‘Word of mouth’ advertising simply means spreading the words about a site, product or anything via humans. In other words, it is the most easiest, super performing and cheapest forms of advertising and/or marketing method. In our daily life, word of mouth is everywhere. Remember when your friend suggests you a song? Or a favorite restaurant? Or which car to buy? Or did they show you a amazing website they just found? How about that weight-loss product they which they used?

All of these are ‘word of mouth’ free marketing. It is a good method as long as your website, blog or forums falls under ‘general’ categories such as entertainment, music etc

Consumer vs Seller

How can word of mouth marketing benefit consumers?

I am no marketing genius, but i can tell you this. If i am about to buy a new car, i would definitely take advices. If i am going on a movie we would definitely watch the one which everyone seems to be talking about. Won’t you? As a result ‘word of mouth’ advertising is very beneficial to the consumers. Because it gives the us, the consumers the knowledge we need, the reviews, the experience and information of the product or simply the recommendation of what/what not when we need something.

For a seller, word of mouth is viral. If people are talking about ‘it’[assume 'it' to be whatever you want] then that ‘it’ is a hot money maker.Period. Every form of business uses the ‘word of mouth’ advertising methods. Be it by creating stunning advertisements for there products or creating controversial stories or reviews. This form of advertising cannot be out-beaten by any other. People are tend to do, to buy or to see what there family members, friends and everyone else is.

however its useless if you trying to sell something, do affiliate marketing, make money via adsense or cpa. because you are making your own family members and friends to buy something which isn’t worth the time or efforts you put in.

How can ‘word of mouth’ help small business/sites?

Specially on the Internet? Does word of mouth just means telling about your creations to your family and friends?

word of mouth is not limited to just ‘you telling your friends & family’ but in a more simplified sense, if your site is amazing and worth the time for your visitor then those visitor [who ever they are, from any corner of the world] will definitely tell others about your site, that is the word of mouth.

like how we come to find about sites such as facebook, youtube, blogger, bing, etc etc most of them are via word of mouth, not advertisements that you come across. Always remember content is king, no matter what your niche is, if you want to dominate it then concentrate on quality. Put your self in the shoes of your visitors and think like them.

Here is what i do, when i create a website, or a blog post or anything online. I first test it out myself and ask my friends to test it too. Then ask yourself,

• do i like this website?
• will i buy this product?
• is this webpage worth my time?
• am i enjoying the sites design?
• is this site user friendly?
• are these posts and information valid and worthy?
• Will this benefit me?
• Is this the right price?
• Are these information relevant to the topic?
• Will i recommend these to my friends?

be honest to yourself because you are visiting the site as a visitor and do what you would do while surfing other websites on the Internet.

How can i start the next ‘word of mouth’ revolution??

Easy there. Don’t get carried away, its not easy to get people talking. Specially for us bloggers, no one actually reads blogs these days – thanks to the countless number of ‘unwanted’ and ‘repetative’ blogs out there. But there is still hope.

Word of mouth is a very hard advertising & Marketing form. But it is very well worth the time & efforts you put in aswell.

There are always ways to make your site popular by ‘word of mouth’, how?

1. Create topics that are short, simple and to the point. Give your visitors what they are looking for, don’t send them on a wild goose chase.

2. Write about controversial topics, this would definitely get you lots of criticism, but on the other hand it is a good way to give short term boost to your website traffic, this method works best in sites related to celebrities and current world issues, etc

3. Comparison – compare a subject, a product or website with others or with yours. Give your honest opinion about these. This will help the visitors make a better choice while you play the role of a middlemen

4. Write about hot and current topics. Share your view, after all this is the Internet and the only reason you are going to be successful is by being honest to yourself and giving your opinion, within limits of course.[make sure you don't go wild, it could do the opposite of what you want lol]

5. Don’t try to force your visitors or clients into doing ‘word of mouth’ advertising, this is mostly seen in the case of ‘e-mail this to your friend’ ‘share it with your friend’ ‘send this to your friend and get this/that free’ etc. Such tricks are short-lived, maybe to get something those visitors might do as you ask, but you are forcing them to do so. And its a proven fact that the others who receive those emails or any sort of info from friends are less likely to visit your site or even try it out. It will be somewhere in the spam/junk folders.

