Online videos are all the rage nowadays; and businesses are jumping into the bandwagon. According to the research of Nielsen Company, an estimated 81 million people who access the Internet over broadband in the U.S. watch broadband video at home or at work — and growing fast. Hence, more and more businesses are harnessing the […]
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How to Succeed as an Online Publisher
Someone gave this advice over at Webmasterworld’s Adsense forum, which I think is so true and needs to be taken to heart by every small business online publisher: The trick to being a successful publisher site is to keep your costs as low as possible without sacrificing quality to get the best ROI. Seems like […]
Earning Money While Using Premium Content
I wrote about Mochila as one of the places where you can earn money through syndication of your articles Mochila has another product that allows you to use content from their member publishers such as Associated Press, Woman’s Day, American Profile, among others — and then earn money from it. The product is called AdMatch, […]
Earning Money from Your Articles
I often read of internet marketers extolling the virtues of article marketing — how it is a great way to market a website, get more backlinks, more traffic, and establish the writer as an expert in the field. However, I’ve seen very few people talk of how a small online business actually make money from […]
12 Ways to Maximize Paid Search
Catalog Success Magazine (Editor’s Note: It is now called All About ROI Magazine) in their January 2007 issue has a very interesting article on how to maximize your paid search marketing this year. Pay per click has become an important source of traffic and sales for online marketers; hence it is esential to get the […]
Tips for Online Retailers: Preparing for the Holiday Season
The year has just started, but it is time to start planning and thinking about the holidays. And what better way to start planning than by looking back at what happened last year. Oneupweb.com has an interesting study called Holiday Online Retail Buying Trends: A Study of the Consumer Behavior Online that looks at the […]
Protecting Your Online Content
Earlier this week, I posted about another website that copied an article I wrote word for word and changed the byline to their CEO (read the post here). I’m happy to report that the page has been taken down by the site owner. I filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) violation notice with the […]
The Points Economy of Yahoo Answers: A User’s Experience
Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are looking outside the box of search for future business strategies. In Yahoo’s case, one of their brightest new products is Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com, where people can post and answer questions ranging from the deep (“How do you help sustain the planet”) to the inane (“Do you like […]
How to Start a Travel Website Successfully
A couple of years back, I interviewed Durant Imboden, the owner of EuropeforVisitors.com named one of Forbes Magazine Best of the Web for the travel business. Travel is a very competitive area on the Web, and Durant offers tips on how to succeed in this market segment Here are some things you need to consider […]
How to Attract Advertisers to Your Web Site
Advertising is one of the easiest ways to earn money on the Web. You don’t have inventory to worry about, no shipping and fulfillment problems, and there is minimal credit card fraud risk (though believe me, there are scammers who use stolen credit cards to pay to advertise their website). To earn from advertising, you […]