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Making a blog is one of the more common website types; it can be very personal and very impersonal, making blogs very versatile. However, one thing is very clear; blogs can still be extremely profitable, with moderate amounts of work. Blogs can take anywhere from three months to three years to get a great profit going. Let me show you how!

Step 1: Get a Domain, Script, and Website Hosting.

I have decided to combine these three, technically four steps (script installing would be step 4), but in order to save time I have combined them. So, down to business, get a domain, but first choose a topic for your blog, for example, InternetIncomeTeacher.com is a blog that teaches people how to make money online, you can also do a blog about your personal life, your hobbies, or another topic such as search engine optimization! After you have chosen your topic, choose a domain name you like, from a registrar you like (such as MadDogDomains.com), make sure to choose a domain with a few keywords about your blog topic. Next, buy or download a script you like. I highly recommend WordPress, this script is fantastic for blogs and it is very search engine friendly with a few add-ons. For InternetIncomeTeacher.com we use a couple add-ons, such as the All-In-One SEO pack, and the XML sitemap-generator. This makes our website very search engine friendly and very easy for Google to index! Here are some templates to customize your new blog with, and here is the plugins directory. Now, you will need great website hosting, and as I have always suggested, use hostmonster.com. Yes they make you pay for a year in advance, but trust me, it is worth it! You don’t want your website being taken offline because your billing information was denied by a hosting company that does month to month billing. Lastly, script installation, and as always I offer a service to all my readers, $5 is full script installation! Email me at gschneider@internetincometeacher.com for an installation request!

Step 2: Write Content to Your Heart’s Desire!

Some people don’t like to write, I am one of those people. But when you find a topic you love to talk about, well, talk about it! Only to a sheet of paper, seriously! I find that writing your ideas down on paper and acting like you’re talking to someone next to you will really help you expand on that specific article and make it interesting to your readers. When I write these articles I am excited to write, and I normally hate writing! So give it a try! And also email me and tell me what helps you write!

Step 3: Promote Your Blog!

Most people have a difficult time with this step, because it is the hardest and most time consuming. However, promoting your website doesn’t really have to be all that hard and time consuming. Most bloggers only promote their websites through two sources: webmaster forums, and article directories.

First, webmaster forums, if you are already active in a webmaster forum, for example I am active in the webmaster forum DigitalPoint, I simply add a catchy title and URL to my blog on my signature and go about posting normally, if you make an average of one post a day on a webmaster forum, that can lead hundreds of interested and targeted readers to your blog every few days! Imagine now if you post actively, like 10 posts a day! That could mean thousands of visitors every month! Another great way is to actually post an article or two of yours in these webmaster forums, this will help increase exposure to your website as well as get readers interested in you and your content faster, because more people will read it, and if they like it and you put a URL at the bottom with a title that says something to the effect of “for more great articles, click here!” They will hopefully subscribe to your websites RSS feed, or bookmark your website!

Next, article directories, this is the best place for bloggers to get their articles read and their blogs promoted. Millions of people use article directories every month in search of something to read or learn about, and if your content just happens to be what they are looking for, then you might have yourself another subscriber to your blog! I have heard several bloggers tell me that the only article directory that they use is ezinearticles.com; this is contrary to what I will tell you. I will tell you that while ezinearticles.com is a fantastic article directory, arguably one of the best; it is not the only place you should submit your articles to. I have provided a link to a list of over 200 article directories, at the top of this paragraph, and I will suggest that you submit your articles to as many of those as you have time for. The more you submit to, the faster your blog will climb to the top!

Step 4: How To Make Money Off Your Hard Work $$!

The final step, how to make money off your hard work. This has been a controversial step between me and a few of my fellow blogging buddies, some say that it is better to not have any ads on your website to start out, they say that the ads will kill your reader base and will drive more readers away. While I say that if you don’t use too many annoying pop-ups or ads that have sound files, you will be fine. I highly recommend using Google Adsense; they have high quality ads that will not get in your way, not to mention that they pay very well. However, don’t blow off what they say just because I tell you to ignore them. Too much of any kind of ad will be annoying. I recommend extreme moderation for your first few months, no more than two ads, one on bottom of every article (428×60), and maybe one skyscraper on the side (120×600 pixels).

When you get big… I, as well as most bloggers, will recommend that you sell your own ads. This is the most profitable part of blogging. While your income from Google will be nice, I recommend investing in an ad banner manager script so that you can sell ads yourself. I can’t give any good recommendations because I haven’t found a good ad managing script. I just do it the old fashion way. Using a combination of Microsoft Office: Excel and a calendar with alerts, customer buys a monthly ad, I note it on Excel and put it on a calendar and a month from the date the ad goes up, the ad will come down, this is simple and effective and requires little work; and one week till the ad expires I send an email telling the advertiser to renew or else the ad comes down.

