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Showing posts with label Monetize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetize. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2026

The Ultimate Guide to Saving Time on Social Media Marketing (For Small Business Owners in 2026)

If you're a small business owner, freelancer, or local marketing consultant, you know the struggle:

 Struggling to keep up with social media? Discover proven strategies to cut your weekly social media time by 70%—without sacrificing engagement. Includ

"I spend more time managing social media than actually growing my business."

You're not alone. Studies show small business owners spend 6-10 hours per week on social media tasks—time that could be spent serving clients, creating products, or simply recharging.

The good news? You don't have to choose between "being present online" and "having a life." With the right strategy and tools, you can cut your social media time by 70% while improving results.

In this guide, I'll walk you through:

  • ✅ A quick audit to find your biggest time-wasters
  • ✅ The 3-step framework for efficient social media management
  • ✅ Tool recommendations (including the one that saved me 8+ hours/week)
  • ✅ How to adapt these strategies for local Italian businesses

Step 1: Audit Your Current Social Media Time 

Continue reading 

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The Psychology of Unanswered LinkedIn Messages

Introduction

The professional landscape has undergone a significant transformation with the rise of digital platforms, none more prominent than LinkedIn. What began as a simple online resume repository has evolved into a dynamic ecosystem for professional networking, personal branding, and direct communication. 


The professional landscape has undergone a significant transformation with the rise of digital platforms, none more prominent than LinkedIn. What began as a simple online resume repository has evolved into a dynamic ecosystem for professional networking, personal branding, and direct communication.

Monday, June 09, 2025

Overcome Money-Making Obstacles and Succeed

 Tell me, hand on heart: have you never tried to make money online? I don't know if it worked for you or not, but if you had problems, read this post. 

Every beginner is like a little kitten that does not know where to go to find its mother. And every beginner hears: You need a funnel. He/she thinks it's a magic wand and tries even more of them. Here I'll tell you about one of them — easy to use — and, in a series of posts, will show exactly, step-by-step, what to do and how. 

Among the myriad funnel builders available, System.io is the top choice for those just starting their digital journey. Here's why:

User-Friendly Interface

System.io offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that requires no coding or technical skills. With minimal effort, beginners can easily create professional-looking sales funnels, landing pages, and email sequences.

All-in-One Platform

Unlike other tools that require integrations of multiple services, System.io provides an all-in-one solution. It combines email marketing, funnel creation, membership sites, affiliate programs, and automation, simplifying the learning curve for newcomers.

Affordable Pricing

Pricing is crucial for beginners. System.io offers competitive plans that include most features needed to start and grow an online business, making it accessible for those with limited budgets.

Comprehensive Training and Support

System.io provides detailed tutorials, webinars, and a supportive community. This educational resource helps beginners quickly understand how to set up and optimize their funnels effectively.

Simplifies Complex Processes

Creating effective funnels can seem daunting. System.io simplifies this with pre-designed templates and an easy-to-follow setup process, eliminating the overwhelm often faced by newcomers.

Growing Community and Reputation

With a rapidly growing user base, System.io has built a reputation as a beginner-friendly platform. The active community provides additional support, tips, and inspiration.


So, System.io’s user-friendly design, affordability, comprehensive features, and supportive resources make it the best funnel builder for beginners. It empowers newcomers to take their first steps into online entrepreneurship confidently.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Top Strategies to Boost Your Video Marketing Campaigns

Video marketing has become a cornerstone of successful online advertising, especially within affiliate marketing. With consumers increasingly engaging with visual content across platforms, leveraging the right strategies can significantly enhance your campaign’s performance.

Video marketing has become a cornerstone of successful online advertising, especially within affiliate marketing. With consumers increasingly engaging with visual content across platforms, leveraging the right strategies can significantly enhance your campaign’s performance.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Local Businesses - Highly Rewarding And Beneficial Even For Beginners

 Working with local businesses can be highly rewarding and beneficial, both to the companies and those providing support services or products. This post explains why you should consider this approach, how to get started, and some effective traffic sources to generate revenue. 

