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Site isn’t getting any traffic, help Will!
0 Comments | Posted by cashschool in Quick Cash School Success Steps System, search engine optimizing
A lot of people have been asking me for help with getting traffic. They’re expressing doubt and hopelessness with the fact that they’re not getting traffic which in turn, makes no money. They’ve done everything, wrote articles, commented on blogs, submitted their sites to social sites, still nothing. I reply to each of these emails with a set of questions I’ve come up with to truly determine if they’ve exasperated their options.
Questions are in order of importance
Have you added engaging, original, and abundant content?
This is key, a lot of the sites I review lacks one or all of these elements. In order to be successful, your site has to dominate these elements. When I say dominate, I mean 100% effort, not just getting by. Make your articles controversial, interesting, or whatever the hell it takes to get people to either comment on your blog or link your article elsewhere. As I tell all marketers, one of my favorite pieces of advise is, any publicity is good publicity. Look what happened with Kayne West a few weeks ago, his controversial actions at the VMA’s have put his face all over the papers and television. For the immediate future, anytime someone interrupts an important speech or event, they’ll be known as pulling a Kayne. While it may seem bad, since Kayne didn’t do any bodily harm or did a utterly horrible action, he can expect to get a lot more dollars due to his increased exposure.
The content has to be 100% original. Plain and simple, if you’ve copied and pasted anything into your article, re-do it. Even if you’ve altered each sentence of a previously copied article, get rid of it. You’ll probably get away with this but what usually happens is a article publisher will first change a few words in every sentence of the article. After a few articles, the publisher feels he/she can get away with only changing words in ever other sentence in the efforts to save time and increase his/her laziness. Eventually, they are changing the article so little that search engines easily recognize the unoriginality of the article and flag their site, killing their traffic.
While not only being engaging and original, the content also has to be abundant. What would happen if I only wrote one article on this site and left it alone? You’d read the one article and never come back. Now, by the same token, what if I had posted 20 articles on this site from 3 months ago til today, and for the next 6 months, no articles will be posted. You’d read the 20 articles and then once you realize I don’t update often, you won’t come back. Like they say, it’s easier to retain a customer than it is to gain a new one. So satisfy your loyal visitors, they will reward you, I promise.
Is your site and content keyword optimized?
A lot of site publishers don’t optimize their site for particular keywords. By that, I mean they don’t use long tail keywords, they don’t stylize their keywords, and they don’t use them enough in their articles. Because most of the established sites have more then likely dominated the short keywords, you need to have your site optimized with long, highly sought after keywords. While I will probably not rank high in the near future for the keyword “money”, I have a much better chance if I included the phrase “make money easily using your computer” numerous times in an article. To further enhance that, I’d stylize that keyword a few times. I’ve heard from some people that you don’t necessarily need to have the exact phrase in your article in order to rank on search engines, but I don’t believe that. While a search engine can tell what your article is about, you’re trying to rank for the specific keyword, so include it word for word in the article.
Another problem I notice when it comes to keyword optimizing is the tendency to focus on too many keywords, essentially jumping all over the place. You should determine your main keyword you want to target as the trunk of your apple tree and find other keywords as the branches of your apple tree. If the other keyword is an orange tree branch, it doesn’t belong there. Sorry for the elementary analogies but I had to simplify it.
So, if my main keyword is “affordable and quality flat screen tv’s” and a branch keyword was “Acme TV’s”, I’d include my main keyword in my Acme TV article. I’d do this by doing something like, Acme TV’s are some of the most affordable and quality flat screen tv’s you can find. Notice how I incorporate my main keyword and branch keyword in the sentence.
Have you been patient?
Patience is the key to gaining traffic and making money on the net. Search engines incorporate the age of your site into it’s formula for ranking your site. Have you ever searched for something using a search engine and the more informative sites are in a lower ranking position? It’s probably because those sites that are ranked at the top have seniority over the other, more informative sites.
As long as you keep updating and marketing your site, when your site ripens, you will be rewarded. If you’ve done this so far, you just have to remain patient and keep doing your due diligence, it’ll pay off.
