While keyword research, link-building, content optimization, and other on-page strategies can improve your domain’s search ranking, search engine optimization (SEO) starts with getting your pages indexed and to do that you need to ensure they’re crawler-friendly. Crawler bots, like human users, appreciate sites which have clear, structured, readable data. However, since crawlers can...
After destroying MySpace, Orkut, Flickr and several other internet companies. FB is now after Craigslist, Olx, Kijiji, and 100s of other classified listing sites. The social networking giant opened its marketplace for everyone using FB. The new feature has not gone well with people using this site just for fun. But it has been received well by business owners using Facebook. Is FB’s new...
The number of internet users has grown from 100 to 3+ billion. Although a lot of firms have benefited from the internet revolution, many businesses have become bankrupt. eCommerce platforms have destroyed the business of 1000s of brick and mortar stores. The only way to survive the wrath of these sites is to make people aware of your shop/service and the products you sell. Listing a business...
In you’re not in the US, sending and receiving payment from an affiliate marketing service operating in the US can be a headache. PayPal is the first choice of many freelancers, bloggers, etc. But in the last 2 to 3 years, Payoneer has emerged as a great alternative to PayPal. Payoneer is a reliable service and many leading marketing services support it. So far, I’ve received about...
If you’re running a website, you must optimize it for search engines to succeed as a blogger, business owner etc. Programmers can have nightmares while making their site or client’s website SEO friendly. If you’re using a content management system, this task is a piece of cake, thanks to the best SEO plugins. If you’re new to WordPress CMS or if you’re site is not...
Blogging and Vlogging are two sides of the same coin. Many people employ these two methods to earn money online. In blogging, you start a new website and publish reviews and details of your favorite products, tips, etc. In Vlogging, you ask someone to record your video or if you’re publishing a video tutorial, you use a screen recorder tool to capture the desktop. Below, I have shared a...
People join affiliate programs or signup for AdSense to earn money online. In case you’re wondering which monetization technique you should implement on your blog, go through the following 6 to 7 paragraphs. AdSense or Affiliate Marketing : Which is better? AdSense is the world’s best CPC network. It has the highest CPC rates. AdWords is the backbone of AdSense. It has a large number...
Once your website starts ranking in search engines, you should check its Google keyword rankings often. If you don’t do so, competitors may steal your keywords and use them on their portals. A website with high domain authority won’t be affected by this. But if a site is new, competitor stealing your major keywords may have a negative impact on your website traffic. Today...
Amazon Associates affiliate program is one of the most important sources of revenue for many bloggers. If you’re struggling to earn money from Amazon, follow the below tips. Effective tips to increase Amazon affiliate sales Send more traffic: Amazon is counted among the most trusted brands in the world. It has listings of more than a million products. The products include household items...
1000s of changes have been made to Google Search Engine since it was launched in 1998. Engineers working at Google don’t reveal what changes were made, but they do warn or alert webmasters that their website traffic may be impacted by an update. In case your blog or website is not performing well suddenly in Google, you must know that your site has suffered a Google Penalty. To know which...
Freelance writing and blogging are two of the most preferred options for making money online by working from home. If you are planning to begin your career as an FW or a blogger, go through the below pros/cons of these two career options. Pros of Freelance Writing Better reputation: If authority sites like Huffington post, BGR, TechCrunch are publishing your articles, 1000s of people might know...
AdSense is a great platform for making money online. But getting approved for it or having a five or six figure AdSense revenue is a difficult task. People have a misunderstanding that GA is the only advertiser with which they can make them rich. They are wrong. Nothing is predictable in the world of internet. Hence, you should always try out different strategies for maximizing...
Traceroute is an important and one of the most widely used commands. It is recognized in all the operating systems. In case you’re searching for standalone Windows program that simulates the traceroute command, try out Open Visual Traceroute. OVT is an open source program that can be used on Windows as well as Linux OS. It has been built with Java and available for download on sourceforge...
Opt-in forms and Newsletter subscription services are the best tools to get loyal and regular audiences. Once your blog or website has a couple of thousand regular readers, money will keep flowing. WordPress, without any doubt, is the top CMS. Millions of bloggers use WP to fulfill their dream of running a website or making money from the web. If you use WP and want to add a killer opt-in form to...
Almost every website visit you visit uses an analytics tool to track visitors and their activity. Only the organization that own its will have access to the tracking data. The company doesn’t have any reason to make their data public unless they’re generating advertising revenue from the website. Many people using the internet are always curious to know how much traffic does their...
Pay per click advertisement platforms is the best way to monetize a blog. When it comes to the best PPC networks, nothing beats Google Adsense. GA is the most widely used PPC platform. It has 10 to 100 times better CPC rates than Chitika, InFolinks, Bidvertiser, etc. Thus, your first monetization option should always be Adsense. If your AdSense application gets disapproved, you should make your...
Email marketing is probably incomplete without a good newsletter plugins that add subscription forms in our WordPress sites. There are a lot of free plugins to add newsletter forums to a website, but the features they offer are limited. For example, the MailChimp plugin doesn’t support popups, and it lacks an Ajax based form which makes the sign-up process fast. You can only change the...
Google PR is dead, and it will never be updated in the future. Advertisers have started using Moz rank and domain authority to know whether a website is ranking high in search engines or not. One more important factor they consider for checking the popularity of a website is the Alexa rank. Domain authority and MR is generated by inbound link data of a website. Thus, a site with a good number of...
A website which opens quickly in the browser ensures the best user experience and higher rankings in Google search engine. Thus, the first thing that you should do after launching a new website is to check the page loading speed. Pingdom is one of the most widely used website speed checking tools, but it offers limited features due to which many people will use its below 2 top alternatives:...
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