If you’re looking for extra income, welcome to the club. In today’s economy, tens of millions of people are frantic to find ways to pay for not only the nicer things in life, but also the bare essentials that keep going up in price, such as gas, heating oil, food, clothing, and housing.

Fortunately, your trusty computer can help save the day, making it unnecessary for many to find a second job. Here are some of the best ways to make money from your computer.

Blogging

When someone tells me that they’d like to make some extra income online, but don’t have the technical skills to set up their own web site, I usually advise them to set up a blog. Blogging is one of the best ways to get started. There are sites such as blogger.com and wordpress.com that require absolutely no investment, and can get you published on the Internet today!

All you need to start blogging is a favorite subject and the willingness to post your thoughts on a regular basis, I recommend at least once every day for the first couple weeks, and 3 to 5 times a week after that, as a bare minimum, if you’re serious about earning income.

There are many bloggers that earn full time incomes. Even if you’re new to the Internet, you’ve probably heard of super bloggers that talk about any subject under the sun, from celebrity gossip, to politics, to electronic gadgets, to shoes. Your blog topic can be whatever you’re already knowledgeable about, or are willing to spend the time to research. Actually the narrower the topic the better, as you can become the go-to expert in your field.

There’s also nothing to stop you from having multiple blogs going at once. Just make sure you can keep up the pace with each one, as there’s nothing sadder than finding an interesting blog that hasn’t been updated in weeks. Your loyal readers will often reward your interesting thoughts by making purchasing decisions based on your recommendations, and you can earn affiliate commissions by linking them to your favorite products or merchants.

Article Marketing

Many online marketers find that writing informative articles is not only fun but profitable. Posting brief posts on your blog may convince you that you want to have a bigger impact. By writing informative articles anywhere from 300 to 800 words on average, and submitting these articles to some of the many top article directories on the Internet (like this one), your writing will reach a much larger audience. In your article, you can link back to your own blog or web site so that interested readers can read more if they like your style.

Writing For Dollars

OK, so let’s say you like writing, but don’t want to bother with what little effort it takes to post it online at all, what to do then? Well, many thousands of people write for others. There is a huge demand for “ghost writers”, those that sell their writing ability in exchange for immediate income. If you have a talent for researching topics (simply using the available search engines in many cases), you can keep busy writing for others that either don’t have the time to do so, or are challenged in the English language.

Or take the opposite view. Suppose you want to make money, but don’t have the best writing skills. You can still succeed by hooking up with a writer that’s willing to follow your instructions to write your blog posts or articles. All you need is a topic, and for often just a few dollars, you can find an excellent writer to do that job for you. Much like changing the oil in your car, if you don’t have the ability or equipment to do t he job yourself, it’s easy to find someone who does at a very affordable price.

The above methods are some of the very best ways to make money online from your computer. Of course there are many more methods available to those with the time, energy, and desire to succeed online. I share more of the best ways to make money online at http://www.earn1kaday.com where many of my students are reaching incomes in excess of $1000 per day using nothing but their abilities and their computer.

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What Can a Freelance Writer Do For You?

A freelance writer is an independent contractor who usually telecommutes (works from home). You might hire a freelance writer for a small project or on an on-going basis to do regular work, part- or full-time. Freelance writers can tackle any writing or editing project you may have, including: articles, reports, web content, proofreading, press releases, reviews, business plans, ghostwriting, e-books, brochures, letters, print ads, speeches, presentations, newsletters, scripts, contracts, questionnaires, training manuals, and more. Freelance writers can also do research, planning, brain storming, organizing, and branding. Additionally, many modern freelance writers are very knowledgeable about search engine optimization (SEO).

Where to Find a Freelance Writer?

It is fairly easy to find a freelance writer since the advent of the Internet. Some of the most popular web sites for locating freelance writers are Elance, iFreelance, and GetAFreelancer. The way these three sites are set up is that people or companies with writing projects post what they need done. Freelance writers who are members of the web site can place bids on the projects. When the desired time period is up, the buyer chooses a bidder.

Elance is probably the most established of the three sites. Elance offers dispute mediation, an optional escrow service to pay your freelancer, and allows the freelancers to verify their credentials (such as previous employers or degrees earned). Elance does charge a project fee of 6-8%. Ifreelance and Getafreelancer basically just provide a way for buyers and providers to connect (no extras like mediation and escrow). All three of the sites allow the freelancers to create profiles where they can describe their background and skills and provide writing samples. The professionalism on Getafreelancer is, in my opinion, noticeably lower than the other two sites.

Do not overlook Craigslist for posting your writing project. A company called Freelance Daily compiles a list of all the freelance writing jobs posted online (Craigslist, Monster, etc.) every weekday and e-mails them to subscribers. The Freelance Daily goes out to thousands of writers. Additionally, you can also hire a freelance writing firm to handle your project. Many firms bid on jobs on these sites, but some do not.

How to Write Up Your Project Proposal?

