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3 Ways to make money off the internet

1. Build a website on a niche subject that you know about and are interested in and write original content for it. You can make money by placing Google advertising on the web pages that you produce. When someone clicks on one of the Google adverts on your web page you make a small amount which is usually a few pence, although it can be up to a pound a click depending on what your subject matter is. Of course if you get a good stream of visitors to your site, then this may add up to a worthwhile income stream. The Google advertising program is called Google Adsense and you can find out more about how it works and join the program for free by visiting
http://www.google.com/services

Make sure that you place the Google Adsense adverts in prominent areas of your web pages as this will greatly increase the number of visitors clicking on your Google adverts.

2. You can also make money off your website from affiliate programs. An affiliate program is where a company will pay you a commission for a sale or a lead generated from your website. For best results it is best to put links to affiliates that sell products and services that are related to your site’s subject matter.

There are some third party companies which look after hundreds of companies affiliate programs making it easier for you to find, join and administer your affiliate programs. Three of the main ones are Commission Junction, Trade doubler and UK Affiliates. It is free to join these and they will give you access to hundreds of affiliate programs so you will be able to pick out the right affiliate programs for your website audience.

3. Set up a blog on a niche subject that interests you and write posts to it regularly and make money by placing Google Adsense ads on it and affiliate programs. This is a similar business model to building a website on a niche topic except that it easier to set up, maintain as you do not need to know how to build a website and can be done completely for free if you use a service like blogger.com. This is because they will host your blog for free, you just have to post regularly to your blog to produce the content that will attract your target audience.

Jose Miguel Poza
23 Dec 2006

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Why is My Broadband Slow?

Being promised blazing speeds is one thing, actually experiencing the thrill of that speed is another. As Internet Service Providers (ISPs) roll out ever faster broadband offerings, the irony is more people may feel that they are not getting what they pay for.

Think of it this way: A souped up sports car cruising at just 90kmph - because of speed limits, when it can tear down the road at 200kmph.

The reason: ISPs often increase bandwidth to only one part of the internet link, without explaining the many bottlenecks that are beyond their control Here are some common problems.

Slow Websites:
Even though you may have 10Mbps or 12Mbps service, the real speed you get is often slower when you download files over the Net. This is not always because your ISP is shortchanging you. Rather, many websites where you download from limit the speed you employ, which can be anything from 2Kbps to 20Mbps. This is so they can accomodate more users. In South Korea or Hong Kong, a lot of Internet content in Korean or Cantonese is based locally and caters for the fast links there, so users can zip data along faster.

Unfortunately, English-speaking surfers in Singapore tend to surf to overseas websites, where the bottleneck is. Upgrading from 6Mbps service to 12Mbps one won't double the speed you get from, say Download.com, because it is based overseas and limits your download speed.

Problematic Phone Lines:
This affects asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) users, that is, SingTel and Pacific Internet users. If your apartment has old or noisy phone lines, your link to the ISP may be affected, resulting in slower speeds. If you suspect something is amiss, call your ISP.

Wi-Fi Networks at Home:
Many users connect their broadband modems to Wi-Fi routers so they can surf wireless in their apartments. Though most Wi-Fi gear offer at least 54Mbps, a poor wireless signal due to interference from a neighbour or blind spots at home can cause speeds to fail.

If you have 512Kbps broadband connection, this may not be obvious. But if you have a 30Mbps service, and you are getting just 11Mbps from your Wi-Fi connection, then you have a bottleneck.

Over-subscription:
Providing a broadband service is like hedging bets. If an ISP gives users too much bandwidth, it spends too much money. Give too little and customers face a jam. So what do ISPs do? They buy just enough, based on the assumption that not everyone will download a file at the same time.

Called over-subscribing, this is something of an insider skill which engineers use to hedge bets, and run a smooth service. ISP usually offer enough bandwidth for everyone, but if congestion sets in during peak periods, this may be because your service provider has over-subscribed a little too much.

Andrew Siew
Singapore
31 Dec 2006

This article is posted first on the Straits Times - Digital Life on December 5, 2006.

