This is a type of question to which everyone would want to know the answer to. Everyone wants to make money because money is essential to ones survival. Most people learn how to make money online through trial and error which is fine if they have some spare time and some cash to lose but if they want to make money online in the fastest and most effective way and they are just beginners then this is the best way to do it.

Step 1: Keyword Research

If you already have found a keyword and you just want to know what is the fastest way for it to rank on Google and other sites then just skip this step and go on to the next ones.

The keyword research is probably the most important part because if you choose a good keyword with a lot of exact monthly searches and low competition you will surely make some money. Still even if you choose a domain with the exact match as the keyword you selected if you don’t do some SEO and if you don’t do the other steps below it won’t rank really high.

To start with find a keyword with 5000 or less exact monthly searches using the Google Keyword Tool which is free to use. Find a keyword that will have low competition and make sure that the first few results that show up when you are searching that keyword are not from Wikipedia because there is no way you can compete with Wikipedia. After you’ve found a keyword that matches the description above, purchase a domain name with that exact keyword and then move on to step 2.

Step 2: Setting up a Blog

Setting up the blog for your page is one of the easiest parts but it still requires some effort in order to make it look good. Personally I use WordPress to set up a blog because I find it to be the easiest one to understand. Installing a WordPress on your blog should be really easy to do. There are two ways to install WordPress blog on your website:

1. All you have to do is go to login to your host > go to software/services > in softaculous there will be a “blogs” category > Click on the install TAB and fill in the details required.
2. If you have a cPanel then log in to it look for Fantastico and find the WordPress under the blogs category, click on it and choose “new installation” after which you will have to fill in a few details and click submit.

After you have set up wordpress on your site you are ready to start your blog. To log in to your new blog through any browser you need to add “/wp-admin” at the end of your domain name.

Log in and start setting up your blog. You can choose between 1000 different free themes in order to find the one that works for you.

Step 3: Posting content to your Blog

After you have set up your blog it’s time to post something on it. Well it shouldn’t be just something, it should be a well written post with some serious SEO work done targeting the primary keyword that you have chosen earlier. This post should always be on the first page of your blog so the search engines can find it easily. I would even recommend that you add a new page and write your first post there so you can set up that page to be the first page that shows when people open your blog, the landing page.

Try to write a long article for your primary keyword which would include everything. It should be about 750+ words. After you have optimized the article for your primary keyword you can search for secondary keywords which you want to target and draw traffic to your website.

It’s recommended that you post something new to your blog as much as you can which means that if you can post something new everyday then do it. If you can post every few days then it’s ok but if you update your blog more often then people will have more reasons to come visit it over and over. You will also rank for more keywords since you have more blog posts written. More traffic will come from Google search if you target many different keywords and have a good SEO on your posts. Bottom line is that frequent posting equals more visitors which means more income.

Step 4: Building backlinks

Since we are talking about starting a new business online beside the frequent posting you will also need to build backlinks. This part of the internet marketing is actually THE most important part and it lasts forever. Backlinks are like portals which lead back to your site so having more backlinks means that your site can be accessed from many different places.

This is something you need to do while you are posting content to your blog, like in between posts. After you have at least one keyword targeted post on your blog you should start building backlinks to that post. There are a few different ways to get backlinks, here are the best free ones:

• Writing articles and submitting them to different article directories such as Ezine, Squidoo, GoArticles with a link on the proper anchor text to your site. (Proper anchor text is the text of your keyword which contains the link to your site.)
• Forum and blog commenting – Also with the proper anchor text used as your name or somewhere in the comment posted. Add your link to a signature on some forums that allow the use of HTML in signature.

To create and submit the articles you can also use some article spinning services which also have an auto-submission to sites like ArticleRanks. There is one more way to create backlinks through social services but the links you get from those are not so valuable because they don’t come from a high page ranked sites. Still you can try using SocialMonkee since it’s free to use once a day and have a submission to 25 different sites.

