Website monetization, defined as converting your website traffic into revenue, can take many forms:

Contextual Ad Programs

Contextual ad programs, such as Google AdSense, show contextually relevant ads on your website and then split the revenue with you derived from those ads. You simply place some code on your site and the ad program (Google AdSense) does the rest. Google analyzes your page and places relevant text or image ads on your page. So if you web page is about baking, then the ads shown would be about baking. When a visitor to your site clicks on one of these ads, you make money.

Affiliate Programs

Another way to monetize your website is through affiliate programs. Affiliate programs allow you to earn a commission for referring someone to another site who makes a purchase. Affiliate programs are a win win proposition for businesses and affiliates. Business get promotion and sales at no cost to them and affiliates get the opportunity to earn money without the expense of selling products themselves.

Amazon.com was one of the earliest sites to offer an affiliate program and their program remains very popular today. Becoming an affiliate can be extremely lucrative if you know what you are doing.

Direct Ad Sales

For almost as long as there have been websites, there have been ads displayed on those sites. If you’ve got your own website, you can sell your own advertisements and keep 100% of the profit. There are many forms of advertising you can sell on your site. These include, banner ads in various sizes, text links, and paid reviews. Include information on your site about the benefits and costs of advertising on your site as well as your contact information. You can also choose to outsource your advertising to sites such as textlinkads.com. These sites will assess your site’s value and help you set a reasonable price for your ads. They handle all of the hassle of communicating with the advertiser and collecting the money but they also take a cut of your earnings.

Sell Your Site

Another way to monetize your site is by selling it. Once your site is earning money, it becomes an asset and has real value. A typical valuation method for setting a website’s price is twelve times a site’s monthly profit. So for example, if your site was generating $100 a month in profit, you might expect to sell the site for $1,200. You could of course get more than this amount if you found the right buyer.

* Make it seen
Be sure that wherever you are going to put your video it will be seen. It is recommended to place it on your home page or in a conspicuous space so that it is easy to find. You can also put it in forums, blogs and other networking sites and be sure to put a link going to your website to increase traffic. A good video is worthless if only the Webmaster and his mom can see it!

* Be creative
Use slogans, images, special effects, graphics, spoofs, pet tricks, amazing feat, practical jokes and other captivating ideas and elements that are sure to draw attention. The first key point to remember is make them want to see your video and the rest will be easy.

* Make it short
It may be catchy; it may be interesting but a video more than 5 minutes will already bore your viewers. Make it concise but informative. Be sure to include important details on the video, anything your visitors need to know about your products. You can even put a clear label such as “Watch our 2-minute video”. This gives your visitors the idea that what they will be watching will not consume so much of their time.

* Use sound
Match your innovative presentations with appropriate sounds or music. This can add more spice and fun to your video. A viewer who does not appreciate the images he is seeing but may still finish the video if he enjoys the music he hears.

Below are ten easy-to-follow tips on how to improve your traffic, not necessarily in order. Its usefulness will still depend on your commitment and dedication.

* Be the best
If you have a specific niche then I suggest be an expert on it. Some bloggers look for common interests where they can acquire useful information and tips. You can offer books reviews, do’s and don’ts in blogging, online money making, vacation havens and any other topics you have good experiences and knowledge that you want to share.

* Be connected
Include RSS, Bookmark, and tag contents such as Technorati, del.icio.us, Flickr, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.

* Be thoughtful
If somebody took the time and effort to write you and asks a question, spend time to answer them even if not instantly, especially if it was a suggestion or a good idea for your blog. This would mean a lot to your reader and builds a connection between you and your readers.

* Be imaginative
Make the most out of your space by incorporating comments, graphs, polls, meters and other interactive tools. This creates a lively environment and active participation from your members.

* Be interesting
Do not bore your readers. Be the kind of person that would exude excitement, information, and fun with his personality and posts. Know your visitors and what they enjoy getting to keep them coming back.

* Be alert
Proofread, proofread, and proofread. If you can have somebody to do it for you better. A perfect topic can wind up a disaster if simple typo errors and grammars are not checked.

* Be generous
It is sometimes appropriate and always fun to give out freebies such as eBooks, software, and other downloadable to your ever loyal readers.

* Be active
This is very effective during the early stage of your blog when you don’t have many regular readers yet. The photosphere is a huge network and can serve as a useful avenue to promote you site. Participate in other people’s blogs, forums, and other online networking.