Have you submitted your articles to various articles submission sites?
In my post on Internet Marketing Articles, I explained about the importance of submitting your articles to various sites in order to gain a highly ranked back link to your site. While the process of submitting original articles is annoying, it does work in the long run.
Have you been socializing?
You have to be constantly reminding people about your site. One of the best ways to accomplish this is by socializing. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks, you can easily and quickly get traffic to your site if your link is noticed. You have to consistently do this as your link can disappear into the millions of pages common in social networks.
Another tip, submit your page to one social site a day on OneWayTextLink.com, this site allows you to mark when you’ve submitted your site for future reference and even lists pages in order of PageRank.
To read more on socializing, read my article Socializing Makes Money.
Do you have more then two sites yet?
Once you’ve created your first page, added abundant content to it, and done substantial marketing for it, you should work on your next site. While creating your next site, devote a few hours out of the week towards adding an article or two to your first site and marketing it. Rinse and repeat over and over. This creates a variety of revenue streams to make you money.
While some internet marketing guru’s say you should have hundreds of sites published, I don’t agree. Not only is it irrational to have hundreds of sites (how are you going to write over a hundred articles a week to update each site?), it also encourages people to recycle articles and perform Black Hat SEO methods.
If you’re site is only a few months old, don’t worry. As long as you’ve done your due diligence, you will soon see an increase in traffic to your site. However, if you’re page is a few years old and hasn’t made you the money you were expecting, it may be time to re-evaluate your methods of driving traffic to your site and making money.
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Investing for Beginners: Research
0 Comments | Posted by cashschool in Quick Cash School Success Steps System, Stock Investing
We’ll continue our Investing for Beginners guideline with conducting research. By now, you should have read up as much as you could about investing and have started up a Wall Street Survivor free fantasy investing account. That way you could, using fantasy money, understand how to place trades and certain ins and outs of the stock market. You’ll now want to begin researching for the stocks you are going to purchase with your own money.
The reason I tell you to begin researching for different stocks from the one on your Wall Street Survivor account is that if you are like most beginners, you’ve either picked out stocks that have plummeted or you’ve picked out stocks that don’t reflect your age group. By age group I mean, certain stocks represent certain age groups. If you’re young and far from retirement, you can afford to take risks because you’ll still have years ahead of you of earning an additional living while letting that stock grow. Remember, as Benjamin Graham believed, the general trend of the stock market is an upward trend. This is a key thing to learn in investing for beginners. Many will not have the ability to wait out the harsh times and will lose a lot of potential earnings selling a stock way too soon. On the other hand, if you are a person close to retirement, you’ll want to purchase stocks that are an almost sure thing, Blue Chip stocks, which can earn you dividends, may go up a few points and rarely crashes.
Investing for Beginners Check List
- Choose stocks
Investing for Beginners: Choose your reasoning
Before you decide which stocks you are going to purchase, you should conjure up a plan that is focused on what you wish to achieve in your stock ventures. Do you want to make a quick buck? Want to achieve financial independence? Have some money for a rainy day? Or do you want to supplement your retirement funds with a stock portfolio? There are numerous reasons you could want to get involved in stock investing, just make sure your reason is truly honest with yourself or else you might find yourself disappointed later on.
Avoid the media when investing
My biggest problem when I first started investing was exactly this. I’d watch all the investing broadcasts and quickly invest in stocks based on their tips. I’d do a little research and just make the purchase. I’ve kept every one of these stocks and none have shown a profit. I keep any stock that’s price declines because it is not money that I don’t consider vital to my well being. In other words, I invested this money with the mind set that I might lose it and if I do that is fine. But I also know that the general trend of the stock market is an upward trend, so there are good chances these stocks may eventually prove profitable.
Additionally, many companies either pay analyst or have an influential effect on the analyst to recommend the stock. If the company is a major sponsor or the parent company of the station the analyst is broadcasting on, why would the analyst ever speak poorly about the company’s stock? Get what I’m saying?
