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Having your own affiliate network website can be a very useful thing, as you can sell other peoples products and services on your website and earn commission by selling affiliate stuff.

The key to earning money from any website and to increase sales is traffic. When you have visitors and users coming to your website, it will definitely increase your sales and earnings. However, driving traffic to your site, especially an affiliate site can be a big problem. This can be due to several reasons:

1. You are taking data directly from some affiliate network, in the form of XML Feeds or fetching and displaying it on your site using an API key.
2. Your site has very little content and data of its own, so the website you have mainly has duplicate data from the affiliate network website like Amazon shop.
3. Your Title Tags, Meta Tags and content is not unique, so most of your pages might end up in Google Supplemental Index (Supplemental Pages)

Such a situation can be problematic for your website and for its business. Duplicate sites and sites which mainly use some kind of feed to display and fetch data, like RSS Feeds sites, Affiliate network sites etc. usually suffer from these problems and hence have a hard time in getting traffic from the search engines.

There are various ways by which you can drive traffic to your website.

Paid Advertising

PPC, also known as Pay-Per-Click Advertising by using Google Adwords or similar program. This can be effective and fetch highly targeted traffic if you carry out a proper PPC campaign. However, over time it can get very expensive.

Website Promotion and Marketing

Online and Offline Marketing and website promotion can also drive traffic to a website. These methods include banner advertisement, link purchases, Press Releases and offline promotion like newspaper ads, hoardings etc. Please note that Paid Advertising like PPC is also a kind of online marketing and promotion technique.

However, the results for these are short term, and only last while you spend money on your advertising campaign. As soon as your advertising budget exceeds, and you stop the promotion, you lose all kinds of traffic coming to your website.

Search Engine Optimization

This is the most effective of all these methods and also leaves long lasting results. Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO involves changing your website pages in a way so that they become more Search Engine Friendly and hence achieve high rankings in SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Pages).

Some of the most important factors involved in SEO include:

1. Keyword Research
2. Market and Competitor Analysis
3. Creation of Landing pages for the website, and defining a directory structure for the pages which is search engine friendly
4. Content Writing and Addition to the website, related to the Keywords and website theme
5. Title Tags, Meta Description and Keyword Tags generation for all the website pages
6. Search Engine Friendly URL writing for all the pages
7. Website submission to Search Engines, Web Directories, Article Directories and Social Bookmarking sites
8. Getting Links (One-way links to the website) with appropriate Anchor Texts
9. Monitoring the website progress and ranking on the Search Engines
10. Improving the website and optimizing it, adding more contents and getting more links on a regular basis

SEO is a time taking process, and a new site can take up to 8 - 10 months to start showing in rankings for niche and competitive keywords on Search Engines. However, the results you obtain after all the efforts are fruitful, after which you can enjoy traffic coming to your website directly from the Search Engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Winters coming and I’m going to try my luck at winning a T-shirt, so I’m entering the Funny T Shirt contest at Everybody go to. Ali J has come up with the ultimate plan of designing some new funny t-shirts every weekday and sell them online.

The contest is simple to enter. All you need to do is write a post about the contest in your blog with a link to the funny shirts page and your name. Each trackback will be put into a little bowl and entered in the lucky draw every Saturday till the end of September.

I have my eyes on the ‘Comments Closed‘ t-shirt which he has designed especially for the ladies You can order the shirt at Cafepress by clicking on the shirt image on the left. Do have a look at the other shirts which Ali has designed for bloggers and internet bystanders. Let’s see how this contest goes now!

As it turned out, the $2,500 Blogging Contest was a scam, so I am now entering the $100 contest at Contest Blogger. This contest is open only for bloggers who were ‘fooled’ by the contest he was promoting on his blog.

Many webmasters have already started removing links from their contest entries, and Phil has listed all the websites trackbacks on his blog so people get to know about the new contest.

I came to know of the new contest by the traffic / referrals in my web stats from his blog, and then found the trackbacks when I logged into my Wordpress Admin Panel.

The deadline for this new contest is September 7, so make sure you follow the instructions to win 100 bucks.

Nowadays Internet is variegated with banners and advertisements entitled with the line “webmaster earn money”. Some of the most relevant moves should be mentioned for those who have already created their own webmaster earn money business or are going to.

A person involved into webmaster earn money operations usually faces such problems as choosing a dedicated server provider for its sources, and in further development of webmaster online business this choice will play a great role.

It is high time to work out a plan of getting traffic. Webmaster should specify for himself what exactly he is going to sell. Then spend some time making clear what values are matching his goods, because it will determine what exact ways or their combinations will turn to be most beneficial in attracting and then monetizing traffic. Webmaster can choose or combine such methods of attracting traffic as generating it with the help of social networks and search engines, or buy it in pay per click advertising companies.

Now it is the moment to make sure that generated traffic will be monetized. To convert traffic perfectly webmasters combine several methods: they place text ads on their sites, apply to online marketing or partnership networks.

