Make money online...

If you watch TV regularly, and if you always come across business news, you might be wondering what it takes to be a tycoon...

You might think that the best, richest people in all the world have advanced degrees and three PhDs at the ends of their names, IQ's above 200, and a whole bunch of diplomas and certificates hanging on their walls.

You might think that you need to go to business schools to know how to make money; and that you need an A in every exam from kindergarten to college in order to put up a business.

Thankfully, it's all quite far from the truth. (Many idiots are very rich.)

In fact, the most successful people in the world are not necessarily the best schooled or the smartest. Some of them even dropped out of high school! As you can see, the business world is not idiot proof, and some of the idiots are even the ones with MBA's and a whole lot of doctorates to their name.

Success in business is all about hard work and street smarts, not books and school -- almost always.

And thankfully, the same is true online. You don't need a degree to make money, and especially not at a job that an idiot can do. In fact, you don't need to do a lot to make money online because a lot of businesses are already offering their services up for grabs! All you need to do is to be creative and street-smart!

Everybody has a Blog, So Get One!

Do you think you need brains to write a blog? All you need is a captive audience! There are many things that you can blog about - in fact, you can even blog about being an idiot online!

Offer up ten tips for idiots to survive in a coffee shop that serves ten different kinds of milk. Offer up ten tips for idiots to make money without a college degree. There are many ways to entertain the world - and you can earn money doing it.

How, you ask? All you need is an affiliate program. Apply to programs such as Google AdSense and Bidvertiser, and have them post ads on your site or blog. When your blog or site visitors visit and click on these ads, you get commissions. All you need to do is sit back and relax, and you can get money, too!

(Laugh if you want -- many "fools" are making money, right now.)

But What if I Don't Want to Blog?

There are still ways that a weak-minded idiot can get money online. Is there anything you are especially good at, like babysitting, cleaning up yards, or cleaning out houses? Ask a friend to put up a simple website for you - in fact, use any of the tools available online for simple websites!

You can get your own website in a flash, with no fancy animations, just you and your trusty trade! Advertise yourself, sign up for an affiliate program, and you can get customers on both your ads, and asking for you to work for them!

Are there things lying around the house, just being useless? You can sell them online at bidding and auction sites. Just specific your price and you're good to go. Instead of selling your things at a yard or garage sale, think about this option.

Still undecided? You can go to online forums where you will be paid to make responses!

(People will pay you to write about just about anything -- even really stupid stuff.)

So, remember, idiots can get rich. Of course the best way is to start your own business. No one can tell you you're being foolish; just go for it.

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SEO Mistakes, funny!

In the world of SEO, mistakes can happen, some more funny and some more detrimental than others. Here is a selection of some of the funniest SEO mistakes, kindly submitted from fellow SEOers.

Jason Bartholme (JasonBartholme)

One mistake I made a while ago was for a client in which I paid for a batch of 1,000 directory submissions.  The problem was that the domain name I gave the service provider was misspelled and didn’t realized it until I got the submission report a few weeks later.  Needless to say, I proof my outgoing work a lot more these days!

John Mcelborough (Ioptimal)

I’ve seen developers forget to remove the robots file to block search engines when redesigning a very busy financial services site before. Cost about £250k if I remember rightly!

Also, an agency I worked for screwed up something on their site a few years ago and a post I wrote about it outranked them for a while, that was pretty funny!

Harvey Kane (RagePank)

There was this one client where I advised that title tags should be increased to 70 characters to get the most value from a Google listing, and meta descriptions should be 156 characters. The client padded out his titles / meta descriptions with exactly the right amount of whitespace, which wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.

Another time I was having problems with my content being scraped and it was affecting my rankings – so I set the site up to serve a noindex meta tag to all user agents except Googlebot, so when the scrapers copied the content it included a noindex tag and their copy of my content wouldn’t get indexed. That was the theory. Googlebot managed to get past the Googlebot-detection script and found the noindex tag… I think you know what happens next :)

Kev Strong (Goosh.co.uk)

When I was starting out in SEO about 6 years ago, I was a PHP web developer launching a personal website based around the idea of an Innuendo Generator. The idea was to create visual representations of innuendo’s ala Carry On/Austin Powers (Big Melons etc).

One of the SEO enhancements I built into the site was to create a simple text replacement module to generate unique Title’s, H1’s and content based on the title of the innuendo. Alongside this, I created a search function on the website that retained the searches in a database.  Unfortunately for me, I had coded the search result to generate a page that resolved on its own URI, but with a 404 (Not Found) response code and with the relevant search-related query in the Title, H1 and content.  I did this incorrectly and it was actually triggering a 200 (OK) response code thus creating a bonafide page that appeared fine.

