November 2009

How do you get more traf­fic to your web­site or blog?
Lately I have been research­ing dif­fer­ent ways to increase traf­fic.  Today I would like to high­light a method Scott Fox details in his book e-Riches 2.0 called “online arti­cle syn­di­ca­tion.”
How does it work?  You write a 500–700 word arti­cle (on aver­age) and sub­mit it to one […]

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In his book e-Riches 2.0, Scott Fox high­lights an inter­est­ing exam­ple of mak­ing money by giv­ing away free infor­ma­tion.  MrExcel.com is a highly suc­cess­ful site that spe­cial­izes in pub­li­ciz­ing the tricks of using the pop­u­lar spread­sheet pro­gram, Microsoft Excel.
Mr. Bill Jelen is the real per­son behind MrExcel’s suc­cess.  Much of the money he makes comes […]

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I recently read an intrigu­ing arti­cle at Lee Lefever’s Com­mon­craft site about the ways of mak­ing money with video:

Earn­ing cash with video through adver­tis­ing — if the video attracts a lot of atten­tion, then you may get a few clicks on your site, but accord­ing to Lee Lefever, it is a dif­fi­cult way to make a […]

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In pre­vi­ous arti­cles, I high­lighted the …

20 Most Pop­u­lar (Well-Liked) Books
20 Most Recently Pub­lished Books
20 Best-Selling Books

… about mak­ing money online.   To con­tinue the trend, here is the list of the 20 best sell­ing books about blog­ging for profit – accord­ing to Amazon.com.
As before, this list does not include e-books, but only reg­u­larly published […]

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I dis­cov­ered this video gem on Dar­ren Rouse’s Problogger.net site.  He believes the top five fac­tors that con­trol how much money you make from ads on your blog are:

Traf­fic — the more peo­ple that see your ads, the more likely they will be clicked on.  He men­tions the anal­ogy that more peo­ple see a bill­board in […]

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Busi­ness Week has a fas­ci­nat­ing story about a soft­ware devel­oper named  Eric Nak­a­gawa liv­ing in Hawaii who posted a funny pic­ture of a cat and added the cap­tion “I can has cheezburger?”  He built a web­site for it at: icanhascheezburger.com and it has exploded in pop­u­lar­ity recently and illus­trates how engag­ing these funny sites can be.
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I highly rec­om­mend watch­ing this video I found at Affil­i­ate Sum­mit 2006 Con­fer­ence about the advan­tages of a blogs ver­sus con­ven­tional web sites.   The speaker is Dave Tay­lor, one of the lead­ing experts on search engine opti­miza­tion (SEO) and tech­nol­ogy in gen­eral.  He has a highly suc­cess­ful blog at: http://www.askdavetaylor.com.
Although the main sub­ject of his […]

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In pre­vi­ous arti­cles, I high­lighted the 20 most pop­u­lar (well-liked) books and 20 most recently pub­lished books about mak­ing money online.   To con­tinue the trend, here is the list of the 20 best sell­ing books – accord­ing to Amazon.com.
As before, this list does not include e-books, but only reg­u­larly pub­lished books.  I lim­ited this list […]

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One of the rea­sons it took me so long to get started build­ing a busi­ness is because I con­sumed much of my time doing jobs that I could have let oth­ers do.  As a hus­band and father, it is easy to get so caught up in house­hold chores that there is not a spare minute […]

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