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More tricks fo the trade: Adsense, YPN, buying websites 2008-03-04 14:36:43 Yesterday I had a first $10 adsense day. Not bad, took me few months though. Of course I already had $100 days with affiliate sales but this is first time with adsense.One of my sites really took off with Adsense
earnings. Thing I noticed: The amount of visits have not changed, the price for the ads did. I am using adlink and in the beginning it was miserable. 1 or 2 cents a click. But then google figured out what people like to click and what pays well. And they started rotating better links. Now click is 11 cents. that's ten times more. Therefore my $10.I've heard that Yahoo's YPN pays even more then Adsense. I do not know whether this was true, and YPN is still in beta and for US citizens only. The rumor made sense since the minimum bid on Yahoo network was 10 cents in contrast to Googl Read more:tricks
Tricks of the trade 2008-02-15 20:31:36 It's been a while since the last update as I was busy, a lot :)I am slowly catching up with this game called website investing and it's major fun.My first two sites Wii Finder and Wii in Stock, after a huge success in December, are getting back to former performance. My new sites Fly The Copter Game and ScriptCopy are slowly gaining both in visitors and revenue.So I am there at about $10 per day. That only 300 times less then my goal $3000 per day, lol.This proves only one thing. Knowledge is essential, but patience even more so.
Netvestor on a break 2008-01-17 18:00:19 Most of you have probably noticed that I do not post as much as I used to.Reason for this is the overwhelming amount of work. You know that I quit my job in December and decided to create streams of passive income from online ventures alone. I have a lot of energy but it gets spread out on not less then 13 websites I am maintaining right now, 3 of them being major projects.The Internet Market is one of the most quickly developing markets in the world today. To stay competitive, an enormous amount of information has to be followed every day. This is taking it's toll on me and I need a little break away from the madness. The articles presented on this blog are a very sold base for anyone to start investing in websites. Having lot less knowledge then I have now I managed to earn $1500 in Dece
Online dev platforms experiment continued... 2008-01-15 18:20:37 In my first post I outlined six online development platforms and decided to make a test by creating the same page on all of them and see which ranks better.After ten days have passed, I have some preliminary results. Best to rank for hidden word 'lovtexmes' was weebly site and then the standalone site cutecoco.com.Best to rank for the whole keyword was cutecoco.com with around position 550 on google (yes terrible). But there seems to be another contender in this game and the things get really exciting.
Economical principles behind three different methods of conversion 2008-01-14 04:05:47 Conversion is somewhat a hard word, but it describes process of "converting" your website's visitors into profit. If 1000 visitors comes to your site and 100 of them make you money, you have converted 10% of your visitors into money (or you have conversion rate of 10%). So with that cleared up you need to know what methods of conversion you can apply.There are three basic ways of visitor conversion:Sell your own productSell someone's productSell information about someone's productSell your own productThis is the best method of conversion. Reason for this is that your commission is 100%. You earn what you sell. While the best, it is also used by least number of people. Why is that?People tend to think that they have nothing valuable to sell. They think of products in a too material way. Bu Read more:different
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What insane person designed comment feature on Blogger? 2008-01-10 07:33:48 In this off-topic and unrelated rant, I just want to express my utter frustration with comment feature
on blogger blogs. It seems like it was made by monkeys and designed
by cows.How could anyone in their sense for usability create a blog comment feature that takes you to another page, where you do not even see the post you are commenting on and figuring out how to sign is harder then launching a rocket to the moon. And you can not even automatically link to your website!Come on Google, it is your reputation at stake! Do something about and do something quick!I expect this post to have zero comments, and I sympathize with you.
