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Useful Tool You Can Use Online

Published on January 29, 2008 in General, Money and Tutorials. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

SEO Tools – Page Rank Search

This tool allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish and determine the relevancy of the sites associated with those keywords you searched for. It is free and a reliable tool you can use while finding and selecting which niche you would like to tap into.

To get started, first go to www.seochat.com
On the left panel, select “Page Rank Search” under SEO Tools in bold type.

On the space provided, type the keyword or keyword phrase related to you niche. To get better result, conduct search with “ “.

For instance, you want to create a weight loss program for vegetarian. Then type
“Weight loss for vegetarian” in the space provided, with the “ ”.

Below the space, select “order by page rank” on the drop down menu and Results (100).
Click “Search”.

The reason you are searching with “ ” is to get more accurate results for the people who are searching for the exact terms or keyword phrase as it is.

You might question how helpful is this in selecting your targeted niche, the answer is very simple .

On the upper right corner of search results, you will notice a number of results found in correspondence to your target niche. The smaller the number the better, that means you have not many competing pages. But that is not enough; you need to look at the graphical bar that represents the Page Rank of those particular sites. Look at the top three search results, the smaller the page rank, the higher your chance of dominating that particular niche.

Bottom line: There are two criteria for a profitable niche. First, the number of competing pages, or search result has to be less than 5,000. Second, the page rank for top three search results has to be at most 3 or less.

Work at home: Home Business idea to make money online

Published on January 24, 2008 in General and Tutorials. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

Work at home: Home Business idea to make Money Online

It’s the first month of the year and you have “Starting an online business” as one of your resolution. You told yourself you’ve had enough and nobody is going to put a thumb on you anymore.

Many people who want to start a business online end up buying themselves another job. Instead of working for someone else, they have opted to work for themselves.

“Anything you can conceive, you can achieve.” The only limit we have is our perceived limitation.

The followings are 5 baby steps to help you start your online business.

1. The bigger: the why, the smaller: the how.
The first step to start an online business is to ask yourself “Why would I want to start an online business?”. Be it for the financial independence, to eventually replace your full time income or simply to have a side income, find that reason.

2. Define what end result you would like to achieve.
For instance to create certain amount of passive income. Without a goal, you will get to anywhere. This is different from the first step because here you set yourself end goals you need to achieve in order to complete the “why” you’re doing it.

3. Do your research.
An hour of research can save you up to $1000 of operating costs . Read anything you can about the industry you want to get started with, then make decision very carefully. Find a model in the area you wish to pursue. Read articles or books those models wrote and participate in forum. Beware of of paralysis analysis, don’t get engaged in the mind set. Of course you need to do your due diligence in researching, but never expect you will get them all perfect. Take educated action, make informed decisions.

4. Put a plan in place.
Think on ink. Flexibility is not gained by not having a plan. With a plan, we have more time and energy to invest on high value tasks. In your plan, determine what commitment you are willing to make, such as time commitment, financials and etc. Make a list out of all the resources you will need to execute that plan.

5. Set realistic and manageable goal at the beginning.
Raise the bar every time you reach a goal. Act in faith and believe that you will achieve your goal.

There are so many ways you can make money online. You can choose to create and sell your own product, you can sell other people’s products or render professional service online.

Many newbie entrepreneurs made the mistake of jumping too fast into the water and only to realize it’s too early to jump and too late the pull themselves out of the water, and the water is freezing.

Not planning is a plan to failure. End of a plan is the beginning of a new plan. Take calculated risks and massive actions to make your vision a reality.

Backlinking your own website

Published on January 22, 2008 in SEO and Tutorials. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

Back link refers to the incoming links to a website, be it from an article, blog, directory and etc. This is one of the most critical factors over the concept of SEO (search engine optimization) because of how it contributes to the page rank your website will receive .

It is used by search engines such as Google to determine a site content’s relevancy. The more links point to your site, the more relevant the site and hence, higher your ranking on search page will be .

While having a high page rank is vital to the popularity of your site, back links also contribute to driving quality (targeted) traffic to your site.

There are groups of websites where they hyperlink to each other in order to get lots of back links . Those groups are known as “link farms”, a form of spamming in order to get on the index of search engines . It could be done either manually or automatically . This method seems to be unscrupulous and unfair because it influences the search engine index.

Of course, your website won’t be banned by Google for using link farms. Search engines are able to identify and filter pages that are suspicious of link farming, and those pages will be removed from the search engine index to prevent them from entering the search results.

To do it the right way, make sure that the back links that you insert are placed on sites with quality content, and they are of same niche as yours, with similar content, targeting the same audience. Anchor relevant and important keywords to attract more quality traffic to your site.

Keep track of your backlinks to see how many have been indexed.

You can create more backlinks through Article Marketing by submitting quality articles to articles directories with a link to your blog or websites. Other methods include social bookmarking, publishing RSS, commenting on other blogs, participating in forum discussions, creating a post containing links on your blog and making sure they are related to your niche.