Getting backlinks is something you need to do all the time and it’s an everlasting work because even if you reach #1st page on Google search you still need to keep that place because there are people who work on the same keywords as you do and if you stop then you might lose that spot and you don’t want that to happen.

Step 5: Choosing the right way to Monetize

There are more then one way to turn the traffic you have into cash. But this is an area that you will have to test out a little bit because it really depends on the niche that you have. You can try affiliate marketing which is selling someone else’s product for a commission. You can try putting up Adsense and earn money if someone clicks on it. You can join a CPA network and earn per sign up, filling a survey, subscription etc. You can also choose to build a list of subscribers and then sell them products related to your site via email.

Either one of these choices is a good one but you will really have to experiment and see which one works for you the best. If you choose a domain with “buy” or “review” in it (Example: buyexoticsunglasses.com) you want to put up an affiliate offer of someone that sells exotic sunglasses because the people that come to your website are looking to buy something. But if you choose a domain that is a bit more general like exoticsunglasses.com then it would be better to put some adsense or CPA offers there because the people that will visit your domain aren’t ready to buy right away.

They are probably just browsing because they want to get informed and they are more likely to click on the adsense then buy something right away. However I suggest that you test everything and see which way works for you and which one gets you more profit.

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Before we get to the the power of viral contents we need to make sure everyone knows what viral contents are. Viral contents are videos, articles, pictures, games. Any blog posts or websites that are interesting for the ones that are surfing the web. The viral contents are usually something different then anyone has ever seen before. They came to be called viral because they spread out through the internet and attract visitors really fast.

These contents evoke a chain reaction between the users of the social networking services and because of their interesting content gets the users to share it on and on which actually makes them go viral and bring a lot of visitors.

Everyone that owns a website or a blog would want this kind of traffic delivered to their site but the trick is how to do it because not everything will go viral. You have to have a unique idea.

What will you need to get your content viral?

Depending on the form of viral content you are going for you will need different things. Since there are numerous contents that can go viral let’s analyze them one by one and see what you need to do in order to get them to spread.

Articles/Blog posts:

If you are going for a viral article which is plain text and sentences then you will need to have good writing skills. If you don’t have good writing skills but you have a good idea on a topic which has the potential to go viral then you can hire an author from a freelance site which has professional article writers, there are countless sites that offer this kind of service. (If needed I will personally help you to find a good writer)

Next you will need to organize the article so it looks appealing and interesting. Make sure that the sentences are easy to read. Make sure that there is fluidity while reading which is probably the most important part because if the people read the article are struggling with the sentences and are having a hard time connecting the sentences they won’t like the content therefor it won’t spread and become viral as you hoped.

“An example of a Viral Article”

Videos:

If you want to produce a viral video you have to make sure that it is done just right. This is not an easy task for beginners because you will need to know how to use a video editing software such as Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas Pro. You need an idea of a new, interesting, shocking and beautiful creation. Even tho sometimes the bizarre and disgusting stuff work too (Look at the video Breathe by Prodigy). You will need to edit the video and make it just perfect. This means you have to adjust the sound, the effects and make them aligned with the picture.

 This is what I mean when I say perfectly aligned.

Photography/Pictures/Art:

If you decide to make a photo go viral you will need to take a photo with a great camera. If you are a professional photographer or you ever attended any classes about photography then you won’t have a hard time picking out the best angles to take the photo and you won’t have troubles with choosing the perfect lightning needed for the photo to come out wonderful. But if you haven’t had such classes and you are not a professional photographer then you should either consult with someone who is familiar with those things and let him/her help you out or check the internet if there are some quick lessons to learn those things.

If you have a funny picture in your disposal you can try and make that picture go viral by posting it on the net with some funny background story. Some choose to draw simple pictures and make a whole connected story like a short comic.

“Example of a Picture Comic”

Even though all of these content had the potential to go viral in the first place because let’s face it all of these look great and interesting. There is one ingredient that is really needed so the content starts spreading. That’s a recommendation to the social bookmarking sites by someone with authority. Someone that has a lot of friends. Someone who has many people following him and contacts them daily so that the connection isn’t lost. If a user with a huge number of connections share a content like this it would surely become viral in a couple of weeks.

