World Internet Business Locations

Internet business directory of the World:

United States & Surrounding Areas

ALABAMA,AL ALASKA,AK ARIZONA,AZ ARKANSAS,AR CALIFORNIA,CA COLORADO,CO CONNECTICUT,CT DELAWARE,DE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,DC FLORIDA,FL GEORGIA,GA GUAM,GU HAWAII,HI IDAHO,ID ILLINOIS,IL INDIANA,IN IOWA,IA KANSAS,KS KENTUCKY,KY LOUISIANA,LA MAINE,ME MARSHALL ISLANDS,MH MARYLAND,MD MASSACHUSETTS,MA MICHIGAN,MI MINNESOTA,MN MISSISSIPPI,MS MISSOURI,MO MONTANA,MT NEBRASKA,NE NEVADA,NV NEW HAMPSHIRE,NH NEW JERSEY,NJ NEW MEXICO,NM NEW YORK,NY NORTH CAROLINA,NC NORTH DAKOTA,ND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS,MP OHIO,OH OKLAHOMA,OK OREGON,OR PALAU,PW PENNSYLVANIA,PA PUERTO RICO,PR RHODE ISLAND,RI SOUTH CAROLINA,SC SOUTH DAKOTA,SD TENNESSEE,TN TEXAS,TX UTAH,UT VERMONT,VT VIRGIN ISLANDS,VI VIRGINIA,VA WASHINGTON,WA WEST VIRGINIA,WV WISCONSIN,WI WYOMING,WY

New York City New York,Los Angeles California,Chicago Illinois,Houston Texas,Philadelphia Pennsylvania,Phoenix Arizona,San Antonio Texas,San Diego California,Dallas Texas,San Jose California,Detroit Michigan,Indianapolis Indiana,Jacksonville Florida,San Francisco California,Columbus Ohio,Austin Texas,Memphis Tennessee,Baltimore Maryland,Fort Worth Texas,Charlotte North Carolina,El Paso Texas,Washington District of Columbia,Milwaukee Wisconsin,Seattle Washington,Boston Massachusetts, Denver Colorado,Louisville-Jefferson County Kentucky,Nashville-Davidson Tennessee,Las Vegas Nevada,Portland Oregon,Oklahoma City Oklahoma,Tucson Arizona,Albuquerque New Mexico,Long Beach California,Atlanta Georgia,Fresno California,Sacramento California,New Orleans Louisiana,Cleveland Ohio,Kansas City Missouri,Mesa Arizona,Virginia Beach Virginia,Omaha Nebraska,
Oakland California,Miami Florida,Tulsa Oklahoma,Honolulu CDP Hawaii,Minneapolis Minnesota,Colorado Springs Colorado,Arlington Texas,Wichita Kansas,St Louis Missouri,Raleigh North Carolina,Santa Ana California,Anaheim California,Tampa Florida,Pittsburgh Pennsylvania,Cincinnati Ohio,Toledo Ohio,Aurora Colorado,Bakersfield California,Riverside California, Stockton California,Corpus Christi Texas,Newark New Jersey,Buffalo New York,Saint Paul Minnesota,Anchorage Alaska,Lexington Kentucky,Plano Texas,St Petersburg Florida,Jersey City New Jersey,Glendale Arizona,Lincoln Nebraska,Chandler Arizona,Henderson Nevada,Greensboro North Carolina,Norfolk Virginia,Birmingham Alabama,Scottsdale Arizona,Fort Wayne Indiana, Baton Rouge Louisiana,Madison Wisconsin,Hialeah Florida,Chesapeake Virginia,Garland Texas,Orlando Florida,Rochester New York Akron Ohio,Chula Vista California,Lubbock Texas,Laredo Texas,Modesto California,Durham North Carolina,Reno Nevada,Fremont California,Montgomery Alabama,Glendale California,Shreveport Louisiana,San Bernardino California,Spokane Washington,Yonkers New York,Arlington CDP Virginia,Tacoma Washington,Huntington Beach California,Des Moines Iowa,Grand Rapids Michigan,Richmond Virginia,Winston-Salem North Carolina,Irving Texas,Boise Idaho,Mobile Alabama,Augusta-Richmond County Georgia,Irvine California,Columbus Georgia,Little Rock Arkansas,Oxnard California,Amarillo Texas,Knoxville Tennessee,Newport News Virginia, Moreno Valley California,Salt Lake City Utah,Jackson Mississippi,Providence Rhode Island,North Las Vegas Nevada,Worcester Massachusetts,Gilbert Arizona,Ontario California,Rancho Cucamonga California,Santa Clarita California,Aurora Illinois, Brownsville Texas,Fort Lauderdale Florida,Huntsville Alabama,Oceanside California,Garden Grove California,Overland Park Kansas,Fontana California,Tempe Arizona,Dayton Ohio,Tallahassee Florida,Vancouver Washington,Chattanooga Tennessee,Pomona California,Santa Rosa California,Rockford Illinois,Springfield Massachusetts,Pembroke Pines Florida,Springfield Missouri, Paterson New Jersey,Corona California,Salem Oregon,Salinas California,Hollywood Florida,Hampton Virginia,Eugene Oregon, Grand Prairie Texas,Kansas City Kansas,Pasadena Texas,Pasadena California,Torrance California,Syracuse New York,Naperville Illinois,Lakewood Colorado,Hayward California,Cape Coral Florida,Sioux Falls South Dakota,Bridgeport Connecticut,Peoria Arizona,Joliet Illinois,Alexandria Virginia,Warren Michigan,Orange California,Palmdale California,Escondido California, Lancaster California,Fullerton California,Port St Lucie Florida,Fayetteville North Carolina,Mesquite Texas,Sunnyvale California,Coral Springs Florida,Savannah Georgia,Sterling Heights Michigan,Fort Collins Colorado,Elizabeth New Jersey,New Haven Connecticut,Hartford Connecticut,Thousand Oaks California,McAllen Texas,Concord California,Cedar Rapids Iowa,El Monte California,Topeka Kansas,Waco Texas,Stamford Connecticut,Carrollton Texas,Simi Valley California,Flint Michigan,Vallejo California

Canada Provinces & Surrounding Areas

Alberta,AB British Columbia,BC Manitoba,MB New Brunswick,NB Newfoundland and Labrador,NL Northwest Territories,NT Nova Scotia,NS Nunavut,NU Ontario,ON Prince Edward Island,PE Quebec,QC Saskatchewan,SK Yukon YT

Abbotsford (Matsqui) City BC,Barrie City ONT,Belleville City ONT,Brantford City ONT,Calgary City ALTA,Cape Breton (Sydney) Com NS,Charlottetown City PEI,Chatham-Kent City ONT,Chilliwack Com BC,Cornwall City ONT,Drummondville City QUE,Edmonton City ALTA,Fredericton City NB,Granby City QUE,Guelph City ONT,Halifax Com NS,Hamilton City ONT,Kamloops City BC,Kawartha Lakes (Lindsay) City ONT,Kelowna City BC,Kingston City ONT,Kitchener City ONT,Lethbridge City ALTA,London City ONT,Medicine Hat City ALTA,Moncton City NB,Montréal [Montreal] City QUE,Nanaimo City BC,Norfolk (Nanticoke Simcoe) City ONT,North Bay City ONT,Oshawa City ONT,Ottawa City ONT,Peterborough City ONT,Prince George City BC,Québec City QUE,Red Deer City ALTA,Regina City SASK,Saguenay (Chicoutimi-Jonquière) City QUE,Saint-Hyacinthe City QUE,Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu City QUE,Saint John City NB,Sarnia City ONT,Saskatoon City SASK,Sault Ste Marie City ONT,Shawinigan City QUE,Sherbrooke City QUE,St Catharines City ONT,St John's City NFLD,Sudbury (Greater Sudbury) City ONT,Thunder Bay City ONT,Toronto City ONT,Trois-Rivières City QUE,Vancouver City BC,Vernon City BC,Victoria City BC,Windsor City ONT,Winnipeg City Manitoba.

