I've been busily scouting the world wide web recently searching for ways to help you make money working for yourself from home writing.
The times we are living in are tough for everybody, whether you've been let go from your job due to the economic downturn, or just trying to make some extra money in your spare time.
It has become apparent to me, in my quest to spread some information on how to help yourself, that the biggest and most profitable market presently is in eBook sales.
If you're in doubt as to the profit potential of eBooks, just type in ''eBook sales'' into Google.
Sources have said sales are expected to reach $9.7 billion worldwide by 2016.
If that doesn't spark your interest then you must be asleep....;-D
So why write your own eBook?
An excellent way to start a home business is write on topics you may have some expertise in and can share
it with others who are seeking this information in an easily accessible format.
There are millions of people searching online everyday looking for information on every conceivable topic.
Someone somewhere will pay you for your expertise on a chosen subject.
You can write and publish eBooks without having a blog or website, and you can create a good income with little financial outlay.
Let's look at the pros of writing your own eBook:
More and more people are accessing the Internet daily, so exposure to your work is increasing.
It is easy to produce your own, no publisher or agent required.
They are easily distributed online, and if you ever need to update the content, all you need to do is update
your original edition and republish it yourself.
It is easily accessible to the buyer, all they have to do is download it from the website where you have chosen to sell it from.
All that's required is a computer, an Internet connection, and YOUR IDEA!
So begin now by jotting down some ideas , find the one that interests you most, the one you perhaps know
quite a bit about already.
Next post I'll be back with tips on how to Write your own eBook.
Make 2013 your year for working from home writing !
Some more tips for you if
you’re working from home writing content for your website folks.
There are two ways to make
sure your site is primed for Google and their web spiders!
One way is onsite SEO, the
second way is offsite. To get a springboard to success online go here :-)
The difference between onsite
SEO and offsite SEO
SEO or search engine
optimization, when used correctly can get you tons of free organic traffic from
the almighty Google. When it comes to SEO practices, there are two main
categories – Onsite SEO and offsite SEO. In this article I will explain the
differences between the two and how you can target both of them.
Onsite SEO means
optimizing your website or blog internally to boost your page ranking. There
are many ways to do this – keyword optimization, onsite linking among posts and
pages, using anchor text links, tagging posts, alternative text for images etc.
Keyword density is an important factor as excessive use of a certain keyword
can make you penalized.
Fully optimizing your
website content is a pre-requisite for good SEO points but it won’t be enough,
you’ll have to incorporate off-site SEO methods together in order to be ranked
higher in Google.
Offsite SEO involves
getting back links from various sources on the internet which does not belong to
your website. Back links are basically people from other websites linking to
your website. The higher quality the back link, the more Google juice you will
get. People sharing your website on social networks and talking about your
website also constitute as offsite SEO.
You can get a variety of
back links from many credible sources such as other people’s blogs (of the same
niche), Twitter, web 2.0 pages such as Hub pages and Squidoo, and even YouTube.
In summary, the key to
getting high placement on Google’s search engine and successfully using SEO is
to have good onsite SEO and offsite SEO. The internet has evolved from an
information providing hub to a place of online social interactions which can be
seen through social media sharing, blog commenting and reviews.
Given the importance of visitors or traffic to your site or blog, I've decided to write some more for you today on my recent findings on how to do that.
Search Engine Optimization And Why You Gotta Use It
E-commerce is a cut throat business. You have to arm yourself with the proper know-how and the tools to make your site a cut above the rest. Each day, more and more sites are clambering to optimize their rankings in websites and if you lose your guard, you may just get trampled on and be left in the abyss filled with so many failed e-commerce sites.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines would be the most widely used internet tool to find the sites that they need to go to or the product or information they need.
Most people that use search engines use only the ten top search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more business you rake in.
But, it is essential to grab a hold of that spot or make your ranking even better. As I have mentioned, each day is a new day for all e-commerce sites to make themselves rank higher using search engine optimization. It is imperative to make your site better and better everyday.
So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is an easy one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or maybe at least make your site income generating.
With search engine optimization you can get the benefit of generating a high traffic volume. Let’s just say you get only a turn out of successful sales with 10 to 20 percent of your traffic. If you get a hundred hits or more a day, you get a good turn out of sales already. If you get only twenty to ten hits a day, you only get one or two if not any at all.
So once again, what is search engine optimization?
Search engine optimization is utilizing tools and methods in making your site top ranking in the results of search engines. Getting yourself in the first page and better yet in the top half of the page will ensure that your site will generate public awareness of your site’s existence and subsequently generate more traffic, traffic that could lead to potential income and business.
Search engine optimization requires a lot of work to be fully realized. There are many aspects you have to change in your site or add as well to get search engine optimization. These will include getting lots of information about the keyword phrases that are popular in regards to your sites niche or theme.
