Cybersquatting, the act of buying a trade marked domain for the main purpose of selling it to it’s owner has increase over the past year according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) with more than 2000 complaints. This is a 48% increase from 2005. Majority of complaints came from the pharmaceutical, banking, internet, retail and entertainment industries.
CNET Slashing Jobs
Southpark episodes now free to watch online (legally)
Neilsen Stats put Google up, Yahoo down.
and Amazon is now taking on ITunes
The recent overhaul that Google’s been doing - requiring members to have a Privacy Policy on their site, limiting site inclusions, having a monthly pagerank update - all this, for me, will help Google in the long run to get quality clicks from their consumers. It’s gonna be quite lengthy to discuss this piece by piece but, since pagerank is my topic here, I dont think that Google’s ranking algorithm will be the nuisance some people already consider it to be.
Just a short history on this: A ranking system has existed for Google since, idk, time immemorial. Over the years people began to game this system leading to bad search results and unproductive ad clicks. Google tracked these people down last year and penalized them, which in turn, resulted in the questioning of their ranking system, company policy, biases toward other people/companies etc. - this questioning came not only from the people’s involved but from the whole geekdom. Google remained vague on these issues, however, this year, it seemed clear that they are improving their company from all corners.
I guess Google is doing the right thing - whether to quell the issues or piss their critics fruther - after all, it’s their company.
As far as pagerank is concerned, I think it’s value hasn’t diminished, but rather, redefined. This year, Google has updated their ranking system once every month which means, SEO-wise, that we all have to work a little bit harder. I dont think the company changed the way they’ve ranked sites (although, I think a PR renovation is in the works as well). In the meantime, everyone might be interested in how to raise their pagerank.
For us little people, here’s an overview:
Yesterday, I opened an online account in the social network Multiply in order to broaden the reach of my website. It is almost a vocation for me to tell people, especially in my homeland of the Philippines, that there really is good money in online businesses, and at that, blogging.
In a land where unemployment is everywhere and where the standard minimum wage is still about $300/mo., it would certainly do some people a lot of good to try and go online. I mean, not all of them have the resources, but those who have probably ought to use it. And maybe help others.
Certainly, several other people think about the online industry as a good secondary source of income:
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Getting People into Your Site
At this point I’d like to introduce you to two new terms - optimize and monetize. These are two words you’ll come across often in the blogging.
Optimization
Optimization are the things you do to your website to get more visitors. It can be as simple as changing the color of your font, or changing the look of your whole website. Optimization is your own personal strategy for getting readers into your blog. The reason why it is important is because, well, it will bring you more people which will in turn make you more money.
Monetization
Monetization are the things you do to your website to make more money. As similar as it is to optimization, you have to note the difference. Optimization focuses on getting more readers, monetization focuses on making more money. Essentially we are gonna be discussing these two later. For now, you just have to know the two.
Content
You may have a blog about showbiz, or your local community; either way, the people who will make you the money by visiting your sponsors are the ones who feel connected to your content. It is important for you to get connected with your readers because, not only are you trying to get them to go to your website, you’re trying to get them to stay on your website. By focusing on your site’s content, you are, in effect, maintaining your readership.
Maintaining Readership
While content may be a vital point in maintaining readers, it is also not the only thing you can do. By putting comments on your blogs, for example, you are able to engage them. By making your contact email available, you should be able to make acquaintances. By joining groups like those in Khoops.com, you might be able to get readers into your website. Like I said, blogging entails work and part of it is marketing. What’s good about this is only that you get to have more money than, say, a 9-5 job.
Check out our next article for you to have a glimpse on the more complex side of things. Immersing yourself in the Blogging world. That’s coming tomorrow.
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Understanding Google Adsense
What is Google Adsense
Google Adsense is a program that allows bloggers to make money by promoting websites on their pages. Think about your blog as a newspaper. Advertisers pay newspaper to promote their products, the same is true with the blogs. Google, since it is a big company and already has a list of advertisers, gives you advertisements to post on your website.