Countries & Areas Around The World

ad,Andorra ae,United Arab Emirates af,Afghanistan ag,Antigua and Barbuda ai,Anguilla al,Albania am,Armenia an,Netherlands ao,Angola aq,Antarctica ar,Argentina as,American Samoa at,Austria au,Australia aw,Aruba az,Azerbaidjan ba,Bosnia-Herzegovina bb,Barbados bd,Bangladesh be,Belgium bf,Burkina Faso bg,Bulgaria bh,Bahrain bi,Burundi bj,Benin bm,Bermuda bn,Brunei bo,Bolivia br,Brazil bs,Bahamas bt,Bhutan bv,Bouvet Island bw,Botswana by,Belarus bz,Belize ca,Canada cc,Cocos (Keeling) Islands cf,Central African Republic cg,Congo ch,Switzerland ci,Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) ck,Cook Islands cl,Chile cm,Cameroon cn,China co,Colombia com,Commercial cr,Costa Rica cs,Former Czechoslovakia cu,Cuba cv,Cape Verde cx,Christmas Island cy,Cyprus cz,Czech Republic de,Germany dj,Djibouti dk,Denmark dm,Dominica do,Dominican Republic dz,Algeria ec,Ecuador ee,Estonia eg,Egypt eh,Western Sahara er,Eritrea es,Spain et,Ethiopia fi,Finland fj,Fiji fk,Falkland Islands fm,Micronesia fo,Faroe Islands fr,France fx,France (European Territory) ga,Gabon gb,Great Britain gd,Grenada ge,Georgia gf,French Guyana gh,Ghana gi,Gibraltar gl,Greenland gm,Gambia gn,Guinea gp,Guadeloupe (French) gq,Equatorial Guinea gr,Greece gs,S. Georgia & S. Sandwich Isls. gt,Guatemala gu,Guam (USA) gw,Guinea Bissau gy,Guyana hk,Hong Kong hm,Heard and McDonald Islands hn,Honduras hr,Croatia ht,Haiti hu,Hungary id,Indonesia ie,Ireland il,Israel in,India io,British Indian Ocean Territory iq,Iraq ir,Iran is,Iceland it,Italy jm,Jamaica jo,Jordan jp,Japan ke,Kenya kg,Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) kh,Cambodia, Kingdom of ki,Kiribati km,Comoros kn,Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla kp,North Korea kr,South Korea kw,Kuwait ky,Cayman Islands kz,Kazakhstan la,Laos lb,Lebanon lc,Saint Lucia li,Liechtenstein lk,Sri Lanka lr,Liberia ls,Lesotho lt,Lithuania lu,Luxembourg lv,Latvia ly,Libya ma,Morocco mc,Monaco md,Moldavia mg,Madagascar mh,Marshall Islands mk,Macedonia ml,Mali
mm,Myanmar mn,Mongolia mo,Macau mp,Northern Mariana Islands mq,Martinique (French) mr,Mauritania ms,Montserrat mt,Malta mu,Mauritius mv,Maldives mw,Malawi mx,Mexico my,Malaysia mz,Mozambique na,Namibia nc,New Caledonia (French) ne,Niger net,Network nf,Norfolk Island ng,Nigeria ni,Nicaragua nl,Netherlands no,Norway np,Nepal nr,Nauru nt,Neutral Zone nu,Niue nz,New Zealand om,Oman pa,Panama pe,Peru pf,Polynesia (French) pg,Papua New Guinea ph,Philippines pk,Pakistan pl,Poland pm,Saint Pierre and Miquelon pn,Pitcairn Island pr,Puerto Rico pt,Portugal pw,Palau py,Paraguay qa,Qatar re,Reunion (French) ro,Romania ru,Russian Federation rw,Rwanda sa,Saudi Arabia sb,Solomon Islands sc,Seychelles sd,Sudan se,Sweden sg,Singapore sh,Saint Helena si,Slovenia sj,Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands sk,Slovak Republic sl,Sierra Leone sm,San Marino sn,senegal so,Somalia sr,Suriname st,Saint Tome (Sao Tome) and Principe su,Former USSR sv,El Salvador sy,Syria sz,Swaziland tc,Turks and Caicos Islands td,Chad tf,French Southern Territories tg,Togo th,Thailand tj,Tadjikistan tk,Tokelau tm,Turkmenistan tn,Tunisia to,Tonga tp,East Timor tr,Turkey tt,Trinidad and Tobago tv,Tuvalu tw,Taiwan tz,Tanzania ua,Ukraine ug,Uganda uk,United Kingdom um,USA Minor Outlying Islands us,United States uy,Uruguay uz,Uzbekistan va,Holy See (Vatican City State) vc,Saint Vincent & Grenadines ve,Venezuela vg,Virgin Islands (British) vi,Virgin Islands (USA) vn,Vietnam vu,Vanuatu wf,Wallis and Futuna Islands ws,Samoa ye,Yemen yt,Mayotte yu,Yugoslavia za,South Africa zm,Zambia zr,Zaire zw,Zimbabwe

Federal Reserve Board Drops Citigroup Inc. Litigation

The Federal Reserve Board on Friday terminated all litigation against Citigroup Incorporated. A sigh of relief for all involved. You can read more on this issue here.

Below are some of enforcement actions the Federal Reserve can take when a private company is proven to be managing their business outside US laws and bi-laws.

Since August 1989, the Federal Reserve has made enforcement orders public in accordance with the Financial Institutions Recovery, Reform, and Enforcement Act of 1989.

Since November 1990, it has also made written agreements public in accordance with the Crime Control Act of 1990. The formal enforcement actions are made public through a press release that includes a copy of the order or agreement.

Formal enforcement actions taken by the Federal Reserve before August 1989 are not public.

The Federal Reserve supervises the following entities and has the statutory authority to take formal enforcement actions against them;

- Generally, the Federal Reserve takes formal enforcement actions against the above entities for violations of laws, rules, or regulations, unsafe or unsound practices, breaches of fiduciary duty, and violations of final orders. Formal enforcement actions include cease and desist orders, written agreements, removal and prohibition orders, and orders assessing civil money penalties.

- Edge and agreement corporations

- Branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations operating in the United States and their parent banks

- State member banks

- Bank holding companies

- Non-bank subsidiaries of bank holding companies

- Officers, directors, employees, and certain other categories of individuals associated with the above banks, companies, and organizations (referred to as "institution-affiliated parties")

Unsecured Business Capital Advances

I was asked by a good blogging friend (Terry Zulit) to do some research on unsecured business capital advances. This is of interest to me as well, as I know many self employed people that have opted to get one of these investment companies involved when the banks would not help with the growth of their companies.