You may also need to rewrite your sites contents so that you could get the right keyword phrases in your site without making it too commercial but light and informative. There are certain rules and guidelines to be followed with making your site’s content applicable and conducive to search engine optimization.
You will also need to collaborate with many other sites so that you could get link exchanges and page transfers. The more inbound and outbound traffics generated by sites among others are one of the components search engines uses to rank sites.
Try to search the internet for any useful help. Tips, guidelines and methods for search engine optimization are plenty to be found. Read many articles that can help you optimize your site in search engine results. The more knowledge and information you gather the better. This will all help you in getting those high rankings. This may require a little time and effort in your part but the benefits will be astounding.
If you can part with some money, there are many sites in the internet that can help you in search engine optimization. There are many sites that help in tracking keyword phrases that can help your site. There are also some content writers that have lots of experience in making good keyword laden content for your sites that have good quality.
Act now and see the benefits garner with search engine optimization. All of these will result in better traffic and more business for your site and company.
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Today's post is all about Facebook as a marketing tool for your home business, be it a website you're trying to promote, your writing services, or a product you're promoting online.
5 Tips For Using Facebook
To Draw Traffic
Facebook Fan Pages can be
a very useful tool for drawing massive traffic to your websites, Facebook page
or blog. Fan pages are better than profile pages because of the ability to have
“Fans” which will constantly be updated on their feeds by whatever you post on
your Fan page.
The way to draw massive
traffic through a Fan page is by getting your Fans to interact with the content
you post on your Fan page. Here’s a few techniques for making that happen:
-Ask questions.One way is
by simply asking questions of those who ‘like’ us on Facebook. Every day or two
we pose a simple question that asks readers either for their opinion, to share
an experience that they’ve had, to tell us something about the stuff they are
interested in and so forth.
-Highlight important
updates. The benefit of highlighting what’s happening on your Facebook page is
it boosts the numbers of responses to the questions that you ask. Also, people
who just joined the page can get into the latest updates on the site.
-Start a landing page.
Just like how the usual landing page or opt in page works on your website, you
can include one on your fanpage and encourage people to “like” the page so that
they can get a free download to a free gift. This can help you to build your
subscriber list fast and send them back to the Fan page for more updates.
-Advertise on Facebook.
Advertise on Facebook and draw passive traffic into your Fan pages (preferably
send them to your landing page). The more “Likes” you get, the more your
business will get exposure on the newsfeeds of the fans and the more traffic
you will get.
-Provide lots of useful
content and send them to your blog. Use the Facebook Fan page as an “outpost”
for your fans to get updates on latest blog posts or news on your website and
encourage them to visit your website.
How To Use Facebook For
Branding Purposes:
Whether you’re a high
flying millionaire, an artist, a community person or a leader, Facebook offers
a very useful platform for branding yourself among your audience. This platform
is none other than the function called Facebook Fan pages.
If you scour Facebook
you’ll pretty much bump into all sorts of Facebook fan pages catered to
artists, local businesses and organisations.
Here’s how you can start up your
own Fan page for branding purposes:
Starting a Facebook Fan
Page is free of charge. Simply scroll to the bottom of Facebook and select
“Create A Page”. Once you’ve set up a page, enter in all the details pertaining
to yourself or the figure you wish to brand. Make sure it is congruent yourself
as not to confuse others. If you have a local business, set up a local business
page and put in stuff such as contact information, maps, or post photos of your
business logo.
Once you’ve set up your
page, kindly invite your fans and existing customers to join you there. From
there you can post updates, share interesting news or talk about your daily
life if you wish to share it with your fans and followers.
Get them to interact with
you and know you at a more personal level. Get existing customers to post testimonials
or reviews of products of you have. These will serve as amazing social proof
for others who wish to buy your products.
You can also organise
competitions to create hype and get your followers involved. Get the news out
to your followers using your Fan page and you’ll be swimming with new leads in
no time.
Remember, if you wish to successfully brand
yourself, you’ll have to connect with your followers at a personal level and
show that you too, are like them
This post is a bit of advice on how to grow your business, be it online or offline.
How To Grow Your Business
Virally Using Videos
We all have 24 hours in a
day. The amount of leads we can generate in our business is limited to how much
time we have, or is it? There’s one way to attract tons of leads and grow your
business faster than ever – Through the power of viral marketing.
In this article, I’ll show
you how you can grow your business virally using videos. Viral marketing is the
marketing of word of mouth (or online sharing) which helps you grow your online
business by leaps and bounds in a short amount of time.
With the emergence of
social sharing video sites such as YouTube, people can easily upload videos for
free and reach a wide audience in a short amount of time. The key is in
creating good viral content which makes people want to share it.
Make some funny videos
related to your content, hire a professional to make a cool video or if you
have some skills in video editing, try making something cool yourself. Then,
post up the video on YouTube and get people to view it.
