Make Money Online: SFM

Currently, Yahoo Site Explorer is the most up date and fast link checker for a website. Some people even use it to check their back links in Google. With Yahoo Site Explorer, you will have exact idea about the total number of links to a website whether they are coming from external sites or the original websites itself. Yahoo Site Explorer can be used an alternate to Google webmaster tool to check the back links of a website. Some people even use it to know the back links of their competitor’s website. Yahoo Site Explorer is the only place where you can get the complete list of links to a website publically.

To use site explorer, one does not even need to create an account on it. Here is how to use Yahoo Site Explorer to check the complete list of links a site have:

Go to Yahoo Site Explorer page

Enter the URL of the website to find its back links (I entered http://www.scopeformoney.com) and Click ‘Explorer URL’

The first result that you will get will be the list of pages that are currently indexed in Yahoo for this website. I get 214 pages for SFM that are actually indexed in Yahoo.

Now click on ‘Inlinks’ which is shown with some numbers. There are two drops down menus below:

Make a selection from the dropdown menu which is shown after ‘Show inlinks’.

From the second drop down menu select you want to check backlinks for ‘Only this URL’ or ‘Entire Site’.

Spend some time on Yahoo Site Explorer and get used to all of its functionality. All in all you can use this amazing tool from Yahoo to check internal as well as external links to a website. Here is again the list of things you can do with Yahoo Site Explorer:

• Number of pages indexed in Yahoo
• Total number of links to a website
• Total number of link except the link from the domain/sub domain itself
• Total number of backlinks for a particular page

Most of the links that are shown in Yahoo Site Explorer will also be shown by Google. Google is very slow in picking and counting the links for a website. But on the other hand, yahoo is very fast in picking and counting links to a website. On Yahoo Site Explorer, you can expect new links available for a website that it gets in the last few days or few hours or even in the last few minutes time.

I himself use this tool from Yahoo on regular basis to know the backlinks of our as well as competitors websites. The only downside I find about Yahoo Site Explorer is that, it counts all incoming links as links whether they are dofollow or even nofollow.

Popularity: 9% [?]

Ryan Caldwell, owner of popular blogging community Performancing, recently launched a new ad network in the form of PerformancingAds. PerformancingAds is a marketplace where all blogger and publisher will be able to make money with their websites and services.

Publishers

PerformancingAds is open to all bloggers from now and is accepting all blogs irrespective of their size and popularity. Before coming into full flow, PerformancingAds was successfully running on 10’s of top blogs in the industry. If you have a blog and want to make some extra money from it, then PerformancingAds can be the right choice for you. With this ad network, you will be placing the advertiser 125×125 ads in your blog header, sidebar or footer for a week and get paid for it. Publishers can set their own price for each ad that will be sold on their blogs.

Creating an account on PerformancingAds will not take much time. All you have to do is provide some basic information about you including Paypal e-mail id and conform your e-mail id. Once you have confirmed your account with PerformancingAds, all you need is submit all of your blogs details where you are willing to sell 125×125 ads offered by this network.

Currently, PerformancingAds are offering plugiin for Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and stand alone PHP websites.

Advertisers

Advertisers will have the option to advertise their website and services on the top blog in their niche through text or image ads. Currently, PerformancingAds are offering $25 off on your first purchase of $100 or more. Advertisers can easily find the top bloggers of their niche by making a search with the keywords of their industry or can even browse them by categories at PerformancingAds. When they click on a blogger of their choice, they will be shown some interesting stats about that blog like Blog Page Rank, Alexa Ranking, Technorati Rank, Yahoo inbound links, Bloglines Subscribers count with general blog details. So the advertisers will not have any difficulty in finding the top bloggers of their niche at PerformancingAds.

Revenue Sharing

This ad network is offering 60:40 revenue sharing ratios where the publishers will be getting the 60% of revenue and the rest of 40% revenue will go to PerformancingAds account.