* Be smart
Use simple and effective software in monitoring and maintaining your blog. Tools such as Blogger, WordPress.com, TypePad, and LiveJournal can automate some of your chores. It can also provide key indicators and stats on how well your site is doing and what you can do to turn the table.

* Be organized
Archive and categorize your posts. Some readers may not exactly remember the title of the article but the month or category type could be easier for them to note.

Basic & Special Features:
Check for network uptime, disk space capacity, amount of data transfer, supported languages/scripts or databases, and security level. These are the basic things you need to consider regardless of what kind of website you are going to setup. They have a big impact on your site. Your website should be up and running 24/7 so that anyone at anytime can visit it.
Features that may also be useful include various email functionalities, domain management, file administration, and other free add-ons and software. They can automate and ease up tasks in maintaining your site.

Customer Service:
There are instances when your Webmaster already checked everything and still it won’t just work. This is best time to test your hosting support and customer service. Customer representatives should be professional at all times. They should be able to address your concern immediately and with utmost consideration. Most web hosting companies nowadays have 24/7 online chat.

Service Level & Warranty:
Like every other service, you should look for one with an agreed service level. This guarantees their commitment in what they offer. Most people bypass this procedure but you must clearly understand their service level agreement. It will give you an idea what kind of service to expect. Also, most hosting companies now offer either a 30 or 60-day money back guarantee.
Charges & Fees.

Before charging your hosting plan to your credit card be sure that you also check other rates. If you are lucky and patient enough you can find great deals and packages. Also, ask about any other fees they might charge you for some services such as installation or configuration setup.

Ask Around:
Surveys and polls are helpful in one way or another. You can check online to have an idea which web hosting companies offer excellent services at good deals. There are also surveys that list down top web hosting services by category – Windows hosting, Dedicated Hosting, etc.

This can save you time and somehow guarantees that you won’t pick the wrong service.
You can also check forums and blogs regarding best hosting deals. Most of these networking sites are hosted by a third party thus they can give recommendations. Some hosting sites also post a list of their major clients to show that they have good reputation.

A dependable web hosting service is one that can satisfy your hosting requirements anytime and at any given circumstance. If it can provide more than what you need and expect to receive then I would say it is more than reliable.

If you are doing any kind of search engine marketing for your site, you can examine its effectiveness simply by referring to the Google’s crawling trend offered by SEOmeter.com Still in the initial launching stage, they currently offer free entries to their system for the first 100 websites. Once listed with them, your site can enjoy additional exposure in their top ranking list pages if your site is one of those that are heavily crawled by Google.

For example, top-20 web directories section features the top-20 most crawled web directories on the Internet. Their blog section offers useful tips related to search engine crawling andindexing. They also have a nicely written post on how to make Google crawl your site faster. It’s always nice to find new webmaster tools and resources out there, and SEOmeter.com is definitely worth your look.

For a link bait to be successful and to get the expected result of generating more traffic, a link baiter can make use of several hooks. Link baiting can take the form of news, informational, humor, contrary and fear contents.

News hook – making your site the source of news tidbits and fresh information is one way of generating the much coveted traffic. Being the first to make a scoop on a current event will entice other webmasters to make a link to your website. News readers will turn to your website every time they want to know what is happening around the community and around the world.

Informational hook – the internet is an easy, fast and inexpensive means of access to information. Providing this useful information will encourage readers to make a link.

Humor hook – many people are looking for an outlet to break the daily routine. By providing jokes, funny stories and videos readers will be enticed to click on your site. Surfers will come back often in the hope of finding amusing content and will click on a link referenced link to see if other funny things are provided as well.

Evil hook- negative or mean statement about a person or a product will encourage a reader to click on a link to verify the validity of the statement.

Fear hook – is possibly the most effective link bait. A headline that stimulates the fear of the reader will have the effect of an influx of traffic. Readers will click on links to search for explanations.

Link bait may generate the desired traffic until your server crashes but after all is said and done, good quality content will push a website to the top of a search engine ranking.

Would you take the risk and email Google asking them to exchange links with your website?

I’m trying to get this blog at the top since its my main blog where I post all my articles and thoughts. My targeted keywords are Webmaster Blog and I’m already ranking at the top for these keywords. The problem is I always like to be number one and I always manage to get there, but what if the number one is the Google blog itself !!

Well, I guess I’m going to have settle down with the current rankings and be quiet.

Nowadays, blogging is the in thing if you want to make money online. A blog is a source of passive income available to people who can only spare 2 to 3 hours daily in front of a computer. Stay at home moms can find ways to augment the family income thru blogs. Many people make a comfortable living with blogging as the main source of income.

