We are looking at 4 essential elements needed to make money with your blog.

Where there are no visitors, there is no money. Traffic will depend on how well you communicate the existence of your content or how well you promote your blog. Some of the most used ways to bring visitors to our blog are email, search engine optimization, aggregators, social networking, wod to mouth. In short: all means of communication are good to make people aware of our blog or a blog post.

While the first task of your content is to be noticed by search engines and spiders in order to be indexed and listed in the most appropriate way, the second task is to provide your reader content of interest and value.

The indexing and listing makes it possible for people to find your posts when they search for information, solutions, benefits or for whatever they may type into a search box.

Once they are on your site, the quality of you content will decide on your success; it can build trust, inspire authority and most importantly, it can trigger people to help you promote your blog by sharing the post or URL with friends.

As a publisher, you want to optimize the mix of content and advertising. Many studies exist about how much space to allocate to ads and where to place commercial content. In fact there are no general rules as the optimization will depend on your topic and targeted readership and what your visitors expect (and are used to).

One rule however seems to make its way: don’t exaggerate! Too high density of ads annoys your visitors, namely if they came to your site for its content. A few well placed ads are more efficient than a page displaying ads and pop-ups all over the screen.

This is the technical aspect of your venture. A website is a publication and you are a publisher. Your Publishing framework can help you to better promote you content and to display content to your audience in a more attractive and eye catching way. The framework is also responsible for the first impression based on your choices for a layout and style  (colors, images, graphics, fonts and so on).

Blog for Money

You framework is the technical back bone of your site as well. It can contain all sorts of features which automate processes and make your life easier. Your advertising features and mechanisms can be part of the framework and run on a set and forget base.

There are many ways to display ads or to add commercial content to your site. We will post about a whole array of means at your disposal in our next post.

We will spend the coming week-end at the Ycademy Online Seminar where we will build a Framework which is optimized for delivering ads to our target audience. We will report about the event next week.

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Is your shop ranking on Google Top 10? Under a relevant keyword?

Can Search Engine Users find your shop on Google Top 10 when looking urgently for a product?

Semiomantics has been tuning sites for top 10 performance for years and while things become more complex online, a new Content and Ads delivery system which can be used even by a complete newbie has been developed based on the huge experience gained over time and from daily practice.

On June 30 the new Script, YORGOO Booster, will be officially released to the public. However we will train a handful online marketers, newbies and pros during the coming week-end to understand Search Engine Marketing and the use of the new script.

The Ycademy Online Seminar, taking place this coming week-end will deal with YORGOO Booster and with all the elements it can transport and deliver right to the Top of Google.

You will be amongst the first owners of a new kind of a marketing web site.

You will be granted 100% resell rights to this unique product.

And of course you may gain some additional knowledge about Online Marketing and Publishing.

Tickets cost $50 (with the usual discounts for Ycademy pros)

There is only a small number still available (below 5 as far as I am aware of).

There will never be any additional resellers for this product, guaranteed.

Tickets available from HERE

(Contact Bianca Gubalke: bianca (at) ycademy.com

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If you don’t need a whole shop, here is a simple solution to create quickly a shopping cart on your site where interested visitors may order multiple products. This cart can be added to posts, pages, widgets or anywhere in the php script.

This is a demo test only! Please read this post at YorgoNestoridis.com to see the demo.

Service 1
[wp_cart:Service 1:price:100:end]

Service 2
[wp_cart:Service 2:price:200:end]

Service 3
[wp_cart:Service 3:price:300:end]

Cart and Check out

Click on one or more buttons and check your cart on top of the page. You can manage orders and check out with PayPal.

The feature can come in handy even if it may need a tweak to automate fulfillment.

• simple shopping cart to email address

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We have reached the stage of implementation and we will start by building a Business Portal. Different considerations will guide our choices.

In view of the Target Market (South Africa) we will register and set up a local domain for the main business web site. The site will have a portal function and link to the various business branches represented each by its own website.

Structured portals or directories usually are not very Search Engine efficient. For this reason we use CMS Software with high publishing power.

A second important issue concerns local partners. We want to provide prospects as from the beginning with local contacts.

