To minimize the amount of time it takes to test each and every link on your site, try using this nifty broken link checker tool. It is a very simple, useful tool in which you input the URL and wait a few minutes for the results to display.

When it’s done running, good links will display in a green box, while possible broken links will display in a pink box.  Check out the links in the pink box, fix them, and keep your site ranking high.  Sound easy enough?

Keyword research is the critical first step webmasters must take when considering what content to provide on the website or blog. Keywords are used within the content of your on-page text to tell both the visitor or reader and the search engine spiders what your article is about.  Search engines extract these keywords from your on-page text, headers, page titles, inbound links and other factors.  Choosing the right keywords can mean the difference between ranking high in the search engines and getting found or ranking low and receiving very little traffic.

When researching keywords, it is important to make sure that keyword terms or phrases have a large search volume.  If there are not enough people searching using a particular keyword term or phrase, then there will not be enough traffic driven to your website.  No traffic, means no profit.  Keywords must then be filtered for relevancy. You don’t just want to pull in traffic; you want to ensure that your traffic is of high quality. Quality traffic helps you convert your visitors into customers at a higher rate.

There are several keyword research tools that are free and there are also some research services that require a fee.  Some examples of free tools can be found here:

1. SEO Tools
2. Build Traffic
3. Wordtracker

Other keyword research tools provide great information, but charge a fee to use the software or service.  Some of these tools can be found here:

1. Buyer Keywords Generator
2. Keyword Explosion
3. Keyword Junkies

Once you have completed your initial keyword research, you can create a  keyword opportunity list containing all the possible keyword ideas. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool can be helpful in generating variations of your keywords and phrases from your opportunity list.  Again, once you have an initial keyword list containing all the keyword variations, this list will need to be filtered for search volume and relevancy .

This new list will then be assessed for keyword competiveness.  If a keyword is highly competitive, it may be too difficult to rank well in the search engines.  Try using the SEO Chat Keyword Difficulty Tool to determine how competitive a keyword or phrase is and how it ranks.

Keyword research is an extremely important step in the process of starting and developing a website.  Be sure to take time to adequately explore this step.  If keyword research is done properly, it is much more likely that you will have a successful, and even more importantly, profitable website.

First, Website Grader analyzes the on-page SEO criteria. It checks your metadata tags to make sure that the page title, meta description, and meta keywords are correctly placed for the search engines. Next, the website grader analyzes the headings to make sure that search engine spiders can read the heading tags to better understand what the page is about. An image analysis is performed next. In order to receive a higher grade, you will want to be sure that you have assigned ALT text to your images. The interior pages are then analyzed to determine how well optimized these pages are based on their keywords. Finally, the readability level is assessed to make sure that your content can be easily read by the majority of your target audience. Successfully meeting these criteria can help you increase your search engine rankings.

Next, Website Grader informs you about the off-page SEO criteria. It will provide information about your domain including the age and expiration date as well as any redirects. Then, you will see your Google PageRank, the number of Google indexed pages, last Google crawl date, Alexa traffic rank, and the number of inbound links. Finally, you will notified if you are listed in the DMOZ directory, Yahoo directory, and ZoomInfo directory. Being listed in any of these, hopefully all three, will help increase your search engine rankings, traffic, and page rank.

After looking at on-page and off-page SEO criteria, the website grader will identify if you have a blog associated with your site and determine the relevance of your blog in the blogosphere. It will show you your blog ranking according to Technorati as well as show you if any of your blog posts have been Dugg. Then, website grader takes a look at your web presence in the social mediasphere. For example, have any users bookmarked your site at del.icio.us or have any of your articles that you have submitted made it to the front page of Digg.com?

Website grader takes a look at how well your site is able to convert visitors into leads by making sure that your RSS feed is readable and available to visitors. In addition, there needs to be at least one conversion form found on your website.

Finally, you will given information about your competitors. You will be provided a summary of how your website grade compares to the grades of your competitors so that you can keep track of how you are doing as well as where in the SEO game your competitors might be doing better than you.

Check out HubSpot’s Website Grader to see if your website makes the grade.

Sitesell or Site Build It! is an all inclusive package complete with tools and features to enable any motivated person to develop a successful website. SBI! is the resource I used to develop my first website. I was able to learn so much about web development, web promotion, SEO, and monetization from a single resource.