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Make Money With Top Search Engine Rnakings

Its no secret that Google gets most of the traffic on the internet, followed closely by Yahoo and MSN back in third place.So if we're going to beat the next guy at getting some free search engine traffic what is required and where would you start?

Well first of all you have to realise that you aren't likely to rank at the top of most keywords overnight, infact it can take months of hard work to rank for high traffic keywords so the key here is to start with keywords you can target that don't have a lot of competition.This makes your job 50% easier before you even load a page to the internet.

Next lets look at the specific engines, google takes the longest to rank for out of the top 3 so I like to look closely at MSN search because my experience tells me that even though they dont get anywhere the same amount of traffic I can rank higher and faster here.So my first port of call is to do keyword research specifically with MSN in mind.I use a few tools here but by far the easiest way to do this is to use the free keyword reseach tool at digitalpoint.com .Here you can check keyword patterns and traffic patterns for your desired keywords to see how many searches are performed in the major engines, and also to find spin off keywords you probably would'nt have considered before.You can also check both Overture and Wordtrackers results against each other here to get a feel for how the traffic patterns are going to be for a top rank with your selected keyword.

A rule of thumb I use for MSN is that the traffic for any keyword I search in digital points tool is divided by approx 3-4 to give me an idea of the traffic in MSN.So if my desired keyword had 1000 searches per day according to both Wordtracker and Overture then I can confidently say a number 1 rank in MSN should provide about 300 searches.This doesnt mesn you will get 300 hits , in fact you may only get about half the searchers hit your site through MSN or any search engines for that matter even if you rank # 1.

So now I can confidently say a top rank for that keyword will provide approx 150 hits or visitors per day.So now we have chosen a keyword that looks good whats next?

Check out the competition on MSN.Theres no point choosing words that you realistically will never rank for .The competition pays big money to be at the top so unless you have the same budget stay away from that game.Those so called gurus of the internet will squash you .My reccommendation is to rank for terms that have less traffic and thats easier to get to #1, especially in MSN.

So what am I looking for when it it comes to my competition ? well we all know that relevant , theme related inbound, 1 way links from authority sites are the easiest way to rank # 1 or top 10.

In fact it doesnt take too many high quality inbound links to rank for thousands upon thousands of terms.So here is where the fun begins, After you have uploaded your site and optimised the page with all the relevant html tags etc then gathering links to your page is the single most important task you can undertake to rank.I am not an authority on link gathering but here are a few suggestions.

Write high quality articles about your chosen subject or pay someone to write articles , then submit them to the free article directories, here your article will be picked up by other webmasters and placed on their site with your link on them, This can create many many 1 way links very quickly for your page.

Approach other webmasters in your chosen topic and request link exchange(I personally dont do this as its boring and outdated and honestly is very time consuming)

Use social bookmark sites like del.ici.us to get your content out there and also to get you links from your tags.The search engines love social bookmark sites, I use about 25 of them and they always provide high quality 1 way links, and often with very high PR.

Write a blog about your site and link to it then feed that blog using rss or other syndication methods.this can also provide 1 way links and better results in the search engines.

Buy links. Yes buy them , a few high quality , related links with good Google Page Rank will help massively.

These few ideas I use every day and many more to get traffic and beat the next guy in the engines, especially MSN.

So there you have it a few small ideas to get you moving so go forth and "make money".

So the only thing left to do after you have achieved a top rank for a number of keyword terms is to make money from them and here are my top two ideas for making money that I use everyday.

1) Google adsense, Sign up free and place the ad code on your page and you will earn a share of each and every click visitors make from those ad blocks.

There are dozens of other places you can earn on a "pay per click " basis but Google stands out head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion.

2) Affiliate marketing, If your site or page is about losing weight, then sign up free as an affiliate to any one of hundreds of sites that sell these type of products .Then place a link on your page which has your personal code embedded into it and if a visitor clicks on your link and decides to buy then you will recieve a share of that sale.Sometimes as high 70% of that sale.

So there you have it, now go out there and make some money online, because if you dont I will do it for you.

Calvin Leonard
03 Jan 2007

Calvin Leonard is experienced in the field of network marketing and internet marketing.His Main Business focus is to teach people how to
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