Supporting local businesses strengthens the community, boosts the local economy, and creates jobs. Many consumers prefer to shop local, especially in times of economic uncertainty.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

The Power of PPV Traffic: High-Impact Advertising Without the High Costs

 Pay-Per-View (PPV) advertising is one of the most underrated yet highly effective traffic sources for marketers. Unlike traditional PPC (Pay-Per-Click), where you pay only when someone clicks, PPV charges advertisers when a user views an ad—making it a powerful tool for brand awareness, retargeting, and direct-response campaigns.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

A Guide to Using PPV Traffic Effectively

 In the dynamic landscape of online advertising, Pay-Per-View (PPV) traffic often goes unnoticed compared to its search and social media counterparts. However, for savvy marketers, PPV can be a powerful tool for generating targeted traffic, building brand awareness, and driving conversions when used effectively. In the dynamic landscape of online advertising, Pay-Per-View (PPV) traffic often goes unnoticed compared to its search and social media counterparts. However, for savvy marketers, PPV can be a powerful tool for generating targeted traffic, building brand awareness, and driving conversions when used effectively.

PPV traffic, when approached strategically and with a focus on precision targeting, compelling creatives, and optimized landing pages, can be a powerful and cost-effective way to reach a specific audience

Strategies for Maximizing Traffic Conversion in 2025: What's Working Now

In 2025, digital traffic alone will not pay the bills—conversion does. With evolving customer behaviors, AI-driven personalization, and privacy regulations reshaping the digital landscape, businesses must be more strategic than ever to turn clicks into customers.

Strategies for Maximizing Traffic Conversion in 2025: What's Working Now

Here’s a look at the most effective conversion strategies that are driving real results in 2025:

Sunday, April 13, 2025

How to Identify High-Quality Traffic Sources

 In digital marketing, not all traffic is created equal. High-quality traffic converts, engages, and drives revenue, while low-quality traffic drains budgets without delivering results.

How do you identify the best traffic sources? Why might Pay-Per-View (PPV) ads be your secret weapon? Let’s break it down.


So, how do you identify the best traffic sources? Why might
 Pay-Per-View (PPV) ads be your secret weapon? Let’s break it down.

What Is Traffic Quality?

Monday, June 16, 2008

New Money Making Possibilities (Tested) For All Internet Users

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I write ot so often about money making possibilities now and nobody remembers today that this blog began with many posts about it. First of all, because those I personally passed through were scams. I was new in informatica, in internet, I had not friends interested in this things and there was nobody who could tell me something about this business. So, passed these little troubles and tragedies, I wanted to tell my experience to others that are so as I am.

Today I'm interested to build my own serious business that could give me indipendance, but I think that little sources of money are always comfortable and if they are many, these sources, they can give us even interesting adds. That is why I accept if my friends give me this possibilities.

Time ago if you was a member of an affiliate program, you had to cover your referral link because those who is not new in this searches are very clever. They did not sign up with your referral link but went directly to the "mother"-site and you remained without your honest % from the money distributed from the site. The person that did it, did nothing good for himself, he/she did that the site owner could take this coin-percent in own pocket.

Fortunatelly today the technology made this step forvard and there are possibilities to avoid this problem. But the best possibility is that to partecipate on the paid program you HAVE TO BE "presented" by an other person. So you HAVE TO TURN to the person where you found the link and you have to use the referral link. It's really great. So, you don't need lose time to arrive to the page that says you: Now insert the link of the friend that told you about this possibility. You can directly click MY referral link.

Today I want to present you 2 new programs that give you possibility to earn some coins more -your "pizza money", at place to ask everybody who enters your blog to give you some coins for coffee.

First is a search engine for your browser at base of Yahoo! Works actually with IE and FF. You make your searches with this SE and they devide their money with you. Payment methods are PayPal, UK Bank Transfer, International Bank Transfer (IBAN). I tryed a similar program with Agloco (and others), but was never paid by it. Sincerely I don't know if there is somebody more fortunate as me, but I read a communication that they were not successful. I don't know about this program, seems that it counts my searches. Well, will see. Why do it gratis with other SE-s if I can have some coins. I wanted to try it.
Here is MY REFERRAL LINK

The other program I joined latelly is ZenZuu.com. It's a new social network that is actually in Beta and promises to divide 80% of advertising income between active users, that means "to logs in his/her “REP” account a minimum of 30 times a month. These log ins can be done once a day, several times a day, or within one hour". They will open a Marketplace where you can sell your goods too. Seems interesting. There are members that offer you other programs to work with. So, it can be interesting for you too. And the most interesting is that you can't lose your referrals because they need you.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Smorty for advertisers and bloggers

I wrote many times in this blog about my experience with money making opportunitie's offers all round internet. Those were years of really hard work and no earnings, because too many offers are not other as scams. Read my posts in this category were I give you the names of these sites too.

