The term Page Rank is well known amongst savvy website owners. Page Rank, PageRank, or PR all refer to the same thing and are usually associated with the Google search engine. Google is not the only search engine that utilizes Page Rank algorithms. However, the term ‘PageRank’ is a Google trademark.
So what’s PR exactly? Simply put, PageRank is an estimation of the relative importance of a certain web page. This estimate is derived from complex measurement algorithms that analyze links found on websites and then assign a numerical weight to each web page giving it a measured importance within the context of the rest of the all the WWW web sites.
To put this differently, a PageRank is similar to a popularity contest or a ballot result. This ballot is amongst every page on the internet and every hyperlink to your page counts as one vote of support in this ballot. More inbound links to a web page indicate more support for that page online, and in this case support indicates popularity.
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Online Marketing, Search Engines
This is the seventh article in a series I called “Blog Profit”. These articles outline strategies that every blogger looking at making cash from their blogs must know. These articles are a good starting point. While I wont grab your hand and walk you down the path of making money online, a good foundation is crucial. Here, I try to help you lay down your own foundation.
In this article I will point out plug-ins that will make it possible to be paid online. You may wonder, get paid for what? Well, just get paid by appreciative readers. If you ask for donations you may get some. If you provide useful content or services (like software, e-books, website themes or plug-ins) for free you will get a few donations. Below you will see the PayPal donations plug-ins for WordPress
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Blogging, Make Money Online, eBay & PayPal
Get Donations
This is the sixth article in a series of articles called Blog Profit. These articles outline crucial information that every person who is seriously looking at generating income from their blogs must know. These articles are a good starting point but definitely not the answer to all questions.
In this article I will point out plugins that will make it possible to sell products or services off your blog. Below you will see the Shopping Cart plug-ins that exist for Word Press.
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Blogging, Make Money Online
Blog Profit, Selling Online, Store Shopping Cart, WordPress Plug-In
I’ve been buying domain names for 6 years. Recently, like many other investors, I jumped over to the dot ASIA domains band wagon. I purchased some 20 ASIA domains about 3 months ago and waited for the dot Asia registry to contact me. I thought they would’ve liked to verify my overseas (Asian) contact information that I went into great lengths to provide, since every dot Asia domain needs a contact person in an Asian country and I reside in the US.
Weeks and months went by, I waited for a phone call, I waited for an email but nothing happened. I registered more domains with a different email account, but got the same silence. I only heard from the domain registrar confirming my order but not from the Asia registry. I finally found a phone number and contacted a dot Asia representative in Hong Kong. They were very nice and explained how they wont need to verify my contact information.
I also was told if any other person had applied to the same domain I pre-registered for , that domain would go into auction and I’d get a chance to bid.
Yesterday, I finally got a word back on some the domains I hoped to own. The emails came from my registrar not the Asia registry which is not surprising. Naturally, I was excited. Holey smokes, I could be the proud owner of a cool domain such as FREE.asia. However, the first 5 emails politely stated that my registration was denied by the Asia registry. No reasons were given to explain why my applications were declined, no offers to bid on the domains, nothing what so ever.. to say the least, I was disappointed.
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Domain Names
Domain Names, Domaining, dot Asia
A Mashup is a newer term, usually associated with web 2.0 that basically refers to the action of combining data from 2 or more sources into one web application. Google API makes it easy to mashup Google maps and other services into your website.
Wordtracker, a commonly used keyword tool that helps marketers find keywords related to you niches, has come up with a Wordtracker/Gtrends Mashup! I think this service is awesome, did I mention it was FREE?
Wordtracker / GTrends mashup looks just like the free version of Wordtracker but has an additional icon next to each keyword that takes you to the Google Trends data for that keyword.
It also displays a line graph of the search volume over time. If the graph line is green this indicates this keywords has a Google Competition of <30,000 and Actual Visitors from Google/day >100.
Enjoy.
Online Marketing
Gtrends, Keywords, Niche Marketing, Wordtracker
Sometimes I spent 3 hours writing and researching for a blog article. The least time it takes me to write an article is 20 minutes, and I probably have gone 3+ hours on some articles. How much time do you spend? Wouldn’t it be a shame to not have anyone read your article because they didn’t know it existed?
Regardless of what you wrote or how long it took you. Unless you are a famous website I’m betting you were holding your breath and waiting for readers anxiously. As a blogger it may be worth it to make it a habit to spend a few minutes after your article is published to gain a few links to your article.
The secret to gaining these back links is to utilize social bookmarking web sites. My previous article explains what social bookmarking is and links you to the top 30 social bookmarking sites, if you haven’t had a chance to read it why not take a look now.
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Blogging, Online Marketing
Blogging, Publicize Your Blog, Social Bookmarking
As we all know, online bookmarking services allow you to store, organize and bookmark your favorite website and easily access them from anywhere. Social bookmarking opens up your favorite links to the public, now you and everyone else can see these links, in essence you share your bookmarks with others.
Social bookmarking allows you and others to view your bookmarks chronologically, by category or by tags; it also allows search engines to see and index these bookmarks.
Social bookmarking websites rely heavily on user defined tags, and in some cases generate tag clouds. Many social bookmarking websites also provide feeds of their bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows readers to spot new bookmarks very quickly, right after they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
The future of social bookmarking is promising. Now, most social bookmarking sites offer extra features such as comments, ratings, avatars, and browser integration.
It makes a lot of sense that you subscribe to these social bookmarking services and submit your blog articles to them for others to find.
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Blogging, Online Marketing
Blogging, Publicize Your Blog, Social Bookmarking
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