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Here is our first check to motivate all those out there trying to make a few extra dollars! We finally made it past our $100 mark, payment confirmed, check sent and now in our hands.

Take it one step at a time, don’t overwhelm yourself. Rome wasn’t built in a day and your websites will take time to develop and mature. Stay positive, when it gets rough give yourself breaks. Stay motivated because only you will get it done. Set goals and try to adhere to them.

Best of luck and here is a glimpse at our hard work

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Here it is!
October 2008 code: INDIANSUMMER

Discount Price: $8.81 domain name registration at Namecheap

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Register.com is giving away one domain for one year for free! That is right all you need is a credit card(you won’t be charged til renewal). There are no further obligations after registering your domain, however,the renewal can be quite costly at Register.com. Nonetheless we feel its a great way to get a free domain name for a year.

You really have nothing to lose so head on over to Register and grab yourself a free domain!

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Hope everyone is doing well and hitting it hard online. School just started for us so its been a little hectic lately. We’ve pushed NameCheap pretty hard last post so I thought the coupon for September was due.

The Coupon Code is BACK2SCHOOL and will be good through 09/01-09/30 for all domain transfers and registrations.

What are you waiting for? Get a domain and start your web endeavors today!

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I’m not sure what most readers are using for domain registrations but I’ve found Namecheap to be one of the best. They offer free domain privacy with all their domain purchases in addition to a list of other free stuff. To get the best deal for Namecheap here is August 2008 Code: summerends which brings the price to $8.41 per domain registration!

You may also consider Godaddy which offers $6.95 domains if you just search Google for “Godaddy” it will be the Sponsored Link. Godaddy also has free domain privacy with the purchase of 5 or more domains. Bringing it to a total of $35.75 with ICANN fees. However if you are planning to register 5 or more domains with privacy for longer than 1 year its better to go with Namecheap. Lets break down the costs here with RENEWAL costs cause thats the deal breaker:

Godaddy: $6.95/domain + fees or Total: $35.75 for 5 domains
Renewal: $9.99/domain
Privacy: $8.99/domain

Total Renewal Cost(5 Domains) with Godaddy:  $94.90 or $18.98/domain

Namecheap: $8.41/domain or Total: $42.05 for 5 domains
Renewal: $9.29/domain
Privacy: $7.88 for 5 domains

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Keyword density is the amount of times the chosen keyword appears in a certain web page. bear in mind, keywords should not be overly applied, merely used  just enough at crucial locations.

If you duplicate your keywords with every other word, then your web site will most likely be declined as an artificial site or spam internet site. Keyword density is always showed as a percent of the total word content on any given page.

If you have a 100 word web page excluding the  HTML code used , and you use a certain keyword for 5 times within the same page. The keyword density on that page is acquired by  dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your page. For this example we take  5 divided by 100 = .05 or simply 5%

The acceptable standard for a keyword density should be between  3% and 5%, to receive search engines recognition and exceeding this number results in poor search engine placement.

This rule should apply to every page on your website. This rule should also apply to not just to one keyword but the set of keywords or related keywords.

Simple steps to check the density:

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Google has released a new search tool that is more advanced than Google Trends.  I tried out a few words and saw some great keyword results. The tool also breaks down keyword’s popularity for each country.  This will be a very useful tool for any Webmaster.

Time to go check out some more keywords!

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Don’t know where to start? Started but don’t know what to do? Frustrated that your website isn’t making any money? To be honest we’ve all been there but its more important to stay focused on the main goals. The best advice I’ve received so far is to “just do it.” Sitting there wondering what could be will never get you anywhere. Get out there try different ideas that will be the only way! The advice may seem cliche but when it all boils down, your results are directly proportionate to your effort.

You don’t know where to start?
Ask yourself about a topic you are truly excited to talk about, once you find it, start a blog. If blogging is not for you there are plenty of other options. A good way to find ideas is search on Ebay, Sitepoint, Digitalpoint and see what other types of sites are being sold. The ideas are endless! Don’t just sit here thinking that you have no idea what to do, just go now and do it!

You have a website but there isn’t traffic?
Go comment on similar blogs with follow links, post on forums with your link in signature, add your link to directories, create backlinks with more popular sites! Give it time, traffic will come if you have good genuine content. It is frustrating at times but when the day comes it will be all worth it. I’ve sat in front of the monitor watching pennies roll in day after day until suddenly it turned into $1/day then $2 then $3 and so on! Keep your attitude positive and just do it!

You have traffic but revenue is low?
Move the ads around and change things! There is no straight formula for how much a specific website should make. Maybe yours isn’t built for Adsense? Try affiliate programs, try pay per impression ads! There WILL be something that works but only you will be able to find it. You just have to do it to find out!

It is really easy to lose sight of your goals when your websites aren’t rolling in the dough. Refocus, give it time, hit it hard and just do it! I promise one day it will pay off.

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Facebook has put up $50 free coupons to test out their advertising. There are a total of three coupons for $50 each which can be combined for a total of $150.

Facebook Coupon Code 1 ($50 value): T5V6-1JKV-TNH9-2MRH
Facebook Coupon Code 2 ($50 value): 2JXY-WTFK-72Y0-VJ6Y
Facebook Coupon Code 3 ($50 value): R1X5-0NH7-5FXW-5YEC

There is also another offer for another $100 Free in Facebook advertising by signing up for Visa Business Network Facebook Application. If you decide to go for this thats a total of $250 in free advertising from Facebook. This is a great offer for anyone who has wanted to try advertising or is already advertising. What do you gotta lose? Its free money!

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One of the most exciting and frustrating struggles of becoming an online entrepreneur is building new websites. You have spent all your hard work and time to only find that no one has gone to your website. One of the easiest ways to get traffic is through search engines by getting crawled and indexed.

This is my complete SEO guide to getting your new website crawled and indexed quickly.

1.) Search Engine Submission
Submit your site to the top 3 search engines. Don’t worry waste your time on auto search engine submitters because the big 3 will get you covered. Google,Yahoo, MSN

2.) Automatic Backlinks
Major search engines will crawl popular sites more often and easiest way to get crawled is by having a link on popular sites. Here are some neat sites that will give you automatic backlinks. Replace the site url with your url.
For instance for us it would be http://www.aboutus.org/llank.com

http://www.aboutus.org/”siteurl”
http://cubestat.com/”siteurl”
http://whois.domaintools.com/”siteurl”

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