Investing for Beginners: research industries
What are the current trends right now? What are the industries that have proven strong through the test of time? What industries will the future hold?
These are all questions you have to ask yourself when determining your investing strategies. The industry you’re planning to invest in may make or break your stock portfolio. If you paid attention to the recent real estate and banking collapses, you can see why the industry you select can determine your successes. One of the most prevalent industries in the past 20 years has been medical and health care stocks. Medical research and health care will always be needed as long as humans exist, so its a safe bet we won’t see the medical industry collapse, but don’t quote me on that one, you can never tell with this economy.
You should also have a familiar knowledge of the industry to truly understand the ins and outs of it.
Investing for beginners: Choose stocks
When choosing which stocks to invest in, there are a variety of circumstances that surround it. The way I do it has proven beneficial to me so far. Is there another way that would prove more profitable for me? It’s possible, matter fact, it’s probable. But I’m not going to search through hundreds, or thousands, of different methods in hopes of finding that better method. I’ll stick to the one that is based on my beliefs and has a strong foundation.
Penny Stocks
Depending on the stock type, I may choose to use certain figures or tools to determine if I’m going to invest in the stock. As a young adult, I like to choose penny stocks. They offer the best chance of gaining substantial profits. Think about it, if I start out with $500 dollars and I purchase a stock that is currently selling at $50 a share, I can only purchase 10 shares of that stock. Now if that stock goes up $2.00 a share, I’ve made 20 bucks. Now if I take that same $500 and buy 500 shares of a stock at $1.00 a share and that stock only goes up by $0.25, I’ve made $125. Not bad at all. Now I know you’re going to say, “yeah right! Penny stocks are up and coming companies which usually fail, leaving stock holders empty handed.” While this can be true, many times it isn’t true. Google started as a penny stock, I even have a gold stock which I purchased at $1.07 a share about a year ago and is currently, as I write this article, hovering around $4.00 a share. I expect this stock to reach $5.00 in the future. What I’ll do when it does is I’ll sell 75% of my shares as profit and leave the remaining 25% in the market hoping the stock will continue to rise in price. That way if it plummets, at least I got out early and if it rises, well then I’m still making a profit. I search the internet for penny stocks and do as much research about the company, their management, their future plans, and their impact on the world before I make my decision to buy it. I then put it on my watch list and to get a true idea if the price is violently fluctuating (volatility). If after a week, I’m happy with my findings, I purchase the stock.
Mid range & Blue Chip stocks
When it comes to investing in a mid range to blue chip stock, I like to look at the P/E Ratio and use Zacks Premium to find the best stocks to buy in today’s few hot industries
and once again do the same research on the company as I do with penny stocks. I don’t like to indulge into all of the statistics, they only confuse me. As I said, I’m in no way, shape, or form, an expert at stock investing, its strictly a hobby of mine. So, instead, I invest in stocks I feel comfortable with and in stocks that I feel the company possesses an attribute, whether it be in management, staff, innovations, etc., that can’t be undermined by another company. This makes the company unique and I can feel comfortable in it’s potential.
Investing for beginners can be a daunting task and it is a lot of trial and error. You won’t become the next Warren Buffet over night, as Warren Buffet did not become the billionaire we know him today as, over night. My first year in investing, I was down almost $3,000, but I stuck with it and put my money in some well researched stocks and today I can honestly say I’m in the green.
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Investing for Beginners
1 Comment | Posted by cashschool in Quick Cash School Success Steps System, Stock Investing
Being as intimidating as it may be, I’ve decided to create a guide about investing for beginners. Now, in no way, shape, or form am I a stock market expert. Rather, stock investing is a very big hobby of mine that I started off knowing nothing about and taught myself through reading and experiencing the ins and outs of stock investing. If you’re here, you’ve probably thought about investing but may have had no idea where to start or what to do. I’m going to give you the basics and resources I used to make me money through investing and hopefully you’ll have some fun with it, because it does get fun when you see your share prices rising.
