Ok I am going to make this short and sweet. Matt Cutts came out at SMX and in short confirmed that links with nofollow are treated differently than before and that the pagerank which could be moved around by putting nofollows on links now vanishes. This has gotten people in a big scurry. Matt also says that this was implemented over a year ago and to their surprise people didn’t notice it.

OK lets stop there for a second because people are going nuts over how they are going to take down comments on blogs, and now change everything to dofollow on links, etc..

Here is what I have to say about it. If they made these changes over a year ago then what has changed in the last few weeks? NOTHING!!! Keep doing what you are doing, don’t worry about page sculpting and pay no attention to these so called “professional SEO people” who are panicky.

I think I will have another beer to Allyn Hane of Blogger Illustrated. If you have not checked it out then please do so. I think this guy may have motivated me to get back to video blogging again like the good old days on Bloggingzombie.com (no longer owned by me and completely revamped). He has some great marketing tips, and will not feed you crap. He is a straight shooter.

Its been a while since I have written, and I have really been busy. Since my last article, I decided to get out and get some more restructuring done with balancing life and work. Playing games online everyday gets old when your working from home. I will follow up on a future post with what I have been doing.

But for now lets go into what I think everyone should do several times a year. That involves taking the time to log into your Godaddy account or wherever you have purchased domains and make some decisions of whether domains are worth keeping. That can get pretty freakin crazy when you own hundreds of domains. I know there are guys out there that own thousands of domains with content on them. Thankfully not me. Fortunately I can say I have dropped the trash and am down to about 350 domains.

This year I dropped hundreds of domains that I just felt were not valuable anymore. They either lost their PR, or no longer served a purpose. Below are the factors I used to decide if a domain was a keeper or not.

• Does it have PR?
• Does it make me money?
• Does it have a catchy or short name that could be valuable?
• How long have I had it?
• How old is the domain, and what is the subject matter?

If you have been building your business up for the past year and have at least 100 domains I suggest you look through them and decide to either dump them by turning auto renew off, or do something with it and see what you get on the next PR update. It is possible you have a domain that is not attached to a website, and it could have live links pointing in that you just can’t see until you develop it. Whatever you do. Don’t let a domain just sit there with nothing on it. I have had some domains that I bought a year ago that I never developed come up for renewal. What a shame. But hey we live, we learn, and we make things better.

I just thought I would share, and I hope you don’t get caught like I did last month auto renewing crappy domains. It’s like throwing money away.

Since everyone wants to work at home and make easy money on the internet, I thought I might share with you the results that working from home online can have on a person.

If you are tired of your job and want to change things up a bit, then you probably think that working from your desk at the house is the way to go. Don’t be so fast! Let me tell you over the last 2 years how making money online has been a positive thing and a negative thing for me.

The simple concept of building sites and getting links is just that, simple. Why so many people don’t get it I really don’t know. One thing I do know is that it takes a determination and fire to get up every day and work for weeks and sometimes months without seeing any real results. I should know, I have done this for over 2 years now. Now its a lot easier, but the motivation has really died out. What happened?

the first drive you get from building websites and either monetizing them with adsense or with affiliate products is crazy. I would work for almost 15 hours a day and feel like a hamster running in a wheel. It seemed like the harder I tried the less I got anywhere. Then finally it all started coming together. I was making extra money from home and still working at a full time job, but now I actually had some cash to show for all that hard work. it wasn’t a lot of cash, but it was something. That drove me to just get more excited about making money from home and quitting my day job. Especially when i was having some health issues and missing a lot of work

I finally made that plunge and quit my day job to make money from home. The money was not great so we had to struggle a little with my wife still working hard at her job. It took time, and with her support I finally made it. Things Kept growing and growing, but I was still working so many hours and it seemed so unnecessary.

Working from home was taking its toll on me, and not only was I burned out, but my social life was also suffering. I spent so much time in the digital world that i never spent time speaking with people face to face. I literally had become a recluse, and now I was getting sick more often. One of my hands was having serious problems from working around the clock typing.

Making money online has taken its toll, both physically and emotionally. It still takes its toll everyday in one way or another, and has become a miserable and dreaded job even though its still a passion.

I think I have told people doing what I do to work as hard as you can, and to get as much done as you can. However I failed to mention rest. If you do not rest from this internet money making job you will hurt yourself more than you know.

