How to improve my website ranking is a common question that many business owners ask themselves. The answers are much easier than you think. This blog post explores two ways

Good Website rankings are becoming a passport to more clients for many local business owners. The increase on the volume of searches on Google means that many consumers hit their PC to make a purchase long before the yellow pages. Smart business owners realise this and are altering what they do on line. The important part of having a great ranking is to rank for a relevant keyword that your market is
looking for.

1. Use a Blog

Websites and blogs are different and yet many traditional business owners shy away from blogs and blogging. The Najeda online site that you are on now is actually a blog. The design is simple and works.
The thing is that one of the quickest ways to have a high search engine ranking is to have a blog. Google loves them. Because of the way they are structured and the ease of adding content, within a matter of weeks you could have a blog filled with relevant content. If you made one post a day. By the end of the month you could have 30 plus pages of great content.

Google will index blogs much faster than HTML websites. This will help you get found quickly. One of the best software platforms for a blog is WordPress. There are amazing free templates all over the internet you can use and for the cost of hosting and a domain you are all set to go. It is possible once you have a domain name and hosting to have your blog live and on the internet within an hour.

2. Research your keywords and use them

Keyword research is getting easier all the time with so many free and easy ways to find all the key words you will ever need. The important thing though is to think about your customer. Exactly what is there pain or problem? When you know that think about what they will be searching on. Then use these words in the content you write for your blog. If you want to dominate a market, build those keywords into your posts.

No, I’m not Shakespeare, nor will I ever be! I’ll leave that part to Donna, although I am writing more these days.

A question that I’m often asked is where we should be manually pinging our blogs. And my usual answer is no, we don’t need to go out and manually ping each blog site. But what we do need to do is provide a ping list in our Blog Settings. That’s not all we need to do to make this process automatic – we should also install a plugin that will prevent you from pinging every time you edit a post, which will get you banned from the ping services – not good. Pinging will often result in backlinks – which is good!

The plugin that I use is free, and it’s called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer Plugin – you can just go to their download site, download it, install it, activate and register it with them. So in exchange for your email you get a great Ping Optimizer.

Now, let me give you my ping list. To included this in your blog, go to your Dashboard, Settings, Writing, then scroll down to the bottom, and just paste it in. If you have any sites you’d like to see included – please, let me know!

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

Affiliate programs are a perfect method of making money on the internet. Why is it perfect? This is why:

You have NO customers to deal with
You have no inventory or stock to keep
You have no financials to organize

Those are just three points of advantage when it comes to affiliate marketing. There are also others such as the potential to literally earn tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. People who work regular jobs probably have no concept of that kind of money, but it is very possible online.

So you want to know how to make money with affiliate programs. Here’s how:

Preselling

Preselling is the art of warming up your website visitors to a product. This usually involves either a review or an experience of yours which narrates the product in a favorable light. It’s often a good idea to compare other similar products too, this makes your opinions seem well rounded and justified.

CPA – Cost Per Acquisition
A hot way of making money right now is through pay per lead or CPA offers. It’s always harder to make a sale than it is to have someone fill out a survey or submit their email address. Companies like Copeac and AzoogleAds have great CPA offers which are a fantastic addition to any affiliate website.

Other things you need to consider when making money with affiliate websites are PPC (pay per click) advertising, email list building, content writing and of course market research.

Affiliate programs are an ideal way of earning a living online. So what are you waiting for? Get started today!