Make Money Online

I’m working on a new SEO project with stashSpace.com, a provider of video transfer services and online video sharing.  In addition to the paid adwords campaign I’m conducting, we are also starting to build the number of incoming links to the site.

Links to your site from other websites play a major role in determining how you rank when someone searches on a given keyword.  A great way to do this is through Directories.  However, the process of hand-submitting to hundreds, or even thousands (!!), of directories can be time-consuming to say the least.

I just found a service online called Directory Maximizer, and will be trying it out.

They list on their site the following benefits of their Directory Submission Service:

• Get permanent one-way links by having your site manually submitted up to 1172 quality web directories.
• Get links that are valued by the search engines by ensuring that the directories to which we submit are SEO-friendly.
• Receive a continuous flow of links by having your website submitted to our regularly updated list of directories.
• We increase your chances of link approvals by ensuring that your site details meet all directory guidelines and are submitted under the most relevant category.

Some of the features of Directory Maximizer include:

• You can target multiple search terms by submitting up to 20 different titles and descriptions
• You can choose from various submission options at no extra cost:
  • Submit to all or a specific number of directories
  • Submit by PageRank
  • Control the pace at which we make your submissions
  • Subscribe to submit to 100 directories every month for 12 months
• Avoid duplicate submissions on future orders as we keep track of all previous submissions made with our service.
• Save time handling directory emails by opting for our email handling service where we create a separate email account for your submissions, handle all the directory emails and give you a report for the same.
• Upload list of any previous submissions made to avoid our submitting to the same directories.
• Get up-to-date live reports of your submissions as and when they’re made.
• Manage multiple sites from a single account.
• Place orders from as little as $5.
• Great value for money at just 14 cents per directory submission, i.e. every 100 directory submissions cost only $14. One-time fee only with no other costs involved.

I’ll update everyone on how the service goes over the next few months and let you know the results.  If you have experience with Directory Maximizer, or another directory submission service, please let me know how the results were for you!

Ever think of adding your own directory to your website?  Structured properly, a niche industry directory is a great way to add keyword-rich content to your website to increase the amount of content on your website, thereby also increasing visibility with Google and other Search Engines.  Now you can build your own directory with PHP My Directory, a packaged solution you can use to launch your own full-featured business directory, link directory or classifieds website.

You can set your directory up with multiple levels of listings based on location and/or specialty, and it comes with automated billing to make it easy to collect listing fees if you don’t want to only offer free listings.   Listings can include an image gallery, products gallery, review & ratings, maps, pdf export and links to external websites.

With Google’s revised stance earlier this year on adjusting or eliminating page rankings for sites accepting payment for links, it’s up to you whether you want to collect fees for your listings.  I for one, will be implementing this on a number of my sites, and will be accepting payments on my higher-traffic commercial sites, but keeping listings free for my free resource sites.  In any event, I’ll keep you all updated on how phpMyDirectory.com performs across my network.

In business, everyone has business cards, so why don’t you create some for your online business? While you are certainly spending a lot of time creating your online community, don’t miss out on the opportunity to spread the word by handing out business cards whenever the opportunity arises. I can’t tell you how many times I have met someone on the plane, in the espresso line or at a party who ran an interesting site. If I don’t get a business card, the chances of me actually remembering their web address is virtually nill.

After a year’s absence from this blog attending to other sites and business, I’ve come back to Lugnut22 to chronicle my online marketing & blogging efforts.  As part of this, I have removed all of my paid and sponsored posts from this blog.  Like many other bloggers, my site was hit last year by Google’s crackdown on sponsored-listings promoted by such companies as Pay Per Post, Sponsored Reviews, etc. and my Page Rank was removed and has stayed at 0 for the last 12 months.  My hope in removing these posts is that my page ranking will return and my site’s content will once again become available to people interested in starting their adventure in making money online.  I continue to think that sponsored posts remain a viable money-making opportunity for bloggers, I will just not be taking part in any organized effort as I had in the past. 

In any event, this blog will continue to focus on the many opportunities available make money online, either through affiliate programs, Google and Yahoo ad placements, advertising networks, directories or classifieds, or even selling products in conjunction with a wholesale drop-shipper.  I hope you’ll stay tuned.