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How to Sell Your Blog for $20,000

chris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:55:48 +0000

I love the Delicious bookmarking site. I usually stop by the site once a day to see what’s hot and what people are bookmarking and reading on any given day.

Sometimes you find really good articles and resources and sometimes you find nothing of interest. Today I stumbled upon a very cool blog called Blog Tyrant. More specifically, I stumbled on an article called How I Sold My Blog for $20,000 in 8 Months. It’s a great read and will give you all the basic information you need to know to start a blog, build it into a trafficed and authority site, and how to eventually sell it.

The Blog Tyrant doesn’t go into the technical details of actually transferring a site and domain over to your purchaser, but you can probably find the information elsewhere. For anyone interested in how to build websites, how to monetize websites, and how to sell websites, this is a great read and is a good primer on how to get started today.

Get a Free Domain with iPage Web Hosting Purchase

chris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:51:09 +0000

You can currently get a free domain name for life from iPage web hosting with purchase of a year hosting plan at the price of $3.50 per month.

For that extremely low rate, you can get unlimited web hosting from a top provider in the business. You also get unlimited email accounts, a free online store, ecommerce site building tools, blog creation tools, free marketing credits for Yahoo and Google, and a lot more including unlimited bandwidth and add-on domains.

For $3.50 you get a lot. And there is only the one year commitment. Most web hosting companies have a great offer and a very low monthly rate, but you only get the low price if you commit to two years of service and pay upfront.

iPage not only gives you the lowest rate in the business, but the company also gives you an anytime money back guarantee, which makes using the service risk-free.

And you get the free domain for life, which is an awesome added bonus. When you sign up, you get to choose the domain name the iPage web hosting will pay for every year for life! It works out to some serious savings.

To get your free domain name today as well as high quality affordable web hosting Click Here.

If you’re still not sold, here are some of the things you get with your iPage web hosting account:

Very low prices
Host Unlimited Sites
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Free Domain Name for Life
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Free WordPress blog creation
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Free Google, Yahoo, and Facebook marketing credits adding up to $450 of extras
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Read 10 Reasons to Choose iPage website hosting.

The Power of a Domain Name

chris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:41:49 +0000

Domain names are literally the real estate of the online world. An exact keyword phrase domain name can be worth a lot of money and a lot of traffic.

Most people who do well in Internet marketing understand that it’s not only high levels of traffic that will help you succeed, but more importantly, it’s high levels or even just decent levels of very targeted traffic.

The right domain name will help you get targeted traffic. So if you can purchase a domain that has the keywords you are targeting, you will most likely be able to rank higher in the search engines than you would otherwise. Obviously, there are a lot of other things that come into play in search engine rankings (authority, back links, etc), but it is clear that strong domain names play an important part.

Another interesting thing about having a keyword rich domain name is that it encourages people to use your targeted keywords in anchor text that they point back to your site. This is an added benefit.

I have recently seen the power of domain names and how they can be utilized to further your online marketing goals and to position your sales pages or informational blog to the right audience.

Another tack to take is a brandable domain name. A brandable domain name typically won’t have keywords in it, but will be something memorable, interesting, and easy to say that you can build a business around.

The truth is that you can do well with either kind of domain name–keyword rich or brandable–it just depends on how hard you are willing to work to create excellent content and to build links and drive traffic.

The Future of Work: oDesk

chris — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:28:39 +0000

oDesk is a good place to find freelance workers to outsource certain parts of your work. For instance, if you are an affiliate marketer and you need some content written about a product or something like that, oDesk is a good place to look. Have a look at the site here.

I joined the site over three months ago and have hired several people to do various writing tasks and it’s been a very good experience. I recommend oDesk for finding freelance writers.

This video gives you a general idea of what oDesk is about.

iPage Web Hosting Coupons

chris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:29:24 +0000

iPage web hosting is one of the top web hosts available today. You can always seem to find iPage coupons that you can use to save money on the companies plans.

If you are looking into web hosting options right now, definitely have a look at iPage. You might not have to look any further. At the moment, you can claim a coupon and only pay $3.50 per month for the service.

See the coupon right here and click it to go to the site!

For this rather small sum or money, you get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains hosted, and many other very attractive features. In addition, you get a free domain name for life. This is literally the deal that keeps on giving. As if this wasn’t enough, iPage web hosting will also give you your money back if for any reason you don’t want to continue with the service.

You are probably not going to want to take iPage up on the offer since you will receive very good service, but it’s still nice to know it’s there just in case. It makes you trying iPage a risk-free proposition.

Read my longer review of iPage.

Get a Free Domain for Life from iPage Web Hosting

chris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:33:02 +0000

You may have heard about iPage already since it is becoming one of the more popular web hosts for bloggers, Internet marketers, and affiliate marketers. The reason iPage web hosting is in front of the pack is because the company offers great service and all-inclusive packages at almost too-good-to-be-true prices.

In addition to all the service options you get to help you run your online business or your blog, iPage also gives you an anytime money-back guarantee. They can afford to do this because most likely you will not ask for your money back because you will be happy with the service you get.

And at a price of $3.50 per month, you will not find a better price in the market anywhere. iPage is so confident that you will like the service (not to mention to industry-leading price) that they are literally putting their money where their mouth is and giving you all of your money back if you are not satisfied.

Perhaps the coolest thing you get from iPage as an added incentive is a free domain name for life. When you sign up with iPage, you can choose a new domain name that you want and instead of paying the registration fee every year for the name, you get it absolutely free.

iPage has the best deal in web hosting today. Four of my friends–two bloggers and two Internet marketers–have signed up with iPage web hosting and love it. And I’m hearing good things from other reviewers.