The more detail you can provide for your freelance applicants the better. A good project description, like a good job description, is thorough, accurate, and informative. How many pages is the project? How many words should the articles be? Does the project involve research? Do you have a sample you can provide? Do you have a web address you can include? What is the subject matter involved? Is it double-spaced or single-spaced? Will the writer retain rights to the work product or will you? Will the writer’s name be printed on the work product giving him or her credit?

To assist you in providing the proper details, you should know that, on average, a full 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper full of single-spaced writing in 10 or 12 point font contains about 500 words. A similar double-spaced page contains about 250. The average blog post or web content article contains 300-500 words. Also, remember to ask for a resumé and three writing samples in your project proposal.

Some other tips are to consider checking your writer’s work with CopyScape. CopyScape is a website designed to check if a document has been published somewhere else already. Even if just a portion of the document is plagiarized, CopyScape can identify that. Additionally, many providers on freelance writing sites are from India or other countries where English is not the native language. If you only want to hire a native English speaker, please specify that in your proposal. Also, if you want the writer to turn in documents in a non-traditional format, clarify this in your proposal. If you expect anything other than a .doc or .rtf document, let the applicants know. If the writer will need special software, clarify this as well. Lastly, if your project requires proofreading or editing, specify whether you want the freelancer to use traditional proofreading symbols or just “laymen’s terms.” If you want the proofreader to use a certain reference manual like the APA (American Psychological Association) or Chicago Manual of Style, specify this.

Terminology to Know

Be familiar with the correct terminology. Here are a few terms to help you out:

Blogger/Blogging – A blog, or web log, is like an online diary or journal. Blogs may contain personal or business-related content. Blogs are typically updated with new content on a regular basis. Typically, blogs provide a place for readers to leave comments and feedback. People may subscribe to blogs, like newsletters. A blogger is someone who posts blog content. Blogging is the act of posting content to a blog.

Copywriting: Not the same as “copyright,” which refers to intellectual property. Copywriting refers to writing “copy.” Copy is any text that promotes a business, service, person, or concept, i.e. marketing materials. Many copywriters work for advertising agencies, newspapers, or magazines.

Ghostwriter: Someone who is hired to write for someone else. The writer allows the person who hired them to claim his or her writing as their own.

Proofreading:

Light Proofreading–Correcting misspellings, grammar and punctuation mistakes, verifying references, and ensuring consistency

Medium Proofreading–Light proofreading plus checking for tone, structure, run-on sentences, voice, tense, disjointed ideas

Heavy Proofreading–Medium proofreading plus condensing wordiness, smoothing out transitions between paragraphs, readability, eliminating cliché s, and any other correction or comment that may be noticed by the proofreader

Re-Write: Many companies are in need of having news items or similar content re-written. If this is what you need, specify that candidates will not need to create original content but rather just re-work or re-arrange existing content. The price for this should be less than drafting original copy.

Web Content: Any content on your website, to include text, pictures, videos, or logos, is considered web content.

White Papers: Articles that express an organization’s standing or philosophy on an issue. White papers are in some ways reports that may provide results of a recent project or conclusions made by recent research.

How to Select a Writer From All the Qualified Candidates?

Most likely any clear and concise project proposal you post is going to leave you inundated with applicants. Expect anywhere from 5 to 40 applicants per post. How do you determine who is the best match for the job?

What many buyers do is ask the freelance applicants to write a sample article, give 10 ideas for sample blog posts, proofread a sample page, etc. By creating a “sample test,” you can weed out applicants in a number of ways. First of all, some applicants will be too busy to do your sample. Dedicated applicants who really want the job will make time. Second, applicants will turn in the test after your due date, misread directions, and otherwise expose their weaknesses. You can also consider conducting phone interviews at the final stage of the process. Still unsure? Hire the top 2-3 candidates on a conditional basis for a short project and decide after that.

How to Charge and Pay for Your Freelance Writer?

You have a lot of flexibility on how you pay your freelance writer: per word, per article, per page, per project, hourly, or on a pre-arranged flat fee. As far as paying your freelancer, PayPal is probably the easiest way, unless the writer is going to be on your payroll getting paper checks. If you use Elance, you can use their escrow system.

Other Issues to Consider

If you are doing a long-term project, consider setting milestones for the project, i.e. breaking it up into a series of small projects with intermittent due dates. You can also use a website like BaseHQ to keep track of the project with the freelancer. This site provides a common workspace for two parties working long-distance on a similar project.

Also, if your freelance writer is working with sensitive material for your company, consider having them sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. This document will bind the freelancer into keeping your trade secrets private.

Another tip is to not be so specific with what you want done that the freelancer has no room to pitch ideas or give feedback. Freelance writers have extensive expertise in projects just like yours and may be able to add a valuable outside opinion. Take advantage of what you’re paying for.

This article was written by freelance writer Staci Marquez-Nichols. For more information, visit Staci-Marquez-Nichols.Com.

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Affiliate marketing is a great opportunity for any aspiring Internet businessperson to make some serious cash, however, there is a bit of an art to it and many walk away disappointed after setting up elaborate websites, with a large range of affiliate products on sale, and not being able to make a go of it!

