Monetize Immediately or Later?

You might read somewhere to write a lot of post, get many visitors, do seo, listing, optimize template or whatever when you just started a blog. Then when everything are done you can focus on monetizing your blog with advertising. I don't do that. I start monetizing all my blogs immediately. I put ads in my blogs right on the first day. Most of them. Following an advice from Carl Ocab. This is because even if you only have one or two visitors per day, they might click on your ads and make you money. Imagine the waste if you wait long enough before monetizing your blogs. Don't waste a single cent. Do it now.

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SEO really works

It's been 6 month when I started to write my first blog, catiatutorial.blogspot.com but I have not done any SEO to the blog until few weeks ago. In the end of November I listed all my blogs in Google Webmaster Tool and about 2 weeks ago in Yahoo Site Explorer. Before this, all visitors from search engines came from Google. Today, some visitors came from Yahoo and AOL. I'm really happy about this. I can feel that visitors to that blog will increase a little after this. Good for a start. Patience is important :D

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Affiliate Programs You Must Join

After reading advices by some gurus, I make these list of affiliate networks that we should really join.

1. Clickbank - Dedicated to digital products, i.e. products that are available by download.
2. Commission Junction - The top affiliate network for companies that sell physical products like computers, credit cards, clothing, etc. Some of the biggest internet properties in the world have programs here. You can apply for many advertisers of you'll be emailed if an advertiser invite you or want to advertise in your site.
3. BidVertiser - Options for advertiser, publisher, and referer. Make ads to promote your site, or earn money by putting ads to your site, or get paid when referring people and when they make money. BitVertiser offers $20 free advertising for your site. Minimum payment for publishers or referer are $10 for PayPal or $50 for check.
4. Text Link Ads - These ads don't disturb you blog contents and you can exchange your revenue to buy ads on the site with discount.
5. BeFree - Also owned by Commission Junction.
6. LinkShare - Some of the top companies on the web have their programs available here.
7. Dealdotcom - A very good tier program because you are paid forever when people you refer make money or people they refer make money. Recommended by a successful person.

Programs I've Joined

Amazon Affiliate Program - Getting popular currently. A lot of people are buying products from Amazon.com, why don't get something from the purchase.
SFI - An MLM affiliate program that I joined.
Commission Junction
Clickbank
BidVertiser
Dealdotcom
Spread Firefox - Hope to get free T-shirts

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Not To Miss SEO Tips

Simple tips that you should not miss are:

1. Put images relevant to your post when ever possible.

A lot of visitors to my CATIA Tutorial Blog are from Google Image Search and this is really true. This is one mistake I've done to this blog because as you can see, my other post in this blog don't really have images with it. Sometimes, even if your site does not have high pagerank, it might be on top in image search. I added here with a proof for this statement.

2. Write updated contents.

Make research on what's currently hot and being talked about. Don't just depend on meta tags or post titles. Most users that came from search engines searched for keywords that are mostly in the post contents. Last night I write something in my other blog. In few hours, somebody Googled that post even it is still not indexed.

3. Write something different.

Write your own contents and be different. If you too lazy to do that and want to copy from others, use different titles and make some minor alterations. It is a common sense where if there are two identical post on two different site, the one that is more famous will get the visitors. I saw some blogs where the author just copy and paste articles of other people. I hate these kind of blogs and I don't feel to visit them again.

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Another Affiliate Program

From my participation in free advertisement had really paid up by bringing some visitors to this blog. There's a quote: You get what you paid for and it's true. The visitors from the free programs are not as much as if you entered AdWords, BitVersiter or any other advertising but it is enough for a start.

I had just entered a new affiliate program, SFI Affiliate Center and I really feels this is a good program. The person who refered this program to me had already made some money from it. I really hope after a month I could see some extra income from this program. Check the program at http://www.quickinfo247.com/10459715/FREE

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Comparison of PageRank, Traffic Rank, and Pageviews

I've made a research about PageRank and found out these data. Data are estimations obtained from Websiteoutlook.com

