Money Blog Tips

Making money online is a dream for many people. Because having a home based online business means full freedom. You can run online business from anywhere in the world. You just need a laptop and an internet connection to work which is available anywhere in the world. You will have the full freedom to see places and enjoy life as much as you can. There is no fixed working hours and you can work at any time you want. Also once your online business is up and running, you will need to devote only few hours regularly to keep your online business running and making you money while you sleep. But, initial months will be hard and you’ll need to work with full dedication and skills to be successful online. It also includes the learning part. Second reason why people want to work online is that it requires very little investment and working online has the capability to make you from thousands to millions of dollars depending on your efforts. While making money online doesn’t require much investment and offers the freedom you crave so much, it requires something else. To make money online, it requires skills, knowledge, hard work and dedication. If you have these, you can create a successful online business within six months to an year. Key things to make money online is first finding a profitable niche, doing search engine optimization and driving traffic to your website or blog. You’ll need to put some time to learn these and also find other ways to make money either by a day job or doing odd jobs online while you put all the effort in learning and experimenting things you learn, in developing your money blog or website. Better get a day job initially because doing odd jobs online and making sufficient money online will be difficult initially while you still are learning the ropes to make money online. You will also need to put some money for domain registrations, hosting etc.

Best

quick ways to make money online

while you are still struggling are:-

Pay Per Post

Write articles and get paid to blog. Webmasters and blog owners looking for new and unique content will pay per post between $2-$10 depending on the length and quality of article you write. Best place to start with article writing is digital point forums.

You can make more money writing articles if you have your own blog with decent quality because it also involves providing SEO service.

Blog Commenting Service

Blog commenting is also a nice way to make some money online. Webmasters are busy and most of them hire commentators for blog commenting.

Earn Commission

You can also become a broker for internet traders on digital point forums and make some commission.

Above ways to make money online can survive you through the struggle period. But, if you find it difficult then get a day job and devote your attention to develop your main online business website or blog.

Get Paid To Surf

I don’t recommend paid surveys but I see its getting famous again and if you can find genuine websites which pay, then you can try it. Most of the paid surveys websites are scams. On the similar lines, you can get paid to read emails. But, you’ll be better off devoting time in developing your own online business then doing these odd jobs.

There are many

ways to make serious money online

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Make Money Blogging

Blogging is perhaps the most popular way to make money online because there are just so many ways to monetize your blog. You can monetize your blog in any way you want. Any other way to make money online can be applied on blogging too. You can make money blogging using google adsense, affiliate marketing, paid posts, selling items. Developing a successful blog for making money takes time. There are important steps to follow before you can start making money through your blog. Finding a profitable niche, targeting keywords and driving traffic to the blog is an art.

Earn Money With Google Adsense

Develop a niche website with 3-5 pages. Target a keyword having less competition but sufficient global monthly exact searches and atleast $0.5 google adwords CPC (cost per click). Domain name of the website should be very close to the targeted keyword so that SEO efforts needed are much reduced and it gets easier to rank within top ten of google search results of the keyword. Now, you need to start doing SEO work and backlinks building until your website is ranked on google within top ten search results. You’ll also need to experiment with google ads placement on your website and find out which works best. It usually takes some experience and learning before you start making money with google adsense. You’ll also need to develop few adsense websites before you learn to do it right.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online. Trouble is you’ll need high traffic website to monetize through affiliate marketing. You can join click bank, commission junction and other affiliate websites and choose products which you will like to promote. You can earn commission ranging 4%-20% or more with the sale of each item. Your website or blog should be related to the products you are promoting or you can create a landing page separately for each product. You’ll need to drive traffic to the landing page through various ways like article marketing, email marketing etc. SEO might not work in this case as google doesn’t like affiliate websites. There are various ways you can hide affiliate links on your blog or website and attain good search engine rankings.

Sell Products On Ebay

Selling products on ebay is a great way to make money online. You can have your own online store on ebay. You don’t have to worry about driving traffic to your ebay items pages. Ebay gets tons of traffic. Of course, you may want to drive traffic to your ebay items pages for making more sales and hence more money.

There are endless ways to make money online but the key points are a web address, high search engine rankings, high traffic and what ways you use to monetize from that traffic.

Webmasters and bloggers mostly go for globally popular domain registrars and web hosting providers. The benefits of choosing one of the globally reputed domain registrars and web hosting providers are many.
Cheap Prices
Excellent Services And Support
Excellent Features
Lots of Discounts And Great Offers Available Round The Year

But you lack one thing called control. Choosing an offshore web hosting or domain registrars is alright if you manage only few websites and own only few domains. But, you will find that webmasters who own hundreds of domains and websites like to keep them with a hosting company in their vicinity. It simply gives more control and mental satisfaction. If my Indian domain registrar loses my domain names or the web hosting company in bangalore messes up my websites, I can barge into their office next day and make their lives hell, a privilege which I can’t enjoy with godaddy or dreamhost. Of course, they are excellent domain registrars and web hosting providers and normally you won’t get a problem with them. But, you can’t rely too much on a company for your business which earns you bread and better.

