Buat duit online

Before I proceed to explain what is the meaning of buat duit online, let me just warn you that this is going to be the first post on LithiumMind that is not related to making money online but rather a rant, some thoughts and an observation. I decided today that I will take a break on blogging about money for a change.

First order of the day, anyone suffered from the recent PR update by Goggod? LithiumMind did. I went from 0 to 3 (a month ago) and then now to 2. I have been really busy with work which cause me not to update this blog as much as I would like to. Could this be one of the reasons why my blog suffered the PR dip?

You might notice that I have reverted to a simple WordPress template. I am wondering if the previous template could have caused my PR dip. I know that the chances of that happening could be very slim, but I have read that if a template is not designed properly it might affect the SEO of the blog.

What do you guys/gals think about the recent PR update. Did your blog suffer a similar fate? If your blog’s PR increase what did you do differently? These are important questions to ponder upon. However, I still think that PR is slightly over rated.

Now back to the title of this post. Are you wondering what the heck does it mean? Buat duit online simply translates to make money online from Malay to the English language. I am just helping my friend promote her blog which I am co-writing as well. Isn’t that silly? I don’t even have the time to update my blog and now I’m helping my friend. Hopefully she can rank number 1 on Google one day with her niche and then it’s time for her to promote my blog.

Anyways you’ll be surprise on how much money she has made so far. It’s not much but quite good for a newbie. I wish her all the best in her buat duit online blog.

July 27, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Pagerank | 6 Comments 

Melayu boleh to rank

Sometimes it is an advantage if you know different languages. The term melayu boleh has been use by many internet marketers to propel their blog to the top SERP. The question is why is this term even relevant in SEO.

This term previously meant that the malay race can do it. However over the time this term has evolved into something different. This keyword has been used to reference pictures. What kind of pictures you might ask. Well let’s just say that it’s not something that you would want to see in the office with a lot of people around.

However this article is aim at providing an insight on how to capitalize important keywords to your advantage. For example the term melayu boleh is not really a competitive keyword, however you will be surprise on the number of searches on this word.

Sometimes making money on the internet may not always have the most glamorous subject or niche. There are a lot of blogs out there that make money through celebrity gossip, entertainment news and other type of niches. If you know how to capitalize on this niche, you will know how to direct all the traffic to your blog. And trust me there is a lot of searches for this niche.

As everyone knows, traffic is the one that really drives a blog. Without traffic your blog is nothing. Once you get enough traffic you can then start to monetize your blog. It could be pay per click, paid advertisement and so on. The main concern for any webmaster is to make sure that your blog is notice by everyone.

So how does knowing a different language be an advantage? Well if you know that a particular phrase is search mainly by the people from a particular country you could used it to your advantage. For example you could use that phrase in your blog. Your blog will then do very well on the SERP which in return will drive readers to your blog.

However of course make sure that the phrase is relevant to your blog. You would not want to capitalize on a term that is related to golfing on a photography blog right? It makes no sense at all.

I have also notice that Google tends to favor blogs that are in English. I can’t confirmed this, however it is base on experience. I have another blog in a different language and it does not rank to well compared to an English blog for the same phrase. Could it be because Google algorithm is geared towards analyzing keywords for English? I will have to do more research to validate my findings.

Another important note about providing advertisement on your blogs such as Google adsense, is to make sure that you place important keywords on your blog. Google detects these keywords and place relevant advertisement on your blog. Once you notice that your post has relevant advertisement, you could write the post, so that at the end of it, your readers would want to find more information. And guess what, the advertisement being displayed could be the answer to what your reader has been looking for. That’s one of the key success to having PPC on your blog. Everyone is pretty immune to all the advertisement on blogs. The key is to grab your readers attention and make them want to find out more. That curiosity is the one that will make them click on the relevant advertisement.

This post is also part of an experiment. I wonder how well this blog could rank on SERP with the term melayu boleh. Could it make it on the top 10 of the google? We will see in time.

