It happens all the time. A novice Internet marketer approached an established Internet marketer with a joint venture proposal only to be told, “Sorry, but I’m just too busy right now”. The novice marketer feels like he just got blown off and that the well established marketer didn’t even take the time to hear him out. That wasn’t, however, the most likely case. Successful and established Internet marketers are very VERY busy people. They probably work more hours in one day than others work in two days.

These successful men and women don’t have a starting time or a quitting time built into their days and nights. They probably dream about their projects when they do sleep. When one of them is approached with a joint venture proposal they are certainly interested….joint ventures are their bread and butter but they only have twenty four hours in a day just like everybody else and when they have eighteen of those hours spoken for they really can’t take on another project at that time. It doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t take it on at a later date.

As a new Internet marketer, it would be wise to approach an established and successful Internet marketer with a joint venture proposal that they can plainly see will make them money and not require hours and hours of their valuable time. You need to have done all of the research regarding your product or services’ marketability. You need to show that there is, in fact, a market for your product or service as it relates to their lists. Your proposal needs to be short and simple and your sales letter needs to be top drawer.

The main thing to remember is that successful Internet marketers really are busy people and ‘I don’t have time’ doesn’t mean ‘I will never have time’.

The most powerful way to get a joint venture partner is to do a successful promotion for your potential JV partners product. Imagine you made $2000 worth of sales for a potential JV partners product don’t you think he or she would find it hard even stupid to say no to you!

Alright, so you don’t have any digital products to offer, you don’t have any tangible goods to sell, you don’t have any special skills you can lease out, you don’t have any useful resources you can offer…

All you have is a blog.

Yes, a blog!

An online journal which is originally meant to serve like a diary, only, it’s a diary that is published on the internet and every person in the world, from North America to Tibet, can have access to whatever you will publish on its pages.

Now the challenge: how can you earn by using your blog, and JUST your blog?

If your answer is you can’t, then you’re lacking faith, my friend.

The fact is, you can earn by using your blog, and JUST your blog. Furthermore, you are not limited to a single earning opportunity when it comes to this avenue. There are a lot of potentials that can be found in those little web logs which are actually simplified and highly efficient content management systems possessing an interconnectivity that will generate direct traffic and some features that promise prominence in search engine results.

Here are 5 earning opportunities you can consider to fully monetize your web log.

1. Sign up with www.clickbank.com . ClickBank is a well established affiliate network that boasts thousands of products you can choose from. Simply survey the selection of products appropriate for the subject of your blog, and acquire your affiliate link. Whenever you’re recommending something in your blog entries, mention the products you have chosen and hyperlink the same with your affiliate links. This will lead your readers to the affiliate programs’ sales pages. If they decide to buy, you’d earn a commission per sale you manage to refer. Pretty cool, isn’t it?

2. Now, you’re not limited to ClickBank alone. There are other affiliate programs out there which you can dig up with some searching magic. There are millions and millions of affiliate programs in the World Wide Web, and some of them even promise a commission rate of up to 80% of the selling price. Imagine that! Affiliate programs are amazing ways to earn some serious cash through your blog.

3. Want to promote books? Amazon.com likewise has an affiliate program that you can choose to enroll with. Simply select the books most appropriate for the subject of your blog, and garner the corresponding affiliate links. Or you can copy and paste a code from Amazon and implement it on your blog. This will display contextually relevant products on your blog which your readers will be able to see. Books are sure sellers. And though Amazon does offer a relatively low commission rate, you’re sure to sell a lot of books through your blog. Everyone loves books! And Amazon is the internet’s most reliable digital bookstore!

4. Enroll your blog with Google AdSense or other Pay Per Click (PPC) programs. This will allow the PPC programs to display contextually relevant ads to your blog. Every time a reader of yours would click on an ad, you’d receive a certain amount of money. Imagine how much you can earn if your blog is generating thousands of visitors per day!

5. Sell advertising space on your blog. Whether they’re banners or simple text links, you can command a hefty price for the valuable “real estate” on your blog. But first, you must strive to increase your readership, which can be measured by the volume of traffic you’d be able to receive per day. A daily traffic of 10,000 visitors will surely take you places!

For more tips on making money with your blog & driving traffic to it,
Visit Rob Benwell’s “Blogging To The Bank”

‘Cheating’ the search engines
By Spencer Kelly
BBC Click

We have come to expect a lot from search engines.

Type in a phrase, and we not only expect it to find millions of relevant websites, but we also expect it to list the best or most important sites first.
Woe betide a search engine that requires me to click to page two of the results before I find the site I am looking for.

Generally they do a decent job but, up until very recently, if you were to search on the term “miserable failure”, top of the Google search results was the official George Bush page on the official White House site.

This is an example of how even the biggest search engines can be manipulated.

Essentially, the web is a collection of pages, all linking to each other.

If you are searching for something, search engines like Google, Ask, and Yahoo! will first find all the pages they think are relevant.

Then, crucially, they need to decide which order to display search results in. One of the most important factors in deciding how relevant particular sites are is to count how many other sites link to it.

The more references, or links there are to a site, the more important it is deemed to be.

Because lots of people quote and link the BBC website, for example, the BBC site is seen as relevant and a good hit. That is why the site ranks quite highly for many search terms.

An underground movement of bloggers exploited this fact, to create a “link bomb”. They encouraged thousands of their peers to include a link to the Bush homepage in their blogs, and label it “miserable failure”.

With all of these links, the main search engine algorithms were fooled into thinking this was a relevant result for that search term, and Bush was driven to the top of the rankings. Mr Bush had been link bombed.

At first, the search engines ignored it – it was not their job to censor search results, however controversial.

Nor did they censor other link bombs – googling “liar” would show Tony Blair’s homepage first.

Link bombs are usually self-defeating – as they become successful, other popular sites begin to discuss the bombs, and end up becoming more popular than the link bomb, driving it from number one.

Apostolos Gerasoulis, co-inventor of search technology for Ask.com said: “I don’t think this is the problem though. This is just fun.”

“Why we don’t remove it, or why the search engines don’t remove it, is because as long as we give relevant results for most of the queries that you type then we’re OK.

“The impact of this bombing, as it is called, is minimal, insignificant. It might be two or three examples,” he added.

Google decided to tweak its search algorithm to spot link bombs, and the miserable failure dropped away. On other search engines, such as Ask, it remains high.

The link bomb actually achieved what any business would love to have – the number one search result in their category.

The ideal place to be is in the centre of the search result, the so-called natural search result, online marketer Fadi Shuman, explained.

“You get 80% of the clicks from the natural results. That is where we all want to be. The way to achieve that is through search engine optimisation.”

Optimisation is produced by making the website as visible to search engines as possible and having other sites linking to it.

However search engine optimisation also has a darker side.

Blacklisted

In February 2006, BMW Germany got into hot water over its website.

The problem was that the site was laden with keywords which customers could not see, but which search engines could.

They were there specifically to boost the rankings. Google has rules to guard against so-called black hat methods – specifically, “don’t present different content to search engines than you do to your users”.

Once discovered, Google blacklisted the site and dropped it from their search results altogether until BMW redesigned the site.

Jason Duke, search engine optimiser, said: “We try and persuade people to link to us, whether that be via content, whether that be via methods of creating controversy in the marketplace.”

It is an ongoing battle of sorts, between the search engines and the optimisers who would love to work the system to their clients’ advantage. Although both sides prefer to call it an uneasy truce.

Mr Gerasoulis added: “If they build the right page, it’s OK, if they build a great page, it’s OK. But the problem comes when they really try to cheat you.”

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