Written out your resolutions yet? Are you going to stick to them and see them through this year? If previous years are anything to go by – many of us give up just a few weeks into the year.

But if your New Year Plan included ‘Making Money’ this year, there is a new home business project you might like to check out – which is designed to make sure you stick to your New Year Plan.

Leading Home Business Guru Andrew Reynolds has just launched his Double Guaranteed New Year Plan which boasts a one year guarantee that by using the New Year Plan you will have made money by this time next year – or he’ll pay you £2,000 out of his own pocket just for giving it a try and sticking to it.

The Plan is a brilliant system for making money using the enormous power of Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter. As part of the New Year Plan system you get training on how the system works, delivered on a series of DVDs which were filmed at a live training workshop where attendees paid around £5,00 a head to be there on the day.

But with the Plan you get the chance to participate in exactly the same way as the attendees, but without finding £5,000 ‘up front’. Instead the Plan comes with a really simple funding option where a participant in the Plan can get started for a manageable £199 plus vat. For that they get the full New Year Plan DVD training, plus 8 weekly live online training sessions, one to one calls with their allocated Social Media Coaches and of course Andrews 12 month money back guarantee – topped up with a further £2,000 if you don’t make money having used the Plan system yourself.

Participation in the New Year Plan is only available to selected students of Andrew – and details can be found on a private website at www.New-Year-Plan.com

The Jane Somner Cash On Demand began around 4 years ago for Jane and her family – when she sent off for a free copy of the UK’s top Home Business Course.  What she received through the post set her on a course which would totally change her life – and the life of her family too.

According to Jane Somner Cash On Demand is the way forward for anyone wanting to make money working from home. Jane and her husband found themselves in debt after a try at starting a traditional business with loads of staff, offices and overheads. For Jane Somner Cash On Demand was ‘like a breath of fresh air’ as she put it. “We had no overheads – and no huge start up costs. This was something my husband and I could start and build literally working from our kitchen table and our spare room where we have an old desk and a PC.

The Jane Somner Cash On Demand success really began as soon as she put the things she had learned through the course, into action. “The course taught us that we don’t need to take on staff – we don’t need to have an office…we don’t need to buy loads of stock… and most importantly – we don’t need work full time on this. According to Jane Somner Cash On Demand is a great business system that can be operated from home, part time (literally a few hours a week – evenings and weekends – to fit around existing commitments)

For Jane Somner Cash On Demand was a turning point. “We put out or first project  and within the first 7 weeks we had banked £87,958.61.

In fact, the Jane Somner Cash On Demand success story has seen her and her husband now topping over £1,132,800.98 in the last four years since they stared – all a far cry from the debts and problems they had when they tried their hand at a more traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ business.

For Jane Somner Cash On Demand was the course that started it all. £1.3million later – she recommends you try it too at www.Free-trial-package.com

Free Web Storage

We all know how important it is to back up files regularly, but it can all seem to be a bit of a hassle, copying to discs and then putting the diss somewhere safe where they won’t got damaged or lost. Well now there is a free solution. Diino are offering a 2MB online backup service, so no hunting around for blank discs and no risk of loss, and you can access your files anywhere, so ideal for files you want to share. Get full details now from Diino

Free Tools From Google

Google Analytics

Until recently there were a wide range of companies offering site analysis with differing quality services, and a premium usually required for more in depth service. But then along came Google with “Google Analytics”. By simply adding a couple of lines of code to each page of your site you get incredibly detailed information about visitors to your site – what keywords they used, what pages they visited, how long they stayed on each page, geographical information (including a great map of the world with blobs for everywhere you’ve had visitors from) and absolutely loads more information. Sign up free of charge at http://www.google.com/analytics/

Google Pack provides a single installer for many essential PC applications from Google and other trusted partners. These applications improve your browsing with increased speed and security, provide better searching capability for the web and for your own PC and enable you to collect and organise your personal data, including photos.

    Products in the pack currently include:

•     Google Earth – 3D Earth browser – Zoom from space to street level — tour the world, find maps, driving directions, hotels, restaurants, and more
•     Google Desktop – Desktop companion – Find all your email, files, web history, and more
•     Picasa – Photo organizer
•     Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer – Search toolbar
•     Google Pack Screensaver – Photo screensaver

    Additional Software Included

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar – Web browser
PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, a top-rated anti-spyware utility – includes automatic protection updates with no paid subscription required.
Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, which detects and removes viruses – includes automatic protection updates with no paid subscription required.
Adobe Reader 7 – PDF reader

   Optional Software

Google Talk – Voice and IM application
Google Video Player – Video player
RealPlayer – Media player
GalleryPlayer HD Images – High-quality artwork and photos

Free Software Giveaway

Free Software

How would you like to receive $3,920 in quality software and privacy tools, including The New Office, a free alternative to Microsoft Office which even works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files plus a fully-featured web editor, paint shop, firewall, virus protection, and a spyware removal tool and many other programs? These aren’t poorly-produced DOS programs you’ll find floating around in freeware libraries from the 90’s. They’re the very latest versions and all work in both XP and Vista.

To get all this free software, just sign up for either the free Windows Power User newsletter, or the Privacy newsletter, depending on which topic interests you most. You’ll typically receive just two messages every week, featuring the latest technology news and download freebies. You’ll never receive any spam, and of course they don’t sell your details to anyone else, and can unsubscribe at any time. Find out more at http://www.homeworkinguk.com/freesoftware.htm

Free Guide to Becoming a Virtual Assistant

Do you dream of working from home as a Virtual Assistant but don’t know where to start? Lisa Taliga has been a successful Virtual Assistant for several years now and has a wealth of information and tips to share with you. She built her own successful VA business in a very short time frame (whilst working full-time) which makes her ideally suited to pass on her experience. To help you decide whether this could be the career for you she has written “The 7 Things You MUST Know Before Starting Your Own Virtual Assistant Business.” You can now download your copy free of charge from http://www.homeworkinguk.com/7things.pdf

Download YouTube Videos Free

If you’ve ever come across a brilliant video on YouTube that you’d love to watch again, you’ve probably just bookmarked it and returned to the page whenever you want to watch it again. But what happens when you’re not online, or the clip gets removed? Well now you can record these videos without any technical knowledge in just 3 simple steps.

Make Your Site Sell

When Make Your Site SELL! launched in 1999, it was instantly coined “The BIBLE of selling on the Net.” Unlike other Internet marketing books that have swept the Net since then and unlike the latest/greatest “hype of the day”, this one cost all of $17 and overdelivered at that remarkably low price. This philosophy (underprice and overdeliver) is the foundation of SiteSell.com and they’ve grown into a company that overdelivers business success through its flagship product, Site Build It!…

In 2002, MYSS! received a major overhaul and re-launched with 7 volumes stuffed with even more success-proven strategies – ideal for anyone wanting to join the 1% who know how to sell on the Net. The price? It went all the way up to… $29.95.

Whilst MYSS! remains a great read, full of useful, evergreen ideas and information, it hasn’t been updated since that date and now rather than publishing a new edition, they’ve decided to offer all 7 volumes completely free of charge. Get your copy from http://myss.sitesell.com/websuccessstory.html

NEW – Now you can get a FREE Affiliate Masters Course from the people who brought you “Make Your Site Sell”. This eBook shows anyone how to become a high-earning affiliate champion. Yes, anyone… from newbie to those already enjoying success. It shows you everything, nothing held back. All the info you need to help you execute every step is included in one single course. Click here to download your copy now

You’ll need Acrobat Reader to read these eBooks. If you don’t already have a copy, download it free from http://www.adobe.com/

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First Website Builder

Throughout the site I’ve frequently mentioned the benefits of creating your own website, either to publicise your own business or simply as a business in its own right. I know many of you have been put off by the idea that it is just too complicated or expensive, but I think I may have finally found the answer. The Newbie Club has produced “First Website Builder”. Newbie Club took a total beginner who had built her very first Website using FREE programs and graphics – and asked her to write a book about it. Then they added a further 3 books by world renowned Internet marketing experts Joe Robson, Tom Glander and Joe Barta and created the definitive guide for anyone wanting to build their first website.