When I first started with affiliate marketing, I made sure to do an online course that explained all the steps and methods involved with this type of selling. Profit Lance and Wealthy Affiliate are two very detailed, affordable, and user-friendly programs that I would highly recommend to anyone starting off in the world of affiliate marketing.

I was thoroughly taught about the intricacies of Clickbank.net and had a great head-start with this invaluable knowledge! For any ‘Newbie’ affiliate marketer who may be reading this, one sage piece of advice for You: visit Clickbank.net First before going anywhere else! This site really is the Marketing ‘Bible’ for any aspiring web master and has an enormous range of electronic products (ebooks) on all topics to sell, with many having high commissions paid on them!

Commission Junction, Linkshare, and Performics are three other companies that I would highly recommend that You set an account up at. You can also do a search for any type of affiliate company by typing “’search term’ affiliate” into Google; there are literally thousands of companies out there who would like You to advertise for them!

Take the marketing process one step at a time; set up the best, premium looking website that You can; have simple, clean navigation and several ways for the customer to be able to pay for any of Your listed products, including PayPal, AlertPay, Visa, Mastercard, American Express … and others.

Make sure to install an autoresponder on the site (try Aweber) and collect a list of people’s names and email addresses in order to sell them affiliate products at a later date. Offer Free giveaways and courses/bonuses to entice them to sign up!

Check out Amazon affiliates and a multitude of other companies, to promote diversity on your site/s. I recommend clixGalore to any aspiring marketer, for the sole fact that this company has some very attractive affiliate banners and buttons that can be incorporated on just about any niche site that You can think of.

Then go get some traffic, and lots of it; the more that you can gather, the better! Write articles for EzineArticles.com and leave a URL link to your website in your signature (resource box). When people read these articles, if they are well written, informative, and entertaining, they may click on your URL and visit your site, and maybe even make a purchase or two!? The other marketing advantage of having Ezine articles is that they may be used by other people on their websites, in newsletters and mail-outs; your URL link will be attached to each article and may prove to be a very lucrative source of traffic for your site!

Familiarize Yourself with Social Bookmarking sites, such as Digg.com, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Propellor, Reddit, Mixx, Lipstick .. and many others. All these sites can be a goldmine for free traffic numbers!

Personally, although some may not agree with me, I would recommend that you also set up a few upgraded accounts on some of the best known Traffic Exchanges on the Net. If You really don’t like to surf, then invest in some traffic on the sites and load up credit allocations for each of your listed affliliate URL’s!

The T.E.’s that I would recommend that you use include: #1 rated ~ Traffic Swarm, Trafficera.com(fastest growing social/marketing site ~ I am on the #1 team in the world here and highly recommend Trafficera for large traffic numbers for Your websites!), Traffic Splash – (another highly-rated exchange), Top ranking and current #1 listed Exchange, Easy Hits 4 U, Traffic Pods, ts25 and Traffic Roundup – (for all those cowboys and cowgirls out there!).

There are many others but this list is a Great one to start with! Also, if you really cannot stand ‘clicking’ for credits, then the alternative is ‘hover surfing’; the best site with this function, in my opinion, is Lords-of-Traffic.

Some people buy traffic for their sites and have great success with elevated sale’s numbers and an improved Alexa ranking, however, You need to be careful about the quality of the bought traffic and resist the temptation to buy large bulk number ’specials’, which are frequently nothing more than ‘pop-under’ traffic and garbage in quality!

Visit popular forums and set up a URL link to your site in the signature, be sure to use the your message here (don’t click) function in order to get a ‘clean’ look to your sig., then post quality entries and replies; each posting will have your personalized link contained within – a great source of free traffic! Forums that I would recommend that you visit are the ones with the highest Alexa rankings (number of visitors to the site). These ‘elite’ choices include: Digital Point Forum, Site Point, Warrior Forum, Off-topic Forum, and many others …. You can get a complete list on Big boards.

Be sure to include a signature link in your emails too! It is surprising how many emails one writes in the space of a week, and so much free advertising can come about from this method!

Another program I have had some success with is ‘Entrecard’. This has been a source of quite a bit of traffic to my site and is simple to set up.

Starting a Squidoo lens can be an excellent idea in order to market your wares and draw attention to your websites. Investigate Hubpages too if you have some spare time!

Blogs are also good value and Wordpress and Blogger are two sites that offer quality blogging tools and great customer service! Blogs are an easy platform to affiliate market off and can draw You a lot of attention as Google tends to favor blog posts in its organic listings! Personally, I’m a huge fan of blogging and I can say from experience, being the former world #1 ranked blogger on the famous site Icon (Madonna.com), that blogs can win you a large cashed-up audience, who log in to read every post that you write! Always be sure to ‘ping’ each new blogpost at sites like Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic; this will inform the web of your new listings quickly! (Note: Wordpress blogs often ‘ping’ entries automatically).

