Saturday, May 12, 2007

How To Promote A Website

Most business today includes a replicated website. There are some tried-and-true methods to how to promote a website, but I think that people rely on them too much. Everyone knows some of the standard how to promote website techniques: you want to increase hits, increase visibility, and increased traffic in any way you can. This can be done by getting keyword optimized web content, signing up for ad space on various other websites, setting up business referral arrangements and the like.

However, the problem is that everyone uses these approaches. There are literally thousands upon thousands of people in your area of expertise or desired interested involved in doing exactly the same thing. Thus, it is obvious why there is a problem. There can be only so many people who can rank high in any given Google, Yahoo or MSN search.

These techniques are good to learn how to promote a website, but it cannot be your only strategy. Unless you are very good at SEO optimized content, you need something more site-specific.

This article will be continued in my next post.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Making Money Online Is Possible

Making money online is possible, but it is not a get rich quick scheme. I stated to believe as the old saying “if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.” However, I came across Ayopah. I was so amazed. Escape International is the company who backs them. This company gives you cash back just for shopping online. I initially thought that it was some time of membership scheme. I thought that I would have to buy their products in order to get money back. I was not biting. Then, I stated getting emails from a few of my friends. They knew that I wanted to work from home so the kept after me. I could not believe what they were telling me so I researched the company myself. I was amazed. Then, I thought "how much is it going to cost me?" I was flooded when I learned that it was Free. That's enough for today. See you tomorrow; I will let you know what I learned.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Survey Opportunities...What A Joke!

The next pitfall that I fell into in trying to make money online was the completion of surveys. This is the biggest rip off that there is on the internet. For one thing you can join companies to get mailed the surveys without going through a third party. The third party has you pay money then they simply give you the websites of the survey companies. I ended up spending money joining music and make up clubs as well as ordering magazines. There was one survey that I took that I was paid $1.50 for taking. The third party company stated that you could make hundreds of dollars a week spending fifteen to twenty hours. This was not a sure bet in making money online for me. The person that was making money online in this case was the one that found the survey takers for the companies, who in turn bought from the companies.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Data Entry Opportunities .. What A Scam

We have all come across the sites that claim that you can make thousands of dollars a week spending a few minutes a day whenever you want to. Most of these sites call themselves data entry opportunities. They tell you that if you can type an email you can do the job and make thousands of dollars a week. The information that is not shared prior to buying into the company is that you need to spend a great deal of money posting the advertisements that you type up.

I paid to learn more about the data entry positions.In the hype portion, I was told that all I needed to do was to fill out forms and post them on the internet. I was not told that I first had to pay to get the forms and then had to pay to post them. I also had to research which company had the greatest potential of helping me recoup my money as well as make a profit. It was a very complicated and misleading experience.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

When Searching For A Home Bassed Business

When I first started looking for a home based business, I was bombarded with advertisements.

For anyone that watches late night television and infomercials, it is not news that there are many business opportunities on the internet. There are many advertisements in print media, television and a few months ago I even heard a commercial on the radio. With all the hype about home based and internet based business opportunities I decided that I would inform my readers of some of the things that I experienced with I first took a look into home based business to help them supplement their income while avoiding some of the pitfalls that I encountered. My entries will go over a few days so stay tuned.

To begin, there are many sites that make huge claims about making money online. In my research, I found that some of them are complete scams and others are complicated business ventures. I did come up with a few pitfalls and tools that I used in sorting out the opportunities. It is very easy to get caught up in spending money to obtain information. That is the first pitfall that I fell into when I first started. When looking into making money online do not pay for information about the opportunity.