As mentioned in Terry's post, I used the following sticking points when phoning and unwilling capital advance companies....they must:

• have no application fees
• have no hidden fees
• have no closing costs
• don't look at your financial statements
• don't ask to see your tax returns
• don't have fixed payments
• don't do personal or business credit checks
• must judge a company from it's future business plans
• must approve within 48 hours, and deposit funds within 10 business days
• must lend between $2000 and $250,000 US dollars
• must have a solid track record of providing unsecured capital to viable businesses
• must have personable customer service
• must be based in the United States

I spent most of my time on the phone, as the Internet never really gets you to the fine details of products and services. You really need to talk to representatives so you can get the full gist of their products and services.

My recommendation is.......drum roll please......the World Of Financing who have an online form that's easy to fill out and results in a phone call from a representative within one business day. Their representative company provides cash advances within all of the criteria Terry mentioned and I listed above. They provide capital advances of $2000 to $250,000.

You can see the page that has the online application form here. The form takes about 30 seconds to fill out and you will be in touch with a capital advance representative within 24 business hours. They don't charge sicko interest and they don't try and tell you what do to with your capital. I had a long talk with a few of their representatives and their customer service people where exemplary.

Read more here......

Kenny

Business Startup Plan - 2 For 1

I was visiting one of my favorite sites for entrepreneur information and news this morning and they had a good article on business startups. In particular I enjoyed reading the note about buying an existing company with an existing cash flow. I would like to add a little to this idea.

When I first started out trying to make money with my online and off-line business model, I never would have opted for buying someone's existing web site or blog. I would never have put up money to start my business because I was like most Internet entrepreneurs in that I was a coward. Sounds like a sick comment to say that Internet entrepreneurs are cowards, but let's face it; when your expenses and overhead for startup are only 7 dollars a month (if that) for your web hosting and domain, you aren't taking any risk.

If I had to do it again, I would have considered buying an existing business, but this is how I would do it.

• I would only buy the business if it came with training
• I would only buy it if it had a proven and consistent cash flow that I could monitor

On the first bullet I'm getting at the learning curve. The old saying applies to my own experience; "if I knew then what I know now I would be further ahead". If you can arrange to tutored or taught how to run the business as part of the deal for buying the business, you are WAY ahead. As a matter of fact, even if you learned the art of that business and then flipped it back on the market, the education would have been MORE than worth it.

• in the end, it comes down to your knowledge on how to build a site or blog (or bricks and mortar business)
• how to maintain traffic flow
• how to convert that traffic
• how to choose products and services that convert well
• how to utilize resources for the lowest possible price
• how to best utilize resources for the biggest possible gain for all of the above
• how to choose a business category
• how to understand the market's vectors
• how to understand a markets potential
• how to diversify any business that is up and running
• how and when to outsource

If I've learned anything since I've been online, it's that the education and knowledge we gain is far more important that than present cash flow of your business. Once you understand how to repeat a successful startup, you can basically print money.

So when you are shopping around for a business model to buy into, get a 2 for 1 deal. You buy only if it comes with expertise they are willing to bring your way.

From Employee To Self Employed

First of all, when you become self employed you need to look at debt with a completely different lense. If you run your business in debt during the slow part of your business season, it's not really time to panic. At least that is what I try to tell myself ;-)

The interest you pay on your line of credit, or operating line, can be written off at different percentages, depending on the tax laws in your, state, province, or country. If you are used to being an employee, you will likely squirm at the thought of having a red balance on your line of credit, but you need to get over it and start thinking in terms of running a company.

Many companies, large and small, service a large debt and they service that debt sometimes until they sell off the company. Yep, sometimes they run in the hole during their entire existence. That is why we refer to some folks as being rich on paper, but can't really afford to be summering in France. Of course when a healthy company is sold, the owners are often green with wealth.

The main thing is that your company has a cash flow that is healthy over the year. Try not to get too wrapped up if your cash flow does not cover your expenses for one particular month. As long as the busy months make up for it, you are doing just fine.

What ever you do, don't look at your business based on one day. When I first became self employed I would sometimes judge my business based on ONE HOUR! Now if that's a not a recipe for self-induced stress, especially when you are on your own and you've been used to getting a check from an employer every two weeks. Personally, I'm starting to understand how the self-employment gig goes, but it's been an adjustment for sure.

Make Sure You Hire Professionals For Your Accounting

One thing you can do to reduce your concerns, is hire professional accountants and bookkeepers. I know that many people become self-employed try and do their own accountanting and bookkeeping, as well as their own tax return preparations. I'd advise against that choice.

In the long run, these professionals can save you much more than what you save doing all the bean counting yourself. Besides, the time you spend pulling your hair out with a calculator and a mountain of paper, you could be creating more revenue streams. Do what you do best and hire someone to do what you despise doing. Of course, if you enjoy doing books and tax returns, that's a different stroy - fill your boots. Personally, I would rather pay experts for that work, and spend my time increasing revenue.

When you are done at year end you can see all of your expenses and all of your income meticulously prepared for the taxman. You can see how a large percentage of your costs are legitimate tax write-offs, and how the interest you paid on your line of credit can be part of those tax write-offs.

It Takes Time To Really Judge Your New Company

Once you become fully self-employed, you'll need to be operating for some time before you see where you are at. Until you've had a year end, you won't really have an accurate picture of where your business's financial health is at. Sometimes you just have to put your head down and work hard, when you feel uncertain of your business future. Sometimes is just luck, so we have to bear down on the tasks of the day, and go for it!

If you find that in the first couple of years you don't make any profit, but barely keep the lights on and food in the fridge, try not to panic. This is normal - actually it better than normal - some businesses run deep in the red for many years, before they see a cent of actual profit. If in the first year of running your business, you are paying down all your costs and you have enough to live off, and don't run any personal debt, YOU ARE WINNING BIG TIME!

Don't burn yourself out with over-work and over-worry. Just work smarter and not harder as you go along. Focus on what avenues really make the money, and maintain a consistent level of growth.

Keyword Market Vectors - Blogging Markets

The law of life is that when someone is flying high, others will be crawling slow - and all fortunes can be reversed in the blink of an eye.

I've been spending allot of time lately studying the different traffic levels for the most popular product and service keywords. There are literally thousands of extremely popular markets (and keywords) making the decision which keyword market to compete for is difficult. Yes, there are fancy (and so fancy) databases available that supposedly tell you which keywords pay the most in the Adsense realm, but you really don't know until you have launched a site and tested it for real. Meaning real traffic from real people who really looking for a product or service.

What I've found interesting is watching the popular keyword searches fluctuate from month to month. For example; school supplies is a query made in massive proportion during August and September, but drops off considerably in October. I could list many many more, but you get the point. This is why diversification can be so important.

If I was to start all over with this Internet income challenge, I would have built maybe 4 big blogs (instead of 40 little sites or blogs) and I would have chosen 4 keyword markets that cover the seasonal patterns. Now I know those reading this would say the flies directly in the face of our initial tutorials on Money Traffic, but those tutorials just demonstrate a method of testing various keyword markets. Yes, you can also make some good money using the tutorial method (using Blogger accounts to create high quality blogspot blogs), but when you are really going to build a massive resource you should be using a domain name you own, and a quality web hosting server.