In line with all the packages I’ve recommended in the past, this is another one worth way in excess of the asking price of $39.95 and comes with a no strings, no questions asked, 1 year money back guarantee.

UPDATE – This package has now been updated to include a 24 part HTML Course and such website building tools as a gizmo wizard which enables you to add special effects in just a few clicks, a mini site wizard for creating a no-frills mini site in minutes and a website encryption wizard which allows you to encrypt everything on your new Website to stop content thieves and spammers.

You can find full details from Newbie Club

Scam Free Zone: Scam Tip Offs: Free E-Book

Pick up a copy of this hard-hitting e-book about every type of scam you’ll find online! A professional PDF file by the Online Scam Expert, Neil Shearing. (Just a ten-second download with a 56K modem.)

Whatever software you’re looking for, try the following collections of all the latest demos, shareware, free and trial downloads:

http://download.cnet.com

http://www.zdnet.com

If looking around the site has given you a few ideas, but you realise you don’t have all the skills you need, this is the place to find about about companies offering home based training, either online or by more traditional means.

Study at Home

If you’ve been thinking about studying but can’t get to an evening class, distance learning is now a real option, using books, online training, videos, CD-Roms or a combination of them all

Free training courses

Creating Careers

vision2learn, from Creating Careers is an exciting new way to learn and gain accredited qualifications online.

You can get in to your study area through any Internet-connected PC – at home, work or wherever you have access to a computer. Your study area contains all of your online course materials, assessments and user guidelines, as well as messages from your tutor and an online café where you can chat to other learners.

vision2learn courses are presented in an interactive and user-friendly format, with clear learning outcomes and online support material. But if you do feel you need a bit if extra help, online support from a college tutor is just a click away.

Your vision2learn course will be supported by a college near you and they will allocate your tutor.

vision2learn courses are nationally recognised qualifications that are eligible for funding. This means that provided you are over the age of 16 and living in England, there are no fees – you study for free.

Courses are currently available in Personal Development, Business Development, IT and Sport & Leisure

My recommendation is to take their free online course about starting a business entitled “Entrepreneurship”, which leads to the accredited qualification NCFE Advanced Certificate in Preparation for Business and demonstrates your professional skill to your bank manager, business associates and customers.

This course is made up of four units, as follows:

•     Unit one – You
• Find out if you’re emotionally, mentally and financially ready for business start-up. Identify your personal needs and expectations, review your skills needs and evaluate your finances.
•     Unit two – Your business idea
• Learn how to prepare an excellent business plan, find out how to set achievable goals and select an appropriate legal status for your business.
•     Unit three – Your marketplace
• You’ll develop practical market research skills and learn how to make the right marketing decisions for your product or service.
•     Unit four – Your business operations

Develop your business plan into practical action plans, build a pre start-up timetable and find out how to achieve operational success by matching financial, human and material resources against your business goals

 Distance Learning Courses

Open Study College (formally HomeLearning4U) have study packages to suit everyone, whether you are a complete beginner or you already have experience in a chosen subject. They offer a huge choice of courses from hairdressing and beauty therapy right through to law and computer studies, with full online tutor support and course text books that are simple to follow and written by experts in their field.

Study packages are supplied to you complete including study books, CD’s where applicable, assessment slips and envelopes (for the return of any assessment work) ring binder, folder, paper, pen and pencil within a study record bag and on completing most of the courses you gain an employer recognised qualification. All courses are backed by The Open Study College guarantee – if for any reason you fail to complete the course successfully you can re-take the course FREE of charge!

TEFL courses online

Open University

Probably the most well known place for distance learning, The Open University admitted its first students in 1971. It is the UK’s largest university, with over 200,000 students and customers in 1997/98. The OU represents 21% of all part-time higher education students in the UK.

The University is ranked amongst the top UK universities for the quality of its teaching. Of the 14 subjects assessed up to the end of 1998, the majority have been judged “Excellent”.

Courses are available throughout Europe and, by means of partnership agreements with other institutions, in many other parts of the world. Over 24,000 learners are studying OU courses outside the UK.

Undergraduate level courses do not require any entry qualifications. Over one-third of people starting these courses have qualifications below conventional university entry requirements. Despite this, around 70% of OU students successfully complete their courses each year.

Nearly all OU students are part-time and about 70% of undergraduate students remain in full-time employment throughout their studies.

More than 40,000 students study interactively on-line with the OU, at home and in the workplace.

At the OU, you get as much support as you personally need. From the start, they put you in touch with your nearest OU centre (13 local offices around the UK) and you’ll be allocated a personal tutor — you can talk over the phone, face to face, via E-mail or computer conference— who is a specialist in the subject you’re taking. As the course progresses, you can also meet and exchange ideas with other students. From then on, regular guidance and assessment by your tutor will keep your studies on track, and help you progress with confidence.

168 single nine-month courses, 30 two-year diplomas and over 20 degrees at undergraduate level — everything from short courses to nine-month single topic courses to postgraduate and research degrees.

You can study within a specified range of courses if you want a qualification in a named subject area – including IT and Computing, Psychology, Humanities, Business Studies, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. Alternatively, you can choose the best mix of courses to suit your career plans or personal interests, and obtain a BA or BSc that is not in a particular subject.

An increasing number of professional bodies also count OU qualifications towards achievement of their own professional awards — including the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the British Psychological Society, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and the English Nursing Board.

Web Design Courses – One-Tech Ltd is a London based Web Site Design Consultant that offers Website Design Courses and also other IT courses like MCSE Training Course, CCNA Course, etc.

The Training Camp is the world leader in accelerated information technology training and certification testing services for information technology (IT) professionals, corporations and government organizations.

 Distance Learning Directories

The following sites provide details of online degree and other distance learning courses available

About.com – Distance Learning
Comprehensive directory of distance learning links and information

http://www.learndirect.co.uk

Comprehensive listing of UK study courses. Use the search facility to search for distance learning and computer based training and subject required.

 International Centre for Distance Learning

ICDL distance education databases contain information on over 31,000 distance learning programmes and courses mostly in the Commonwealth countries, over 1,000 institutions teaching at a distance worldwide, and over 12,000 abstracts of books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education. NOTE – ICDL ceased most of its activities in April 2003 as its external funding came to an end. Its database of distance-learning courses and institutions remains online but ‘frozen in time’ as it will no longer be updated

Online Degrees

Online Degrees offers articles on studying online together with links to courses, books etc.

In the past, if you wanted to generate income from your website for products and services, other than your own, you signed up as an affiliate and earned income on leads and sales. A more recent development however are companies that will pay you simply for placing ads on your site. In some cases, you’ll be paid per click, in others you earn for the number of impressions and others will pay you a monthly fee simply for listing them.

PPC

Simply by placing a small piece of code on your site, a selection of advertisements relevant to the content of that page will appear on your site and you earn each time somebody clicks on one of the ads. Payment can range from a couple of cents to several dollars per click depending on demand for the subject matter. It is not unusual for people to create sites around a particular theme just for the income these ads can generate.

In most cases you have a high degree of control in that you can choose where to place these ad boxes, can choose the size and colour scheme and can block ads for competitors or other unsuitable sites. The main restriction is that you are usually only permitted ad boxes from one company on any one page.

Google Adsense

Without doubt, the biggest and most lucrative is Google Adsense. Subject to acceptance(generally you will need a quality, high content site with at least 20 pages) even fairly low traffic sites can generate a substantial income from these ads alone. You can see an example of the Google Adbox at the top of this page.

You can choose from text ads, banners, search boxes and category ads and can code your ads to identify which pages/sizes/designs etc work best for you.

Recommended Reading

Testing which ads work best is extremely important and can be the difference between earning a few cents or thousands of dollars.

This is best illustrated by looking at the case of Joel Comm as it wasn’t so long ago he was making only $30 a day with Google’s Adsense program. Then one day he began testing other ways to increase his Adsense earnings.

As a result, we’re not talking about Joel doubling his Adsense commissions from $30 to $60 a day but to a staggering $500+ per day!

By last December it had climbed up to making $18,343 in just one month and his case study shows how it didn’t take long once he knew how to tweak his Adsense pages.