6. Be funny, creative and think out of the box. No one is going to talk about you, if you are like every other ordinary blogger/seller. Word of mouth works when there is something ‘unique’ or should i say ‘crazy’ to discuss. But remember, it could be also embarrassing and life destructing if you do something extreme foolish, like most of those youtube stars do nowadays.

7. Don’t create a hoax, never lie. Have you seen about the story on CNN recently about a 6 year old boy flying away in a hot air balloon? and later it turned out to be a hoax. This is a best example of ‘word of mouth’. Sure it created a story and made it a international news. But now that is turned out to be a hoax, it is going to be opposite of the parents might have expected. Long story short, don’t lie just to get fame or popularity. Specially in the online world, fame & popularity is useless because its only limited to your ‘user name’ or a particular site. Creating a hoax in order to be famous or get good ‘word of mouth’ visitors is going to be very harsh later on. The consequences can be fatal in some cases lol

8. 1 small trick for ‘freebies sites’ is to give freebies for ‘free’. Did that make sense? Well here’s the thing, nowadays 90% of the freebies sites on the ‘Internet’ are NOT free. The site owner obviously wants to make money, its either a CPA or some sort of obstruction the visitor has to face in order to get his freebie. If your freebies are ‘free’ it will definitely get you lots of ‘word of mouth’ visitors. But then again, how will you make money? The answer to that question is easy. You make money by giving freebies. Do a search on google, there are many CPA networks that have ‘freebies’ offers which you get ‘paid’ for to promote. So imagine if you are extremely popular in your niche, this 1 cpa offer can bring you big bucks without forcing your visitors to fill unwanted surveys, etc.

Last but not the least remember to go according to your long term plans. Word of mouth can also be achieved if you keep it simple, honest and don’t concentrate on just making money!

Good luck & i would like to apologies for my delayed posting – thank you for being patient everyone.

regards, SJ

That is the first most question i will ask before you go further. Blogging as you know is very popular and almost every day there are around 50,000 new blogs born. This makes blogging a very popular activity among people. However most people blog only for a purpose. Mostly for personal reasons.

While on the other hand some blog for earning a income. There are also blogs from corporate companies that blog about their products and services. There is a recent trend among blogs and there usage. Many people are now using blogging platforms for various purposes and blogs are no longer used as blogs. You can use a blog to start a arcade site, a article directory, a wiki, a link directory, the list is long. But blogging is still the king of online discussion.

Advantages of blogging – why i blog!

As you already know blogging is becoming quite easy. The best part about it is that anyone can get a free blog on blogger, wordpress or any other service they want to use. So starting a blog is very easy and cost free. There are many advantages of blogging . These are the advantages of blogging in my own theory. In other words i love blogging because of these advantages.

1. Blogging means ‘web log’. In other words you are your own boss. You don’t need to listen to others or follow instructions. Blogging lets you to express yourself. Which is why you can blog about anything you want. On the other hand writing requires you to follow specific guidelines.
2. Blogging for passion. In other words blogging without the intention to make money. Blogging gives you the platform to talk freely and you don’t have to scatter around the Internet to express yourself.
3. You have full control of your time and your blog. There are no time limits and you can post whenever you want and whenever you want.
4. When you blog – you talk. Everyone is free to read your blog posts and your thoughts, articles and work is open to the world. You get all the credit.
5. Blogging helps you build a brand and gains loyalty among your readers
6. Your blog can be customized and optimized to be presented in any way you like, giving you the advantage of how you want your blog to look.
7. Blogs are search engine friendly, no matter what your article is about – Google will surely pay you a visit.
8. Blogs are easy to create and maintain. Some blogs have drag and drop features and you can get pretty much anything you want from your blog.
9. Blogging is irrespective of time and place for both the readers and the authors.
10. Blogging allows you to participate and socialize with your visitors and readers.
11. Blogging helps you to further develop your writing skills. The feedback you get on your blog posts can help you gain more knowledge and shape your skills and talents.
12. While blogging you discover amazing ideas and innovative solutions to problems and issues. You share your knowledge with the world at the same time others share theirs with you.
13. Blogging involves social media and encourages discussion. Blog posts spread like fire on the Internet.
14. If your blog is regular and informative, then the power of ‘word of mouth’ is at your disposal
15. you can create polls and surveys among your visitors. You can do lots of research without actually annoying your visitors
16. Blogs have plugins and widgets that makes blogging very competitive among all other methods of website development and discussions on the Internet.
17. Blogging gives you the advantage of ‘earn while you learn’ and ‘learn while you earn’. The potential is endless.
18. Blogging saves time – you create, edit and publish posts direct from your blogs. You don’t have to go through 10 different sources in order to publish your work.
19. Blogging saves you money – some features of blogging and its compatibility gives you the ability to have any functionality on a blog. Thus saving you money from buying other resources such scripts,etc
20. Your blog lets you experiment different possibilities.
21. Blogging gives you self satisfaction. The biggest reason why many bloggers blog is for self-satisfaction. When you feel happy and when your hard work starts paying , no matter what purpose it is. The feeling is great!
22. Blogging gives you the opportunity to make money and educate your readers.
23. Blogging keeps you busy, if you are bored or don’t have anything better to do you can always blog!
24. Blogging makes you self discipline. You learn lots of things such as time management, proper way of communications and sometimes even anger management when you get spammed continuously!
25. Blogging gives you the power of online and offline networking. Not just that it also lets you fight a system and ask for changes. Blogging is ultimate tool for freedom.

