Affiliate Marketing Advice

If you’re an affiliate marketer, here are things to avoid – the smart marketers know the mistakes to avoid in order to succeed at the affiliate marketing game.

1. Do not spam your customers- If you send unsolicited emails, you are not a professional affiliate marketer.

2. Do not hard sell – If you push the promotions down people’s throats, you are not a professional affiliate marketer.

3. Do not jump from one affiliate program to another one.

Professional affiliate marketers do know the KEY is to stick with just one
product and then generate loads of sales before moving to the next product.

Win the affiliate marketing game, without losing your shirt

No related Entrepreneur posts.

Google Sidewiki Comments

Truth be told, Google Sidewiki is MORE THAN just a commenting system. It is a system for annotating pages across the web and is envisioned to become a community where experts can offer/share their expert opinions and high quality comments.

Launched on September 23, 2009, the Google Sidewiki enables people, or more specifically those who have the Google Toolbar installed on their IE or Firefox web browsers, to make and share comments about websites and web pages with other people, particularly those who also have the toolbar installed on their browsers. The Google Sidewiki comes in the form of a browser sidebar which, when expanded, shows comments as well as blog posts that Google has deemed appropriate and/or related to a particular web page.

Yes, you read that right. Although Google Sidewiki enables anyone and everyone to leave their comments on the websites they visit, not all their comments get displayed. Who’s In, Who’s not? So, which comments get displayed and which do not?

Well, Google has yet to release an official and clear-cut guide/statement regarding the factors involved in determining which comments will end up on the Google Sidewiki. What Google did say is that Google Sidewiki uses multiple signals based on the quality of the comments, the authors’ reputations, as well as user-contributed signals (i.e., voting and flagging) in determining which comments get displayed and in which order. This selection process, according to Google, ensures that only the highest quality and relevant entries will appear in the Sidewiki.

So, how does Google gauge a comment’s quality? Determining a comment’s quality is generally based on the language used. Note that “language” here does not pertain to the various languages of nations and people but rather it pertains to how the comments/entries are composed/constructed. It looks like Google has in its disposal a language sophistication detector of some sort that can gauge the degree of sophistication of statement constructions in 14 different languages. And, apparently, Sidewiki gives more weight/credit to entries that use sophisticated language. To illustrate, “This page sucks!” and “This site rulez!” are not considered as sophisticated languages.
With regards to author reputation, Google takes into account the consensus about a particular entry based on the votes and flags given to it by other users.

In addition, Google also takes into consideration how long a particular author/user has had a Google Profile and how long he/she has been commenting. Google Profile We may not see it, but Google ranks profiles just as it does web pages, as far as Sidewiki is concerned. Simply put, people who has higher profile ranks have better chances of having their comments appear on Sidewiki. Unfortunately, there is very little information available on the topic of how to “improve” one’s profile rank.

According to Google, there are no hard-and-fast rules (yet) on how to improve one’s profile rank as they expect the system’s ranking criteria to change (still) over time. Generally, for now, Google ranks profiles on the basis of what Google feels or considers to be “comprehensive”. In other words, the more comprehensive a profile is, the higher it is ranked. Page/Site Owner Comments

On Sidewiki, site/page owners are given the privilege to claim the first comment slot for himself/herself. But before a site owner can do that, he/she must first verify his/her ownership of a site through Google Webmaster Central. Once ownership has been verified, a site owner will see a notice on Sidewiki saying:

“As the page owner, you can write a special entry that will remain the top entry for this page.” right under which is a tick box labeled “Write as the page owner”. All a site/page owner has to do is to click on the tickbox and submit his/her comment. No matter if there are already some existing user comments on Sidewiki on his site/page, the site owner’s

However, this privilege is only given once, for one comment/entry only. If a site owner were to make another comment, that comment will already be subjected to the selection/ranking process that comments from other users go through.

Embeded Links in Comments Google Sidewiki allows links to be embeded in user comments by using HTML code. In addition, it also allows the embeding of YouTube links into comments which is not entirely surprising considering YouTube is under Google’s corporate umbrella. By the way, embeding a YouTube link into a comment generates a video embed frame in the comment. How cool is that? Anyway, links posted on Sidewiki are given the “nofollow” attribute.

As such, the links on Sidewiki have no bearing or effect whatsoever on the linked page’s PageRank. In the Beginning There Were Blog Entries As can be expected of anything that’s fresh and brand new, Google Sidewiki has yet to be filled with a considerable amount of user entries. But, instead of leaving it blank while waiting for entries to come in, Google is currently using blog posts to fill up the void.

