Some days ago (on Friday, if I remember well) I decided to try using Twitter as a money making machine, since I’ve been reading around that it has become a powerful marketing tool.

I purchased a copy of Twitter Traffic Machine since they have a 60 day money back guarantee, a cool YouTube video that really inspired me, didn’t seem too hard to implement and didn’t take too much time.

When I started using it I had around 200 followers. Today I have more than 2000, and kinda lot of them are targeted for what I wanted. I also made my first sale ever yesterday. So I basically got half of the money I spent back in just 2 days! I feel so great, really!

Since I rarely believe the screenshots people post on their sales pages, I’m giving you the proof that my followers indeed grew a lot: http://twittercounter.com/nasalchy. The stats are a bit slow to update so bare with them. Oh and yeah, for testing reasons I created another account and because I’m sooooo evil, I gave her a female nickname and photo and check her out, she got more then 2200 followers in 4 days

So once again I’m telling you: if you have $30 and want to try earning some money online, buy Twitter Traffic Machine and TRY implementing it! Creating an account on Twitter takes 30 seconds and doing what they explain will take you another 30 minutes of work!

And if it doesn’t work, request your money back.

Twitter Traffic Machine

Edit (05. june 2009): the second sale came in today.. I think it’s only because I set this up last week and only today checked and pimped up things. So this really works. iHappy!

If you wanted to purchase OIO Publisher but didn’t have the money to do it, you can now buy it for $25, which is $22 cheaper than it’s official price!

For those who don’t know, OIO Publisher is a plugin (fully compatible with WordPress) that manages the ad space on your site, without the need of having a middle man (someone who sells advertisements for you). This means you keep 100% of the money.

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I quote:

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So that’s mean after we purchase OIOpublisher plug-ins, the comissions from what we sell with that plug-ins is 100% belong to us. We can sell a lot of of things with OIOpublisher. We can sell banners, inpost advertising, text links and even custom products/services!. This Plugins is really easy to use and install with only $47 we can get back the ROI from the money we spent, even more.

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Google uses an algorithm to determine the search engine results (SERPS). The algorithm is based upon certain factors that include keyword density, Meta Tags, anchor tags, image tags, back links, etc etc etc.

If your site is optimized for specific keywords than you will rank better in the search engines. There are many factors but onsite optimization is a must. You can research and fine out the information yourself or hire and SEO. I have put together some Free Basics on www.seo4dummies.com

Overture shows you the bid price of certain keywords. Wordtracker show you the amount the term is searched. You can use www.nichebot.com a free tool to see all this at once.

You can research keywords free online with these various tools.

www.nichebot.com ( my personal SEO Favorite)

http://www.webmasterautomation.com/cgi-bin/keywordtool.cgi

http://www.keyworddensity.com ( Keyword density analyzer )

Adsense / Adwords.

Google Adwords have a bid price to display certain "keyword terms". Think of Adwords as TV commercials. Webmasters can put Adsense on there websites. Think of Adsense as the TV Program. If a viewer of your webpage clicks on one of your ads, you get a commission. That commission is based upon the price of the Adword. Google keeps about 60% of the bid price and passes about 40% to the webmaster or Adsense account.

The way the Adsense ads are displayed is determined by the Keyword Density of your individual sites. If you site is prominently about "say Dogs" then the Adsense will display ads about Dogs. However, Google in its new business model is now tracking IP numbers and providing more local ads. Think of the local TV commercials. They are not as expensive as the National Ads. Therefore you may have local ads that are displayed on your site that have only a$0.03 payout rather than a $5.00 payout.

If you optimize you site for your theme, or content, then you can generate more traffic to you sites based upon your keywords. The Google Adsense, will display ads relevant to your topics. If they are not displaying ads to our topic, then you must adjust your Density of your keywords in the body of text of the page.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of changing your website, so that it is spider friendly. If your site is brand new it will take a few months for Google to index your site and be visible in the SERPs. This is known as the "Google sandbox theory". Aged sites should already be indexed as long as the site has something for the spiders to grab. Excessive graphics, java scripts, PHP sessions are all not spider friendly.

To get spiders to come to your site often and grab your data, you must have links from outside websites to your site. This is the Coveted Page Rank factor. Page rank is only a factor of the amount of incoming and outgoing links to your site. Only a small percentage of Page Rank is attributed to the Google Algorithm for Search Engine Results at this time.

Spiders follow links, once there are links established the spiders will Crawl, your sites. They will gather minimal information. Several Weeks to months later, the spiders will Deep crawl you site and index all that is available. To speed this process along, back links or links to other sites is a must. The more links the spider can travel to get to your site the better. Linking to like minded topics is always best. You don’t need to buy LINKS. You can acquire links via posts in forums, writing and submitting articles, using a Blog post, submitting to SEO friendly directories.

To view the spider activity on your site, first go to your traffic stats. Look for the googlebots. See how often they come and the amount of data they have "grabbed". You can also go to Google itself and if you are indexed view the Cache of your page. That cache date is a good indication of the last true crawl of your site.

To see if you are indexed go to Google and type in the search box, site:www.yourwebsite.com ( make sure the word site is not Capitalized and you replace he words your website with your actual URL). View the results. You should also repeat the process and this time leave out the www. , and just enter the site:yourwebsite.com Sometime webmasters leave out the www., but then look for Google using the www. Or link to sites using the www. Either way is fine, just pick one version and be consistent with www. Or non www throughout your website career.

As the spiders come to your site they will start to grab information, that information is sorted and returns the SERPS. Did you know that there are different DataCenters throughout the world that Hold that information? If you ask a friend on the say East Cost to search for a term and tell you where you site is in the SERPS, they result on the West cost may be completely different. As much as 5-10 or more positions depending on the activity of that keyword.

Ok that’s enough for today.

Before using keywords for your site, it is always better to check for the popularity of these sub theme keywords. Some or all of the tools mentioned in the keywords tools section could be utilized to measure the popularity of these keywords.

Based on the popularity count of these tools we should come up with a descending order listing of our most unused but good key phrase. These are our good target keywords. As the competition increases on the keywords, deeper optimization then just building keyword specific pages will have to be done.

Variations on sub- theme words:

This is the word- play to get into the mind of the user.

Now our set of 25 to 30 keywords will be expanded to include singular-plural word combinations, juxtaposing the same words in a different combination, using synonyms, building on the list of words using Thesaurus & a good dictionary.

The ideal set of keywords/ key phrases is to come up with around 70-100 possible ways of looking for that web site on the search engines (our keyphrases)

Research on these variations of the sub theme keywords for actually combing up with the combinations that are relatively un optimized for yet popular. At the end of this exercise we will have the ranked list of keywords, which we can start optimizing for.

General observations & other nuggets:

When using google to check for the competing pages through the SERP house the keyphrase in quotes. This will do the exact phrase searching for the phrase that we are optimizing for. Now to have a real feel of the actual competition on this phrase use the adword tool.

Typically offline competition for the business & online competition are not equivalent. The client needs to be driven out of this mindset. Online the competition for us depends on the key-phrases that we choose rather then the industry or the competition chosen keywords.

Another useful tip is to watch out for the ranking of the subpages on the SERPS page.

A higher occurenec of a sub- page suggests a lesser competitive key- phrase.

Keep excel sheets handy to work out on your key words

Here is a benchmark: If the site is fairly well optimized, and has a focused theme, then the combined total number of visitors from secondary variations of the main keyword phrase, should be higher than the number of visitors from your main phrase by itself.

Another yardstick can be that 20% of your search traffic reach you through your primary theme words. Another 20% through the sub theme words & their combos & the remaining 60% is fractional. A true pyramid.

Keep the keyword density on your pages in between 5-20% while optimizing. The latest talking optimization based on keywords is that almost none of the things mentioned above might apply as it is. You create text based on the end user perspective & optimize for 5-6 keywords per page. Check your referrer stats & fine tune optimization.

Free Keyword Tools:

The first tool that can be used is Overture.

One trick is to check the keywords on all the Overture tools, US, UK, DE, FR and even JP. You would be surprised at the ideas you can come up with on the other O Tools that do not appear on the US one. Also, the de-pluralizing and match-drive-alphabetization some times does not appear on the other tools. Second tool of course is the word tracker.

Use Google adwords to check on the competition for the chosen phrases using the CPC barometer. Higher the CPC more the competition.

Another tool is at:

http://espotting.com/popups/keywordgenbox.asp

Yet another tool is Alta Vista “PRISMA”

One can use Refine search option of Teoma to arrive at more generic/Primary keywords. Another way of doing that could be through the DMOZ subcategory study.

Refining of key words can be done using the Server side data or the referrs log.

7Search.com’s Keyword Suggestion Tool

http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/keywordsuggestion.aspx

More tools in here:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Online_Tools/Keywords/

Once the keywords have been finalized lets look at the places where we can utilize them.

Putting images near ads is said to increase your CTR (Click Through Rate), so why shouldn’t we give it a try?

If you are a WordPress user, you can use the AdSense Beautifier plugin, which beautifies your Adsense Ads by placing images near them.

Installation process:

• Download the plugin, unzip it and upload it to your wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Navigate to your WordPress Admin Panel and activate the plugn
• Go to the Options page where you will see an AdSense submenu
• Paste your original AdSense code into the textarea and push the button (by Sugababes )
• Copy your new code and paste it wherever you want to

Ps. you could do the same thing manually but why bother, if you have a plugin that does all the work for you available? If you do it manually, be aware of the fact that you must put a visible border between the images and the ads, to avoid confusion and invalid clicks.

Do you use AdSense?

Why should you increase your Alexa Ranking?

Alexa Rank is based on the level of visits your site recieves from people that have the Alexa Toolbar installed on their system. So why is it important? Since many web developers use this toolbar, this rank has become a very important factor to advertising services like Text Link Ads, ReviewMe and others, which tend to determine the worth of the links you sell on your site according to your Alexa Rank.

DoshDosh suggested 20 quick ways to increase Alexa Ranking and I suggest you reading them. I’m using three of those (the easiest) and I must admit it is working, this blog gained about 600.000 ranks in two weeks and is now gaining like 30.000 places per week (but I guess it’s because it’s easy to come under the million rank) and another site gained more then 9.000.000 places in one week (but again, it was from 17.000.000 to 8.000.000).

What did I do?

• Install the Alexa Toolbar or the Sparky Addon for Firefox (somebody suggests the SearchsStatus plugin for Firefox)
• Do the same on every computer you have access to (let’s say at your friends, in your office, in your school) and put your website as the homepage
• Put an Alexa Widget on your site.

Did you ever try to increase your Alexa Ranking? What did you do?

As everyone knows, there is a ton of affilate programs in which you need to be accepted, and it may happen that you wait for a long time and then your site doesn’t get even accepted.

The story is different with the Matched affilate program, where the method for earning 100€ (a little less) per month is actually very easy.

So here it goes:

- Register to Matched as a publisher and you get £5 (6,26€) only for registering (yes, only for taking the time to fill a form).

- Add your website and 5 sub-pages (they don’t need have a lot of visits)

- You can add up to 5 webpages

- In the next 24 hours, you should see a notice saying that they are trying to match an ad to your page. When it’s done you just add their code to your site.

- For every page you earn £3. With a simple calculation, we see that we can earn £3 * 5 * 5 = £75 = 93,98€ every month, practically by doing nothing.

- In yuor account click “Affilates” and in a moment you are an Affilate, get a link to give to your friends so they can register as well. Did I mention that you get £5 for everyone that registers through your link?

I suggest you registering to Matched and giving it a try. You have nothing to lose and a lot to earn

If you register with my affilate id, I can return the favor by putting a banner pointing to your site for one month (in the sidebar) or by registering as your affilate. Thank you!

PS. they pay on PayPal