Tell me why you blog?I hope these advantages encourages you to start blogging if you don’t do that already!

Take care and keep in touch, till then have a good day,

SJ

Its almost the same thing as a artist without imagination, a road without cars or a job without payment. Many blog owners who are successful knows the power of these small little files known as plugins and usually those who fail at blogging are the ones that never experimented with plugins.

Which is why you must know about your possibilities and expansion into the blogging world. WordPress is a excellent open source platform and the best fact about it that their are endless possibilities for creating your ‘dream blog’ with wordpress and getting almost any feature you want working in a wordpress blog and all this is possible because of plugins and widgets.

So i prepared this list of 10 most useful and must have plugins for any wordpress blogger. Also i have included 5 bonus plugins which are not a ‘must’ but helps in enhancing your blogs!

[Please note that the list is arranged alphabetically and all plugins are equally important]

1 . Akismet

Akismet is from the creators of wordpress itself and it is already available to you by default, i can’t imagine surviving without akismet. Akismet blocks and stops Spam in your blog which is a necessity for any active blog!

Akismet is free to use and it requires a API key for it to work, you need to register at wordpress.com and get a account, this account also grants you a AIP key to use with akismet anywhere on a wordpress blog.

2. Add to Any : Share/Bookmark/Email Button

This is one of my favorite plugin, this plugin is has been powering my blog and spreading it viraly since the start. The best part about is that its not ‘visibly abusing’ to your visitors and just a small button on the end of each post which has resulted in so many sharing and caring for my posts. I recommend this plugin to any blogger because it is a viral one!

3. All in One SEO Pack

This plugin is the backbone of my blog, its the life of my works because this is the plugin that has been generating endless amount of organic Google friendly traffic for me every month.

AIOS pack enables you to easily add keywords, title, description and meta tags to your post making it very search engine friendly, this plugin is a MUST if you want to generate organic Search engine traffic.

Using this plugin i am ranking in top 10 on Google for many keywords and my search engine traffic is never less then 300 unique every month from Google for those keywords, which is a very big thing for me considering that this blog is only 2 months old.

4. Comment Luv

Spread the luv!

Comment luv is a plugin that enables you to give back to your readers, using this plugin the people who comment on your post has the ability to use a snippet of their own blogs feed, which means that they would love to comment on your blog! This plugin helps you get social – in few short words it will increase your comments count because their are people who loves comment luv blogs.

You need to register on the comment luv website to get it, but its free so welcome to the community!

5. Comment Relish

Ever wondered how to get loyal visitors? or increase the amount of your RSS subscribers? or better yet thank your visitors for participating on your site?

Well Comment Relish does just that! It will send a automated personalized message, just like a auto-responder from aweber or getresponse, the best thing about it is that it won’t spam your commentators, it only sends the message once per email. So that means you can thank them for commenting on your blog when they do it for the first time only!

