Radu Antohi making money online

Weird thing. My google toolbar shows PR0 on this blog although I’m positive it showed PR2 a few minutes ago.

I checked with other pagerank checking tools, all show PR0.

What can that be? It’s too early for an update and hey, I don’t deserve PR0!

Webmasters have the unenviable task of ensuring that the sites they manage have massive volume of traffic. This is to continue to attract advertisers to ensure the survival of the websites. This is a big pressure on their part, but it’s the reality of doing business online. Setting up a website does not stop when it becomes fully functional to the users. The process of building the website goes on and on. It also includes putting more content to attract massive number of users. Content is primarily the force that drives a website into greatness. Unique content is what users are constantly looking for. However, no amount of unique content can drive up your statistics if you do not have an online marketing campaign. No matter how great the content is, if it is not promoted properly, your site will probably die of natural causes.

The common practice is to make use of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts to improve the ranking of a website in a particular search engine. Webmasters are very much concerned about the rankings of the websites in the top three search engines. They usually don’t pay much attention to the other search engines because they assume that most users only make use of the top search engines. While we know what happens when people assume, their assumptions are quite spot on. The top three search engines have a firm grip of the market and it will probably stay that way for a long time. These search engines make use of algorithms that allow their system to crawl the Internet and pick up new sites as well as the newly updated sites. It’s all automatic. Taking into consideration how search engines work, webmasters have found solution in SEO. Hence, the websites are being optimized by strategically putting keywords on content of the site as well as tinkering with the HTML codes. While this practice may improve the ranking of the site on the main search engines, it may not help so much on the other sites that do not have the same indexing system.

One of the new ways to build links to your site is through article directory submission. This entails making cleverly written articles that appear to be informative rather than a sales pitch. With this said, you may need to hire creative writers. Once that has been secured, these articles will then have to be submitted to article directories. These directories become venues for articles that talk about various topics. The more articles submitted, the higher the chance of people linking back to your main website. If this is done in conjunction with SEO efforts, your sites can get massive linkbacks to your site. It’s also important that you make use of article directories that have a high index rank, so that you can be sure that the articles you have submitted would appear in the first two pages of the search engine’s site.

Article directory submission is currently being done because it has shown how effective it is in driving up traffic to websites.

Nowadays, it’s tough to be a webmaster. With all the pressures that come with the work, it’s no wonder that webmasters are finding help from their fellow webmasters. Since they live in various parts of the world, having a dedicated forum has become the norm. A webmaster forum serves as a venue for like-minded tech professionals to share their thoughts on current internet marketing and SEO trends. It’s also a place where ideas come to life. Perhaps, even the most clever products and tools have been conceptualized in forums like this. But not all forums are the same, there are those that just serves as a place to hangout, and there are some that can be a haven for webmasters because they offer more than just company, they also provide expert advise and necessary tools to improve your webmastering skills.

To help you decide which forum or community to join, here is a list of top 5 webmaster forums. They are chosen based on their Alexa ranking, taking into consideration the types of information they provide and the quality of the forums.

1. Digital Point (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/). This forum is one of the top ranking webmasters forum based on the Alexa ranking. This means that the forum is able to attract many webmasters, most of which are tech experts. Initially, you can view all the postings without having to register as a member. This means that you can immediately view and assess the contents and the quality of posting. The forum touches on all aspects of webmastering and technology. So, regardless of your specialization, you will be able to find information that you need. With more than 1,300 members online at one time, there is a massive dose of updates. Downside is that you might not be able to keep up with it. This forum is great for those that want to be updated about all aspects of technology. It wouldn’t work if you are highly specialized and want to be specific.

2. Site Point (http://www.sitepoint.com/). Site Point is actually a website that offers articles, books, kits, videos, and blogs about technological updates. The articles are written by top notch industry experts so you will know that you are getting quality information. It also has a Marketplace section that allows you to buy and sell tech stuff. The forum is even more useful because there are specific categories that cater to your information needs.