To add to matters, the fifteen latest innuendo searches were shown on the homepage. This allowed all search engine bots to crawl the pages, return them as bonafide pages and index them. Little had I known I had created an auto-generated content website with some of the crudest and filthiest innuendos known to man!

The downside of this was the ability for people to create a page on my website with a Title, H1 and semi-automated content with their keywords in the website.

The upside of this was I had created a faucet for ideas and innuendos that I was previously unaware of.

Wes McDermott (SEObyhand.co.uk)

I did an SEO proposal for a company I worked with a while ago, they decided to go with another company instead of me. 6 months down the line I got a call from one of the guys at the company, he told me that my proposal was ranking ahead of their site for one of their main keywords, he asked me to take it down. He was basically suggesting I had done something under handed with his site. So I explained to him that it’s just “better” optimised than his site for that keyword. The next day I got another phone call, it was the same guy again offering me the job. Needless to say, they’re now ranking much higher than the proposal!

Jim Westergren (jimwestergren.com)

Not a mistake I had made but I had a client that paid good money for consultancy. He had his website blocked via robots.txt AND meta noindex. No wonder he didn’t rank.

Source: Blueclaw

New SEO techniques Revealed in 2011

So 2010 is ending, & naturally 2011 is not different from 2010. Now what are your expectations from Search Engine Optimization in 2011? A lot has happened historically in the crazy world of internet marketing & I don't expect any changes in 2011. But before they discuss the expectations of SEO in 2011, let's have a glance back at a major speaking point in 2010...
Preview by Google - Recently released Google Instant which gives as immediate results as we type our search query in Google search engine. Since it was released, a lot of people have found it useful in terms of giving super fast results. There are many such new thing started by Google and it is still kept as a secret and only used by top internet marketers.
Now what are the new techniques in SEO?
SEO is the most effective way to fetch free traffic to your website. We need to keep us updated with search engine as they are going to make some changes in 2011. Search engines are always changing their algorithms and they constantly update their data.
As there are many newbie entered into internet marketing world - it is expected to be a busy year for search engines.
What changes are expected - 
1. SEO and SMO (Social Media Optimization) are elected as a king in 2011, As many of you must have noticed that Google and other search engines loves Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. So you must keep up with Social media optimization and Social media marketing.
2. As Yahoo and Bing are Google's major competitors, changes in Google ranking will be the main aim of all search engines.
3. As Facebook has now became number 2 site over the world wide web, a recent news is announced by Facebook that they are going to launch an internet directory like Google and it seems that many Facebook users will switch on to Facebook directory.
4. Still there are lot more things to come in internet marketing world. You need to be alert to get such information.

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What is Your Facebook Welcome Tab Strategy?

If you read information on best practices for Facebook business pages, the creation of a custom welcome tab is usually one of the first things mentioned. A welcome tab is a special tab created to greet new visitors to your page. Welcome tabs are usually set as the default tab for people that have not Liked your page; meaning new visitors are automatically taken to the welcome tab rather than your Wall.

Once someone Likes your page, the next time they visit, they are taken to your Wall. Without a welcome tab new visitors are taken to your Wall, which is generic (all Walls look the same) and not very welcoming. A welcome tab addresses these issues. It gives you a dedicated space to communicate with new visitors. The question then becomes how will you use this space? What will be your Facebook welcome tab strategy? After viewing many welcome tabs for small and medium-sized businesses, I believe an effective welcome tab should do the following:

1. Welcome new visitors to the page
2. Explain what your company does and the value it provides
3. Offer reasons why someone should Like your page
4. Invite visitors to Like your page

How you incorporate these elements is up to you, but the key is to keep it simple. Take theBerry Network welcome tab. We use a combination of text and video to welcome new visitors, explain the value we offer, and encourage them to Like our page. The tone of the writing is relaxed and inviting. We are not trying to sell anything or trying to impress someone with corporate speak or buzz words. We don’t use gimmicks or offer rewards in return for a Like.

Unfortunately, many welcome tabs fail to use this simple approach. Many companies still dump new visitors on their wall. Others use reveal tabs that hide content that is only revealed after a person Likes the page. Why should someone have to Like a page before they can see the content? Since a Like is equal to an endorsement, how can someone endorse something they haven’t seen? You might get a few more likes because of the curiosity factor, but it won’t help with engagement. Still others welcome tabs are cluttered with so much content they leave you scratching your head wondering what they are trying to communicate.

So what is your Facebook welcome tab strategy? How do you use your welcome tab to turn visits into Likes? Please share your comments.

Source: Social Media Today

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