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I recently made it to ShoeMoney’s Top Commentators List and am really happy about it The whole idea came from the Free Blog Comments thread I had started at the Digital Point Forums a couple of months ago. Many people who posted in the thread mentioned that they have the Top Commentators Plugin installed on their blog so I can use it for my advantage if I leave useful and non-spammy comments on their blogs. Also, sundaybrew of Sunday Skool mentioned in one of his tips at Digital Point to leave comments on high PR blogs like ShoeMoney and John Chow. So I started with the comments last week on ShoeMoney’s blog and am one of the top commentators on the list now

On most blogs, the Top Commentators list is refreshed every month, but in the case of ShoeMoney’s Blog, I think it updates weekly as I read somewhere on his blog. I haven’t seen a drastic increase in the amount of traffic coming to my blog from ShoeMoney’s Blog, maybe because very few people give notice to the Top Commentators List, and the plugin is mostly used to reward the commentators in terms of passing some Google PageRank. All together, I got 20 referrals from the blog in the last 2 days

Despite the lack of traffic and referrals, getting on ShoeMoney’s top commentators list has drastically improved my Technorati Rank and Authority. My Blog had an Authority of 19 last week when I started and after reaching ShoeMoney’s Top Commentators List, it increased to 35. The Rank is now showing 1 with a Top 100 icon with it, although I’m now sure how this happened. The whole idea is to be consistent and leave useful comments on the blog, which are not deleted as spam by ShoeMoney

The responses at my Technorati Profile increased a lot due to ShoeMoney’s Blog getting regularly spidered by the Search Engine Bots, which is why my Blogs Authority increased by 15 by just getting on ShoeMoney’s Top Commentators List.

My next goal would be to maintain my position on ShoeMoney’s Top Commentators list in the coming days and weeks and also get on the Top Commentators Lists of other high PR Blogs. Lastly, I would like to thank ShoeMoney for such a wonderful blog and my readers also for their comments and emails

ShoeMoney recently posted a short video about the most popular question people ask him about “Can you really get rich quick overnight?!?!“

Here’s the video

Here’s what he had to say in his video:

Hey good morning.

So.. getting rich over night. I get several emails all the time, how do you make money online, how do you make money with Adsense, how do you do this, I want to make money tomorrow, I don’t wanna work, I just wanna make money.

It’s so cool now, everybody wants to do it.

It IS cool, at the end of the day, you cant make money overnight.

The thing is.. in this industry, it comes and goes so fast.

So, the deal is a lot like, I don’t know if any of you guys have read the book ‘Lucky or Smart‘.. I have it, I actually listen to it on audio, but you should because it actually says that the difference between, well, the deal with you know people always say are you lucky or are you smart, because you make money online in anything.

It’s basically being smart enough to know when you’re lucky.

Because basically if you keep working at something for long enough, you WILL win. I mean you, your ship will come in. It’s just do you have the fortitude to work hard enough at that thing for a long enough period till someone notices you. I mean it’s a series of cycles and how things repeat, I mean eventually, your thing will come in again.

You see it now, like with, I mean a couple of years ago, if somebody was sitting on a transformers website, and was making no money, right now it’s probably freaking, RAINING at him! Who is that person now? Whose killing it right now have the vision to take that money and parlay it into something bigger, because that’s what it takes.

So, you can’t make money overnight, you can’t make money quick. But you know will you have what it takes to parlay that into something bigger.

Because that is what will lead to success in future.

So I don’t know where this came from this morning, I’m just tired of people emailing me, saying I want to make money overnight, what do you think about this ebook, about getting rich overnight?

Good Luck with that.

I’m writing this quick post to claim my blog on Technorati. I’ve been working to improve my Technorati Authority and Rank recently and also get it favourited by other blog owners. So if you like my blog, don’t forget to add it to your favorites

Technorati Profile

Many Blog owners and webmasters have been continuously upset about their new website and pages ending up in the Supplemental Index. Nothing to worry about now, as Google has removed the ’supplemental result’ labels from the search results.

Google originally introduced Supplemental Results in 2003 so they could separate unimportant pages, and pages with duplicate content from their main index. The Supplemental Results were displayed as a result to queries made by searchers if no substantial results could be fetched from the main index. The whole idea was to make the search results more relevant and not to show old pages with little or no content in the Search Results. Learn more about Google Supplemental Results at ABCSEO.

Now, Google has extensively changed the way pages are indexed and added to the main index, which is why they are making the supplemental results go mainstream. Many blog owners, webmasters and website owners have given positive feedback about Google doing this, as they can put their efforts on new things and stop worrying about the Supplemental Index Results. Other searchers have shown their criticism as they will have to visit the Supplemental Pages when doing a search which might affect the quality of the Search Results displayed.

Check the official Google Blog where they announced this, and also the article at Search Engine Journal.