Derek Ang

Edubook.com - Promoting your authorship

Derek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:01:06 +0000

In my recent blog post, i shared some resources about using article marketing to promote your websites and businesses. Today, i am glad to have the team behind Edubook.com to purchase this paid review to promote their community which provide a platform for users to promote their articles.

So what is Edubook.com about and how this community play a part in helping you to promote your website? Ok, to be brief, Edubook is a blogging community ( using the wordpress platform) whereby their primary purpose is to help authors to promote their authorship online. It is a free to register community and anyone can publish their handwritten articles using the platform. However, not all articles will be 100% approved. There is a reviewing team behind this platform whom control the quality of the articles being submited. I have not tried submitting any articles yet so i do not know how strict their policy on articles are. But i am pretty sure that any decent articles with no copyright issues will have no problem passing through the revewing process. There are a couple of standard rules and guidelines that user must obey if they want their articles to be approved.

So what is the catch? Just submit articles? Of course not, the purpose of this community is to promote authorship and also, article marketing. All authors will be given full credits to their articles, with a dedicated author profile page and a hyperlink to their website/blog. So this is how you market your website. First, you register for an account. Secondly, you update your profile page and include the website url that you are promoting. Thirdly, just wait for the article to be approved. Once your article is live, your hyperlink will be exposed everytime a user read your article. Simple? It’s just like any other article directories like goarticles, seekthat. ( If you done article marketing before, you will know it ).

Lastly, Edubook contains a wide range of categories ranging from internet to sports. Whether you are looking to publish internet articles, publish travel articles, or even recreation and sports articles, just find a suitable catergory and submit it. That’s it.

Please note that this is a paid review by derek-ang.com, if you are interested to order one, please look into here for more information.

Tips For Success With Article Marketing

Derek — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:02:35 +0000

Starting your own business doesn’t have to cost you a cent if you use article marketing. Here are some pointers to get you headed on the road to success.

The first thing that you should do is set some goals. You must have a specific goal in mind when you begin your article marketing campaign. Give yourself a goal to meet every single day. The following tips can help you set up your minimum goals. If you feel that you can do much more, all the better. These are just meant to be a guideline on the minimum goals that have worked for many other people who rely on their businesses online.

Each day, make sure that you write two articles. Your articles are your sales staff and you need to increase their number so that you have better chances of making money every day. When writing your articles, be sure to use the right keywords. These are what will get you the attention of the search engines. There are some tools that you can use to discover what the keywords are for your articles. Don’t stuff your articles with keywords, however. Keep the writing as natural and free flowing as possible. Always use your resource box to your advantage. It is one of the most important things you can do with your articles. The resource box is an advertising tool that you can use to drive the traffic to your site.The original content that you include in your articles is what will sell your message. Use your own experiences and ideas and don’t simply reuse others ideas. You should expect that there will be a bit of a lag in terms of the effectiveness of your articles in generating sales. It may take at least three months before you begin to see some results.

It is important to always stay positive when you are working in this business. Your tone will come through in the articles that you write. If you are upbeat and enthusiastic, it will come out in the words that you write and your readers will be more encouraged to accept what you write or be more trusting in your reputation. Also, try to keep your online business plans to yourself. Many people don’t understand how the online business world works and may unconsciously discourage you from what you are doing. You will find that you may feel down after someone does this. It will come out in the motivation that you feel while you are working on your business.

Keep track of how each of your articles are doing. You should be sure that, at least once a month, you write a report about the articles’ progress. Look at their ranking in the search engines and check to see how many views they get. This can also help you to stay motivated. Once you begin to see your earnings increase, you will be even more encouraged to keep going with your work. It may also help to always keep track of the different ideas that you have during the day. You should carry a notebook with you wherever you go so that you can be sure to write them down whenever one comes to mind. This is especially important because your articles always need to have some originality. Your best ideas may come from out of nowhere and it may help to always write them down when they come.

Article marketing can be very simple as long as you are consistent with your efforts. To start, you may follow the tips above and progress when you feel you can do more. You’ll find yourself with huge success in article marketing soon enough.. I hope you learn something new about article marketing from today’s blogpost and if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to leave an message.

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Make money with affiliate programs

Derek — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:25:35 +0000

The first thing to do is to have a website or blog. You may not have an online store yet, but having a website establishes an online existence. Affiliate programs help that website to make money online for you.

Affiliate programs are all across the World Wide Web now. Here is a little of background on them. Companies try to find more traffic and sales for their business. In an effort to do this companies publicize on other websites. When somebody visits the affiliate website and clicks on the advertisement, they are taken straight to the merchant website. Every merchant manage their programs differently. Some pay per click (PPC) on the advertisement. Others pay a percentage of the sale (pay per action). It all depends on the company. A lot of companies have an application for their affiliate programs. This weeds out any websites that may be unsuitable or don’t do high volume website traffic. In order to be seen, the ads must reach websites that are reaching the people.