Now as I mentioned when we started the Quick Cash School Success Steps System, you want to have a bunch of revenue streams bringing you in money. With that in mind, you need to keep updating your sites by adding keyword optimized and related content to it, submitting articles, and participating in blogs and forums.
Investing for beginners can be a very intimidating thing. Just look at any clip of Wall Street, a million things going on, people running all over the place, its organized chaos. On the other hand, it can be the greatest thing to ever happen to you. I remember reading somewhere, and don’t quote me on the statistics, that if you invested $5,000 in Walmart 20 years ago, it would be worth millions today. I’m here to tell you, it is not as bad as it seems and understanding the basics of the stock market can really boost your confidence and understanding of how to invest.
Investing for beginners basics:
This book gives you a great understanding of the basic entities of investing. Once you’ve read that, there are a couple books I’ve read that I’ll mention later. I don’t want you to go out and buy all these books right now and then decide you don’t like investing, now you’ve wasted extra money you could have used for something else.
Investing for beginners basic terms
These terms will be useful in the first part of this Investing for Beginners guideline. We’ll add more terms as we advance, but these will be enough to start off with.
AMEX: American Stock Exchange
Ask: The lowest price that the stock seller is willing to accept for a share of stock.
Bear Market Investor: An investor who believes the stock market is in the decline.
Bid: The highest price a stock purchaser will pay for a share of stock.
Blue Chip Stock: A stock with a long standing history of being a solid earner with increasing dividends. (Berkshire Hathaway & Coca-Cola come to mind)
Bull Market Investor: An investor who believes the stock market is rising.
Dividend: You could consider this a companies bonus to its shareholders. Certain companies give their shareholders a portion of their earnings to its stock holders. Some companies do it annually, some quarterly, and some (mostly small companies) don’t give out dividends at all.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA): Started by Wall Street Journal editor Charles Dow. It is comprised of 30 of the largest companies that reflect the American economy the most at the time. It is subject to change at any time to accurately reflect the American economy.
Market Capitalization (market cap): Multiply the outstanding shares of a stock by the price a single share. This is one of the key ways to determine the strength of a company you’re planning to invest in.
NASDAQ: National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Approximately 3,800 companies compose this mainly technologically based stock sector.
OTC: Over the counter. Trades occur directly between two parties as opposed to exchange trading.
P/E Ratio: Price to earnings ratio. The ratio of the amount of a company’s earnings a stock earns for each share of stock. Divide the stock price by the amount of the company’s earnings per stock. For example, if the share price is $40 and the company earns $4 per share, the P/E Ratio is 10.
Penny stock: A stock that is priced under $5 per share and is traded on the OTC.
Wall Street: The birthplace and home of the American Stock Exchange. Located in Manhattan, New York and is considered the most important Stock exchange in the world.
Once you’ve gone over all of the basics, you’ll be ready to get started!
Investing for Beginners: Conducting your research
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Internet Marketing Articles
0 Comments | Posted by cashschool in Quick Cash School Success Steps System, article marketing, search engine optimizing
Internet marketing articles is the bread and butter for easy one way back links for your website. You can no longer just post a unique article on your website and sit back and enjoy the benefits. Instead, you need back links, tons of content, and other search engine optimization tactics that Google won’t reveal.
But we do know that internet marketing articles is what can easily drive traffic to your site and improve your rankings in search engines. These article submission sites allow you to submit a unique article for free and allow you to place links to your site within it (back links). In return, they get added unique content which helps boost their rankings. Since most of these article submission sites have a Page Rank of 5 or better, you are getting a strong one way back link from a high ranking site.
Where should I submit my internet marketing articles
The top two names in the article submission industry is eZineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. They are my favorite to use, however be aware that eZineArticles takes 7-10 days to publish your article while they make sure it complies to their policies and isn’t spam related. Additional sites to submit your internet marketing articles include:
Keep in mind, these aren’t the only places you can submit your internet marketing articles, but before I wrote this article I checked my awe stats on HostGator and found these sites are the ones that bring me 99% of my traffic from article submission sites. Remember, however, to add unique content to each article to prevent a red flag from search engines for duplicate content.