So I would suggest newcomers use the Money Traffic tutorials to get started with an all free option, so they can learn how to blog easily, learn how to create partnerships with other bloggers, and learn how monetize their pages. I would test a handful of keyword markets, and then find one that pays very well with Adsense, and perhaps as high converting merchant. Then once you have the winning blog established, buy your own domain name and hosting, and run a MONSTER blog on that topic. I don't suggest trying make a blog that just talks about how to blog for money though - people who visit sites like this one don't often click ads and they don't usually convert sales. I would build your monster blog around a basic product or service that normal people look for, and not around products or services that us Internet savvy types seek. (just my opinion here folks - to do well selling to people who are learning to sell, you have to have some serious clout)

Anyway, off to my other blogs. Got a ton of work to do today!!!

Kenny

First Step To Fixing The "Smart Pricing" Problem

I've seen some scuttlebut online regarding "Smart Pricing" affecting publisher's and their Adsense income. I've been affected a couple of time from the Smart Pricing problem, and this is my two cents on the deal.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with Smart Pricing click here. My quick and nasty explanation is simple. If your Adsense account has sites that recieve alot of traffic that just that does not (or deemed not to) convert well for Adwords advertisers, Google Adsense will start putting cheaper ads on your web site. This is all to protect the Adwords advertisers that spend some bigger bucks for their traffic. Keep in mind that Adwords is Google's bread and butter, so they are trying to protect advertisers as much as possible.

My speculation? We can only speculate how their system of Smart Pricing works, as there are many variables that will effect what the ads placed on your web pages, but I believe it's the following; (in order of importance)

1) Where your traffic is coming from. If the traffic you recieve to your pages is from a high grade source, such as the top of MSN, Yahoo!, or Google search results, Googles algo see this pattern and will award you with better paying ads. On the contrary, if your traffic mostly comes from crappy third tier traffic sources, the ads fed to your pages will pay less. If your traffic is mostly from emails, or forums, perhaps this also effects your Adsense dollars. Speculation yes - but I've tested it and it rings true.

2) Conversions for advertisers. If Adwords advertisers are seeing a high ROI (return on investment) from your traffic, you will be awarded with better paying ads.

3) Your CTR (click through rate) If your Adsense account CTR is higher, I believe the better paying ads will be placed on your pages. BUT only if speculations 1 & 2 are positive as well. If you have crappy traffic that won't convert for the Adwords advertiser, it won't matter what your CTR is - you'll still see low paying ads on your site.

4) My solution? How to keep the high paying Google ads on your site and avoid the Smart Pricing crunch. Work on the three positives above. Try working towards recieving the higher quality traffic, setup your pages for high CTR, and don't display Google Ads on your weaker, more pathetic sites. Use some other sort of monetizing on your lesser sites that get sporatic and fickle traffic. Keep only your premium sites in your Google account. This is also speculation of course, but the above worked for me.

Focus on more quality content and natural linking, to keep the Google bots loving your site(s) or blog(s).

Kenny

New Client's Site Added To Our Directory

Terry and I ;-) just teamed up to help out a new client who has a magnetic jewelry business. This is a thriving business folks. Huge mark-up, and a fantastic product to boot. They sell magnetic bracelets and magnet necklaces mostly, but they also sell chokers and anklets. Terry setup all their Paypal carts, and I focused on the blog itself.

It's such fun helping new businesses get their online start. Everyone get very excited about it, and it's up to the webmasters to follow through on the work. Traffic means money right. You can see their site here:

http://www.magjewl.com

Still have some Google Video to load up for this site.....fun fun!

Cool Blog I Found

Here is a blog I found recently that allows users to make their own posts. Very good idea. It's called Silii, which stands for SAY IT LIKE IT IS.

Users register, login and post their comments on any subject under the sun. There are some cool tutorials for beginners, showing how to register, login, and post.

What I find strange is that Silli is using a Wordpress blogging platform and the back end is customized. They also allow users to use up to 2 outbound links per article. They have administrators moderating at all times apparently.

Pretty smart idea.

-Kenny

My Top 10 “Things I would do differently if I had to start my blog again”

Here is the latest Zulit monster post all about blogging for money. Great for new-comers who want to build a power blog for lasting income.

Basically Terry outlines the 10 things he wishes he had done (and not done) on his first blogs. Invaluable stuff here.

-Kenny

Money Traffic Update

Well....Money Traffic has been up and running for around 2 months. Google did their update and it's presently showing a Google PR of 5. If you don't undertsand Google PR, click here.

Notice how when you include the address www in our domain you see a PR of 5, but when you remove the www you see a PR of 3. This is because other blogs are linking to us using the www in our address.

I'm not much on the PR thing. Don't really care. What I care about is traffic, and our traffic is beginning to climb on it's own now -- without posting on forums and posting at Digg, etc.

If you presently don't have the Google Toolbar, you can download it here -- OR you can use Google's Firefox browser which includes the Google Toolbar.

Blogspot To Be Blocked In India

Well..there goes all our traffic from India to Money Traffic. Read this article. India's government will be blocking all blogspot web addresses; India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites.

www.blogspot.com, www.typepad.com and www.geocities.com are know to be on the list to get whacked. It's a real shame becuase Money Traffic gets alot of hits from our friends in India.

Since private sites will not be blocked, I suggest our visitors living in India bookmark the money traffic blogroll.

-Kenny

Backing Up Your Content

Here is a good comment submitted awhile back. After seeing people lose their blogger accounts, it's timely.

Hi,

I thought of a small addition to your tutorial. When I build a new blogger
blog, I always include an BlogSend Address (located in the Email settings tab).
I do this so that in case my blog is ever deleted or banned for whatever reason,
I at least have all my postings and can quickly rebuild them.

Just something a little extra I do.

-Marcy

Another Good Zulit Post

Just doing my morning jog through the blogoshpere, and read Terry's post for the day. I like this one. It's called Day In The Life Of - Yet Another Internet Enrepreneur (and of course Bob Marley)

As usual from Terry some humour, insight, and weird tangents.

-Kenny

Jackhammer Loses Blogs

One of our contributors recently lost over 50 of his blogger blogs. When he contacted Blogger they gave him this response:

Hi (NAME),

We have removed your blogs and/or disabled your Blogger account due to thefact that you have been misusing our service. Based on our records, thereare a number of blogs that are not compliant with our Terms of Service(http://www.blogger.com/terms.g). This behavior is not looked uponfavorably.

Sincerely,The Blogger Team

I have no idea why his blogs were whacked, but his account is still live he tells me. I suggest reading the Blogger Terms Of Service closely if you intend to grow these Blogger niche blogs.

At this point I am no longer building blogger niche blogs. The ones I have I will maintain but I will be focusing on my Typepad, Movable Type, and Wordpress blogs in the future.

For further information on how to create and use the above mentioned blog platforms, please use my blogroll in the right sidebar. In the LONG run, your content will be safe on a domain you own and control.

-Kenny

Joel Comm Adsense Templates!

Kenny, decided I should post today and have good reason to do so! As I mentioned in my e-mail this morning, our good friend Joel Comm has come out with yet another gem! Yesterday, Joel released a package or software containing about 100 Adsense templates plus a site builder! He had only 1000 copies to sell and the price kept going up as the copies were selling out. So I purchased the package and can safely say that this is going to be fantastic. It not only contains website templates but he's also designed templates for Wordpress and Blogger blogs! So basically, the work is already done and all you have to do is come up with good content! Along with his package, Joel includes tutorial videos to teach beginners how to use his templates and site builder!