And that’s how you start a successful blog, a bit of elbow grease and due diligence and you will be off to a fantastic start. I used to be a subscriber of a blog that made over $20,000 every month, and this article is a tribute to that blog.

Thank you very much! And I hope you read some of my other articles on various types of websites!

Sincerely Your

Internet Income Teacher

-Galen Schneider

Overview of Video 3 out of my Video tutorials from www.fastcashviralized.com. Its all about making money online successfully.

If you want to start your own website, here is a three-step guide to help you go about it successfully. The three crucial steps are: (a) hiring a web designer to put together a really good site, (b) finding a good host for your website, (c) putting your site in the search engines so that people will find it online. Of course, the success of your site rests on your position in the search engines.

Hiring a web designer shouldn’t be too difficult. There are many professionals out there that do a stellar job on websites of all kinds. Or, you can put together the website by yourself. However you do it, you should make sure the results are good. If you have a well-designed site that’s simple to navigate, visitors will keep coming back for more.

The next step of finding a good web host for your website is rather difficult though it appears to be a simple task. If you are new to the online world, you may find it even more difficult to choose from so many of them available on the net.

If you’re serious about creating a good website, the best advice is to stay away from free web hosts. Free web hosts don’t provide the resources and features you will need to run a successful online business. It’s better to find a good company from the start that will grow with you as your business flourishes. In the end, you get what you pay for. This is why it’s good to find a reasonably priced web host that offers great features, resources, and customer support. If you do this, you will be off to a very good start.

So now you have your web site designed, and you have the host that keeps it online. So what’s next? Now you have to do some marketing. You basically have to get the word out there that you exist on the Internet and have something to provide people. How do you do this? How do you let people know that you exist online?

Advertising on the net is a different ball game altogether. In other words, Internet marketing is quite different than normal marketing. Here you have to do your level best in order to find a top position in the search engines. The moment someone types a keyword, your site should pop up somewhere on the top. Then you stand a good chance of converting these visits into sales.

How do you get the search engines to recognize your site? One of the best ways is link building. Sites like http://www.botwreviews.com exist to help you increase web traffic and get higher rankings on search engines and other directories. A site such as this one also lets you read, review and search comments and coupons. This means you can also research a topic using this directory.

This site is one of the oldest directories on the Internet and has been providing valuable information since 1994. It rejects the sites that do not meet the minimal criteria. Therefore make sure you have a great site with original content. Then it will not only take you but make sure your business succeeds.

Ecommerce websites has been growing steadily for the past decade already. It is soon going to rival the de facto method of shopping. Why? For the pure simple fact of convenience and being around 24 hours-7 days a week! Does your retail outlet or company sales department work the graveyard shift? No? Why not? There are people slogging it out in front of their desks at weird hours and chances are that they will probably spend some time of the well earned money buying stuff online. Well, it could be your goods!

Festive seasons like Christmas, New year and other local festivities are spaced out every few months but more important than that are minute appreciation gestures like a small gift for your client, spouse, kids etc to show your appreciation. You don’t have to wait for festive seasons to take the initiative!

I am not going to go into the whole showdown on the already much covered aspects of ecommerce…hmm.. Well I might keep it for another cold day. But here are some important aspects of Ecommerce website which you may want to get your team or any Singapore Web Designer or Singapore Ecommerce Website developer to consider before implementing an ecommerce website solution.

1) Give your website a warm presence:

It is not about putting warm colours but it is about ensuring that you are there for your visitors and they feel at home. Contact availability and online chat functions can be considered important so that they know they are talking to humans after all and not some robot! The website can be often perceived as a cold sphere if you are not careful about ensuring whatever information is needed for them to purchase is not there. Shipping, terms and conditions, privacy policy as well as your contact details should be seen easily.

2) Do usability and accessibility testing:

Most web developers avoid this. They create the site, ensures its looks fancy and “wham bham thank you ma’am”! You should ensure that your website can be used by a real un-savvy person as well as to the mavens as well as to people without the normal abilities. It should be cross browser compatible and coded with the proper language so as to ensure it is optimized for the web and to the audience from all spectrum at least to most. It may cost a little more but it is worth it because at the end of the day you want to make more money with your websites and so to ensure that you have to make sure that usability testing is adhered strictly! It doesn’t mean that you need to ensure its AAA W3C because even AAA websites do not satisfy everyone, but do ensure that minimal accessibility is practiced.