Today I want to tell you about a company I work for some month with. Smorty.

It is a service, connecting advertisers and bloggers.

Advertising on blogs is an important part of online marketing today. We, bloggers, are not only passionate writers. We are passionate readers an consumers too. And bloggers read many other blogs every day. So it's a good way for promoters to advertise on blogs.

For a blogger, get paid to blog is a great motivation in his/her work. Because all us know, to write an interesting post you have not only to have an interesting idea or photo, you need to find more new info to offer it to your readers. They are persons that want to know something new, something they don't know else. And to find this info occures time and work.

My work experience with Smorty is very positive. They have at least 2 great sides:
-they give you tasks regularly
-they pay regularly.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Friday, April 13, 2007

Earnings by blogging

It's enough time that I don't write about earnings via internet. I don't remember when I posted the last report. I told you, I tryed with affiliate programs ultimately and I had no orders with this advertising. I wanted to cancel those banners from my sites (like Amazon) but then I thought if I have not pay for it, they can remain till I have more time.

This morning I found a blog with MyBlogLog wiget and the game began. Immagin, I'm still signing up and putting wigets in my blogs. Do you want addresses? See at right, they are all there.

I began to think, this can be a good way to begin a new job. Last week I received my first money from Blogvertise (see on the right). 5 dollars become 3 in my PP-account (and they are about 1,5 euros), but they are first money I earned on the web. Unfortunatelly they give me not new tasks, that site. I don't know why.

In that time I joined all possible blogger communities I found, as said. We said, it's impossible to earn something if you have not a good ranking. And how do you want to reach it? If you have the same problem, write to me, we can help one another with posts ecc.

If you need help, you can see articles in the Category Blogging on this page. This blog is in russian generally, but you'll find articles in english and if you open articles with russian title, you can find parts in english too. I simply had not time to translate what I read.That blog is a sort of my "student library",where I post what I have to learn or to understand.

Good luck to all us.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Monetize you blog ( the story continue )

Many of you read my previous posts about web-earning possibilities. I told you my personal story. Mature person, I have to stay in my house,so I wanted to change specialization and to begin to work in internet.

New with PC I tried everything I found surfing the web and wrote about it in different posts here.
This is the story if you don't remember it:
Monetize your site (for beginners)
Work at home/home business opportunity scams
Once more about money making possibilities

I promised you to continue my story if I find more addresses and if I finaly can find my employer.
My last research was about possibilities to earn with blogging. In this field I found some useful addersses: Payperpost, Blogsvertise,Blogads. And I'll tell you about these sites later.

First of all I have to return to my previous post for those who follow my adventure.

You remember I filled my site with banners and buttons of different companies that had to pay % for every order they receive from my site. Now I have 4 months experience and say you: the "bad pals of the internet" had right. Statistic has right too.

The companies received from my site about 1000 impressions a month (more or less) with 20 -50 clicks and no one order in all this time.

The problem is first of all "the targeted audience" I think. I noticed: every hosting (or how have I call them) has audience with different interests. One site's visitors read more intellectual posts, others -more life stories, to give you an example. So you can have more success if you take good aim.

Second. There is a psychological side. Today every site is full of all these banners, links ecc so that you praticaly can't find the article you look for. Be honest: do YOU as visitor click all this? Why other visitors have to do it in your site?

And finaly to my last research.
It could be so good if I could earn something writing posts in my own blogs I thought. This job you can find if you are member of Guru.com and similar but the formalities are so complicate... and there are so many "middlemen" to pay...

Today I have some direct addresses as said: Payperpost, Blogsvertise, Blogads.
First of them was very discussed in internet. Some communities said it's not moral to post publicity in blogs, blogs are the only honest community in the web ecc. It was always, is and will be for ever very personal I think. What is interesting for us that this site wants only successful blogs,old and with many visitors.