I use comment relish to remind those readers of subscribing to my RSS feeds and to follow me on twitter, this is working like a charm and is really helping in the growth of my blog at the same time not spamming the commentators to death.This plugin is also free.

6. Contact Form 7

This is a must have plugin for every blog, specially for every new blog!

Contact form solves a very big issue among wordpress bloggers which is having a ‘contact form’ using which your visitors could contact you, it builds your own branded contact form which does the job very well, you can add and include custom fields and can have a form about anything you want, be it feedback forms, contact us form or selling advertising on your site. Plus its really easy to use and insert on your pages.

7. Google Analytic Plugin

If you don’t have this plugin in your blog then you rather stop blogging right now!

Google analytic plugin easily connects your Google analytic account and wordpress blog, this plugin is important because you want to know each and everything that is happening with your blog and the outside world. Tracking your visitors and then optimizing yourself to perform better is what every successful blogger does and this is the sole reason why you need to use Google analytic.

8. Google XML site maps

Since Search Engine traffic what matters most for any blogger, you need to provide the search engines with a ‘passage’ to each and every corner of your blog!

This is where this plugin comes into play, smartly designed this plugin creates XML site maps which tells the google bot of the whereabouts of your pages, posts and every single corner of your site, the more the bot crawls the more higher are your chances of SE traffic and higher rankings!

9. TweetMeMe Button

Twitter is perhaps the most viral social media till now and its really easy to take advantage of this!

Tweetmeme button makes it easy for your visitors to tweet/retweet your blog posts and spread the word, the one thing i noticed is that tweetmeme button gets more attention then any other share/save buttons which makes it viral and infectious! This is also used by industry giants such as mashable and tech crunch and it usually creates a twitter trend for them, so why not take advantage of this?

10. Digg this Button

Digg is very well known to everyone, which is why you need a ‘digg this’ button to get your articles and blog posts on the top!

The best use of digg this button is getting your posts indexed fast, believe it or not but search engines loves ‘social buzz’ and digg has helped me to get some of my posts indexed in less then 12 hours which is very good and welcoming news for us bloggers!

Bonus Plugins

These plugins are not a ‘must have’ but their use are really fantastic which is why they are making to this list!

1. DoFollow plugin

This plugin removes the evil ‘nofollow’ tags from your blog and thus increasing the amount of attention and comments you get on your blog, but be warned you need to use ‘akismet’ if you want to use this one because it will double the amount of spam comments you receive!

2. FeedBurner FeedSmith

Feeds are the heart of any blog and having subscribers to your feeds is important! This plugin detects all possible ways to access your feeds and redirects them to feed burner making it easy for you to track your subscribers.

3. Subscribe to Comments

This plugin gives the option to your visitors to subscribe to other comments on a blog, thus increasing the amount of comments and social interaction among your readers.

4. Top Commentators widget

More like a widget then a plugin but you need the plugin installed and activated in order for the widget to work, it enables you to show your top 5,10 or any number of commentators on your blog, this creates a competitive spirit among your readers and increases the amount of social interaction and comments on your blog. The widget can be displayed easily on your sidebar, footer or any widgetized space using the widget tools from your blog dashboard.

5. WP-Cumulus

Evey wordpress blog uses tags, but displaying those tags in your sidebars looks very ugly.This plugin makes your tags look more organized and cool, by displaying them in a flash embedded 3-d space.

That’s all for the top plugins but remember you need to add them to your plugin directory and adjust the settings of each individually, and respect the copyrights of the plugins.

Also many plugins might not go with your current themes so you will have to test them before that, and some themes requires certain plugins to be functional such as limit post plugins or page navigation plugins, these plugins are common which is why they are not included in the list, these plugins are supplied by the theme owner or designer.

P.S i don’t like spam and i don’t recommend you to abuse any of these plugins and spam!

Don’t forget to share and Buy me a smile (see sidebar) and of course join me on twitter, my fan page & subscribe to the feeds to stay updated. Till then have a great day,

SJ

Anything that is stolen and re-used without the permission of the original author/creator is plagiarism, you know when you use to steal information from Wikipedia for your school projects? or stealing your competitors content for your own clients? this is the first hand example of plagiarism, the Internet has made the entire world a very small village, and communication is so fast that it is possible for someone stealing your content within the next 10 minutes of it being published.

