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7 Points to Consider Before Blogging for Money

2008-01-31T23:17:00.000-08:00

Whenever I mention my blog people roll their eyes or smile in an “I don’t understand but okay” sort of way. When I mention the fact that I make money blogging, however, I suddenly have their attention.

The concept seems simple enough. I write about topics that I enjoy, people read it, and I make money off the advertising. To those of us who’ve been doing it for a while, it is simple. To the novice blogger who’s just getting into the business, however, it’s important to realize what you’re getting into.

If you’re new to blogging and interested in doing it for profit, here are a few things to keep in mind before committing yourself.

Whenever I mention my blog people roll their eyes or smile in an “I don’t understand but okay” sort of way. When I mention the fact that I make money blogging, however, I suddenly have their attention.

The concept seems simple enough. I write about topics that I enjoy, people read it, and I make money off the advertising. To those of us who’ve been doing it for a while, it is simple. To the novice blogger who’s just getting into the business, however, it’s important to realize what you’re getting into.

If you’re new to blogging and interested in doing it for profit, here are a few things to keep in mind before committing yourself.

Blogging is easy. Blogging for profit is more difficult. I won’t go as far as to say it’s hard to draw a secondary income from blogging, but it’s definitely harder than most people think. It’s not just about producing content and slapping up some ads. Good writing, proper templating, ad placement, developing an audience… there are a lot of skills required to make a blog profitable, all of which you’ll need to learn.
Blog for the long haul or not at all. A huge majority of blogs fail in the first few months, falling into neglect and disuse. More to the point, few blogs see any profit during the first few months. Unless you can stick with it for at least a year, you’ll probably never see any return for your effort.
Pick a niche that you love and stick with it. General purpose or multi-topic blogs have difficulty developing a readership. Brainstorm the topics that you care about most, then pick one and blog about it exclusively.
Start with one blog. If you have a lot of items on your list of possible topics, don’t give in to the temptation to start a different blog for each one. By dividing your effort between several blogs, you increase the likelihood that all of them will fail. Put all of your effort into one blog to start. Once you get the hang of things, then you might consider branching out with additional blogs.
If you’re unsure, test drive. The fact is that many people don’t have the drive or stamina to blog for profit successfully. If you’re not sure, try a starter blog on a free service such as Blogger or Wordpress.com. Feel it out for a few weeks. If, by the end of this time, you’ve stuck with it and feel like blogging is right for you, go ahead and commit to the effort. This advice applies equally well to test driving new topics if you’re unsure what to write about.
Place ads wisely. Some people recommend not placing ads on a blog until it has matured somewhat. Others recommend putting them up right away. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. Just be sure to place your ads tactfully so as not to overwhelm your readers. Put the user experience in the first place.
Enjoy yourself. This is the real key to successful blogging. If you pick a topic that you love and blog about it with passion for months and years on end, your blog will build a readership, generate income, and generally be a success. If, however, your blog becomes a chore to maintain, it will inevitably fail.

The main point I want to convey is that many people try to blog for profit and fail. If you approach the task with the right expectations and some proper planning, you will succeed.

HOW to rank N1 in Google for a HIGHLY competitive keyword - REVEALED

2008-01-30T15:19:00.000-08:00

Every one of us wants to rank high in Google. You must focus on backlink building to have good serps. But backlink building has to be done with great care - not to get penalized.

Here are some simple tips which will definetely help:

1. Don't buy (or sell) sitewide links for serps. Buy links from individual pages*.

2. Don't look for high PR links only - start your campaign for a new site with PR 0-1 and slowly move up each week as you see your rankings improve.

3. Control link placement speed. Remember of "Too many links at once" Google filter.

Every one of us wants to rank high in Google. You must focus on backlink building to have good serps. But backlink building has to be done with great care - not to get penalized.

Here are some simple tips which will definetely help:

1. Don't buy (or sell) sitewide links for serps. Buy links from individual pages*.

2. Don't look for high PR links only - start your campaign for a new site with PR 0-1 and slowly move up each week as you see your rankings improve.

3. Control link placement speed. Remember of "Too many links at once" Google filter.

4. Control the number of outbound links on your pages and on pages where you place your links, avoid link-farms, links to gambling, pills, etc.

5. A link from a relevant website is excellent, but a link from a quality site of other niche or other language can also boost your ranking - so don't ignore such links.

6. Make links look natural. Use different link anchors, promote not only your main page, but your deep pages too.

7. Don't do reciprocal linkexchange.

* - Links from individual pages are far more effective when speaking of improving serps, not PR. They are more natural and organic. Sitewide links can easily be filtered.
Selling sitewide links also means loosing lots of money - if your site has 1000 of PR2-3 pages, you could earn hundreds of $$$ a month just from selling ONE outbound link per page, compared to some $20-30 for selling a sitewide link (now, when it has become possible). What do you think?

Using this simple technique, our site (tnx.net) has received an excellent rank in Google in just 1 month for HIGHLY competitive keywords, such as "text link ads", "text links", "buy text links", "sell text links" etc. If you are interested, I can tell how we did it.
Do you want to test this technique and get the same results? See this thread to get some free points (up to 20,000). We have made an effective tool to make backlink building process convenient, easy, and less time-consuming.

Just remember, that your site's ranking depends on your efforts and skills, it doesn't depend on your site's PR etc.

How To Improve Adsense Earnings On Your Blog

2008-01-30T13:37:00.000-08:00

In certain niches including the niche this blog falls within you can run into problems when using Adsense.

