A Million in the making: July 2008

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Keyword Density

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.

Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.

Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.

Simple steps to check the density:

Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

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Wednesday 23 July 2008

Lightspeed, Toluna, Ciao... Top UK Survey Sites & Top US Survey Sites

Making Money from Paid Surveys, can it be actually done?? Well yes, of course it can, the hard part is finding the sites/companies that offer legit, no fees to signup surveys.

Any site that does require you to "Pay to Join" is basically trying to rip you off. The reason for this is that the companies that produce the surveys are doing to get consumer opinion on an upcoming or recently produced product or service. Their not going to charge you for your opinion, they'll pay you for it, and in some instances they'll pay quite well.

To make any decent amount of money from Paid Surveys, the key is too join as many as possible, by doing this you will guarantee a regular and steady supply of surveys across the calender month.

Some Survey companies will only send a small amount of Surveys per month others will send a large amount, the key is to make sure you always have the option of participating when you want to.

I'm currently signed up to 10 survey companies and receive between 200 and 300 surveys per month.

If, for example, each survey pays £1 per survey then thats upto £300's per month. In reality you can earn alot more as the surveys tend to be worth more than a £1 each, the most I've been paid is $25 (about £12) for a 35 minute survey.

My list of Top Survey sites for you to join to start you online journey

Lightspeed Survey Panel - (UK)
Ciao-Surveys - (UK)
Toluna Test & Vote -(UK, Germany, Greece)
American Consumer Opinion Panel (ACOP) - (All Countries)
Survey Savvy - (All Countries)
Neilson Net Ratings - (UK & US)
Opinionistic - (UK)
IPSOS - (UK)
NetPanel - (US)
Winning Surveys - (US)

Sign up and see how much you can earn, there is a chance to start with you will get frustrated if you don't qualify for surveys, but stick with it and you will get the rewards..

Let me know your experiences by leaving a comment.

For more details on Surveys in your region please check out these pages

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_uk.htm

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_us.htm

www.moneymakingguide.co.uk/free_paid_online_surveys_int.htm

Wednesday 16 July 2008

TechnoFav Train

Hi everyone! In the interests of friendship and promoting our blogs, the purpose of this tag train is to add all the blogs on this list to your Technorati favorites list. In return, everyone else will add you to their Technorati favorites list. Technorati Profile

Instructions

Go to http://technorati.com/faves/yourblogurl (replace yourblogurl with your Technorati id.)

Add each and every blog URL on this list as a favorite. Don't worry about Tags as it would take too much time. Click "Add".

Then copy everything between and including Start copy and End copy.

Paste it into a new blog post in "Compose" mode so all the links are preserved.

Add your blog's URL to the end of the list. If you intend to submit multiple blogs then put this list on all your blogs please to be fair to everyone else.

Post everything using the title "TechnoFav Train"

Next contact 5 friends who aren't on the list and get them to join. The more the better. I am aiming at 1,000 group members, but I'm confident we can find more than that. My secret goal is 5,000 group members and those of you who know me are aware of my promotional persistence. Can you imagine what that will do to all our

Technorati rankings?

Leave the URL of your post here as a comment and your blog will be updated on the masterlist.

Once a week, return to the masterlist and copy it over the list on your blog post.

Add the new blog URLs to your favorites. This last step is important because if you don't add new blogs to your favorites list, then those new blogs will end up removing you from their favorites list and then nobody wins.

Finally, increased Technorati ranking to all!

Masterlist

http://bigmoneylist.blogspot.com/

http://projectheavytraffic.blogspot.com/

http://silentrecollections.blogspot.com/

http://envisioned-reality.blogspot.com/

http://bloggeraddicter.blogspot.com/

http://it-informer.blogspot.com/

http://freeenglishresources.blogspot.com/

http://leoxa.com/englishforeveryone/

http://leoxa.com/everythingyouneed/

http://1gamestation.blogspot.com/

http://boxofficemovietrailer.blogspot.com/

http://the-voice-of-the-spirit.blogspot.com/

http://mikhaelwong2.blogspot.com/

http://bestcuisines.blogspot.com/

http://tennis-worldnews.blogspot.com/

http://mensfitnesszone.blogspot.com/

http://luxuriousretreats.blogspot.com/

http://leoxa.com/internetmarketingresources/

http://gadgetfestival.blogspot.com/

http://dji-adsense.blogspot.com/

http://dji-spam-blocking.blogspot.com/

http://harley-davidson-apparel.blogspot.com/

http://masteringmenjaro.blogspot.com/

http://www.computersolution.co.cc/

http://unleashgames.blogspot.com/

http://www.betterthanezrah.org/

http://www.betterthanezrah.com/

http://pierrezrah.blogspot.com/

http://www.mariuca.blogspot.com/

http://gunnerpress.frih.net/

http://danzyworld.blogspot.com/

http://kookaboo.blogspot.com/

http://solo-flight.blogspot.com/

http://iam-maimai.blogspot.com/

http://blacknickel.blogspot.com/

http://www.neuropatch.com/

http://expressforfree.blogspot.com/

http://dumbiryani.blogspot.com/

http://danyworld.blogspot.com/

http://cneil.blogspot.com/

http://garrabex.blogspot.com/

http://indiaforumstv.blogspot.com/

http://djisamsoe.qassia.com/

http://viralvideohits.blogspot.com/

http://binaraga101.blogspot.com

http://tingkahlakuselebriti.blogspot.com/

http://panduankesehatan.blogspot.com/

http://protectioninthefuture.blogspot.com/

http://binaraga101.blogspot.com

http://onlineincomemaker.blogspot.com

http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com

http://vicy-lifeisdifficult.blogspot.com/

http://www.livetv.theredirection.com/

Big thanks to Michael Wong from http://bigmoneylist.blogspot.com/ for starting this

Tuesday 15 July 2008

Blogging for Profit and the planning thats required...

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology.

However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons.

Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging.

The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.

To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.

There are of course other ways to get paid to blog. PayPerPost and Social Spark both offer communities that offer small payments for blog posts.

Rather than diving in and taking every opportunity going in order to make a quick buck, you should take your time and only select the opportunities that are relevant to your blogs topics.

However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isn't easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention.

You need to be able to market your blog effectively.

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project.

To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis.

However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site.

To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.

A good article on this process can be read here

Traffic Building Techniques & Tracking there Success

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight.

Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period.

To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

Sometimes offering the reader something will draw them to your site, if its something useful to them, then the word may spread. For example see below....

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