But the plagiarism that i am talking about here is about the the content[mostly articles, scripts,software,images] that you create and which get stolen. Plagiarism surely is very hot topic on the Internet world and their is no doubt 80% of what you see and what you get online from ‘any’ website or ‘any’ guru is actually a ‘remake’ of someone Else’s work, this is how it goes, you get a idea you sell it, the other uses that idea and adds some of his own to it and then sells its again its a whole new idea! But when it comes to articles and web content, specially for bloggers, then you don’t want thieves stealing your work!

Why? because plagiarism hits any webmaster very hard, although their might not be any advantage to the thief, but their surely are disadvantages for you! That is why your content must stay protected, because you have worked hard for it and if someone else is profiting on your hard work then that is simply unacceptable and not fair!

But the question arises, How can you detect, protect and punish plagiarism??

There are many smart webmasters and equally smart thieves, so it all depends on your knowledge on how you deal with it, because some times you might not even know that your content is being stolen and used elsewhere!

How to Detect plagiarism?

Many people don’t know that they are victims of plagiarism and as a webmaster its YOUR responsibility to keep checking on the Internet and find thieves so that you can defend your works. Their are many plagiarism detection tools, that can detect and inform you about stolen and dupe content. Below are the top 5 tools that i would recommend anyone to use.

1. Copyscape : Copyscape is the most widely used tool to detect plagiarism and dupe content, but its not free for life and after certain inquires you will have to pay for it or wait a month, but so far its the best one out their!

2. Doc Cop : Doc Cop is another free tool, but you need registration before using it, its performance is very similar to that of copyscape and would recommend it as an alternative

3. PlagiarismDetect : Yet another awesome site with more functionality but it requires registration too and the free version is limited.

4. RePrintWriters : This service checks your entire article to find and detect possible copies, excellent tool for article and content plagiarism detection

5. CopyRightSpot : More similar to copyscape and does not require registration

How to protect yourself from plagiarism?

Like they say ‘prevention is better then cure’ its better you protect your content from getting stolen then rather finding thieves. But how can you protect them? Their are many ways to protect yourself from plagiarism.

1. Most content thieves are those who are new to ‘blogging’ or newbies looking for articles to post on directories, squidoo, hubpages, paid to write etc, these people have absolutely no knowledge of what they are doing, but they like spamming, the most easiest way to keep such people away is by showing ‘Page protected by xxx’ signs, most of them won’t mind stealing.

2. The ‘not so newbs’ may not be scared easily by logos or signs you put on your pages[which looks very ugly for a website or blog, trust me] for such users the best option for you is by disabling the ‘right click’ feature, i know that you want to know how to disable that, but it will take lots of time if i explained that here, so i would suggest googling it, for wordpress their are plugins which do that automatically for you.

3. Avoid using your self-written content on ‘other peoples’ sites, what this means is avoid hosting your content on sites like ‘paid to write’ example associated content, etc. Unless you know what your doing, you should always know that once you submit to those sites, your content is no longer yours. Its fine if your selling those articles but if you don’t want others to use them then avoid this.

4. Avoid using free sources, like ‘free blogs from wordpress.com or blogger, because their is no guarantee that the content is yours and anyone could easily steal those, other then that don’t use ‘tweaked content’ on your site as well, tweaked content are ‘remakes’ of someone Else’s articles, which can be easily done with soft wares, so if your doing this and if those articles are stolen then you are in no way going to be the original author of those articles!

Don’t use your articles multiple times, on multiple sites [same articles] and DON’T submit the articles you use on your site into ‘article directories’ for link building, because not only will you get rejected, but if you do get accepted you will lose your main sites page rank and Search engine rankings for ‘dupe content’ so avoid that. I rather write new articles exclusively for article directories.

5. Make your articles your domain/website related, make them so hardcore to edit that the editor will waste lots of time doing that or best of all, include links into your articles to your other articles or sources from your website. This way when they copy your content without editing then you get free ping backs and track backs this will not only inform you that someone stole your article, but it will tell Google that the article is yours and Google will credit you and ‘ban’ the other website for dupe content. [This has worked for me so far]

How to punish the thieves?