Another important reason to choose Indian web hosting provider and domain registrar is that paypal is not reliable anymore. We don’t know what new policies paypal and RBI bring together in the future. And many webmasters still don’t own credit cards. Choosing an Indian web hosting company for your domain registrations and web hosting needs is a great idea if you don’t want to deal with accidental payment problems because of some unexpected paypal problem or problems with your credit cards. ZNet India accepts Indian debit cards, net banking, ATM cards and even direct bank deposits.

I found ZNet India is an Indian domain registrar and web hosting company which provides global standards of services and prices are also very cheap.

Some features:-

Top Web Hosting Provider in India

Unmetered web hosting starting Rs 149/month only (25% discount going on)

TLD registrations Rs 499 for .com/.net/.org

ZNet India portfolio is amazing – some big brands which use ZNet India web hosting are MakeMyTrip, Bank of Baroda, ICICI, NDTV,  News24, ClearTrip, Sahara etc.

To try ZNet India domain registration and web hosting services, sign up here.

From today onwards Indian paypal users can’t send money from paypal if they don’t have credit card attached. I tried it with my own paypal account but was asked to add a credit card/debit card. Indian debit cards don’t work so you must add a credit card to send payments online to another paypal user. My paypal account is verified with a bank account. Officially the new paypal policy for Indians was implemented on 1st march 2011, but till yesterday everything was working normally as before and indian paypal users were able to send money online through paypal even if no credit card was attached. Its a big news today for indian bloggers and freelancers and all have several questions in mind.

Is paypal still the best alternative?

Or does it mark the end of paypal for indian users? I think considering the alternatives, paypal is still the best. Indian online entrepreneurs might have to bear little more credit card charges but thats it. Its easier now to get credit cards in India which used to be very difficult especially for students and new online entrepreneurs who didn’t have enough money in their bank accounts and income tax statements to prove that they were worthy of getting credit cards. With several banks now providing easy credit cards without bank account statements and income tax statements simply on the basis of fix deposits, it’ll be easy to get a credit card. But still, getting a credit card means putting around Rs 30,000  (around 700 $) in fix deposits and bank accounts which may be difficult for students and new bloggers or online entrepreneurs who don’t earn much yet. I guess after adding a credit card, the credit card will be charged and not paypal balance.

The change in paypal policy for major players don’t mean much , they already have credit cards and stuff. They just will have to bear extra credit card charges each time they send payments.

Another question everybody asking is

what happens if the funds are not withdrawn in 7 days

. I think paypal still have to implement this policy as I have some money in a paypal account over a month now. I guess paypal will start sending reminders to withdraw funds or just do it automatically after 7 days. I doubt paypal will allow sending payments from balance any more because the purpose of these paypal policy changes is to help RBI keep track of funds transfers without RBI interference in paypal workings. After this paypal doesn’t have to give details to RBI. Also, paypal is not charging $5 fees if you mistakenly add an invalid bank account because I tried to add an ICICI bank b2 account few days ago to paypal system and today I received an email from paypal that my bank account is invalid but I was not charged with Rs 250 fee which is generally charged if deposits are returned while verifying through bank account. I asked ICICI bank branch-free banking customer care and they said withdrawal or NEFT transfer from paypal is not allowed but you can use ICICI bank b2 account e-wallet (VCC) with them. Surprisingly, they also said you can credit funds into e-wallet from paypal but I don’t think its possible, they might be misinformed. I still have to get ewallet card in my ICICI bank branch-free banking  account which normally takes ten days after account activation.

I am not sure but e-wallet can be cheaper alternative to a real credit card. Adding funds into e-wallet, adding e-wallet to paypal and then sending money through paypal might work. As the e-wallet card is reusable, funds can be added any time and e-wallet card numbers and cvv codes don’t change so it might work. I still have to check if it works, will post if it works. If it doesn’t work, then getting a real credit card is the only option. Paypal and RBI bringing good business to banks operating in India!

Google has released a person finder tool for people struck by tsunami and earthquake in Japan.

The Link is here : http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

The site is in english, chinese and japanese languages. There are two links on the website for people who are looking for someone or who have information about someone.

The person finder tool is currently tracking about 77500 records at the time of writing this post

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This is a nice gesture by google and hope this website helps people to find their friends and families in Japan.

Peace for Japan.

