Make Quick Money Writing From Home Online
(Your answer to: make money from home online, make money writing online, make quick money online and make money online!) by “Smokey” T. Johnson
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Please Note: Don’t be afraid of the mention of “writing” above. This ebook will show you how to succeed while writing virtually nothing yourself if that’s what you want!
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Introduction
Long ago in the early days of the “world wide web” people used to believe the saying “If you build it, they will come”, today, unfortunately that statement doesn’t hold up at all when it comes to make money from home online. You can build it, but you will have to drive the traffic to it, otherwise, your site will simply sit there on your hosting quietly minding it’s own business, desperately waiting for Google, Yahoo or some other search engine to find it out there all Lonely and Lost.
So just what can we do to get that laser targeted traffic to our little lost site, all is not lost, and there are plenty of ways to drive that traffic to our sites, with a little bit of consistent and steady work you’ll soon see those visitor figures increasing from single numbers a day to hundreds per day.
If you want your site to succeed, you need that traffic. Even if you are short on time, or you are new to having a presence on the Internet, or perhaps you don’t even have any technical skills, there should be at least one method in this e-book that you can choose to use and start to see an increase in visitors to your site.
We’ve got listed the known ways to drive traffic to your site for no cost other than your time and determination to get that footfall.
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Let’s take a look at what we can do.
Table of Contents
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Optimise Your Site for the Search Engines
The most basic thing you can do is to make sure that when the search engines visit your site, they know what your site is about. So how do we tell them?
We use our tags correctly. All pages of your site should contain the following information for the spiders to read.
1. The title Tag
2. The Meta Keywords tag
3. The Meta Description tag.
All of these bits of information are listed at the top of your page and contained within the <head> section of the page.
When you build your site using any WYSIWYG editor make sure you add the Meta description tag and the Meta keyword tag section to the header as most of the editors do not do this automatically.
Here is a new page source view in Kompozer, note the required tags are missing !!!.
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
</body>
</html>
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Let’s look at how an optimised make money from home online page source view should look like.
If our site is promoting let’s say Learning to play the Guitar, I’ve just Googled “learn to play guitar” and the top site, listed number one on the first page gives me this.
Look how clever they have been with their page title.
<title>Learn How to Play Guitar | Learn Guitar Online | Free Beginner Guitar Lessons | Learning Guitar Player </title>
They have chosen their “keywords” precisely too, there are just 12 of them, and they are highly targeted towards the nature of the site.
Take a look at the section <meta NAME=”keywords” Content=
The description of their site page is precise and not how cleverly they have even added their site web address into the description section.
The search engine knows exactly what the site is about, and who it is targeted to and it’s no wonder it’s on page one.
Unfortunately, the site isn’t number one on Yahoo, Using the same search term at Yahoo, the top unsponsored site shows this information in their tags.
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Again we can see they have very cleverly used their <title> tag to be as descriptive as possible.
Their keywords and description are again specific and highly targeted to their niche. Make money from home online would be no different.
Using Alta Vista search engine for the same phrase “learn to play Guitar” this same site is again top of the search engine listing and it has achieved 2nd ranking on the first page of Google.
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What can we learn from this?
Use the title tag: don’t just call your page index or sales page or something really short, think about your title what exactly is your site is about?
<TITLE>Free Guitar Lessons – Beginner Guitar Lesson One – A Free Online Guide to Teach You How to Play Guitar From Scratch</TITLE> Use your keywords responsibly, be precise and to the point, do not use more than 25, and make sure your description does just that, describes in a quick statement exactly what the site is about.
H1, H2 and H3 Tags are important too.
Most search engines also pay attention to what you have inside your header tags. Search engine crawlers look for these to determine the relevance of your page too. Ensure that the H1, H2 and H3 tags are relevant and targeted to the content on your site; try to have only one Make Quick Money Writing From Home Online
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keyword in each Header line.
Alt Tags are important too.
An Alt tag is a html tag that gives a description to an image. Make sure that your Alt tags are descriptive and accurate: you should never ever stuff your keywords into an alt tag.
The only purpose of an alt tag is to provide a text description of what the image is.
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Site Maps and their Importance
Site maps serve two distinct purposes, one to help your visitors navigate through the various sections of your site and the other to provide search engines with a quick way to find and index every page on your site.
A static sitemap of all the web pages on your site greatly improves the chance that all of your site will get indexed by the search engines. A site map page is the best page to submit to the search engines manually because it will include a list of all the pages on your site.
All of your site map links should be in plain text and point to every page within your site with descriptive words that make it easy for both your visitors and the search engine spiders to understand. The term
“make money from home online”, for example, would stand up alright by itself. Site maps are essential as an optimization technique and should always be linked to from your index page or home page and Make Quick Money Writing From Home Online
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your site menu.
There are two ways to build your site map, manually, or using a site map creation tool.
Manually create your site map.
It is easy to create a sitemap manually by using what is known as a nested list structure. You can create one by using your WYSIWYG
editor or manually using notepad.