Even after all you do their are chances your content might get stolen, mostly by those ‘auto blogs’ that just hack into your RSS feeds and take everything away. So how can you punish thieves that had stolen your content?

1. Start nice and good, send the webmaster a nice email and ask him nicely to remove your content and explain him why its not good for him for keeping your content[don't threat] and what could happen to his search engine rankings and page rank. [THIS idea has worked for me 99% of the time]

2. Send a email to the ‘web hosting company’ of that website, you can find this information easily by checking the websites ‘whois’. Tell the web host your problem and show them information and everything they need to know, this would get the webmaster hosting account ‘banned’ for breaking copyright laws and plagiarism

3. Use services and forums of reputed companies, social groups and anti plagiarism services, complain or report the webmaster and i am sure you will get lots of help from their, i personally did the same a few times and found lots of help. If the website which had stolen your content is selling some products or services then you can write reviews about them and what they did to your content, even tho this sounds good but it will take time and i personally don’t think link building for some thieves is a good thing:)

4. Threats : They always work, in fact threatening to sue someone for stealing your information always works because the thief knows they stolen and directing them to few documents on the anti-plagiarism sites will show the thieves that they are punishable by law, one single sentence about ‘suing you for copyrights infringement’ is enough for them to remove your works. Their are some experts that even threat about harming the thief and actually that always works, they harm the thief’s website reputation and income, some of these involve banning the thief’s web accounts on this hosting or worse his AdSense account by click frauds![i don't recommend this]

5. If nothing works and if your so desperate, then you can actually sue them, this is costly but if you got the amounts and if you sue someone then you might actually make back the money if you win, best of all it will make other thieves aware of your seriousness. In fact one guy made his ‘content thief’ rank no 1 on Google for words such as ‘biggest content thief’ you can try that too, but its up to you to handle it, i rather use method 1,2,3 and maybe 4 and just make the world aware of the thief.

Like always when their are closed doors their are always other open doors or maybe windows too lol, so discover more and play safe, keep your content yours only – simply because you had worked for it!

Has it happened to you?

yes in fact it did, 4 of my articles where stolen by normal websites and bloggers and around 8 of them were ‘tweaked’ and used by auto-blog sites, i did what i told here in this article and i had 90% of them removed.I try keep my site user friendly so i don’t block right clicks or put 100 different logos, but if their is someone threatening my credibility i will fight back!

So what, their is nothing bad in copy pasting! really?

To all those who actually want to steal content or think their is nothing that is bad about it you must know that, Google will penalize your website, remove them from search engines, ban your web accounts like AdSense and drop your page rank to 0! ALL THAT for plagiarism, just 1 article and your doomed! so why risk it? their is no money making in stealing content and selling/using or doing whatever you want with it, because at current Internet age, users are becoming very web savvy, same goes for the Internet webmasters and buyers – so your not fooling anyone!

Anyways i think this is enough to get you hooked with your content and make you realize its value, if you want to know anything drop me a email or feel free to contact me.

Once again STOP PLAGIARISM!

Don’t forget to share and Buy me a smile (see sidebar) and of course join me on twitter, my fan page & subscribe to the feeds to stay updated. Till then have a great day,

SJ

Traffic is the most precious asset of any website, blog or online business, and almost all new start ups fail in protecting traffic loss, which results in their business being paralyzed before they could even start to the fullest potential.

But the most important thing is, that those who fail in this are mostly the ones that do not realize the difference between ‘real people’ and the term ‘traffic’, but i can’t blame them, because the so called gurus teach them about traffic as if it is some bots which will pump us money like a ATM, but on the other hand those who learn about the value of traffic and understands the needs and requirements of those people who visit their sites and then use the learned information to optimize their service are the ones that will really make money online.

So keeping that in mind, i did my research and found lots of interesting things and facts that will make traffic coming to your site vanish. So this is how you can ‘not’ lose traffic from your sites, do and don’t of blogging. Remember making money blogging isn’t rocket science, all you need to do is learn by trial & errors.

1. Less advertising: Don’t Offer any advertising on your website or blog if its less then 30 days old.

2. Stick with your niche: Make sure your website carters to the needs of the subject on which its built upon, i.e stick with your niche don’t wander off.