He sold out of the package shortly after the release but he emailed me this morning to tell me that he'd be releasing another version shortly! To get on Joel's list for the release of the next version, click here! And no there is no affiliate for this program so don't worry, I won't be getting any cash out of this! :) Like Kenny, I want to help others make it! Comments from you all are welcome!

Highest Paying Keywords

Always alot of talk regarding what markets to get into. I bought Keyword Explosion which was great until they could no longer access Adwords data. Now it seems like they're just guessing. I dunno. Let me know your thoughts on it.

I tried Top Paying Keywords last week for finding the niche keywords that pay. I've tested their list with some PPC and so far I'm impressed. I'll let ya know later how a full site goes, but on the three keywords that I tried, they paid as advertised.

The problem I see with some of these so-called high paying Adsense keyword databases is this; they are basing their data on search traffic and not content traffic (clicks we get on our sites) Basically - many big advertisers that pay big for their ads choose only to have their ads displayed on Google's search, and not on publisher sites (ours) This is the problem Keyword Explosion had, and that their database was crippled with Google changing it's ways.

Top Paying Keywords has some good rep you can read about on their site.

-Kenny

Understanding eCPM

Since I have started blogging with blogger.com, I have noticed some things about Page eCPM...and I THINK I finally get it....kind-of.

I noticed that when I am working on my own blogs...posting...then vieweing...the posting etc...Google counts each time I visit my own page as a PAGE IMPRESSION. This can get a little confusing because I am never sure if those are MY page hits, or someone else coming to look at my blog.

The page eCPM counts ONLY those viewers that have done a search for your site. I can visit my own blog 1000 times/day...and I WILL NOT see ANY page eCPM. Once a 'real' viewer comes to your blog (by doing a search for it) Google will show an eCPM number.

Am I right about this? Has anyone else noticed that?

JackHammer

Money Traffic Starting To Gain Ground

Money Traffic is a very new blog, only housing 27 posts to date. A mere nothing as far as blogging goes. We've talked alot on this blog about ratios. Ratios as far as competing pages for particular keywords in comparison to how many people search a particular keyword. (see step one of the tutorial)

I noticed today that Money Traffic is now on the bottom of page two in Google for the keyword search, blogspot adsense. You can go to Google and try it - keeping in mind that depending on where you are and the latest updates, the listing positions may be different for your experience. You'll notice that the site above Money Traffic is Darren's Problogger.net. (If you have never surfed through Darren's site I highly recommend it.) You might take notice of his PR7 page rank as well.

Now.....competing pages for the keyword blogspot adsense is as follows:

Results 11 - 20 of about 1,620,000 for blogspot adsense

So not bad for a brand new blog with only 27 posts on it. I'm not writing a "boast post" here folks. I'm trying to give all new-comers some hope that their niche blogs will begin getting traffic and making money.

Remember that when you build your niche blogs using my tutorial, you are looking for competing pages much lower than 1.6 million as shown in the example above.

So keep building your niche blogs and keep adding periodic posts to all of them, and you will certainly receive traffic, and in turn, receive Adsense earnings.

-Kenny

Wordpress Video Tutorials

I've been asked if I could post links to Brent's (one of our contributors) old Wordpress video tutorials. The Zulit blog has posted a page for downloading and viewing all these videos. All these videos are free of charge still. That will change when the Google Video service allows video via purchase to all producers. The charge-per-video function for Google video is still in beta-mode.

For those of you who are just using your Blogger accounts for niche videos, this is a way to step up and create a domain you own, and run the Wordpress blogging platform.

View Wordpress Videos

-Kenny

Defining Quality Content

I was reading a semi-interesting article on content and how to define quality content. Since I have mentioned quality content so many times on this blog, I would like to share this little read with you.

See Aaron Wall's article on quality content to get his take on it. Here is his summary on quality content:

Aaron Walls Quality Content Summary

Each page you write is one more you need to maintain.
Large sitescan be a burden to keep current.
Speaking too much is just as bad as not giving enough info.
You can type until your neighbors fingertips are blue and bloody and it will not matter until people syndicate your ideas.
People will not usually want to syndicate your content until you establish a reputation.
It is far easier to syndicate ideas than content.
The quality which makes quality content valuable is syndication.

No that you've read it, I want to say that I disagree. Quality content is content that PEOPLE value on their quest to find information. Whether the search engines like it, or a web site owner likes it enough to link to it, it not my definition of quality.

In short, and in my opinion, quality content is defined by the readers ability to gain the knowledge they need to solve a problem for them. Whether their problem is solved by purchasing Wrinkle Cream, or their problem is solved by finding the Weather forcast, or currency exchange. As Google's webmaster guidelines states......write pages that help visitors.

Another Great Niche Research Tool

Here is another great niche blog research tool. This was pointed by one of our keen contributers. It's called "Good Keywords". Good keywords is a free download and you can get it here.

I would use this tool during Step 1 of the free tutorial. We want very little competing pages in the search engines, and high traffic volume per month. Had quite a few emails from folks still thinking there is more to this. The answer is......no.

Write quality content and you will win. Period. Take a good look in Yahoo and MSN and search a variety of keywords - you will see blogspot blogs ranking everywhere. It's a powerful method of getting traffic.

Tracking Your Visitors

Had a good question on one of the posts regarding tracking. I use Statcounter. It's free and you can track unlimited projects. Just register, setup your first project, and create the code you need to put on your blog.

When you create the code for your blog, make sure to use the "invisible" tracker. Copy/paste the code for your project (blog) into the bottom of your sidebar. No-one sees it and you have details regarding how many unique visits, how many page impressions of your blog, what the originating IPs are, what town or city the visitor is in (even shows a world map and dot where the visitor is), how long they were on your blog, what pages they visited, what page or search engine they came from, and what kind of browser the visitor was using. Not bad for free right.

I would read Terry's post on tracking. He explains why he was losing alot of money because he failed to track one of his high traffic web sites. You can read it here.

-Kenny

Adsense Earning Page Removed

One of our contributors has requested that all his Adsense report pictures be removed from the Money Traffic blog. He believes that the Google TOS (terms of service) will soon change, and that displaying screen shots such as these will not be allowed.

I also favor removing all Adsense earnings pages because so many visitors dwell way too much on what others are earning, instead of getting down to work. I know that many beginners simply feel a sense of frustration when seeing sizable earnings made by other publishers.

-Kenny

No Tricks Missing...

I just want to point out that there are no tricks missing with the methodology used in my Blogger & Adsense tutorial. Usually people who claim to earn great profits from Adsense leave out some important details when they impress upon you the merits of their system. I don't do that. The steps outlined in my Blogger & Adsense tutorial are exactly the same ones I use - nothing fancy and nothing left out.

I've seen so-called gurus create a foaming-at-the-mouth effect when they tell their audience that they made massive profits with their so-called "side business". What they usally leave out is that their 500 web sites had been optimized for years before ever employing Adsense as a money earning model. What they usually leave out is how they are getting their traffic.