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Starting a PPC campaign with Adwords and YSM 2008-01-07 18:51:38 I have decided to expand my marketing by introducing PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns. Since I earned a solid amount of money last month I wish to reinvest some of it while learning the new tricks of the trade.What is PPC and how does PPC workBasically, PPC works like this. You make an advertisement. This advertisement appears on places you choose, like search engines and websites. You of course have total control of what keywords you want to promote through that advertisement. Then you decide how much you want to pay for one click on your add. This is called the bid. Depending on your bid and other people's bids for the same keyword your ad will be displayed in a better (or worse) position.Let's say you decide to pay 10 cents for one click. That means it will cost $10 to have 100 visitors to Read more:Adwords
Roundup of six online website development platforms 2008-01-05 11:20:13 I have been doing research lately in order to find a best free website
development platform on the net, suitable for business of website investing (with zero investment in funds).I have had a lot of success with Weebly, but it has it's limitations. So after extensive research I have come up with a list of six sites:Weebly.comGooglePages.comSynthaSite.comJimdo.comSiteKreator.comWebnode.comAll these site have in common the fact they are free to use, provide some kind of web site development tools and are also ad-free. That means all the ads on the site will be run by us, unlike on sites like Squidoo or Sampa.You can read a review about Weebly and GooglePages in my previous posts. Out of the new contenders SynthaSite and Webnode seem to have most potential, with Jimdo following and SiteKreato Read more:online
How to double AdSense income in one day 2008-01-05 10:56:14 Having become an adsense publisher I have instantly encountered a need for better conversion. Far too many sites write about ad placement and blending that are supposed to give you better conversion rates. OK I admit there is something to it, but not one of these tips is 100% sure simply because web sites are different. You need to test it and testing takes time and I am sometimes impatient. So I did what I do in these cases - discover a better and repeatable way on my own.Here are two simple tricks that will almost double
your conversion and will work all the time.Understanding how does Adsense workWhen you put adsense code on your site, it analyzes the content of the page, mainly the title and neighboring content and decides upon relevant keywords. I already written how to manually set r
New and improved, Year 2008 2008-01-04 10:13:56 I hope you all had good fun celebrating new 2008. I myself withdrew to my little island sanctuary in the Adriatic sea and pondered about things to come in this year. I have started so many endeavors and I have a feeling this is going to be a really great year.So what is going on with NetvestorDecember was really a great month when website investing is in question. Thanks to holidays and spending habits, my Wii Finder site made just shy of $1500 in December. It took position number one in Google and held it for couple of days and then after holidays it fell down and the shopping spree fell down so that was like a very good timing.I have rearranged ScriptCopy and although this site did not earn anything significant yet, I am sure it will. I have increased the traffic by 50% by modifying the Read more:improved
Little about Netvestor 2008-01-04 08:36:58 I just realized I never had the opportunity to discuss a little bit why am I involved in website investing, what are my goals and why do I write about this.First of all, you should know that I am a software engineer and have been working with computers for more then 22 years. They defined my life in a way. I always knew that I will be making money using computers because that is what I like to do.I have been working in software development business for a long time. This year I decided it was time for a change. I do like software development but I was getting nowhere with it. What I had was a steady job and a steady salary, I always wanted more then that.Time for changeI begun looking for opportunities elsewhere. I have read a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" (amazon aff. link) which I am s
Top list of best Webmaster Forums 2008-01-04 07:49:03 This is the Top List of best Webmaster
forums in the world. The list contains forums about Webmaster resources, Search engine optimization (SEO), Domain names, Blogs and blogging, Internet marketing, Affiliate marketing and Web development.For every forum Alexa rank and main topic are shown.Update: The up to date version can be found here Top list of Webmaster Forums
.You can click the headers to sort by Website, Alexa and Category. Num Website Alexa Category 1. forums.digitalpoint.com 240
Running adsense through an iframe widget 2007-12-24 04:44:31 This is a little known adsense technique used to accomplish two things. First is to run adsense with precise keywords that you select, and second is to run adsense where otherwise it would not be possible, like for example on Weebly.As you know problem with weebly is that it does not support direct Javascript inserts. Adsense code needs to be pasted in the same format you get it. But weebly reformats it when you paste it and thus makes it unusable.However weebly supports widget
