Webmasters Profit Pak Blog

2008-05-15T16:12:00.000-07:00

10 Adsense Tips for Maximum Click Through Rates.

1) You should make your Adsense ads look as a part of your web page. They shouldn't look like an Ad. People are negative to advertising. They search the internet for content not ads. Especially Banners have a less of 0,5% response. Their days are over. Imagine if you have an Adsense ad looking like the typical Banner with different colors. It will not be profitable.

2) Text ads are better than image ads. Like before, people are more responsive to text than images. In a way it is considered as a part of the online document and is more clickable.

3) No Border ads. One of the best tricks is to erase the borders of Adsense ads and make them again having the same color with your website's background.

4) No other advertisements. The first reason is to be legitimate according to Google's Rules and the second more practical reason is that you do not want to distract your visitor's attention and go somewhere else without clicking your Adsense ads.

5) Placement. Even if you have the best Ad, people will not respond if they don't see it instantly. The best place to see the ad is the top of your web page and the next is aside
your document's text. Visitors will click it more frequently since it will look like your text.

6) Traffic. Try to use legitimate ways of traffic. Some people use Google Adwords and other Pay per Click search engines. The problem here is to search very carefully for the right niche and keywords in order to make your campaigns profitable. Other ways is link popularity techniques like link exchange directories, software or even mass blog submission techniques. Don't use link farms and classifieds for that, because search engine's algorithms are extremely clever and they will ban your listings.

7) Do not rely on one website. Yes you can make money with one website but try to make as more as possible.

8) Relevant content is King. Articles are one of the best tactics to create huge websites that will be crawled by search engine's robots. Don't forget search engines exist to provide relevant content at first. One excellent resource to automate your article directory procedure is http://www.articleequalizer.com .You can create an article database in minutes which otherwise is time consuming and it would take you a week!

9) Use site maps. Google's site maps visit your site and crawl it much sooner that any other submission process. More information is here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

10) Relevant ads. It's one of the most important factors for Adsense success. If the internet user can't find relevant ad in your page he or she won't click the ad. Would you act differently? So it's critical to create relevant resource for your web page. In order to do that, you must do the following steps.

First the file must be saved with the appropriate name for example: Golf-Secrets.html if your article is about golf. So the webpage will be:
www.yoursitesname.com/Golf-Secrets.html

Second thing you must change is your title tag. For example:
Title Golf-Secrets article title

Third is the heading. The first sentence must have this heading:
12 Golf secrets

About the author:
Christos Varsamis is a Business writer, creator and owner of the

15 Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website

2008-03-13T14:48:00.001-07:00

Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website

Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.

The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your salesletter, not to your whole audience.

The second method is to publish testimonials and comments from your customers. A good idea would be to publish both good and bad comments; that way prospects will be really convinced that these testimonials are real. When prospects see testimonials on your website, they will have the confidence to buy from you because human beings follow the herd mentality; when others have bought and proven it authentic, they will jump on the bandwagon and buy too.

Use visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website.

Offer quality bonuses to accompany the product. When you offer bonuses that complement your product, your prospects will feel it's a very good deal and it would be stupid to miss it. Be sure to state the monetary value of your bonuses so that people will be even more compelled to grab your good bargain.

Lastly, ask for the sale! Many people entice their prospects with the benefits of their product, sell to them with stories of how it has solved many problems, even offered killer bonuses but forget to ask for the sale. Give a clear instruction on how to buy your product (e.g. "click the button to buy now!").

Last Minute Gifts

2007-12-16T07:48:00.000-08:00

Web provides solution to last minute gift dilemma with gift downloads of cookbooks, how to books, and fun activities such as Suduku and puzzles.

Easy to order and download these last minute gifts are sure to be a hit. Here is a website sample, Families Online Magazine for last minute gifts.

You can give these downloads to as many people as you wish, over and over again.

Have a website and want to provide downloads to your customers to buy or as "Thank You" gifts? See Webmasters Profit Pak Store.

Tips for Marketing to Teens

2007-08-13T08:18:00.000-07:00

Teens love to talk. What is news, however, is just how much more teens talk about brands than the rest of the American people (twice as many each week). And for the first time, research shows that the brands they talk about most positively are completely different than those receiving positive mentions in the general public's conversations.

