Google announced via Twitter this week, that public status updates from Facebook are now included in the search engine’s real-time search feature.

Apparently only updates from Facebook PAGES are indexed, and according to Danny Sullivan, that includes links, status updates, photos, videos shared by page owners (not comments made by the fans).

Of course, if you haven’t setup a fan page for Facebook, you should do it right away because time is your only enemy.  It takes months to build up Facebook fan following and that could possibly be the best free word-of-mouth marketing online today.  I have setup Facebook fan page for most of my blogs as of last week, probably will set up this one too soon.  I will have a short DIY how-to article on that for those of you who are Facebook newbies so watch out for that.

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In essence, you want to copy the “good” but not the “bad” of other blogs you are copying.

I don’t mean copying content here but copying great “ideas”.  For example, when John Chow started using Top Commentator plugin way back in about 2007, I started using it.  Of course, I think this plugin is great for attracting more comments because visitors are rewards for commenting on your blog.

I’ve actually stopped using that plugin on most of my blogs except this one because I feel comments should be “genuine” and people shouldn’t comment just to get something in return.  (But for this blog, that is okay so…)

Anyways, back to the subject of copying other blogs, you want to copy the great ideas such as:

• Wordpress Plugins – There’s a ton of new Wordpress plugins created everyday.  If you want to stay ahead of the blogging game, you should be using the best Wordplugins that can enhance your SEO, look and feel, and more such as comments.   Don’t simply copy and use what other bloggers are using.  Try them out for yourself and test to see if they make your blog better.   If they do, keep them, otherwise, throw them AWAY!

  For comments, I highly recommend Disqus.  Disqus lets you gather all of your comments from all of your blogs into one place.  Plus, Facebook and Twitter are integrated, meaning you can easily “broadcast” your comments all over Facebook and Twitter.
  Another advantage of using 3rd party comment system like Disqus is that it puts less load on your web server, bringing your overall server costs down.

• Site design and structure is another faucet of Wordpress that can highly enhance visitor experience, loading times, SEO, and a whole lot more.  You will probably notice that I tinker with my blogs very often including this one.  The search bar at the top was actually one of my ideas that I created.  I thought that blogs in general lacked an ability to search since many blog posts can be hidden and archived away.

  Anyways, copy the great ideas you find from other bloggers.  A lot of bloggers use free Wordpress themes and you can usually find the theme site by checking the footer of the blog.

• Have you noticed that virtually every top blogger has a Twitter button now?  If you don’t have one, go make one!

Well, there’s plenty more stuff you can copy from other bloggers without infringing on copyrights and whatnot.  It’s out there, you simply have to search for it.

This process of copying other blogs’ ideas have been an ever-building process for me, I do it on a daily basis.  I am constantly searching for new ideas that can bring more web traffic and make my blog even more popular.

I can go on and on about these things I find but the most important thing is to realize that some ideas may work for my blogs but not yours depending on the niche and target audience.  So, go out there, find new ideas, implement it and test it!

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I have been steadily increasing my income by mixing in relevant Amazon products into my blog posts. (not on this blog)

This guide is really for newbies out there who have no idea what Amazon affiliate program is or simply don’t know how to optimize your Amazon campaigns.

To start out, go sign up for an Amazon affiliate account here.

Once you sign up, you are ready to begin.

There’s bunch of widgets, banners, and whatnot, but I have found it’s better to directly link to each product and blog about it.

Find your affiliate ID, which will end in -20.  For example, mine is zedomax-20.   You can also make more affiliate IDs for tracking different blogs and products.

Now, go find a product you want to sell, let’s say you want to sell this iPod Touch, which the URL is:

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPod-touch-1st-Generation/dp/B0012JCYPC/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236632820&sr=8-1

Now, here comes the fun part.  Instead of using the Amazon redirect function, just add your affiliate tag like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPod-touch-1st-Generation/dp/B0012JCYPC/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236632820&sr=8-1&tag=zedomax-20

You will notice that &tag=zedomax-20 has been added to the end of my Amazon URL.

You can also verify if your URL is working by using Amazon’s link verification tool.

Here’s an example of a sentence in a review post:

iPod Touch on Amazon

That’s it, just make sure to link any keywords or product reference to your Url with the affiliate ID added.

Why use direct linking?

This is great for SEO since you are linking to the actual Amazon product URL.  If you use URL shorteners such as CozyURL, it won’t be as effective for SEO.

All you have now left to do is search for products on Amazon that could be helpful to your readers and write a review of it.