Referral program

They have a referral program where you will be paid $10 for every new publisher or Advertiser that you refer to PerformancingAds. Also you will also get 5% of the sales generated by your referrals for life time. They have banners in many formats including 728×90, 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 125×125 that the bloggers can use on their blogs to bring more bloggers to PerformancingAds and more money to their paypal accounts.

PerformancingAds looks really attractive to me and will soon be adding it to my list of top money making programs.

Payment System

You will get paid on the first of next month for your previous month earnings and paypal is the mode of payment transfer this ad network is using right now.

So if you have a Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or general PHP website/blog, create an account on PerformancingAds today to start making more/some money from your blog site.

Popularity: 11% [?]

There are many things I love about Google webmaster tool due to which I use it on all of my websites and blogs. First of all it gives me detailed information about website crawling, indexing and URL related problems. With this it also gives me the opportunity to submit a Sitemap of my website to help Google to index my website properly. There are many more benefits of using google webmaster tool including information about website links, Top search Queries, Subscribers count etc. Here is the detailed information about the things that I find useful about this amazing tool from Google:

Website Indexing and Crawling

This tool gives you the exact date when your website home page was last crawled by Google. It will also help you know about the number of pages from your site are actually indexed by Google. With this tool, you will know crawling related errors your site have like Sitemap errors, HTTP errors, URL not found, URL restricted by robots.txt, Unreachable URL’s etc. Go though all of these crawling related errors and try to fix them.

Website Statistics

‘Top search queries’ feature will give us the list of top 20 keywords our site is appearing on Google with their respective positions. And ‘Top clicked queries’ gives the list of keywords that generated the maximum clicks.

‘What Googlebot sees’ shows how Google sees your website? Here you will get the list of keywords available in your website content and external links with their variations.

‘Crawl stats’ shows you how Google is crawling your website on daily basis with amount of data downloaded per day from your website.

‘Subscriber Stats’ gives you the count of Google subscribers to your RSS Feed.

Links

Here we know the internal and external links for our website homepage as well as its internal pages. It is only Google webmaster tool where we can get complete list of links for a website that Google actually counts.

‘Pages with External Links’ give us the complete list of links from other websites to our website homepage and its internal pages.

‘Pages with Internal Links’ will show the complete list of link to a website and its pages from the internal pages of this website only.

Sitemaps

This is the section where webmasters and Seo’s can submit their website sitemap to Google for better website indexing. If you don’t have a sitemap ready for your website, create it soon and submit that in Google webmaster tool. Once you have submitted your sitemap here, Google will give you the information about the total number of URL’s submitted and the number of indexed URL’s so far.

Tools

This is the section where you can create and analyze robots.txt file for your website. You can set your website crawling rate and Geographic location if you are targeting people of a specific region in this section. Under ‘Set Preferred Domain’, we specify how Google is going to open our website URL i.e. with www or without www like I set www.scopeformoney.com for my blog.

If you haven’t used Google webmaster tool yet, create an account on it today and submit your website here. To verify that you are the original who is associated with the submitted website, you need to verify your site by ‘adding a meta tag’ in the head section or by uploading a HTML file in your website.

Popularity: 8% [?]

It seems as if PR update is going on. My blog looks to be getting Page Rank of 3 in the ongoing Google PR update. In the last PR update, my blog was having PR 0. I’m really happy that my blog gets PR 3 which is quite good for a 5 months old blog. I started this blog in the mid of March this year. And in this very short period of time, this blog has done extremely well. Here is screenshot of my blog with 3 Google page rank:

Here are some facts about Scopeformoney.com you may find interesting

1. 3 Google Page rank
2. Total 52 posts added so far
3. On these posts, there are 154 good comments
4. Current Alexa Ranking for this blog is 141,000
5. Blog has so far achieved 75 Authority and 90,000 Technorati Ranking

I’m not sure whether this is Real page rank or fake page rank which I may be getting due to Google Toolbar problems. Let me know if you people as well are noticing some update in your Google page rank?

Popularity: 10% [?]

