Saturday, September 1, 2007

A Few Money Making Tips

Here's a short checklist of things you can do to increase readership, traffic, and overall visibilty on the internet. These things are all must haves if you expect to make money!

  • Write well and write often
  • Write what you know and what you like writing about
  • Stay with your general topic, and be informative
  • Answer comments kindly and promptly
  • Never make lame excuses for not updating
  • Keep your site neat and orderly
  • Your site should be easy on the eyes and easy to read
  • Toss out the trash regularly by deleting and blocking spam comments
  • Use social bookmarking icon links for Reddit, deli.cio.us and Furl and many others
  • Use Technorati tags on keywords in your posts
  • Make sure your readers can reach you by email or web form
  • Don't have more than 2 or 3 posts showing on the front (index) page
  • Make sure your site loads quickly with no major errors
  • Frequently check your site in all major browsers for appearance and readability
  • Leave relevant comments with your return link at other sites
  • Good content is most important
  • Don't distract from content with excessive buttons and blinkie ads in sidebar
  • Use relevant images in posts, don't over do it
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