September 1, 2006 By

Making Money When The World Doesn’t Want You To

I just read an interesting post by Darren Rowse. It’s about pushing forward when the world pushes you back. It’s about going against luck or whatever you call it with sheer determination. It’s also about not sitting back when the wind is in your sails.

Excellent post, using the analogy of sailing when the wind stops blowing. Read the full post here.

I think I’ve had a few of those moments as well. I was previously involved in a some autosurf programs, where it was common to make $200 per day. On a particular month I made $1000 from referral commissions alone, from the now extinct 12DailyPro.

That’s when I started to take things for granted. When the whole autosurf thing went bust, I ended up losing tons and being broke for weeks. I learned my lesson.

Darren Rowse sums it up for bloggers – don’t take things for granted, especially Search Engine traffic.

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Google Adsense, Search Engine SEO
July 1, 2006 By

Google Checkout and Google Adwords Tag Team Action

Google Checkout Logo

Google Checkout is now available. It sounds much better than “Google Gbuy” as the media called it recently.

https://checkout.google.com/

According to Google, their new service called Google Checkout serves these purposes:

  1. Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. With Google Checkout™ you can quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.
  2. Shop with confidence. Our fraud protection policy covers you against unauthorized purchases made through Google Checkout, and we don’t share your purchase history or full credit card number with sellers.
  3. Control commercial spam. You can keep your email address confidential, and easily turn off unwanted emails from stores where you use Google Checkout.

The first thing I found out when I signed-in to may account: Google Checkout is for US residents only.

What a shame. In fact, your address must be in the United States if you’re buying online. No other shipping addresses accepted. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Google AdWords, Search Engine SEO
June 13, 2006 By

Google Adwords Editor Now Available

This came in just as I was writing my earlier post…

If you’re advertising on the Internet using Google AdWords, now you can manage and monitor your entire campaign and ad groups directly from your PC using the new Adwords Editor.

Google Adwords Editor

As expected, the Google Adwords Editor can only run on Windows 2000/XP – thank god I didn’t throw away my PC :)

[tags]google, Google Adwords, adwords editor, internet marketing asia, gobala krishnan[/tags]

Filed Under: Google AdWords, Search Engine SEO
April 29, 2006 By

All Search Engine Submission Software Are Bullshit

This especially goes out to anyone who just built their first website and wants to get it indexed by search engines. My advice: don’t buy ANY search engine submission software or service.

Search engine submissions is exaggerated bullshit. You don’t need a software that will submit to “1000 search engines and directories” because:

  1. There are only 3 major SE worth worrying about – Google, MSN and Yahoo. The rest are either just aggregators that derive their results from these engines, or they are too small to bother with.
  2. Search engines rather find you – Google prefers to find you “accidently” rather than have you throw your site at them every day. Careful, some SE submission may get your site banned by submitting it too often to the point that it’s considered spamming the search engines.

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Filed Under: Home Business, News and Updates, Search Engine SEO
April 23, 2006 By

Japan SEO System – Search Engine Optimization in Japanese?

Japan SEO System Just found this through a link on Kelvin Hui’s blog. Apparently, there’s an e-book on search engine optimization, written in Japanese, by Kobayoshi Masatoshi. The entire website is in Japanese, so don’t ask me what it’s about :)

But it does give you an idea: take any Internet marketing ebook, translate it into a foreign language and you have a hot product. The important factor is that the majority of the target market doesn’t speak or care about English.

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Asia, Search Engine SEO
April 20, 2006 By

The Average Keyword Costs $1.39

Here’s a quick update on what’s happening in the search engine world: the average keyword now costs $1.39.

Categories tracked include: Automotive, Computing (new), Consumer Services, Electronics (new), Finance Investment, Finance Mortgage, Health (new), Media and Entertainment (new), Retail, Telecom Broadband, Telecom Wireless and Travel and Hospitality.

Full report here.

Wow… and that’s actually a reduction from last year :)

I remember when I started with AdWords I could get clicks for $0.05 – $0.20 for some reasonably competitive keywords. And that now seems like an eternity ago.

Filed Under: Search Engine SEO
April 17, 2006 By

AdSense Is Hottest Topic According to Research

Just finished my simple "sharing" session in MMU a few hours ago where I mentioned that the most important lesson I learned recently was to research your market. 

Then I remembered that I started a survey a few weeks back, and I took a look at it. Here's what my research revealed: 
Adsense research

Top 5 Information That Sells 

Please note that this research is a result of surveying my own list, and might not be what YOUR subscribers are looking for. If you want to get it right from step one you should try Ask Database.
1) How to Create Your Own Website And Make Money With AdSense 

No suprise here. I know a LOT of people are jumping in the AdSense bandwagon, just had to make sure that my email list felt the same way. 

2) How to Make Money Doing Freelance Work For Others 

This was a major suprise. Freelance work includes being a freelance designer, freelance editing and proofreading, freelance programmer etc. Initially I only put "How to make money freelance" and I suspect a lot of them interpreted "freelance" as part-time. A lot of people want to do it part time. 

I later changed the sentence to reflect what I really meant to say, so I'm putting this result on a temporary joint-position with the next best results… 

3) How to Make Money With Email Marketing 

Again, no major suprise. A lot of people want to learn how to build a massive list and market to them. 

4) How to Make Money in Affiliate Marketing 

At one point of time this used to be the number 1 "sellable" information. Now it's relagated to number four. I guess AdSense just has a better appeal. 

5) Search Engine Optimization Strategies 

Again, this used to rank higher. I guess it just got it's ass kicked by AdSense, although part of making money through AdSense involved some form of SEO. This barely beat "How to Make Money From Paid-To Program" by a little, according to my latest data.

Well the bigesst suprise if that the majority didn't care about creating their own e-books. Has it lost it's appeal, due to saturation, or is it just that my market doesn't want to do it?

Anyone care to share their research results? Anyone using Ask Database with similar results or better tips on market research? [tags]adsense, SEO, marketing research, online marketing[/tags]
Filed Under: Email Marketing, Google Adsense, Home Business, Search Engine SEO
April 5, 2006 By

Google’s Related Links

I just read this, and it’s quite interesting. If your website gets more that 10,000 hits a day, Google wants to to participate in their “Related Links” project:

http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/index.html

Its basically a set of codes you can put on your site to display related content. Unlike AdSense, however this doesn’t pay you, yet. Here’s some snippets from their F.A.Q that matter =>

How does this product help webmasters?
Related Links uses the power of Google to automatically bring fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website. They provide a fast and automated way to display related searches, pages, and news on their sites.

Can I get paid to place Related Links on my site?
Not at this time. We hope that with this product, you can make your site even more useful to your visitors by providing them with links to information they are interested in.

Are Related Links available to just AdSense publishers?
No, we believe that this product is useful for anyone who has a website. You do not have to be an AdSense publisher to use Related Links.

Although it’s clear that this is still in Google Labs, you could probably use Related Links to publish…. ermm related links on your site. Sort of like RSS, and could bring more unique daily content to your AdSense-based site.

I haven’t tried it out yet, but I’m curious for results and comments from those who have…

Filed Under: Search Engine SEO
March 28, 2006 By

900 Backlinks With One Article

I started writing articles when I ran out of anything even resembling a “marketing budget”. I loathed writing my first article but I told myself that there’s no other way since I had no money for PPC or ezine ads.

That was almost 18 months ago, and I’d like to think I picked up a few good tips here and there since then. So let me share some insights with you…

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Filed Under: News and Updates, Search Engine SEO