Yesterday, I received $12 from Smorty in my paypal account. I earned this money for writing 2 sponsored posts for advertisers available on Smorty. Here is the payment proof from Smorty:

If you have a blog, you people as well can make money with Smorty. In most of the cases, your blog will be approved there as they don’t have much condition that your blog must satisfy.

Popularity: 11% [?]

Google adwords keyword tool is really helpful for people who are willing to optimize their campaigns on Google Adwords. Also this keyword tool from Google is useful for publishers and bloggers who are aiming at making money from Google adsense. The best thing about this keyword suggestion tool from Google is that it is free of cost and you don’t need to create an account on Google adwords to use it.

To start using it, open Google adwords keywords tool in your address bar. When you open this URL, you are offered to use it in two ways. One is ‘Descriptive words’ or ‘Phrases’ search and second one is ‘Website content search’.

Let’s know how to use this amazing keyword tool from Google in both ways:

Descriptive words

I started using this tool by entering ‘make money online’ in the box available, keeping ‘Use synonyms’ option checked and filling the right Captcha. The result gives me long list of keywords related to my searched term ‘make money online’ with their relevance.

With keyword relevance, there are many more options like ‘Advertiser Competition’, ‘Search Volume’ for last month, Avg search volume, ‘Search Volume Trends’ etc we can use if you are aiming at making money with Google Adwords or Google adsense. And if you are willing to get results for a particular country or Territory in a particular language, you can specify that as well in the option available. By default, Google adwords keyword tool shows results that are tailored to English, United States.

Website Content

Now go back to the top and select the ‘Website Content’ option. Now enter the Address of website or blog from which you want Google adwords keyword tool to kind the related keyword list within content. And if you want this keyword tool to find related keywords on a single page that you specify, uncheck the click against ‘Include other pages on my site linked from this URL’. And in case, you want this keyword tool to include all pages from your website for keywords finding, keep it checked.

I entered the URL of my blog http://www.scopeformoney.com in the box available and press ‘Get Keywords idea’ button. This time also, I got a list of keywords with drop down menu and could view this list in various forms according to my requirements.

For my blog Scopeformoney, I get the following results:
Since I blog about making money online, PPC, search engine optimization, affiliate programs, keywords, adwords & blogging, I don’t see any problem with these results.

For every keyword, there is a list of related keywords or phrases with search volume.

Google adwords keywords tool is surely helpful for advertisers who aim at optimizing their ads and keywords in Google adwords. But with this bloggers and publishers as well can use it to earn more money with Google adsense contextual advertising.

Popularity: 13% [?]

Currently I’m use Google analytics to monitor all visitor activities on my websites and blogs. Prior to this, I was using Statcounter to keep track of visitors on my websites. I love Google analytics because it gives me lots of details about the people that are visiting my website.

Some facts about Google analytics

Google analytics is a free traffic monitoring service offered by Google that webmasters and bloggers use to monitor the traffic on their websites and blogs. Google analytics (GA) can track all kind of referrals including referrals from search engines, display advertising, PPC networks, e-mail marketing and PDF documents. We can monitor up to 50 websites with a single account on GA.

How to use Google Analytics

To start using GA, we need to create an account on Google analytics. If you have already a gmail account or Google account, you can use that to sign up on GA. If you don’t have a account on Gmail or Google.com, create an account on any of them. Once you complete the information asked during the sign up process, you will be offered some ready to use Java Script code that you will need to add to your website or blog template from where it will be visible on all pages in your website/blog.

Once you have added the GA tracking code in your website template, click on the ‘Check Status’ link available in your GA account. By clicking this link, you will know if you have installed the Urchin (GA code) properly on your website or not. Now check your GA account after 5-6 hours, you will have access to visitors stats that visited your website in the last few hours. Traffic stats that are available through Google Analytics cab be 3-4 hours in arrears of real time.

Benefits of using Google analytics

With Google analytics, we are able to know how many people are actually visiting our website on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. With GA, we have full access to all Sources from where we are getting the traffic and which keyword is giving you the maximum visitors like. Here is the list of some benefits that we get with Google Analytics:

Top Traffic Sources

We have full access to all traffic sources even if we got even single click of that source. Top traffic sources for my blog are Google, Yahoo, MSN, Wikipedia, Blogcatalog, Mybloglog, DP forum, StumbleUpon, Digg, Squidoo and even some people directly visiting my blog.