To grab this deal by the horns right now—while it lasts–click here.

What Should I Write About on Hubpages?

chris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:22:15 +0000

If you don’t already know, Hubpages is a website where you can write articles or “hubs” and earn from any advertising revenue that comes from people visiting your pages. If you haven’t already, you can sign up here.

You make money on Hubpages from display advertising, ebay affiliate links, and Amazon affiliate links. You get revenue 60% of the time and Hubpages gets to keep the revenue earned on the other 40% of impressions to your pages. A lot of people are doing very well and make a lot of money on Hubpages. It’s definitely not easy, however. It takes work.

You can get started by reading my article about making money on Hubpages. Or continue reading…

What Subjects Should You Write About on Hubpages?

If you’re wondering what kind of stuff you should write about on Hubpages, you should know that you can write about pretty much anything you want to. One of the keys to making money at Hubpages is to get a lot of traffic. This is the key to Internet marketing success, which in a way, is what you’re doing with Hubpages. It’s content marketing, which means your articles on the site have the potential to make you money when people visit them. This is what we want.

So keeping that in mind, one of the best things you can do is try to keep your Hubs as original as possible–and especially the title. Before you publish your article or even earlier on in the planning stages you should make sure there are no other hubs with a very similar title or even very close subject matter, because it will be harder for you to compete with that page.

Let’s put it this way: Google isn’t going to put two articles about “Best Dog Parks in Los Angeles” on the front page search results. So, even if you have an article very close in nature to someone elses, you should tweak your title and the keywords you use throughout the hub to target a slightly different thing. This is called finding a niche. I like to call it “niching down” because you are attempting to get deeper into a niche to create original content that doesn’t have much competition.

You should also write about things you know about since this is what you will be able the write the best about. Right?

Two of the most important things to writing content online (and marketing it) are authority and keywords. “Authority” means you have something of value to say and “keywords” means you know how to target the right people who will find your article useful by using the proper search terms.

To be continued. I will be writing about this topic a lot more over the next two weeks. Subscribe right now so you don’t miss out on any of this. I’m going to be giving away some Hubpages secrets.

Does iPage Web Hosting Really Offer a Full Refund?

chris — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:23:49 +0000

iPage web hosting officially offers a full refund to anyone who isn’t satisfied with the company’s service. I love the fact that iPage believes in the quality of its service so much that it puts its money where its mouth is.

This doesn’t happen too often these days–the full refund. But high quality retailers have always known that being lenient on return policies is the best way to go. It’s one of the reasons that Nordstroms and Amazon.com are industry leaders.

iPage also offers a lot with its service plan, which cost $3.50 per month. In addition to being able to host unlimited domains and websites, you get a free domain for life. And that’s just the start. Web hosting is a very competitive business, as you know if you are currently surfing the internet looking for web host reviews.

Read my longer iPage web host review with all the details about what you get for only $3.50.

Get More Hubpages Traffic using Article Directories

chris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:48:55 +0000

If you’re looking for a sure-fire traffic generation tip for your Hubpages articles, one way to go is with article directories like ezinearticles.com or articlesbase.com.

These sites are well-respected by Google and other search engines because they are moderated by human beings (which means that all articles must adhere to the quality standards of the site), they have been around for a long time, and they churn out hundreds of pages of new content every single day consistently.

You can utilize the power of these large article directory websites to get more traffic to your Hubs on Hubpages. And if you’re trying to make money on Hubpages or any other site for that matter, then you know that traffic is the name of the game. The more traffic you get to your Hubpages, the more money you will make.

Traffic is the name of the game, but targeted traffic is golden. Targeted traffic means that you have a hub about a topic like “free ebooks for the Amazon kindle” and you get a visitor who owns a kindle and is currently looking for ebooks to read without paying for them. That’s targeted traffic and you can see why it’s a beautiful situation when things work out like that.

The visitor has a problem (or question) and you have a solution (or answer). It’s a perfect match.

Article directories will help you gain targeted traffic to your hubs because you get to include two links in the footer at the end of the published article. When people finish reading the article, they may click one of the links,which makes it pretty clear that they are interested in what you have to offer in you Hub. In addition Article Directories give you extra backlinks, which will help your rankings in the search engine results pages over time.

Try article directories. They work for any kind of content promotion.

Read about how to make money with Hubpages.

How to Find a Niche To Blog About

chris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:36:22 +0000

When you’re starting a blog, you’ll probably be thinking about what “niche” you want to write in. It makes sense to think in terms of a niche since it’s smart to write a blog based on a distinct topic.

It makes it easier for your visitors to find you and will ultimately be a lot easier to “monetize” or eventually sell even. Choosing a niche really is not that hard. Let me tell you why.

You just need to write about what you love, what you know about, what you want to deal with everyday. Never chase the money. Okay, I shouldn’t say never, but the truth is I’ve tried to do it in the past, with varying degrees of success, and I would much rather tell you to go after something you love.

I guarantee you that even though it doesn’t seem like it in the beginning you will make a lot more money and have a heck of a lot more fun writing a blog in a niche that you love. Making money with your blog will work itself out.

Before writing this post, I was writing one for another blog I own in a niche I’m not exactly stoked on. Sometimes writing for a site like that is like pulling teeth.

Why make it harder on yourself? The truth is you will not enjoy writing a blog in a niche you don’t love and you will probably abandon the blog after a few months. I know this is what I did.

So, my advice to you (and don’t feel like you need to take it) is find something to blog about that you don’t mind thinking about every single day and write amazing content. This is actually a pretty hard thing to do, so good luck. Let me know what you decide to write about.

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