Luckily for you, Joel documented everything he did and you can have access to it all where you’ll view actual details of what Joel he does. His book is crammed solid with Adsense marketing tips, must-have marketing information and I highly recommend that you check it out for yourself if you are using Adsense now… or ever plan to. Full details are available here

Other Recommended Sites

As Google has a minimum payout of $100 and does not allow sites in certain sectors eg gambling, you may find other programs are more suitable especially if you find Google are unable to deliver many ads to your site. In some cases these programs can be integrated into the Google program for those occasions when Google are unable to provide appropriate paying ads.
clicksor contextual advertising

Clicksor pay you 75% of the advertising revenues generated from your website from ads they provide and 85% on your own advertisers, and pay out at just $20. Offer links, banners, pop-unders and search boxes.

AllFeeds offer the full range of banner sizes, pop-unders, search boxes etc. and also make it easy to integrate their listings into Google Adsense when Google is unable to provide relevant paid ads. You can even create your own customized money making 404 page without needing to know any HTML or programming. Pays out at just $25.

Bidvertiser offers full flexibility in terms of layout and the option to block ads whilst showing only the highest paying ads. Text ads only. Payout at just $10 by paypal or $25 by cheque.

Targetpoint offers website publishers of all sizes to display not only the most relevant ads to the site content, but also the most profitable ads overall for each category.

You get absolute control over the appearance of your ads, supervision over ad content and up–to–date statistics on your site’s performance. Payment options include Bank checks, Paypal and Wire transfers (if eligible).

Bidclix has been around since 2001, serves over 30 million ads per day and is one of the quickest to make payment – just 15 days after the end of each month. Range of ad sizes and pop-unders available.

PAY PER IMPRESSION

If you receive sufficiently high traffic to your site, you can earn simply on the number of times an ad appears without any clicks or leads required. Usually paid as a multiple of 1000 impressions, this is known as CPM. Available as a pop-under or exit page without traffic requirements but also available for banners on your site if you generate sufficient traffic (upwards of 5,000 page views per month). Popup ads pay considerably more but are intrusive and not always suitable.

Please note that although they pay CPM, there is usually a minimum click through requirement of around .25% – check terms and conditions for precise details of each program. You will also be required to place banner ads at, or very near, the top of each page.

FastClick is one of the most well known, long established networks in this sector. You need only 3,000 page views per month to qualify and are paid on reaching $50. Option to exclude any inappropriate advertisers and to redirect any unsold space to avoid serving unpaid ads.

PayPopUp.com – If you have more than 200 page views per day (or 5,000 per month), you might want to consider joining PayPopUp.com. Webmasters can select from a wide range of media including Banner, Layer Ads, Pop-Under Advertisements to host on their websites and also select the category of ads being shown. Currently paying up to $1.80 CPM on US and UK popunder traffic or $0.18 for UK banner ads. Payout level of $20 through paypal or $50 by cheque.

PopUpTraffic.com, as the name suggests only offer pop-up ads and as such have no traffic requirements to meet. You can even place ads on any site rather than just the one you sign up with. They pay a flat $4 CPM for pop-up ads and exit ads or $3 for pop-unders. Layer ads will be shown if pop-up blockers are active on a computer. Payout at just $25 by cheque.

http://www.accelerator-media.com have a stricter eligibility program than most. In addition to the 5,000 minimum page view requirement they also require sites to be primarily content based with no more than 2 468×60 banners or “an excessive amount of advertising” on any page and you must have an active, publicly stated privacy policy. UK company with £100 minimum payout level.

For predominantly US/Canadian high traffic sites, consider Azoogle. You need 25,000 site views per month for which they claim to offer the highest CPM available (75% payout is considerably better than many other agencies)

Experclick offers greater flexibility than others in that you can state a minimum price for advertising you accept then advertisers bid for your space. If the price drops below, your own default banners are used instead or you can redirect to another CPM agency ad. You can also exclude ads by categories or by name. Company pay out 65% of revenue.

For personal reviews of a selection of CPM agencies visit http://www.astahost.com/cpm-online-adverising-networks-making-money-with-pay-per-impression-ad-networks-f109.html

PAID FOR LINKING

Anyone serious about getting top search engine ranking knows that acquiring text links from other websites is essential. It can however be time consuming finding suitable sites to carry a link so networks have sprung up to synchronise buyers and sellers. Generally only suited to sites with a Google PageRank (PR) of at least PR5, these networks pay you a monthly fee for adding links to your site. The higher the page rank, the higher the fee you can earn. If you don’t know the PR of the various pages of your site download the free Google toolbar which will show the ranking of each page you visit using Internet Explorer.

Textlinkbrokers.com is the largest brokerage by sales volume, inventory selection, and customer base & their search features make it easy for link buyers to find related pages anywhere within your site. Average monthly prices range from $7 for a PR sub page to $140 for a PR8 home page. 50% payout on wholesale price.

Text Link Popularity offer a new service whereby marketing staff try to find advertisers (Text Link Buyers) for any site with PR3 or above. 40% commission charged and the balance paid to you by Paypal.

Linkworth allow you to set your own pricing and they bring the Advertisers to you. Advertisers pay LinkWorth and LinkWorth pays you to ensure accurate payment for all transactions. You are able to approve each link before it’s placed on your website, choose how you would like to publish it on your site, and their system manages all of it for you. Ranking is based on their own “LinkRank” based on inward links found using the top search engines, rather than just Google. You will receive 70% of each transaction fee.

Linksmile.com provides a marketplace whereby those selling space on their site can set their own rates and list their details free of charge. If buyers take up your offer, you pay only a small commission rate to the agency rather than the usual 50/50 split.

The phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — in particular social-networking sites like MySpace, Youtube, Bebo and Facebook — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004, and has since become widely adopted. Despite the suggestion from the name, this isn’t an update to Web technical specifications, but simply refers to the way the web is used. Instead of web pages being a static one way distribution of information from the site owner to the visitor, Web 2.0 actively encourages all visitors to participate by adding their own content or comments, that is, uploading as well as downloading content.

With Youtube recently been sold to Google for $1.6 billion and MySpace selling for $580 million to News Corporation, there is clearly the expectation that money can be made from this phenomenom, but it doesn’t mean that all the money is going to the owners of these sites. As an individual or small business there are two main ways to harness Web 2.0 for your own benefit. With over 200 million video clips viewed every day at YouTube alone, there’s no doubting the demand for new video.

Create your own blog or content for other sites. See http://www.homeworkinguk.com/blogging.htm for more details
Use Web 2.0 as a means of marketing your own business by creating awareness. The social aspects of web 2.0 are revolutionising the way pretty much anything can be marketed. The viral nature of the internet, and in particular, social networking and bookmarking sites can be an extremely powerful tool for getting a message to a huge number of people in a short period of time for little or no cost. Just think about bands/singers discovered on MySpace or that video you found on Youtube and told your friends about. This is the method we’ll concentrate on, on this page.
Getting Started

Six Marketing Strategies In Web 2.0 World
By: Scott Bamboo

In Web 1.0 world, we are using internet banner ads, text ads, email, newsletters as our internet marketing vehicles to drive our marketing message to our potential clients online. Today, internet had been transitioned to web 2.0, new internet marketing strategies are needed to continue be successful in internet world.

With Web 2.0, we need to consider not only the new means of reaching our online audience but also the new nature of the social Web. Weblogs, blogs, and other web 2.0 sites dabbling with social media tools such as wikis, podcasts, videocasting, photo sharing sites, social bookmarking are the key marketing vehicle to drive internet traffic to the targeted websites.

So, as an internet marketer for Web 2.0 world and to be successful in an era where customers are freely discuss your products and services, you should consider the 5 important marketing strategies below:

1. Learn about social media

Social media is one the most important “must know” knowledge in Web 2.0. Thus, the first and foremost, you should participate in and understand social media by learning about it. YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr, digg, MySpace, and Technorati are examples of new engines that you need to understand in order to effectively use them to reach your markets.

2. Marketing Plan For Web 2.0

You should factor let your visitors to play a more important role in your new marketing plan for Web 2.0. Let your website visitors to create content on your site and pass it a long. You even can your passionate users to create promotional videos about your sites/products, then use them on your local TV channels and post them online everywhere to get maximum exposure.

