Thursday, September 30, 2010

Free RSS Directories: Add Your Blogs!

30 Free RSS Feed Directories to add your blogs to has been updated!


Here are 15 more free RSS directory links to add your rss submission too. All have decent PR and Alexa. All RSS directory links go directly to the RSS add and submission page , submit feed or URL page. No reciprocals, no fees. :)


o Links without descriptions are general RSS add and
RSS submission directories.


2RSS – Directory, Software and Articles
4GuysFromRolla - ASP Directory
Aspin – ASP Resource Index
FeedBoy RSS Directory
Feeds.br – Brazilian RSS feed directory but easy to submit even if you don’t know Portuguese. :)
Feeds4all Webfeed (RSS/ATOM/RDF) submitted to http://www.feeds4all.nl
FreeFeedsDirectory – RSS directory and feed tools.
Feed Shark – Submit your RSS and Podcast to multiple directories.
GoldenFeed
LeighRSS
ReadaBlog
RSSxpress – UK RSS directory
RSSRes
Swoogle
Yahoo! Publisher – Add your feed to the Yahoo! feed database.

Marketing Your RSS Feed Send a Tweet with your feed URL.Add an email subscription option to your feed. Some of the biggest blogs don’t offer email subscriptions. Make sure yours does.Add a feed aggregator to your email signatures.Go through all the websites where you have a profiles and see which offers a spot to add your RSS.

 

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Multiple Ways To Making Money Online

Make Money Blogging Writing Articles


There are many ways that you can make good blog money and creating content is where a lot of your blogging money comes from.


SEO Articles – I get random emails that say ‘please take a look at my site. How much?’ Making blog money is still a mystery to some. The first thing I would offer any company or website is to create SEO articles in their niche and scatter them on their website and the web. Writing SEO articles from scratch can make you good blogging money for any website or blog. Your blog! Organic traffic is the #2 method for blog money on the Internet so keep reading for #1.


SEO Copywriting – Go over a websites copy and pre-existing articles and re-write them. (This post is updated and tweaked.) I find a lot of offers to re-write certain types of articles because they need updated keywords mainly, better placement and believe it or not fewer word count. Keep it simple. Re-write articles, posts, and make improvements in copy if you can because it will be less work and more blogging money for you. Do the same for your blog to gain more organic traffic.


Write Reviews – If you have slammin’ traffic you can make good blogging money to post reviews on your site or blog. Blogs work best for this. You can also write a stockpile of reviews for a company and leave the marketing to them. This again comes down to SEO copy. Offer this service to prospects and clients if they haven’t thought of it yet. They may know all about the marketing aspects and they just need people to write for them. Review other sites and post them to your blog. Review products and submit SEO product reviews and articles in forums, Craigslist and article directories for even more traffic. More blogging money for you!


Get Paid to Blog – Guest blogging. These are not things you should be doing for free. I understand that guest blogging is to swap traffic and introduce one audience to another. Too many sites take advantage of bloggers and exploit their guests. You should be blogging to make money for yourself not anyone else. Unless they pay you! Did you know that one of the largest blogs that brings in the most money does not pay their bloggers? They are relying on the sole pleasure that bloggers will have blogging for them. Whatever! Don’t blog for free! That is not what you are here for and there are better ways to get exposure without selling yourself short.


Ebooks – If you can write an ebook for someone they will pay you handsomely for it. Some people don’t want to monkey around with the writing and adding links portion because they want to make money in other ways. Learn how to deal with graphics, PDF’s and incorporating links from your clients sites. This could be an ongoing way for some blogging money. Write a review and sell the book on your own blog! Write your own book and you’re in business.


Press Releases – This by far is the easiest and if you do this well it can be an on going service. I’d charge monthly and decide on the maximum press releases you are willing to do for X amount of money. This is only to write the press release and not distribution. You could charge extra for that. Easy stuff. Place SEO press releases on your own blog. You’ll have more optimized content, more pages and more blog money coming to you!


Direct Email Marketing – Yep saved the best for last. This is the lifeblood of most blogs. Your blog has excellent content and you need to pass on this valuable info to your readers somehow. Look into email marketing and know the laws in your state. There are strict rules for email marketing so know the law. Direct email marketing is the number one way businesses in real life make money. Before the Internet it was direct mailing. Still a good way to market and make money but cheaper and more effective to use email.


Mainly use your blog as if it were a business card. Show examples of your writing, marketing and traffic stats. Show off some of the SEO optimization.


The writing portions are different from the marketing, SEO and viral marketing (sometimes incorporated) but that is how it goes in order to make good blog money. Those are extra or up-sale services and more blogging money for you. Make sure you decide what it is you want to get paid for and make that your primary focus. What else do you do well that you can turn into a blogging service that will benefit others? I like getting paid to blog, write and market so that is what I do. Since I know a fair amount of SEO and other blogging tactics I’m able to charge a little more.


As you can see there is no silver bullet in making blog money but many rounds in the clip. Find the best ammunition and you can kill in the blogsphere.

Best Firefox Add-ons: Firebug

If you do any kind of web design and development, or are planning to get started, then you must install this add-on. It’s called Firebug, and it adds a wide range of functionalities to Firefox.


firebug


Here is a list of things you’ll be able to do with the extension:

Monitor and analyze network performance, to understand what elements might be slowing your website down.Inspect the HTML code by viewing the source of any page in real time, filtering specific elements and editing them if necessary.Inspect and edit CSS and Javascript as well.Test your pages to see if they contain errors, and debug them with the help of Firebug.Use the Firebug rulers and and boxes to analyze and optimize the layout on your pages.

It’s worth a look, so check it out.



 

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

What Would Happen If Google Removed The Nominal PageRank?

Gone are the days when I used to obsess with Google PageRank. Especially with the nomimal PageRank, which is the 0 to 10 scale we see on the various toolbars around the web. Why is that? Because as the name implies, the nomimal PageRank is just an indicator of how much trust Google has on a certain website. It doesn’t have a direct impact on your organic traffic, and certainly it doesn’t have a direct impact on your profits, which is the most important metric for any online entrepreneur. Even the real PageRank, which influences your search rankings, is only one out of hundreds of factors that Google’s algorithm takes into consideration.


That being said, I still find myself curious to check the nominal PageRank updates rolling out. I like to track the frequency of the updates, as well as the PR fluctuations on my and other people’s websites. Out of vanity, perhaps.


The last PageRank update happened early in April, and the next one was expected late in July/September, but so far nothing has happened.


Thinking about this issue, one questions came to my mind: What if Google completely removed the nominal PageRank? That is, what if all the toolbars stopped working, and no one would be able to see the indicator of how much trust (or how many backlinks) any website has?


What impacts would such a change have upon the webmaster/blogging/SEO industry?


Some people argued in the past that removing the nominal PageRank would kill the market for paid links. I don’t think so. As long as backlinks play a role in the search ranking algorithm, there will still be people buying them.


But without the PageRank the link buying process would change a bit. I believe that paid backlink analysis services would gain many more clients, as this would be the best way to evaluate the link authority of any website.


I think that more important than that, however, is the effect that such a change would have on the mind of most website owners. Probably most of them would realize (as most experienced webmasters do sooner or later) that it is better to worry about more tangible metrics like traffic and profits. As a result they would focus more on producing quality content.


Another interesting aspect the consider is the linking one. I believe that if the nominal PageRank was gone bloggers and website owners would become less paranoid about linking to external websites, feating to leak PageRank.


But what do you think? Would this change be positive or negative? What other aspects would be influenced?


 

 
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