Last of 3 sites is only for "influential bloggers" and "is now invitation only".

I'll try this: Blogsvertise. This site was very clear in rules description (you remember my misunderstanding with Adsence because of enormous documents to read ...), they don't look for special knowleges, they write very clear about payments and the only thing they want you have is your blog and paypal account.

Oh,forgot.There is an other site looking for bloggers. Web Worker Daily . This is address of an interesting article about bloggers job. I post here what are they looking for:

"If you are interested, post a review on your own blog showing how you can smartly critique any of the tools–software, hardware, or otherwise–that make virtual work fun and profitable. For extra credit, include tips and tricks for boosting productivity using those tools. Add a short bio at the end so we can see how you’re putting your own twist on the web worker life. Link back to this post and we’ll be sure to see it."

Let's dive in this new adventure? Who is with me?

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

How I decided to be a Writer


May I present you other photo to create Christmas feeling?

Did you try this?
This possibility I had not described you yet.In these period I study ways to become a writer.You can write articles,e-mails,eBooks,e-this,e-that...Oh yeees,there are rules and tricks to study.But it is closer to my original profession.So I try this too.Why not?Can it be I was writer from my birth,but never new about it?

I found 3 sites that offers money for writing and translating.2 of them wanted monthly fee (about 13 dollars) so I rejected them.(...I do it too...).So now I have one where I have not pay others for my work.

Go to Shvoong.com.Read terms (what do you think,I read them now) .I read some "essays",decided it's too difficult,begin with writing, have to see how write their expert writers and try to translate.It was incredible difficult.Maybe because it was the first time...or I didn't that work for a long time.
I don't know if they will pay me.But it will be a good training for me anyway.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Once more about money making possibilities

shary mal

Off topic
Eh...I hope everybody can feel this Christmas that is nearer and nearer.This evening I passed catching Christmas images and now I understand that the greatest feast of the year is not so far.I dedicate you this photo because you are the best and your success is coming,believe in it.

Next part of my money-making-possibilities voyage.
So I promised you to report here about my money-making-possibilities research.About 2 weeks ago I finished the story with new advices of internet-experts.They said me:post banners and links on your web-page,sit comfortable in your arm-chair and wait that money begin rain on your head.LOL.Not so,really.But you can earn something good enough.

It's very easy to create a site today.Completly gratis,without spending one cent.Everybody can do it,even if you see PC first time in your life.I don't know,if it could be interesting for somebody,maybe I will write one day about it.There are some tricks to know,but generally is very-very easy.

The problem is not to have a site.The problem is to have active visitors of your site.Not that you had understand that this masterpiece have to see as more persons as possible,this step you passed jet,but you did it to stay in contact with somebody,no?And today you want this site and this electronic device must earn their bread.And on this point we finished last time.

I said you,you can go to my site and see all what I will post during the next week.I went to Amazon.com,LinkShare and 2 other sites that offer links and banners to post.For Google I'm persona-non-grata,so this way was not for me.At first I was sad about it,but now I'm very content,because after I read terms of use very good,I don't like them.Read them,it's interesting,even fun and educative.
One of sites I cancelled from the memory of my PC and from my too is like Adsence.Those wrote to me:
-we don't accept you because you have other similar services on your pages.
Interesting.In that moment I had nothing,they were the first site I wrote.Other site,thanks,was more clear
-we don't work with new sites and those who has less than 500 visitors a day,
-who has not very interesting content,
other 6-7 reasons you can find what is about you.
LinkShare offers you many companies to ask for their banners and links.They have terms of use too.Some of them want you,others -no (-we don't work with those who has less then 10 000 visitors pro month),others don't write to you at all.
Bad feeling,you know.To be rejected.Today I learned "how to sell yourself"-article.Advise:the first you have to learn is to stand a reject,because only 1 or 2 of 50,100 your request-letters will give you work,other employers will reject you.

Yes,it's true.Some month earlier I passed many time to plant in my head the thought,that I'm good so as I am, and that I will reach success.It helped me with those rejects too.Befor, if I received those letters,I would be crushed,annihilate.Now I was a little sad,but I know,that I'm so good, and this is only a case,because it works in this way.Nothing.It works so,the thing.Next time I'll be more successful.The sun is hot.The water is wet.This world,that I explore now, works so.It is not personal for me,but the way to exist of this world.

