How to earn money writing online content

The creation of the worldwide internet and the affordability of the desktop or personal computer have resulted in an incredible phenomenon: a global online marketplace. It’s a fact. These days just about everybody, everywhere, uses a computer. And, because that is true, new markets have developed, seemingly overnight.

There are also new ways of doing business. Professional writers, of articles or of advertising – or anything else – now find that the best way to find work, and new clients, is not in the local newspaper’s classified section … not through word of mouth … not even by referral – NO, the best way to find and get work is right on the Internet. Read more

Benefits of having a website for your business

What are the benefits of a business website? The following are 10 advantages you can gain from putting your company online:

1. Global exposure. Having a website will bring your business to the global audience. This means a website will place your company on the Internet where billions of users online can access.

2. Easy access. Anyone who has an Internet connection can access your company right at their fingertips. You may also have the option to restrict your website to certain users for security purposes.

3. Reduction of cost in information distribution. The Internet is a real-time and low cost medium of information. A business owner can easily distribute information through his website and email at a cost cheaper than the traditional offsite distribution process. Marketing, selling, customer service and useful public data are examples of information you may elect to distribute to promote your business and uphold your social responsibilities. Read more

The importance of Alexa rank to your website

What is the importance of Alexa ranking to your website or blog? Is the ranking system reliable? According to Alexa’s “Gathering Web Usage information, it utilizes web usage information coming from the community of Alexa Toolbar users. This means that a website’s Alexa Ranking depends on the traffic generated from visitors who have installed Alexa Toolbar in their internet browsers. This also means that your regular visitors who don’t have the toolbar will not contribute to your ranking. Alexa ranking is based on the three month traffic rank trend of a website. This trend is calculated according to the following:

1. Reach – percent of global internet users who visited a website Read more

Free Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Article writing

It is every webmaster’s dream to position their websites at the top of the world’s biggest search engine results page, like in Google, Yahoo and Bing. That’s why they will try to do everything from content writing, to link building, to even engaging in expensive online promotion system just to obtain that goal. When it comes to website development (in terms of traffic, ranking and popularity), most experts say that content is king, while others are claiming that it is instead SEO. This debate has already become trendy in many articles and blog posts from around the web. I even said in one of my article that content is king who is living in a marketing castle. In my opinion, content and Search Engine Optimization should not compete with each other. Why? It’s because they are part of each other. Content writing is part of SEO and SEO can be applied through content writing. Furthermore, SEO can also be applied through link building or online promotion. But among content, link building and online promotion, I still consider content as still and will still be… the king. The main reason? It is in our contents that our websites become genuinely marketable and constantly useful. Read more

How to comment the right way?

I appreciate people who make comments on the articles written in this site. In fact, I’m always excited to open our dashboard everyday to see who have participated in our discussions. Recent commentators were given rewards by showing their names and links in our blog’s sidebar. Monthly top ten commentators are also shown in our sidebar with their names and links to their websites. This gives them link incentives that provide their websites hundreds of possible backlinks since top commentators appear in our sidebar which is shown in all the pages of our site (this site has 230 pages indexed by Google as at the date of this post). To see the number of a website’s pages indexed by Google, just enter the keyword, site:domainname.com (ex. site:businessaccent.com) in the Google search engine. Read more

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