One of the many features of the SBI! package is the Name Park It! feature or, simply, NPI! It’s a great tool to help promote any site or affiliate program. “Parking a domain” means purchasing a domain name without the immediate intention to use it to build a site. There are strong, basic reasons to park a domain…

• save it for later use
• protect your main domain name against freeloaders
• use it to redirect to other URL
• mistyped URLs and other “accidental traffic

Since affiliate URLs can be a bit sloppy and awkward, you can use your parked domains and subdomains to create “tight-purposed URLs” to redirect to “sloppy URL destinations.”  This is a great way to redirect affiliate-oriented traffic.  NPI! is a powerful service that can protect and grow your business significantly, not to mention protect its future.

To use NPI!, you must first register as a SiteSell affiliate. It is free to do so and does NOT mean that you must purchase the Site Build It! package. Once you have registered as a SiteSell affiliate, you will be able to use NPI! to park your domain name as well as set-up an unlimited number of subdomains for a cost of $9.95 per year.

To recap, for only $9.95, you receive an unlimited amount of clean, concise URLs at your disposal. You can’t beat that! In a world with so many awkward, elongated affiliate links, the Name Park It! service is a great URL space saver. Google AdSense has just announced AdSense for Parked Domains. NPI! could be a great tool to use in conjunction with this new AdSense opportunity. The possibilities are endless.

Info Vilesilencer is a great resource for anyone who owns a website or operates a web directory. If you have ever thought of starting your own directory, check out their site for a list of directory scripts. There are many different scripts that can be used to help you set-up a directory whether it is a free directory, paid directory, bidding directory, general directory, or niche directory. You will find the right product to get your directory up and running. I personally use the phpLD free version that I have found to be very functional, flexible, and well-supported.

They also have an incredible forum that is a great place to ask questions, find information, and network with other directory owners. For those that own a website and are looking for directories to submit their site, there are lists of directories that have been reviewed and ranked. Within the forum, you can advertise your directory or ask others to give their opinion and feedback about your directory. You can also announce any blogs you have.

You may submit your directory for inclusion into their directory, but they have very high standards and strict rules: “Please be advised that we are being extremely strict in regards to editing on directories that are submitted. If we look through a directory and find even a few weakly edited submissions (anything from cut off words in titles, comma-delimited keyword lists in descriptions or multiple repetitions of words in titles/descriptions) then that directory will not be accepted.

Ensure that your directory is clean of badly edited listings prior to submission. Doing so will ensure that you have a much greater chance of being accepted into the list.”

In order to access all this great information, you need to register as a member, but membership is free and takes only a minute to join. You can access the registration page here.

ClickBank for Newbies (free e-book)

There’s a new Ebook called Clickbank for Newbies that I have just come across which I predict will become very popular.  Clickbank is an digital products marketplace where publishers can sell their digital products, affiliates can promote these digital products, or consumers can buy digital products.  Clickbank offers an unbelievable money making opportunity to both publishers and affiliates, but there is a huge learning curve.  Mistakes can cost you thousands of dollars and time lost that cannot be recuperated.  However, if you have a full understanding of how the system works, you can potentially earn a steady monthly income and avoid what most newbies do, give up and quit affiliate marketing.

)ClickBank for Newbies, written by Harvey Segal (Mr ClickBank) is a quick easy read, written without hype and not littered with annoying links.  Harvey Segal is considered  The ClickBank Guru, and he is the owner of the ClickBank Guide site, the ClickBank Success forum ,and author of best selling ebooks about ClickBank.

And the cost of this book ?

IT’S       F R E E !

Harvey explains the key factors for success as a ClickBank affiliate.  He also identifies how commissions can be lost, stolen and your account rendered dormant.  And he concludes with a unique money making technique.

Although it’s titled ClickBank for Newbies there’s actually a built-in opportunity for ClickBank veterans.   If you are a ClickBank affiliate you might be losing commission without knowing it. From sales leaks and uncloaked hoplinks.

Another AdSense Alternative, AdBrite, provides an ad marketplace for both advertisers and publishers of blogs and websites. Publishers can generate revenue by placing high-quality, targeted ads on their site. There is an option to place banners in different sizes, text ads in different sizes, full page ads, and inline text ads. A unique feature is Britepic which allows you to monetize photos on your site with interactive text ads. It’s a great way to advertise without using valuable space for content.