According to Google, the algorithm they currently use in determining which blog entries will appear on Sidewiki is the same one they use in ranking user entries. But, in general, Google selects and ranks blog entries based on their relevance to a particular URL. In addition, sites that serve out full text feeds of their stories have greater chances of having their articles/entries displayed on Sidewiki as compared to those that do not. Furthermore, articles that have high user feedback scores are ranked higher than those that have lower scores.

First, you need to install the Google Toolbar. If you haven’t done yet or if yours is an earlier version (one that does not have Sidewiki yet), go to http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index.html and click on the button labeled Install Google Toolbar with Sidewiki.

No related Entrepreneur posts.

High Page Rank Blog

From my friends at: maxblogpress.com

I started cooler choice late September 2008, i tried to cheat a little being new to blogging so i bought a domain with a PR 6,but that did not work at first it had PR6 then it went down to PRO and no traffic so by October i had to start afresh.

Anyhow lesson number 1 do not buy expired domains because they all go back to 0 PR,so rather than do it all wrong i made a list of things to do, heres my list:
1: choose a niche
2.see what other blogs are writing about and see what other blogs are in same niche
3.write about something you know a little about
4.get keywords right, i always keep away from all keywords that are used to much, i used Google adwords keyword tool and use all keywords between 10000 and 25000 hits a month this way better chance of getting seen on Google because less competition
5:Join as many social bookmarking sites as possible, Digg, technorati,stumbleuponTwitter here are a few popular ones but there are many more
6:Post relevant comments to other blogs in same niche, example if your writing about the environment reply to posts on environmental blogs and add your site in comment
7: This is the most important one, ask other site owners for a back link, always be polite and explain what sort of site you have got, usually if its in the same niche they will say yes, heres a tip add a link back to thier site on your site before asking.
8:Add to directoroies under same catagary as your site
9:Try not to spam every high ranking site with comments and links, always stick to the same niche as your own site, because this can damage your PR in Google.
10: Add comments and posts to forums here is a good one PR10 Google Forum
So i stuck to the above list, and i add my posts everyday to relevant social bokmarking sites, i got back links from some websites in the same niche and between October 2008 and January 2009, CoolerChoice got a Google PR of 3 out of 10 so i carried on doing the same routene , and in April 2009 Coolerchoice went up to a PR 5 and now gets around 3000 hits per day.
I am at this moment working on a whole network of blogs in differant niches, i hope they pay off in the long run, please feel free to visit my sites and comment on this post, thank you for reading

No related Entrepreneur posts.

How To Improve Page Rank

Page rank is just a number ranking that’s assigned by Google and represents the
relative importance of the web page. It is a number between 0 and 10. The higher
the number that Google gives, the more important that page is (according to Google).

How do I check my page rank?

There are some tools that show you Google’s page rank quite easily. The one I
recommend is SEO Tools for Firefox.
You can get that tool here: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo‐for‐firefox.html

Why should I care about the page rank?

There are numerous reasons why Internet Marketers care so much about the page rank
of their sites (or actually the pages within their sites…remember that page rank is
assigned to each and every page on a site). It is in your best interests to improve page rank.

• Search Engine Rankings – All other things being equal (over simplification
ahead!), the higher the page rank the higher the search engine rankings will
be for a particular page. Obviously, this means more traffic!

• Pay Per Click Advertising – Although Google will deny this, our studies have
shown that the higher the page rank, the lower your costs will be for
adwords pay per click advertising.

• Link Juice – This is perhaps the most important. The higher the page rank
of a page that you own and control, the more “link juice” you can pass on to
your other sites. We all know that search engine rankings are mostly
influenced by links. The more links you have, the higher you’ll rank (a bit of
an oversimplification again, but generally true). In addition, the “quality” of
the links plays a major part. The higher the page rank of the linking page, the
higher the quality of the link. So that, for example, one link from a Page Rank
4 page could be worth 500 links from a Page Rank 1 site.

Our study:
We all know that links are the main driver behind Google’s page rank algorithms,
but are they the only factor?

There are many rumors floating around about content and what variables may
impact page rank. Because it’s so critical to our marketing efforts, we wanted to
ensure that we were doing all we could to take advantage of the factors that have an
impact. For example, one common thought is that updated or fresh content has an
impact on page rank. Google likes to see content that is attempting to remain
“current”.