Making money from a blog is pretty simple and uncomplicated. The most important aspect of blogging is that it doesn’t really need large capital outlay in order to realize income. What a blogger needs is a steady and regular readership and a more than fair amount of search engine traffic. Google would ensure a steady amount of search engine traffic if you set up your blog account with Blogger or with WordPress.

One way of making money with your blog is by signing up to promote affiliate programs. A certain percent of the sale is paid to the blogger for the service rendered-that of providing a link to the affiliate companies. Reviewing and promoting affiliate programs need more than being merely advertised in your blog. To maximize conversion, you need to carefully review the programs in order to be credible and to gain the trust of the readers. Visitors would need assurance that you have tried and benefited from the programs before they buy.

A blog is an ideal advertising space to be sold to merchants, affiliates and to other bloggers who wish to promote their products. The value of the blog advertising space is dictated by the blog’s popularity. A more popular blog would naturally command higher price for the advertising space. Adsense is another blog income earner. This advertising network would provide you with ads relevant to the context of your blog and you earn money every time visitors click on the ads.

Writing reviews that promote merchants and/or sites is another way to make money with your blog. Advertising products and services in your blog is a sure income earner. A word of advice – you need to try the product or the service before you make the review. This is to ensure that the review is truthful and that you have a considerable knowledge of the subject. Gaining the trust of the readers will ensure that readers will come back to your blog every time they need points to be clarified. Increase blog traffic means increase blog income.

All the above mentioned ways of making money with blog is not possible if the content of the blog is boring and does not appeal to the readers. A fresh and attention catching content is vital to the achievement of blog traffic. Take advantage of the rush to write. This happens to all of us. Ideas seem to flow effortlessly. By writing several blog posts at one sitting, posting one blog and keeping the others to be posted later will ensure fresh blog content for the days to come.

Applying and practicing these simple tips would ensure a steady income from your blog.

I’m used to having my articles copied without permission but seeing Google ranking a useless automated blog, instead of ranking my blog. That did heart a lot and I was really upset about it all day.

I complained about the issue on webmaster forums, I left a comment on the automated blog asking the owner to remove my article from his blog, I also contacted/reported all the blogs that have copied my content without permission. Guess what, no results came from all of this and it was a big waste of time.

When all hope was lost and I was ready to let go of the issue and move on. I remembered that Google always has a tiny url on every results saying: Dissatisfied? Help us improve.

So, I went on and sent my complain. I did not expect much and I really did not expect a real human to read it.

Today, I searched again for “How to upload files to your virtual private server” and I was surprised that the automated blog, was removed from the results pages !

This whole issue wasn’t really that important but I learned from it something important, Google does care after all!

Anyway, one of these blogs is a free blog from blogger.com, so I went on and reported it. The response was very fast so I think its an auto responder for copyright infringement cases.

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Hi there,

Thank you for your note. It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the text of which can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office website: http://lcWeb.loc.gov/copyright/ and other applicable intellectual property laws, which may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity.To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail, not by email) that sets forth the items specified below. Please note that pursuant to that Act, you may be liable to the alleged infringer for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that you own an item when you in fact do not. Indeed, in a recent case (please see http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees. The company agreed to pay over $100,000. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.

To expedite our ability to process your request, please use the following format (including section numbers):

1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon. This must include identification of specific posts, as opposed to entire sites. Posts must be referenced by either the dates in which they appear or the permalink of the post. For example,
http://example.blogspot.com/archives/2003_01_21_example_archive.html#2104575

2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing upon the copyrighted work listed in item #1 above.

YOU MUST IDENTIFY EACH POST BY PERMALINK OR DATE THAT ALLEGEDLY CONTAINS INFRINGING MATERIAL. The permalink for a post is usually found by clicking on the timestamp of the post.

3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit Blogger to contact you (email address is preferred).

4. Include the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the allegedly infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”

5. Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

6. Sign the paper.

7. Send the written communication to the following address:

Google, Inc.
Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043

OR Fax to:

(650) 618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA complaints
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
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I don’t know but it seems exaggerated that we have to go through all this to report copyright infringement at blogger.com. The guy copied all my articles and he placed a linkback at the bottom of each article, to this blog as the original resource. So its very clear that the content was copied from here without permission. Even if he’s linking back to my blog, that doesn’t give him the right to copy my articles. I guess I’m going to have to fax them what they need and hope things won’t get more complicated!

I also hope I won’t end up faxing them, each time a blogger at their site copies my articles!