Speaking of the power of this type of content we can easily say that it has a lot of potential to bring you a lot of traffic to your website. That traffic can be good for promoting a new website, bringing it’s page rank up and creating some quality backlinks to your site from other different sites that might like your content. The viral content has the power to quickly get your site to rank better on Google, have a higher page rank and authority which makes it good to consider having whether you are starting a new site or you want to attract visitors to some of your old sites that isn’t as active as it was before. Using the traffic from the viral exposure you can also monetize but the common question is still present.

How to monetize the traffic?

The best way I found yet to monetize the traffic that came from the viral contents is the PPS (Pay Per Signup or Free Sign Up). Since people that see this content aren’t usually looking to buy something, offering them a free sign up for something is the best way to get them to do it and get some cash out of it. Alternative methods would be some CPA or CPC Networks, Google Adsense, Pay Per Subscriber and affiliate programs but then again if you try to sell them something it will rarely work.

I think that viral marketing is a really good way to to start up a new site and promote an old one and it’s getting really popular with all the social networks growing larger and larger every day. It’s a great way to make some money online while postings things that you find interesting and amusing to your blog. It’s a fun way to make money and we all know everyone wants to have fun.

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To answer that question one must first ask: what is SEO success?

What is the success in ranking #1 for a keyword that doesn’t bring any traffic? Or ranking #100 for a keyword that could bring thousands of visitors per day?

Both traffic and SERP ranking are crucial and that’s why you must accurately and objectively measure and track each.

For example if you check the ranking position for “keyword x” for a website that you have previously visited (through the same computer), you will notice that your Google will generate personalized search results page in which the visited website will be given higher ranking position.

Also, search engine positions vary based on your location, so you might be ranking at the first position on Google.com, but that doesn’t mean that you are also ranking in the same position on Google.co.uk.

Another thing you want to track is how much effort or backlinks were required to reach the desired search position.

How do I track search engine positions, traffic and backlinks?

The important thing is to remember that all of these are connected. Increase in ranks should bring you increase in traffic, and more backlinks should increase your ranking. So if you see one thing happening without the other, you should double check everything.

Tracking Ranks:

I track my ranks with cheap rank tracking services, but there are some free software alternatives too. Here are a few options you might want to check out:

• SEO MOZ (This is the best rank tracking service I have ever seen, however it comes with a bundle of other useful seo tools that add to the price and also make this one of the most expensive seo tools)
• Easy SEO Tracking (Cheap and efficient, only $2 per month for tracking 1000 keywords, and you also get daily email reports)
• Market Samurai (This is one of the most famous SEO software on the market, it cost around $100 and has a lot of cool functions including a good rank tracker)
• Seo Book Firefox Plugin (Free Firefox Plugin that will get the job done, but I think it lacks accuracy)

One thing to keep in mind is that the ranks will fluctuate all the time ± 2 or 3 positions all the time and you shouldn’t get worried every time you see this, instead you should track the long term changes.

Tracking Traffic:

Most of you already do this trough google analytics, awstats or statcounter. If you don’t you need to start NOW. It is important to track how much traffic you are getting trough your SEO targeted keywords so you can measure the exact increase of traffic that is related to the increase in ranks.

Remember that ranking increases from position 100 – position 50 don’t really matter since you won’t be getting any traffic anyway. Only the first 20 positions bring some traffic.

Tracking Backlinks:

This part can be a pain in the ass because there are tons of variables. All links have different anchor texts, some are no follow, some are do follow, some come from pages with different page rank, some are not indexed and some even are deleted through time.

Tracking this manually can be really hard, and that’s why I recommend that you use some of the following tools:

Paid: (measure and track – software)

• SEO Spyglass
• SEO Elite

Free: (only measure the current state – online)

• Open Site Explorer
• Link Diagnostics

You can easily write down the data you get from these service so you can track your progress, however this requires more effort and time.