Keywords list

GA gives you the complete list of keywords that people use to find your website in search engines with their respective counts. If your website is appearing on top on Google, Yahoo or MSN for a particular keyword, then you can use GA actually to see how many
People you are driving to your website with this keyword on daily basis.

Visitor type

Visitor type gives you the count and percentage of new visitor and Returning visitor. One should aim at increasing Returning visitor to their website.

Landing page

Landing page is the page of your website that visitor arrives after clicking on a link. It can be the home page or any other page on your website. So with landing page, you can judge how people are actually finding your website pages and the most used pages on your website.

Continent

This feature tells you how many people you are actually getting from all continents. Like how many people actually visited your website from Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania or Africa continent.

Sub Continent Region

Sub continent feature tells you how many people you are getting on your website from various parts of all continents like Northern America, Northern Europe, South-Eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Southern Asia, Western Asia, Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Southern Europe etc.

Country/Territory

With this service, you will know which country is giving you the maximum visitor with total visitor count from a particular country. Some of countries from where I get the traffic on my websites are United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, Ireland etc.

Region

It will give you the complete list of regions people are coming using all major search engines.

City

With this feature, you can know which city is giving you the maximum number of hits on your website worldwide.

Browser

It informs you about the web browser people are using to find your website. Mostly people use internet Explorer or Firefox to surf internet. So you can expect these web browsers giving you the most of traffic on your website. Safari, Netscape, Opera and NetFront are some other web browsers people use to browse internet.

Direct Traffic

It will inform you about the number of people who actually open your website directly by typing your website URL in their address bar.

Referring Sites

It gives you the list of all referring sites that people actually use to click to your website links available on these sites.

Miscellaneous

With these terms, you will know about many more terms like Page Views, Bounce Rate, New visits, Avg. time on site, paid, non-paid, Adwords, Campaigns when you start using Google Analytics on your website or blog.

I hope this article will help you better understand Google analytics and its usage. And if you have any question about Google analytics, let me know in the comments section.

Popularity: 13% [?]

How you people know the blog you are visiting is a popular blog? I use certain parameters to know the popularity of a blog like Google page rank, Alexa Rankings and Technorati Authority and its rankings. In today’s post, I will talk about ways to increase a blog authority and rankings on Technorati.

1. Technorati Account - First of all if you have a blog, create an account on Technorati and claim your blog there to start increasing your rankings and authority on Technorati.
2. Dofollow Blogs - Find a list of dofollow blogs by making a search for ‘Dofollow blogs list’ on Google. Also if you spend some time on webmaster, Internet marketing or search engine related forums, you will be able to find many list of dofollow blogs. Sitepoint, DPforum, SoChat, webproworld are some of big discussion forums about internet marketing, search engines, seo, blogging and affiliate marketing kind of stuff.
3. Link Exchange - create a big list of top bloggers in your niche with their contact information. When you have the list, send them the e-mail request explaining that you are willing to exchange link with their blogs. When you do it, try to be as much polite you can and don’t send the same e-mail format to all bloggers in your niche. Create a general e-mail format and then give it the personalized look by filling the information like blogger’s name, blog address, blog title, favorite post etc before sending it to each blogger.
4. Social Bookmarking - create a strong profile on top social media sites and submit your latest blog posts there. I would recommend using Digg, Mixx.com, Sphinn and stumbleupon if you are specially looking for ways to increase your Technorati authority and rankings.
5. Site & blog list - create a list of websites and blogs that are linking to you and then ping all of these URL’s one by one using Technorati Pinging form.
6. Content updation - write quality content on your blog and keep the posts coming to your blog on regular basis. Once you have added a new post to your blog, don’t forget to ping Technorati.
7. Guest blogging - use the blogger’s list that you created in step 2 and ask them you are willing to write a guest post on their blogs. In most of the cases, they will allow you for guest blogging. When you write a guest post for any of blogger in your niche, you will be able to get a quality link for your blog and also will be able to increase your Technorati authority as well.