In a word of mouth (WOM) survey of 2,046 teens (ages 13-17) conducted January through May 2007, the five brands with the largest number of "net positive" mentions were iPod, American Eagle, Dr Pepper, Chevrolet and Nintendo. In contrast, the top five WOM brand all-stars among the general public (15,287 respondents, ages 13-69) are Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Wal-Mart, Sony and Toyota.

This is the latest research from TalkTrack(TM), the Keller Fay Group's measurement program for WOM marketing that monitors the word of mouth conversations of thousands of Americans weekly. Highlights from the study, "Hot Brands in Teen Conversations: Teen Word of Mouth Winners from TalkTrack" include:

-- Teens have 145 WOM conversations per week-more than twice as many as
the general public (71).

-- Although most of these WOM conversations (63%) are face-to-face, and
13% by phone, they are three times more likely to occur online (e.g.,
through text message/IM, e-mail, or chats/blogs) than similar
conversations among the adult population. 19% of teen conversations
occur online, versus 7% of the total public.

-- More than 50% of teen WOM cites marketing or media efforts that support
the brand or specific products.

-- American Eagle is the only fashion apparel brand to make the list of
"All Star" word of mouth brands; interestingly, no apparel retailer
appears on the top 10 list for adults.

-- Teens are far more likely than the total public to have conversations
on a typical day about technology products, sports/recreation/hobbies,
and telecom. Large differences are also found for shopping and apparel
and personal care/beauty.

SourceBeat, the Open Source Technologies Publisher, Announces Spring Framework Book Release

2007-05-08T06:49:00.000-07:00

SourceBeat Publishing today announces the release of "The Spring Primer," a 600-page book on the ins and outs of the very popular open source Spring Framework. Author Matt Raible, one of the most renowned open source Java technologists, has spent the past three years writing and updating the book. Formerly titled "Spring Live," "The Spring Primer" is his final update to the book first released in late 2004.

"The three-year journey of writing and updating the book has been long and difficult at times," said author Matt Raible. "but the ability to interact with my readers through my blog, email and speaking engagements has helped me create the best book I can write."

The Spring Primer is available as a real-time downloadable PDF for $22.97 from http://sourcebeat.com/books/springlive.html. More information about The Spring Primer can be found on Matt Raible's blog at http://jroller.com/page/raible.

About SourceBeat, LLC
SourceBeat was founded in 2003 as a new way of publishing books on leading-edge open source projects and technologies that allow the content to stay current with the pace of the technology. SourceBeat provides digital and print-on-demand books on the most popular open source projects such as Spring, Tapestry, Java Portlets, Plone, Client-side Java and Eclipse. More information can be found by visiting www.sourcebeat.com.

Website for Sale

2007-04-19T06:13:00.000-07:00

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More Millionaires

2007-04-17T09:19:00.000-07:00

The number of U.S. households with a net worth of $5 million or more, not including primary residence (NIPR), rose to a record 1.14 million in 2006 -- surpassing 1 million for the first time ever, according to a new report from Spectrem Group, "Affluent Market Insights 2007," released today.

This represents a 23% increase from 930,000 in 2005, and a quadrupling from 250,000 Ultra High Net Worth households in 1996.

Millionaire households, those with a net worth of $1 million or more (NIPR), grew to 9 million in 2006, an 8% increase from 8.3 million the year before. Affluent households, defined as having $500,000 or more of net worth (NIPR), reached 15.3 million last year, an increase of 9% from 14 million in 2005.

"The past few years have been nothing short of astounding for wealthy Americans. We now have more than 15 million affluent households in the United States, 9 million households worth $1 million or more and -- for the first time ever -- more than 1 million Ultra High Net Worth households worth $5 million or more. The Ultra High Net Worth households saw the strongest growth of all affluent segments in 2006, increasing by 23% to a record 1.14 million. This represents a quadrupling of their number in just 10 years," said Catherine S. McBreen, Managing Director of Spectrem Group.

The report, "Affluent Market Insights 2007," is based on a mail and online survey in July 2006 of 526 U.S. households with a net worth of $5 million or more (NIPR) as well as 3,000 telephone interviews throughout 2006 with affluent households, defined as having $500,000 or more of net worth (NIPR). The report data have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. The report's market size figures are derived from Spectrem Group surveys and other sources.

Websites for Sale

2007-02-17T17:51:00.000-08:00

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Great domain name!

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Affiliates That Make Money

2006-07-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

I am looking for advice about which affiliate programs actually produce revenue and how best to display ads

What kind of affiliate ads work - Text Link ads or buttons or banners.