What my tutorial attempts to do is teach people how to get traffic using an easy and free blogging platform such as Blogger. The idea is that beginners can use their Blogger accounts, and my free tutorial, to begin their traffic flow.

Every niche blog is another trickle of income, and over time you can create many trickles. Remember that your free niche blog only needs to make one dollar a day to create an income of 30 dollars a month. Some blogs will make more of course, so you can begin to do the math. If you only make 5 blogs, you will never make a full time living. If you want to make a full time living at this, you need to get cracking and get blogging.

Terry Zulit Blog

Good article over at Terry's new blog. As usual he has some interesting info all about our wonderful world of online income. Today he wrote a blurb about old throw away web sites that was interesting. The article is titled, Web Site Analytics (a must) Terry's stuff is always good, so I recommend checking out his blog once and awhile. I actually subscribe to all Terry's blogs due to his fresh look at what is affecting the future of online income, including blogs, sites, affiliate programs etc.

One of the contibuters to this blog turned me on to all the Zulit stuff a long time ago. There is another interesting article on the same blog regarding Google Adsense blindness. All good reads.

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Start Off Slow & Sure

One of things I would like to stress when building niche blogs, is starting out slow. Make sure you take the time to create great content, find good niche markets, and of course use smart research strategies before you even start.

The urge to jump ahead is understandable when first starting out. The desire to finally make some money online is overwhelming for some beginners, but I would urge you to start with qulaity and not quantity. Why not write 10 highly informative pieces of content (posts) for your first Blogger/Adsense blog, and feel the satisfaction of releasing a serious blog. The pay off down the road will make it all worth it.

The other thing to keep in mind is patience. Your blogs will take anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months before they see any traffic, so don't get frustrated. Just finish one blog and move on. Don't create one, then cross your arms and wait impatiently. Keep going. I assure you that this model works if you give it time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Today I want to open up this frequently asked questions page, so that I can answer any questions you may have regarding Blogger and Adsense income. I'm sure that for beginners to the world of online income, there are many questions they would like answered. (I know I did) I'm not a self professed guru of any sort, but I do know what I'm talking about when it comes to Blogger and Adsense revenue.

So if you have questions about a market you are not sure about, questions about Blogger as a niche blogging platform, questions about Adsense, or questions about online income in general, don't be shy. Use the comment link below to ask any questions you may have, and you will see a friendly and understanding response within 24 hours (usually sooner)

Have super day niche blogging!

-Kenny

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The Money Traffic Tutorial

These are the seven main steps in my free Blogger/Adsense tutorial:

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Finishing Comment

I hope you read these closely and take action. This process is exactly the one I use for creating my blogs. I suggest you subscribe to Money Traffic to keep up with all updates, tips, and helpful information. This is what I do for a living, so I can keep you current. If my information helps you in any way, please consider a small donation.

Courtesy Donation Page

Welcome to my donation page. I keep the advertising banners and text ads down to a dull roar on this blog. My intention is to help you gain financial freedom, and I work hard to provide you with accurate information. My hope is that you will use this blog (and my knowledge) to grow a substantial online income for yourself and not have to spend thousands of dollars on software and ebooks.

If you have gained any practical insight from this blog, and have used my techniques to start your own blogging empire, please consider a small donation. Any donation, no matter how small, is appreciated. All major credit cards are excepted. The donation button is just to the right of this post.

Sincerly,

-Kenny Allman

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Setting Adsense/Blogger Goals

I'm getting emails from people wondering how many blogs I have running in Blogger accounts, so I thought I would make a post on that. I have over 600 niche blogs in total. All of them are in Blogger accounts. It was a ton of work, but it's worth it to me. I hired some writers to help make posts along the way, so it was required.

What I want to enunciate in this post is goal setting. I never imagined I would ever have over 600 niche blogs. I started off with the goal of having 50 niche blogs. When I reached that goal, I worked towards 100. By the time I had 100 niche blogs, the first 50 were beginning to get traffic from the search engines. By the time I had 150 niche blogs, my first 50 were getting good traffic, and the second set of 50 were trickling in traffic. All niche blogs had Adsense on them of course.

Try to set your goals in a reasonable fashion. A commonsensical approach is what you need to have. A greedy attitude will get you nowhere fast. If your only goal is to make money, you won't make it. You need to enjoy creating your first couple of niche blogs with passion. Get excited thinking about how you are going to layout your blog. Get excited when you are researching your niche - and then write the best darn content you can muster up.

You need to be focused on is writing quality content on your chosen niche blogs, and quit spending all your time worrying about all the people making more money than you online. Just get started and stick to it. I see streams of people everyday, drooling over other people's commission reports, and then being disenchanted when the spider hasher, "get rich quick script" fails to bring in the promised 3 million bucks a month.

Take my advice and you will succeed with hard work and a love for writing. All those scripts, quicky sites, content robbers, all fail in time. Usually sooner than later. Once more, they usually cost money in the form of some cheesy ebook. What I'm trying to tell you is WRITE. The essence of all internet traffic is the written word. If you learn to write fresh, quality content, you can't lose.

I like to call it FQC (Fresh Quality Content) If you focus on FQC, you will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. So start now, and build a free niche blog, using your Blogger account. It's all free there to be used. Word of warning; don't try copying and pasting content and articles from other web sites or blogs, because the search engines see through that now, and you will likely get your blogs shutdown. Don't make splogs. Make blogs.

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Optimizing Your Adsense Blog Content

I believe one of the reasons my niche Adsense blogs receive solid traffic is due to word variety and keyword variety. We have all heard that we need keyword rich pages if we want get some traffic, but I personally believe you need "word variety" as well.

Keyword Variety
Keyword variety is critical of course, and this is how I attain it on all my blog pages. Whenever I write another post on a niche blog, I take a close look at 5-8 other sites, and look at all the keywords they are using. I simply do a search in Google for the product or topic. I look at winning sites from the first two pages of results. I take note of all the different words, terms, and phrases they are using when talking about the product or topic. Then I write my post using as many of those keywords as possible. That covers the need for keyword rich content, or as I call it, "Keyword Variety"

Word Variety
Word Variety (as I have coined the phrase) is something different all together. This was just a hunch I had a year ago, but now that I've tested this hunch, I believe it to be true. All the niche blogs I tested this with have gained more traffic, so I recommend you try this. It's easy to do.

While you are writing your keyword rich content, and keyword varied content, keep an online thesaurus handy open in a separate browser. Try to use adjectives and nouns that are not the norm with all your competitor sites. For example: instead of writing - "This diamond ring has a brilliant look....." - replace the word "brilliant" with "scintillating", and replace the word "look" with "sheen"

What this does is separate your content from all the other web pages using all the same words to describe products and topics.


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The Sacred Q's For Adsense Income

One of the questions I'm often asked is, "is how can you possibly make so much money from just using a Blogger account and Adsense." Well the answer is quality and quantity.

Quality
By keeping my focus on creating quality content (meaning helpful and accurate content) for my visitors, I attract on-topic Google ads to my blog pages, and my visitors are extremely targeted. Also, with extremely targeted and hungry consumers visiting my blogs, they are more inclined to click on a relevant Google ad.