Also, it is a good idea to track your own backlinking efforts in an excel file, since a portion of your links won’t be detected via these services for various reasons (not indexed, dead links).

Things I track and measure:

• URL
• Page Rank and backlinks
• Index

Tracking which links are not indexed in Google is a good practice because you can then work on getting them indexed and make sure you get the link juice flow to your site.

Conclusion:

• Tracking the changes in rank, traffic and backlinks are actually measurements in SEO success.
• Using the right tools can help save you a lot of time and energy.
• It is a challenge to keep all these records organised, but it is also a must if you want to be successful in organic SEO.

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Internet marketing is a huge industry nowadays, and while it’s still growing every day, a lot of people caught on to the fact that you can succeed online easily, and are getting into the game by the hundreds. This created quite a competitive market, and a lot of existing marketers are losing their share, while newbies can’t even start because they can’t find a suitable niche that is not occupied.

However, along with social networks like Facebook and Twitter (which are much easier to get into for new Internet marketers), there’s another huge market developing, one that most people seem to ignore and those who don’t  are now making thousands and millions in profits with minimal investments. I’m talking about mobile content, i.e. “apps” for smartphones. Here’s why Internet marketers, especially those who have trouble competing on the current Web, should start focusing on mobile content:

It’s new.

The iOS (which runs on Apple’s iPhone and iPad) and Android operating systems, which account for more than half of the smartphone market worldwide, are just a few years old, and while they have hundreds of millions of users, there aren’t that many competitors – definitely not as many as there will be in a few years from now. If you get into the game early, you can easily succeed, and creating a website, web app or traditional app or game for them is no harder than creating a blog.

It’s profitable.

While apps for smartphones are pretty cheap, the fact that there is minimal competition means that you can make a sale no matter what niche you’re in, even if you’re just a beginner. This is excellent for new marketers and developers, as well as very profitable for established individuals and companies. Mobile ads, which support most free apps, are even better: they’re very cheap, and if you set up a great funnel (like visitors going to a special mobile version of a landing page), you can make a killing even with existing affiliate offers.

Millions of existing users.

There are already over 100 million smartphone users that are connected to the Internet, and their number is growing exponentially every year – it is expected that there will be as many mobile users as there are desktop ones by the end of 2014. That’s a huge market right there, in case you didn’t notice, and getting into it now is the best way to succeed big time in the future.

Minimal competition.

The competition is frail, at best – sure, there are quite a few developers around, but most of them don’t really know how to market their stuff and make it popular (that’s why there are a lot of great but relatively unknown apps, as well). If you’re good at marketing, you can create your own app using a third party developer or just partner with an existing developer to make their app popular and share the profits – there are a lot of possibilities here, as few people are marketing their mobile apps (setting up an affiliate program for one would do miracles, for example).

It’s the future.

As smartphones get more powerful and more users start buying them, the mobile market will grow to very big proportions – as I said, it’ll already be as big as the current “desktop Web” by the end of 2014. Starting early is the best thing you can do in any industry, and this is the new Web 2.0, so don’t miss the chance!

Mobile content is growing in popularity every single day, and there are already over 300 million smartphone users around the world, with over 100 million of them connected to the Internet (via Wifi or 3G/4G) – that’s an impressive market right there. By focusing your efforts on mobile sites, apps and games, you can create another revenue stream pretty easily, and the whole niche is not any more complicated than the current desktop Web and software – it’s an extension of it, after all.

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SEO has been an important part of the online world ever since the first search engines started appearing. Figuring out that they could do some quick fixes to their sites and bring much more traffic by being featured on the first page of a search, webmasters kicked off a whole industry that still thrives to this day.

But, unlike a decade ago, the things that matter for SEO have changed quite a bit, and a lot of factors that were crucial then are simply worthless now. Yet a lot of people continue stuffing keywords into Meta tags and creating custom H tags for every paragraph on their site.

Fortunately, this doesn’t negatively affect their site’s ranking, but the amount of time spent doing those useless optimizations could surely be used for better purposes. Though wrote earlier about 51 essential ranking factors for every website, here is a precise list of things that really matter in SEO nowadays. Start focusing on these factors and forget about the rest – this will save you a lot of time and headaches.