3. Join & Participate In The Conversation

Social media applications are two-way streets that conversation happens between two or more parties. To get exposure, you can join and participate to these conversation groups. You can join as members to other social media groups of your niche marketing or you can add social tools and services (such as Weblogs, wikis, tagging, video blogs, etc.) to your library Web sites. Enable comments on blogs and allow users to contribute to wikis.

4. Be Remarkable

Social media is a form of viral marketing where interesting ideas and content get passed along rapidly. Hence, in Web 2.0 world, content is the king. You must have contents that attract your visitors that they can use, bookmark, share online / offline and get your content or message pass along.

5. Get Your Content Travel

Encourage visitors to bookmark and tag your content with a click of a button and allow users to repost booklists, book reviews, photos, podcasts, or videos on their own sites. Post your content on sites like Flickr and YouTube where it’s easy for users to find and share it. Make news feeds for new materials such as books, DVDs, talking books, and video feeds so that these materials can be shared by online users and get your contents spread to the internet world.

6. Be part of the multimedia wave In Web 2.0 world, images and static pictures no enough to attract internet users any more, video is the key driver for Web 2.0. Statistic shows that more than 100 million videos being download daily. So, the effective of video marketing must not be overlooked. Create short videos and post them to YouTube and other video-sharing sites.

In Summary

These are just a few strategies about marketing in a Web 2.0 world. There are still a lot of ideas for social media marketing where you can explore and integrate into your web 2.0 marketing plan.

Scott Bamboo is the author & webmaster for www.ultimatearticlemarketer.com. Visit Scott’s blog on Web 2.0 Traffic to learn how to drive traffic in Web 2.0 world & Easy Web Video on how to make internet friendly video.

Unlike using pay per click or paid advertising to drive traffic to your sites, videos can do the same job for no more than the cost of production. Once you’ve upload a video to one of the free video hosting sites e.g. YouTube, they are there forever generating free traffic.

Whilst everyone has heard of YouTube and MySpace there are many more social networking sites to consider.

Other then YouTube and MySpace, the recommended Web 2.0 sites to submit your video are:

•     Google Video – You’ll need to download a small piece of software in order to upload your video, but this is worth the effort
•     Yahoo Video – Smaller than Google Video and YouTube but still a lucrative place to upload your promo to.
•     SoapBox – An MSN video site.
•     MetaCafe – Like google video they offer desktop software to make uploading easier on their users.
•     PhotoBucket – has a Web 2.0 enabled video space.
•     Webshots owned by CNET also offering website traffic opportunities through online video sharing.

For a comprehensive list of around 140 sites visit http://www.web2revealed.com/bookmarkingsites/ then sign up at onlywire.com and socializer, useful tools for submitting to multiple sites.

Recommended Resources

How ToVideo

If you’ve no experience then I highly recommend these step by step video tutorials that’ll have you producing videos for traffic in next to no time. You don’t even need expensive software as you can quickly create videos using software you might already have, or can download for free legally. You don’t even need a video camera.

The How To Video Series includes 7 videos on YouTube traffic generation, 9 movies on video arbitrage (getting those visitors to the website you’re promoting)and 2 on video blogging plus reports on video hosting sites and other resources. Full details, including the free Video Marketing Tips Newsletter, with information on using Video to promote affiliate programs at no cost to you, generating Free Traffic to your web site using web video and how to use videos to build your Subscriber list, can be found at howtovideo.

Sites that Help Makers of Film and Video Make Money

The following Web sites enable independent video producers to make money from their work. Not only can you showcase your work but you can also earn a share of advertising revenue. As with most websites, most of these sites prohibit adult, violent, or hateful content.
Short animated and live action movies (generally under five minutes).

AtomFilms selectively license original short movies from amateur and indie creators, and pay them royalties from the advertising and distribution revenues. In some cases they also make advance payments. As income is based on popularity, some people only earn enough to buy a few drinks. But many earn hundreds of dollars, some earn thousands of dollars, and their most successful creators have made tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, through AtomFilms.

Revver is similar to YouTube, but they attach a short ad that plays at the end of each video. There are two ways that your video and the associated ad can generate revenue: from impressions/views of the ad (CPM ads), and from clicks on the ad (CPC ads). When a viewer sees a CPM ad associated with your video, you get paid, no click required. When a viewer clicks on a CPC ad associated with your video, you get paid. In both cases, Revver splits the revenue with you 50/50. Since ads are attached to the video itself, there’s no restriction on how your videos are distributed. The more people email your video, post it to other websites or download it from P2P networks, the more you can earn. When other members point viewers to a video, eg on a blog or other website, they receive 20 percent of the advertising revenue, with the remaining revenue split 50/50 between the maker and Revver.

Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on their site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher (which means viewers like the video). The license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal – you retain ownership of your video. With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it’s something spontaneous in your home or something you’ve scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe.

Brightcove allows you to set a per-download price (70/30 revenue split), or allow the company to insert ads (50/50 revenue split – affiliate sites that attract visitors to these videos can earn 20 percent of the ad revenue)

Current TV is made up of Pods: non-fiction short videos about what’s going on in your world, in your voice, from your point of view. Pods are around 3-7 minutes in length and generally use a character, action, or event to tell a story. They should also be sprinkled with information. If your Pod is chosen for TV, they’ll pay you for it. Each piece will be negotiated on a per-Pod basis. UK and US sites available.

For a much more comprehensive listing visit http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm

Recommended Reading

Plug Your Business! Marketing on MySpace, YouTube, Blogs and Podcasts and Other Web 2.0 Social Networks
The great thing about this book is that it’s full of practical ideas on how to maximise your internet marketing for free, organised from the most effective, simplest and quickest at the beginning to the more unusual and more difficult later on. As you gain more confidence using his on-line marketing ideas, you can proceed to some of the less familiar ones – refining and tweaking as you progress. He actually advises against throwing money around as a way of cutting corners.

YouTube -Making Money By Video Sharing and Advertising Your Business for Free
YouTube provides you the opportunity to not only advertise your business, blog or website for free but to also get paid for your contents. This book helps you to learn and utilize YouTube for generating extra cash with almost zero investment. YouTube have 12+ millions page views every day in average so it’s great way to advertise on YouTube for free. Here is an opportunity to capitalize on this virtual world.

Myspace for Musicians

“Myspace for Musicians” is aimed at musicians who want to understand how to use and promote their music on Myspace. This book is the most comprehensive and most up to date I have seen on the subject of Myspace and social networking for people looking to use Myspace for business.

nlike most advertising where you pay a fixed sum, Pay Per Click advertising charges only for results. You can list your web site at the top of the search engine results by selecting the keywords that best describe your site. Then you decide how much you are willing to bid for each of these keywords. The higher you bid the higher your site will be listed in the results set, but you only pay when someone clicks on your advertisement! With well written ads on less competitive keywords, you can get interested visitors to your site for as little as $0.01 each.

Recently, one of the top online marketeers put together a report that outlined the seven most effective ways to sell any product or service online. Using Pay Per Click Advertising, or more specifically, to , was his number one choice of marketing methods online!

It’s little wonder that Pay Per Click is wildly popular and it is also the only method that can drive huge amounts of highly targeted traffic to your site TODAY. PPC advertising is immediate! You can easily set up an account and be getting traffic the same hour!

Google AdWords enables advertisers to create and display ads on Google.com and the Google content network, which includes Google AdSense publisher sites like this one. Advertisers can choose their target audience, set their budget and see their ad almost instantly.

Yahoo! Sponsored Search works in a similar way to Google AdWords listing your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit.

Whilst the above two are way ahead of the rest, others are worth considering, especially if you are operating in a very competitive sector where Google and Yahoo can be very expensive.

Clicksor contextual advertising

Clicksor.com is one of the larger “pay per click” networks serving over 320 million impressions each month by partnering with over 10,000 specialized websites. In addition to “pay per click” text links, they also offer graphic banners by click or impression and pop-unders. Their advanced technology identifies fraudulent clicks and allows you to target through keywords, geographical location and even domain (eg .com only). Option to pay by Paypal and other banking options in addition to usual credit card facility.

