How to Make Money on the Internet

Now I’m getting into the use of this tool/service and am moving right along. As of this morning (December 28) here are my stats, copied off of my membership area statistics page:

“Site Statistics

Overall, you have 8 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 75 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 53 and rejected 22, which means you’ve rejected 29%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 53 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 6 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 53 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 41 times and rejected 1 time, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 2%. A total of 11 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.”

Pretty neat, huh?  

Each of those articles has three in-text key-word anchor links. Each has been “spun” between 50 and 105%, so that the versions published will all be different.  The 41 accepted and now published articles means 123 backlinks pointing back at my websites from other members’ well-cared for blogs!

The articles I rejected for posting on my sites were about 25-30% for sub-par spinning and the rest for being too far off subject.

On 4 of my existing websites I have added a WP blog in a “blogsite” folder which is cross-linked to the main XSitePro-created website. Of these 4, 2 are existing, seasoned websites, 2 are brand new, just built on new domain name sites.

The other 4  of my sites submitted to MAN are pure WP blogs, set-up on the root directory. 1 of these was existing (2-3 months old, in promotion) and the other 3 are brand new.

I have experimented with putting blogs on existing websites before, with unrelated content. Observed that the blog traffic and page counts positively affected the KW rankings of the websites. Now this is my 1st time for trying to see if related text, in a cross-linked blog in a folder on the domain, will pass even more “link juice” to the associated website.

This is now possible because I have a source of targeted articles/posts that I don’t have to write!

Questions? Comments anyone? I would be happy to answer…

More later, as this develops…

Jorge

Hello, everyone! Here’s my first update.

After a couple of days to work with the My Article Network system, I now know a lot more about it.

On the “Articles for Content” side, I now have three sites connected up and receiving content articles.  With MAN, you can add as many sites as you wish. But each site must must have a remote publishing API, for it to be added to and become part of the My Article Network.  Sites that qualify include:

* Self-hosted WordPress blogs (WordPress 2.0.x and later) — (Probably most of those in the MAN system are this type.)

* Any Drupal site (must have the Drupal XML-RPC API enabled)

* Any Joomla! site (must have the Joomla! XML-RPC API enabled)

* Any other site that has either an XML-RPC API or an Atom API.

Since I have WordPress blogs, I started with connecting three of these into the network. At this moment (December 22, 2009) the system has already posted 5 articles on one site, 3 on another and 1 on the last site connected;  a total of 9 content articles already posted on my sites!

In accepting articles for content on your sites, you have a choice of auto posting or posting after approval.  Being new here, I elected to approve (at least until I get some experience with this!). I have rejected 4 articles, approved 9.

When you reject or accept an article, you have a chance to send a short feedback message to the author. Using that, I told the rejected authors that their “spinning” was out of kilter, leading to parts that made no sense.  So, let’s see… Rejected 4 out of 13, that’s 31%. Not too bad. Those articles were not TOO bad.  It’s just that I am picky about readability! Don’t want any semi-literate articles on my sites.

On the “Submit Articles for Backlinks” side, I have submitted two articles which have now been published 4 and 3 times, total 7 publications of my articles, complete with 3 textual backlinks each, means 21 new links, now live on the Web.

Unlike in article marketing, where you generally must put all of your anchor text links in your bio box at the end, here you can put up to three anchor links in the text of the article. That’s better, stronger linking because it is clearly related to the text, what is being said in the article. Gets more link-juice that way!

You get feedback on your articles page about acceptance-rejection ratios. So far, I am at 100%. All articles offered for publication have been accepted.  I guess that most members here use auto accept for articles, then just delete any weak ones later…  

You don’t have to spin articles at all, if you don’t want to.  As I see it, there are advantages for spinning. (1.) You don’t have duplicate articles out there so that the SE’s  only credit you with the first one. (2.) Website owners prefer spun articles so that they know they will get credit for an article with unique text.

[There's an option for receiving articles for posting on your sites that lets you reject any with less than 30% spinning. I checked that box for all my sites, to get mostly unique articles to post.]

MAN offers two alternative methods of spinning: By alternate sentences or by coding the text. Their coding system is similar to but a bit different from what I am used to. It’s a variation of the widely used curly brackets “{ }” and bars “|” system.

So it’s pretty easy to use. In fact it is much more flexible and easier to use than other article submission setups I have tried.

There are lots of categories and sub-categories for articles. Lets you zero-in on what’s relevant for your sites. That’s good!

O.K. I have gotten started now and more or less understand how things work here. Now the task will be to get a number of sites set-up to receive content. And to turn out a number of articles to get backlinks out there.

So far, so good. This is turning out to be easier than I thought! Now I just need to get into it and use it. There is no limit to the number of sites I can add or the number of articles I can submit for publication.  So the best way to get my money’s worth is to use it to the max!

I plan to enter and promote some new sites so I can measure the effects. Also plan to promote some existing sites to round out the sources of backlinks to them…

More updates about my experiences with My Article Network will be coming here soon…

Merry Christmas to all!