Many bloggers set up Adsense ads on their sites and make a small fortune on the side, beside their affiliate marketing profits! (One word of Warning: Never list websites that have Adsense ads in Traffic Exchanges; this goes against Google’s T.O.S. ~ Terms Of Service!) If you have no luck with Adsense then try Chitika or Blogsvertise or Adbrite; three premium choices and great to augment Your affiliate profits!

On the subject of blogs, make sure that you regularly visit some of the really large and well-known weblogs in order to leave comments and links back to your site. Blogs that I would recommend that you pay attention to are: ‘The Huffington Post’ – (#1 world ranked), Boing Boing (quirky news served with panache!), Techcrunch, Engadget, Gawker (Manhattan madness and glossy gossip), Perez Hilton’s blog (same area as Gawker), and several others too; you can get complete listings by doing a Google search.

P.P.C. (Pay Per Click) advertising is another great way to improve your affiliate sales and it is well worth checking out sites such as Google Adwords or Yahoo! Search Marketing; even MSN has quite a good portal for PPC ads! Learn before you earn with PPC (wise advice), it is easy to lose a lot of money here so Take Care! Never try to get the number one positioned ad as it often loses money, and keep all your Adwords campaigns ‘tight’, with highly relevant common keyword groups that match up with the adcopy on Your destination/affiliate product pages!

Investigate some of the large social networking websites, such as Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut, and several others. You can set up links from your personalized profiles that lead directly to your affiliate products! A Great way to make sales!

Visit Yahoo Answers on a frequent basis and answer the questions pertaining to your affiliate niche! If you give quality, well thought-out information, then you should be able to link your answers to your website/s where your affiliate campaigns are located! If you achieve in getting a ‘Best Answer’ accolade, then your site should be visited even more frequently!

One other method for obtaining traffic to your affiliate sites is through offline advertising. Personalised business cards can be purchased for about a cent each from an excellent site called Vista Print; I highly recommend them for the Best printing deals on the Net! You can also have t-shirts, pens, caps, stickers, and magnets printed with your site’s URL – to be distributed in mass number ~ Great viral advertising there!

Consider putting up handwritten ads on your local supermarket’s noticeboard; write your site’s URL 10 – 11 times, sideways along the bottom of the poster ad, and make cuts between each URL so that people can rip them off (like phone number tabs) and take them home for future reference!

One final, ‘crazy’ idea that I have sometimes employed to advertise my website, is to write the URL clearly in the sand when next you visit the beach; make a new ’sand ad’ every 100 metres or so and be sure to return the next day (or so) to write new ads – after the tide has been. If you write your URL’s above the tide line, you should have an ad that lasts longer!

Good luck with Your affiliate marketing!

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It’s taken a decade of baby steps, but the Web is finally starting to grow up. We’ve banished the bleak days of brochureware back when companies thought that scanning their annual reports page by page into half megabyte GIFs was the way to build an online presence. We’ve woken up from the nightmare of building sites from nested tables that wouldn’t make the IKEA reject bin, thanks to browsers that (mostly) handle style sheets without leaving coders compromised. And, thankfully, most people have got over their infatuation with Flash for its own sake, realising that two minutes of whirling geometrics is the closest thing to turning your entire front page into a Back button.

Call it a Renaissance if you like but the only way is up, no matter what you want to bring to the Web. Design mavens can now stretch CSS, JavaScript and even Flash to their limits, while maintaining clean, lightweight, elegant sites that embrace different platforms and even shrink to suit the mobile Web. At the same time, those more interested in content don’t have to sacrifice good looks for textual brilliance, and can draw upon publishing tools that make it easy for others to comment, contribute and collaborate online. Today’s bleeding edge sites are driven by the wishes and wills of both their creators and their visitors: they’re flexible, accessible and open to customisation. Most of all, they’re user driven: while it’s always been true that as much ego goes into building sites as HTML, we’re starting to see grassroots projects that offer distinctive personal visions, while embracing what their audiences expect from the Web and what they bring to the Web. The portal builders’ vision of the ‘Daily Me’ is evolving into the Webloggers’ ‘Daily Us’ and there’s plenty to like about it.

From interactive to inclusive

One of the earliest goals of site builders, back in what you might call the Web’s Stone Age, was to put a bit of life into static, read only sites. The arcane world of CGI was (and still is) beyond the reach of most HTML jockeys, meaning that any browser based techniques to add interactivity tended to be pretty lame. Reading back a visitor’s IP address or building a scripted form to pop up ‘Hello Dave!’ when you enter your name isn’t really the height of technology.

Even until recently, there’s been a digital divide between the bargain basement interactivity available to most site builders, and the customisation of higher end sites backed by dynamic servers and databases. Now, though, with the advent of smart site publishing tools, that sort of dead end ‘interactivity’ can be tossed in the bit-bucket. Ironically, though, much of the personalisation offered by big portal sites has also proved to be a false dawn. While being able to pick and choose news stories or multimedia streams seemed a big thing in the Nineties, in hindsight it seems shackled by ‘old media’ expectations too much like buying a newspaper for the sports section or wielding the TV remote control. What’s emerged in the last few years, then, is a redefinition of what interactivity should mean for the Web, which draws upon the various forms of online interaction that already thrive, i.e. email, newsgroups, chat rooms and instant messaging. So it’s time to put aside notions of dumb push button Interactivity’ that cast the Web as some giant videogame, and instead embrace a new era of ‘inclusivity’, in which sites are built to enable complex interactions but on a very human scale.