We have registered the domain yorgoo.co.za. As YORGOO is our Brand in the global market, used to make advanced technology available to a large public and to provide free services, we want to profit from eventual synergies resulting from the established reputation of YORGOO Enterprises.
The Website will be built on a customized Semiomantics Business Site Script. We are using an adapted magazine type layout for user friendly navigation and we will add some niche sites lodged on sub-domains for targeted publication (Semiomantics YORGOO Blaster and the future YORGOO Booster type of sites).

To start with, we will work with two extremely competent Partners in South Africa. Bianca Gubalke, living in Noordhoek, off Cape Town and Hanno Coetzee from the Garden Route Area. We will profile our partners in a later post.

Besides YORGOO.co.za,we have registered and put under construction a few other domains and sites such as Garden Route Publishing, Hosting South Africa and a few others which are not yet online and which we will list here as soon as available to enable you to follow the progress.

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YN — Working from Home is an important keyword on all big search engines. On Google there are over 100 million search returns on Working from Home. If you add to it the word “news” and make it “Working from Home News”, Google returns over 400 Million results.

Interestingly on the News related Working from Home term, there are next to no advertisers. Work from Home and Working from Home are the privileged keywords of the traditional Home Business Industry.

Zo Nicholas’ Publication, Working from Home News is full of interesting content for Work from Home Aficionados. One of the reasons is in the fact that Zo has a huge experience and knowledge which she is willing to share on her site.

Lack of knowledge, lack of experience means loss of time and money. Most home business developers commit the same errors, namely when it comes to online marketing. Take the shortcut and pass by Zo’s site to improve your online performance, it’s worth while.

Working from Home News on Google

(Note there are 441,000,000 search returns and we aim top 10)

One of the most important tips I found on Working from Home News is: start working on your own visibility instead of just booking Google Ads. Google Ads are a great tool, however they are extremely expensive when they are not accompanied by an attractive landing site. Note: it’s not a landing page but a landing site!

Lead generation has changed over time and while a simple pop-up with an ‘opt-in here’ box was enough a few years ago, we need today more sophisticated tools and environments which inspire confidence and trust.

What the Feedback records do for EBay sellers, do Google rankings and listings for most other environments. A bought spot on Google’s top 10 page of the targeted keyword can never be the equivalent to an authority site on the organic top 10 listing on the same page.

Replicated landing pages have become about useless and yet some people have only realized since we have an economic crises that you need a landing page at all instead of sending people directly to a product or business page. Sorry to say, but you have missed the train and you are just about to miss the next train.

Today the world is shaped by social networks. Users of Facebook and such like are used to a certain comfort and an attractive interactive environment, for most the only way to imagine socializing online. Sending Facebook users to a landing page with traditional “work from home fire your boss” slogans is inefficient and a waste of time. To the contrary, it’s destructive when it comes to the relations you have built in your social network.

We have been running permanent tests on advertising online for over 5 years and from our own experience we know that advertising is not a one-way road and it is not a war you can fight with just one arm.

Nowadays we need to combine our strategies in a much more thought through way to use our advertising dollars in the best possible way. The single one strategy with an increasingly growing importance is your personal authority outside of the social network environment. Business is not done and deals are not closed on social networks but in your own external environment. Your website must therefore beat Facebook anytime!

Social Media Marketing is about meeting people in social networks and getting them out of the social network to close a deal. It only works if you provide an inspiring site, a site which confirms and builds additional trust and confidence.

Objective bench marks about how trustworthy you are, are nonexistent except if you can show positive feedback (blog comments), independent editorials about you on Google (looking up the site owners name on Google, the suggested business opportunity’s company name and related topics) and yet that is just an indication. You may try to look at performance records, visible presence, and more and yet nothing will ever equal the personal experience people have with you by dealing with you OVER TIME.

Having said the above, we can deduct that online you have many entries, many places you go to and you communicate through; but in the end you have only one reputation to lose. The same is true for your business opportunity. Mixed reputation records are the best killer of a business online; would you buy from a seller with a positive feed-back record of 70% only on EBay?

Or, would you join a business where 3 out of the top 10 Google entries talk about spam, lawsuits or fraud? You probably would not even join if 90% only are flawless. Think about EBay’s standards where over 98% of the feed backs need to be positive to keep Power Seller status.