The only drawback with creating your site map manually is that every time you change your site, either adding or deleting pages, you will have to manually alter your site map to keep it relevant and up to date.
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Site map generators
There are many sitemap generators available for you to use, some free and some paid for. Using a site map generator is quicker and easier than manually creating your own.
One free and easy to use one is located here at
You can use this site to create a brand new site map, edit an existing one, check you keywords and lots more things too. Simply follow the on screen instructions and the site will create your sitemap for you.
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This online sitemap generator will produce a site map for any site with less than 500 pages. This only works for static html sites. If your website is built using wordpress then there really are some excellent plug-ins to make your site map with too.
Always ensure that your site map is kept up to date.
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Search Engine Submission
Do not waste your life trying to submit your site to every search engine out there. Apparently there are at present more than 420
active search engines out there on the web. If submission to each one took 20 minutes, it would take you 140 hours of solid non stop submission. (That is nearly a week with no sleep!)
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If you really want to submit your site yourself to the search engines, just focus on the major ones, and make sure that the only page you are submitting is your site map.
Here is a list of the top 4 Search engine sites.
1. Ask.com
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18
2. Bing.com http://www.bing.com/webmaster/submitsitepage.aspx
3. Google.com
http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/index.html
4. Yahoo.com
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/indexing/indexing-
Any easy way to find out if your site has been visited by the web crawlers is to check in your stats program if you have one available to use with your hosting account.
Don’t get suckered into spending a lot of money with firms that advertise search engine submission, nowadays, most sites are picked up very quickly by the search engines, what you really need to concentrate on is keeping those crawlers and bots coming back on a regular basis.
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Frequently Update Your Content.
There is nothing worse than visiting a website or blog than finding it still is the same as last time you visited it some months ago, and Make Quick Money Writing From Home Online
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what’s more important, the search engines and their little crawlers and bots don’t like it either, you need to feed your site with new and updated information.
A frequently asked question is how often you should update your site.
If it’s just a personal blog that is just for your own self indulgence then it won’t matter how often you update it. If your blog is trying to attract regular readers then you obviously need to post regularly.
If you want to attract and get your visitors to routinely check out your blog every day then you will have to post every day. Search engines like blogs that are continually updated so bear that in mind if your main site is a blog.
Static sites should be updated as needed, be especially careful not to remove already indexed pages unless you have a 404 web page not found page on your site. If you do update your static site, remember to update your site map too. This will be invaluable to you to make money from home online.
What is a 404 web page used for?
When a visitor comes to your site from a search engine and you have moved the page they were looking for all they will see is a “page not found” this is the “404” page. You don’t want that visitor moving on to another site, so use this page to redirect them to either your home page, or your site map.
Here is a very good tutorial on how to set up your own 404 page on your site. http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/custom404.shtml
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Start a Self Hosted Blog
As previously mentioned Search Engines Love Blogs: But what is a blog?
A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order with the newest entry (blog post) being at the top of the main page and the oldest entry being at the bottom of the last page. Like most things on the World Wide Web, blogs have come a long way since they were first unleashed onto the internet. There are now so many things you can do with a self hosted blog that were unheard of in the early days.
If you host your own blog on your own web hosting space, you can be in complete control of its content and what content you choose to add.
If your theme is make money from home online, for example, you have a wide variety of subjects that you could write about and ad to your blog.
With hosted blogs such as blogger.com you have to ensure that your blog is inline with their terms and conditions. You do not have the same flexibility with a hosted blog as you do with a self hosted blog.
With relatively cheap webhosting and a $9.98 domain name your blog can be up and running in less than 24 hours.
If the thought of having to install software and setting up of the blog scares you, then there are lots of script installers out there who will quickly set up your blog for you. Prices do vary from ridiculously cheap Make Quick Money Writing From Home Online
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to frighteningly expensive, if you need your blog setting up for you, we would recommend the services of
http://www.webscriptinstallations.com
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Keywords Use them wisely
We are not going to go into a lot of depth on keyword research; there are enough publications out there on the subject already.
With keywords it is best to have a list of around 20 to 25 when you are creating your page for your site or your latest blog entry. Try to use each keyword or phrase only once, do not make the page/post hard to read by using too many of your keywords.
With practice, you will be able to create great unique content and keyword relevancy for your site or blog and the search engines will reward you for this. Can we say make money from home online?
Internal Linking
When you are linking to internal pages within your site, don’t be lazy use your keywords effectively. It is a good idea to use key words to describe the page you are linking to.
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keyword link that describes what the next page on your site is about.
“Further ways to get targeted traffic”
Use keywords for your file <title> names
When naming your sites pages or blog posts, it is important to include your keywords in the title. Some of the search engines will use these to determine your page rank.
Which do you think will help you get listed better?
Page1.html
Page2.html
Page3.html
Or
Laser-targeted-traffic.html
Further-ways-to-get-traffic.html
Real-traffic-secrets.html
It is beneficial to hyphenate your words, as this makes it easier for both your reader and the search engines to read. Remember to use the hyphen and not an underscore mark.
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