Information Websites

Here is a simple challenge to help get your feet wet in the arena of Information Marketing … In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $10 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime.

Sounds easy but then a lot of things sound easy and turn out to be something other than easy. Visit my Squidoo Lens on the subject if such a challenge interests you.

The Thirty Day Challenge

Are you using the power of Squidoo.com?

Over the past month I have been building Squidoo pages (lenses) to spread the word about some of my online business ventures …or in other words, to get free traffic!

Squidoo is a wonderful method of driving addition traffic to your business sites. If you have a doubt, go to Google and type in something like… “craigslist exposed” and you’ll notice that right there on the first page of Google is someone’s page (lens) on Squidoo. Yes I know it is a shameless plug for a site and a lens that have only been online since May 31, 2007 and actually those top ranks happened in less than 14 days. While you are looking at the Google links for Craigslist Exposed you might want to look at the offer, as Craigslist is another powerful online marketing tool.

To say it plainly, GOOGLE LOVES SQUIDOO!

Here is a listing of all the lenses and groups that I have setup:
=> http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/mnmcom

It’s easy to set up a lens of your own too. There are many tutorials and a forum to help you. But the best part is..it’s 100% FREE to join! You can get your free Squidoo membership and setup you first lens here:
=> http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/MnMcom

Please let me know when you’ve joined and made a lens. I’ll check it out and give it a rating and post to your guest book!

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1) Absolutely Free Advertising and Promotion for Your Business

With Craigslist, you won’t have to worry about losing money on advertising that just isn’t working. In fact, you can use Craigslist to find what’s selling, then expand into other places to increase your profits.

2) Increased Business, Repeat Business, Referrals and more

With Craigslist, you’ll be able to take advantage of one of the most effective marketing techniques ever: Word of Mouth. Since you won’t have to jack up prices on your products or services to account for advertising costs, people will be happily referring you to others…and it won’t cost you a penny more!

Here is what you will learn inside this guide….

# Can you really earn a full time income just by using Craigslist? The site itself gets a massive 40 BILLION pageviews each and every month. I’m sure your product won’t apply to all of the visitors, but don’t you think at least a few are bound to be interested?

# The keys to earning a profit on Craigslist. It’s one thing to see money coming in…but making sure that you aren’t losing money is extremely important. So how does Craigslist make it easier, and what can you do to make sure it happens?

# What different ways can you use Craigslist to your advantage to make money? The key here is that there is room for just about anything…whether you sell a tangible product, an ebook or offer some sort of service. We’ll go over the different ways available to help you decide what best fits into your business plan.

# How do you post an ad on Craigslist…and some tips to make your ad a little more effective than the next guy’s. There are some key elements that you must include in your ad to ensure you get the most views possible to it. Can you guess what the biggest element is?

# And a lot more!

Look at it this way $7.00 really is a painless drop in the bucket compared to the time you could spend testing all these techniques on your own…or buying other manuals that only give you half of the information you need.

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There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works.

The concept is really simple, if you think about it. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click.

The search engine is the one handling all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive and targeted ads without having the hassle to solicit advertisers, collect funds, monitor the clicks and statistics which could be a time-consuming task in itself. It seems that there is never a shortage of advertisers in the program from which the search engine pulls the Adsense ads. Also webmasters are less concerned by the lack of information search engines are providing and are more focused in making cash from these search engines.

The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters. Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.

The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on. It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.

The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted.

With the real-time reporting at hand, the effectiveness of the changes made will be assessed quickly. There would be time to sort out the contents that people are making the most clicks on. The ever-changing demands would be met while generating cash for the webmasters and publishers. The more flexible tools are also allowing webmasters to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.

The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. Thus increasing the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services. All because of the content and its constant maintenance. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.

Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines’ ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best.

There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. It still is. With the allure of money, of course.

Make the day everything that you can …

Finally the content websites have been setup as well as links have been added. The site as a whole has been submitted to Google as well as a Sitemap has been submitted …

Still need to start submitting the site to various Directories and Search Engines as well as work on a few content articles to be submitted to the various article databases …

Make the day everything you can …

This site is being setup to experiment with various forms of  internet marketing … I would like to see what works and what does not work so this site was created to allow that to happen.

To begin with this blog has been setup to see how quick that the site can find it’s way into the search engines.

The second part of this experience has to do with the wonderful world of Google Adsense …

Content is said to be king on the internet so let’s see how well that holds to be true …

The day is what you make of it …