Navigating into the future

Just over a century ago, designers created innovative ‘navigation’ schemes that proved potentially deadly for users; that’s because they were designing the controls for the first generation of cars. it took years of competition, countless accidents and plenty of bruised egos before a standardised layout emerged. Trying to visit Web sites with funky navigation isn’t as dangerous as driving with the pedals back to front, but the same principle applies: people come to expect stability from technologies as they mature, even if the right way isn’t always the best way. So while there’s still tremendous freedom to come up with radical approaches to Web based navigation, forward thinking site builders tend to focus more on refining the well worn models of operating Systems and popular sites sidebar menus, horizontal tabs and clickable ‘breadcrumb’ trails so they work better, cleaner and more efficiently.

If you’ve kept away from the more arcane aspects of CSS, you’ll be amazed at the power and flexibility now available to create stylish navigation elements, complete with tabs, rollovers and submenus, without recourse to image files, complex scripting, Java or Flash. That’s not to say that Flash should be entirely off limits just be careful that you don’t sacrifice basic usability, such as the ability to bookmark deep links of use the browser’s back and forward buttons to cycle between pages. And remember that users with disabilities or behind proxies may be denied access. In short, it’s best to avoid using Flash for primary navigation, and save it for special occasions.

While the look and feel of Web navigation may be stabilising, it’s certainly not stagnating. That’s thanks to the growth of user centred architecture, which tries to avoid the old habit of dividing sites into layer upon layer of sub directories. Whether mimicking a corporate hierarchy or the folders on a typical coder’s hard drive, the multi layered approach too often leaves visitors not knowing where to look for information, of frustrated at having to dig so deep. Instead, user centred site building tries to anticipate the needs and questions of visitors, whether new to the site or familiar with its workings.

Plug-in participation

There are plenty of dynamic components freely available for personal and small scale sites, which can add some all-important stickiness that mysterious quality that encourages visitors to return for future visits. A simple way to get started is to add an opinion poll to your site. Another popular way to attract visitors is to include Flash or Shockwave games, puzzles and quizzes on your pages.

Care in the community

While you can take advantage of other people’s generosity to add some sparkle to your own site, that should only be a starting point. After all, the stickiest thing of all is the promise of regularly updated original content. If visitors can’t go anywhere else to get their daily fix of your wit, wisdom and creative sparkle, you can guarantee they’ll come back for more! The ability to update sites on a regular basis, without elite design or programming skills, has transformed the Web in recent years. Allowing visitors to comment and contribute takes things a step further, creating a truly inclusive online environment. We’re talking weblogs of course.

Many coders complain that the profusion of blogs has lowered the standards of Web design, creating a divide between those who care about the look of their sites, and those simply interested in knocking out a dozen posts a day and it’s true that most blogs follow familiar multi-column layouts built on standard templates.

What’s undeniable is that blogs are tuned to the way most people browse the Web these days: by putting the latest content up front and being simple to navigate, they’re especially easy to track and bookmark. They also work especially well with Google by being rich in text based content one reason why Google bought Blogger. And there are enough examples of beautifully designed blogs, such as Loobylu to prove that you don’t have to sacrifice graphical and coding skills to create a site with rich, original content that people want to visit again and again. If it’s stickiness you’re after, the world of blogging is like a giant vat of honey.

The biggest advantage of building sites around the blogging model is that they come with a vibrant Community waiting in the wings. This is most obvious with sites that make it easy for users to add pictures, mood icons and the all important commenting facility to their entries, and allow users to join ‘communities’ based upon common interests. Admittedly, many sites look a bit like your eccentric uncle’s DIY projects, but there’s plenty of room to tart up your design, and the site’s publishing tools make it incredibly easy to become part of a community, or for other users to keep track of your individual posts and add their own comments.

The most vibrant community orientated sites right now tend to combine original content, collaborative authorship, user comments and plenty of external links, all wrapped up in clean, up front designs. While many community driven sites are backed by Weblogging tools, the old style bulletin board is still worth a look.

Building for broadband

Getting more adventurous, building for users with higher bandwidth allows you to offer background music and Flashheavy interfaces that capture the distinctive identity and purpose of your site. Right now, the best examples of this are on sites where ‘old media’ producers radio, TV and the music industry have adapted their work for the Web.