Do I have to re-write all of my internet marketing articles?
I told you this was going to be hard work, but not that hard! If we had rewrite every article word for word, all of us internet marketers would be out of commission! I’ll teach you a little secret that we do and is very easy. I take all the internet marketing articles I’ve ever post on my sites, I paste into a Word document and in each sentence I use the thesaurus to change 1 or 2 words per sentence for the length of the article. DO NOT REPLACE YOUR KEYWORDS!!! You will now embed your link on your keyword 2-3 times per article. By doing so, when a search engine crawls the article you’ve submitted to the article submission site they will associate the link embedded with your keyword. If I were writing an article for this site it linking my keyword would look something like this:
The fact that internet marketing articles have become so important in seo today emphasizes the need to provide valuable and useful articles to article submission directories.
Notice that my main keyword, internet marketing articles, is linked to this post. Make sure that you link your keyword in the first and last sentence of your article because those who download your articles for reuse will sometimes only post the first paragraph on their site, and you want your link to be credited. In order to post your link you will put:
<a href="your ARTICLE
url">your keyword</a>
Submit your “spun” internet marketing articles and viola, you’ll soon have back links to your site.
Now, if you want to use an article spinner, which automatically changes the words in your article to prevent duplicate content, go right ahead. However, I’ve had bad experiences with the free article submitters chopping up my articles to the point where I couldn’t even understand them and I had to go back and re-do them myself, costing more time. If you want one that I’ve used with great success, the PHP Spinner seems to be the best I’ve used yet to spin my internet marketing articles.
PHP Spinner: the spinner I use to spin my internet marketing articles!
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Socializing makes money
0 Comments | Posted by cashschool in Quick Cash School Success Steps System, search engine optimizing
If you are keen to the common trends of internet marketing you are sure to have heard that sites that can be classified as social bookmarking or social sites are not beneficial for making money. The rationale behind this is that if you are searching for specific information or shopping for a product, you are going to go to a search engine, not a social bookmarking site. Those on social bookmarking sites have a more casual browsing approach, they are just looking to occupy time and tend to block out any advertisements and products for sale. I might have even said in the past that the social bookmarking sites are a waste of time but after some thought, I decided they’re important to make me money.
How socializing helps make me money
People will say that having your link on a social bookmarking site will not make you money, don’t listen to them. They’ll say that social bookmarking sites will get you tons of traffic, but just casual, browsing traffic. So what? I’d rather have 20,000 casual browsers at my site then nothing. Why? Because if you’re reading my site, you know I offer intriguing and useful information, not bland b.s looking to just sell you something. If a casual browser comes to my site, the information I offer may intrigue that viewer and get them interested. Guess what? I just turned a casual browser into a specified viewer. Even if they don’t become intrigued at all with my site, with a lot of casual browsers, a portion of them are bound to click some ads offered on my site, which makes me money.
Social site users NEVER click on ads or spend money
I know for a fact that this isn’t true but we will just pretend it is. Lets say one of my loyal viewers links a particular article to a social site. Lets say that site is Digg.com, as you can see at the end of this article, I have a bunch of buttons where you can upload this article, or any article on my site for that matter, to a particular social site. I now have a deep back link to my article from a PR8 (Page Rank 8 ) site! What does that do? That helps strengthen my site’s position with the search engines, which in turn brings more specific, information seeking or product purchasing users!
Socializing DOES make money
I love socializing, in the physical and internet world, socializing gets your name out and helps you show your true side, which is hopefully a good side. I started my Twitter account only a short while ago and because of the information I link on my Twitter account, I get lots of followers who will then click my links and hopefully become loyal viewers of my page. That is my main goal with this site, to create a loyal viewer base who will rely on me for information in their financial success journey. However, it is the loyal visitors who make me money the most because of the trust they have for me and truly enjoy and believe in the information I provide.
So if someone wants to say that Social sites bring in mostly casual viewers, that is fine, and I tend to agree. But, if they want to say that social sites won’t make me money, I have to say they’re terribly mistaken.
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