Jorge Chavez

In the IMer’s never-ending quest for more and better backlinks the methods, techniques and services available are constantly changing. Recently I have heard and read some pretty good things about My Article Network,  a service that helps its members build lots of good backlinks.

So I decided to sign up for the service and check it out for myself. This will be the first in a series of posts I plan to make to keep my readers informed on my findings…

Jorge Chavez

Making money on the Internet is very simple in principle. You put up a site, encourage visitor traffic to come to that site, then you monetize that traffic. Simple.

You can put up a web site or a blog or any number of variations on those, like Squidoo lenses, a Face-book page or a You-tube address. Actually, you don’t even have to put up a site. You could use someone else’s site with an affiliate arrangement so that you gain a commission, a percentage of sales made to visitors you send to that site.

The principles are simple. The devil is usually in the details.

How do you encourage visitors to visit the site of your choice?  There are lots of ways. You can advertise, send out e-mails, write articles and put a link in your bio box at the bottom. You can make posts on forums (and blogs that allow that), with a link in your signature…

One of the most effective ways to “drive traffic” is to use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

70+% of the people who are looking for things on the Net use the search engines to find them. You go to the nearest search engine window and “Google it”, type in a word or short phrase that describes what you are looking for. When you hit the “Search” button, a page of possible answers to your search appear.

The phrase you typed in is called a “keyword phrase”. The pages that appear are called SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Now, if you are selling “Red dog collars”, you will likely have a website or other location setup with a sales page to show off your merchandise, explain the benefits of your red dog collars and take orders.  So all you have to do is arrange to have a listing for your website (or whatever) to show up high on the 1st page of the SERPs when anyone types in “red dog collars”.

SEO is the art and science of arranging for YOUR listing to rank high in the SERPS for key word phrases that your buyers would be likely to type in. You see, there are almost always a lot of others who want THEIR sites to be listed first. And there are typically only 10 slots for listings on the first page.

The search engines (SE’s) want to provide a useful service. They want users to find what they are looking for. So they arrange the possible answers with the most probable first, on a “ranking” list that runs up to 100 to 500 positions, presented at 10 per page. The first listing on page one is “ranked number 1″, the next one “ranked 2″. The first on page 2 is ranked #11, first on page 3 is #21 and so on.

The SE’s use complex equations, algorithms, to weigh and value different factors to select the best, select the most likely over the less likely…

Searchers rarely look beyond the first three pages. 90% don’t go further than the first page. So the jockeying for position on the first pages is intense.  Ranking is everything. Listings on the first page in the SERPs, will get 10 times as many searchers clicking and coming to visit as will listings on the second page.

The search engines are constantly tweaking and adjusting their selection formulas to get better results. Thousands of SEO experts are constantly testing and trying to figure out what the SE’s are looking for.

One of the key factors for ranking is backlinks. Backlinks are links from somewhere else pointing to the site being evaluated. More important, more popular sites will have more links pointing to them.  From the point of view of the webmaster of a particular site, incoming links are pointing “back” to his site, thus the term “backlink”.

So there is great interest in and competition for getting backlinks to help increase your site’s rankings.

So how do you get backlinks? Ahh! Good question. But this posting is already long and must be finished here. The answer will have to wait for another posting…

Review of: WordPress Affiliate ClickBank Plugin

Many netrepreneurs are looking for ways to monetize their blogs, cover part of the costs, even make a profit, if possible. Up until now the options have been mostly limited to putting up banner ads for various products and services or signing up with AdSense. While these work to provide income, they are limited, often creating only marginal returns. Now, there is another alternative that shows a lot of promise.

“Boost Your blog Profits With A Few Simple Clicks” the sales page says. “Thanks to the WordPress Affiliate ClickBank Plugin it has never been easier to insert ClickBank affiliate text link ads into your WordPress blog.”

What this plugin does is add short AdSense-type ads to your homepage and/or to individual blog posts. The key point is that the software cues off of the blog’s theme plus individual blog post tags or keywords inside, as well as the blog’s overall theme. This way it, like AdSense, can select ads that are highly relevant to the material next to where they are shown!

The software is easy to use. Just input your ClickBank nickname/I.D. once, specify the number and positioning of ads, set the font and colors and the software does all the rest.

Your blogsite visitors can be shown short ads, relevant to each post they see or read. When they click on an ad they are taken, under your hoplink/affiliate link, directly to the sales page of the product being shown. If they choose to buy you get 100% of the commission!

The software license is sold for a one-time price with lifetime upgrades included. One purchase is for an unlimited number of installations. You can put it on 5, 10 or 50 or more blogsites! The price is low enough that the software will pay for itself with just 1 or 2 sales. It’s not a cost, it’s an investment!

The ability to customize type fonts and sizes, colors and positioning means that you can make the ads blend in well with any blogsite. Looks great!

This is new, just launched on 25 November. Go here (watch the videos!) for full information just click on the link…