Every website that participates in a company’s affiliate program is registered. With this system, the company can trace the visitors from a particular affiliate member. The process sounds simple for the affiliate member. All you have got to do is apply and be accepted. The merchant company handles sales and compensation from the clicks.

Affiliate programs make money for your business with very little effort. It is a form of passive income. You have already done the work of marketing your website and its products if you are selling any. You have the traffic, and other businesses would like to share in that.

When selecting for an affiliate program, evaluate the various features of the business. Do not just look at the opportunity of easy money. Is the product feasible? Are they paying according to sale or click?

Hosting ads for products that nobody is interested in buying will actually cost you money. These ads are taking up valuable space on your website that could be occupied by more popular ads. It won’t make you money if visitors are not attracted in the products. Choose affiliates with care the same way that they will choose you.

Take a glance around the Internet to find the most well-liked affiliate programs and examine what they offer. Not every affiliate programs are compatible with your business. The Google AdWords program is designed to match the ads to your business so that the program works for each one.

It is about time your website started to make you some cash. Build passive income while you develop your business with affiliate ads. Choose a company that compensates well for your sales and your traffic. Eventually you can start an affiliate program of your own to increase traffic and sales.

SubmitEdge | Quality link building service

Derek — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:43:33 +0000

Just two days ago, i blogged about whether link directory submission service are a profitable niche to venture in, today, i am reviewing an established seo firm which provide such link building service to help webmasters to build quality one way links for their website.

Submitedge.com is an sub division of Kush Infosys Pvt. Ltd with staffs from india and united states. The company offers whitehat seo solutions to web owners to help them improve their SERPS and gain better pagerank. They provide manual directories submission, social bookmarking services, and seo optimization your current websites. Apart from that, Submitedge guarantees that your website will be indexed within 10 days after engaging their services.

Being backed up by a large database of testmonials, Submitedge is gaining alot of recognition and feedbacks in this seo industry. Currently Submitedge has optimized over 200 different websites around the world with 1000 plus satisifed customers. Of course, a strong and professional team is the reason why Submitedge is able to get so many satisfied and positive feedbacks. The team consists of highly educated experts in the seo fields that know exactly what they are doing. Teams are divided into different sections dedicated for each service that it offers, so you can be assure that only specialists in that particular area will be providing the respective services.

As for the packages ( link building services ), below is the breakdown list of all the packages that Submitedge is offering currently.

Directory Services
Article submission
Social book marking services
Search engine submission
Guaranteed google inclusion
Dmoz listed
Blog reviewing services
Link baiting services
More.

I have yet to engage their seo services but will be doing so after i redesign and tweak this webmaster blog which will probably in a few weeks time. Will post out another review of their services after i ordered their packages. If you are looking to increase your search engine listing, increase your traffic or google pagerank, Submitedge will be a great choice!

* Note that this is a paid review ordered by Submitedge.com, if you are interested to get a paid review for your website, please go here and place your order.

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How to Start Your Own Affiliate Program

Derek — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:08:51 +0000

Are you looking to start your own affiliate program but have no idea on how to start going about?

Affiliate program is a joint venture between merchants and other websites to increase their traffic. At the same time, the website owners are also making some money from the sales or clicks that they get on the advertisement. Increase your earnings by managing your own affiliate program.

Affiliate marketing works in this system: A merchant put their ads on another website for a price. The website is not in direct competition with the merchant but has a well-matched business. Both are counting on the quantity of traffic to the affiliate’s website for clicks or sales. Once the visitor clicks on the ads, it is tracked from the affiliate back to the merchant’s site.

When your business can support it, you may consider starting your own affiliate program. All of the work falls on the merchant to manage and promote the affiliate program for those who participate. To improve some of the work, you can join an affiliate network.

Affiliate networks are set up to help both affiliates and merchants to handle the management of affiliate programs. They facilitate merchants track their traffic to various websites. For affiliates, these networks list a variety of affiliate programs available so the affiliate can choose the program that is right for them.

Starting with an affiliate network will get all of your questions answered about managing an affiliate program. These networks also manage expenditure to affiliates and make sure that you have set up your plan appropriately. It is great that networks like this exist but they are not free of charge. Joining a network requires a considerable outlay of cash in the thousands of dollars. Ask yourself what you want to achieve with the affiliate program. Are you seeking to get affiliates in specific country or globally? What kind of method will you pay your affiliate members? Can you pay for clicks, leads, or actual sales?