Quantity
By sticking to a schedule, I create a ridiculous number of Blogger blogs. These blogs may only have 6-10 pages of content, so I can create hundreds, and some day thousands. Since my content is fresh, original, and on-topic (as mentioned above), the traffic to my blogs is huge. Each blog trickles in money everyday, and some niche blogs pour in money. The overall total of income created each day ads up to serious income. My sites are not using robbed content, my posts are helpful to visitors and shoppers, so my sites are not at risk for being removed from the search engine indexes. I don't stray off to gimmicky offers that claim to make me a millionaire over night using Adsense. I don't bother with phoney baloney scripts that create Adsense sites in the hundreds with just one click. I don't use "Adsense Ready" sites because the code behind those sites is recognized for what it is. People just starting out on the internet often think that online income is easy income. Far from the truth. If you really want to succeed online, then listen to my good advice, and learn to write your own, original content.

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Optimizing Your Adsense Blog For Search

Today I just want to mention a quick tip for niche blogging. What I have found through testing is that most of these niche blogs will do quite well in MSN and Yahoo! search. Not as well in Google as there is usually many more competing pages. My tests have shown that having all your posts on the main is not as effective as having only 2-3 medium sized posts.

To set the main page of your niche blog for Yahoo! and MSN traffic, I recommend changing your blog's setting for 2-3 posts and leave all other posts as "recent posts" in your sidebar, and of course archives.

To do this;

Select your blog's "Settings" tab.
Select the "Formatting" tab.
In the "Show" category select the drop down choice to "Posts"
Select the number to 2 or 3, depending on the size of your posts.

What this does is ensure you don't load up to much content on the home page of your blog, making it come across similar to a static site, with a menu of links to more information on the niche topic. This works well for your MSN and Yahoo! search engine rankings.

If you plan to have only a few niche blogs, then you likely have time to add many posts over time, in which case you could see great results in Google searches as well. I would suggest just having 2-3 posts on the main page and at least 5 posts in the recent posts area, and let it sit for awhile.

Important Tip:

Make sure the 2-3 posts that reside on the main page (most recent of course) are filled with content and information regarding the main keyword of your niche - this way the search engines (and people) will find your niche blog to be worthy of traffic.

I hope you apply these tips and all the best.

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Blogger Adsense Guide Finished

Had some emails recently regarding the Blogger Adsense guide I've been building. It's nothing mind-blowing, but the process works for creating Adsense cash flow. You'll notice a great deal of emphasis on quality content. You can buy similar guides such as Blogging To The Bank, but this one is free.

This was meant to guide people who are starting out and don't want to pay for hosting, etc. What I like about this series, is that it enables technically illiterate folks to create a solid online cash flow without spending a CENT!

If you have any questions, just use the comment links, and I will answer them.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging to the bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

All the best,

-Kenny

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 7

So now you should have your new blog on it's way. Hopefully you have 5-10 quality posts on your niche blog, and you have your Adsense ad(s) down the sidebar. Hopefully you have played with the blogger template choices, as well as your Adsense code color choices, so your layout is pleasing to your visitors.

Speaking of visitors, we need to submit your blog to the main search engines. I only worry about the "big three". Google, MSN, and Yahoo!. The rest seem to take care of themselves. Don't worry about Google because you have a Blogger account, and they know where you live. ;-) It's a good idea to submit your blog to MSN and Yahoo!, and I want to show you how I do that.

MSN
Go to MSN search and type in "MSN Submit Site" and their submission page should be the top result. Usually the URL of their submission page ends with .aspx. The reason I do a search for the MSN submit page is because they change the address periodically. Once your reach their submission page, simply copy/paste your blog's URL address into the field and click submit. That's it. One last thing though. Don't re-submit! If you are not sure whether or not you submitted one of your blogs, wait at least three weeks before submitting again. You don't want to be seen as a spammer.

Yahoo!
Yahoo is a little different for submitting your blog. Go to Yahoo! search and search a keyword that is exactly the same keyword you built your blog around. My example site was Diabetic Socks, so I would type that in the Yahoo! search field, and click "Yahoo! Search"

When the results of your search are displayed, scroll down to the very bottom right hand side of the results page. You are looking for the "Submit Your Site" link. It's very small, and very humble, but very important :-) You will likely be asked to sign in under a Yahoo! username, which you need to submit your site. If you don't have a Yahoo! account, sign up here. The page will dulled until you scroll down and select your country. Sign up, and then go back try this process again.

Once you are back at the free site submission page in Yahoo!, you will see two fields - one for your blog's address URL, and one for your blog's feed url. Submit your blog's address first, then click back and submit your blog's feed URL address.

For all blogspot blogs, the feed address ends with /atom.xml: example = http://yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Ok, that is it for this 7 step process for creating a niche blog with your Blogger account. Make sure your content is helpful to your visitors, ad links to other quality sites to enhance their visiting experience, tweak your template and posts with pictures (royalty free pictures) . As a rule of thumb, you want at least 7-10 good posts and you can let it go for quite awhile.

I will be following up this 7 step series with other tweaks and ad-ons that I do for my Blogger account blogs, such as tracking. Good luck, and have fun creating a useful resource for your visitors. If you stick with quality content, you really cannot lose. There is some work to this, but I would rather be doing this than digging ditches.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging To The Bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 6

Ok, it's time to add your Adsense code to your blogger template. I would recommend you directly customize your template instead of using the blogger provided "1 click" method. Once you learn to do this you can have much better control of your blog's feel and look.

Use the setup tab in your Adsense account to create a channel for your blog, then create a Wide Skycraper ad using the Adsense interface. Copy the code (they make it very easy to do), then save it in a text file on your desktop.

Now access your blogger account and click the "change settings" icon. Once in, click the "Template" tab. Now scroll down the template code area until you see a bit of code that says this: Now paste your Adsense code as shown in the picture above. (you'll have to click the picture to see it clearly).

Once you have the Adsense code pasted in as above, click the "Save Template Changes" button.
If your blog is all messed up, go back into the template and remove your code. Make sure your Adsense code matches your blog's colors, make sure you try other ad types, until you have a color scheme and ad type that fit's your chosen template.

You'll see in my example blog, how I changed the template to one that has a white background in the sidebar area, and also you will notice the ads are on-topic.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging To The Bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 5

Sorry for the delay. Google's blogger server has been going through some growing pains this week. Anyways, we left off with some fresh, original, and unique content written on our sample blog. (see posts below) I wanted you to first post your written content on your niche blog, and for good reason. We want the content of the blog to be well established before you apply for an Adsense account, or put Adsense code in your template.

The next paragraph is only for people who do not already have a Google Adsense account.

If you do not already have an Adsense account you can click here to apply. Follow the instructions and setup your account. When you are done, Google will assess your application and you will be approved in a couple of business days. You will need the URL of your new blog when applying.

Next installment we'll add your Adsense code to your blog template.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging To The Bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 4

We left off last installment with a newly created blog @ http://diabeticsocks.blogspot.com. You'll notice when you go to this blog, there is now some content displayed on the main page. What I did was simply search with Google and find three good resources that were on-topic, and read up on the subject. After I had read and understood the material, I wrote in my own words a brief summary regarding the product. Do not just copy/paste material from another web site, no matter how tempted you are to do it. That is called theft and will not do you any good either. You may lose your Blogger account, get a nasty letter from a lawyer, and for certain the search engines will notice this eventually and drop your blog from their indexes.