3. Don’t fake comments: Do not do fake comments on your posts or add fake subscribers to your feed burner.

4. Engage: Participate actively in communication by replying to comments on your posts.

5. Be Original: Make sure your content is original, fake content of any sort, even PLR and MRR articles are useless and it could hurt your search engine rankings as well.

6. Don’t annoy: Never Do pop-up or pop-under advertisements, its a very well known fact that visitors hate the pop ups and are tend to run away from a site that spams the visitor with tonnes of pop ups.

7. Respect the Big G: Obey the rules of service providers, advertisers and other programs that you are affiliated with, for example AdSense, do not offer them or ask your users to click those ads or use words such as ‘pick a link’ etc, such terms can get you banned not just from the program but from the search engines as well. Use words such as ‘sponsor ads’ instead. Getting banned form search engines means NO traffic.

8. Build links & community: Make sure you submit your site to all top search engines, directories, etc. Write ezine articles for article directories and get back-links to your site, maintain a must follow blogs list and use them to build more back-links. Check out making money by writing to find more useful article sites that you can also use to build a community & make money at the same time.

9. Don’t spam or scam: Do not spam on social media sites or any site for that matter, set your goal every month or week and do not deviate from those, never try to scam or make money illegally, such things might be bountiful for some time but in the long run your in loss. Read how to detect online scams to find out more about what you shouldn’t do in order to be scam & spam safe.

10. Get a new theme: Make sure your website design and layout is user friendly, do not use too many dark or eye irritating colors, get better themes. Attractive themes means more loyal visitors, take a look at these amazing themes.

11. Cloak your links: Cloak your links, do not start using affiliate banners in your advertising space. Get the pretty link wordpress plugin if you have a wordpress blog to automatically cloak all outbound links, just like i do on my blog.

12. Don’t do flash: Don’t use flash banners and too much flash work, search engines don’t detect flash as good as they do words, even if you get your flash content indexed in search engines you will have a hard time ranking them.

13. Build a List: Make sure you offer your visitors RSS feeds and subscriptions, its always advisable to start building a mailing list since the start, you can also create a custom landing page and use list building techniques to build a huge list of opt in subscribers. Offer Free reports, ebooks or products to attract more subscribers. Take a look at my article on how to build a list. Get a auto responder which are the most important list building tools, the top 2 in the industry are aweber & getresponse.

14. Don’t buy traffic: Do NOT waste real money doing blog promotions, blogs with content are not worth promoting with real money on services such as the ‘get paid to’ or ‘opt in lists’ or even the custom ‘traffic’ packages from sites, such traffic is pointless because for a blog the most important traffic is the readers and those who are interested in the niche you are working in, Google AdWords and other advertising networks should be used to promote affiliate products instead.

15. Keep your blog alive: Remove the first default post on the blog, the blog-roll and make sure you adjust your plugins and widgets, this is the step where most ‘new comers’ fail in blogging. Read my post on the must have plugins for wordpress bloggers.

16. Customize your site: Customize your Error pages to give it more professional look, add a custom favicon and custom blog logos to fit your overall blog design. If you don’t know how to add a favicon to your site then read about it on my post.

17. Let them search: Offer search in your site and make sure its visible by the visitor, this helps the reader find what he is looking for.

18. Be Social: Offering links to your other accounts including social networks and twitter is always advisable, this helps build a relation with the visitor and could actually gain you loyal readers.

19. Use a traffic retainer: When users exit from your site,its up to you, if you would like to include a ‘exit pop up’ that could ask your visitors to check out another offer, etc. But this is not advisable for normal content sites and blogs, as it would not work and is most effective on landing pages. Check out this amazing pop up plugin for wordpress blogs if you are interested.

20. Use google Analytic: always analyze your traffic on a daily bases, note down the visitor trends and the change, keep yourself updated to your traffic sources, top landing pages and use this information to optimize your service.

21. Write for people not for bots: Remember what i said about the term ‘traffic’ and the ‘actual traffic’ ? always keep in mind that people visiting your site are real and not bots, so give them real things and make your posts look real, as if your giving a speech or talking to someone on email, the more personal and targeted you get the more the reader will read further. Read how to seo for beginners to learn more about mixing SEO with real content.