The beauty of Amazon affiliate program is that you get paid commissions even on products you didn’t link to but went through your affiliate ID.  In other words, if someone clicks on my iPod Touch link and goes to Amazon but buys a Sony Walkman, you will still get paid commission on the Sony Walkman.

Next time, I will show you how to carefully watch your Amazon affiliate commission growth.  Make sure to subscribe to my blog and get the latest on internet marketing!

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This is the title that shows up on the top of your browser, usually tagged with HTML code like, “<title>my title</title>”.

Why is this the most important?

Well, your title pretty much sets the “tone” for your website or blog.

Now, if you look at some websites, you will notice that there’s simply a title of their website brand such as “Zedomax.Biz”.

This is like not taking advantage of the best free SEO your website can get.

For example, you will notice that the browser title on this blog is actually “Zedomax.Biz – Insider Adsense Secrets and Ad Optimization”.

I am actually targeting my target keywords on my title.  So long as I write about my title, it will be greatly beneficial for my blog to show up first on Google.

This is probably the number one basic SEO that all SEO specialist will do first.

I’ve seen some ecommerce sites go from the 10th page for their target keyword to the 4th place on the 1st page.   It’s really common sense but a lot of people overlook it.

Make a great title that will tell readers what your website is about and also targetting your keyword whether that’s making money online or whatever.

Here’s another great tool to search for the best keywords from Google Keyword Tool if you need help finding a good niche.

Remember to pick a niche not so big and competitive but big enough where you will have zero competition.

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Here’s are some facts about what kind of people are more likely to read and click on ads:

1. Blog subscribers are overrated, they are the worst type of traffic that’d click on your ads. Besides, most subscribers are subscribers because they see your blog through an RSS reader, thus they’d even rarely see the ad at all unless you had feed ads.

Blog subscribers are the worst for making money because they know your site layout already, they are “ad blind”, as they say.

2. Traffic coming from Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and social networking are worthless. Most of the time, they will steal your bandwidth and you pretty much don’t make any money unless you can “consistently” make the front page, in which case you will gain a lot of SEO, which is good for making money online.

Most people coming from the social networking traffic are too smart to even read your ads, don’t waste your time building up traffic this way. You might end up with 1000 more uniques per day but if that doesn’t convert, you are the one who end up wasting time. (Whereas if you only had 100 uniques from search engines, you’d probably make more money in comparison)

3. Traffic from Google search terms are the best for making money. People who click through a search engine more than often click out through Google Adsense ads. This is where the money is. If you can somehow increase the number of people coming to your site through Google, Yahoo, or any other search engines, you have the best type of web traffic, the people who read and click on ads.

So what’s the point of this story?

You need to spend 90% of your time blogging, consistently about your niche topic. Do not waste your time with too many social networks as they don’t give you “money” results. The social networks might earn you more readers and traffic but they simply don’t convert to money.

Also, don’t try so hard to get a lot of subscribers. Your subscribers should be subscribing to your blog because they are REALLY interested in keeping up with your blog news.

If you use contests and other methods simply to increase the number of subscribers, it doesn’t really help you when you are counting money at the end of the day.

Subscribers = The worst traffic for CPC advertising

Social Network traffic = Also worst traffic for CPC advertising

Random People who find your site through a search engine = This is your goldmine, if you can get the number of visitors coming to your site up to about 90% of total traffic, that is ideal for making money online.

Other people including blog experts might tell you otherwise but in my experience, this is what has worked and what is working for me. If you have further suggestions, I am ears are always open and you are welcome to comment.

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I couldn’t even change the WordPress Affiliate Pro either because the source code is encrypted so you can even change it.

I paid a fair $100 for this crappy plugin and now I find out there’s Link A Dink Plugin.

(Yes, I’d like my money back since I spent $100 on something very unuseful.)

You might wonder, what does this plugin do? Basically you can replace all keywords in your blog posts to whatever link you want so you can link up whole bunch of affiliate links and monetize your blog from your OLDER blog posts and new ones. I am sure any one blogger has a Google search term that keeps bringin’ traffic. Use this plugin and link it to your affiliate links. Don’t know what an affiliate is? Go sign up for an account at CJ.com.

Here’s the info you need:

On the bright side, now I got a plugin that I can actually use for SEO AND the source code so I can modify it, not that I’d need to.

This plugin replaces words in your posts with anything you want. I use it to replace words with links. For example, if you see my sister’s name, Ashley, anywhere on the site, it will link to a picture of her.

Upload it, install it, then go into the Link A Dink settings page in your Options.

Alright cool.

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