Site--PageRank--Traffic Rank-------Backlinks--Daily Pageview--Daily Ads Revenue------------------Net Worth
----1--------------10-------------------2------------------0--------550000000---------$1,650,003.16----$1,200,000,000.00
----2----------------9-------------------1----128087566------1100000000---------$3,300,003.00----$2,410,000,000.00
----3----------------9-------------------3------------------0--------366666666---------$1,100,003.00-------$803,000,000.00
----4----------------9-------------------5---305182567--------220000000------------$660,003.00-------$481,800,000.00
----5----------------9-------------------7---314270788--------157142857------------$471,431.57-------$344,150,000.00
----6----------------8-------------------9---137689286--------122222222------------$366,669.49-------$267,670,000.00
----7----------------8-----------------28------------------0----------39285714------------$117,859.97---------$86,040,000.00
----8----------------8---------207410-----------40358------------------5303--------------------$18.74----------------$13,680.20
----9----------------7-----------------40-------7849014----------27500000--------------$82,502.65---------$60,230,000.00
---10---------------7---------------118-----11391757------------9322033--------------$27,968.74---------$20,420,000.00
---11---------------7---------121057-----------25618------------------9086---------------------$29.90----------------$21,827.00
---12---------------6-------------2287---------348494--------------480979----------------$1,445.39-----------$1,060,000.00
---13---------------6-----------32173---------484090----------------34190-------------------$105.02----------------$76,664.60
---14---------------6-----------40613-------6241725----------------27084---------------------$83.70----------------$61,101.00
---15---------------6-----------46402---------509946----------------23705---------------------$73.56----------------$53,698.80
---16---------------6-----------91106---------190846----------------12073---------------------$38.67----------------$28,229.10
---17---------------6---------158168---------862720------------------6954---------------------$23.31----------------$17,016.30
---18---------------6---------162579---------744822------------------6765---------------------$22.74----------------$16,600.20
---19---------------6---------179977-------1191708------------------6111---------------------$20.78----------------$15,169.40
---20---------------6---------184496---------272070------------------5962---------------------$20.34----------------$14,848.20
---21---------------5----------84253-----------78944----------------13055---------------------$41.40----------------$30,222.00
---22---------------5------------85866-----------46361----------------12810---------------------$40.67----------------$29,689.10
---23---------------5---------129078-----------87425------------------8521---------------------$27.80----------------$20,294.00
---24---------------5---------150452-----------61649------------------7311---------------------$24.17----------------$17,644.10
---25---------------5---------157092-------------2141------------------7002---------------------$23.24----------------$16,965.20
---26---------------5---------173312---------153693------------------6346---------------------$21.27----------------$15,527.10
---27---------------5---------180148-------------3567------------------6106---------------------$20.55----------------$15,001.50
---28---------------5-------1054223----------33352-------------------1043-----------------------$5.37------------------$3,920.10
---29---------------4-----------71934----------34029----------------15291---------------------$47.87----------------$34,945.10
---30---------------4-----------90054--------271422-----------------12214---------------------$38.64----------------$28,207.20
---31---------------4-----------94728----------10059-----------------11612---------------------$36.84----------------$26,893.20
---32---------------4---------131867----------29531-------------------8341---------------------$27.02----------------$19,724.60
---33---------------4---------248628----------60826-------------------4424---------------------$15.27----------------$11,147.10
---34---------------4---------410164----------------47-------------------2681---------------------$10.04------------------$7,329.20
---35---------------3-----------28369--------237702-----------------38774-------------------$118.05----------------$86,176.50
---36---------------3-----------22682--------107688-------------------4849---------------------$16.28----------------$11,884.40
---37---------------3-------3748230------------------0----------------------293----------------------$2.61------------------$1,905.30
---38---------------3-------4208585------------------6----------------------261----------------------$2.52------------------$1,839.60
---39---------------2---------219300------------------0--------------------5015--------------------$16.46----------------$12,015.80
---40---------------2-------7723234--------------100----------------------142----------------------$1.84------------------$1,343.20
---41---------------1-------------7920----------81567-----------------138888------------------$416.66--------------$304,161.80
---42---------------1-----14786544------------------5------------------------74----------------------$1.22---------------------$890.60
---45---------------0-----------64462----------23472------------------17064--------------------$51.19----------------$37,368.70
---46---------------0---------602433------------6440--------------------1825----------------------$5.48------------------$4,000.40
---47---------------0---------939121----------24217--------------------1171----------------------$3.51------------------$2,562.30
---48---------------0-----12487472------------------0------------------------88----------------------$0.26---------------------$189.80
What I can say is better to have high traffic rank than pagerank to have high revenue for your site.

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