Pulse360 (formerly Kanoodle) is probably a close runner up to Google and Yahoo. Unlike some of the PPC search engines, Pulse360 also pulls listings from other search engines to ensure optimum results. They also supply results to such search engines as Dogpile, CNet, WebCrawler and Metacrawler as well as 2,500 search-enabled websites.

Set up in minutes you can run any number of campaigns under one account, and monitor them online. The team at Pulse360 can even create your keywords, absolutely free! Their FoKus program provides you with keywords that will deliver targeted traffic to your site. They create your keywords, title and description and put them right into your account for you.

MIVA (formerly FindWhat.com) is a leading developer and provider of performance-based marketing services for the Internet and are receptive and flexible, able to tailor their service to match each advertiser’s needs — from a one-person firm to an advertising agency with hundreds of clients.

You can access your account any time of the day or night with their fully automated, personalized, and secure Account Manager and take advantage of their free suite of automated campaign management tools.

You can get started with a deposit of $25 (100% of it is applied to your click-throughs), but open a MIVA account with an initial $50.00 deposit and you will receive an additional $5.00 credit to your account.

http://www.excelseek.com offers the “Express Inclusion Program” for a one off payment of $19.95 whereby participants automatically receive free priority positioning for an unlimited number of sites and keywords. No charge for the impressions, clicks, or visitors you receive. Works on a first come first served basis. The first site listed for a keyword/phrase receives the #1 priority position. The second site listed for that keyword/phrase receives the #2 priority position and so on. You also receive $50 towards enhanced positioning on a pay per click basis.

Maximise Your PPC Campaign

There’s no doubt that Google Adwords can bring your business a lot of traffic but contrary to the impression given by the hundreds of “gurus” selling how-to guides, most people who have tried to run their own campaigns have failed to create an impressive return, with many getting little or no return for their investment.

A qualified Google Adwords Consultant can maximise the best return on your marketing investment and bring new customers to your business. As a fully qualified Adwords consultant, CIM certified, experienced internet marketer Paul Smith can ensure that your Adwords campaign is configured correctly to achieve the lowest possible price-per-click whilst maximising your click-through-rate.

To find out more or get a free, no-obligation consultation, visit http://www.adwordsconsultant.co.uk or give Paul a call on 08700 343 880 (office hours 9am – 5pm).

Recommended Resources

A few days ago Traffic Travis 3.0 launched with an amazing reception. Thousands of people have seized the opportunity and downloaded this outstanding tool, and they’re already using it to gain an edge over their competition in the search engines.

If you haven’t downloaded it already, then you should be aware that your competition probably has! Ask yourself — Do you really want to be giving them a head start using this? Or are you wanting to be ahead of the game yourself?
Here are just some of the tools you’ll find inside. Remember it doesn’t cost anything, it’s F-R-E-E!

•     Page analysis: Almost like having an SEO expert look at your webpage and tell you what you are doing right, and what you are doing wrong. This tool does all that, and then gives you solutions for improving your on-page SEO! Oh, it also gives you a grade. Are you an A+ student, or is your site going to flunk?
•     Position ranking: Keeps a daily, weekly or monthly record of exactly where your website is ranked for any search term. Check all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, Ask and Altavista) and see whether you’re going up in the search engines … or down.
•     Keyword finder: A cutting edge keyword finder tool to give you a huge number of relevant keywords.
•     Keyword sorter: An essential keyword sorter tool that enables you to categorize extremely large lists of keywords into targeted adgroups for PPC purposes.
•     Top sites for keywords: Quickly find all the top sites for your various keywords… then analyze them to see if you can steal some of their tricks.
•     Backlinks to site: Who is linking to you? Who is linking to your competitors? What pagerank are they? What anchor text are they using? Checking all this information by hand would be a full-time job, but Traffic Travis does it with just one click. And by analyzing your competitors with this tool you can find other great sites to buy/trade links with.
•     Project report: Generate graphs and reports on your search engine rankings and more. This tool is another fun one to use on your competition

PPC TOOLS

•     Keywords/details: Discover how many advertisers are advertising on each keyword and whether there’s a heavy turnover in advertisers. This could mean that the keyword isn’t as profitable as everyone thinks!
•     Top sites for keywords: Who are the biggest players in your niche? Which keywords are they bidding on? Suss out who your major competitors are, and then analyze their campaign. After all… they must be making money…
•     Websites Keyword list: A more indepth keyword snooping tool… this shows you whether competitors keep advertising on a particular word, or whether they drop it periodically. (Consistently advertising on a keyword means it must be really profitable!) This tool also easily shows ad ranking position, so you can see which positions seem to work the best…

There’s loads more but why not just go and download it and see for yourself! After all… it doesn’t cost anything! Find out more at Traffic Travis

SpeedPPC

SpeedPPC – PPC Marketing at Warp Speed

Whilst potentially highly profitable, creating successful PPC campaigns takes a lot of hard work and eventually you may have to choose between hiring an expert to help or limit your PPC activity, due to the time involved to track everything.

There are generally five main conditions to be met when creating a successful PPC campaign.

•     Highly targeted, relevant keywords.
•     Small, tightly grouped, ad groups based around the same terminology.
•     Text ads that match your keywords and terminology exactly.
•     Landing pages that match your keywords and text ads exactly.
•     Tracking mechanisms in place to ensure that the keywords are paying for themselves.

As if that isn’t enough to juggle, you also have to contend with sectors where too much competition pushes keyword prices up, and you still need to earn enough per sale to make your campaigns worth the effort. All in all, a highly time consuming activity.

Now however, there is an alternative. Jay Stockwell started running PPC campaigns in 1999, is an AdWords Qualified Individual, charges $500 an hour as a PPC consultant and has just released his software solution which can roll out highly targeted, high converting PPC campaigns 72,500% faster enabling you to get a month’s full time workdone in just 12 minutes.

If that sounds like sales hype take a look at the video Jay produced. You’ll see how he completes an estimated 145 hours of work, in just 12 minutes by creating 8720 highly targeted, low competition keywords, split into 436 Ad groups of tightly related themes, each matched to its own keyword targeted landing page.

Incredibly the software even allows for integration of datafeeds provided by your own company or by merchants to their affiliates, and can contain hundreds, if not thousands of products by automatically creating a campaign around every single product. These campaigns then link to a pre-selling landing page matching the products keywords which in the case of affiliate programs then links to the merchants site via your own affiliate links.

Speed PPC can save you an enormous amount of time setting up of Adwords & MSN adCenter campaigns and unusually there are no monthly costs, just a one off purchase. To find out more about Speed PPC, watch the video, and get more information from SpeedPPC

Ad Word Analyzer helps you instantly uncover targeted keywords with high search volume and very little competition. It also shows the supply and demand for all of your keywords.

SpeedPPC is primarily designed for companies running numerous campaigns but for those starting out or working on a smaller scale there are still two major problems with Pay Per Click Advertising.

•     It can be very time consuming to be effective.
•     It can be too expensive for most people to use.

Both of these problems have been solved by one simple piece of software! Now you can search for keywords AND their related Google AdWords and Yahoo campaigns using ONE single software program… Ad Word Analyzer!

And it’s SO easy to use…

Simply open the program and enter a chosen keyword. With a click of your mouse, Ad Word Analyzer will automatically return the following results:

A comprehensive list of all RELATED keyword phrases!

The number of searches that were conducted throughout the previous month for each keyword phrase!

The number of advertising campaigns that currently exist – for both Google AdWords AND Yahoo!

With one click you will have determined how to best market your product.

You will see if an idea is popular based on the number of searches (# 2) how much competition exists based on the number of ad campaigns under way now (# 3) and the exact keywords you can use to bid cheap to lock in the maximum profits! (# 1)

Think about it! With those three results alone, you’ve just shaved hours off the time it would normally take to conduct this type of research.

But it gets even better…

Ad Word Analyzer ALSO displays the number of websites that are associated with each keyword. Then, it takes that number and divides it by the amount of searches that have been conducted, giving you the exact search to results ratio! So what does that mean to you?

Armed with the results/search ratio for any given keyword, you can immediately gauge the actual supply and demand. The lower the R/S Ratio, the better the odds of you making money in that particular product or service niche!

