Whats the one thing that WILL bring traffic...

Of all the things I've tried to bring traffic to my site, there is one thing that always works and continues to work whatever field you're in.

I've looked at SEO, trading links, leaving comments, forums and discussion groups, social media sites and more, and while they do all bring in traffic in there own right, the one thing that brings in more traffic than anything else is the offer of something for free.

The key is that "the something" you offer has to be of value to others.

Based on this, on my main site, Money Making Guide (http://www.moneymakingguide.co.uk), i decided to build a library of Free money making ebooks.

I scoured Forums, blog posts, and other giveaways to put together as many useful free ebooks as i possibly could and put them all in one place MMG's Massive Ebook Giveaway.

I did think about making this giveaway only available to those that signup, but again this often puts people off, so I decided against it this time.

Once I'd completed the page, I did use some of the techniques above to spread the word so to speak, but the increase in traffic I got was astounding.

Prior to the giveaway I was only picking up a small amount of traffic, and alongside that only small commissions.

My traffic suddenly increased tenfold, and because of this, so did my commisions. I'd been using products such as clickbank for a while with no luck at all, now because of the increased interest in my site, and the inclusion of a few products to purchase among the freebies, my clickbank commissions have started to increase as well.

I never actually thought, that by offering something that you can get in so many places on so many websites would have such an impact on my earnings potential.

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Due to the success of this, I am now planning on a 2nd giveaway. I have already put together a list of 50 + ebooks to add to the 50 i already had, as well as items such as free software, free squeeze pages, free PRL articles and so much more.

One thing I am also doing is offering the chance for anybody who has written there own ebook to have it included in the giveaway so they can benefit from the traffic potential that this giveaway will create.

All I'm asking in return is for a link to the giveaway on your site and a blog post about it.

If this interests you, leave a comment below and I'll contact you.

To our success.

Pay Per Click Advertising - The full Story

Over the next few days I'm going to look at all the aspects of Pay Per Click Advertising.

This is going to be broken down into the following sections.

PPC Advertising & Solutions
PPC Affiliate Programs
PPC & Internet Marketing
PPC & SEO
PPC Appraisal
PPC Bid Management
PPC Campaign Management
PPC Marketing
PPC Search Engine Advertising

During the course of these articles I will also try and find as many free PPC offers as possible for you.

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PPC Advertising & Solutions

Engaging in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has its own benefits and drawbacks. But what exactly is PPC advertising and what it can do to your business?

There is a fast growing approach that businesses can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing.

One tool that is causing internet marketing popularity is PPC advertising. This is a technique used in search engine marketing that requires one to pay a fee every time someone clicks an ad on your website. Usually this placement is done through a bidding process. If you are a top bidder for your keywords/phrases, you are sure to be on the number one spot on all search engines. Just be sure of the effectiveness of your ad copy to get the most number of clicks you need for your business.

Here are the benefits of PPC advertising are:

1. You need not be a genius in computer and technology to be able to run this ad campaign.
2. Immediate results are seen after a few days.
3. No need to make a website conform to the SEO rules.
4. Nothing to lose even if you do not top the pages of different search engines. You can still always choose PPC advertising.
5. You can make use any search engine available.
6. You can type in any keyword you like.

Cons of PPC advertising includes:

1. Fixed payments every month to the search engine you choose.
2. Pay for each click received by your website. At times, visitors are just competitors or people playing pranks on search engines. This hassle wastes money you put in to this advertising.
3. Inability to pay for the fees next month would mean removal of your website on the paid listings.
4. This advertising can only be used temporarily because it is difficult to handle in the long run.
5. Pay-per-click pricing can be costly for long periods of time, therefore, this should be stopped after an ad campaign.

But how exactly PPC advertising can increase traffic, leads and sales?

PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC. All visitors of your website are already considered as a qualified consumer or buyer of your product. PPC advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.

INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. PPC search engines enable you to get your desired results fast. They will have your website live within just a few hours which means immediate increase in sale.

CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS. This is to get your website on top of the sponsored search results for free. You just have to choose the keywords related to your site and business and place them within your web pages. After this, you are done.