I have signed up with several affiliate programs Linkshare - Commission Junction - Share-a- Sale. Do you have other affiliate programs to suggest?

What is the best strategy- place buttons and banners on all pages of a website or product links on pages with a topic relevant to the product.

Have you attended Affiliate Conferences? Has it helped your bottom line?

What is a reasonable commission per cent age?

Are affiliates who provide money for leads better than those who provide commissions on sales?

Web Customers: Who are they? Finding them and Selling to them.

2006-03-15T08:38:00.000-08:00

Who are Website (Internet) Customers?

Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research, announced today that the number of active broadband users from home increased 28 percent year-over-year, from 74.3 million in February 2005 to 95.5 million in February 2006. Broadband composition among the U.S. active online population has seen vigorous growth during the past three years, increasing at least ten percentage points annually and hitting an all-time high of 68 percent for active Internet users in February 2006.

From February 2003 to February 2004, broadband composition grew twelve percentage points, from 33 percent to 45 percent (see Table 1). In February 2005, it increased another ten percentage points to 55 percent. This year, February saw broadband composition reach an all-time high of 68 percent, increasing an impressive 13 percentage points over the previous February.

Overall Internet penetration in the U.S. has stabilized over the past few years, reaching 74 percent at home in February 2006.

Finding Cusomers and Getting Them to Visit to Your Website

Research commissioned by the independent authority on branding, Superbrands, found a staggering 89% of the 1,417 consumers sampled go online everyday. Big name Internet brands are cleaning up as nearly 70% of consumers looking to purchase a good quality product or service will only buy from a website with a recognised brand name/reputation.

Research shows over half of consumers are more likely to visit a website if the brand exists offline as well as online. This demonstrates that although pure Internet brands are topping the opinion polls traditional offline brands are still creating a strong saliency with their customers, leading them to consume these brands on the Internet.

Sucess means creating a "brand" this is most easily done by creating a marketing Niche

Selling Online

Where do eyes go initially after firing up the first screenful? A Stanfrod University study reported: To text, most likely. Not to photos or graphics, as you might expect. Instead, briefs or captions get eye fixations first, by and large. The eyes of online news readers then come back to the photos and graphics, sometimes not until they have returned to the first page after clicking away to a full article.• Also contrary to much current belief, we found that banner ads do catch online readers' attention. For the 45 percent of banner ads looked at at all, our subjects' eyes fixated (definition) on them for an average one second. That is long enough to perceive the ad.

Graphics other than banners were looked at 22 percent of the time, and also received about a second's eye fixation. Sixty-four percent of photos were looked at on average about one-and-a-quarter second.

Whether text in and of itself really attracts eyes before artwork is difficult to conclude since, often, the text comes up before the graphics. Nonetheless, the provider's first chance to engage the reader is through text. Furthermore, the Stanford-Poynter eye tracking study does show a pattern in which text is sought out and either skimmed or read.

More about eyetracking and selling online: http://eyetracking.stanford.edu/

Last Minute Gifts -- Download Now

2005-12-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

Here are some last minute gift ideas that you can download on to a CD Rom or send as an email attachment. Once you purchase you can copy and give away or sell as often as you wish.

For Webmasters -- Internet Surfers -- Family, Friends and Co-workers

Screen Shots-- turn anything on your computer screen into a picture - Free with Newsletter sign-up

Beginner Webmaster Online Video -- $9.97

Post Pictures on the Web or organize them on you computer. $5.97

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2005-10-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

Advertise your website and products on Families Online Magazine listed as a Hot Site by USA Today. Your ad will be seen by about 6,000 unique visitors a day . http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/ Choose the page you want your ad displayed. Text links up to 60 characters are $50/month for the homepage ( PR 6) and $25/month for inside pages( PR 4 or 5). Banner ad space available for inside pages for $75/month

2005-09-24T19:23:00.000-07:00

Consider advertising on Families Online Magazine This Holiday Season.

Email for Customized Packages Info

Advertise on our Top 50 Pages

Special Holiday Season Advertising Rates (October, November, December):

Families Online Magazine averages 60,000 visitors per month. Most of our frequently viewed pages are Google Page Rank 5 or 4, some are not yet ranked because they are new(seasonal- Halloween). They average 2,656 page views per day.

