Keyword Targeting Your Images For Fun and Profit

December 27, 2010

I’ve been getting a great deal of traffic lately on one of my sites from Google Images. It actually took me a while to figure out where the traffic was coming from.  My stats tools don’t differentiate between where the search traffic is coming from when it comes from Google, just that it came from [...]

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Amazon Affiliate Lesson #1: You Have To Provide Targeted Value

December 21, 2010

I’ve seen a bunch of bad examples of an Amazon affiliate website in the comments on my post about why your Amazon Affiliate website might be sucking wind.  In general, the vast majority of them have the same major problem.  They don’t provide ANY value to a visitor.   People continue to think that they can [...]

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Making Money With Amazon – My Earnings

December 19, 2010

I’m starting a new series of articles about how to make money as an Amazon affiliate, since it’s an easy way for people to get started making money online.  Amazon is not only the largest marketplace on the web, but most agree that they have the largest affiliate program on the internet. I have been [...]

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The Three Rules To Avoiding Scams

September 24, 2010

The rules are fairly simple.  Sometimes you actually need to stop and  think, a fast talking sales pitch can easily part you or a loved one from their hard earned money.  Before you give out that credit card number, go over these three rules. Rule #1: Never give your credit card number out without research [...]

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Is Swipeauctions a scam?

August 23, 2010

We’ve been assaulted lately for ads for “penny auctions” from all sides.  Seems like a new penny auction site is popping up every five minutes and some of them are being *VERY* heavily advertised on every website imaginable. Like the Home Income kits and Acai Berry free trial offers, penny auctions are the latest high [...]

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Is DailyNews7.com and the Home Income System A Scam?

May 6, 2010

Months after the famous FTC deadline for disclosure on affiliate web sites, the online money making scammers are back at it, this time more brazen than ever.  Now we have DailyNews7.com pushing something called the Home Income System, where for only $2.97 you too can become part of the American dream and work from home [...]

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Free As In Ice Cream is Good, Free As In Trial Scam is Bad.

May 5, 2010

All these Free Trial scams all over the Internet advertising world have started making people nervous of any free deals.  Howeve, free has always been and remains a great sales and marketing tool. Giving something away for free gets people’s interest in your product or service with very little sales “friction” since it’s free.  If [...]

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Free Link Building Through Social Networks

February 19, 2010

I’ve been planning on writing my own free program for making money online through building successful websites for a while now.  I keep getting distracted by the crap that tends to derail all great ideas.  Creating a site and program that is worthwhile with real tutorials takes time and investment and I keep going back [...]

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Social Network or Bust! – Rules For Bloggers #19

January 23, 2010

I’ve been talking about search engine traffic lately, since that is what I am targeting with my niche sites these days.  Grab a good search results position Google for some half-decent keywords and it’s free traffic that keeps coming and coming without having to pay for advertising. But at the same time, do not forget [...]

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Number of Clicks For Ranking First in Google vs All The Rest

January 17, 2010

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a very important component of getting traffic to any website.  Ideally you would have a great site that magically spreads virally around the internet by word of mouth/email/Twitter/Facebook then holds on to that traffic long term.  Until then, there is great traffic available free from Google if you know [...]

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