PPC advertising enables advertisers to control their advertising campaigns. Advertisers have effectively targeted their audience and set their own price per click. PPC advertising networks provide the platform to identify the desired audience by geographic setting, topic and industry. These networks have a list of websites of the publishers where the ads will be placed.

Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per click limit is working for a certain advertiser. If its still competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists or does it generate sales? Of course, if the advertiser made the highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the search engine. These networks too provide protection for the advertisers against click fraud. This advertising set-up allows advertisers to set a daily budget for his ads, thus, less spending for unnecessary clicks. Advertiser will never go over his budget.

In PPC advertising, what are important are the keywords and phrases. You have to select at least ten "very specific" keywords that would give you the best traffic in the search. Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. Tell the truth about your product or service and do not lie. Good thing if your product or service will not disappoint those that are relying on your ad's promise - but what if it did otherwise? Important too is the clarity of the ad. Do not use very vague languages. Include important details like the price.

You should also remember to budget your bids. Do not go overbidding because you will only lose your money and do not go so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. Check your profit against your spending. If you see no progress then most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.

More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it will continue to grow faster than any online advertising techniques. From revenues of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5 billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well from $0.29 to $0.36.

PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to continue in the years to come. For advertisers, this means increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad campaigns in the days to come.

Money Making Guides AMAZING FREE Ebook GIVEAWAY

I found this website the other day offering loads of free money making ebooks, no signup required, all thats requested is that the page gets Dugg, Stumbled etc to help keep it free

Hope its useful for you..

So here it is... ENJOY !!

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If you're into making money online though, theres definitely something here for you.

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.

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

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

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


2. 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".


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


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


5. 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.


6. Post everything using the title "TechnoFav Train"


7. 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?


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


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


10. 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.


11. Finally, increased Technorati ranking to all!

Masterlist

1. http://bigmoneylist.blogspot.com/


2. http://projectheavytraffic.blogspot.com/


3. http://silentrecollections.blogspot.com/


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


5. http://bloggeraddicter.blogspot.com/


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


7. http://freeenglishresources.blogspot.com/


8. http://leoxa.com/englishforeveryone/


9. http://leoxa.com/everythingyouneed/


10. http://1gamestation.blogspot.com/


11. http://boxofficemovietrailer.blogspot.com/


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


13. http://mikhaelwong2.blogspot.com/


14. http://bestcuisines.blogspot.com/


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


16. http://mensfitnesszone.blogspot.com/


17. http://luxuriousretreats.blogspot.com/


18. http://leoxa.com/internetmarketingresources/


19. http://gadgetfestival.blogspot.com/


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


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


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


23. http://masteringmenjaro.blogspot.com/


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


25. http://unleashgames.blogspot.com/


26. http://www.betterthanezrah.org/


27. http://www.betterthanezrah.com/


28. http://pierrezrah.blogspot.com/


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


30. http://gunnerpress.frih.net/


31. http://danzyworld.blogspot.com/


32. http://kookaboo.blogspot.com/


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


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


35. http://blacknickel.blogspot.com/


36. http://www.neuropatch.com/


37. http://expressforfree.blogspot.com/


38. http://dumbiryani.blogspot.com/


39. http://danyworld.blogspot.com/


40. http://cneil.blogspot.com/


41. http://garrabex.blogspot.com/


42. http://indiaforumstv.blogspot.com/


43. http://djisamsoe.qassia.com/


44. http://viralvideohits.blogspot.com/


45. http://binaraga101.blogspot.com


46. http://tingkahlakuselebriti.blogspot.com/


47. http://panduankesehatan.blogspot.com/


48. http://protectioninthefuture.blogspot.com/


49. http://binaraga101.blogspot.com


50. http://onlineincomemaker.blogspot.com


51. http://dreadnaught.wordpress.com


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


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


54. http://1337shadowlair.blogspot.com/
    
    
55. http://www.moneymakingguide.co.uk
    
    
56. http://blog.moneymakingguide.co.uk
    
    
57. http://amillioninthemaking.blogspot.com

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

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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