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Useful Sites

Pay Per Click Analyst is an unbiased review of the top Pay Per Click Search Engines offering up to date Pay Per Click News, Fresh Reviews and Helpful Articles by Industry Leaders

Wordtracker – Check out which words people are searching for, and how much competition each word has. Free rial membership available.

http://www.trafficzap.com/ – FREE Traffic Tools

Keywords offers the top 500 searched internet keywords compiled from a database of over 350 million search terms extracted from popular metacrawlers.

Whilst there are now dozens of traffic exchanges programs available, to get visitors to your site, it can be extremely time consuming to visit enough sites yourself, especially when promoting replica sites.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to get the most out of traffic exchanges, there are now several free or low cost alternatives.

Sources for Discounted Online Advertising

Paid advertising online can be very effective, but can be initially expensive, particularly if you want to promote referral programs where you don’t see an immediate return on your investment. But did you know there are ways to get identical advertising packages at a fraction of the price?

Adtactics – One of the most innovative sites around, you earn credits from reading messages, viewing sites and displaying banners for other members and use these credits to buy advertising. Free and premium memberships available.

eBay

This might be a surprising suggestion but there are hugely discounted advertising packages available on eBay. In the past I’ve picked up a paid solo e-mail to the membership base of a GPTRE site for just $1 and links on a PR6 site for £1. Below are a few examples currently available from both the UK and US sites.

If you’re looking to boost the traffic to your site, but don’t want to spend a fortune on advertising every month, there are several options available to you. If you have a small amount to make a one-off investment there are several options that automate publicity, bringing floods of visitors to your site in exchange for just a few minutes work. Alternatively if you have little money but have plenty of time on your hands, there are now several sites springing up that will bring visitors to your site, not just show a banner, in exchange for you visiting the sites of others. Many of these also operate a referral program whereby you also get extra visits in exchange for the visits made by your referrals.

These sites also make it really easy to keep up to date with all the latest business opportunities, and other interesting sites

These forms of promotion are particularly useful if you have a replica site which cannot be promoted easily through high search engine ranking.

If you already have a steady flow of traffic, you can also generate hits by showing a random member’s site to your own visitors when they leave your site.

Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived second generation of web-based services, in particular social networking sites (eg MySpace), social bookmarks (eg del.icio.us), wikis (eg wikipedia) and blog networks (eg squidoo) that depend on online collaboration and sharing among users.

Often ignored as simply a place for young people to socialise online, they can be an incredibly cheap, quick and effective way of driving traffic to a website. Too big a topic to cover in a page or two, I’d recommend taking a look at a new publication, Web 2.0 Traffic System , which reveals 7 new Web 2.0 techniques which are proven To flood your website with thousands of targeted visitors in as little as 3 days.
General topics covered include:

•     What Web 2.0 is… And why every Internet Marketer must know how to leverage it correctly
•     The Underground Web 2.0 site the gurus want to keep hidden from you
•     How to turn free traffic into a huge profit
•     The fast blogging system that is working now!
•     6 No-Brainer techniques to get on the home page of a Web 2.0 mega power
•     The #1 resource any blogger must use to get more exposure and traffic
•     The growing underground social networking site that 72% of users are between 30-60 years of age and have plenty of disposable income
•     VSEO… What is it and the 5 must know rules guru’s aren’t telling you
•     The #1 thing to do right now to drive traffic to your website
•     How a simple Podcast can be your secret weapon
•     The 4 genres you need to making videos for to maximise profit on web video
•     The only 7 Blog directories you need to submit your Blog to

In addition, the guide offers site specific advice on the following:

Myspace

Information you must include in your MySpace blog
How to drive loads of targeted traffic from MySpace without getting your account shut down
How to quickly boost your credibility on MySpace
6 techniques to drive traffic to your website through your MySpace profile
How to use MySpace to strike JV deals
How selecting your MySpace username can multiply your traffic by over 200%
How to attract viral traffic to your MySpace page using a tiny piece of code

Youtube

A step-by-step system to driving traffic from Youtube and Google Video

Squidoo

8 step system to get up and running with Squidoo today
How to unleash the power of Squidoo to generate a fast and furious stream of traffic to your website
The 3 easiest ways to make money with Squidoo
4 advanced strategies to make your Squidoo lens a super power and generate thousands of targeted visitors

Digg

How to combine the power of Netscape with Digg to send your stats counter into overdrive
How to use Digg to generate an avalanche of traffic to your site
3 quick tips you should implement to get your stories on the front page of Digg
The 4 quick steps you need to take to start getting traffic from Digg

Get further details on this guide, visit Web 2.0 Traffic System

Press Equalizer

Some of the most effective on-going free traffic is that which you’ll get through a high listing on Google or similar search engines and the strategy with the best results so far in this field is Press Equaliser. A colleague tested this one for me and these are his results:

He submitted information into Press Equaliser for 5 test sites with 10 keywords listed for each of the sites. Press Equaliser then listed this information on numerous websites. It does this automatically; we don’t have to find the sites. He then typed these keywords in to Google every day and scrolled down 10 pages to see if we could find any of the 5 websites. For 4 days there was nothing and then on the 4th day all 5 websites started appearing. It was incredible to see.

It works by pasting your information (with your link to your site) on very high ranking websites which Google’s robot checks every 3 days for new content! All sites had a traffic increase with the highest recorded increase of traffic of 127%. Not bad for less than 1 hours work!

Press Equalizer comes with a concise, 21-page report detailing, step-by-step, how to use this strategy to help you duplicate this level of success. There’s just a one off payment of around £50 and you’ve got 60 days to try it out. If it doesn’t work for you, then simply claim under the no-strings guarantee.

Joint Ventures

Run periodically during the year, these promotions enable you to get a large number of subscribers to your newsletter, by offering a contribution to the huge collection of freebies on offer. They usually only last a few days, pushing people to react immediately to claim all the free gifts on offer. Usually on offer are ebooks, downloadable software, free access to membership sites etc. so if you don’t have your own product to give away you can easily offer a free ebook you’ve obtained elsewhere, (subject to distribution rights).

The following are currently accepting submissions:

•     Seven Dollar Giveaway
•     Only JV Permanent Giveaway
•     Goliath Giveaway
•     Fair Rainbow Give Away
•     E-biz Launchpad

Click Exchange

With each of the following sites, you earn page views on your site, based on the number of pages you view from other sites.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to spend all day building up your account you can usually purchase upgrade packages which give you credits and referrals. Alternatively, take advantage of the bulk buying power of an advertising co-op and get thousands of page views for a few dollars a month. Quality Page Views for example offer you at least 4,500 page views per page on 37 different traffic exchanges for just $15 a month for 1 link or $22 for 2.

Top 5 Traffic Exchanges

With what must now be hundreds of different traffic exchanges around, it can be hard to know which ones to choose. Hit Exchange Report operates a database of millions of hits delivered by hit exchanges since 2002 and the quality of the traffic delivered. They present that information in a convenient and easy-to-understand report. On average, each report analyzes 400,000 hits delivered over the last six weeks by nearly 100 hit exchanges in order to present you with the Top 40 Hit Exchanges. The report is updated weekly and sold by single issue or monthly subscription. You can get a copy/subscription yourself from TestHoopla.com or if you just want to know which are the top performing exchanges according to their findings, then you’ll find the answers below. I can’t promise to update this section every week but I will update it on a regular basis. You can however find the latest listing here.
September 29 2009 report
Overall Top Performing Hit Exchanges by statistical testing data only from Hit Exchange Report

•     HitsBoosterPro – #1 overall performance
•     Hit2Hit #2 overall performance
•     High Hits #3 overall performance
•     Easy Surf Exchange #4 overall performance
•     Traffic Splash #5 overall performance

Others worth considering are:

TrafficG – regularly in the top 5 overall performances – great if you want to target geographically
Linkcrews – Tokens earned per view increases as you move up the league table of points earned in the week. Bonus points as you surf plus weekly tokens from your final crew position.

Others worth considering are:

TrafficG – regularly in the top 5 overall performances – great if you want to target geographically
Linkcrews – Tokens earned per view increases as you move up the league table of points earned in the week. Bonus points as you surf plus weekly tokens from your final crew position.