Advertise on all 50 pages (see list below)
Text ad 60 characters on each page for - $150.00
125 x 125 button each page- $250
Banners - horizontal 468 x 60 or skyscraper 160 x 600 - $500 on each page*
space available for maximum of 4 advertisers

Advertise on 25 pages (you choose which pages see list below):
Text ad 60 characters on each page for - $75.00
125 x 125 button - $125
Banners - horizontal 468 x 60 or skyscraper 160 x 600 - $250*
space available for maximum of 6 advertisers

Advertise on 10 pages (you choose which pages see list below):
Text ad 60 characters on each page for - $75.00
125 x 125 button - $125
Banners - horizontal 468 x 60 or skyscraper 160 x 600 - $250*
space available for maximum of 10

Advertise Homepage only
Text ads 60 characters -$25

Advertise 5 pages ( we choose, will be from top 50 list below)
Text ad 60 characters on each page for - $65.00
125 x 125 button - $85
Banners - horizontal 468 x 60 or skyscraper 160 x 600 - $100*
space available for maximum of 10

Interested in advertising on a different page or custom package? Ask us about page statistics and rates.

* no banners on homepage, text ad substituted for that page

1 Parenting

2 * Homepage-- no banners on homepage

3 Poems- WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

4 Prom

5 baby names - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

6 Crafts

7 Women's health

8 Craft Recipes

9 Heart Card

10 Kid Christmas Cooking>

11 Legal

12 Weight Loss- - WordTracker reports on of top 300 words Searched

13 Halloween - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

14 Kids Recipes

15 Playstation Games Cheats - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

16 Crafts

17 Love Poems- - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

18 Harry Potter - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

19 Teen Fashions

20 Kids Free Games - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

21 Child Development

22 Kid Fun

23 Halloween - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched

24 Halloween - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

25 Crafts

26 Credit Repair

27 Family Forum

28 Halloween Jokes- - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

29 Bridal Shower

30 Child math

31 Child ABC's Reading

32 Halloween - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

33 Crafts

34 Crafts

35 Family Forum

36 Yoga

37 Dogs

38 Crafts

39 Travel

40 School

41 Poems

42 Baby names

43 Crafts

44 Poems

45 Halloween- - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

46 School

47 Kids Recipes

48 Child Development

49 Recipes

50 Halloween Jokes - - WordTracker reports on of top 200 words Searched in October

2005-08-29T09:50:00.000-07:00

Choosing Keywords

One of the most difficult parts of setting up a website, and marketing it, concerns determining the best keywords to use. When choosing keywords try to answer these questions. Do the keywords really best describe your site? (relevancy is a must for Google!). Do they tell the story about the products you are selling? Will they target the right customers? If you have a site, which is in a very competitive market you may have to be creative when choosing keywords. For example, Google returns, 594,000,000 possible pages for a search done on the word, software-- Oh My- How would anyone find a site in that crowd!.

Websites most easily found by search engines are niche sites where there are fewer choices. However, it is hard to be niche site when one is selling popular products! Or is it? Try using keywords in your meta tags and on you website which are more exact and create a niche. For example, if you are selling advertising, try something like "California Website Advertising". I found help to expand my keyword list, niche it, at wordtracker.com and goodkeywords.com and by using the Overture and Google Keyword Tools.

Frequency of keyword placement on a website is important. Use a keyword too many times and the search engines will think you are spamming it. If you use a keyword more than 5 times in the keyword meta tags, search engines consider it spam. But, it must appear at least four times on a page to be picked up as an important keyword by the search engines. Placing keywords as the name of a link and as headlines placed between headline codes, H1 and /H1 is important. If this takes up too much space because the font is too large reduce the size inside the H1 and /H1 tags by using font tags.

Mark Horrell's Keyword Density Analyzer very helpful. It will tell you which words, and frequency of each word, that the search engine robots will see when it visits your website. With this information, you are abe to determine it you have optimized you site appropriately. See for more marketing tips.

Changing Web Hosts Step by Step Instructions

2005-06-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

If you would like to cut costs or are no longer satisfied with their current web host provider maybe it is time to think about changing web host providers. Take time to plan your transfer so that you won't lose any files and data.

Web Hosting Change Checklist:

Domain name:where is your domain registered?

How do you login and change nameservers?