This advertisements come in the form of a code (not an actual classifieds), and the code is the one that picks up ads from Google’s servers and posts them on your site. This is easy for you because, through this code-pasting activity, you wouldn’t have to go around finding advertisers for your site and you wouldn’t have to take alot of time putting those ads on your site as well. Getting Google Adsense is the easiest way to go.
How do You Earn From Google Adsense
So you’ve opened a blog, you’ve invited your friends to read, and the next thing you want to do is earn. You know you have to go to the Google Adsense website and apply for the code that you will paste in your site for you to get ads. You’re getting closer and closer to making money.
Simply put, bloggers make money when visitors check out their site’s sponsors. This can be a difference of 20cents to 5dollars. You also make money from impressions - for every 1000 times that an advertisement is shown (basically, 1000 times that somebody visits your site), you make money as well. You can track all your earnings are available in your Google Adsense account.
Now that you know how much money is in store for you through blogging, you should probably be making calculations. Even if you only have 100 visits to your site everyday, the potential to make money from it is big. The next thing you have to do is get people into your site. click here to continue.
Not too many people know that Blogging and computer-based media is slowly replacing newspaper and magazine. This creates a very big opportunity for everyone to make money online.
How Do People Make Money with Blogs?
The answer is simple, Google Ads. If you only paid much attention to ads, you’ll see that it’s by far the fastest way of anyone to be able to make money from blogging. It is pretty simple to apply to, all you need is to create an account with the Google Adsense program and grab the code.
How much money can you earn from blogging? Well, more than 40% of blogs make one thousand dollars a month or greater. So that’s a good percentage for something you would do initially on a part-time basis. There are also a good amount of websites that’ve earned millions of dollars every month.
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My growth in the blogging world put me in thinking mode: Would it be good to seek out advertisers already, and how much should I charge them? Should I diversify my niche in order to try and expand on advertising as well? All these and my blog hasn’t even reached the big bucks league. I guess I’m only rested on the fact that I know people who would most likely advertise out of support.
So I’d like to ask you guy’s help. Should I?
Everybody’s into social networks nowadays - and why not - it’s fun, entertaining and it allows you to connect with alot more people in the web. This is definitely the trend nowadays with each of the different social networks upgrading their features every so often just to keep up with the internet. One of these websites is Khoops.com
Khoops.com, first of all, is a community website. They are designed to catch a certain age group and a certain crowd at that. On the onset, it looks like they’re composed of mostly Asians and their membership is still relatively small when compared to bigger networks, but that’s what actually makes them cooler. But what I like most about this website is that it’s kept private. You know how sometimes you’re part of a community and then suddenly your picture comes up somewhere else in the web. This will not likely happen to you with Khoops.
Also, they’re mascot is a penguin… and he’s cute! 
As an internet person, it’s not hard to realize how easy money is in it. My article How Do You Make Millions in Blogging and How Much Can You Earn From Blogging have already spoken on this side of the story. I have provided tutorials on How to Start Blogging. I’ve also written an article on Why Blogging is a Good Small Business. And while I’ve enumerated the reasons by which people make money in the net, I haven’t really delved into this topic so much.
I have said before that Google Adsense is the best way to go to make money from ads. Invest in a domain - which is what, 9.99 a year. Then you get FREE hosting through Blogger.com and just redirect your domain from there. You might also wanna try blogging from Khoops.com since that site is easy to understand. I notice that it is here that people either make or break.
That said, earning money from a blog isn’t like winning the lottery; it isn’t handed to you. I say it’s the easiest way to make money because it’s the fastest road to becoming rich. My Internet Success Stories article already focused on this. Most of them haven’t reached the age of 30 and they’re already multi-millionaires. Honestly, I doubt any other profession that will expedite success than the internet, and, with it, blogging.
For the cheap investment that it is, you can not go wrong. I guess people just go wrong because they stop after some time. I say, for those of you looking for inspiration, that if you immerse yourself enough in what you do to the point of it being organic, you’re gonna succeed. Read that again and trust me on this - alot of people come and go in the web, it is those who stay that get to earn the big bucks.
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