The theory says that sites with content that’s routinely updated will be
rewarded with a higher page rank. It’s a lot of work to keep a site fresh, so they
question is…is it worth the effort? Google, of course, won’t answer that. So, the only
way to figure it out is to test.

This study included approximately 200 domains and has been going on for 1 year
(although a couple domains have been evaluated over the past 3 years!). We have
had 2 employees working full time on this, and we’re going to share the results with
you for free!

One word of caution…we are going to make statements of fact such as “Google
doesn’t care about…” etc. These statements are based on the VAST majority of the
domains that we tested, NOT 100% of them. So, PLEASE…do not email me or write
comments saying that your one domain acted differently. In drawing our
conclusions, we saw that 80‐90% of the domains followed the pattern, not 100%.
There will be exceptions to the rules, but these statements will hold true for most
domains.

Our conclusions:
There were MANY things that people have theorized that Google actually cared
about when evaluating page rank, all of which we found out were completely
irrelevant.
• Google Doesn’t Care About The “Freshness” Of Your Content – Updating the
content every day, once a week, once a month, or not at all had NO impact on
Page Rank. The extreme example of this are three home pages (PR3‐4)
where the content hasn’t changed at ALL in 3 years, and the PR has not gone
lower. It has gone up down over time, but never statistically lower than
where it started. We also saw this in our test group over 9‐12 months.

• Google Doesn’t Care About The “Quality” Of Your Content – The content
amount, and quality of the content has no impact on Page Rank. The extreme
example of this, is comparing a squeeze page opt in with a content rich home
page of a blog. We looked at examples all along the continuum of quality and
amount of content, and it didn’t make a bit of difference. A crumby, poorly
designed squeeze page with zero content had just as much PR potential as a
content rich blog home page.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change the Contents of a Page – For example,
let’s say we have a page with a PR of 3. We can go in and COMPLETELY wipe
out and change out the content, and it will have no lasting impact on that
page rank. Typically, we saw a drop in 1‐2 levels of PR and then saw it come
right back up to the old rank within 60‐90 days or so.

• Google Doesn’t Care About Duplicate Content ‐ At least when evaluating
page rank, Google doesn’t care if the content on the page is unique.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change Registrars and or owners of a domain
– This has some interesting implications that you can probably figure out! In
these examples, PR dropped and was then regained just as it was when the
content was completely changed.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change Hosting Providers and/or servers –
Similar to changing registrars, PR dropped and was then regained.
What does Google care about then? Simple…links and ONLY links
Absolutely the only thing that had an impact on page rank in our study for the
majority of domains was back links. The more back links and the higher the quality
of those back links, the higher the page rank of the page that was being linked to.

To increase page rank, get more higher quality, high page rank back links.

No related Entrepreneur posts.

Make Money From Blogging

I realize that blogging is really becoming a very popular thing to do on the internet world recently because people are seeing that you can really make good money on line today with some good blogging techniques. Does any entrepreneurs out there have some good ideas on how to make some money with blogging?

Mark

Related posts:

1. How Should I Promote My Money Making Blog?

Money Making Blog

I have a new blog that I just started, I only have a little content on it right now. I do have a lot of posts ready to post, but my thoughts are that it would be better to post them slowly.
My question for your readers is how can I promote this potentially money making blog, and get internet traffic to the blog.
My blog is about earning money online. My goal is to give free advice for a variety of ways on using the internet to make money. Any answers would be appreciated.

James

Related posts:

1. How Can I Make Money With My Blog?

Classmates dot com Nightmare

I joined classmates.com to get in touch with former class mates and former acquaintances. I signed up for a free classmates account and put up a picture of what I looked like at 18 and a current picture, in addition I put one up of my wife and I, and a picture of our daughter that just graduated.

I contacted former friends, and added friends to my profile. My school wasn’t very big and when you join a school on classmates and signed into classmates dot com other classmates icons will come up, I noticed one of a former girlfriend and clicked a message option of greeting and how you have you been doing, she posted a reply on her public message board, the gist of what she posted was “she was only 16 when she knew me and I abused her mentally and physically and never in this lifetime or the next contact her”.

You have to realize she put down my full real name on her public message board, and anyone that looks at her profile will see that. I contacted classmates.com a week ago to complain, and received no reply, I also clicked on the link on her profile that says report this profile. I enjoyed classmates dot com, but they should not ignore a complaint that someone is posting lies that could hurt your family with emotional distress.