s and there is an adsense widget that allows you to configure your ads.Pretty much the same way you would normally. Enter your adsense publisher id and channel id (to track performance), decide on the size of the widget (give it a little room for ads to display) and choose your keywords. When you are done just paste
Weebly review, part two 2007-12-24 04:39:35 In the first weebly review
you learned most basic things about weebly as a content development platform for your website investing project. I also wrote about my project called Easy Wii Finder, set-up and developed using weebly.Weebly
proved to be very successful for running a niche website. Editing and designing with weebly is very simple thanks to many templates and smart page elements. If you want more control for your website layout, use two column design element. You can drag and drop to the two column element, effectively creating various layouts. You can also use the second column for pictures (look at wii dance dance revolution page) or skyscraper ads. You can also add custom html code which you can edit by selecting the element and clicking Edit Custom Html on the menu bar.Weebly
Call out to subscribers 2007-12-20 06:03:31 Generally I see interest in what I write about but I haven't met a quitter bunch of people then you, my subscribers. There are about 30 of you right now and you are all very shy. No comments on the blog or posts, not even of shut up kind.This is a call for you to come and leave a comment. Describe who you are, what you do, leave a link to your blog or site. I want to meet you and see what are you up to. Let's discuss about things and techniques you use and what would you like me to concentrate more on. You can also leave a vote on a little age poll I have going on the site to see who is listening. I hope this works :)
Reinvest thy money, buy a website! 2007-12-19 13:13:45 Since my Wii Finder project is going on very well I decided to reinvest the money earned and bought a website
.Reasoning behind that is simple. Worst your money can do is just lie around and do nothing. There are many ways to reinvest money and since this is website investing blog, I will be talking about buying websites. You can also consider for example buying marketing services.A website can be found for sale in many different ways. Easiest is searching around auctions on forums like Sitepoint and Digitalpoint (here is the list of all webmaster forums).You will soon discover there are a lot of websites for sale. What I recommend is to avoid everything related to adult and gambling related topics, web and image hosting, game arcade scripts and proxy servers. I think this covers 90% of adv
Netvestor makes an appearance in New York Times! 2007-12-14 07:48:13 Today I am proud to announce that Easy Wii Finder, one of featured Netvestor projects, got mentioned in today's Times
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!I am very happy about it and it is a welcome pat on a back saying you're doing all right boy ;)I am even happier that this happened after I successfully resisted "the dark force" as I wrote in this article. A mention in NY Times means so much more to me.I am filing this under marketing articles as you can see, because that's what it is! :)
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Update on projects and more lessons 2007-12-14 07:23:28 It's been pretty exciting the past few days. My projects took off and I have been very busy learning about Conversion. I admit this is the topic I know least about so I'll be passing up useful tips for you as I try them out.Learning Affiliate MarketingFor starters I have signed in to a few affiliate marketing forums hoping to get as much information as I can. I believe "old man's" advice is the best you can get. I still can not recommend any in particular since I've been a member only for few days but you can find a list of them in Top 100 Webmaster Forums.My main focus has been the Wii Finder. As you can see I changed the site layout and included two affiliate marketing programs - Ebay and Amazon. I offer the visitors the opportunity to buy Wii on either of these two sites which guarantee Read more:Update
Wake up call: Stop reading ebooks, time for action! 2007-12-09 05:02:34 I have a question to ask you at this point in our little journey. Do you consider yourself a serios Website Investor? Have you read all about research, development and marketing? If not go ahead and finish reading those first.If you did, have you actually put to practice tips given there? Have you researched your keywords? Did you build a site? What was it like promoting it?Reason I ask you all this is simple. This blog can be read as a one big e-book on Website investing. Like all e-books out there, you will find it useful, you will accept many of ideas and you will learn something new. But it is worthless until you actually do something about it! I want to urge you to stop reading e-books for a while and start doing some live action!The best way to learn something is by practicing it. I