Your current IP address________ and your new IP address____________

Your login username and password for old web host__________ and new control

panel or shell access via SSH username and password __________________

Make a list of email addresses including usernames and passwords

Make a list of databases, usernames and passwords

Make a list of installed software

Checkout your new web host control panel, get familiar with how things work at your new host and to try everything out, including sending test emails and uploading files.

Change Your Domain Record

Login to your domain registrar and change your name servers. This usually occurs within 72 hours, often much sooner. Dome domain registrars can transfer a domain within 2 hours, so check the new IP address often and upload files as soon as possible to avoid website "downtime".

Transferring the Site to the New Web Hosting Provider:

Download files: Open your FTP program and enter the FTP address at your old web host (e.g. ftp.mywebsite.com). Once logged onto the server, right click on your main folder (normally public_html or www) and choose download.

Choose a local folder on your own computer to store the files, Click OK, and watch all your files being downloaded onto your computer. You will still have all your files on the server too. Please downloads can take a quite abit of time depending on the number and size of files.

Download databases: Login to your old web hosts Control Panel Go to databases ( usually My SQl), and use either phpmyadmin (usually located towards bottom of page) or a similar program . Choose the databases you want to download and click on "export". You will then come to a screen information about the database. towards the bottom of the page look for; "Normal or None", "GZip", or "Zip". chose one and press download or submit. Save this file to a folder on your computer. Repeat for each databases.

Upload files to the new host: Using your FTP program connect to your new web host. Right click on the folder (e.g. public_html or www -- or if not present no folder maybe required- ask your web hosting provider if you are unsure) and choose upload. When asked where to upload these files from, choose the folders and files to upload.

Upload databases: login to the control panel at your new web hosting provider, go to Mysql, and use phpmyadmin or a similar program. Choose the insert or upload option and select the location of the database file you downloaded before that is stored on your computer. Click "ok or submit". During the import you will see some database commands, but towards the bottom it will tell you if it failed or was successful. Be patient, don't interrupt this process, wait for the final statement telling you if the import was successful. Repeat this process for all of your Mysql databases.

Final Steps

Set up email address using your new control panel. Use the "help" if needed to learn how to do this at the new web host.

Check that all your software on your new web host site is working properly.

You might have to change config files if Mysql databases, username or password are different from your old web host.

If something doesn't work check the permission rights of your scripts.

Make sure that all links work.

Reccomended Web Hosting:

http://www.site-webhosting.com . Excellent Customer Service Plans for all size websites $5-$20/month. Small Business Specialist

2005-06-13T05:07:00.000-07:00

Finding a Niche For Your Website Business

Do you have hobby or something you feel passionate about? If yes, finding your niche could be easy. Your passion and interest will help you build and sustain a website business. Specialization helps. For example, if you are interested in race car specialize in blue race cars or one race car driver.

If you do not have a hobby or passionate interest check your local newspaper classified ads and the swap-trade free newspapers to see what items, hobbies, topics are most popular. Listen to what your friends and relatives are talking about. Are there any popular TV shows that are a "how to" format or informative that you like? What to do you search the Internet to find? Was it there?

Still need an idea? Create a diary, list everything you enjoy doing or talking about in a week or two. Include sports, what you read, topics of articles, etc. The most overlooked things can lead to a great niche idea.

Check EBay's Best Sellers-- Hot Items List for information about what people are buying on the web. Still need an idea? Check out see Webmasters Profit Pak for software downloads to sell which come with ready made websites .

Test Demand And Supply
Make a list of keywords for topics you think are possibilities. Enter these words at Overture.com. The Overture Keyword Tool will give you a list of related terms people searched for last month and the counts for each item. This will show you if there is a demand.

Then go to Google and enter any keywords returned from the Overture Keyword tool with a high count. How many listings are found. This will tell you if the supply is available or not. Best results are those with a high demand count and a low supply count.

Also go to Overture's Bid Tool to check out the cost of advertising. Even a good product can not be the one if it is too expensive to advertise. Usually this means there is already tough competition for that products or topic.

Be sure to try variations of the product, e.g. blue formula One race cars

The Right Niche is Only the First Step

Targeted marketing will be needed to get you site the attention it deserves. A dependable good web host is needed so that your site has the infrastructure needed to operate your online business. A web host that specializes in small business is site-Webhosting.com they offer unlimited MySQL (databases) needed for customer lists, shopping carts, membership, etc., Statistics packages so that you can track the effectiveness of you advertising, fantastico which automactically installs php scripts such as a message board and a mail list program.