AdBrite advertisers reach 85 million online visitors across 70,000 sites, all with a single buy.  AdBrite serves ads on nearly 1 billion pageviews per day. Advertising could never be simpler. Use standard ad units, like banners and text ads, or try their unique Full Page Ad. Optimize your campaign to maximize your results with the ability to pause under-performing campaigns or add more funds to better-performing campaigns.

AdBrite, an AdSense Alternative, also has a referral program.  On all buying and selling activity referred by your site, you earn:

• 50% of AdBrite’s profits for the first 3 months
• 10% of AdBrite’s profit for the next 9 months

There are a variety of referral buttons in many different sizes that can be placed on your site or blog. It’s best to place them on the sidebars if you have a blog; however, the better the location means better revenue so place them where your visitors will likely find them.

It’s simple and FREE to join, so, make  your AdSense Alternative.

There is a Referral Toolkit page with logos of various sizes and many different tag lines. Here are a few suggestions as to where to place your affiliate code:

• signatures (email, forums like Digital Point)
• sidebars on your site or blog
• Twitter feed
• Facebook, LinkedIn & MySpace profiles

Payouts are made monthly along with your commission payment from your widget ads.  Widgetbucks offers rich media ads widgets that are unique and complement what you have to say.  Widgetbucks ads can be customized by color, category, and size.  Or, let Yieldsense auto-select the category to maximize performance.  Yieldsense increases the rate of return, or eCPM, on your WidgetBucks ad widgets. It works behind the scenes on your site or blog to rotate, test and display various shopping products and categories.

So, get started now using WidgetBucks as your AdSense Alternative.

If you are looking for an AdSense Alternative, POG Ads offers a viable option. POG or Pot of Gold offers opportunities to both publishers and advertisers. All sites are accepted regardless of the amount of traffic or page impressions. POG ads can be used as a complement to AdSense or an alternative.

They have a wide variety of ad formats and sizes. They have text ads, banner ads, inmotion ads, invideo ads, layer ads, link ads, and noscript ads. Inmotion ads are interesting as they move across the screen or move around the screen according to how the visitor is navigating around the page. The layer ad is loaded over the page’s content and can be closed by the visitor if the visitor wishes to navigate without the ads. Link ads are small, but effective ads that are great to use in places with limited space. Probably the most unique ad format that they offer is the noscript ads. These ads will display to users who don’t allow scripts to run on their browsers.

They also offer Revenue Sharing within a community or with partners. You can share ad revenue with members of a community that you create or with your partners. You may designate between 10% and 90% to share with those members.

As a great AdSense Alternative, you may want to consider advertising with POG as well. You can get started advertising in their network for as little as $10.00. Target your audience by keyword, categories, and location. There are no restrictions so you can use the words that will catch your prospective visitor’s attention.

POG Ads offer a great AdSense Alternative, click to Join Now.

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You can make money online with a pay to click program called ClixSense. The program offers multiple opportunities to earn money. You have the option to join the program as a free member or a premium member. Free members are limited by the number of ads that can be viewed. Premium membership only costs $10.00 and is well worth the investment if you plan to put in the time to make this system work.

Additionally, you can make money online with their affiliate program that both free members and premium members can participate in. If you register as a free member, you will receive $0.01 for each referral and will receive $2.00 if your direct referral upgrades to a Premium account. You will also receive 10% of revenues generated from your referrals’ ad purchases. If you are a premium member, you are instantly paid $0.10 for each new referral. When one of your direct referrals upgrades their account to a Premium membership, you are instantly paid $2.00 for that member’s upgrade. When that member refers a new member who upgrades to premium you are instantly paid a $1.00 override commission. You just got paid for doing NOTHING! Even better, that same scenario pays FIVE LEVELS DEEP!

You also have an opportunity to advertise through this site. As you earn credits for browsing the ads, you can use those credits towards your own advertisement that will no doubt generate a lot of traffic for your website or blog and help you make money online. You are also able to invite prospective members through email that will contain your referral link. You will fill out a form on their site to send out your invitation. Each invitation you send uses one (1) invite credit. You get 20 credits every day.

ClixSense might just be the right program for you to make money online.