I have been a regular reader at this money making online blog http://www.selfmademinds.com. Even through this is a very young a month old one it has already created a buzz in the blog sphere with 1000’s visitors a day. Thanks to Al Carlton and Scott Jones very successful internet entrepreneurs. AL has been earning revenue online since Jan of 2006 through his website Coolest-Gadgets.com and Scott through his Tattoos membership website Tattoos-by-design.co.uk.

Even through both of them are based in UK didn’t deter them from earning a significant income online.

It is always good for budding bloggers to visit their site and take their blogging tips and incorporate that into their blog. Their blog talks about different ways to make money online through affiliate marketing and SEO which is key to any who is aspiring to become online entrepreneurs. Some of the key posts which I really like from their archives are:-

Starting a new forum : this blog posts has inspired me about my article site forum which is still lying inactive for a while. The ideas which they have given is quite impressive for anyone who what to start a new forum or to add additional member to their existing forum.

How long will your trade hours for money : this posts has given me a really though about a membership site. Membership sites are very good ways to increase your residual income which comes year after year. These kinds of sites doesn’t need to much of work once it is set up and if you have a certain number of regular membership. The only effort is marketing the site in the beginning to get membership signed up. Once that is done the maintenance is just easy and doesn’t need too much effort like a content site.

When to monetize a new site or blog : this is one of today’s posts which really tells you about monetize our blog and making money with Adsense.

They are quite promoting this blog very well. Recently I found a review them in Entrepreneur Blog Post Earn a Six-Figure Income Online and Today at John Chow’s Make money online blog. I am a regular reader at John Chow’s blog but I was quite surprised to see a Review me review about SellMadeMinds.

They have a nice blog layout too. Which I think is quite a very good WordPress Theme and quite blends with Adsense optimization.

So check out their blog for more online money making tips.

TJ

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Traffic from images searches is a huge untapped market. If you optimize your images and graphics on your website image search can bring in targeted traffic. Many webmaster ignore this part of image optimization on their website and leave money on the table.

Image optimization is pretty simple but there are certain rules to be followed to do this. Search engine spider visits websites often and index the images into their database. Some of the basic things to keep in mind while inserting the image on web pages is make use of the ALT attribute. The definition of ALT tags is to provide alternative text when non textual elements like images and graphics. An ALT tag usually comes as a HTML code similar to this:

[img xsrc=”http://www.yourcompany.com/images/home.jpg” mce_src=”http://www.yourcompany.com/images/home.jpg” alt=”Insert Keyword over here” width=”578″ height=”323″]

Inside the alt=”Insert Keyword over here” you need to insert the keyword which describes about the image. u Since search engine can’t read images ALT is an alternative way to say to the search engines what the images is all about.

You use this alt for any image like top headers, banners, backgrounds and photographs which you inside a website. The word of caution is do not try to use non related keywords or span the ALT attribute with to many words. The most recommended alt text is up to 60 characters explaining the image.

Marketers make use of this image optimization wisely by adding few keywords which doesn’t make the search engine think it is spamming. Although in this age of broadband internet the loading time is a big factor. IT is better create images in smaller size so that it will load fast when a visitor stumbles upon while using your website keywords.

You can also take advantage of the misspelled keyword while you do the image optimization There are several misspelled keyword been search online. You can get a list of misspelled keyword through Word Tracker or Keyword elite.

Don’t underestimate the power of image search they can bring in enormous amount of traffic if optimized properly.

TJ

Site map is a very essential for Search engine optimization since it get the site indexed fast. Recently Major search engine Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agreed on a standard sitemap protocol. Now every webmaster can add sitemap autodiscovery links in the Robots.txt file. The best advantage of the new open format autodiscovery is it allows the webmaster to give the exact location of their websites sitemap inside the robots.txt file which removes the hassle of submitting sitemaps to each search engines one by one.

This helps webmaster submit their content to search engines also at the same time avoid the unwanted traffic which comes from crawlers and eat up the bandwidth. The search engines will be informed by its crawlers about the recent update of the web pages and the web users get the latest fresh content while they surf.

Robots.txt file is an vital part of SEO but most of the webmasters fail to have a robot.txt file on their website which allows the search engine spiders informed that which part of the website needs to be indexed and which one not. So with the open format autodiscovery this is made easy with just one line of code search engines can find you sitemap file.

TJ