3) Know your target market:

If your target market is from overseas then I suggest, get a server or hosting service which is located there. Lots of time is wasted on lagging and it is more than likely in today’s highly competitive world of business, they will move on to someone else if your website lags or has too much of flash! It is a “NO,NO!” for an ecommerce website to have Flash unless it is part of a small banner which is fine. Otherwise, ensure that your web loads fast by doing routine testing especially if your clients are from overseas. If you target market are children, you may want to partner with some maternal sites selling maternal paraphernalia and vice versa to cross link each other’s sites.  And if you only have local delivery, state it from onset and not until the shopper reaches the checkout button! It will fry him or her forever and will increase bad ratings for your website… it is a small world my friend.

4) Are you opening up to the world?

Certain websites just want local buyers but many a times we tend to disregard the universal fact that most businesses sometimes can tend to come from outside your own domain. For example, especially businesses in UK and USA and even sometimes in Singapore, they always state their area codes and not country code which means they are strictly looking out for business from their own country and not overseas. I feel that this is wastage because why restrict your business to just a local sphere? Let’s just say I have my wife who is visiting her family or I have a client who is in USA and I am in Singapore with little or no knowledge of calling overseas? And if I directly call the number, there is no way I can call a US number without adding a +1 in front. And if it doesn’t go through the first time, chances are I am moving on to another company to get the gift sent to the desired destination. It doesn’t matter if your website is probably the best looking ecommerce site in the world! What I need is simple instructions on how I can get my gifts sent. If you do not have it, then my money is not going to you.

5) Have Google analytics installed:

Well lots of statistics companies just went bust because Google came up with their infamous and superb analytics tool. Install it and then you can analyze on where the drop out is. You can then analyze where your website needs tweaking. For example if you can see that when the dropout rate is high in your member registration page, you may want to reevaluate your methodology. Why are they dropping out here? Should I eliminate my mandatory registration fields? Should I reduce the number of questions I should ask? Does the page take too long to load?

Are the shoppers worried about my lack of web security or credentials?

Get a web developer to assess this and he will revert to you on why it happens. Get an experience company and not some freelancer who does this for some part time cash! Oh.. by the way Google analytics is free so give it a shot even if you don’t have an ecommerce website! It can tell you lots of stuff even for a plain vanilla site.

6) Reply fast:

Turnaround time as well as delivery is important for businesses all around the world be it if you from New Delhi or New York! Ensure that your customers’ requests are handled immediately and SLA should be informed upfront. Many web design companies do not program dual way receipts for customers and companies alike hence it goes haywire. This is a problem if you do not do dry run before you release the site to BETA. There should be minimum standards to web practice and at De Mellows, we follow a no nonsense 24 hours reply guarantee. We reply emails within 24 hours to adhere to best web practice. To increase your trust in your clients, you have to ensure all these are set in place and the sooner you reply your client, the better trust you will engender. And that will say a lot about your company and its Ecommerce policies.

One of the biggest advantages of using “Create Videos On Website” Tool is that it easily relieves you from being dependant on other hosting Sites such as YouTube. One of the reasons that explain the growing popularity of these tools is the fact that they efficiently simplify the entire conversion process to almost zero effort. Luckily generating streaming movie files has never been that easy – read more in the following article.

Quick overview

“Create Videos On Website” Tool converts your videos to a small sized file format (.FLV) that enables them to be displayed on your Web with any of the popular Internet Browsers. The converted Webvideos(s) are ready to be displayed once you update your html page(s) with a small code and then post the files onto the Webserver. The following technology creates streaming webvideos for you – they enable the user to start viewing them without first completely downloading the entire file.

Advantages

Let’s quickly summarize the main advantages of this unique solution:

* Branding your Webmovies with your own text and/or logo.
* No need for any programming skills.
* Easily converts popular file formats such as: AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, FLV, VOB, ASF, and MP4.
* Provides a powerful tool that can easily get your message across to a wider audience.
* Videos engage with peoples’ emotions and people purchase based on their emotions.

We could easily find many other great benefits provided by this solution simply because it offers so many additional opportunities for webmasters.

Conclusions

In average, installation process of such solution takes no more than 2-3 minutes; moreover, an average individual conversion process of a 100MB file with this “Create Videos On Website” Tool takes no more than one minute. Now that you understand how it works the best tip would be to try it by yourself in order to explore and see how it can easily improve productivity of your online business.

