How to Make Money on the Internet

I just finished testing the latest version of “Keyword Snatcher”, a terrific brand-new KeyWord-finding tool that is phenomenal!  It is a “must-have” for anyone who needs good Key Words or does KW research.

If that doesn’t include you, then just ignore this message.

If you are doing anything that requires good key words, you owe it to yourself to have a look at this. Google has been deceiving people who use its free Keyword tool into thinking that’s all the KW’s there are.

Actually there are lots more, several times what Google admits. Take a look at the video here:

http://jorchav.com/suggests/KeywordSnatcher

And read a few of the testimonials. I was a beta tester for this product. I know many of the people who left testimonials. This is for real…

And it’s only available this week, through Friday June 25. The vendor does not want to let too many of these get out. The users have a competitive advantage over everyone else, since they can easily find good keywords with low competition… So they are time-limiting the offer.

Just wanted you to know about it. Sorry for the sudden and short notice, but if you work with KeyWords, this would not wait…

To Your Internet Success!

Jorge

Would you like to make money on the Internet?

Here is actionable information about 77 different, real and actual ways you can make $100 per day on the Internet. Choose the one you like, do half of one and half on another to mix them… your choice.

Have a look: 77 ways to make $100 per day

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…

There is a great deal of hype, misinformation and consequent uncertainty about webhosting on the Internet. Many webhosting companies make claims to be the best and you see all sorts of pricing out there.

So if you are starting out, where should you start? Here are some guidelines that should help:

1. Remember that there are lots of webhosts out there, and there is much competition amongst them. If you shop around, you can find good deals.

2. Those that make the most “noise”, that advertise the most and aggressively seek new clients, are spending a lot on promotion, the costs of which will come out in the prices you pay. Go cautiously with these. Don’t get pushed into a bad deal.

3. What you want is good quality hosting with account options that leave you room to expand. Generally speaking, you will want:
A. High uptime (99.9%) with a guarantee. A cheap webhost whose servers go down frequently means that your customers will not be able to find your website and will go somewhere else. Uptime percentage is very important to you, the user. Also, many SAY they have 99.9% uptime, but it’s not true. Look for a guarantee with teeth, like one that refunds a portion up to all of your webhosting fee if they do not meet the 99.9% goal.
B. Accounts that allow multiple domains. In reality, the web host’s costs are mainly for storage space and bandwidth. You can find webhosting accounts that set limits on these and then let you put up as many domains as you wish within those space and bandwidth limits.
C. Good support, 24/7
D. Up-to-date servers that support all standard protocols and features such as fantastico, latest versions of php, etc.

4. It’s difficult to tell whether a given webhost lives up to its claims or really knows what “quality” support is. For this reason it’s best to pay by the month, at least at first. If it doesn’t work out, you can try another. Don’t get trapped into a one-year prepaid contract with a second-rate webhost!

If you want to study and learn a great deal about webhosting, visit Web Hosting Talk. That’s a huge industry forum of webhosts, with all kinds of info.

You can scroll down to the bottom of the home page to “Advertising Forums”. Under that look for “Web Hosting Offers” at the top of the list. Here you will find literally hundreds of webhosts offering their services, side by side.

That kind of cuts through the hype and claims; gets down to “What do they offer?” and “What does it cost?”    Like going to a farmer’s market where different vendors sell similar products. No way to price gouge, all sellers have to be competitive or they sell nothing…

Of course it takes time to sort through the offers. I went through that, tried several. One was a disaster! Search on my username there, (jorchav) to read about it. A few more were tried and culled out for one reason or another.

Finally I settled on three.

Cube Host for good service and excellent prices. I use them for plain-vanilla applications and websites and they are fine for that. Their prices start at $3.95 a month for 5 gb of web storage space and 75gb of bandwidth (that’s a LOT!). That comes with unlimited domains, sub-domains and e-mail addresses.

I also use Hawk Host for good prices and excellent support. I use them for high-volume sites and anything complex. They always help me out of problems. Each time I ask for support they solve the problem AND give me more experience and education in solving server-side problems in the process.

A basic account is 3gb storage, 30gb bandwidth, unlimited domains. It goes at $3.95/month, but you have to pay three months at a time. Well, what the heck! That’s only $11.85 every 3 months.

India Nets is another great low-cost webhost with excellent service and a friendly, helpful tech support group.  I’ve had two accounts with them for over a year now; I can testify to their better than 99.9% uptime!.

Their hosting plans start at 1gb of space, 10gb bandwidth for 1 domain at $1.99 a month or $19.99 per year, 2 gb space 2gb bw, 10 domains $2.99/mo.  or $29.99/year and go up from there.  They can also supply you with hosting on up to 100 different class C IP’s for about $2 per month each.

Why do I use more than one webhost?

Good question. I discussed that in in another blog entry here, “Defensive Webhosting and Domain Name Registration.”

Jorge Chavez

If you are going to do almost anything on the Internet, sooner or later you will need domain names and web hosting.  O.K.  No problem. There are lots of suppliers of domain name registration and web hosting space, right?

Right.  But it’s best to use a bit of planning first. Ernest Hemingway once said, “Life is a game. They put you in without telling you the rules, then shoot you when they catch you off base.”  No one told me the rules of the domain name and web space game. I had to get “shot” a couple of times and learn them as I went along.

What did I learn? Well, here’s a summary:

1. The sellers who advertise the most, push hardest, are easiest to find, are the most expensive.

2. Never get your domain name and your web hosting from the same place. Keep them separate.

[The reason is that if your web host has problems and their servers go down, you can simply redirect your domain's DNS info and have your site up and running on a different webhost in minutes. But ONLY if your domain is registered elsewhere. When problems come up (as has happened to me on 3 separate occasions, 3 different webhosts) the webhost will be unavailable for contact or unwilling to redirect your domain. With a separate registration service, YOU are in charge. With domain registration and web hosting at one place, that company will be in charge!]

3. Always have more than one webhosting account, each with capacity to handle the rest of your domains.

[Personally, I have 5 web hosting accounts, three of which each has the capacity to host all 60+ of my domains and websites. (2 are small experiments.) If one webhost goes down, I can move my websites there, immediately to another of my web hosting accounts. I can do this without having to ask anyone or open another account. I can do it at 2AM on Sunday morning on a holiday weekend if I need to. That way I am in control and relatively sure of being able to keep my websites up and running.]

4. Always have a recent copy of each of your websites on your hard disk so YOU can restore that site anywhere, anytime. Then backup your HD frequently.

[Either get a portable hard drive to use for backup, make CD's or keep backup copies online. You can get a free personal 2gb of backup space at mozy.com ]

So who would I recommend you deal with? Well, here’s the ones I use:

Registrars:

Name.com

Dynadot.com

Both are no-nonsense, low overhead, customer-oriented outfits with good prices, good service.

Webhosting:

Cube Host

Hawk Host

Both provide 5-6gb of storage, 30-75gb of bandwidth with unlimited domains and 99.9% uptime, starting at $3.95/month!

Also:  India Nets that can start you off with excellent  hosting for 1 domain for  $1.99 a month or $19.99 per year! 10 domains for $2.99/mo, $29.99/year!

All three provide great support, very good prices and over 99.9% uptime. Again, these are not outfits I have just heard about, they are the ones I use every day and have been using for over a year now.  I know from experience that these guys are good, and their prices are at rock-bottom for the quality of service they provide.

Jorge Chavez