Your readers may be savvy and recognise Adsense blocks, and they don’t click on them.
None of the terms which relate to your topic/ niche are very competitive, and so even if readers click them, they only pay very little.
A large percentage of your traffic comes from social media sites which lowers your CTR (see smart pricing).
You don’t want to alienate your readers by placing large Adsense blocks at the top of your articles.

So what do you do? How can you make good money from Adsense on these types of blogs?

In certain niches including the niche this blog falls within you can run into problems when using Adsense.

Your readers may be savvy and recognise Adsense blocks, and they don’t click on them.
None of the terms which relate to your topic/ niche are very competitive, and so even if readers click them, they only pay very little.
A large percentage of your traffic comes from social media sites which lowers your CTR (see smart pricing).
You don’t want to alienate your readers by placing large Adsense blocks at the top of your articles.

So what do you do? How can you make good money from Adsense on these types of blogs?

Basic concepts:

Adsense performs very well when you use the large rectangle format, and place the ad blocks in your content, normally at the top, so it is in front of every person who views the page.
Visitors who arrive at your pages from search engines (particularly Google) are those who are most likely to click on Adsense ads.
Your regular readers probably don’t deserve to look at Adsense, and they probably don’t click Adsense ads anyway.

After considering this information it makes sense not to put Adsense on every page of your blog, but just on those articles that are getting a lot of visitors from search engines. For this you need to look at the stats for your blog. I use Google Analytics. Look at old posts and select those that are getting traffic from Google or other search engines. Place a large rectangle ad block at the top of the content on these pages, probably beneath the title.

Problems and Solutions:

The first problem you might have is that even with only having ads on old posts, none of the clicks are paying well, because your topics are in a niche where there is no competition for keywords.

The second problem you may have is that you don’t get a lot of search engine traffic.

Both of these issues can be addressed by doing a little keyword research before you write your article.

Since this article is about Adsense, I will use this as an example. For the information below I used a tool called Niche Inspector, but you can use : This Free Wordtracker page for basic keyword research.

The “Searches” heading gives an estimate of the average amount of searches for that term each day. So the more searches, the more potential. However some terms will obviously have much more competition than others.

Google and MSN Pages gives you an estimate of pages out there that relate to the term, which shows how much competition there is for the term.

CPC (Cost Per Click) gives you an estimate of how much a click will pay out for that term.

Keyword	Searches	Google Pages	MSN Pages	CPC
adsense	110,459	48,800,000	3,260,000	$20.01 - $27.93
google adsense	29,176	22,300,000	10,800,000	$18.27 - $24.18
adsense publisher	10,980	224,000	137,000	$4.87 - $6.08
adsense ad	4,863	171,000	140,000	$3.75 - $4.69
google adsense publisher	705	171,000	66,900	$3.41 - $4.27
template adsense	439	3,530	5,950	$5.85 - $7.30
adsense tool	370	26,900	9,360	$5.85 - $7.31
adsense format	259	18,500	33,700	$6.55 - $8.19
adsense alternative	227	61,000	41,300	$1.56 - $1.95
adsense earnings	191	385,000	176,000	$7.43 - $9.29
adsense tip	189	23,700	14,600	$9.07 - $11.34
adsense ready	156	219,000	224,000	$2.30 - $2.87
adsense program	126	359,000	366,000	$9.68 - $12.10
google adsense alternative	125	13,100	6,770	$3.41 - $4.27
adsense keyword	123	65,300	28,900	$2.37 - $2.96
adsense web site	108	45,100	10,500	$3.75 - $4.69
adsense site	106	192,000	90,900	$1.72 - $2.15
adsense secret	103	112,000	14,900	$0.95 - $1.18
google adsense program	90	198,000	198,000	$12.62 - $15.78
msn adsense	90	5,630	1,040	$3.07 - $3.84
adwords and adsense	88	94,300	72,700	$8.02 - $10.02
how to make money with google adsense	88	98,600	21,700	$3.24 - $4.05
how to make money with adsense	86	81,700	18,100	$2.19 - $2.74
adsense income	85	313,000	125,000	$2.81 - $3.51
adsense google	84	711,000	1,110,000	$21.02 - $27.45
make money with adsense	79	308,000	78,200	$1.71 - $2.14
adsense template	77	35,700	9,510	$1.27 - $1.59
adsense tracker	74	79,900	54,600	$1.00 - $1.26
google com adsense	72	280,000	175,000	$18.74 - $23.43
adsense forum	71	163,000	163,000	$6.65 - $8.31
adsense money	71	241,000	81,900	$2.08 - $2.60
adsense revenue	70	630,000	343,000	$6.52 - $8.15
adsense adwords google	68	37,500	129,000	$15.13 - $18.91
making money with adsense	67	205,000	53,700	$1.81 - $2.26
adsense ready site	66	8,220	1,670	$0.95 - $1.19
adwords adsense	64	171,000	225,000	$4.05 - $5.06
google adsense keyword	60	39,400	9,040	$3.06 - $3.82
google adsense secret	58	86,400	1,570	$4.21 - $5.27
adsense make money	58	71,500	27,000	$1.59 - $1.98
yahoo adsense	54	18,900	16,700	$2.97 - $3.71
adsense profit	53	35,900	12,100	$2.65 - $3.32
adsense exchange	53	3,010	456	$1.71 - $2.13

In an ideal world you would rank in Google for all the main terms, and you would make bucket loads of cash. However this isn’t realistic. It makes sense to target keywords that still payout well, but have less competition i.e fewer pages that relate to that term. There is a point where the phrase doesn’t get enough people searching for it, so it isn’t worth targeting. But it is worth considering, if a term has 50 people a day searching for it, but no competition, it will be so much easier to rank for. If you find yourself ranking first you will get many of those visitors hitting your site each day, something like 90% of people click the first result in a Search Engine Result Page (SERP), and as low as 3% click the result at the bottom of the first page.