3. Webmaster World (http://www.webmasterworld.com/). The site is one of the most popular webmaster sites around. It also has the most user-friendly interface. What’s great about is that the tech news and highlights are posted in the front page, so you don’t have to go clicking on sub categories. This is great for webmasters who want to get specific information about their particular field of specialization.

4. DaniWeb (http://www.daniweb.com/). DaniWeb is an IT discussion community that offers a treasure trove of information about anything IT. It is quite popular to people who are into software development as there are very useful postings about various programming programs. It may not be for you if you are looking for website promotions and similar marketing efforts.

5. Create Blog (http://createblog.com/). As the name suggests, the site is particularly designed to cater to bloggers. This is a great site for webmasters who use blogs as a way to promote their sites. It guides newbies as well as veterans on how to create a blog that can attract many visitors. There are tools available to improve your blogs. As such, you will find tips and tricks on graphics design, blog layouts, CSS, javascript, and blog-related tools.

6. Webmaster-Talk (http://www.webmaster-talk.com/). The first webmaster forum I joined, in the early 2003’s A great place for novice webmasters as well for the advanced ones. Want a cheap website or a cheap link? That’s the best place to look them up.

7. V7N.com (http://www.v7n.com/forums/). Probably not as active as once, V7n is full of professional webmasters. I’m visiting that place for it’s SEO forum, where alot of SEO tactics are discussed. One hint for the owner, animate that dead marketplace!

8. NamePros (http://www.namepros.com). A great forum for domainers with an active domain marketplace & domain discussions. Interesting point system available where users can buy domains using the points they get from posts and donations of other users

9. WarriorForum (http://www.warriorforum.com/). The oldest webmaster forum around, launched in 1997. I never visited that forum but it seems active (many members online) and I heard that there are a lot of useful informations on the board.

Every website owner and webmaster dreams of massive volume of traffic on a daily basis. Only a handful of websites can boast of millions of hits per day, and most of them are big companies that can survive even with little to no marketing or advertising. This can’t be said about fledgling websites that struggle to get as many visitors as they can possibly get. That’s why they pay top dollars to content writers that can generate the unique contents that are fascinating enough to attract users and keep them hooked. However, on a bad day, no amount of fancy content can improve your website traffic. It is for this reason that webmasters are trying to find the best mix of efforts that can increase the volume of traffic. As they say, “content is king” but it’s not enough to guarantee high traffic.

One of the most popular ways to build links to particular websites is by the utilization of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is believed that when the sites are optimized for top search engines, then you can expect improved volume traffic. It takes into consideration how search engines work so that websites are designed to be optimized, that is by peppering the content with keywords as well as implementing appropriate HTML codes.

Search engines, especially the top three, make use of a system that detects new websites and updated websites. These sites in turn will be indexed and ranked. The higher the rank in the index, the higher the chance of being in the first couple of pages of the search engine once a keyword is entered in the search bar. Most search engines have these systems in place, but not all of them are as efficient and effective as those that are utilized by Google, Yahoo and MSN. There are tons of search engines out there that do not have the new system, hence, they make use of directory submissions in order to build up their index. Unfortunately, this system is considered archaic and a lot of webmasters have abandoned such practice. They consider it tedious and time-consuming. But what not many webmasters realize is that the system is an effect type of cheap link building. While most websites vie for ranking on the top three search engines, they fail to realize that not everyone makes use of the said search engines. There is still a percentage of people who make use of other search engines. Webmasters should also consider this little group of search engines and include them in their link building efforts.

Directory submissions entail the process of manually sending the website details to search engines so that they can be added to the index. This may not be something that webmasters are willing to do, but there are sites that offer services and will do the dirty work for you. It’s perhaps the cheapest way to improve the volume traffic to your site. This is something that webmasters should re-consider including in their link building efforts.

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