The blue-sky future

So, where does the future lie for the Web, as broadband becomes the norm and community driven sites become increasingly prominent? Is it to be found in the text rich world of blog based sites, or in sites that bring ever more layers of rich media to the Web? Well, it’s safe to say that both will have their place. While Google remains the primary tool for most users in digging out the information that matters to them, the pre eminence it gives to blogs and similar content heavy sites will keep them popular. At least it will until Flash designers have the technology at hand to build sites that are as easily incorporated into Google’s rankings as those working with simple HTML, or until Google or another search engine becomes sophisticated enough to classify and index the growing amount of Web content that’s in audio and video format. That day may not be too far away. As the tools to create rich media content cease to be the privileged domain of top end professionals, thanks to the growing consumer market for sound and video editing tools, there’s likely to be sufficient demand (and smart enough programmers) to start remapping the Web as something more than a world of text heavy pages. Instead, look for the capacity and influence of CSS to increase, as it provides both Google friendly simplicity and the potential for graphically rich user interfaces.

Looking back at the predictions made at the end of the Nineties, it’s fair to say that the Web has developed less radically in the past five years than most designers expected. Many hyped technologies, such as XML and scalable vector graphics, have yet to catch on in a big way. This is due in part to the stuttering development of browser technology to adopt new standards, and in part because consolidation replaced innovation in the years following the dotcom crash. Now, however, with new attitudes developing towards site design and the technologies in place to implement them, we’re likely to see a new creative spirit embrace the Web in which both the inclusive spirit of blogging and the convergence of rich media have a part to play, together with other interactive tools such as instant messaging.

Is this likely to mean that site builders in five years’ time will need to be smarter and more creative than today? Perhaps. But the tools at their disposal and the space they’ll have to work in will also have been transformed to make it easier to get their creative visions online. It’s already possible to update and contribute to sites through your mobile phone. We are now looking at uploading and accessing high resolution streaming video, or dictating and receiving site updates while on the move. Site interfaces will evolve to reflect that the Web is bursting out from being ’something that’s on our computers’, and becoming part of our everyday lives. Designing for that sort of online experience is going to be light years away from knocking together a menu bar for your personal Web site. Just don’t be worried about being left behind. It’s the ambition, skill and imagination of site builders that has got us to where we are today, and it’s those qualities that will transform the Web in the years to come.

About: www.magneticcode.co.uk is a small web design company based in Rochester, Kent, UK. Magnetic Code uses clean HTML and CSS to create sleek, and usuable websites. See www.expertfound.com for an example, including this page on computers and internet products.

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Years ago the average person could not afford to own their work at home internet business. To become an owner you’d either have to be wealthy to start, or throw every cent into your business and risk bankruptcy.

Now however, starting a business is a lot more cost effective thanks to the internet. An 18 year old with $100 to spare can become an owner of an internet business. Here are some ways you can start your work at home internet business on a tiny budget.

1. If you have your computer then you can work from the comfort of your own home. But if not then, see if you can work from a library or internet cafe. You don’t need to spend 10 hours on the computer to make your business successful. If you can get to a computer for even 2 hours a day you can create the foundation to a successful business.

2. Search on search engines for work at home internet businesses that cost less than $90 to start. The average work at home business on the internet costs about $48 to get started. This is far less than any franchise. Whats even better are the hundreds of businesses that you can start for free. If you have absolutely no money to invest into the initial start up of your business, here are some ways you can get started for zero down.

a) Affiliate Marketing: Most affiliate programs are free to join. Once you sign up you get your own affiliate code that you can use to promote the products. This is how many people get started for nothing because it offers a way to earn a large income with demanding a large chunk of change to start.

b) Blogging: Blogging is another popular work at home internet business. People blog about anything and everything and turn their traffic into cash, by loading their blog with Adsense advertisements and affiliate links. While some blogs do cost money to set up, many websites let you set up one for free.

c) Virtual Assistance: Armed with nothing more than an email address, virtual assistances help web masters with tasks they need completed. Its an internet business that is growing in popularity and demand as more businesses outsource. You don’t really need anything more than an email address to get jobs and you can advertise your services on free virtual classified ad boards.

3. Starting a work at home internet business requires that you get educated in running an online home business. But you don’t have to spend a fortune to do this. There are free and inexpensive ebooks and web videos that will teach you what you need to know.

4. Owning a website has become the root of working from home. Though it is not absolutely crucial to your success, it does make things easier and increases your profit potential by at least half. Web hosting can cost anywhere from $5 dollars a month to $250 a month. With webhosting you do get what you pay for, but you don’t have to pay more than $50 a month to get a good web hosting account. For just $35 you get an account that is affordable without compromising on quality.

Another thing you have to consider is whether or not you can build your website on your own. If you are willing to learn there are many templates, e-courses and helpful tips to help you build your own website. But if you want to start making money right away then consider what it would cost to get one done for you.

Without spending too much money you can start a work at home internet business. Consider the tips above when looking for budget friendly options for your internet business.

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Maybe you have heard about people who make profit by selling their blog/website. Selling your own website is not hard as long as you know how to do it. This blueprint will guide you to sell your own website.

Basically, we will build movie based website, it’s not porn of course, some kind of Hollywood movie website, Chinese movie website or whatever country you live on. Just make sure you add only box office and new coming movie into your website.