Once you have selected some appropriate keywords and phrases, make sure you use them as much as possible with out spoiling your reader experience. You should also use your main keyword in the title of your article, or if it sounds ugly, use a post slug to get it the URL. I also recommend Wordpress users using the plugin Headspace, and adding the keywords into your posts meta data.

I hope this article helps you improve your Adsense earnings. I have found that most people a not so happy to share how they earn using Adsense.

By : Simon

Yuwie Review - You can Make money by being Social

2008-01-13T15:37:00.001-08:00

One of the hottest new Social Networks in town is Yuwie. They actually pay you to do everything you would normally do on MySpace/Friendster. What Is Yuwie? It's a web 2.0 site in the sense that it relies on contributions from thousands of internet users to build up a social network. The difference between yuwie and, say, MySpace/Friendster is that it shares its advertising revenue with its members on the basis that the more you use it, the more you make.

There's a ton of things like that out there but I took a look at the Alexa ranking for yuwie (Alexa gives you one opinion about the popularity of a site) and it seems to be very fast moving although it is very early days. Today yuwie ranks around 15,000 which means only around 15,000 websites of the many billions that are out there are more popular.

On 3rd August the figure was around 50,000 so it's moving up very fast indeed.

One of the more powerful aspects of yuwie is that you make money when people you recommend to yuwie sign up too - like a network marketing arrangement but crucially without the need to pay anything to join. It all goes down 10 levels or something like that which sounds stunning except that there aren't really that many people on the planet!

The current advertising revenue appears to come mainly from AdSense too so it is another way of getting paid by Google.

So where's yuwie going? I don't know yet but we'll probably know in a few weeks time. The crucial factors will be the popularity of the interface and site functionality and how quickly it builds critical mass.

The critical mass factor will definitely be helped significantly by the in-built revenue sharing aspect. Only time will reveal whether the functionality is attractive to a wide range of users

On 3rd August the figure was around 50,000 so it's moving up very fast indeed.

The current advertising revenue appears to come mainly from AdSense too so it is another way of getting paid by Google.

The critical mass factor will definitely be helped significantly by the in-built revenue sharing aspect. Only time will reveal whether the functionality is attractive to a wide range of users.

Worth a look at at this stage if you wish to broaden your income streams and possibly get in on a potential winner early on.

It's free to join.

JOIN NOW

Benefits of Yuwie

Benefits of Yuwie

Each member gets their own blog
You can Upload Photos
You can Upload Videos
You can Upload Music
You can Create and Join Clubs
You can Make Friends
You can Invite Friends

It's a Social Network Better than Myspace/Friendster. Because it pays you to do what you already do!!

Video About Yuwie

Is Yuwie legal? It sounds like a pyramid scheme

Yes Yuwie is completely legal. You see Pyramid schemes involve users paying a fee to join, and that fee gets divided up and paid to the users above them. Yuwie is free to join. It costs nothing, so there is no way it can be considered illegal, or a pyramid scheme.

Making Money with Yuwie

How much can you Make with Yuwie ?

We can't say exactly, but here's an example of what could happen. The chart below assumes you refer 3 people, and those 3 people refer 3, then those refer 3, through 10 levels, and each referral gets 1000 page views for the month, and the month's RSR is $0.50.

Yuwie Earnings Chart

Results are not guaranteed. This is just an example of what could happen.

The Yuwie level percentages chart :

Level Your Percentage
You 10%
1 10%
2 10%
3 4%
4 4%
5 4%
6 4%
7 4%
8 10%
9 10%
10 30%

The Yuwie Revenue Sharing Rate (RSR)

The Yuwie Revenue Sharing Rate

The RSR (revenue sharing rate) determines how much the users get paid. Here's how it works. After each month, a report will be generated in your earnings area. It will show exactly how many views your referral tree accumulated on each level. It will also show your earnings for each level. Here's the actual calculation:

RSR x (Page Views/1000) x Level Percentage = Your Earnings

Who is Yuwie? Who Owns and Runs Yuwie?

Asked " Who is Yuwie ? "
Asked " How Long has Yuwie been online.?"

Answer:

Well I did a Simple WHO IS Search for Yuwie.com and Found the answers:

The Yuwie.com Domain was Created on May 21, 2007

Domain Name: YUWIE.COM
Created on: 21-May-07

More Facts about WHO IS Yuwie.

It is run by a gentleman (Korry Rogers) out of Norman, Oklahoma

Registrant:
Yuwie, Inc
PO Box 5506
Norman, Oklahoma 73070
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name : YUWIE.COM
Created on: 21-May-07
Expires on: 22-May-09
Last Updated on:

Administrative Contact :
Rogers, Korry korcar1@yahoo.com
Yuwie, Inc
PO Box 5506
Norman, Oklahoma 73070
United States

Technical Contact :
Rogers, Korry korcar1@yahoo.com
Yuwie, Inc
PO Box 5506
Norman, Oklahoma 73070
United States

So now we know who the Little YUWIE is , Lets all say hello to Korry shall we? He is Yuwie ID 1
http://www.yuwie.com/korry/

This information is of Public Record from a WHOIS Domain search.

Yuwie Earnings for July

July RSR and Earnings
The July RSR and earnings reports have been generated. Just go to your control panel, and click the earnings icon to see your earnings.

JULY RSR = $0.41

Nobody got rich this month, but we consider the first month of Yuwie a HUGE success. (Honestly we expected the first month's RSR to be much lower.) Stick with it and watch those page views climb. With a few active referrals, in a few months, you'll be earning some substantial checks.

