Making Cash On The Web

Find Google Backlinks and PageRank

How does your site fare after the latest Google Dance—the periodic updating of backlinks that Google does. You can check your current status at the various Google datacenters by using a tool at a site called Mypagerank dot net.

Posted by The Editor on 09/02 at 03:41 PM
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Domain Name Purchased For $100,000

A few years ago, speculation in site names was rampant, with people buying thousands of names in hopes of selling one for big bucks.

Unfortunately, like many speculative businesses—from the Dutch Tulip Bulb mania of the 1630s to land speculation in the wild west—the while thing crashed. I know one guy who lost more than $10,000 speculating in domain names (more to the point, I know a guy who is still waiting to cash in on the $10,000 in domain names he bought some years ago).

But it seems as though there’s still some life left in the business. The domain name “blogster.com” recently was purchased for $100,000.

I thik that there’s still money to be made in domain names, but you have to be way ahead of the curve of any demand. No doubt, all of the names associated with the word “blog” are long gone.

The other way is to get lucky. I happened upon a nice combination of words last year, which I then subsequently sold to a startup firm for a tidy sum of money. 

Posted by The Editor on 09/02 at 03:40 PM
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Backlink Builder

Your standing in the Search Engines depends upon how many backlinks you have—that is, how many other sites link to you.

After writing content, getting those backlinks is probably the most important thing you can do.

But where do you start?

The backlink builder tool at WEBCONFS is massively useful for just this task. You type in a keyword, and it scours the web for places where you can add your link. You can then go through them and add you own site.

Posted by The Editor on 09/02 at 03:39 PM
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Favicons From Pics

Favicon is a term that you might not be familiar with.  Favicons are the little square icons that show up next to the URL in the address bar. They’re not necessary, but they sure do make your site look a little more professional.

But how do you make them?

The best way that I’ve found is to go to a site called HTML-Kit. They have a page that will generate favicons from any image that you upload. It allows you to preview the icon and then download it.

Once you’ve downloaded the icon, you can simply use your FTP program to upload it to your site’s main directory. That should be sufficient to get it to show up as an icon.

You also can use the instructions there to put code in your headers to force the use of favicons.

You can convert your pictures to favicons right here.

Select Image:
using FavIcon from Pics

Or you can go to their site.

FavIcon from Pics

Posted by The Editor on 09/02 at 03:38 PM
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Finding The Authority Sites

One of the fastest ways to higher ranking in the search engines (PageRank and such) is to get links from the so-called “authority sites.”

But who are they?

Obviously if you’re active in your field, you may know of a few. But as I studied the problem for one of my own websites, I realized that the authority sites have high ranking, but don’t offer links pages—let alone links on their main page.

So that means that I have to find out who is linking to the authority sites, and giving them all of that high page rank love. Then, alll I need to do is get those same site to link to me and I also become an authority site.

(The difference is that I will be generous with my links. I’m always willing to hand out links to someone with something interesting to share)

Randy Cullom has created an interesting web tool for finding the authority sites and their backlinks. On his site, he has a page where you type in a keyword or two. It then finds the highest ranked pages in either Google or Yahoo for those terms. Clicking on another button will find the backlinks that all of them have in common. Presumably, these are among the pages that are generating high powered links for the authority.

I’ve had mixed results for my websites’ keywords. You ought to give it a try yourself.

Posted by The Editor on 09/02 at 03:37 PM
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