Blast your video to your
email list, ask your friends to watch it and encourage your viewers to share it
with their friends. The more people that share or view it, the higher ranking
it will get in the video search engine and hence, more people will see it in
return.
Keyword research is also
very important. In your video description, make sure you include keyword rich
descriptions inside. This is because YouTube ranks very high in the search
engines, so the more targeted your keywords are, the easier people can find
your content and help your videos get higher viewership.
Most importantly, don’t
forget to include a link in your description to a website of your online
business or include a call to action at the end of your video.
Today my post is all about increasing your visitors to your blog or website. As traffic is the lifeblood of any website or blog, I've done another post about this here
This blog about working from home, being your own boss, and living the dream !
Millions of people are drawn to the websites every day just to chat. Chatting is one of the most popular activities done by those using the web. Many people admit that once they begin chatting, they become almost addicted to it. The average online “chatter” will log on at least once a day for a chat. Although there is no definite reason why people love this form of communication, there is something to be learned by their behavior. When it comes to your website traffic, you may be able to utilize this chat “addiction” to increase website traffic. There are two main ways you can use chatting to help your site. One involves less startup time, but more maintenance time by you. The other involves a longer startup time, but less maintenance. Consider these ideas and begin using chatting to help your website increase traffic immediately.
If you are interested in using the chat audience, then you can certainly log in a few hours a day delivering advertisement to them. This basically means that you can go into chat rooms with the purpose of posting your website link into the chat. You can do this randomly, hitting a room, posting the link without prompt from other chatters, and leaving to another room.
Remember to contribute something to your audience, this is the best way to reach the largest number of chatters. The best way to do this is to join rooms that relate in some way to your website and its content. However, by doing this, you will likely annoy some chatters, which is not good for your website. You can decide whether the risk is worth it or not.
You can also be more personal about your advertisements. This will call for going to rooms where you think the most selective targeted audience may be located. For instance, if your website is about music, then you may want to visit chat rooms with music themes. Once you engage in conversation a bit, you can freely and casually bring your website link into conversation. You may gain more respect with this approach but you will likely not have as large of an audience as with the random posts. If you are an avid chatter, then also consider adding your website link to your chatting profile. As you chat, others in the room will be looking at your profile, without you even knowing they are doing so. This is a subtle, but effective way to use chatting to help increase your website’s traffic. Those that view your profile will likely want to check out your site and may even tell others about it as well.
Another way to use chatting to increase website traffic is by adding a chat element to your website. This will likely take quite a while to set up. Adding chat to your room is not the simplest thing to do. It can however be a great way to draw people into your website. This is especially true if your website is about a specific hobby, passion, or job. If you have a retail site, it is unlikely that chat would be appropriate. However, if your site is about stock tips, then a chat room would enable traders to discuss tips and information with each other, which would likely keep them and their friends coming back frequently. One thing to remember however is that you should always monitor your website’s chat area every once in a while. It would be unfortunate to have chatters using your room inappropriately or abuse certain policies you have placed upon chatters. This would only make your website look unprofessional.
Using chatting to help increase website traffic is a free way to advertise. If you do chat often, you have likely seen other chatters using this delivery as well. Take note on which methods of chat delivery is most attractive to you when you see others doing the same thing. This will allow you to have a view on both sides of the issue and likely help you to create a plan that is more effective.
The more time and effort you put into this task, the faster you will see results, so go ahead and TAKE ACTION today!
Today being New Year's Eve, I would like to wish you all the best for the coming year, keep writing and above all keep that dream of working for yourself from home alive.
Today's post is all about search engine optimisation, or SEO.
Baby
Steps To Good SEO Practices
Search Engine Optimization or SEO, is the art of getting your website
or blog on the front page of Google Search for specific search terms. In this
article, I will cover a couple of basic SEO steps which you can learn and apply
to your online business instantly.
Keywords and keyword phrases.
Keyword phrases are niche specific words that people search for. For example, a
keyword could be something like “dog training” (2 keywords). A keyword phrase
is a short phrase which contains the keywords you are targeting such as “house
training for dogs”. Basically, you want to target these high search volume
keywords and key phrases and use them in your blog posts or article frequently.
Your job is to find a
right balance in keyword density. If you overuse keywords in your website, your
website will come off as spam by the search engines. Try to keep density within
2-3% to be safe.
Are you the Authority site
on the net? In general, Google gives pages with lots of quality back links,
high traffic volume and social interactions such as blog comments a good page
ranking. These kind of sites are referred to as “Authority sites”. Your job is
to make your website become the authority site by adopting good SEO practices.
Tips for writing – As a
general rule of thumb, include your keyword inside the title and on the first
paragraph of the body. Whenever possible, bold or italicize the keyword or key
phrase that you are targeting.
Finally, you should fill up
your website with good, relevant content as the Google spider crawlers are
getting smarter and smarter at picking up what’s fluff and what’s not. Adopt
these good SEO practices and you’ll be on your way to tons of traffic.
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