WebCentreSurf

Whilst almost all exchanges offer you the chance to generate visitors at no cost, most offer an upgrade which offers considerable advantages in the way of increased visitor ratios (you need to visit fewer sites to get the same number of visitors) and often includes other benefits.

Of course, just viewing sites can get a little bit boring so the best sites add extra twists to keep you alert and interested. WebCentreSurf has always been one of my favourites as they throw in bonus credits at random intervals (but only if you’re paying attention) and after every 50 sites you get a general knowledge quiz with the chance to earn 1000 credits, along the lines of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. For once the questions have a strong British theme but I tend to chicken out at the 125 credit mark so I don’t know how tough the later questions are.

Up until now I hadn’t upgraded with this site but this week that changed when they announced a major improvement to their membership options. Every upgraded member not only gets free credits, free referrals and other surfing perks but you now get the chance to send a solo ad every month to every member of the program, currently around 13,600. Every member who reads the ad and visits your site earns 10 bonus credits and they are reminded that your message is waiting every time they surf. With upgrades starting at just $5 a month, this has to be the best offer you’ll see all year.

Magic Highway

Traffic Exchanges can be a great way for getting people to visit a website, either your own or a link provided by a site you’re promoting, but the way they really come into their own is by getting referrals so that you also earn credits when others surf. Unfortunately most of us have little success in getting more than 1 or 2 sign-ups, even for free. Magic Highway could end that problem without having to do any recruiting, upgrading or purchasing a downline.

Magichighway.com operates a treasure hunt every week whereby anybody who finds 18 or more of the 20 treasures (each with their own individual bonus awards) can get added to the Admin-Sponsored-Member rotator for new unassigned members. Alternatively you can choose a prize of traffic credits or setting one of the treasure questions to link to your site for the answer.
However even if you don’t find all the treasure you’re still guaranteed to be added to the rotator providing you meet their surfing requirements. As these simply require you to surf every day of that particular week, and visit an average of 100 sites per day over the week this isn’t too difficult to achieve. For more details visit http://www.magichighway.com

TopSurfer is one of my favourite traffic exchange sites and definitely has the best upgrade package. You get 100 free hits when you sign up and get a range of surfing options where you can earn cash or bonus hits as you surf. If you choose to upgrade (from just $10) you get thousands of free hits together with newsletter ads, free software and the ability to bribe other members to sign up to other programs you’re involved with plus many other benefits. I signed up for a year and got an incredible 74,400 hits added and 120 newsletter ads as well as loads of other benefits. Visit http://topsurfer.com/getws.cgi?referer=oconnors for full details of the wholesale membership package.

ClickCrazey is another site with random bonus credits and Focus points as you surf. Find letters as you surf to spell words and get further bonus credits. 50 free credits when you join. Monthly upgrade subscription available.

Banner Exchange

If you are able to add code to your own site, you can earn free banner advertising for your own site from every visitor to your own site simply by adding a banner. By referring others into these free programs you can also earn extra impressions.

With BannerBeast you get 1000 free credits just for signing up, and 1000 for each new member you sign up. You’ll even earn credits while promoting your BannerBeast page at traffic exchange sites.

Links from other websites

In additional to getting listed in search engines, another way for your site to be found is through similar sites so try to arrange for your site to be listed on as many relevant sites as possible. Use search engines to find appropriate sites and suggest that they might like to add your site details to their site. Usually you’ll need to place a link to their site on yours. One of the factors that affects your rating with search engines is the frequency with which your website address appears on other websites, so this will also help your visibility.

Squidoo – Many lenses within the Squidoo network offer the opportunity to add a link to your own site, completely free of charge. My own squidoo site at http://www.squidoo.com/homeworkinguk offers this facility so visit now and add your link today.

EmailTrafficTrader – get your linking details submitted to all their members (over 1000 and growing) and you could gain hundreds of links to your site within days and for free. Plus, members get daily updates and linking details for new members that join each day. A fast, free, and easy way to gain link partners.

LinkDash.com is an automated reciprocal link exchange service – You can boost your Link Popularity by joining their directory of participating partner websites. Optional paid service enables your links to be added to other sites without the requirement to add links to your site.

Link Helpers – Webmasters helping webmasters develop high value relevant links. Promoting ethical web-marketing using the time trusted pillars of relevance and popularity.

See http://www.homeworkinguk.com/adclicks.htm for more details of sites that sell links without the need to add links on your site.

For details of other traffic exchange programs, visit http://www.earnfromtheinternet.com

Almost every business can be enhanced with a website – even if you only operate in a small area. Most Internet Service Providers include web space with your subscription but if yours doesn’t there are many free sites out on the internet you can use. Your choice of company will be affected by the geographical area you wish to attract. If you are aiming at a UK audience you will want a UK domain (a web address ending in co.uk), if you are aiming at an American or worldwide audience you will be better with a US domain – e.g.www.abc.com .

Below I have listed a selection of companies providing web hosting for business use. Please note that many free web sites are for non-commercial purposes only. Most of the UK ISPs require you to sign up for their free internet access. You will need to access the site monthly to keep it active, but do not need to use the company as your provider unless you wish to.

Creating a website isn’t as daunting a process as it used to be. Many companies now provide you with templates to create professional looking sites in minutes. Some packages, most notably Site Build It! are comprehensive packages including literally everything you will need for running a profitable, successful business.

Alternatively, get an expert to create a site for you. Visit the Site Build It! Certified Webmaster Directory to find a Webmaster with a history of success to build a professional and popular SBI! Web site for you. Site Build It! Certified Webmasters have all built successful SBI! sites and have all met a strict set of qualifications set by SiteSell.

The quality of their work is monitored to make sure they provide consistently high-quality service and high-performing sites.

Not sure how a web site will benefit you?

Take a look through the following articles, for the one that matches your existing business or business idea:

• Network Marketing
• Online Auctions
• A local business with local clients
• Selling Your Services
• Intermediary – Earn finders’ fees on clients you introduce
• Affiliate Marketing – Earn commission on leads and sales for other web sites
• Retailers – physical product sales
• E-goods – if you can download it you can sell it online.
• Sales and Rental – property, equipment, services etc.

Or read the following case studies as told directly by small business people from around the globe — people who “took a chance” and then realized…
Their worlds had changed just by creating a website, and with no previous experience.
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$5.95 Aplus.Net web hosting

It can be hard to know which company to choose for your web hosting, so the opinion of other users can be invaluable. Aplus.net have been voted CNET’s most popular web hosting provider for six years and counting. In addition they have been rated number 1 on TopHosts Top 5 Web Hosts (Nov. 2008), were awarded FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Award (Dec. 2008), are in the Top 5 SEM Hosting Companies (Nov. & Dec. 2008) from Topseos.com, and have received many other acolades.

In addition, Aplus.net customers benefit from 99.9% uptime and a 30 day money-back guarantee with live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support. They place high priority on customer service and host all services in a “state of the art” data centre. And the price is competitive with hosting plans starting at less than $10/month – for Unix or Windows. So it’s no surprise that more than 200,000 customers worldwide choose Aplus.net to meet their hosting needs.

One of the companies I use myself is oneandone.co.uk. With a wide range of hosting packages from just £1.99 a month they are easily affordable for everyone.

Despite the low costs this is one occasion when cutting costs doesn’t mean a cut in facilities or quality. The company claim 99.9% guaranteed up-time and I’ve certainly never experienced any of my sites down for more than a matter of seconds

Depending on the package you choose you get up to £400 worth of software, on CD-Rom as well as the usual hosting package with unlimited e-mail forwarding, free e-mail autoresponders, e-mail forwarding and a catch all e-mail address.

If you’ve never created your own website they even provide “Website Creator” – online software to create a professional looking site in minutes. Try out the online demo now.

All packages come with a 90 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied, they will refund you your money although I’d be very surprised if you feel the need to make a claim.

If you’re trying to be as eco-friendly as possible then you might like to consider Eco Web Hosting. They not only provide reliable, carbon neutral web hosting but also have outstanding customer service – an average rating of 5 stars at Web Hosting Stuff. Despite their really low prices, starting at just £2.99 a month, you get all the features you’d expect from a web host plus £300 Software, 500+ templates and 100,000 images for you to use. Find out more from Eco Web Hosting

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Site Build It!