If you want to make an online portfolio you can build build a photo website with Photoshop galleries. In the past, a photographer usually has to hand out his works personally or through the mail. Thanks to the Internet, you can just send a link so people can look at your photos. There’s no risk of your portfolio getting damaged or getting lost in the mail. Adding new photos are also easier and more convenient online.

With Photoshop, you can build a photo website with Photoshop galleries easier than ever before.

• Open Photoshop.  On the main menu, click the File tab, then Automate then Web Photo Gallery. After the Gallery Wizard appears, you can now select the styles of your gallery. Below the tab for the gallery style is a bar where you can enter your e-mail address. It is option so you can still go through with the process without entering your e-mail address, but it is recommended that you do so people can get in touch with you.

On the Source Images part, you will choose which photos you want to include in your gallery. To make things easier for you, you should put all the photos you want in your portfolio in one folder to make it more accessible.

•Once you’ve picked your photos, you will have to name your gallery. This can be done under Banner in the Options tab of the menu. Include your full name and other contact details as well.

•Next, you will choose the size of the images on your gallery. The smaller the size display, the faster it can be loaded. The trade off though is that the quality for some photos are reduced.  Since you can’t determine whether your viewers will be using DSL or dial up, you should just stay safe in the middle.

•Before you finish, you will have to place some security measures on your portfolio. The security settings in Photoshop allow you to put watermarks on your photos to prevent people from stealing it. Intellectual theft is pretty common online, so if you want to protect your images place a watermark. You can enter text on the custom text tab.

You can either just put a symbol (a copyright symbol for example) or a more detailed text that includes your name (property of “you”) . If you have a logo, you can use it as a watermark by converting it into a font. After deciding on the watermark, place it anywhere on the image. You can also customize the size, font color and opacity of your mark.

•After securing your images, you can sit back and relax; Photoshop will do the rest of the work for you. When your gallery is done, it will appear on your default web browser. You can check your gallery and see if it satisfies your taste.

•Now that you have you gallery, you can upload it online. If you already have a website, simply put it there. If not, you can always make one. There are many web design software free for download to help you create build a photo website with Photoshop galleries. Once you’ve decided on the name of your website, register it for a domain name. Once you’ve secured your domain name, find an ISP that will host your website.

Streaming Video on My Website Tool is your entry ticket to the world of Webvideos marketing. Internet users just love watching Webvideos, it’s easy and it requires almost zero effort comparing to reading Web content, which is why this marketing method is so popular among many Webmasters. The following quick article reveals the most updated information about this unique solution.

Quick review

Streaming Video on My Website Tool enables you to post your videos on any of your Webpage(s) by converting + compressing them to a very popular file format called Flash-Video .FlV. Now all you’ve got to do is paste a small HTML code to your Webpage and upload the new files to your hosting Site. By the way you have just created streaming webvideos – they enable you to start watching them immediately without having to wait for a complete download.

Why do Webmasters need it?

Using this advanced technology definitely brings a wide range of advantages:

Provides a powerful tool that can easily get your message across to a wider audience.
Enables you to upload movie files at any quality and size.
Easily converts popular file formats such as: AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, FLV, VOB, ASF, and MP4.
Videomarketing is more viral than plain content marketing.
Easily upload training or demo-videos to promote your products or services.

If we search a little more, we could easily find other benefits provided by this technology, simply because it transforms complicated tasks automatic and effective.

Article summary

Streaming Video on My Website Tool installation is quit easy and requires no special technical or professional skills. By the end of this quick review the best advice would be to evaluate this unique solution as in most cases implementation requires no more than several minutes.

If you own a company and are looking at ways to increase your success levels, then establishing a professional looking presence online should be part of your business plan. The internet is accessed by millions of people all over the world and if you want to start exposing your business to the masses, then using the services of an Albuquerque web hosting and Albuquerque web design company is a smart choice. To build a successful business, it is imperative that potential customers see your company’s USP and are aware of everything that you offer. Making a long lasting and positive impact goes a long way when attracting potential customers. Albuquerque web hosting and Albuquerque web design companies understand those principles are available to put your dreams into action.

Having a website that represents your company online is considered to be a good business practice. It can sell the company’s name, help to retain and add customers, increase sales figures and generally just let people know that your company exists. Employing an impressive design that offers easy accessibility and a friendly user interface is something that the right Albuquerque web design company can do to make your business stand out in a crowd. The use of a website is known to accomplish a number of things and can obviously help increase profits.