If I could go back and do it all over again, I would have made a schedule for this stuff. No working for 15 hours straight looking at a screen. No working all night long and well into the next day until my eyes are burning red.

While I have not worked online like this for a long time now, I can truly say that if you want to make a legitimate income from home, you need to think about your family and your health before making money. If you don’t you will be miserable. i just thought it was important to outline the miserable effects from spending 95% of your life in your home without seeing sunlight for 2 years.

You can still make a living from working at home and be happy, just make a schedule, and get plenty of exercise. Go to the gym, and go walking to clear your head or you can drive yourself mad, believe me, I know.

Making money online is one of the easiest things to do once you get established. I can tell you though about 2 years ago making money on the internet was just a dream for me. If you have been wanting to make money for some time now then get started today. If you always say you will but don’t do it then it will never happen for you.

I have a buddy who started niche blogging about 2 months ago. He bought all new domains, and started making money with adsense in less than 2 weeks of putting his first site up. If you were to ask him now if this is easy, he would say yes, and that it just takes some time. If you were to ask him 2 months ago if this is an easy way to make money online, he might tell you that it seems like a lot to remember.

In reality there are just a few simple things that get you to making money within a relatively short period of time. I have been using these basic techniques over and over and over again to make money within a week or 2 of putting up a brand new site with a brand new domain. And here they are.

• Buy a domain with keywords in the name if possible.
• Use a very basic theme with very few flashy graphics if all possible.
• Use keywords that you can rank for in the titles of your posts.
• Use multiple rich keywords within your posts that will give you variations of searches.
• Get anchor text links for the terms you are trying to rank for.

If you follow these basic principles, you will make money, as long as you are not going after niches that will take you years to rank for.

On a completely differen’t note, there is something that I always find people doing that bothers me quite a bit. Using ezine articles to get links is one of the best things a person can do, but so often people hurt themselves when they use ezine articles.

Since EzineArticles has so much authority and clout and lots of love from Google, they seem to rank for quite a few terms. If you are going to get a link from them, why would you use the term you are trying to rank for in an Ezine Article’s title? Why people do this and create more competition for themselves beats me. If you do this with all the places you write to get links from then please stop right away. You don’t have to use the exact title to create more competition for yourself. Let me give you an example.

Lets say that I wanted to rank for how to make money online with ezine articles. Would I go to ezine and then write an article with the exact title how to make money online with ezine articles? Of course not. First of all the keywords ezine articles are already held with authority by ezinearticles.com, and second I would just be creating another entity that would be competing with me even though I am still using it to give myself a link. The content is fine to use similar words that are related to making money online with ezine, but the title is probably the most prominent piece in helping a site rank for specific keywords, so it would be a lot better to make your title Ezine articles is another way to bring in cash. While Google can very much associate the title as well as the content with what you are writing about, it does not use the exact kewyords you are trying to rank for, thus helping you out the same as far as your link goes, but not infringing on your ranking strategy.

Back to what we were originally talking about. Making money on the internet easily and fast. Well as far as the fast part goes, it won’t get fast for you until you have built an array of sites or until you have all your resources lined up like ducks. Once you have everything in place, and you get a good grasp then the rest is like butter.

Sorry for not posting for a while, some other personal things have come up and I have just been away. But I hope you have taken something away from this post to digest which will make your efforts to make money online that much simpler.

Lets talk about something that is fairly important. I have been asked in the past in order to make money online with blogs, does it matter if my keywords are in the domain. I used to say not really. But until more recently have I been using exact keyword domains and ranking in top 3 spots with 0 inlinks in Google. I am able to make money faster than ever with new domains. First off, I know what I have told some of you. Yes I did say buy preowned domains. I still say to do that, but I also know that if done properly, You can immediately rank in the top of Google right from the get go.

What that means is that I am making money at a faster rate than ever with less work. Does it take work to make money online? Of course it does! Don’t think that are easy ways to make money on the internet with little to no work unless you want to lose your butt on PPC campaigns. Thats another story, but the fact of the matter is, keyword research still proves so valuable with this method as well.

Now that leads us to this MMO site. Would WhataWookie Be ranking better in Google for the term Make Money Online and even Make Money Online free if Make money online was in the name of the domain? Yes it would. While I have gone after branding this site more than being concerned with the words make money online in my domain name, I probably would have done things a little differently, and went ahead and registered a name with those keywords in it.