So to finish about this sort of internet business,I have to add,that from those companies that accepted me,some did it only for about 40 days,others without limits.
Today,after about 2 weeks I have more then 1000 impressions and only from 5 (all LinkShare banners) till 26 (Amazon) clicks.Clicks.Not ordins.And after 2 weeks these sites will reject me too, while I do not sell.And they will have all reasons.
Somebody will say me,that to have profits from your business you have to work 2-3 years.Yes,it's true.When the famous terms and limits they write you.Pls answer this easy question:do you think those companies that alow you to post their banners on your site,don't know it?Were come these limits like 45 days from?Statistic I found once said, you have to wait for 1 ordin every 10 (or 100?) 000 impressions.....

I think,I have to read terms of these companies too.I hope they don't say me than that I have pay them for disturb...

I don't want to say you have renunce of this business creation.The only thing I say,we have to count these statistics in our beginning-plan.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Lookers-Bookers shock

Some days ago I wrote about shock I had when I read an article about "Lookers" and "Bookers" (here I wrote about it).

On my way to find a new profession,to receive new professional skills I meet sellers first of all.They are very active and agressive -and it is simple to understand them,their world is so great,competitive, and seems the only way to sell something is to cheat others.I have this impression.Their teachers say, they want "very motivated" young people.Why?Because marketing they teach you is nothing as unscrupulousness in the ways to sell.

One article told me today what I have to do to sell myself.It's true,a normal little person don't know do it (excuse me, I like "Kleiner Mann-was nun?" by Hans Fallada).But when you begin to learn this art,you understand, it is something that overturns all your vision of the life.

So is very simple, why they seek for young men.Those want to earn great money,don't think too much about good-not good ways,have more energy and are easy to manage.I thought so about this phenomenon.Mature person more difficult can leave moral rules (if he/she has them).

I don't know,you ,do you like when somebody "press" you?In this way I could be convinced 1 time,but the second time you can't fool me with this method.I don't like to be treated in this way.You?How many times you partecipated on the scene:
A young girl tells you so much about a product you don't need.You hear mostly because she is so...young,wants so much you stop and hear her....but this don't meens you will buy.The chief of the girl sees she is unable to "work" and intervene.With aggression he/she begins to speak to you....What do you do? I go away.

This is the mail I received from my ex-chief from internet-supermarket.Written in italian,but I want you see the method to communicate.We don't work together,he and I,we leaved that supermarket because it was a fraud.But he don't learned from the first time,now he is one of the founders of an other supermarket (only founder can earn there).If exist persons who don't know what it is,these young men will try to catch them.

AL PARTECIPARE AD UN MEETING/EVENTO O SEMPLICEMENTE LEGGENDO UN
LIBRO . . . . !!!! E CE NE SONO DAVVERO DI BELLISSIMI DI IMPORTANTI DI
TESTI CHE IN TANTI MOMENTI MI HANNO AIUTATO A CAPIRE E VEDERE
LE COSE DAL VERSO GIUSTO . . . .
COSì NE HO PRESO UNO DI QUELLI CHE MI HANNO COLPITO, CHE IN QUESTO
MOMENTO PUò ESSERCI D'AIUTO L'HO PORTATO IN TIPOGRAFIA FATTO
TRASFORMARE IN FILE " PDF " ED ORA LO TROVATE IN ALLEGATO A QUESTA
MAIL . . . . .
INVESTI TU STESSO E CREATI IL TUO FUTURO CON LE TUE FORZE . . . . .
NESSUNO LO FARA' PER TE ! ! ! ! !! ! !

Why I remembered "Lookers and Bookers"?I used these words with young people (20-25) and they were disgusted to here them as I was befor.So I said to me (thinking about this marketing teachers):they are criminals too.Because they create a black background in the souls of our young generation.As a teacher I think, parents and teachers have to plant seeds of Good,it is their Holy Duty.Ruin the soul of growing person to put some dollars in own pocket is even not crime,it is piece of devilry.

