Monetize Pro » Blog http://www.monetizepro.com Subscribe to get the best monetization tips! Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en How to explain website optimization is important http://www.monetizepro.com/how-to-explain-website-optimization-is-important/ http://www.monetizepro.com/how-to-explain-website-optimization-is-important/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 08:55:48 +0000 Nomar http://www.monetizepro.com/how-to-explain-website-optimization-is-important/ People not involved in website optimization often have difficulty to understand search engine optimization and the different methods that are involved. If you have to explain the basic SEO concepts to your boss, the following list will help you:

1. Link building is important

Links are like votes for a website. The more votes a website has, the better the rankings.

2. There are different link types

Search engines consider the relevance of the links. Links from unrelated websites don’t help as much as links from relevant websites. A link from a website that has many inbound links for itself counts more than a link from an unpopular website.

3. It’s important to keep on link building

It does not help to get more links than your competing web pages. At least one of your competitors will continue to build links and pass your website. For that reason, it’s important to know that link building is an ongoing activity.

4. Buying links can get you in trouble

Search engines don’t like paid links because they consider the links to your website as editorial votes. Google has officially stated that it considers paid links as an attempt to game the system. Google penalizes websites that buy links. Even if Google cannot automatically find all paid links to your website, your competitors might report your website.

5. Redirects can cause trouble

Redirects have been used by spammers in the past and some search engines still have difficulties with that. If you have to use redirections on your website, only use 301 redirects. A 301 redirect is the only server side redirect that is defined as a permanent redirect. That means that search engines will follow the links and pass the links from the old URL to the new URL.

6. Duplicate content can cause problems

Search engines want to return as many different results as possible in their results. That is why search engines only list one copy of a document in their search results. For that reason, you shouldn’t promote more than one domain for the same website and you should have unique content on your web pages. Near copies are also considered duplicate content, for example, when the same article is listed on more than one website.

7. Why your web pages must be optimized

Search engines use simple software programs to index web pages. These web pages analyze the text on a web page to determine what it is all about. If a keyword is mentioned in the right places and in the right frequency, search engines will consider the web page relevant to that keyword. If a keyword is mentioned too often, search engines might penalize a website because it looks like a spamming attempt.

8. Keywords are the key to your success

It’s important to choose the right keywords for search engine optimization. Single word keywords can be very popular but they seldom lead to sales. Industry specific keywords can be so special that no one searches for them. The perfect keyword is targeted, has a high search volume and leads to sales.

Search engine optimization is not rocket science but it requires some work and ongoing efforts. If you understand the basic SEO concepts, it’s easier to get top 10 rankings on Google and other major search engines.

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That made me decide to get a new theme for new energy! Recently I also bought a fairly large xbox 360 forum which is not monetized at all (yet). This forum is good but does not have many good search engine rankings nor traffic. It needs more backlinks (relevant links), that is why I bought a halo 3 blog! It was up for sale for a very cheap price, holding a pagerank 3 and currently making $10 a month on adsense. I will update this blog like 5 times a month and link to sections at the xbox forum.

But for now: no more excuses for me!

]]> http://www.monetizepro.com/make-money-no-excuses/feed/ New Theme for Monetize Pro http://www.monetizepro.com/new-theme-for-monetize-pro/ http://www.monetizepro.com/new-theme-for-monetize-pro/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 11:06:34 +0000 Nomar http://www.monetizepro.com/new-theme-for-monetize-pro/ Today there is a new theme installed at Monetize Pro. I am very satisfied with this theme but there are some things that still have to be changed, which will be done this week (hopefully). Motivation was at a low point lately and I hope this new theme and my current pagerank 2 will help me working harder online! Why am I talking about the pagerank? I don’t know either, pagerank sucks! But I guess it still works as a motivator for me, hehe.

On this theme I will use OIO publisher for selling advertising space. Other blogs like Cow’s work with this and it is looking very smooth!

Hope you like the theme!

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Now I decided that my blog posts are 100% from me and not from someone else, so that is why I decide to type in the “I” vorm. Ofcourse posts are becoming ugly if you use to many “I, I, I”, hope this will not happen :twisted:

Some other people will also blog here like I already mentioned above (about the accounts). Stay tuned!

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The xbox 360 forum is just sitting there collecting more posts from its users, which is not bad. The plan is to make an additional blog were we place reviews of all the new games etc. with affiliate links if that’s possible :twisted:

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Never stop building links

One thing some webmasters forget after the starting up period is over of their site is keep on building links. This is very important because competition will beat you if you stop building links! Your site will get deeper and deeper in Google and giving your site less traffic! We all know less traffic is less money!

]]> http://www.monetizepro.com/get-a-free-link-with-review/feed/ First Post http://www.monetizepro.com/first-post/ http://www.monetizepro.com/first-post/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:59:36 +0000 Nomar http://www.monetizepro.com/first-post/ Welcome to our blog! This blog will be about monetization (surprise huh?) of your website. We will share our tips, tricks and tactics to make the most money out of your website. We will also discuss various topics about web development, search engine ranking and technology!

Blogging for fun!

This blog is not started with the idea to make a lot of money out of it, but more as a place to write about our experiences on the net! We hope to create a nice community around this blog that will help everyone with gaining knowledge in the online business. Ofcourse making money out of this blog is always nice :twisted:

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