Site activity and age

The age and activity of the site still matters, a lot. The more a site has been online, the more trusted it will be, but not if it has been inactive! Yes, the site needs to have some kind of regular activity, even if it’s only a few posts and incoming links per month. Otherwise, Google and Bing will just consider it “suspended” and will only start counting its “age” when you start working on it again. Also, it is obviously highly desirable to have no negative activities like spamming, phishing, or buying links for the site, as that can make matters much worse.

Inbound links

Inbound links are the measure of popularity for today’s sites (just like they were before), and you should have at least a dozen, from other web pages relevant to yours. The source also matters: links from spammy looking sites won’t do you any good, while links from, say, a relevant video on Youtube or a wall post on Facebook, will get your page and site higher in the rankings.

Titles and descriptions

The page title and description still matter, but not nearly as much as before. You should use a good title and short description that is useful for humans, as they’re the ones who’ll benefit from it the most. When someone sees a good description that makes it clear what the page will be about, it’s more likely that he will click on the link AND stay on your site for q longer while, which is very important, because if Google detects a quick visit and click on the “Back” button, your page in the SERPs automatically gets a trust/relevancy points deduction.

The content

The content is the most important thing that will ultimately decide whether your site’s pages rank or not. Search engines got much better at scanning the content, and they know exactly what it’s about and what is relevant to it (just check the Google Wonder Wheel to see how accurate the data is). By using good quality content, you’ll not only help people and keep them longer on the site, but also make search engines give your site more weight in the rankings.

Page load speed

This has become quite an important factor in the last year. With Google’s real time search and the new Instant Search, neither Google nor the users can wait more than 4-5 seconds for a site to load. They will just click “Stop” or “Back” and go to the next link. That’s why you need to have a fast server that works well. If your site is gone for more than a few hours, Google’s real time search algorithms will do their job and your page will be out of the SERP in no time.

The above factors are really the most important things that you should pay attention to when optimizing your site for Search Engines. Other things like meta tags, h tags, excerpts – they’re all in the past and you shouldn’t waste your time trying to get something by implementing them. Just focus on what really matters!

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From the early days of Apple to the launch of iPad 2 and beyond to the iconic lecture he gave at the graduation Ceremony in Stanford to his Pixar Studio, Steve Jobs remained the enigma, which we all tried to understand through various products he designed.

Whenever he came on stage in his thin-rimmed glass, salt-and-pepper stubbles, black tea, and blue jeans, hundreds of millions of people watched him transfixed, and spellbound to capture every word that he spoke and to lap every product he created – from iPod to iPod Touch to Apple TV to iTunes to iPhone to iPad to what not.

The products that Steve Jobs designed stirred the industry, and so did the byproducts he caused to happen in form of his love for minimalism and his style of presentation. The tech messiah has given topics to many presentation (PPT) gurus, countless of whom has written articles, books, and devised training programs on Steve Jobs Presentation secrets.

All these things will not happen again. Steve has slept his eternal sleep, fighting a battle, which unlike many, he didn’t win. Pancreatic Cancer took our Messiah, who once designed computer typography to make the text look so beautiful on screen.

The maker of Toy Story and several other classic animation films will be missed not just for the films his Pixar Studio created, but also for the creative flow he taught his team to use, which is still a source of inspiration for creative professionals worldwide.

In a world where each company was in the race to pack more and more features in each of its products, Steve knew about the beauty of keeping things simple. He taught the world a thing or two about minimalism and the way to making it big by offering less than the competitor.

He created many iconic brands. He changed the way we listen to music, watch video, surf net, and use computers. He was a man who lived up to the philosophy he professed with the launch of iMac brand of personal computers. He successfully married technology with art.

Although he will not share the plant with us, anymore, the presence of Steven Paul Jobs will be felt in the computer industry, for generations to come. God give strength to his family, and rest to Steve’s Soul.

We all are going to miss you Steve!

Listen to Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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