One, buy your own domain as cheap as possible or you can build your website on free blogging platform like Blogger. If you use free blogging platform I recommend you using Blogger or Wordpress because the interface is very easy to add picture and movie video. If you use your own domain, then I suggest you to install Wordpress on your own server because it has the features that can help you. Make sure your domain name is catchy and something related with box office movie.

Two, now this is basically copy paste process, you don’t need to buy PLR articles. Go find the movie latest info all over the internet, the best resources is imdb dot com, find the movie wallpaper too, then add the content to your blog/website. Don’t forget to insert movie review in it.

Three, now it is about traffic, make sure you have good amount of traffic (10,000-20,000 per month is very good). You can get traffic from social bookmarking, word of mouth, forum signature or anywhere, just be creative.

Four, after you reach more than 10,000 visitors per month, now you can sell it for easy money. You can sell it on forum or even your own friend, make sure you add website tracking like statcounter into your blog front page so you can prove that your blog already has traffic. You can say “10k Unique a Month, Movie Blog for Sale”.

Just do it and gain your first profit now!

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Got a PayPal account? If you have, you can make money online – it’s easy. Discover how you can create a great home business using any of the ideas in this article.

If you’re not familiar with PayPal, the company is an online payment processor, owned by eBay. Essentially, just about anyone anywhere can use PayPal to send and receive money, as long as they have an email address.

So let’s look at five ways you can get cash into your PayPal account every day.

1. Article Writing

Article writing is a great way to make money online, and you can do it in two ways.

The first way is by writing articles for others. Every Web site needs content, and many sites pay for article content. Getting started is easy, it costs nothing, and you can get on-going cash into your PayPal account.

However, writing articles for others is not the most profitable way to use articles. It’s much more profitable to keep your articles and post them onto your own sites and blogs so you can make money.

2. Promote Affiliate Products Using the Free Online Classifieds

The free online classifieds are a wonderful way to make money from affiliate programs. When you promote as an affiliate, you get paid a commission on every product you sell. There are many online classifieds sites on which you can advertise your affiliate products.

3. Blog – a Blog Is the Perfect Home Business

The whole world has discovered blogs. Blogging millionaires abound, and many started out the same way you can – with a blog as a home business. How do you get PayPal cash? You can sell products and/ or advertising on your blog.

4. Become a Virtual Assistant

These days, many people run home businesses, and they need help. As a virtual assistant, you provide that help with secretarial, accounting, Web design, or other services. If you have a skill, you can get PayPal cash as a virtual assistant.

5. Create Small Web Sites and Sell Them

Web sites are properties, just as houses, apartments and businesses are in the bricks and mortar world. Once you’ve created a Web site – a Web property – and it’s making an income, you can sell it.

So there you have five ways you can get cash into your PayPal account every day – get started now: your success is just days away.

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Money making secrets constantly come and go as the Internet evolves from one day to the next. Gone are the days of static websites where all you could do was read information. Newcomers to the field are Web 2.0 websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Squidoo. These are usually places to meet and socialise with other people, sharing common interests, ideas, and personal interests. It is an excellent way to meet with people across the globe.

Think of the possibilities this offers you in your moneymaking efforts. Amongst all the interaction it is possible to use this as a mechanism to increase your website’s exposure.

It is important that you learn the terms of use that apply to these websites. Open slather marketing is frowned upon and is certainly unwelcome. You should also learn about the community that abides within their walls.

Facebook

For example, a group of ex-Harvard students founded Facebook and it was originally intended for the students. So Facebook began as a community of academic people. Efforts to approach them with sales pitches ended in insult and injury to their intelligence. A better approach would be genuine communication and a desire to be part of their community. Facebook has since opened its doors to the general public, but the principles remain the same.

Web 2.0 customers

However Web 2.0 websites are indeed full of potential customers and it’s only a matter of establishing contacts with people who would be interested in the products you sell. This is a way of reaching your target customers. The place to start is in your profile. Make it human — it should include human-interest, humor, as well as your website URL.

You should also post genuine messages on other people’s blogs as well as on their profiles. If you have a blog, the articles you post should include items of interest and not be restricted to hard-selling your product. Offering helpful information to other members of the social website will win you respect and traffic to your website.

Squidoo

If you are starting out short of money there is no need to incur the expenses of domain name purchasing and Web hosting — Squidoo offers you all of this free of charge. You simply set up a page on their website (called lens) and it becomes your blog. Full instructions are readily available together with all sorts of helpful advice. There is no limit to how many lenses you can create, and they may be on whatever subject you want. You can even promote affiliate products using your lenses.

Social bookmarking sites

People use these to store links of their favourite URLs online so that they are available from anywhere. All that needs doing is to open an account with any of the social bookmarking sites and add the links of your favourite websites — this can include your own web pages. It follows then that each one of your own website links is a backlink, thus increasing your website’s search engine ranking.

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We all know that virus’s cause our computers to crash, and unfortunately at times rendering them completely unusable. That’s why we have virus shields and scanners that can take care of these mechanical viruses for the most part. Well there is a virus that has long been attacking the internet itself, and it is not mechanical-it is completely organic and it has a brain. This virus is called a spammer.