You will also notice that I created a link in the text that takes visitors to a web site that sells the product. I do this so that my blog is actually helping visitors find what they are looking for. Many Adsense experts may say that I should not do that, as I would lose clicking traffic away from my blog and not to the Adsense ads. I don't agree. I think it's only right that my blogs help real people find what they need. I will still get random clicks from shoppers legitimately looking for the product. I'm happy, Google is happy, the Adwords advertiser is happy, and the customer is happy. This is the way Google's Adsense and Adwords systems are supposed to work.

So what ever niche topic you have decided to create your blog on, be sure to follow the above method of using fresh, real, and original content.

I know you are anxious to display your Google Ads on your site, but wait until the next installment where I show you how to apply and be excepted for the Adsense program. It's important to post some quality content first, before applying Adsense to the blog. I'll explain this later.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging to the bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 3

Welcome back. I'm going assume throughout this series, that you have never built a blog or web site. I'm going to assume you know how to type a few words, use a mouse, and use your email.

In this step I want you to create your first blog on the blogspot (or blogger) server. So go to the Blogger start page by clicking here. Once you are on the Blogger start page, look for big orange arrow that goes from left to right. Click the orange arrow to create your new account. You'll need to create a username, password, enter your valid email, and check the box after reading the terms and conditions. Once you have done that click the little orange arrow at the bottom of the page that reads, "Continue".

On the next page you will have to create your blog name and blog address. Make sure the blog name and address incorporate the keyword (s) you are attempting to attract from searchers and surfers. Once you have successfully created a Blog name and address (that is not already being used by anyone already) click continue.

The next page you will be able to choose your starting blog template. Blogger give you a handful to choose from at this stage, but you can see other templates after your blog is up and running. For now, just pick one that is clean, with a white background. You can click here to see the Blogger template I always choose at this stage.

In our example we are using the Blog name Diabetic Socks, so after creating my blog, my blogspot address was http://diabeticsocks.blogspot.com/

In my next installment I will show you how to create some quality content on our subject. I will use the internet to give myself a quick education, and then write some QUALITY content, to be used as posts.

When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging to the bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 2

Now that we have established that the primary keyword (in this example "socks") has too many competing pages in the the big three search engines, what we do is look down the Overture and Wordtracker list for alternative keywords that do not have such massive competition.

Any keyword that is showing 50 or more searches a day, is worthy of a small niche blog. You can create a blogspot blog that has 5-10 posts ALL about the keyword, and you will see a trickle of traffic everyday. (after the search engines have spidered it) But there is one last bit of research you need to do to ensure this.

What you do it test different keywords in the list by searching them on Google, MSN, and Yahoo, and taking notice of how many competing pages there. For example, on my first I test I searched the keyword "diabetic socks" and found the following results:

Google
Results 1 - 10 of about 723,000 for diabetic socks

Yahoo!
1 - 10 of about 613,000 for diabetic socks

MSN
Page 1 of 296,040 results containing diabetic socks

So as you can see much less competition for this keyword. So what I do is keep testing and testing until I find VERY low competition for a keyword and yet at least 50 searches a day for it. Make sure to use the plural form of the keyword when possible, as that will give you a more accurate read on the competition.

On the next installment we build a blog with a blogger account, ALL about our chosen keyword, Diabetic Socks. In future installments we will write fresh, original content ALL about our niche keyword, and make 5 posts on the subject. We will NOT copy content from somewhere on the internet, as that won't work. We will write content that actually helps visitors on their quest for the product. We will customize your blogger template and we will get you signed up with Adsense so you can place ads down the sidebar of your blog.



















When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging To The Bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogger & Adsense - Step 1

As promised I now begin my series on how to use a free blogspot account to make steady income from Adsense.

Step 1

Go to Digital Point and access the free webmaster tools page. There is a link at the bottom right of this blog called "webmaster tools", so click there. (or just click here)

Once you are on the Digital Point tools page, select keyword suggestion tool. When it loads up enter a primary keyword in the "phrase" field. For my example I will use the word "socks". You will have to enter a alpha numeric bit of code that is displayed for your results to be displayed.

When you have your results you should see two columns. One for Overture results and one for Wordtracker results. These numbers show approximetly how many times a day people search online for a particular keyword. Notice the top primary keyword "socks" has the most searched for word, which makes good sense.

Now type the word "socks" into the MSN search bar and notice the results. Now look for the orange words at the top of the page;

Web Results
Page 1 of 20,607,987 results containing socks (0.01 seconds)

Notice the results are over 20 million pages containing the word socks in the MSN directory.

Now type the word "socks" into the Yahoo! search bar and notice the results. Now look for Yahoo's search results in the top right of the page;

1 - 10 of about 32,000,000 for socks - 0.10 sec.

Now type the word "socks" into the Google search bar and notice the results. Now look for Google's search results in the top right of the page;

Results 1 - 10 of about 63,800,000 for socks [definition]. (0.11 seconds)

This tells me that trying to compete for just the word "socks" is a bad idea. There are way too many competing pages in the big three search engines. So what do you do?

I explain exactly what to do in the next installment of this series. When you are finished using my free tutorial check out Rob's ebook, which takes you much further. My short tutorial is for beginners, while Blogging to the bank is the authority on how to use your Blogger account to make money.

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Blogspot Blogs Make Money

The question has been asked many time on the internet. Can a blogger account actually make an income? I believe you can make a great profit using your Blogspot account. I've seen many blogspot blogs appear on Msn, Yahoo, Google, AOL, Ask, etc. etc., when performing searches.

However, depending on the keywords you are trying to get ranked for, you will need more or less content. I have a certain process I use when I create a new blog on my blogger account. I will be outlining my whole strategy each day for the next week or so.

Tomorrow I will explain how I use MSN, Yahoo, and Google to decide which blog subject to use.

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Objective #1

The first objective I believe we need is fresh, real, helpful, and original content. I've been watching all my other web sites and blogs for over 2 years now, and I realize what really matters on the internet.

What matters most is content that is not found anywhere else on the internet. It seems there more and more cheesy software programs entering the market that scrape and rob content from other web sites. This is not only wrong, it won't work. You may see some results in the short term and for very little, but it the end it won't work.

I suggest webmasters taking a typing course so they can learn to type very quickly. Next step create a blog , or static web site, you are very passionate about. Now start writing, writing and keep going untill it is a daily part of your life. You can have mulitple blogs or web sites and still manage to keep fresh content on all of them.

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The Initial Project

My name is Kenny Allman I want to say that I am not an expert (yet) in the art of blogging and not expert in the art of online income. I have over 60 static web sites that make the bulk of my income, and this affords me the ability to work full time at home. This is not a big deal anymore though folks. Thousands and thousands of webmasters and bloggers make their living online now.

This blog is one of a string of blogs that I've made using Wordpress, and the free Blogspot service. I make next to nothing at the moment using blogs, but we'll see as time goes on. I will not be linking to my other sites that make my full time income, nor will I even discuss their existence. This blog is all about blogging for traffic and and making money from that traffic. I've chosen to use a free blogspot blog for my grand experiment.

I've heard may different opinions regarding the merits of hosting your blog on a paid for domain and hosting account, or using a free service like this one. I have privately owned blogs on dedicated domains as well, but this blog is my passion place where I can discuss internet income. I'll be posting all methods of making money, including screenshots of income as well.

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