I really am not worried at this point though because the site already ranks for plenty of MMO keywords, and it also is being found in Google for things like Make Money Wookie and Make Money Online Wookie. This tells me that the branding part is working. Now let me ask you a question folks. If you are building a site to make money with, do you build it to brand the site, or do you build it to rank in Google?

Organic traffic is the most important traffic a site can ever have. While I will probably sell this site down the road, and for that purpose I have branded it, branding is the least important thing when monetizing a site, unless you have an ecommerce site where you are hoping for return buyers.

Let me repeat this to everyone that has a social blog, or trys to make money with twitter and other social sites. Organic traffic is the best traffic for adsense and other types of ad placements for a blog or even a static html site. If you are trying to make money with social traffic then i’m sorry, I don’t have tips for you.

Can you make money online with forums is the question? Obviously you can make money online with just about anything. The question is how much time will you invest, and how much maintenance is required. You have to ask yourself what are you willing to put into a forum, just like anything else.

Over the last few weeks I have gotten into one of the laziest slumps I have ever been in. Several factors in my life have caused this, and I have gotten into a rather slow manner of getting things done. This kind of made me think about the upkeep of a forum, and if how my business was based on forums I would be so behind unless I had a solid group of moderators.

Forums can make money no doubt, but use of bandwidth, finding advertisers, and getting members seems like a lot of work. I see forums with thousands of members sell on sites like Sitepoint for so much less than it seems they should be selling for. Then I see a blog which has had very little done to it with very little upkeep sell for the same or more.

If you are someone like me, sometimes it is a challenge to supress ideas. If you have an idea it is really important you weigh the time to manage it and build it, and decide whether the payoff is great enough. For me running a forum is not in my interest.

I think this is so important for new people looking for ways to make money online. because making money blogging is not the only option to take, you really have to decide if it is in your business model to do or not do something. Something I will tell anyone that plans on building something for profit is not to jump in and figure out whether its worth it later. Do the math from the start. Going half the distance only to find that you are investing more work than you wanted is just setting you up for failure, unless your plan was to sell your site whether it be a forum, blog, or some other type of online project.

So for those of you planning to make money on  forum, just be willing to put in lots of time and effort until it takes off. Even then there is no guarantee you will have a very popular forum. It will just take tons of work to find out.

This is the first thing that I have promoted at all on WhatAWookie, and for good reason. This site isn’t made to peddle crap. The only things I will ever bring to your attention are tools that I use and have value. One of them is Unique Article Wizard which I have more recently been using quite a bit. I can’t begin to stress enough why this tool is a must have for anyone that wants to make money online blogging.

So here is a review of Unique Article Wizard by me to those of you who may have considered it or haven’t even heard of it. Basically when I first heard about UAW I was a little skeptical because the sales page looked a little bland and to be honest a bit scammer looking. I have been using Article Marketer for a while, but more recently have had nothing but problems with them, and canceled my account. I had heard of Unique Article Wizard before, but didn’t give much attention because I wasn’t too sold on it.

I decided to give it a shot and was very surprised. In my opinion it blew Article Marketer out of the water. First of all, it allows you to use different Author Alias names which is really important for me since I didn’t want people to track all my sites through the same author name on all of the articles I submit. Article Marketer does not allow you to do this. Another friend who many of you know very well, had a problem with his pen/alias name using Article Marketer and they rejected articles because they said his name didn’t seem real. Unique Article Wizard has never given me a problem whatsoever and I have used a bunch of aliases. In fact they encourage it.

Another positive that really has won me over with Unique Article Wizard has been the option to make multiple articles that can be mixed to overcome duplicate content. After submitting my articles I figured it might take 3 or 4 days and that I would get some rejected like with Article Marketer. I was shocked when they had already begun article submission on the same day I submitted it. What’s more is I looked in Google and sure enough, there were already links showing up from the article. I only wish I had signed up with these guys earlier.

When you first log in there seems to be quite a few options in the process of submitting an article. The tutorials and suggestions with videos have been excellent as well, and the support is top notch. After using Unique Article Wizard, I am spoiled and will never go back to Article Marketer.