The answers will determine how well your business will perform with an affiliate marketing program. With the right websites advertising your business, the quantity of sales and traffic will increase quickly. The affiliate network will filter your affiliates. This is a required part of the process. You do not want to waste time on websites that aren’t well-matched with your business or do not bring you a high volume of website traffic.

Using an affiliate network helps you to overcome the learning curve of managing the program. I hope this blogpost give you some heads up on how to start your own affiliate program. Feel free to leave any comments or sugesstions here.

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Is directory submission service a profitable niche?

Derek — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:56:07 +0000

Alot of people are selling directory submission services ever since google says that more backlinks == better serps and pagerank. Since the procreation of this market, many seo companies are started up and this niche seems to be getting more and more compeitive. Prices are being slashed ridiculously to get more clients, people set up their own directories and offer submissions deals. It seems that everyone is engaged in a “price war” that makes it really hard for seo companies to survive in this industry niche.

There are people selling really cheap packages like 1000 submission for 8 dollars. In any price war scenario, users are always the one that benefit most. In past years, you would rarely find any seo companies offering 1000 submission for just 8 dollars, but now, it’s everywhere.

Recently, i just purchased a submitter software which submit your website to the directories in their database in a semi-automated process. Semi automated means that you would need to manually enter the captcha code in order to complete the submission. Infact, after acquiring the software, i am thinking whether should i provide some directories submission services to offset the cost of the software. But i gave up on that idea soon after seeing people offering just $8 for a 1000 submission. A 1000 submission will takes around me a couples of hours ( non stop, sitting infront of the computer and submitting the links) to complete.

A couple of hours for just $8? It’s not really worth it. If anyone is considering whether to provide directory submission service? think twice, is that worth your time and effort?

Franklin Debt Relief Dot Com

Derek — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:41:27 +0000

Due to the economy crisis recently, a lot of people were “burnt” in the stock market. There are people whose net worth decreased by 50%, there are people who are seriously in debt. Are you owing your bank money? Are you in debt? If you are in debt, you will be really interested in this website that i am reviewing today.

Franklin Debt Relief is a debt solution company that simply just help people get settle and clear their debts ( Provides debt settlement programs ). It implements an innovative solution that helps it’s client to reduce their the monthly expenses and their overall debts. This is a american’s only program, which means that if you are located out of U.S, i am sorry but you are not being able to particpate in the program.

“To help Americans relieve their excessive debt burden and the everyday emotional anxiety that accompanies it.” - This is the motto/goal of Franklin Debt Relief

Their company website also provides alot of resourceful information, such details about credit card consolidation companies, debt help, debt settlement faq and many more. So even if you can’t participate in this program, you could also drop over to their website and learn more about how to settle your debt loans.

There are many debt settlement services out there and how many of them are certfied businesses that their solution really works? For your information, Frankin Debt Relief LLC is a trusted entity with a valid BBBonline seal and it’s also an active member of The Association of Settlement Companies (TASC).

If you are seriously in debt and are looking for a trusted debt solution company, why not choose Franklin debt reliable?

Please note that this is a paid review by Franklin Debt Relief LLC and i did not engage their services before.

How to sell your website effectively

Derek — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:27:37 +0000

Selling a website is probably the same as selling any other things that you could have thought of. The golden rule is just “to convince” that your website is worth that price that you are selling for. I could still remember that time when i sold my first website, which is a couple of years ago, i was totally a noob. I knew nuts about how to get buyers, how to price it, and most importantly, how to convince the potential buyers to buy your website. In this blog post today, i will be sharing some of my experiences in the process of selling a website and i hope this post will eventually helps some of you out there.

There are many reasons why people sell their website. Here’s a couple of common reasons.

They are tired of the website niche. ( No interest)
Their main objective of creating a website is to sell it when it’s established. ( To make money )
They may be in need of funds urgently for personal or business purposes.
They have no time to manage the website, may be due to reasons like studying, exams, work.

So assuming that you want to sell your website. The very first thing that you should do, is to work out your target. How much do you want your website to be sold? Are you making a profit from your investment. Some factors that determine the worth of your website consist of,

Current google pagerank
Number of quality backlinks ( Check yahoo site explorer)
Alexa Ranking ( This tool is crap, but you can use it to determine the number of traffic. If a website has thousands of unique daily and has a alexa ranking of 20 million, you know something is wrong.
The amount of traffic the site gets monthly.
The amount of revenue generated from the website.
The type and niche of website.
How revenue is earned from the website.
Is the website using a custom developed/ designed script?
The SERPS of the website. Is the website ranked highly for certain market keywords?
Level of particpation of the users.
More..