Without doubt, this is THE web hosting package – the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product – with the results to prove it.

Not only do you get all the usual web hosting facilities that you’d expect from the best hosts eg unlimited hosting, unlimited data transfer, unlimited e-mail accounts, e-mail and telephone support etc. etc. you also receive dozens of other features including:

•     Point and click page building
•     Page templates
•     Customized 404 page
•     Access Statistics
•     Tracker Links
•     Click Tracking and Analysis
•     Unlimited Custom Form Creation Tool
•     Database storage for managing, searching and reporting of form data
•     Unlimited Single and Multiple Sequential Autoresponders
•     E-commerce – Catalog & Shopping cart and Credit Card Processing
•     Affiliate Program
•     Blogging
•     PERL/CGI, PHP or ASP support No tech in SBI!
•     Submission and Auto Re-submission to Search Engines
•     Search Engine Listing and Ranking Reports
•     Pay-Per-Click Mass Bidding
•     Keyword Research and Brainstorm tools
•     Graphic Logo Creator & Editor
•     E-mail Marketing List Builder/Distribution
•     E-zine Publishing Tool including Spam Check and Open Rate Stats
•     Link Exchange

Free Web Hosting

If your ISP doesn’t provide a website for business use, click on the links below to check out some of the best free sites for business use. Do however consider purchasing a domain name of your own, even if you can’t afford or don’t need paid hosting. I always use GoDaddy where you can register a .com for around $10 a year, or even less when they run their frequent special offers. Check banners for discounts.

Free Website Hosting

000Webhost.com

You can never have too much web space, whether it’s to run your online business or to try out new projects. Unfortunately, the problem with most free hosting is that it is obviously free, with intrusive advertising over which you have no control. 000webhost.com is an excepion to this and is a professional shared hosting quality in a free hosting package. Founded in December 2006, 000webhost.com has a trusted free hosting members base of over 60,000 members and still counting! Offering professional quality hosting, support, uptime and reliability, they also have a great community of webmasters, which alone is well worth being part of. I now have 3 websites hosted with this company and can definitely strongly recommend them.
Register now and you’ll get all the following free of charge:

•     1500 MB of disk space
•     100 GB of data transfer
•     PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions
•     cPanel control panel
•     Website Builder
•     Absolutely no advertising!

You can get a free subdomain with them eg www.yourchoice.site11.com or for a small fee you can register a domain with GoDaddy or similar for just a few dollars and use that with the hosting package.
Get more information at http://www.homeworkinguk.com/000.htm

VSstore lets user build their own professional online store and business website. they offer a free online storefront ecommerce design solution which includes a professional shopping cart, ecommerce web hosting as well as secure online payment processing through tight integration with paypal and other merchant account providers. Their ecommerce software solution is easy to use and very flexible.

www.tripod.co.uk – 1GB available for personal or business use. Join the appropriate community for your site and gain extra publicity. If you already have a website hosted elsewhere, you can transfer your site in only 3 clicks, from any external hosting provider into your Tripod account. You just have to enter a few details about your current hosting account and that’s it!

Bravenet – In addition to free websites, get yourself counters, guestbooks, search engines, webrings, password protection, chatroom, ads, FFA site and loads more utilities – ALL FREE

For a fuller list and more information try the following:

•     http://www.homebusinessuk.co.uk/websites.htm
•     http://www.firstwebhosting.net for Great Reviews and Top Listings For Hosting Companies.
•     http://www.hostqueue.com – Provides Detailed Reviews Of Hosting Companies.

Whilst you can get your site up and running totally free (excluding your own time and telephone costs) I would thoroughly recommend you buy two things:

1. Get your own domain name. Most companies will allow you to divert the address to your free site, usually at no charge so this will cost you no more than £10 for a UK domain or £30 for a US domain including registration fees. Check the small print though as some companies have conditions over transferring the name when you are ready to pay to host your site.

2. Download probably the most important manual you will ever buy. Called “Making Your Site Sell” you get 1500 pages crammed full of information on everything you’ll need to know to make a success of your website, including a huge section on driving traffic to your site, written by somebody from his experiences not from theory, and it’s completely free.

Go to http://myss.sitesell.com/websuccessstory.html to find out more or click here to download the guide.

Remember

Keep it simple – people don’t want to spend ages waiting for fancy graphics to load, so they won’t!

Make it clear what you are offering – don’t spend 4 or 5 pages on fancy talk whilst forgetting to mention the product.

Make it easy to navigate the site, with links back to, at the very least, the home page, from all pages. On long pages there should also be links back to the top of the page from the bottom.

Make sure your contact details are on every page, whether this is e-mail, address, phone or fax.

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First Website Builder

Throughout the site I’ve frequently mentioned the benefits of creating your own website, either to publicise your own business or simply as a business in its own right. I know many of you have been put off by the idea that it is just too complicated or expensive, but I think I may have finally found the answer. The Newbie Club has produced “First Website Builder”. Newbie Club took a total beginner who had built her very first Website using FREE programs and graphics – and asked her to write a book about it. Then they added a further 3 books by world renowned Internet marketing experts Joe Robson, Tom Glander and Joe Barta and created the definitive guide for anyone wanting to build their first website.

In line with all the packages I’ve recommended in the past, this is another one worth way in excess of the asking price of $39.95 and comes with a no strings, no questions asked, 1 year money back guarantee.

UPDATE – This package has now been updated to include a 24 part HTML Course and such website building tools as a gizmo wizard which enables you to add special effects in just a few clicks, a mini site wizard for creating a no-frills mini site in minutes and a website encryption wizard which allows you to encrypt everything on your new Website to stop content thieves and spammers.

You can find full details from http://newbieclub.com/builder/? help_for_beginners

Click here for recommended books for creating your own website.

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Once you have your site up and running you need to tell people about it. The way you do this will depend on your type of business. If you are only operating in a geographically small area, you need only use the web address in all other advertising and business literature so that interested people can access the site for more information.

If you are hoping to get work from a wider area, then you need to get your web site listed with the top search engines – Yahoo, Altavista etc.Make sure you read “Make Your Site Sell” to ensure you maximise your chance of getting listed. You can either go to each site and enter your site description or you can use one of the many programmes or services available that will do it for you. Recommendations are below. You will need to resubmit monthly to ensure your site remains listed, but should be aware that it can take weeks or months to get listed by some of the bigger engines.
Submitting to Search Engines

There are several products and services that will automate your web submissions for you. Many offer limited free trials which are worth checking out prior to buying anything.

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The one I use is by a company called self promotion. You don’t ever have to pay for the service if you don’t want to, but if you decide it is useful, you can pay a fee of your own choosing. If you make a payment the details you have entered in the past remain on the server making it easy to resubmit each month. You can choose which companies to submit to automatically, and links have been included so that you can manually register when appropriate. They even e-mail you if the submission fails for any reason. I paid $10 (just £6) and can honestly say it’s one of the best investment I’ve made on my business. For further details go to the website and try it out. http://selfpromotion.com

Or try VERICA!’s Web Submission Package

Submission to 13,500 + engines and directories nationally and internationally (AltaVista, Direct Hit, DMOZ Open Directory, Excite, Fast/All the Web, Go/Infoseek, Google, HotBot, Lycos, NBCI/Snap, Northern Light, Starting Point, WebCrawler, Yahoo)… 6 month program – one submission every month. Automatic rule check prevents accidental spamming when engine rules are broken. Listed with VERICA.COM! their family-friendly directory, free from erotic content.

Generally I’m not keen on services that blast your details to thousands of sites, but in this case, the testimonials are extremely impressive and clearly genuine.

Free Advertising

Vivastreet is a completely free, very active, online classified ads site, with a site specifically for the UK. Sites are also available for many other countries around the world including USA, Western Europe and South America.

You can place your ad in a wide range of categories including “MLM – Work from Home” and “Other Part-Time Jobs” if you’re looking to recruit others, a wide range of service categories if you want to advertise your services and sales categories to sell your wares. You can also include a photograph, web link and contact details.