With Google Adsense, expertise is not really necessary to earn that very desirable revenue. Earning revenue is pretty much simple. All you need to have is a website where you can display other people’s advertisement. Google Adsense is a potential income earner of any website. Income is earned every time a visitor clicks on the ads.

However, you may wonder why other website owners earn hundreds of dollars every day while others earn a paltry sum. Could it be luck? Or could it be because those profitable websites have something that you do not have?

The success of any internet advertising campaign largely depends on the click through rate (CTR). The higher the click through rate, the higher the adsense income generated. To achieve high CTR which would also mean higher revenue, a website owner must make sure that the content of the website is of high quality; concise (no one would want to read long and boring content); always fresh and updated. He has to make sure that the content of the website has relevance to the ads displayed.

The color of the ads should match or should enhance the color of the website. At a glance, visitors will think that the ads are just extension of the website. Be sure that the colors used make the content easy to read. A website cluttered with pictures and other features would distract visitors. A simple layout on the other hand will have the effect generating higher click through rates. It is advisable to keep the number of ads placed under the allowable limit so as not to overcrowd the webpage.

The ad placement is another important factor in increasing adsense revenue. Some ads are placed horizontal, others vertical and some are even placed in the middle of some text. The most popular format though is the large rectangle. It is an effective CTR producer because these ads looks like web links and readers click on without really noticing that they are clicking on the adsense. Google suggest the use of vertical instead of horizontal ads because surfers tend to avoid horizontal ads and banners. Another rule of thumb is to place the ads at the top portion of the screen and at the right side of the page. Most people are using the mouse with the right hand so that clicking ads placed on the right side of the page is easier and more convenient.

There are so many ways of increasing adsense revenue, some useful and very effective, some with mediocre result and some would need spending a certain amount in order to earn more. It is up to the website owner to find the most effective means after all it is he who would reap the benefits of his efforts.

Now, im using a program called WINSCP, to upload files to my VPS account and its similar to total commander. So you won’t have a hard time using it, if you familiar with FTP ”File Transfer Protocol”. Click here to download the program WINSCP.

A few years back, another way to generate traffic was introduced – the social bookmarking. Prior to the internet boom, socializing means joining social circles or groups that shared your interests. Be it a garden club, a book reader club or a needlecraft club as long as you will be able to share your thoughts and ideas.

Social bookmarking is basically the same. It is a means of getting connected with people who share your interests. The only difference is that it is done on the web. Aside from connecting people, social bookmarking is an exciting way to generate traffic and of course a most productive source of internet income.

Digg.com is one of these social bookmarking sites. Digg would literally send tons of visitors to a website. Once your submitted page is bookmarked, thousands of visitors would rush to your site. Basically, every one can use Digg for free. You can submit as many pages of stories, videos, pictures and articles as you want. You just have to register to join the Digg society. Signing up with Digg will provide you with the chance to choose buttons that you can add to your blog posts. These buttons will allow your readers to easily “Digg” your post. The “Digg” will signify vote for the content. The article that has the highest number of “Digg” will naturally be on the Digg front page. On the other hand, stories that do not have enough “Diggs” will go down the ranks and will eventually be “buried”.

When a webmaster’s Digg link or button is clicked, the visitor will be sent to the Digg site. After logging in, the site will appear as URL and the visitor may post a message or a comment about the site. Think of all the traffic you will get and the links Digg will point back to your site. Your web traffic will surely be increased every time visitors log into Digg. Backlinks is a very effective traffic generator.

Signing up with Digg will be very profitable to a webmaster’s business venture. Because Digg pages almost always rank high in Google, readers will easily find your submitted pages and will click on your website thus generating instant traffic. Digg, as a social bookmarking site will give the webmaster the chance to get connected with other people with the same interests, a reputation of being specialized in a certain subject is developed by spreading his message to peers. Aside from increasing traffic, this is also a way of reaching out to potential customers.

Digg, com is a social bookmarking site that a webmaster would choose to promote his website and to increase web traffic. Any smart webmaster would know that good web traffic is tantamount to big earnings and profit.

The internet marketing boom, however, made building an online business within the reach of most people. Marketing tools and programs that ensure the success of any online business are made available to online entrepreneurs. Along with this internet marketing craze is the affiliate marketing revolution.

The popularity of affiliate marketing is growing day by day. Never before has the work at home opportunity been so talked and raved about. People are now using the internet to earn additional income and others are using the web as their main source of income. Affiliate marketing can be simply explained as promoting somebody else’s business in your own website in exchange for a certain percentage of the generated sale. In effect, you are a partner of the business entrepreneur and your sole responsibility is to promote his products online.