Here is my story with this girl, I dated her over 20 years ago, she was 16 and not attending school. She claimed her step dad asked her to quit school to watch the 3 younger brothers whom he was the real father, and then he teased her for not attending school and she claimed she was abused physically and mentally.

She called me, (I was a year or 2 older than she) asked if I would take her away. I did and moved her into my families home a mile away. My parents allowed this because they did not want her to be abused, I have a Christian family and they did not allow us to sleep together. After 9 months she moved back to her parents hopeing things changed and I think it did in the beginning.

I was called by her a few weeks later to pick her up, she was in the town park to drive her by her home, it was pleasant. I also seen her a year later and talked for 10 minutes and it was also pleasant. My mother said she was the closest person to a daughter she would ever have, my family loved her.

I moved out of state for schooling a month after she moved out of our house but heard she ran away again and she went to court so she would not have to go back to her family and went into a foster home, she claimed the foster dad tried to sexually abuse her and ran away from there.

I haven’t seen or heard from her since, and my class mates story is above. I have contacted consumer affairs and filed a complaint against classmated.com for not responding to remove the derogative messages she posted publicly against me, it is a clear violation of their terms of service, it is slanderous and untrue.

I have also files a complaint with Consumer Affairs against classmates.com for not responding or removing the derogatory messages about me. The response from consumer affairs:

Thanks for the consumer report you filed with us recently. We appreciate your telling us about the situation you encountered.

Your complaint has been selected for publication on our site and will appear within the next 48 hours.

No related Entrepreneur posts.

Blogging For Beginners

My Beginners Blogging Guide 101

Blogging basics should begin with the blogging vocabulary. Entrepreneur Ideas suggests that for you to understand about blogs, you should know blogging and do it with great confidence. But first you should learn exactly what a blog is, then you will be well on your own way to passing your final exam of my blogging guide 101.

The term blog is shortened for web log, which means the series of on line posts that are presented in a reverse chronological listing order. That’s it! Most of the blogs consist of text, but also there are photo blogs then even video blogs. The rest of blogging guide 101 deals with the technical part of blogging.

When you set up your blog, you will then need a platform, web hosting and the domain. The blogging platforms are computer software programs that will allow you to write your posts and also update your blog.

The platform helps you design the feel and look of your blog starting from the color scheme down to the font size. Your web host is kind of like a virtual filing cabinet and that is the place your blog will be stored. The computer communicates to the host when you’re uploading and or editing your post.

No related Entrepreneur posts.

Very Successful Entrepreneur

I would like to know what are those top personal traits that the successful entrepreneurs have and the reason that you think that those personal traits are important to be a successful entrepreneur?

Related posts:

1. What Made Bill Gates A Successful Entrepreneur?

Bill Gates a Successful Entrepreneur

In most successful entrepreneurs there is a key, it is the ability to take those calculated risks and the hunger to push further and further to be the very best. Out of the most successful entrepreneurs, such as Donald Trump or Richard Branson.

I find the most spectacular is Mr. Bill Gates. Bill  left a University and still he is the 2nd richest man in the whole world. What is it that made him great, and what are the personality traits that it takes to be a successful entrepreneur?
Did Mr.Gates read business books when he was younger? Or was he a determined young man while at school? What is it that made him great, and a successful entrepreneur?
Thank you for answering.

Successful Entrepreneur Resources:

• Fripp THE Executive Speech Coach: Are you a successful … – Are you a successful entrepreneur? Do you wish you could become a successful entrepreneur? There are experts to help and once in a while they combine their efforts to help. This is an product offer you may want to take…

• Entrepreneur 2.0 or How Does an Artist Become a CEO? | Primer – … partially inspired by fellow Pittsburgher, the late Fred Rogers) – Electric Owl’s style is notably representative of the changing skill sets needed to be a successful entrepreneur in the digital age – characteristics that are, …

• Interview With a Successful Entrepreneur: Josh First, Appalachian … – Josh First is a successful social entrepreneur who is conserving land and helping protect the environment while running a business. Learn how he has been able to accomplish this. And find out what he recommends to anyone considering …

• Fall Term Courses Scheduled – As a participant you will take a critical look at yourself as a successful entrepreneur using self-assessment tools; use a “back of the napkin” reality check to determine the ability of your business to make the money you want; …

Related posts:

1. What Are Key Personal Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur?