I will be updating this list weekly and below is the most recent edition. I have used the Google AdWords tool to compile an updated list of the current highest paying keywords. It seems that lawyers are still paying the most out of all. With personal injury on the top of the list, I’ll make sure that I find my lawyer on Google if I ever slip and fall…..
I find it interesting to note the change in the trends from last week to now. Take last week’s top phrase: “mesothelioma lawyers” going for $54.33. This same phrase is now valued at $61.17. It should also be noted that while generating this list, out of my own curiosity I would often search two keywords hours apart and note the change in their price. I found that it is not uncommon for the price of a keyword to change even upwards of $1 only hours apart. It appears that keywords in the lower price-level do not fluctuate nearly as much, however bidding for the top-spot is continual and prices move more often than I initially thought.
I have updated the Highest Paying Search Terms page to include the current 300 top paying search keywords which I have found using the tool. Below are a few to check out:
People will often talk of the best time of day to make a trade on the market. It’s not very often though that you will hear of someone speak of the best time of day to publish your blog.
As I have said many times, AdSense is a numbers game. This being said, you always want to optomize your blog so that it will reach the most readers possible. After analyzing the logs of the 200,000+ unique visitors this site has received over the past few months, I have began to notice an interesting pattern; one which I follow myself.
We all (or most of us anyway) get up around 7AM on a normal work-day, and head into the office around 8:30. We then will grab a coffee, check & reply email and prioritize our tasks for the rest of the day. Being the computerish-type that we are, we will then slack off a bit and check some of our favorite news sites or blogs. This happens intermittently throughout most of the morning until mid-afternoon when we start to push a little harder before the end of the day.
Wednesdays and Thursdays are usually days that we work a bit harder, and Fridays, well Fridays are a different story. Sound too familiar? Well, it does to me.
CyberWyre visits, broken down by hour of the day
As you can see from the chart above, activity spikes around 10AM and remains solid through the morning and into the mid-afternoon, reaching a low-point around 5pm, when everyone is busy rushing home. Traffic regains some momentum after dinner hour, and peaks at 8pm.
CyberWyre visits broken down by day of week
For most of us, Fridays are a much more relaxed day and people generally feel more free to surf the web at work and catch up on the news and blogs that they missed throughout the previous week. For these reasons, we can see that if there is an important article that you have been holding back on releasing, posting it on Friday morning at 9AM should reach the most readers out of the entire week.
Google has released a great tool to search for the current CPC for keywords which can be found here. I have used this tool to compile an updated list of the current highest paying keywords. It seems that lawyers are still paying the most out of all. It’s a bit concerning that some of the highest paying keywords are for “Wrongful Death”, and “DUI”, but oh well..
I have updated the Highest Paying Search Terms page to include the current Top 230 paying search keywords which I have found using the tool. Below are a few to check out (in Canadian dollars):
In the early days of the internet I ran a stock picking website. Basically I would just write about stocks that I found interesting (internet and biotech), and then spam the heck out of finance message boards with my URL. I received a lot of traffic that way. I also received a lot of complaints about spamming good threads. These were the days before spam was the big deal it is today, and I stopped once it started to become a big deal. Because these were the days before PPC, I never made much money from the sites. I didn’t really care though, I just wanted to see how much traffic I could get.
Fast forward to today. It is harder then ever for a non-connected website owner to get organic traffic. The web is bigger then ever, and competition is fierce. Plus, as a website owner, you are fighting with paid advertising for visitors. It may take a year or more for your website or blog to show up in the top 10 or 20 search results. If the subject of your site is highly competitive, you might not show up higher than the first 30 results ever. It’s also difficult to get others to link to your PR0 or PR1 website, especially if they are PR3 or higher.
This is where it’s important to start tooting your own horn on message boards and forums. Now I’m not recommending spamming message boards. This is a big no-no these days. But let’s say you have a web design blog. You have written a great article on web design. Information you think every web designer should see. The first thing you’ll want to do is sign up for http://del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site that you can use to post and track your favorite bookmarks. It also lets others see them as well. Once you sign up, post your article to your del.icio.us bookmarks. If it is good, other users will click on it and post it to their bookmarks, and so on and so on. If the article is really interesting, post it to digg.com. They are an aggregation website of all that’s interesting in tech and science on the web. Users control the content, and it is the number #1 way to get huge amounts of free traffic on the net today.
Your next step is to get out there and start looking for the most popular forums on your topic and sign up. Start taking part in conversations on forum topics you are interested in. Mention items from your own blog articles, and link to it. You should also post your site’s URL at the end of each post you make. Or, if possible, put it in your forum signature so you don’t have to constantly type it out. If you actually say something intelligent people will visit your site. But if you just look like a spammer, forget about it. Most likely you will be banned from the board as well. If you get to be a respected member of the board/forum, you will be able to just post links to your blog posts outright, without having to explain to people why they should click through. People will respect you enough to know that you are going to be saying something useful in your blog articles. They will know that you aren’t just spamming for traffic.
Forum posting also has another nice side effect, you will make countless friends in your field of interest, who will be more than happy to link to your website if asked.
I hope you found the above ideas useful. Good luck to you, and may all of your traffic be organic.
Honestly, I was a little reluctant to post this tip simply because it is too good. Without a doubt this one suggestion trippled the number of bids to my auctions on eBay and I used it almost religiously. So what is it?
Use VIDEO in your auctions.
How much easier is it to sell something when you can actually SEE it? Now, this isn’t just limited to selling products. When I was selling web design services on eBay, I recorded myself giving a speech at my desk and then streamed the video directly within my auction text, and it couldn’t have been easier to do. Think about it. How much more effective would your auctions be if visitors could actually see a product being used in action, and watch you describe it. Below is a short clip from a recent trip to Quebec City as an example of video which you can stream. It was recorded on my Canon SD100 digital camera (only 3.2mp, and video @ 640×480).
So what’s the secret? Macromedia Flash MX 2005 or higher. Flash 2005 has a new feature which had not yet been introduced in prior versions: native streaming support.
First, you will need a video to stream. Show off your product being used, or deliver a speech to your audience. Many people are still afraid to purchase over the Internet, and this may be a way for you as a seller to gain their trust. Once you have your video prepared, you will need to use the Flash Video Encoder to convert from .MPG or .AVI to Flash Video (.FLV), which can then be streamed from any HTTP server.
In Flash, create a new project and drag the FLV Playback Player onto your stage. Then set the contentPath to equal the file name of the generated FLV file. Then save your project to a known destination, and afterwards hit SHIFT-F12 to publish your streaming video player.
You’re done! You can now upload the generated HTML and SWF files to your destination server.
Inserting Flash Video into eBay Auctions
Now that you have your streaming files generated, you will need to insert some HTML code into your auction to stream the video. Firstly, make sure that all of the generated SWF files are available on a public server. Next, open up the generated HTML file and view it in Notepad. Copy everything within the object tags. Now in the eBay auction editor, switch to HTML mode, and paste the Flash code in the place you would like the video to appear.
You’re done! Not too painful, was it? And now you just greatly improved your auction.
I would like to welcome Brett Morris as a new author on CyberWyre. Brett is a Webmaster specializing in website marketing and internet research. As a consultant he has used his skills in the SEO field to turn around failing e-commerce web sites. Brett has experience in customer relationship management and is actively involved with development of online communities. Avidly interested in learning, you may find him on a number of forums with subjects varying from psychology of cybercommunication to the Homestar runner fan forum.
Thanks Brett. I’m sure we will all learn a lot from your experience.
My Goal here is to help you make money with your site. You may have read everything that I am suggesting before, but before you tab over and start reading your other articles on C++ and Java let me tell you a few things.
Learning about this stuff and reading these articles can be very very boring. I know. I read a lot and study a lot. I will try and make my article as informational and entertaining as I can. If you have any questions, find errors or have comments, I would love to hear from you.
People have often asked me “I have a website up, now what do I do?” Let me start with the basics.
I am going to share with you a few things that you can do to increase your site traffic without putting a huge dent in your budget. In most cases, my suggestions will have minimal, if any, financial impact. Knowledge is power, as they say. Let’s look into some of the ways we can empower you to promote and market your site effectively.Obvious as it may seem, ask yourself, “What good is having a website if the search engines can’t see it?” It would be countless hours and dollars spent spinning your wheels. There are hundreds of thousands of websites not listed in search engines. You could have the best website online, but if no one knows that it is there, what good does it do you? None.
How do you know if your site is in these search engines? Search engines frequently visit sites and file the information that they read.
This is called indexing.
It is important for us at this point to know what this means. There are several very large search engines out there that you may already know about. Among all of these will be Google and Yahoo. I am going to start with these search engines because they make up about 75% of the total searches done on the web.
The first and easiest way to see if your site has been indexed is to check if your site has been cached. Direct your web browser to www.google.com and enter the following into the search:
cache:http://www.yourdomain.com (replacing “www.yourdomain.com” with your website url)
For instance, if I wanted to check the cache for www.cwire.org, I would go to Google’s search engine and type in the following “cache:http://www.cwire.org/” and click SEARCH.
This will show you the pages that Google has in its cache. If you see that your site has been cached, you are in great shape! You are indexed on Google. If not, try to take the “www” out of the url that you typed in and hit search. If you still don’t see it then there may be a problem. I will explain how to fix this later on. This does not mean that Google doesn’t see your page. It may just mean that it has not cached it yet.
Next, let’s check to see if Google can see your site.
Direct your web browser to www.google.com and enter the following into the search:
site:yourdomain.com or site:www.yourdomain.com
What this will do is ask Google what pages under a certain domain that it sees. For instance, if I want to ask Google what pages are under the webwiseone domain, I would enter the following into the Google search engine “site:webwiseone.com” and it will show me all of the pages that webwise has in the Google database. Don’t worry if you can’t see anything. I will tell you how to fix this in a few minutes.
Go to www.yahoo.com. Enter in the same thing that we used for Google, “site:yourdomainname.com.” Lets look again at webwiseone.com . I will enter “site:webwiseone.com” into the yahoo search and this is what we get.
If you want to know if you are in the directory at yahoo (dir.yahoo.com requires paid advertising) do the following:
Direct your browser to dir.yahoo.com. This will point you directly to the yahoo directory search page.
Type in “yourdomainname.com.” I will use novell.com. You will not need to use www. or http//: .
This will show you all of your pages that Yahoo currently has in the directory.
What if your page did not come up under any of these? Or only came up under one of the search engines? Well, it is one of three problems. Your site is not indexed, it is very new and your site hasn’t been “found” yet or you spilled your coke on the server.
If this is the case, there are a few things that you can do.
1)Bang your head against your keyboard
2)Break a pencil
3)Scream loudly while jumping up and down
Or…
1)Find other websites that are willing to link to yours and ask them to link to your site. You may be a part of an online community or just have a friend with a website. In any case, find websites and get your link on there. I am not talking about a CLICK HERE link. I am talking about using your full url as the link. Such as www.yourdomainname.com. Its very important to use your full url for a number of reasons. This is very often the fastest way for you to get your site indexed.
Microsoft has some great information for finding, contacting and retaining contacts that will link your site. This information is located at Microsoft.
2)Ask the search engines to index your site. This is perhaps the most underutilized tool. You can add your URL to Google’s search engine at Google. You can add your url to Yahoo’s search engine at Yahoo. This may take several days or weeks to take effect. These search engines send out programs called spiders to come to your website and register the data. Google has some good suggestions when adding your url to their engine.This can be found on Google.
3)You can pay to have your site listed. This is known as pay-per-click or sponsorship. When you type in “Vest” in Google’s search engine.
You will see links to the right and on the top in light blue. The links to your right are pay-per-click. These can be anywhere from 1 cent and up per click. The price is decided by a bidding process. The links on top are generally paid by a time period. These can range in the thousands of dollars. I will be sharing more strategies on pay-per-click posting on another day when I am not strung out on caffeine.
These steps may seem really easy. However, there are some websites desperately searching for ways to increase traffic, and don’t even have their sites indexed.
Again, if you have any questions or would like me to walk you through these steps, yell my name at your monitor really loudly 3 times. Or, you can just respond to the post.
Whether you’re selling a product or service or ad space to advertisers, making money online will require you to generate targetted traffic to your site.
Traffic is the lifeblood of any online venture. Like most people you will rely at least partially on search engines to drive targetted traffic to your site.
The Title Tag is perhaps the most important element in achieving good search engine rankings as well getting somebody interested enough in your page to actually visit it. Combined with the tips given in the previous article on writing good headlines this article should give you some help and a better chance at attracting more visitors to your site.
The title of your page is what shows up on a search engine results page as the link to your site. It is the ONLY link to your site and people MUST click on it to get to your site. The same way a good title that is never seen won’t be clicked, a bad title with lots of exposure won’t have a great click through rate either. The key is to find a healthy balance that will get your pages indexed for the words people are searching for and be attractive enough for them to click through and visit.
The beginning of the title tag is the optimal place for your “money keywords“. Think of the keywords that best describe what your content and that you believe people interested in that type of content will search for. Make sure to use your best keyword first or as close as possible to the beginning. Avoid lengthy and vague titles with more words than necessary and avoid words unrelated to your content.
If your article is about “Salmon Fishing in the Great Lakes” and you want Salmon Fisherman as your audience then a good title would be exactly that.
“Salmon Fishing in the Great Lakes.”
You are more likely to turn up for searches like “salmon fishing” and “fishing in the great lakes” or “great lakes salmon fishing.” You are opening yourself up to a broader list of search terms that are all related to your content.
A bad or less effective title would be:
“Great Lake Fishin.”
Not only is salmon not in the beginning of the title it’s not in the title at all. Not to mention ‘fishin’ is slang and won’t be seen by people searching for Fishing. “Great Lake” is also not the same as “Great Lakes”.
This may seem an extreme example but is designed to really make you think out your titles. There are many people who still title their pages with their company name or altogether unrelated and irrelevant words and wonder why no one can find them.
Be specific with what your content is about and title it accordingly. Although this isn’t the only thing necessary to getting indexed properly in the engines and generating traffic, it will put you on the right track.
I’d like to welcome Ryan to CyberWyre who will be helping beginners learn about creating web pages, generating traffic, search engine optimization and generating revenue online. A bit about Ryan: he has been making money online various ways since 1997. His ventures have included web design and consulting, selling on eBay, Blogging, selling advertising and affiliate programs.
First, you will need a video to stream. Show off your product being used, or deliver a speech to your audience. Many people are still afraid to purchase over the Internet, and this may be a way for you as a seller to gain their trust. Once you have your video prepared, you will need to use the Flash Video Encoder to convert from .MPG or .AVI to Flash Video (.FLV), which can then be streamed from any HTTP server.
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