On the part of a merchant, the most important feature of affiliate marketing is the remarkable exposure he will get just by choosing the right affiliate marketers. Promoting his products in thousands of websites is easily done at a fraction of the advertising cost if he has to do the promotion himself. Moreover, with affiliate marketing, the need for a pretty big work force and sizeable operational expenses is eliminated thus reducing investment. An affiliate program is one of the easiest ways to maximize profits. A merchant would only have to supply the link, decide on the amount of the commission and presto! Be on the way to success.

A website owner, just like the merchant would also derive benefits from affiliate marketing. Just like a silent or passive partner, a website owner or in this case the affiliate marketer does not have to bear overhead cost nor any other cost for that matter since most affiliate programs are free. Also it is not necessary to stock the products promoted since in the event of actual sale, the customer is sent to the merchant or to the vendor of the product. To maximize earnings, the affiliate marketer can run several affiliate programs for various clients from a single website.

The affiliate marketer’s foremost duty is to see to it that the sites are visited by potential customers and that these visitors will be turned into paying customers-meaning the visitors will be encouraged to buy. Using the pay per click program is a sure way of directing visitors to the site. Google Adwords is one of these pay per click programs that will certainly pull in visitors with their cleverly written ads.

With the boom in the internet business, the most effective affiliate marketing technique on hand and people with high ranking websites as far as SEO is concerned, affiliate marketing can be very profitable and a good source monthly income for anybody who would wish to venture in any online business.

The content: The substance, and information on the site should be relevant to the site and should target the area of the public that the website is interested in. Choose keywords properly. Make sure that your keywords or phrase describes the content of the webpage. And since every page will have different contents, keywords too should also vary. Page titles, which are shown at the top of your browser, are the most important thing you easily control when optimizing a site. You need to have the proper keywords in that title. If Internet users are going to find the keyword in your title, then most likely, you’ll get a chance of being clicked. It’s also advisable to limit your number of words to 8 or less for your title.

The usability: The site should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable. For the sake of usability, make use of RSS feeds. This will ensure that your website is updated regularly and latest information on your website is carried to the people. This will also increase your search engine ranking, because search engines are upon the look of websites, that are regularly updated and have a good keyword density.

The appearance: The graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant. Take professional help in designing and updating your website according to the formats laid down by the search engines. Generally speaking, your website is mosaic. And one of the key features of a website’s success are its design and usability, which must be taken into a count simultaneously. Web design is making your website to the limit inviting and appealing. That’s why always think about what to place at it and how to do that.

Now is the time to host your website. Shared data centre infrastructure is considered to be a wise choice for web hosting. Colocation hosting is similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colocated server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the hosting provider may provide little to no support directly for their client’s machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. With high levels of physical security, colocation facilities’ power generators that start up automatically when utility power fails, usually running off diesel fuel (though natural gas is probably also possible), motor generators and other alternatives to batteries, with air conditioning for the computer equipment in the building you will enjoy the freedom to focus on your core business and speed up your website access by outsourcing network traffic to a colocation service provider with greater bandwidth capacity.

These all factors will help you to get a search engine optimized website and achieve more traffic and more business. Care about your business. If you’ve made your first steps in the online world, keep it up!

Suppliers have long been able to pay their 2CO set up fee with PayPal. Later this week, many customers will have the option to pay for their purchases with PayPal as well.

This will allow customers to pay for products and services with the funds in their PayPal account, even if the supplier does not have their own PayPal account and only uses 2Checkout. The PayPal payment option will be available for all non-recurring orders in the following currencies:

Australian Dollar (AUD)

Canadian Dollar (CAD)

Euro (EUR)

British Pound (GBP)

Japanese Yen (JPY)

U.S. Dollar (USD)

Resource: 2Checkout Blog

23 years old Marek W. from Cieszyn has written an amateur piece of software for so-called “website positioning.” After typing the given keyword into a search engine [Google, it turns out] the positioned website pops up as first item.

The man used the official website of Polish president Lech Kaczy?ski for testing the software. When internet users typed “kutas” ["penis"] they got the official president’s site. Furthermore –

it was the first result.

They played with this for couple of months – right up to March this year. That’s when the 23 years old was traced by investigator from the Katowice police office.Finding him wasn’t difficult – the man used his home computer, which police easily traced by its IP address.

The computer amateur confirmed that he wrote the program. “I just wanted to verify my skills and check if the software works” this was his explanation during the hearings.

