a couple minutes of each other. Here’s a look at the suggestions provided to us: That’s an analysis of desktop page speed; you can select to also run a mobile speed report. There are also page speed extensions for Firefox and Chrome, as well as other code/instructions for developers on that page. It was just about a year ago that Google announced it was using speed as a ranking factor in its search results.

Do you wanna promote your brand, product, business or need to create a public identity?   Facebook offers you pages feature to represent your business, product, brand, organization or whatsoever publicly and allows you to keep in touch with your fans. Lately you might have experiencing Google+ social network and it's features regarding to your private profile . Now Google+ came up with an anticipated feature which is now known as Google+ pages. Didn't you create a Google+ page yet? Google+ page feature enables you to represent your business, product or brand with a whole new approach. Creating a Google+ page will helps you to connect with your fans, customers or followers and also enable them to recommend you. Like Google+ personal profiles , it allows you to start realtime face-to-face conversations using Hangouts. Also you can edit your posts even after you posted, if it has to be changed without losing all comments and +1s regarding to that post. So y...

As was previously leaked , Google is now launching its new GoMo service, which aims to help businesses easily create a mobile-friendly website. The website for the service was discovered earlier this week, but the details sat behind a password-protected front page. Today, Google is making GoMo available to the public. On HowToGoMo.com , business owners can enter in their current website’s URL to see what the site looks like on mobile. GoMo will then make suggestions and recommendations on how the site could be mobile-optimized. GoMo will also show examples of great mobile websites for inspiration and point to a list of mobile site developers who can help design a better experience. Of course, Google itself provides this service through its recently updated  Google Site Builder , which it is happy to link to. But credit to Google : it doesn’t make it the top link – that goes to Atmio, Inc. and DudaMobile, both of which sit above Google in the list. (Of course, ...

Start up businesses market their products and services using various methods and strategies until word-of-mouth marketing goes into effect. Marketing your business on the Web is done in much the same way. You use a combination of marketing techniques, basic business fundamentals, and a focus on your customers. Business Fundamentals Some websites owners overlook basic businesses issues of costs, merchandising, back-end support, and customer service. Some online business owners confuse revenues for profit, only to discover that their last quarterly finances have their sites sinking in the sand. Marketing Methods There are many different types of marketing methods. The solution to your Web marketing campaign does not depend on any one single marketing method. Your online venture will require the support of a combination of the following—good content and site copy, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, email newsletters, banner advertising, link ...

Is a DIY app creator right for you? That depends on the type of app you want to build. If you’re looking to build a game app or an highly-custom app, then your best bet is to hire a developer who can take your blueprint and make it into a reality. However, if you want to build an app that allows your brand to penetrate the growing mobile space without spending tens of thousands of dollars, then an app creator is just what you need. We power apps (as well as mobile websites) for thousands of brands and businesses around the world – like music artists, hotels, restaurants, sports, and even conferences – to help them connect with users on-the-go. With our self-service platform, you’ll be able to create and manage your own app or apps with ease. Where to begin – What platform do you need? First, you should decide what type of mobile presence best fits your brand or business, as well as budget. We offer three different platforms to meet your needs: 1) If you ...

How do you make your businesses website ready for mobile users? More and more people are starting to access the internet from their mobile phone, and analyst Morgan Stanley estimates that if smartphone sales continue at their current pace, then the number of users accessing the internet on a phone will exceed desktop internet users by 2015. While most smartphones can access the internet the experience they get is less than perfect, as most websites just aren't designed for mobile phones. By creating a mobile-friendly site, you won't just get access to more users: you'll also have a huge leap on your competitors. Before you create a mobile website it's worth looking at why most websites are hard to access and use on a mobile. Sites designed for desktop users are huge. Website size matters Take the TechRadar site as an example, our front page has lots and lots of columns of information, which can be difficult to see and navigate, even on the best i...

Acknowledging the rising popularity of smart phones and tablet computers, Adobe has begun to integrate the ability to create mobile content across its entire Creative Suite and Dreamweaver is no exception. One feature, which was introduced in Dreamweaver CS5 and improved in CS5.5, is support for CSS3 Media Queries. Media Queries allow web designers to create style sheets based upon the screen size of the device used to view the page. It’s easier to understand by looking at an example: @import url("tablet.css") only screen and (min-width:321px) and (max-width:768px); For the query above the style sheet, tablet.css will be used only for devices with a screen width between 321 and 768 pixels. Larger and smaller devices will ignore tablet.css. Simply stated, media queries make it possible for a web page to use separate style sheets for phones, tablets and desktops (and even screen sizes in between). My personal preference is to create a single style sheet ...

It's easy to build a blog , but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed.   NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2009. This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. Not all of the tactics will work for everyone, but at least some of these should be applicable and useful. #1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Sha...