FYI:
1. You have to have a minimum of $50 before you can get paid.
2. We pay net 60 which means any earnings for July will be paid at the end of September. (We have to collect from advertisers before we can pay you)

How to Blog On Yuwie

How to Blog On Yuwie
Several people don't have their blogs set up or don't know how to blog so let me help you.

First go to your Control Panel. On the left hand side underneath your Picture you will see what I call the "Small Box Menu". On the second row, and last Icon you see what looks like a couple of boxs stacked together. When you scroll your mouse over each ICON it will display what that MENU box is used for.

Click on the MENU BOX for Blog.

Next you will see Tabs for ENTRIES, SETTINGS & NEW ENTRY.

First lets go to SETTINGS. Click it.
Here you have the options to give your overall BLOG a TITLE, Number of Home page entries, Time Format, Date Format, and Description of your Blog. After you set that up for your own particulars.

It's time for you to make your first blog post.

Click on NEW ENTRY from the Top Tabs.
You will see a Page that you will write your Blog posts.

The First box is : Entry Title

The entry title is the Title of the individual blog post you are writing. Give your Blog Post a Title of what your are writing about.

The Next box is a choice of Public or Private. Most of you should pick PUBLIC.

Next Large Box is the place where your write your BLOG post or story.

Click so that your cursor is flashing in the LARGE BOX to begin writing.

Those of you who are familiar with Microsoft Word will recognize the Menu bar options for formating. If you are not mouse over those options to see what they can accomplish.

Write your Blog post or story. Use the formating options available to you.

To Link Something:
Highlight the word or words you want LINKed and click on the Paper Clip looking Icon on your Formating menu bar. The mouse over will read CreateLink. When you click on that paper clip Icon (Create Link) a new mini window will pop up. ( If you don't see the window, adjust your browser setting to allow popups for this site).
Past your Link address (URL) in the Bottom Box. Just the WWW.THENAME.COM and not the Http:// part. The http part is already in the upper box pre-set for you

Once you have finished your Post you have the option to Save as a Draft ( which means Not Published) or Save Live ( which means it will now appear on your site)

Hopefully Now you can all Blog.

Here's How To Reach The Top

2008-01-12T15:40:00.000-08:00

The quickest, surest way to earn a living online is through affiliate marketing.
It's a simple fact. But not everyone knows about it.

And for those who do try to succeed with affiliate marketing, a great majority of them realize that what is quick and sure does not necessarily mean that it's
easy. The truth is, affiliate marketing is a field that requires skills.

The First Step Has Been Taken...
And skills are developed by acquiring the right knowledge, first and foremost.

The problem with the resources available online is that they assume too much.

The quickest, surest way to earn a living online is through affiliate marketing.
It's a simple fact. But not everyone knows about it.

And for those who do try to succeed with affiliate marketing, a great majority of them realize that what is quick and sure does not necessarily mean that it's
easy. The truth is, affiliate marketing is a field that requires skills.

The First Step Has Been Taken...
And skills are developed by acquiring the right knowledge, first and foremost.

The problem with the resources available online is that they assume too much.

They assume that the readers (who are students in this case) know what those alleged tomes of information are talking about.

They teach you PPC advertising under the impression that you know what PPC stands for. They teach you about follow-up systems without explaining the need for
following up. They teach you how easy it is to create web pages on the fly without taking into consideration your proficiency when it comes to web authoring.

This sad state of affairs has made it difficult for novice Internet marketers to make it big in the world of affiliate marketing. There simply isn't any perfect
entry-level compendium of the right information needed to succeed as an affiliate.

That is, until Affiliate Marketing Success, Vol. I was released.

Affiliate Marketing Success, Vol. I carried the subtitle "The Basics Of The Fastest Moneymaking Opportunity In The Digital World." It was an appropriate tag.

The Problem...

But Affiliate Marketing Success, Vol. I is only made up of so many pages. Even if it included all the proven techniques that would transform its readers into instant
affiliate marketing superstars, it failed in one department...

It only discussed the strategies of the present...... the strategies of the NOW.
Sure, with the tactics that Affiliate Marketing Success, Vol. I has efficiently delineated, you can leave your competition behind and make them eat your dust.

But for how long will you stay ahead?

What if they ride the waves caused by a new generation of affiliate marketing strategies before you do?

Nothing stays the same forever. The tactics that serve us well today may very well become obsolete tomorrow. The winds of change are perpetually upon us.

The question is this...

Are we ready for them?

Get ready for Affiliate Marketing Success, Vol. II

Web 2.0: The Face Of Change

Web 2.0 was a term coined by O'Reilly Media way back in 2004. It refers to the new generation of online methodologies that are focused on online collaboration
and sharing between Internet users. In Tim O'Reilly's own words:

"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on
that new platform. Chief among those rules is this : Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've
elsewhere called 'harnessing collective intelligence.').”

As an affiliate marketer you need to know what this means to you. That's why there's a volume II of the widely successfull Affiliate Marketing Success Vol I.

Here's the LINK

To your success,
vivacity~

Subject : You're Being Tracked...

2008-01-12T14:56:00.000-08:00

Imagine what it would be like if 'Big Brother' was watching everything you did when you market your business... Watching where you go, what you do, and reported the actions that were effective and those that weren't.

Do you think it would be helpful to your business?

You can bet your bottom dollar it would be helpful! And in fact, this technology is already available to internet marketers.

It's called ad tracking.

Imagine what it would be like if 'Big Brother' was watching everything you did when you market your business... Watching where you go, what you do, and reported the actions that were effective and those that weren't.

Do you think it would be helpful to your business?

You can bet your bottom dollar it would be helpful! And in fact, this technology is already available to internet marketers.