Maybe I begin to become too old.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Work at home/home business opportunity scams

New info added! 08/12-2006

When you look for something,you need to be prepared to hear all kinds of opinions about you or about what you are seeking.I wrote different times about work at home/home business opportunity scams and I found today this article written from one of internet-experts,I think.The autor wanted to control,how is it possible that there are so many scams in this business ( 98-99% !!! according to the article) and if those who writes about it is really honest person and not an idiot that let fool himself 37 times.

As I said ( in this post ),on my way to find legal and real possibility to work with help of internet,I catch,I think all tipes of swindlers.Not 37 times,but not one.And here I tell what I sperimented personally,not what I heard from somebody.I don't know,who was that person scamed 37 times,but maybe he says about 37 sites not times.What is the difference?
First of all I want to underline that we speek about newbees,persons that don't know,what they do.

When you began to look for job,you begin to receive many mails with different job-offers.

First job-looking person hunters you will meet
Most of them are from Herbalife,DHC (if I remember this name good),Wellbizz, other names I really don't remember now,but all these have the same structure:"we have an incredible work for you,see this site http://...";when you see that site,they want you speak with their consult,then you have to see 1 hour film to understand what is this work about (no one word about it),then you have to see other 6-hours film where you can find no one useful word and finally they born the most important thing:give me 200-600 euro and begin to work.

Second sort of hunters
After this you receive a mail with other offer.The autor explains with all details what and how you have to do and assure you his help.Those are PPC,Pay-per-Click jobs.
You can open mails or surf the web.Every site you see with mails that you receive,they promise to pay you 0,002 dollars.But this you don't know else.You think:this is real job to began with.When I do some money,I'll pass to something best.

And here we can explain those famose 37 times,that have to be 37 sites.
The first mail said you: first day you have to open accounts in these 10 sites.
After 3-5 days add these 20 sites (10 + 20= 30)
After that open other 20 accounts ( 30 + 20= 50)
When you begin to open mails,you understand that to reach 50-60-100 dollars with 0,002 per mail you have to work very hard.If you work all day,you need about more than month to reach this sum.So you begin to add new and new sites to your collection.You read about this business in sites like Advertopia that give you advices,select those who are good for you or not good...
And finally you can be paid!!!Adwertopia said that this site will pay you!!!And other advices-sites said it too.Happy you request your payment.Some sites promise you to pay one month,other - 2-6 months after request.
Today I don't remember the names of sites I worked for.Only 2 or 3 like silvanamails,ippomails,google-mails,donkeymails,orangemails... what else?It was 2-3 years ago.I never received no one dollar from all those sites.

False-promoter and eBay-sellers hunters
Next swindle I experimented was an internet-supermarket.
About supermarket I wrote in other post.But inside this experience there were others.
So I was one of promoters of that supermarket.At the beginning I thought,this project was done to create promoters.Later I understood,that they don't need promoters,they need consumers.YOU have to buy,because the "middlemen" are owners of that supermarket.(more about this strategy of marketing)
But at the beginning I honestly worked as promoter.
I wrote about goods that supermarket sells and became mails from people that have sons in UK embassy in Nigeria and want to send them very expensive cells and laptops.I had to send the pack to Nigeria and become "payment after shipping" from Western Union,different banks.
Later in one of the sites I read an article from police about this criminals from Afrika.It's very dangerous.Not only you have to lose your money (you send the pack,you receive false check,the check-sum is too high and you,honest person,send rest to your client to entrust him) but at the end,writes police, you can arrive in Nigeria and there you lose your documents and your freedom too.
Fortunately for me I was only promoter.
One of those "clients" wrote me some months later with Messenger that he needs I pay his journey to Europe "to black men meeting".Incredible.They believe,we are finished idiots,rich white from Europe.

"Mom" and other "relatives" hunters
One month ago I had the second part of my "Afrikan adventure".I posted my profile in MySpace and began to receive mails from african boys.I'm 45,married and not interested to find boyfriends.So I answered one very nice and very educated mail in this sence.After that I began to receive a rain of mails.They call me "mom" and tell me how is hard the life of orfans or something like this.The first mail writes a person that knows english very good.Then they write so,that is pratically unpossible to understand one word.But at the end the main sence is "give me money".