Choosing the Right Domain Name - Ignore common words 2007-12-06 08:55:28 Usually your keywords will contain short words like "the", "for", "a", "to". You will usually be tempted to use your entire keyword phrase in your domain/subdomain name. But search engines actually ignore the short common word all together.If you search for 'guitars for sale' on Google we will see that guitarssale.com is better ranked then guitarsforsale.com. By looking at the way Google analyzes search results, we can see that guitarssale.com has better keyword density then guitars for sale. Notice how Google highlights in bold the keywords in domain name and whole guitarssale.com is in bold, while in guitarsforsale.com only guitars and sale are in bold, the middle part is skipped all together.So next time you register a domain name keep it short, without common words ;)I haven't actually Read more:Right Domain
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Top underrated ways of getting free backlinks 2007-12-06 08:54:08 Last time in Internet Marketing for Newbies I explained basic techniques you need to know about in order to start with successful promotion of your site. Now I am going to continue with a series of articles that will focus on using less known methods of gaining high quality links to your site.Using internet bookmarking sitesInternet bookmarking sites allow you to create an account to manage all your online bookmarks.Of course nothing stops you from bookmarking your own site. That effectively means that when you create such a bookmark and make it public you have just created a free link to your website using title text (anchor text) that you want. This is different from leaving a story post at social media sites because these links are yours to control and you can do whatever you want with Read more:backlinks
Easy way to get free PR4 - PR6 links 2007-12-06 08:53:59 This is second tip in "Top underrated ways of getting free backlinks
" series.Leaving comments at Blog themes postsYou already know that leaving comments at blog posts will get you free links. But page rank of the posts is usually much lower then PR of main page of the blog so the "strength" of that link is weak. However there are sometimes exceptions, and the inner page of the blog is actually more linked to then the blog itself. This happens with truly amazing blog posts but also there is a little secret I am going to tell you.Blog theme authors like to leave a link to their theme post page in the theme footer and this makes theme posts very high PR. It is not unusual that blog theme posts have PR up to 6 or even 7 for very popular themes. So leaving a comment on the theme post will usua
Two best search engine ranking tips I can give you 2007-12-06 08:52:05 What we all want is that our site ranks high on search engines for terms that are searched relatively often. This brings free and targeted (people interested in those keywords) traffic to our site.While Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a big and complex science nowadays, there are two basic tips I can give you that will significantly improve your website rankings. To more experienced SEO guys they will look awfully familiar as those are two most mentioned tricks in the book, but they alone account for 90% of your rankings. That is the reason I am bolding them.First tip, is use your keywords as often as possible, as natural as possible. That means put them in titles, bold them, put them in footer and interlink your pages using your keywords as anchor text. However always remember to use
How good keyword research beats website marketing 2007-11-30 18:17:47 In the previous article I wrote about beginner tips for website
marketing. These are all good and tried steps to get your site noticed and indexed in search engines within a day, sometimes even faster.Here is the interesting part. I made a small site when I was setting up my last project, called easy wii finder. This site was built merely to test weebly as a development platform and as you can see it contains just one image of Nintendo console and a small review which is then linking to the main page of the project.The site was never marketed using the standard techniques. For past month it received maximum 15 visitors per day, with an average being about 5. Then two days ago site started moving up significantly in search engines. First it had 62 visits from search and that's when I notic
Google Page Creator Review 2007-11-24 14:54:27 For easy development of my new project I have chosen the Google
Page Creator and here is a review.Signing in is easy if you already have a gmail account, just use it and you are away. You will be automatically get your first site as yourusername.googlepages.com. First thing to notice is that you get to have three sites in total (at the time of writing this), instead of five as written in description. This is probably because people were grabbing subdomain names like crazy. If you read about this trick when picking subdomain names you should not have problems.This online page builder follows usual Google philosophy to keep everything as simple as possible. You start by picking up a theme and layout. This is the first problem as the design of the site will be somewhat limited because themes
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