Well, if you ask me, the word “Kutas” in google has 500k results so its not hard to be number 1. Its not like targetting “web hosting” or “real estate”. I don’t even understand why he built a software for it, just get a few quality backlinks with the keyword “Kutas” as your title and give it sometime.

Anyway, Insulting your own president world wide is not a great thing to do but I hope they take it easy on him. Here is the latest news from google about Google Bombs:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html

Google pagerank is not only a tool to measure the importance of a web site, it has also become a symbol for almost all webmasters. The more pagerank your web site has, the more respect you get from other webmasters. In fact, if you have pagerank 7 or higher, you will start getting hundreds of natural backlinks talking about your high pagerank !

As of today, it has been 116 days since the last pagerank update and the new update should have been weeks ago which means its VERY late. I can see alot of webmasters starting to go crazy on forums and blogs. Some of them posted that they check their pagerank every 10 minutes hoping for a change, they’re having a hard time sleeping and can’t concentrate on their work anymore ! Google pagerank has become more like a black hole, if you get sucked on it, there is little hope of saving you.

You should go back to the start and think it all over again. Almost all of us work online to earn some extra money, for that  you will need targeted traffic coming to your web site to sell your products/services, in order to get targeted traffic, you will need good rankings in the major search engines. Which means you need unique content and quality backlinks from related web sites.

This is the proccess that we all follow and its no big secret. My question for you is, where the hell do you see the words “Google Pagerank” in this plan/proccess !?

Google pagerank is only important to those who sell/exchange links. Its also important for seo companies, in order to show their clients that they’re good at what they do. Other than that, it has no importance at all. My advice for you is not to worry much about your google pagerank and concentrate more on your web site products and content.

Internet marketing is something that can cut-off your physical efforts and still can bless you with lots of money. There are many ways to market your products on the Internet. The world is moving towards globalization and therefore, you need to be explored across the world and not only to a particular region. Anything can be sold on the Internet right from the microchip to a giant wagon! All you need is to evaluate your product or talent and market it over the Internet.

If you are a good writer for example, you can write articles, blogs and forums and get paid for it. Internet marketing includes pop-up windows, text advertising, ad-banners, email marketing and many more that can appear on famous websites and can generate business for you.

Link building and search engine optimization are two of the greatest marketing tools in which, the links are posted to other websites and when a visitor clicks on that link, he or she is then directed towards your site. Search Engine Optimization is something that can bring your website up in the search engine’s results, therefore generating more traffic to your website. The greater the traffic on your websites is, the higher are the chances to sell your products and services.

It will surely be a waste of time if you try to put up a website, have visitors check out what you got, and then lose them instantly. This is what normally happens if you don’t get to plan your design effectively. All your ideas, effort, and money go down the drain.

There are some tips that you can always follow to ensure that you have the most effective website set up.

1. Be as informative as possible. Do not simply rely on information. Instead, go for the juicy, interesting ones—those types that customers will be digging in. There are already a lot of tools to help you out with that one. You can check out popular blogging communities such as Technorati or Digg.com and see what topics people love to read and talk about. You can also use free keyword selector tools to determine what “are good keywords” these days and use them to search for interesting articles. You can also participate in forums so you’ll have an idea what ticks in their minds. Once you have a list of excellent topics, you can start writing about them.

2. Get rid of any inconveniences in your design. Thus avoid scrolling texts, blinking letters, or bold and flashy colors. For one they are irritating to the eyes. Second they are not really necessary. It’s good to have a perfect blend of colors and a great layout, but don’t overdo your design. You can use a little flash, though, and some funny animation.

3. Make your website truly easy to navigate. You can do this by minimizing visitor’s clicks as much as possible. At most two clicks are sufficient. A click is a manual action; no matter how simple the process can be, it still requires energy and effort. Nobody will surely like to dwell on websites where information is real hard to find.

4. Put variety into your site. Too much media is bad; so are plain texts. Strike a good balance between the two. For example, if you’re designing a travel site, you can combine your review with pictures of the place. It makes visitors relate to your stories a lot better than by merely reading them.

5. Settle for small-size media files. It’s true that you should have audio or video formats in your site but do limit their sizes. They eat bandwidth too, especially if you have a real-time online streaming system. This will then slow down the speed of downloading your webpage. Not all people are patient on that. The best thing you can do is to compress these files with free software available.

Web design is more than graphics or art. It also incorporates words. A good web designer should be able to create superb chemistry between these two.