Attention to terms of use
Other problem I had with Google Adsence.I opend an account with them and posted their adds in my site.But I didn't read the terms of use,it's too difficult to read so enormous texts in english.So while I really love internet-surfing,I began to "surf" with comfort directly from my site.Naturally after some days I received a mail from Google that they suspend my account.I had to do something,but the text in english was so long and difficult to understand that I ignored it.So now I'm "persona non grata" for Google.Honestly I understood my mistake and wanted to make peace with Google,opening an other account but today I received the mail that they refuse me.......

"American Green Card Lottery"-dreamer hunters
Oh,I completly forgot other swindlers."American Green Card Lottery".Different months ago my friends said me about this possibility and registered me to this lottery.I don't know,how is it possible that governative initiative offers dates of registered people to the third parts,but it was something incredible.First of all there were courses of english language,than I began to receive mails from this lottery,those mails are very professional,with all necessary sighs,that you are sure who is writing to you.I wrote my number of telephon there and on the next page understood who are those.I cancelled the mail,but they register what you write when you open the mail and write your phone number.So they began to phone me.Why?If you give me money,I'll post your name in 70 first names that will win.pull out your credit card and you will win.Hours and hours of calls.They don't understand that you maybe have problems to understand those who speaks so quickly (but it's their mode of marketing -speak quick,with great emotion:Ohhh!!!Now!!!Gooooooo!!!!!We doooooo iiittt!!!!!!!,repeat the name of the person every sentence,press him in this way and at the end "draw out your credit card").Second,they don't understand that not everybody in Europe has a credit card (many canot find job for all their lifes). If a person has a credit card,why hell he needs America?

Now,as I wrote earlier,I want to see if it is possible to follow advices of Steve P. about other business opportunities.But...
It is a hobby already.Or an illness?

New! (08/12-2006) A lovely personal site ( from review of MY Interests Site ) - with a very valuable link to a blog about internet scams!! Please add 1StepSystem to your list of scams... I'm still fighting for my refund! Best wishes, Liz.

List of mail programms I worked with in a comment.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Monetize your site (for beginners)

All my days now are dedicated to study how works internet.
Once you have internet connection 24/24 you begin to think if it's possible to use it first to provoke your creativity (I meen sites creation),than you understand,that it's not enough for you,you want somebody appreciate your work (because it is a great work for newbees),than you are not content because your creation doesn't attract great crowds of visitors, and at last you begin to think:Why can't I earn money?This machinery eats my money,time,my life -it's holy duty is to produce income at least to cover the charge.

You are right.
Here maybe I have to tell you my very-very sad story about how I looked for earning money in internet.I have to tell it that you know what can wait for you on this way.Yes,I think I caught all possible swindles.

But for beginning I want give you a good notice:there are legal and good ways to earn some money if you have your own site.This is the word of very expert persons like Steve Pavlina (so we have to think about them).I began to follow these advices.Go to the home-page of MyInterestsSite and explore it.You'll find there some possibilities today.And I'll add others next week when I try to work with them.Sites you can see there are good not only because recommended as very entrust,but they accept beginners as we,those who has less then 500 visitors a day.
Ehhhh,it's true,if you have less than 500 visitors a day you are not a person for many-many-many bad internet-pals.I could learn it on my skin and so what you see on MY site is aproved for little people.And you can avoid the sad experience to be reject.
Nothing.We will be as good rangers in american westerns:go out from all ... situations and win at the end.
Don't forget to visit MyInterestsSite different times next week,I'll update it.And I'll post links to sites that work with us,beginners too.

Please help me to increase this list of links if you know other good sites.

And now to my collection of swindles.
I began with Pay-Per-Click (PPC) work.If you ever did it,you know that it is as in a factory.You open and open and open mails,see sites that they present,you have to reach a sum of points and than webmaster of the site has to pay you.
When I did this work,I noticed: when I open sites that links this or that webmaster,my PC doesn't work and after some time I had to reinstal my PC .One of them was "Hugemail" or something like this.
Nobody of all those webmasters paid me."Ippomails","Silvanamails",others -nobody.