Do a quick search on google with site:yourwordpressblog.com “?Replytocom” . If you find any pages in search result, then you have duplicate content issue on your wordpress blog. These pages are anchored with Reply option below a wordpress blog post with threaded comments. Well, google bots and other search engine bots should really know how to handle pages with replytocom parameter. Also wordpress should come up with some kind of fix. But, it seems that is not the option right now. Several of such pages are created with the same content on them depending on the number of comments you have on a particular post. And, google webmaster tools also must be reporting duplicate content issue. This can be huge problem and hurt your search engine rankings badly. Imagine hundreds of post pages with same content on them. Well, I have found two ways to solve this problem.

Install Replytocom Redirector Plugin

Replytocom redirector plugin guides search engine bots who don’t know how to handle urls with replytocom parameter  in a wordpress blog. The download link for this plugin is here.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/replytocom-redirector/

Use Parameter Handling Option In Google Webmaster Tools

Add your site to google webmaster tools, if you still haven’t. After verifying your site on Google Webmaster tools, go to site configuration–> Settings–> Parameter handling. Here you’ll find some parameters listed which google bot has found on your site while crawling. Click on edit for parameter ‘replytocom’ and change it from ‘Let Google decide’ to ‘Ignore’ and you are all good now.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a huge fan of Akismet wordpress plugin. I think its one of the most important plugins in a wordpress blog and anybody who starts a wordpress blog needs to enable this plugin right from the start using the wordpress api key. Akismet filters out most of the spam comments and keeps us bloggers happy.

Enough of those spam comments “nice blog! where can i find rss feed?” with bunch of spam links. SEO professionals using automatic commentator scripts go to hell. Welcome Akismet!

Unfortunately how much may I love Akismet, it became a nightmare for me! My all comments are going into spam when I comment on other blogs. And its because of a fault of mine. Yes, I am paying the price. I didn’t spam anywhere. What I did was I tried to comment on .gov blogs. I read everywhere that getting .gov backlinks is great for SEO and I thought why not try to comment on .gov blogs. So, I barged in on a wordpress blog with .gov extension where a US senator shared some pics of his grandfather and his hundred years old rolls royce. I stupidly put my thoughts about the pics in a comment. He must have thought who the hell is this guy and marked my comment as spam. After many of those .gov blog owners must have marked my comments as spam, now I am a permanent spammer in the eyes of Akismet. US senators deciding the fate of my blog!

Well, my advice to everybody don’t get too greedy and don’t ever try to comment on .gov or .edu blogs. You might end up like me.

Being not able to comment on other blogs takes the fun out of blogging. Comments also bring visitors. I didn’t post on this blog in last few months and I felt low and let down by Akismet.

I also put a request on akismet website but no results or replies yet. I don’t think they have a way to know who is a genuine commentator and who is not.

One can’t keep emailing bloggers to approve a comment each time he or she puts a comment on some blog. It becomes a tiresome job.

Finally, I registered a new domain name and 301 redirected that domain name to the old domain name which is not really advisable by many. I use the new address in website field while commenting on blogs. I hope this doesn’t look too fishy in the eyes of google, promoting two urls for the same blog and redirecting one to another. I could have bought an old domain name but I didn’t want to experiment more. Old domain names may have history and I don’t want any history at this point in case it turns out to be a domain name with really bad history.  So, I registered a domain name never registered before just to be safe. And I am really happy to be able to comment on other blogs. And I hope google doesn’t mind much my redirected domain name to be younger than the main domain name.

We’ll see if it irritates google! Until that happy commenting!

Indian paypal users received this email today. Important points are from 1st march  2011 if you receive payment for some online job or selling goods and services, you can’t use that money to make purchases online. And you must withdraw that money into your bank account within 7 days. That means you need a credit card to make purchases online. You must attach a credit card to your paypal account.

Secondly, you can’t receive more than $500 per transaction for export related goods and services.

This can be a difficult situation for many paypal users and small business owners specially Indian students who work online who still don’t own a credit card. Getting a credit card is not so easy in this country and students still depend on their paypal balances, which they earn doing odd jobs online, to make purchases online.

You can read the exact email below. Please share your views regarding this move by paypal in order to comply with RBI guidelines.

As part of our commitment to provide a high level of customer service, we would like to give you a 30-day advance notice on changes to our user agreement for India. 

With effect from 1 March 2011,  you are required to comply with the requirements set out in the notification of the Reserve Bank of India governing the processing and settlement of export-related receipts facilitated by online payment gateways (“RBI Guidelines”).

In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, our user agreement in India will be amended for the following services as follows:

1. Any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services; and
2. Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction.

We seek your understanding as we continue to employ our best efforts to comply with the RBI Guidelines in a timely manner.