Making Sales Online

2005-05-07T09:59:00.000-07:00

Location, Location. Location

Studies show that placing ad links within text often helps ensure that they will be seen by the reader

Studies show readers look at a page in a somewhat of a "Z". They tend to start at the upper right hand corner then move towards the center and then across to the left. Place links in the this "read area" for best results. See Report Eye Tracking IIIfor even more specific information

Links placed in the upper right-hand corner of a site are more likely to be seen and clicked. Include special offers and new content in this location to maximum exposure.

Add descriptive content around a link to improve the odds of search engines picking up link and the description.

Innovative placement of banners helps get them clicked

Avoid horizontal lines between ads and text. People stop ready when they see a line.

Add a call-to-action words: "buy this here," "order now," and "click here," to alert readers to an opportunity.

Format Your Page to Sell--Web Page Layout is Important

According to Eye Tracker III studies, smaller type encourages focused viewing behavior (that is, reading the words), while larger type promotes lighter scanning. And that for headlines -- especially longer ones -- it would appear that the first couple of words need to be real attention-grabbers if you want to capture eyes.Readers eyes typically scan lower portions of the page seeking something to grab their attention. Their eyes may fixate on an interesting headline or a stand-out word, but not on other content.

Short paragraphs are read more often then long ones. Studies show that short paragraphs get twice as many overall eye fixations as longer paragraphs. Long paragraph formatting discourages viewing.

A one-column format is more likely read than two or more columns. Surprisingly most readers look at text before photo's. However, they almost always at least briefly scan photo's when looking at a web page.

Getting a Google Page Rank 3 in Six Months

2005-01-11T06:32:00.000-08:00

I entered the world of website ownership in July of 2004. I did a Google search for "websites for sale" and found that e-Bay was a big seller. I had learned some web programming as the acting webmaster for a non-profit organization. My training consisted of reading, Learning Web Design: A Beginners Guide to HTML, Graphics and Beyond by Jennifer Neiderst.

Many websites are for sale on e-Bay. After watching the ads for a couple of weeks I decided to buy three sites: a diet site (http://www.atkinsdiethelper.com/), a travel site (www.epictravels.com), and a web tools reseller site (www.webmastersprofitpak.net).

My choice was based on the domain names, the product being sold, and the sense they were good products to sell. I had read an article that said search engines were more likely to index and rank a website where the product or topic was part of the domain name. My total investment was less than $300. The diet site was a drop-shipping business and required the most time. The travel site was an affiliate so no web programming was needed, only advertising. The web tools site required some web programing. I decided that a few additional web tools to sell would be good, so back to e-Bay I went to purchase more software to sell.

Next came submitting the sites to search engines. I found http://www.addme.com/ where you can submit sites for free---this definitely fit my budget. I also hand-submitted the sites to Dmoz, Yahoo (free), AltaVistaand any other directories I could find. I found http://www.directoryarchives.com/, a directory of directories and submitted the sites to as many of the directories as possible. I also began to do searches based on the keywords of my websites and did add the url, or submit site, or exchange links to those who offered it. I figured that people searching for my product were likely to find the same sites I found.

Within about 3 months, my sites were listed on Google, Ask Jeeves, Excite and several others when the exact website name was entered--- a big step forward. I still had made only a few sales and noone had found my sites by using the search engines. I decided to focus my attention on only one site, www.webmastersprofitpak.net, because it was the only site that had any sales and the profit margin was highest on that site.

I began to experiment with advertising. I opened Overture, Google Adwords , Mamma, and Kanoodleaccounts. I signed up for Adsense. I bought ezine ads, and visitors from Traffic Taxi, did a popunder ad and newsletter ad with bravenet.com. I signed up with companies that pay people to visit your site, I tried an adblast---all with little or no results. I found site-reference.com and bought ads for the software site in the newsletter. Finally, I began to make some sales.

But to stay in business long-term and to reduce advertising costs, I needed to be able to make sales based on search engine results. I bought some site submission software which I now sell and began to submit my sites page by page. I also signed up with Microsoft bcentral.com and began to optimize my website pages.
Now, after six months, one of my sites has a great Google page rank. www.webmastersprofitpak.net ranks 3. Website traffic is about a 2,000 hits/week. I have high hopes for 2005! I have learned a lot in the past six months especially about search engine submission, optimization, directories, and links. See
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