Getting customers to remain on your website and really look at what you have to offer through a wide array of graphics, informative text and interactive tools are all specialties of Albuquerque web design companies. Also important is the amount of free bandwidth that is offered along with regular data back up. Albuquerque web hosting companies are well aware of the importance of those things, along with having the ability to have at least a 99.5% up time. The best company for your needs would be one that combines Albuquerque web hosting and Albuquerque web design into one formidable business for its customers.

One of the many reasons that people from all over the world choose Albuquerque web hosting and Albuquerque web design companies is the fact that they are not overly expensive, with many of them being very reasonable. High quality web hosting and design at low prices is important to Albuquerque web design companies. Having a reliable server is important, so that people can see your website. A service that provides search engine optimization adds even more value for your money and can generate even more traffic to your website. For most business owners, generating traffic and creating a buzz about the business is the way that they increase sales. An Albuquerque web design and Albuquerque web hosting company understands your needs as a business owner and will work towards helping you meet those needs.

Using an Albuquerque web hosting and Albuquerque web design company to help your company reach its goals is often a smart business decision. Potential customers need to be aware of your company’s presence on the web, and creating a brilliant web page and providing a strong website hosting service is just the way to draw people to your business.

Websites are the most wanted etiquettes in the professional world. These are wanted because of their usability and their elegance. The command that can be delivered via websites can be found no where else. This is the only reason that has lead to the increased demand of the Website Building services. The Website Building industry today has become a million dollar industry and is probably one of the fastest growing service sectors. What it takes to build a beautiful yet a simple and professional website? Here are the few ingredients of the Website Building:

The Website Design: the preparation of the website design is like the preparation of some face of background of the website. Several graphical tools and scripting languages are used in this. Usually it is aimed at generating an eye catchy website design. Such a website design not only symbolizes the funky and bright colored web design. Even simple designs can be much more attractive. The only thing you need to take care is that the website design that you are getting prepared reconciles with your purpose of Website Building. After you have got all the website design prepared stuff in the suitable content to your website. The website content includes all the basic and relevant information about you and your company that you want to share with others. Make sure that the language used is kept simple so that it is understood to every single person who visits your website.

Then comes the selection of domain name for the website. The domain name is just like your own name by which your website is going to be resembled and searched in the search engines. The domain name is then registered with the ICANN. There are some Website Builder companies that help in the selection and registration of domain names for the website. The website that is now prepared and is ready to be launched in the search engines requires the booster from a website hosting company. The website hosting is an important ingredient of the Website Building process. This makes your website available to your clients in the search engines.

Finally comes the taste maker the search engine optimization, without which your Website Building is tasteless and useless. The search engine optimization includes the on page optimization and the off page optimization that helps improve the rankings of your website and grab sufficient links for the website in the search engines.

If you are thinking to have a website building then you can approach a reliable Website Builder company or you may not require that even. There are some Online Website Builder companies that would help you prepare your website yourself. These companies will provide you online tools and pre made website templates that you can use for the creation of your website. One such company is the EasySiteBuild that provides all the above mentioned Website Building services in best quality and affordable prices. Moreover you will be getting a free web address and a hosting account for the website. For more information about our website builder services you can log on to us at: www.EasySiteBuild.com

No one likes spam email – customers, clients, and even business owners cannot always handle the amount of spam that comes from one email address placed in a public space on the web. So if you have a website, you will want to check out these five tips that will help to reduce the spam that gets into your inbox.

1. Limit the number of emails that you give out to your customers and post on websites. If you post more than one email address on a website, you will experience twice as many unwanted emails. And if you run a business, you should never post your personal email anywhere on your website.

2. You can include tools such as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). This is a small box on your website where you can have words or numbers that come up and the visitors to your site will have to type these in before they are allowed to send messages to you. This prevents automated spam from slipping through.

3. Use web forms instead of giving out your email address. This will let your visitors contact you without ever having to see your email address. This may not cut down on all the spam, but at least you know the spam you are getting was typed by a real person.

4. If you need to give out your email address, spell it out on your website. Leave out the @ symbol so that it is harder for spam bots to recognize it as an email address. Customers that want to send you an email will understand what you mean when you spell it out. Better still create a jpg/gif images of your email address, so that the visitor/customer can see your email address, but the spammers will no be able to find it so easily.

5. If all else fails, you can require a registration for your website. This will let visitors leave you comments and questions. This prevents any spam bots from contacting you or pulling your email address from your website.

These tips are just some of the ways that you can prevent spam on your website. There are obviously many more but this should help to heavy reduce the level of spam emails you receive. If you have a paid web hosting service, most providers now have Junk Mail Filtering services including with their hosting plans or at an additional charge.