How To Make Online Money

High Pagerank Links from Forums

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Here’s a quick method to help you get good links from high pagerank (PR) pages.

Remember that to get good ‘link juice’, you want to have a link from a high PR page, and you need that link to NOT be NoFollow, and you want to use good anchor text in that link.

First, use Firefox as your browser. Then download two plugins for Firefox: SEOQuake and NoDoFollow. To get SEOQuake, just go to http://www.seoquake.com/ and download the plugin. For NoDoFollow, in Firefox, go to Tools, Addons and browse. Search for the NoDoFollow plugin.

Next, google your niche keyword + the word ‘forum’ or the phrase ‘message board’. Visit some of the boards with the NoDoFollow plugin enabled and make a note of which forums allow signature links that are NOT NoFollow.

Join the forums which have good traffic, good PR, and allow sig links that are DoFollow. Setup your signature with good keyword-rich anchor text. (Like “Diabetic Recipes” as your link, not “For diabetic recipes, click here” with click here as your link.)

Then, go back to Google and make sure your Advanced settings are set to display 100 results. Turn on the SEOQuake plugin. Search the phrase - site:forumname.com keyword Replace forumname.com with the domainname of the forum, and keyword with your niche keyword. This will find specific threads within that forum. Use SEOQuake to fetch the PR for the results, then sort, descending, the PR. Basically, this just sorts your Google search results with the highest PR results at the top.

Visit those specific discussion threads, and post a RELEVANT, non-spammy reply, making sure your signature is on.

Repeat.

This allows you to place good anchor-text links in a high-PR page that will follow your link and pass some of the ‘link juice’ on to your site. As an added bonus, if it is a high-traffic site (which it probably is if it’s good pagerank), you might get visitors directly from the forum.

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Will Your Keywords SELL?

March 17th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s one thing to find keywords with a good “results to search” ratio. I love finding keywords that have 2000 searches per month with only 10,000 pages of competition. I know I can rank well and get on page one, and get some decent traffic.

BUT…should I waste my time on certain keyword phrases?

It’s pretty clear if someone is looking for “cheap antique clocks”, that they have commercial intent…in other words they have a high likelihood to BUY. As opposed to someone searching for “colon cancer”. Those folks are probably just reading and researching, with no intent of spending money.

The difference between “cheap antique clocks” and “colon cancer” is obvious. It’s easy to tell that one might have commercial intent and the other doesn’t. But what about phrases that aren’t as obvious?

There is a new tool that can help:

MSN’s Commercial Intent Tool

The tool gives a score of commercial (or non-commercial) intent. You enter the keywords, check the ‘Query’ radio button, and hit ‘Go’. The scale is 0 to 1, so just multiply by 100 and you have the percentage that the keywords entered have the intent listed (either commercial or non-commercial).

So, if you have a choice between multiple keywords, try using this tool to help discern what is in the hearts of the visitors to your site.

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KB Linker and eBay

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

I recently came across a strategy and a tool that I thought I’d share with you.

The strategy:

Use a plugin called KB Linker to automatically link certain keywords in your blog to eBay (using your affiliate ID, of course!).

KB Linker lets you create pairs of keywords and links. You create a list of these pairs in the plugin’s configuration panel. Then every time that keyword appears anywhere in your blog, it will be hyperlinked to the URL you have designated.

For example, in the configuration panel you can set it up like: google->http://www.google.com
wordpress->http://www.wordpress.com
make money->http://www.how-to-make-online-money.com
Digital Point Forum->http://forums.digitalpoint.com

etc.

With the configuration above, any time the word ‘wordpress’ appears in a post, it will be hyperlinked to WordPress.com. Any time the phrase “Digital Point Forum” appears in your blog, it would be linked to those forums.

You can understand how this would be useful for making money, once you start tying keywords in your blog to your affiliate links.

The difficulty with eBay is that its links are so long and convoluted.

The tool:

So, I used Microsoft Excel to create a tool that allows me to input my Campaign ID, keywords I want linked, and phrases for eBay to search, and the tool creates the right output to paste into KB Linker.

For example, I want the word “wristwatch” to be linked to an ebay search for “rolex watch” everywhere in my blog, or the word “Canon” to be linked to the ebay search for “digital camera -battery”.

You can grab the tool (an Excel file) from:

eBay KB Linker Tool

http://www.how-to-make-online-money….aykblinker.xls

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