Many people brag and post about ‘My site is number 1 for this keyword’, but forget the most obvious thing….

Google, MSN, Yahoo organic SERP’s display the snippet of page (usually META description) and the title tag of the page returned for the keyword. Most people forget that you can change what appears on these pages. Based upon this point, if people are searching for a certain keyphrase and your site comes up with some boring text, regardless whether your website is position one, it wont get clicked. SELL YOUR LINK.

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A short post this one, but none the less a good one.

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Many people say that ebooks are a waste of time and really dont make money. Well honestly, they are wrong. Ebooks do sell. Why? The time it takes somebody to research something on the internet, people would rather pay the odd $10/$20 dollars on the internet for an ebook which will tell them everything they need. What is $10 to somebody? Nothing. They sell.

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There are so many posts about “making money online”. Some people tell you “adsense”, then they say “text link ads”, then they say “affiliate marketing”. Im going to clarify a few things about each of the previously mentioned so you can pick the right way to make money online.

Adsense

To make money online from Google Adsense, you need two things.

1. Decent Traffic
2. Appropriate Niche

Adsense only works if you have decent traffic. (more…)

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Google Adsense; description below; in my opinion, is dying (ah! I hear you scream….read on howevever);

AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.

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Perhaps the two sites at the moment driving the biggest amount of traffic to websites - disregarding the major search engines are Stumbleupon and Digg.   To start off, lets introduce these two websites.

StumbleUpon - http://www.stumbleupon.com -

Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.

Digg - http://www.digg.com -

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.

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