If you want to check out the sales page and signup or not CLICK HERE.

I am happy to release this aqua blue theme called “Make Money Online Blue”. This theme is simple and gets the job done. This theme is sidebar widgetized and footer widgetized, and ready to make money. The idea with a wordpress theme hat is used to build niche blogs is to have a minimal look. The less glamorous, the better. With that in mind the theme does not have a cheap look to it, but rather is clean and still simplistic in nature. I hope you all enjoy it. If you have any questions just let me know.

Preview HERE

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I have been in and around the hosting industry now for several years now, and I can tell you there is a lot of money to be made. There can also be a lot of headaches to be made if you don’t get a solid game plan if you are wanting to scale the income. haven’t you ever wondered why they call hosting plans a reseller hosting package? it’s because you can do just that. Resell the hosting.

I have seen quite a few people make some really good money building around this business model. HostGator is by far the most reliable hosting company you will find. Every hosting company has its positives and negatives, but if you are looking for good hosting support, and 24 hour around the clock service then HostGator is the way to go.

OK so I know a lot of you are already saying, “Hosting is way too competitive. How would I get business?” I can answer that with a question. When you created your first website or blog, did you have any idea what hosting company to go with? You sure didn’t, and neither did I.

If you want to be successful and make money online with hosting, you are going to need to think on a local level. Would businesses in your area tend to trust you or the internet? Obviously they would feel more comfortable talking with someone in their town or city.

If you are a go getter, and you want to make some money online then you are going to talk to people everywhere you go. Create business cards, and add the things you are good at on them. This might incude blog setup, hosting, and if you know how to build html websites you might even put web design on there. Make sure you do have knowledge of these things or you might get yourself in way over your head.

The more you pass out your cards, the more word will get around of what you do. Makes sure to drop them off whenever you go to business establishments and get people talking about what you do. You should then be able to slowly start getting some business from people who would like to host their site with you. There are a bunch of factors that you will need to consider which I am not going to go into right now including support, ticket systems, and autobilling as well as account creations. If you have questions about these because you are serious about setting up your own reseller hosting business then just shoot me an email and I will do my bet to get back with you on your questions.

If you want to still make money online with hosting, but are a little unsure of your abilities with all the duties of hosting peoples sites, then you can still just direct people to Hosting affiliates. Just setup a comparison site for people where you show the positives and weaknesses for several different companies. Have a business card and/or a flyer made to pass out, or post up at colleges or other places.

Just for the heck of it I will be doing a case study to see how many people I can get to signup for products through several aspects of marketing. I will go into detail in a future post. Until then, know that you can make money online with a reseller hosting account. It just takes some time and effort like anything else.

Before I start this post I want to say that this is for anyone out there that feels unworthy, or feels like they are failing at making money online. There is no technical lesson here only some real life stuff.

I have heard people tell me they weren’t sure about something so they didn’t try it. One of these things is adsense. Do you know how many people I have heard say they are scared to mess up with adsense, so they have shied away till they learn more to be comfortable with it? How can you make money online with adsense if you don’t try it out enough?

We are all full of failures. When you hear about how well guys like Vic, Grizz, and Court do, do you really think they nail every niche they work? You can’t win on every site. Let me give you an example. I have worked 2 niches in the last couple weeks now, that according to the Google keyword tool as well as other search traffic tools should bring in over 90,000 searches a month. They have turned out to be duds! After ranking well for the keywords the traffic was not there. I was able to nail top 3 posts on both of these niches. So what happened? Those 2 niches were failures.

I think its important for those of you who are only making a dollar a day or even 10 dollars a day to remember something. Failing is a part of succeeding. What is a failure? A failure is an expectation of what you think a site should be making and it is not. It causes you to question whether you can make money online or not. Have I ever had my share of these feelings in the past? Heck yes! Sometimes I felt like I was spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere. What changed? Well I just told you those last 2 niches I wored recently were failures right? Wrong!! They really weren’t. I say this because they are still good sites. they still have content, and they still have links. If I ever work something related or similar I now have a place to link from.

Here is what I want you to remember if this post was talking to you.

• Its only a failure when you have given up.
• More growth, more websites, and a bigger network only makes you more powerful.
• Don’t compare with what others are doing. Focus on your own growth.
• Even the Pros have failures.
• Don’t give up!!