22. Be simple: Don’t get too professional, their are many people on the Internet and depending on your niche, specially on a ‘make money online‘ niche, 80% of the visitors to your site might be new comers and they will have a hard time understand your hard use of terms and concepts, so break down your content and information to make sure everyone can understand

23. Give credits: Most traffic is attracted to ‘sources’, which means nothing else but a list of ‘top’ services or ‘top tools’ etc, such source posts are always indexed quickly on search engines and study shows that users spend more time on ‘source’ posts then on other average posts.

24. Check your work: Make sure your posts are spelling free, the font and color of your font are readable, divide your content in paragraphs and/or point-wise this would give a more organized look and feel, which will guarantee a longer stay.

25. Make a point: Highlight and bolder the area or words that are of importance, the semi title and the title, use more eye catching terms for your title of the post. Post title should ALWAYS be search engine keyword related, for example someone looking for ‘twitter tools’ are likely to search with keywords such as ‘twitter tools’ ‘top twitter tools’ etc, so make your posts with similar titles, don’t use titles that are very long, for more information check out my previous posts on how to write great articles and content and how to make money writing.

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SJ

Google has always been a source of income both directly & indirectly for many internet marketers. Making money online with AdSense being at the top of that list. Google AdSense is the second hand of the Google advertising network and the twin of Google AdWords, which means AdSense and AdWords works hand in hand for Google.

When advertisers invest their money using AdWords, the publishers makes their money by displaying those AdWords ads using AdSense, so basically AdSense is huge and the possibly to earn money with AdSense is huge as well, but that also means that you are going to be competing with thousands of other publisher for the ad share.

In this post in my AdSense on-the-go-guide, am going to explain step by step process of starting your AdSense journey by registering a account that is guaranteed to be activated within 24 hrs. The post will basically show you how to get an Google AdSense account easily.

Step 1: Register for a blogger account

You must be wondering why am asking you to register for blogger instead of AdSense,well their is no catch its very simple trick and i will tell you why in a while.

But first go to blogger.com or blogspot.com (both are the same) and register for a free blog. This is done because blogger is a Google service and we are going to use this newly created blog of Google to get a fast AdSense account since Google is becoming very strict with admission to publishers in AdSense.

Don’t worry you don’t have to use blogger blog service its completely up to you on where you use your AdSense account, but Google will check your account details once you register and it will inspect your site which you register with, so if you use a blogger blog while registering it just makes it easy for Google to accept you faster then other sites since its their own blogging service, your account will not get rejected this way. You can also make money blogging on blogger if you cannot afford hosting.

Step 2: Register for a AdSense account

Here we go, before you can actually start earning money with AdSense you will need a AdSense account, AdSense is free for all as long as you accept the terms and conditions of Google and its advertising programs. To register for your AdSense account click here.

Now see the following screen shots on what to do once your there. Click image to Enlarge.

Adsense setup

Step 3: What information to fill

Remember to fill in all the details correctly because your dealing with Google here, don’t think you can fool them because your only fooling yourself. If your not 18 yet i recommend registering a account with someone else’s name, like your dad or mom or elder brother, but make sure you enter their details as required, because google don’t use paypal they send checks so the information should be very correct and make sure they have a bank account.

then see the second screen shot, Click image to enlarge.

Adsense setup

Read google policies and all the terms and conditions before signing up, don’t blame google later if you face issues.

NOTE: Never try to use multiple account with AdSense, if your already a AdWord advertiser or have a adsense account previously registered then you won’t need a new account you can use those settings for AdSense as well,  if google catches you with breaking rules or multi accounting then it may result in your accounts being suspended and all earnings whatever you have earned so far will be credited back to the advertisers or to Google. So if your registering with a account with your dads name, make sure he does not already have one, because not only you will get your account suspended you will do the same on his other account as well.

Once you are done with all of these steps, google will send a mail to your registered email id or google account id, if you registered as shown then your account should be activated within 24 hours.

That is all about getting started with adsense and registering a account without problems, in the next post i will show you how to manage and set up your ad units and more.

Don’t forget to share this post, subscribe to my RSS feeds & follow me on twitter @sameerjoad till then have a good day,

SJ