My second experience was with a "first italian online supermarket"."Digistore".
They sold me a sub-site.The price was,I think,600 euro.Praticaly I was "middleman" of "middleman".I had to sell goods of this company that sold goods of other companies.From this activity I had my 0,00000...%.But the greatest task was to look for recruits.The hidden purpose of all this great action was that all italians had to buy goods in this store.
To find recruits I had to telephone about 50 persons a day,than I had to destribute leaflets. I had to do it with my money for that 0,000...% that company promised to give me.But the most interesting thing was to reveal that all this is illegal in Italy.I knew it the day when police catched me.And when I asked in the company how is it possible that they learn me to do illegal things,they answered:we know nothing,it was your personal initiative.

My other experiences I'll post next time.I'll tell you about swindlers from Africa.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

SEO Tips for Content for Beginners

Mmmmm.....I have to say you,it's realy enormous work at my age not only to learn a new speciality,but to leaarn something like a site optimisation.I try to understand all this special articles,ruls;pass days for PC,my husband forgot how I'm looking,my dog asks me every day why we don't go for a walk...and I study.
Here I want to write a summary of what I found in all those infinite books and articles with one theme:
SEO Tips for Content
I do it to systematize info I acquired in these days,so don't expect large explanations.Only the sum.
  • Headline has to be attractive,because visitors don't read they scan the text
  • don't post great articles,only links to other page or file with descriptions where visitor can find your info
  • don't post big quotations,tell what have you read about and post link to the site.
  • assicure that long documents have PDF-variante for those who want copy it
  • control what others write to your theme.
  • control if your site has wasted advertesing space
  • trust visitors
  • post polls,surveys,promotion,catalog,news-letter ecc that your visitor begin to act
  • keywords have not to be too used,because with them you enter in a so great group of sites where is difficult somebody will find YOU.Original keyword can give you more evidence.
  • Not too many options.One product on the page.All products related.Sentences short,number of words under 200-300
  • Blogging structure
  • Easy navigation,visitors comfort level in mind
  • check all links and img-s to see that they work
  • fresh content,often change
  • bookmarkable
  • has to be unique,cool,relevant (content)
  • casual,friendly,interesting,don't copy others,be truthful,include rich and colorful imgs,video where you can
  • don't have orphan pages=not linked to others (how can it be?)
  • avoid frames -content frames and navigation frames (for robots and search eng.=SE)
  • don't overuse Dynamic pages=that change every time are loaded,not more than 2 elements + the same in text for SE and robots
  • you are trying to convince your audience that what you have to ofer will benefit them in some way
  • website agenda:1.attract interest,2.focus attention,3.convey attitude,4.enhance understanding,5.generate confidence,6.stimulate desire,7.motivate action
  • visitor has to understand that this is what he is looking for,than he will be more attentive
  • attentive presentation with graphics,copies,multimedia,expertise,experts
  • people buy not because they need this,but for emotions and psychical desire,Quality of the product is only to explain the fact.So your site has to create emotion and desire.
  • Visitor sees first center of the monitor,so there you have to post anticipated info.This is your visitors eye's journey on the monitor Immagine
  • Post tutorials that explain,create a niche directory,specific glossary,post your industry news,write articles
  • key of success are content positioning and page structure
  • understanding your websites goals
  • identify and understand your competitors
  • search
    engines are looking for:
    - each page of your site is an entry point, optimize (title tags,
    keyphrases) for what each page targets - Greg
    - strive for quality links over quantity links - the entire panel
    - if you are targeting your site geographically, get links from local
    entities (Chamber of Commerce, local directories)
    - NO LINK EXCHANGES (don't even bother - Matt cutts)
  • quality links (I really don' understand this)
  • laser focused on one specific product
  • write quality pages that appeal to the human reader,that providereader with exactly what they are looking for
  • yours has to be the honest appeal of true believer.
  • So to get your website to the top you not only need to optimize your webpages for your targeted keywords but also have to build as many backlinks as possible.
  • Make pages for users, not for robots.
  • Place important visual content on top-left fold of the page (640 x 480).
  • Place useful images that accurately describe your content. Show big colorful pictures of flowers if you are a florist. Show mathematic graphs if you are a statistics site.
  • Place useful text information that describes your content. A news web site may want to emphasize text over images. A photography site may want to emphasize graphics over text.
  • Use colors that represent your content. Warm colors for florists. Strong colors for game sites.
  • Use consistent color and layout across your site. Humans recall better when they see the same look and feel.
There is only one link here,because I lose other addresses.If I'll find something new,I'll add it to this post.



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