We regret any inconvenience caused to you and hope the advance notice will enable you to plan your future use of our services accordingly.
                 
Sincerely,

The PayPal Team

Search engine marketing (SEM) is an Internet marketing tool that includes mainly two things which are the search engine optimization or SEO and paid listings or Pay Per Click (PPC). It also involves some other search-engine related services. Search engine marketing increases the ranking of your website in a search engine.

Search engine marketing – most effective for web marketing

Search engine marketing is one of the most effective forms of web marketing. This is because people use search engines a lot for locating websites. More than 80% people rely on search engine finds. Moreover, it is cost effective than any other forms of marketing.

Benefits of Search engine marketing

There are various benefits of search engine marketing. Some are discussed below:

1. Increases the ranking of your website – SEM increases the ranking of your website in the search engines. With good marketing strategies and SEO or PPC, you can get good ranking.
2. Delivers targeted message to the target audience – SEM is a highly effective form of marketing as it connects potential buyers directly with your company.
3. Increases the number of visitors – SEM increases the number of visitors coming to your website as your website ranking increases.
4. Accessible to more users – With SEM the ranking of your website improves. With the ranking the availability and the accessibility of your website increases too.
5. Increases sales –With better ranking, there will be an increase in the sales of your product or service.
6. Earn more money – As traffic to your website increases with the ranking, the money that you earn out of your website increases too. Thus, your income increases with the help of Search engine marketing.
7. Cost effective – It brings you more return on your investment. SEO is for free. But even if you use PPC, your profit is generally much more than what you invest. Thus, Search engine marketing is cost effective.

However, if you want to make your Search engine marketing more effective, it is better to know the search engine strategies and take help from search engine professionals. It requires a lot of time to get the desired results.

Making money through online business seems to be in vogue now as it is easy and convenient. You can even work from the comfort of your home to earn online money. Internet marketing has brought a great revolution in the global finance market. However, in order to run a successful online business and make good money you will have to optimize your website so as to increase traffic to your website. This can be done through search engine optimization (SEO) and website designing is a part of SEO.

Tips on making money online

You can follow the below mentioned tips for making money online:

1. If you already have a website, add blog to your website. Blogging is the new way to discuss your ideas with the people. If you have a blog to your website, more and more people will be interested in visiting your website.
2. Design your website in such a manner so that the visitors come back to your site. In order to maintain this you should be offering information that is exclusive but unique compared to other websites. You can provide online newsletters and membership facilities etc. in order to increase traffic to your website.
3. Website designing is just a part of web development. Web development includes “coding the backend” of the website. It also involves adding security to your site and developing the e-commerce tools. You will have to use good graphics and layout to enhance the attractiveness of your website.
4. Use different and bright colors to prioritize and divide parts of your website. However, remember that you will have to be clever in using colors to enhance the importance of your website. Like, if you use black on a red background, it will be a bit too gaudy.
5. You should also make it easy for your viewers to navigate from one page to the other. This improves traffic to your website, thereby increasing your profit.

You can also get professional help for website designing to enhance the look of your website. Professionals can help you enhance your web presence through various strategies.

With the present state of the US economy, everyone needs to look for extra sources of making money. As there is a widespread importance of the internet, it is very easy to earn money online. It is very important to have a website of your own in order to start making money online. If you’re looking for some excellent online money making ideas, read this article to get more information on it.

• Make money by blogging: An increasing number of people are realizing the importance of blogging day by day. Creating a blog of your own and maintaining and updating it is the best way to make money online. You do not require start up costs for creating a blog; you can easily create one through blogger.com. If you can post good content in your blog, something that attracts readers, you can see a sharp rise in the number of visitors to your blog. As the readership and the traffic to your blog increases, you can earn money through it.

• Make money by affiliate marketing: Would you like to earn a small amount of surplus cash every month? If answered yes, you can try affiliate marketing. Most people are aware that they can earn thousands of dollars by purchasing things online but they are least aware of the fact that by referring products, they can earn a percentage on every referral. You don’t need a website or a blog, yet you can make money online through affiliate marketing.

• Make money through e-bay: If you’re a seller on e-bay, you can also make money through it. There are thousands of sales per day that results in a lot of income for the sellers. If you want to earn some cash, whether part time or full time, there is enough room for you. Once you’ve signed up for a free account, you can start off with selling products that you think is in public demand.

• Make money through forex trading: Forex trading is trading with foreign currencies and earning money. Now you can easily trade with the foreign currencies online and make them the biggest buy for your online business. Trading with real money is not suitable for beginners as it will become risky. Once you become experienced, you can do it online.

Therefore, if you’re looking for excellent online money making ideas, consider the points mentioned above. You can utilize the proceeds in paying off your financial obligations and emerging debt free.