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Evaluating your ads

*This was one of the question i recieved through the email and therefore i have decided to write the post in the starters section.


Webmasters love money. Where they see money, they will reach to get it into their pockets, but hold your hands and think before you reach. There many people who would be willing to pay you for your traffic, your PR, but you have to think that your traffic is not exactly your asset because your users are loyal to you and they only come to your website because they find it useful. If you start to offer ads that are not related to the content

then you will turn your users down, and you will loose your bragging rights when the next month you see less visitors.

Evaluating the ads

Now when i say ads, it can be ads from Adbrite, Bidvertiser, or Private Ads … you must evaluate them. See whether they are related to your content. Suppose you own a webmaster blog, and some one wants a casino link from your website. They are willing to offer you $500 / month. Should you take it? Well atleast i wouldn’t take it because it is not related to my website. If you have a casino related website then sure you should take it, but my website is not, so i would not take it. Now i said in the last post always Under Promise and Over Deliver. So if you promise to your users that your site will be Family Friendly, you should not post any adult site. Any Casino site. Any Warez site. Any site that is not family friendly. If you never put that on your website, then you have nothing to be afraid of, but Warez sites are a big no from my side followed by Porn and Casino.

What can you do to fix the ads?

Ahh…. You would have to read more in the post.



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Quality vs. Quantity

A few days back i got this email from a guy asking me what he should do. He wants to start multiple adsense websites. I said why is that. He said well i figure if people can make $10 / day with an adsense site, i can make about ten of them and earn $100 / day. I said very well and wished him good luck.

What do you think happens when someone talks about quantity. All the projects launches, but none of those really come through. I personally am a believer of quality rather than quantity. While i had a directory, i only kept it one at a time because i knew it will be really hard to do things alone. I would never get a chance to come around to something, and i dont want to have something unsuccessful and have my name attatched to it.

While i do not think that whatever i start goes onto become a big success story, but i try to put the most i can in that one thing so when i look back i can say that I did everything in my power at that point in time. This quality vs. quantity debate is a big time debate.

What would you pick?

10 sites that might make 2$ a day each and get you a bad reputation

or

1 site that have a potential of making $100 a day

I say the one site because i like to have a good reputation. Reputation is a key to online business, so you need to make sure that you have a good reputation. If you see in most of the webmaster forums where i have been a member for a long time, and i am active my reputation is in the higher levels and all positive trader ratings, so stay with quality.

Now i am not saying that keeping one site means quality. One person can keep multiple quality sites, but each time it gets harder, so consider twice before diving into something new. In my upcoming posts i will be talking about some of the seo tactics, income status, and offer some designer resources, so stay updated.

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Ways to make money online with your blog

In my last post, i showed the starters how to create a blog step by step, and at the end i promised that i will show the possible ways to make money online. There are unlimited possibilities, you just have to keep an open mind. In this post i will be listing some of the most popular ways of making money online which does work for alot of people. Now you can try each and write your review in this post and let others know.

Ways of making money online:

Google Adsense – one of the most productive ways of making money online with blogs, but should not be your only source.

Yahoo Publisher – they have a low approval rate, and it takes alot of time to get approved. – Sign up with Yahoo.

Much more in the post :)



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Steps to start a Blog and maintain a Blog

This post is related to bloggers, and specifically the starters (first timers). I will give a step by step guide for new bloggers that will get them started with the blogs and help them maintain it. In this post, i will be discussing the process of setting up, running the blog, promoting the blog in a very detailed version. I will also post it in my youtube channel, so for those who want to listen to me talking, feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel.

All right first timers hold tight !

Pick a Niche
Often times people want to start a blog just to make money, but how exactly are you going to run that blog? What niche would it be? Who would be your audience? What are you going to write about? (I hope you know you would have to write something that interest your audience) for example If you have a insurance blog, then you would have to write reviews of insurance companies, recent updates in the insurance companies and such. Be Prepared to write (Money should not be one of your factor at all at this point, it should be what you think you can do and love doing it.)

Pick a Platform
Now it is time for you to pick a platform. Now i am assuming if you are thinking of starting a quality blog, you are getting a top level domain (tld). There are many blog platforms you can use. When i say platform, i mean softwares because it is almost impossible to run a blog with plain html. Now out of all that are listed there, if you have been reading this blog you should already know which one i am going to recommend, but if you still don’t know which one, then now you will. I will recommend each and everyone to use Wordpress
for their blogs. Why? Because i am a wordpress user. I love using it, and i think it is one of the best softwares due to the easy user-interface, easy-admin interface, and unlimited possibilities. There are tons of wordpress plugins and addons that are available. Also there are many free templates that are available also. Check out Balkhis WP Themes :)

Find a Webhost

Well now that you already have selected your blogging platform. I am hoping wordpress, you need a quality webhost to hold your website online. Now i know for sure that Host Gator and Blue Hosts are one of the top class webhosts, so i would recommend you to get started with them. I have a link to both in my sidebar, so i didn’t post it here. Another webhost you can use is our sister site, Uzzz Productions. While Uzzz is new, we have 99.9% server uptime, and are ready to host all sort of websites. Once you have selected the webhosts, now you are ready to move to the next step.

Read the rest in the full post.



Video is for those who doesn’t want to read and just watch.



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Reasons for failure in online business

As people hear success stories online, they get an inspiration, and they start some sort of business online. Many people also go ahead and quit their day time job. While all this is happening, they do not take the job seriously. Because there is no manager supervising the shift, beginners tend to think that online work is do at your own pace, so they can take forever to finish one contract, but that is not the case. Working from home is one of the luxuries, but you have to understand that if you do not spend that 8 hour online which you would’ve spent on work, you will not achieve success.

While they are not concentrating on business online because they get distracted into talking to friends on phone, or such they start wondering why they are not making profit. Well I wonder why they are not. Another thing is that beginners tend to be very impatient.

Patience and hardwork is a key to success online which requires alot of time to build up. So if you are getting into business, make sure you have your mind set and you are willing to work the same amount of hour.

Another reason why beginners often experience failure in the beginning is because they join the industry to make money. If your sole purpose is to make money, you will not make money because you must enjoy what you are doing in order to produce quality product, and quality product is valuable.

Lack of investment also plays a role in the failure of a new business online. When beginners start, they tend to ignore the fact of investment. Now i am not suggesting to blindly invest a big amount, but still invest a little because you need to invest money to get money back. (The sooner you learn this, the better it is for you)

Now i am writing this post because i see this case in very many teenagers. Some are even my close friends, as they hear and see that i have made tons of money online, they all try and often fail and ask me. Therefore i decided to write this, hopefully it helps a few of you.



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