July 26, 2009 | Filed Under Blog Tips, Make Money Online | 3 Comments 

Google Adsense Payment In More Countries

I am sure that you already know how to make money with google adsense. The great news is that Google Adsense is expanding the list of countries to allow Western Union Quick Cash as a payment method.

The 7 new countries are Barbados, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nepal, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

Therefore there are 23 countries (including the 7 new countries) that are eligible to collect their payment via Western Union Quick Cash payment method. They are:

* Argentina
* Barbados
* Bolivia
* Bulgaria
* Chile
* China (Mainland)
* Colombia
* Dominican Republic
* Egypt
* Guatemala
* Indonesia
* Lithuania
* Malaysia
* Morocco
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Panama
* Peru
* Philippines
* Romania
* Taiwan
* Uruguay
* Vietnam

You can read more about it at Inside Adsense.

However I am yet to collect any payment. I need more traffic and more c l i c k s on you know what.

Are you making enough money with your Google Adsense?

June 11, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Make Money Online | 8 Comments 

12 Website You Must Visit

“12 Website You Must” was initially going to be a very long post about the 12 important website that you must visit after completing your blog. However I decided to compile it into a small mini eBook so that anyone is able to refer to the document at anytime.

As mention in one of my previous post one of the best way of increasing your mailing list is by providing your readers an incentive to subscribe to your blog.

This free mini eBook is a way for me to say “thank you” for supporting my blog and I hope you enjoy it.

You can get the free mini eBook by subscribing to LithiumMind.

LithiumMind

June 9, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Make Money Online | 13 Comments 

So You Think You Can Comment?

Believe it or not, commenting on other people blogs can be a really good way of generating quality traffic and advertising your blog to general public.

Why should you comment?

1) The more comments you leave, the better chance that someone will visit your site.

2) The best part about a comment is that it gives you the ability for someone to link to your post by you just posting a response to a post.

3) As time goes by, you tend to build up a network with other blogs owners. They will in return provide comment on your pages as well. This will in return form a strong bond between these blog owners.

4) Regular readers of a blog or even the owner will eventually remember your name if you start to comment on a regular basis. In a subtle way, it will actually work to your advantage as you are slowly beginning to build your brand.

Where Should you comment?

Remember, you want to send quality traffic to your blog. Therefore the readers of your blog should be interested in your niche. It would not make much sense if you expect readers from a furniture website to visit your blog that is related to ways to make money online.

Therefore it is critical that you should only provide comments on blogs that is related to your niche. Although commenting on other non related niche blogs may send traffic to your blog, but ask yourself this question, will the reader be interested with the contents of your post? The answer is no. That is because what you have written is of not what the reader is looking for.

Provide comment like how you would expect them.

Here are some very simple tips to help you be a better commenter on any blogs:

1) There should be a purpose to a comment and to provide additional value to the post. The comment could be insightful or even base on a personal experience. Regardless it should provide a value to the post.

2) Don’t bid around the bush. There are some readers that love to write comments that are longer than the original post. However if you examine the comments in detail, it can actually be sum up in a couple of sentences. Make your comments short and sweet. It is much easier for people to remember.

3) Spam stinks. Never ever put in your post link in your text comment unless the owner of the blog has already installed a plugin that automatically detects your last blog post. It is not polite to steal someone else spot light by advertising your site.

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4) If you think that a link can be beneficial to the owner of the blog and the other readers out there, then you can it. For example, the blog owner might have written a post about a certain wordpress plugin. However you have read on another website on how to further improve this plugin. You can obviously provide the link to this information in your comment.

Basically it all comes down to common sense. Just ask yourself, how would you like people to comment on your blog? If you do not want certain kind of comments appearing on your blog, you should not expect owners from other blogs to accept that kind of comments as well.

June 5, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Traffic Tips | 22 Comments 

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