Popularity: 14% [?]

Google reader is a web based aggregator offered by Google which is capable of reading RSS and Atom feeds online as well as offline. I use Google Reader to manage all of my favorite bloggers and news site feeds. Google reader has lots of features like:

• Attractive interface that enables you to check all new items with a click
• Facility to import and export RSS feeds list in OPML file format
• Expended and list view option available for each item
• Easy marking of items being read in bulk and individually
• Easy addition of new RSS feeds
• Use Starred symbol for items that you want to use in near future
• Reading all recent items whether online or offline
• Using labels for managing RSS feeds in a better way

Add Subscriptions

Users can subscribe to RSS feeds by making a search with keywords of choice in ‘Add Subscription’ option available. Suppose you are looking for blog and sites for subscription that writes about ‘Making money online’, enter this keyword in search box that you get after clicking ‘Add Subscription’ link. Now you will have big list of sites and blogs with their subscriber’s count. To subscribe to any of RSS feed available in your search results, simply click on ‘Subscribe’ button. And if you already know the address of RSS feed you are willing to subscribe, simply paste its URL in ‘Add Subscription’ link.

RSS Management

By now you have entered the list of RSS feeds in your Google reader that you are aiming to monitor. Now it is the time to manage them in a better way. You can sort items by ‘oldest’, ‘newest’ or ‘Auto’ sorting under ‘View Settings’ option. With this, you can view items in ‘Expended View’ or ‘List view’

RSS Items Access

With Google reader, we can view recently added items whether we are online or offline. To set up Google Reader for offline use, we need to install ‘Google Gears’ extension. When we have activated the ‘Google Gears’ extension, we are able to view 2000 most recent items even if we are offline.

Import/Export Facility

Google reader has a great feature that enables us to Import or Export all RSS feed URLS in an OPML file format. This facility is especially helpful if you are willing to switch all of your current RSS Feeds to another account or are willing to subscribe to a big list of RSS Feeds in Bulk.

Requirements for Google reader

To start using Google Reader, you must have a Google Account and Java Script enabled with any of following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6+
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0+
• Netscape 7.2+
• Opera 9.0+

Rojo, Bloglines, Netvibes and Newsgator are some other popular web based aggregator with Google reader.

Popularity: 14% [?]

Keyword research is the first step that we take when it comes about promoting a website in various search engines including Google, yahoo and MSN. Without keywords, we cannot do any kind of on-page or off-page promotion kind of stuff for a website.

If we create keywords of our own and don’t use a good keyword suggestion tool, then we may end up with no traffic/profit from a website. For getting real traffic and money from a website, we need to target the keywords that people actually search in search engines.

For the last few months, I have been using the paid version of WordTracker, the best keyword tool available today in the market. With this keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, I have been able to find what people are actually searching and how many times they are searching a particular keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

You will find using keyword tool from WordTracker, easy and simple. Just place a relevant keyword in the search box available and press enter. Within few minutes time, you will get the most relevant keywords and phrases list that people actually use for finding the information they are aiming at in the last 100 days.

Cost of WordTracker Keyword Suggestion tool is not much; you have to pay just $59 if you are willing to get its subscription for a month and $329 if you have decided to get its subscription for a year.

But now there is great news for all internet marketers and bloggers who are willing to make money from their website or blog. They are offering 7 days subscription to the full version of WordTracker for free these days. To use this free subscription, we will need to create an account on WordTracker with credit card number. You will not be charged any money if you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription there before the end of one week. WordTracker will even send you a reminder when your free subscription is going to expire.

With keyword suggestion tool from WordTracker, you will not be able to bring more traffic/money to your website but will also be able to know about many more new money making niches. When you have access to WordTracker keyword selection tool, you can assure yourself that you have the best keyword selection tool ever made in the market.

Popularity: 13% [?]