It's called ad tracking.

Most people understand the importance of tracking links, but to actually implement these marketing strategies in your every day business is another story...

It can be a timely undertaking that requires forethought and a well organised approach.

So, it's probably a correct assumption to expect that a large percentage of online marketers DON'T track their ad campaign.

All that's about to change...

Take a look here:

LINX TRACKER

We understand how much time and effort can go into tracking each and every ad campaign that you run... That's why we've developed a simple, easy-to-implement ad tracking application that will assist you enormously in your business
analysis.

It does most of the work for you, like a stealth tracker following every link and reporting back the relevant details for you to analyse afterwards.

This script sits on your web server and is very easy to install in just a few minutes. It creates attractive links that don't even look like tracked links. There's no system-generated code in the link that identifies it as a tracking
link either...

Here's how your link will look using our tracking system:

http://www.mysite.com/recommends/ebooks.htm

Now you would have seen links like these before, but it's more than likely that they weren't tracked links.

The beauty of using this style of tracking links is that you can instantly identify which ad campaign the link is for. No more codes to decipher and try to remember, or waste time searching for the initial link...

Come and see how quick and easy it is to setup a new ad campaign.

Here's the link:

LINX TRACKER

By using our tracking solution, you can see the following statistics at the glance of an eye:

-> Total clicks on your link per day of each month.
-> Total unique clicks to your link.
-> Sub-campaign statistics.
-> Sales statistics.
-> Pay per click keyword statistics and resulting sales.

Our system is so flexible, it also allows you to setup and view advanced details to help you in your analyses.

-> Track which advertising vehicle is more reponsive.
-> Track exactly which specific keywords are being used to find your site.
-> Track each sale that you make and view the complete statistical information.
-> Choose to be automatically notified when you make a sale.

We've also included an advanced keyword sales tracking feature in our software that you're going to love. Click through to our site to read more about this feature.

With this valuable information at your fingertips, it's like having a virtual assistant that you don't have to pay each week to do all this work for you!

All you pay is an affordable one-time fee of $37 to purchase the software...

Take the time out now to secure your copy of our advanced tracking solution, and put yourself back in control of your marketing once and for all.

Here's the link again:

LINX TRACKER

Wishing you success,
Vivacity~

PS : With a 30 day, 100% cast iron, no questions asked, no risk guarantee, you can know in advance that there's absolutely no risk involved... In fact, it's more risky not to have a tracking solution in place for your business. You'd be throwing well-earned money down the drain.

Here's the LINK

Make Money

2008-01-05T16:21:00.000-08:00

The following is a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs I use to make money online. They were chosen from this exhaustive list of 130 ad networks. I have used all the following networks at one time or another and can highly recommend them. They have proven to provide good service/support and most importantly, on time payments.

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. Normally Kontera requires a site have a minimum 500,000 page views per month before being accepted into the program. However, I have a partnership with Kontera that will allow smaller blogs to use their ContentLink service.

Fill out the application and enter “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field. The application is sent to my personal account representative. He will approve you based on your blog content and not your traffic level. This is a great way to use a service that is normally only available to high traffic sites.

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Forex - What is it?

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The international currency market Forex is a special kind of the world financial market. Trader’s purpose on the Forex to get profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. The exchange rates of all currencies being in the market turnover are permanently changing under the action of the demand and supply alteration. The latter is a strong subject to the influence of any important for the human society event in the sphere of economy, politics and nature. Consequently current prices of foreign currencies evaluated for instance in the US dollars fluctuate towards its higher and lower meanings. Using these fluctuations in accordance with a known principle “buy cheaper – sell higher” traders obtain gains.

The international currency market Forex is a special kind of the world financial market. Trader’s purpose on the Forex to get profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. The exchange rates of all currencies being in the market turnover are permanently changing under the action of the demand and supply alteration. The latter is a strong subject to the influence of any important for the human society event in the sphere of economy, politics and nature. Consequently current prices of foreign currencies evaluated for instance in the US dollars fluctuate towards its higher and lower meanings. Using these fluctuations in accordance with a known principle “buy cheaper – sell higher” traders obtain gains. Forex is different in compare to all other sectors of the world financial system thanks to his heightened sensibility to a large and continuously changing number of factors, accessibility to all individual and corporative traders, exclusively high trade turnover which creates an ensured liquidity of traded currencies and the round - the clock business hours which enable traders to deal after normal hours or during national holidays in their country finding markets abroad open.

Just as on any other market the trading on Forex, along with an exclusively high potential profitability, is essentially risk - bearing one. It is possible to gain a success on it only after a certain training including a familiarization with the structure and kinds of Forex, the principles of currencies price formation, the factors affecting prices alterations and trading risks levels, sources of the information necessary to account all those factors, techniques of the analysis and prediction of the market movements as well as with the trading tools and rules. An important role in the process of the preparation for the trading on Forex belongs to the demotrading (that is to trade using a demo-account with some virtual money), which allows to testify all the theoretical knowledge and to obtain a required minimum of the trade experience not being subjected to a material damage.

Short data about the origin and development of the currency exchange market

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Currency trading has a long history and can be traced back to the ancient Middle East and Middle Ages when foreign exchange started to take shape after the international merchant bankers devised bills of exchange, which were transferable third-party payments that allowed flexibility and growth in foreign exchange dealings.

The modern foreign exchange market characterized by periods of high volatility (that is a frequency and an amplitude of a price alteration) and relative stability formed itself in the twentieth century. By the mid-1930s the British capital London became to be the leading center for foreign exchange and the British pound served as the currency to trade and to keep as a reserve currency. Because in the old times foreign exchange was traded on the telex machines, or cable, the pound has generally the nickname “cable”.

