Here is a video I just made on some link building tips and strategies. Link building and building backlinks is the single most important part of SEO and driving traffic to your website. Check out what my favorite method of building backlinks is in the video.  Knowing what backlink buildin techniques to use can be a head ache so hopefully this will demystify SEO a little bit for you. See the video for the best way for one way link building: Click Xr.com/Linkvana.com for more info and to get s...

With so many affiliate programs and networks out there it can be hard to choose the right one for you. Well I have found that ShareaSale has the best of it all. Not only do they have a great pay per click program and a pay per lead program but they offer all kinds of other products and services that are of the very finest quality. You can compare affiliate networks like Clickbank, Commission Junction, and Linkshare, but Share a Sale has actually out performed many of them in merchant’s s...

PTC sites are popping up like radioactive warts these days, but most of them, and I do mean most of them (at least 90%) are complete junk. So what is a PTC website and how do you make money with it? PTC stands for Pay To Click.  These websites pay you around $.01 (one penny) for every 30 second advertisement that you watch.  Advertisers will pay the PTC sites say $40 and that will guarantee them that around 1,000 people will view that 20-30 second advertisement (which is usually just a simple ...

I received a comment on this topics and thought I would address it.  I may not have been clear in how to promote those affiliate products using Ezinearticles.com, so this post will explain how to do it. And by the way, this is a way that anyone can start making money online.  You don’t have to have experience with affiliate marketing but just understand a few key concepts. Why Choose Ezine Articles for affiliate marketing? Before I give you the steps to take to start making money with ar...

The battle rages on.  Is PPC (pay per click) better or is natural  SEO (search engine optimization) better for your site?  Which of these methods of getting traffic will have a better conversion rate for you?  If you are involved in affiliate marketing in anyway you probably are always hungry for more traffic to your site. The Battle to Get Web Traffic With tens of thousand of websites being built and entering into the web’s atmosphere everyday the competition is more fierce than it ha...

Use text links to make more money from your website No matter what your website is about you can make more money from it with a variety of methods.  You can use adsense in your sidebars or even in the middle of your posts to generate revenue from the clicks on those ads, and you can also use some affiliate banners and links to try to get some money through CPA (cost per action).  But one of my favorite ways to monetize a site lately is to use text links that pay you for any user that clicks on...

There are many worries about the economy we are facing, and there are thousands that have lost or are about to lose their jobs.  But it is important to have a game-plan in place in case you lose the security of a weekly income. Here in this blog I talk a lot about how to make money online, so that will be the focus of this post.  It should be obvious that during tough financial times you need to be as frugal as possible and still be able to live.  Cut out anything that is an unnecessary expen...

90% of trying to get your website on the first page of Google involves building backlinks TO your site.  On page SEO is important.  Make sure you have your keywords in the tags and metatags and so forth but until you have a substantial amount of quality backlinks, you will be no where to be found. And what’s the point of having a website that will make you money if no one can find it right?  We all want to be found. Here is why backlinks are so important Having a website link back to yo...

You don’t have to spend a dime to make money with Squidoo, and you don’t even need to be a great writer.  Just write about topics people want to read about and you can soon find yourself drawing a nice size income from Squidoo. Making money with Squidoo is not really a new thing as Squidoo has been around for a little while.  It was the brain-child of Seth Godin and has really taken off lately.  For affiliate marketers it is a dream come true because they allow you to use affiliat...

Now, I know they say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but in the eyes of the search engines 1,000 words are worth a lot more than any picture.  This is because those Google spiders crawl words.  They know that pictures are there but they don’t mean anything to them.  They can’t see the beauty of a picture.  But a well written article can not only drive traffic to your site but it can also make you a lot more money. How do you make money by writing articles? Well you could get...