Spammers.. viruses? No way, you think… they just send out unsolicited Emails and are extremely annoying.

In the most general sense a virus is a bad thing that is constantly adapting in order to continue attacking, and a vaccine is a good thing that is constantly adapting to mitigate attacks from viruses. If you think about it, web services all over the internet (Google, Spam filters, etc.) are constantly having to adapt and change rules and algorithms to keep spammers on edge-but somehow they manage to get through. Spammers are more than just annoying marketers (or wannabes) that want to fill up your Email inbox.

I often wonder: Are spammers slowly destroying the internet?

Here are my thoughts on that question. Social media and many other web 2.0 services on the internet (social bookmarking/networking, blogs, etc.) are in fact good things. They allow people to express opinions, share useful resources, share lesser-known knowledge, etc. and on the other end of the spectrum other people are able to read opinions, gain more knowledge, visit useful resources, and so on. But as time goes on the amount of genuine content is being far out-weighed by crap content produced by spammers in an attempt to trick search engines, trick users (to gain money), etc.

For example, hundreds (maybe thousands?) of blogs are created each day, but how many actually end up being genuine blogs, and not spam-generated blogs, re-produced content, blogs created for the sole purpose of getting links, etc. Lets look at social bookmarking. There are so many fake accounts are there all linked to one specific person in an attempt to send their website to the top of the rankings. Social networking is the same way along with every other web service/idea both new and old-all are getting plagued by spammers.

However, in the midst of the darkness among all these negatives, there is in fact a light that emerges. I’m a positive thinker, so after giving this subject some thought, I got to thinking about the life expectancy of the so called spam content being mass produced on a daily basis. Not very long. Most spammers probably give it a try for a few days or weeks only to find that their strategies take a lot longer-which narrows down the number of actual spammers that pose a threat to honest bloggers, social networkers/bookmarkers, etc.

So the answer to my question above (Are spammers slowly killing the internet?), I think would have to be a big NO. Search engines are getting better and better at finding the real content and weeding out the crap, and the one’s who usually stick around are genuine web users who are producing valuable content-valuable content meaning real content (someone’s opinion may not seem valuable but it is in fact useful to the overall internet if it is genuine).

If this issue has ever bothered you, such as having thoughts run through your head such as, I’m never going to get a good search engine ranking because there is way too much competition, don’t worry about it because although the numbers tell you there is a rising amount of competition in any certain niche (hard to find a non-saturated niche these days-if you go strictly by the numbers), you have to stop and think of how much actual competition there is. Most people enter a market (many of which are spammers looking for the money) and give up within a few weeks, if not a few days… but their websites, blogs, etc. remain so while it may seem like there is competition, you will actually surpass them very quickly just by being an honest web user that is persistent in whatever niche you are trying to attract traffic within.

The question for this article:

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by competition in a certain niche (whether you were trying to sell something, or just make a blog that will build a readership) but didn’t stop to think how much of that competition was dry spam that isn’t going anywhere?

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I will go straight to the heart revealing the internet marketing trends in year 2007 and beyond that I believe is going to ride up a storm in the internet world.

1. Blogging:

Many companies have taken advantage of blogging, including large corporations such as Dell, General Electric and more. Blogging allows anyone (including businesses) to promote his or her products and services free of charge. Usually, these companies hire a writer to blog about things related to their products and services. The blogs usually consist of about 300-500 words of interesting information related to the company. This helps get people interested in their business. Those who are interested in computers and technology will find blogs related to this type of information and read them regularly.

2. Podcasting:

Podcasting is the next generation of blogging. People around the world are already Podcasting. Podcasting began in about the year 2000. According to Wikipedia, “a podcast is a media file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet, using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Like ‘radio’, it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster”. Podcasting is increasing in popularity, just as blogging did back when it started. Podcasting is a simple audio file available for download from one’s website.

3. Audio and Video:

The use of audio and video can increase your sales dramatically. Although customers searching for products and services online love the convenience, they can be a little wary of new businesses. Using your own voice to record to an MP3 file, your customers can hear your voice from anywhere in the world. They can hear you talk about your products and services and feel a little more at ease buying from you. Better yet, you can create streaming video so your customers can put a face to the name. You can record yourself talking about your products and services and, in a sense, create your very own commercial.

4. Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate marketing has become huge in today’s online business world. Offer your products for affiliates to sell and earn a commission from each sale. This is one of the easiest ways to sell more of your products online. You can visit a website like Clickbank – www.clickbank.com – and list your products on there so other website owners and newsletter owners can list them on their websites for sale. They earn commissions for each sale and you both win!

5. Internet Network Marketing:

This is basically an MLM program brought to the Internet for an effective, easy and convenient way to build and grow your business. You can have people sign up and sell the same products that you are. This is similar to affiliate marketing, except that in Internet network marketing, the people who sign up under you start their own business selling the same products and you in turn earn commissions from their sales as well as your own which is the smart way of making money!

Get in on these Internet marketing trends of 2007 now and reap the rewards of success in the new year!

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