Currency trading has a long history and can be traced back to the ancient Middle East and Middle Ages when foreign exchange started to take shape after the international merchant bankers devised bills of exchange, which were transferable third-party payments that allowed flexibility and growth in foreign exchange dealings.

The modern foreign exchange market characterized by periods of high volatility (that is a frequency and an amplitude of a price alteration) and relative stability formed itself in the twentieth century. By the mid-1930s the British capital London became to be the leading center for foreign exchange and the British pound served as the currency to trade and to keep as a reserve currency. Because in the old times foreign exchange was traded on the telex machines, or cable, the pound has generally the nickname “cable”.

After the World War II, where the British economy was destroyed and the United States was the only country unscarred by war, U.S. dollar, in accordance with the Breton Woods Accord between the USA, Great Britain and France (1944) became the reserve currency for all the capitalist countries and all currencies were pegged to the American dollar (through the constitution of currencies ranges maintained by central banks of relevant countries by means of the interventions or currency purchases). In turn, the U.S. dollar was pegged to gold at $35 per ounce. Thus, the U.S. dollar became the world's reserve currency. In accordance with the same agreement was organized the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rendering now a significant financial support to the developing and former socialist countries effecting economical transformation.

To execute these goals the IMF uses such instruments as Reserve trenches, which allows a member to draw on its own reserve asset quota at the time of payment, Credit trenches drawings and stand-by arrangements. The letters are the standard form of IMF loans unlike of those as the compensatory financing facility extends financial help to countries with temporary problems generated by reductions in export revenues, the buffer stock financing facility which is geared toward assisting the stocking up on primary commodities in order to ensure price stability in a specific commodity and the extended facility designed to assist members with financial problems in amounts or for periods exceeding the scope of the other facilities.

At the end of the 70-s the free-floating of currencies was officially mandated that became the most important landmark in the history of financial markets in the XX century lead to the formation of Forex in the contemporary understanding. That is the currency may be traded by anybody and its value is a function of the current supply and demand forces in the market, and there are no specific intervention points that have to be observed. Foreign exchange has experienced spectacular growth in volume ever since currencies were allowed to float freely against each other. While the daily turnover in 1977 was U.S. $5 billion, it increased to U.S. $600 billion in 1987, reached the U.S. $1 trillion mark in September 1992, and stabilized at around $1.5 trillion by the year 2000.

Main factors influences on this spectacular growth in volume are mentioned below. A significant role belonged to the increased volatility of currencies rates, growing mutual influence of different economies on bank-rates established by central banks, which affect essentially currencies exchange rates, more intense competition on goods markets and, at the same time, amalgamation of the corporations of different countries, technological revolution in the sphere of the currencies trading. The latter exposed in the development of automated dealing systems and the transition to the currency trading by means of the Internet. In addition to the dealing systems, matching systems simultaneously connect all traders around the world, electronically duplicating the brokers' market.

Advances in technology, computer software, and telecommunications and increased experience have increased the level of traders' sophistication, their ability to both generate profits and properly handle the exchange risks. Therefore, trading sophistication led toward volume increase.

Risks by the foreign exchange on Forex

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The Forex is essentially risk-bearing. By the evaluation of the grade of a possible risk accounted should be the following kinds of it: exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, and credit risk, country risk.

Exchange rate risk. Exchange rate risk is the effect of the continuous shift in the worldwide market supply and demand balance on an outstanding foreign exchange position. For the period it is outstanding, the position will be subject to all the price changes. The most popular measures to cut losses short and ride profitable positions that losses should be kept within manageable limits are the position limit and the loss limit. By the position limitation a maximum amount of a certain currency a trader is allowed to carry at any single time during the regular trading hours is to be established. The loss limit is a measure designed to avoid unsustainable losses made by traders by means of stop-loss levels setting.

The Forex is essentially risk-bearing. By the evaluation of the grade of a possible risk accounted should be the following kinds of it: exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, and credit risk, country risk.

Exchange rate risk. Exchange rate risk is the effect of the continuous shift in the worldwide market supply and demand balance on an outstanding foreign exchange position. For the period it is outstanding, the position will be subject to all the price changes. The most popular measures to cut losses short and ride profitable positions that losses should be kept within manageable limits are the position limit and the loss limit. By the position limitation a maximum amount of a certain currency a trader is allowed to carry at any single time during the regular trading hours is to be established. The loss limit is a measure designed to avoid unsustainable losses made by traders by means of stop-loss levels setting.

Interest rate risk. Interest rate risk refers to the profit and loss generated by fluctuations in the forward spreads, along with forward amount mismatches and maturity gaps among transactions in the foreign exchange book. This risk is pertinent to currency swaps, forward outright, futures, and options (See below). To minimize interest rate risk, one sets limits on the total size of mismatches. A common approach is to separate the mismatches, based on their maturity dates, into up to six months and past six months. All the transactions are entered in computerized systems in order to calculate the positions for all the dates of the delivery, gains and losses. Continuous analysis of the interest rate environment is necessary to forecast any changes that may impact on the outstanding gaps.

Credit risk. Credit risk refers to the possibility that an outstanding currency position may not be repaid as agreed, due to a voluntary or involuntary action by a counter party. In these cases, trading occurs on regulated exchanges, such as the clearinghouse of Chicago. The following forms of credit risk are known:

1. Replacement risk occurs when counterparties of the failed bank find their books are subjected to the danger not to get refunds from the bank, where appropriate accounts became unbalanced.