I would recommend you to document all the above information in advance before selling your website. All these information are the common questions probably from potential buyers and will really save you ton lots of time. However, please set realistic goals. If you have a website that is making $50 monthly, try not to set your target selling price to $1000, 000. Who will probably buy it? Unless you have the “WOW” factor in it.

After determining the worth of your website, the next step that you do is to set your starting bid, the bin and reserve price, increment bid. If you do not know the above terms, do not panick.

Below is the definition.

Starting / Minimum Bid - The start bid to get the auction going on. So let’s say your starting bid is $100, buyers will have start the bid from $100 minimum.

BIN - Short term for ” Buy it now”, i am sure no other explanation is needed.

Reserve Price - This is the price set to protect the sellers. This means that the seller will not sell the website till the reserve is met. So imagine your reserve is $2000, after the auction ends, the highest bid that you get is $1000, so reserve price is not met and you can chose not to sell your website.

Increment Bid - If the increment bid is set to $50, the first buyer bid $100, the next buyer will have to bid $150 ( increase by $50) and so on.

Getting proof of the metrics of the website is also another neccessary thing that you should do if you are serious about selling your website. You could have say your website makes $500000 per month, but how do the seller know? Getting the metrics documented is to “convince” the buyers. Remember, the key factor to sell a thing is “to convince”.

So now you have all the necessary things ready. The next step is just to list your website to get potential buyers. There are many places that you can sell your website, i would recommend digitalpoint.com and sitepoint.com. You can try other methods also, such as emailing competitors website. For example, If you are selling a hosting business, bigger players will be interested to buy your business to increase their client’s base.

Next, just sit back and wait for bids. If the website you selling has good metrics, i am pretty sure you would get bids coming in. The last thing that you will worry about will most probably be the payment methods.

Paypal ( Would recommend for transaction below $3,000. Fees are expensive for big transaction).
Check / Wire transfer
Moneybookers
Western Union
Escrow.

I hope this post give you a heads up on selling a website, and if you sell a website following the tips successfully, be sure to email to tell me so.

Budget Web Hosting for Small Businesses

Derek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:08:21 +0000

Budget web hosting plans are available to help small business owners to have a presence on the Internet. Without a website, many businesses will lose potential customers who are searching online for your product or services. Think of all the extra money you could make by utilizing one of the budget web hosting companies currently available.

Having a website that is hosted by a budget web hosting company will make your small business appear more professional to the average person. These types of websites are ideal for anyone who just wants to have their business name and contact information listed online so that people may contact them.

Budget web hosting may not be the most suitable plan for a business who plans on having a lot of traffic to their website. If you think your business will have lots of visitors each day, a budget web hosting plan is not for you.

Before deciding on the budget web hosting plan you will use for your small business, make sure you read everything you can about the hosting company including reviews that can be found on web hosting review websites to make sure you are getting a good deal for your money.

GadgetAdvisor.com - Latest Technology Blog

Derek — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:02:47 +0000

This is a paid review by the request of the folks at GadgetAdvisor.com.

If you were a tech geek, you will most proably be lurking among sites like technews, zdnet and not to mention, slashdot. Gadgetadvisor.com provides another alternative for you to find out more issues relating to technology stuffs.

The look of the blog

Gadgetadvisor.com is a professionally designed blog with a stunning, good looking logo and a creative slogan, ” Cutting Through The Cutting Edge”. Design is awesome, providing users a pleasant surfing experience. It seems to be a customized wordpress theme to me.

What is Gadgetadvisor about?

As you know, blogging is becoming a trend this recent years. Gadgetadvisor.com is just another technology blog that is targeted primarily at tech savys to keep themselves updated about the latest technology news, new technology releases latest trends, reviews of technology products and many more. Like the name of the blog, gadgetadvisor advises you on any technology gadgets.

Gadgetadvisor took on a different approach in presenting the best technology news to the audiences. Instead of providing every bit of news everyday, Gadgetadvisor only publish news and products that are the most signficant, the most popular, the coolest looking. Thus, audiences can be assure that only the best products and the most signifiant piece of technology news are reviewed in gadgetadvisor.com. If you are that kind of person that are only interested in looking for the best ( gadgets, news, technology), this blog is just the right one for you.

Though Gadgetadvisor.com seems to be new ( I am not sure how long it’s being established), i am sure it will be eventually become another asset to tech savys to learn more about technology news.

Everyone can blog and publish!

Anyone can register an account with Gadgetadvisor, and publish their articles. It’s more like a platform that allows people to publish their own articles or reviews.

Yea, i hope to bring about more new website startups in future. If you have any new websites, or products that you think will benefit the community, you can order a paid review here.

Derek Ang

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