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June 19th, 2007 — blog monetization, online tools
If you are a professional blogger, say you’re a corporate blogger or you’re blogging for a blog network and you’re one of those who can’t get past the stage of using some blog accessories you’ve always enjoyed during your younger personal blogging days, you can still have some fun and ”earn some money” if you do it with moderation.
Here are some blog accessories bloggers who are making money online with their blogs can make use of without turning off their readers:
Clean and Easy to Navigate Blog Layout
There are thousands of free Wordpress themes and Blogger templates out there that you can choose from. But how do you know which assist you in your endeavor to increase your blog profits? Select a blog template that is cool - to the eye that is. White background and lots of space is still the fad if you want your visitors to enjoy reading your blog. Make sure that your sidebar and blog’s body is not cluttered with too many buttons and other unnecessary blog accessories. A modern Web 2.0 touch won’t hurt either if you want your blog to look trendy. Continue reading →
June 14th, 2007 — get paid tos, online tools
Mahalo Greenhouse, a site where people can help in filling the Mahalo search engine, the human-edited search engine service that Jason Calacanis founded.
Mahalo Greenhouse is looking for part-time guides to help in collecting the best search engine results.
The requirements to be a guide include:
a. Experience blogging and participation in projects such as Wikipedia and DMOZ
b. Knowledge and passion about specific verticals, such as travel, entertainment, or health
c. The desire to help other people Continue reading →
June 12th, 2007 — affiliate program, online tools
If you think that you can get money for displaying advertisements, just any kind of advertisements, you’re right. However, you can’t get BIG MONEY out of that method. You have to choose well what kind of affiliate program to advertise on your site. Keeping ads contextual is one great way to make sure that you monetize your site while offering something of value to your visitors.
So how do you make sure you get to choose the best affiliate program? One is to learn more about your visitors’ demographics. Continue reading →
June 5th, 2007 — blog promotion, online tools
Those who would like to get more traffic for their sites but are obsessed with keyword-stuffing can definitely benefit from this information I have just recently confirmed.
Link building is a better traffic booster than writing web content made for search engines.
How did I find out about this? I have been experimenting on a blog that I stuff with keyword-rich content for more than a year now and it has never reached the first spot of the only 20,000,000 search engine results although it sometimes reaches the first page.
I think that many of the sites that are consistently on the first page are not even targeting the keywords that I have been tweaking my content with, these sites are still on the first page of the search engine results for the terms that I thought my blog deserves to be found with.
After analyzing what it is with those sites that causes them to outrank my content SEO’ed blog, I discovered they have more backlinks or inbound links compared with the number of IBL’s my blog has.
Want more proof that link building still rules when it comes to getting that coveted SERP (search engine results pages) placement? Continue reading →
May 28th, 2007 — online tools
Do you have an e-commerce site? Or do you have a professional blog that’s meant to gain you more clients? If you are planning to increase interaction or simply make your website more helpful in your endeavor to improve your client base, these online tools might be what you’ve long been looking for:
1. Click and Connect Customer Service Tool
A phone to phone service from Jaduka that connects a user to a customer service representative with just one click.
2. Google Maps API
Online businesses with brick-and-mortar stores can benefit from this Google service. It embeds a customizable map on a website with the help of Javascript technology.
3. Web Video Tool
One of the advertising media that is gaining momentum is via online videos. Interactive Video Technologies is a DIY tool that can make webcasting a cinch if you have products or services that you’d like to demonstrate for promotional purposes.
I’d like to add Sitepal, which lets you create an animated character that can speak about your products/services.
Got any new online business tool that wasn’t mentioned here? Please feel free to share your secret on getting more clients to frequent your site and avail of your services.
Know more of these tools via Entrepreneur.
Tags: drive traffic, online video, Jaduka, Google maps, Sitepal
May 24th, 2007 — general, online tools
How much is your time worth? The never-ending question personal finance experts AND freelancers keep on trying to answer. Now how about using a calculator to determine how much your time is worth really.
FreelanceSwitch have developed a fun calculator that aims to guide freelancers on coming up with a good estimate of their hourly rate. This calculator depends on the expenses, number of billable hours, and desired profit of a freelancer.
Here is the FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator.
I tried it and guess what’s my ideal hourly rate? $28.13!
Tell me yours? 
Tags: freelance hourly rate, calculate hourly rate