2. Settlement risk occurs because of the time zones on different continents. Consequently, currencies may be traded at the different price at different times during the trading day. Australian and New Zealand dollars are credited first, then Japanese yen, followed by the European currencies and ending with the U.S. dollar. Therefore, payment may be made to a party that will declare insolvency (or be declared insolvent) immediately after, but prior to executing its own payments.

Therefore in assessing the credit risk, end users must consider not only the market value of their currency portfolios, but also the potential exposure of these portfolios. The potential exposure may be determined through probability analysis over the time to maturity of the outstanding position. The computerized systems currently available are very useful in implementing credit risk policies. Credit lines are easily monitored. In addition, the matching systems introduced in foreign exchange since April 1993 are used by traders for credit policy implementation as well. Traders input the total line of credit for a specific counterparty. During the trading session, the line of credit is automatically adjusted. If the line is fully used, the system will prevent the trader from further dealing with that counterparty. After maturity, the credit line reverts to its original level.

Dictatorship risk. Dictatorship (sovereign) risk refers to the government's interference in the Forex activity. Although theoretically present in all foreign exchange instruments, currency futures are, for all practical purposes, excepted from country risk, because the major currency futures markets are located in the USA. Hence, traders have to realize that kind of the risk and be in state to account possible administrative restrictions.

Charts for the technical analysis

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Kinds of prices and time units. Charts for the technical analysis are being constructed in coordinates price (the vertical axis) time (the horizontal axis). The following kinds of currency prices represented on charts are being distinguished on Forex:
* open - a price at the beginning of a trade period (year, month, day, week, hour, minute or a certain amount of one from these units);
* close - a price at the end of a trade period;
* high - the highest from prices observed during a trade period;
* low - the lowest from prices observed during a trade period.

Providing the technical analysis one uses charts for different time units from 1 year or more till 1 minute. The bigger is a time unit applied for the chart plotting the bigger is a time span to analyze price movements and to determine the major trend by means of the chart. For the short trading charts for less time units are more suitable.

Kinds of prices and time units. Charts for the technical analysis are being constructed in coordinates price (the vertical axis) time (the horizontal axis). The following kinds of currency prices represented on charts are being distinguished on Forex:
* open - a price at the beginning of a trade period (year, month, day, week, hour, minute or a certain amount of one from these units);
* close - a price at the end of a trade period;
* high - the highest from prices observed during a trade period;
* low - the lowest from prices observed during a trade period.

Providing the technical analysis one uses charts for different time units from 1 year or more till 1 minute. The bigger is a time unit applied for the chart plotting the bigger is a time span to analyze price movements and to determine the major trend by means of the chart. For the short trading charts for less time units are more suitable.

Line chart. The line chart is plotted connecting single prices for a selected time period. The most popular line chart is the daily chart. Although any point in the day can be plotted, most traders focus on the closing price, which they perceive as the most important. But an immediate problem with the daily line chart is the fact that it is impossible to see the price activity for the balance of the period as well as gaps breakups in prices at joints of trade periods. Nevertheless, line charts are easier to visualize. Also, technical analysis goes well beyond chart formation; in order to execute certain models and techniques, line charts are better suited than any of the other charts.

Bar chart. The bar chart consists from separate histograms. To plot a histogram in coordinates price time the points responding to high, low, open and close prices for a time period analyzed should be marked on the one vertical bar. The opening price usually is marked with a little horizontal line to the left of the bar; and the closing price is marked with a little horizontal line to the right of the bar. Bar charts have the obvious advantage of displaying the currency range for the period selected. An advantage of this chart is that, unlike line charts, the bar chart is able to plot price gaps. Hence, it is impossible to see on a bar chart absolutely all price movements during the period.

Candlestick chart. The candlestick chart is closely related to the bar chart. It also consists of four major prices: high, low, open, and close. In addition to the common readings, the candlestick chart has a set of particular interpretations. The latter is possible thanks to the convenient visual observation of that chart.

The opening and closing prices form the body (jittai) of the candlestick. To indicate that the opening was lower than the closing, the body of the bar is left blank. Current standard electronic displays allow you to keep it blank or select a color of your choice. If the currency closes below its opening, the body is filled. In its original form, the body was colored black, but the electronic displays allow you to keep it filled or to select a color of your choice. The intraday (or weekly) direction on a candlestick chart can be traced by means of two "shadows": the upper shadow (uwakage) and the lower shadow (shitakage). Just as with a bar chart, the candlestick chart is unable to trace every price movement during a period's activity.

Forex Glossary

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Here are some of the most common terms used in FOREX trading.

Ask Price ¨C Sometimes called the Offer Price, this is the market price for traders to buy currencies. Ask Prices are shown on the right side of a quote ¨C e.g. EUR/USD 1.1965 / 68 ¨C means that one euro can be bought for 1.1968 UD dollars.

Bar Chart ¨C A type of chart used in Technical Analysis. Each time division on the chart is displayed as a vertical bar which show the following information ¨C the top of the bar is the high price, the bottom of the bar is the low price, the horizontal line on the left of the bar shows the opening price and the horizontal line on the right of bar shows the closing price.

Here are some of the most common terms used in FOREX trading.

Ask Price ¨C Sometimes called the Offer Price, this is the market price for traders to buy currencies. Ask Prices are shown on the right side of a quote ¨C e.g. EUR/USD 1.1965 / 68 ¨C means that one euro can be bought for 1.1968 UD dollars.

Bar Chart ¨C A type of chart used in Technical Analysis. Each time division on the chart is displayed as a vertical bar which show the following information ¨C the top of the bar is the high price, the bottom of the bar is the low price, the horizontal line on the left of the bar shows the opening price and the horizontal line on the right of bar shows the closing price.

Base Currency ¨C is the first currency in a currency pair. A quote shows how much the base currency is worth in the quote (second) currency. For example, in the quote - USD/JPY 112.13 ¨C US dollars are the base currency, with 1 US dollar being worth 112.13 Japanese yen.

Bid Price ¨C is the price a trader can sell currencies. The Bid Price is shown on the left side of a quote - e.g. EUR/USD 1.1965 / 68 ¨C means that one euro can be sold for 1.1965 UD dollars.

Bid/Ask Spread ¨C is the difference between the bid price and the ask price in any currency quotation. The spread represents the broker's fee, and varies from broker to broker.

Broker ¨C the intermediary between buyer and seller. Most FOREX brokers are associated with large financial institutions and earn money by setting a spread between bid and ask prices.

Candlestick Chart - A type of chart used in Technical Analysis. Each time division on the chart is displayed as a candlestick ¨C a red or green vertical bar with extensions above and below the candlestick body. The top of the extension shows the highest price for the chart division and the bottom of the extension shows the lowest price. Red candlesticks indicate a lower closing price than opening price, and green candlesticks indicate the price is rising.

Cross Currency ¨C A currency pair that does not include US dollars ¨C e.g. EUR/GBP.

Currency Pair ¨C Two currencies involved in a FOREX transaction ¨C e.g. EUR/USD.

Economic Indicator ¨C A statistical report issued by governments or academic institutions indicating economic conditions within a country.

First In First Out (FIFO) ¨C refers to the order open orders are liquidated. The first orders to be liquidated are the first that were opened.

Foreign Exchange (FOREX, FX) ¨C Simultaneously buying one currency and selling another.

Fundamental Analysis ¨C Analysis of political and economic conditions that can affect currency prices.

Leverage or Margin ¨C The ratio of the value of a transaction to the required deposit. A common margin for FOREX trading is 100:1 ¨C you can trade currency worth 100 times the amount of your deposit.

Limit Order ¨C An order to buy or sell when the price reaches a specified level.

Lot ¨C The size of a FOREX transaction. Standard lots are worth about 100,000 US dollars.

Major Currency ¨C The euro, German mark, Swiss franc, British pound, and the Japanese yen are the major currencies.

Minor Currency ¨C The Canadian dollar, the Australian dollar, and the New Zealand dollar are the minor currencies.

One Cancels the Other (OCO) ¨C Two orders placed simultaneously with instructions to cancel the second order on execution of the first.

Open Position ¨C An active trade that has not been closed.

Pips or Points ¨C The smallest unit a currency can be traded in.

Quote Currency ¨C The second currency in a currency pair. In the currency pair USD/EUR the euro is the quote currency.

Rollover ¨C Extending the settlement time of spot deals to the current delivery date. The cost of rollover is calculated using swap points based on interest rate differentials.

Technical Analysis ¨C Analysis of historical market data to predict future movements in the market.

Tick ¨C The minimum change in price.

Transaction Cost ¨C The cost of a FOREX transaction ¨C typically the spread between bid and ask prices.

Volatility ¨C A statistical measure indicating the tendency of sharp price movements within a period of time.

Forex Trading Education - The London Open Checklist

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A thorough Forex trading education must include an understanding of the effect market timings can have on trading and liquidity.

One of the most active periods of the day is from the time the London market opens. Often around that time good trading opportunities will appear.

As part of your Forex trading education, learn to analyze market conditions around London open and begin to recognize good setups.

The following questionnaire and checklist will help.

A thorough Forex trading education must include an understanding of the effect market timings can have on trading and liquidity.

One of the most active periods of the day is from the time the London market opens. Often around that time good trading opportunities will appear.

As part of your Forex trading education, learn to analyze market conditions around London open and begin to recognize good setups.

The following questionnaire and checklist will help.

London Open Preparation

About 15 to 30 minutes before London open check the answers to these questions:

- Are the MACD indicators on the 4 hour and 1 hour charts in agreement? If they are not going in the same direction be very careful!

- Is there MACD divergence on the 4 hour, 1 hour, or 15 minute chart? Look for other clues to confirm that price may go in the direction of MACD divergence.

- On the 4 hour chart what is the overall trend?

- Do a Fibonacci calculation on the last swing high and low and see if price is pulling back to an optimum retracement level or whether it is reaching a key extension level.

- Note price in relation to the 200 EMA (Exponential Moving Average) on the 4 hour, 1 hour and 15 minute charts. Is price bucking the trend? In other words, is price above the 200 EMA on the 4 hour and 1 hour chart but below it on the 15 minute? Then be prepared for price to go long at some stage. (Draw the opposite conclusion if price is below the 200 EMA on the 4 hour and 1 hour chart but above it on the 15 minute chart.)

- Are any Economic Reports imminent?

- As the candle closes on the 15 minute chart at London open, do you see any distinctive candle patterns such as tweezers, or doji's or hammers indicating price exhaustion?

- If I entered a trade right now in a particular direction, what would be the risk and where would I place my stop?

Within a few minutes of London open, if you see a number of factors converging from the analysis above, make a decision one way or the other:

- trade

- wait for clearer signals or a better entry point

Carrying out an analysis in this way each day at London open will do much to increase your Forex trading education.

It will make you aware of what is happening on the charts and in the marketplace and help you to arrive at conclusions.

There is no magic formula involved with Forex trading education. Put simply, successful Forex trading is the result of years of hard work, study, practice, and experience often gained through painful trading scenarios.

Eventually the newer trader learns mental discipline, and how to control the emotions - probably the biggest part of a Forex trading education.

Practice a procedure like the one above day after day and begin to see some progress as you get nearer the time you make profits consistently from currency trading.