How about if Google creates even a recommended search category for Scam under your business name, or if you are claiming to sell ‘natural’ food supplements and Google comes up with a recommended search for side effects or another doubt inspiring category ‘does it work’?

Would you sign up with a company corresponding to the above profile? Seriously?

Herbalife Image on Google

My point is not to judge Herbalife here or to take position about the quality of any products or business opportunities. My point is: the internet is one big town and you have only one reputation to preserve or to lose. If you are suffering from a mixed image, your reputation is harmed. Some companies and individuals do not attach enough importance to their image online and wonder why their popularity online is not what it appears to be in a closed vase environment offline.

Would you want to associate your name with a company or business opportunity which shows signs of hampered reputation on the most simple Google search returns? Can you afford to spend your time and money to fix the reputation of your Merchant and to convince your prospects and customers that what they see online ‘is not true’; can you really afford it?

The real issue is that Your Reputation and the perceivable reputation of the Business you represent or are a distributor of will impact directly on your sales figures. Herbalife is probably not an online opportunity, otherwise they would take care of their online reputation. The strategy is: grab people online and drag them to a low-tech one to one environment to close deals. The internet in any case would not help here as transparency becomes a stumbling block.

The way to sell is by selling yourself first. Don’t count on anyone else. Your reputation sells and with your reputation you sell anything! A modern Working from Home enterprise has the absolute freedom to choose sell any product or service to sell: sales are linked to YOUR relationships and less on the reputation of the merchant or the product you sell. The power is on your side not on the merchant: I therefore cannot understand, how so called business opportunities where you have to pay for a license, can survive, if elsewhere the wind has turned long ago to a situation where you are paid to promote a company or their products instead of having to pay for doing so.

Working from Home is a brilliant idea. Be proud to belong to this industry; the sales power is with you and depends on the relationships you are able to build online or offline. The rest is secondary.

Working from Home News will provide you with information, ideas and inspiration, a great site with great content!

Yorgo Nestoridis

PS: Working from Home News is built on YORGOO Press with the aim to offer visitors an interesting, stimulating and interactive (landing) environment.

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Banner Rotator for Semiomantics

I know, you have seen them all and there is nothing exciting about banner rotators … until you see the new Component we use in Semiomantics scripts:

This rotator can be customized for sidebars, posts, pages, headers, footers … you name it.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Semiomantics Flash Components for Ycademy May Seminar

The upcoming Ycademy Seminar is focusing on Flash, Flash Components and user experience enhanced by Flash. The Seminar is designed for Website Designers and Developers, who want to take their skills to the next level. Find out more from HERE.

Flash Components by Semiomantics

Flash is releasing a plethora of flash components this month. While they are originally designed to be used namely with Semiomantics XO and News Cast scripts, they can be used on any website. Check it out in the Semiomantics Shop later this month.

Ycademy Seminar Participants will be introduced to the use of one of the most exciting components. It’s the unique Semiomantics Accordion which in fact is more than just an accordion; it’s also a sideshow, a menu, a slider … most anything you want to make out of it.

Now this is something: you can even test the sideshow by clicking on the button at the bottom right.

The Semiomantics Accordion is probably the best out there since its development is based on the second best :-).

As you see, you can load it vertically or horizontally,  you can modify the number of images, even the effects and much, much more. You see an autoplay version and you can play with the mouse on the images … just try and find out what this script jewel can do for you.

Join tonight’s Call at YorgoTalk to find out more about the Ycademy May Seminar.

PS: The Semiomantics Accordion is included in the Seminar ticket price:-).

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Ycademy Seminar May 29-30, 2010

The use of Flash components in Web Design is popular and increasingly requested by customers. Flash is used to enhance the user experience by adding dynamic content, media and interactivity to a website.

Goals

The Ycademy Seminar will focus on understanding flash basics and Flash Editors and Converters for the purpose of manipulating flash components and to build them into web sites.

Topics and Workshops

1. Introduction to Flash and its use in modern web and media design

2. Flash Pro

The basic features of Adobe Flash Pro CS4 or 5 and Workshop: Symbols, Graphics, Actions – Workshops

3. Flash Components

Basics and Workshop: add a flash component to Semiomantics XO.

4. Flash Template Editing

Basics and Workshop: Edit Semiomantics Evolution.

5. PowerPoint to Flash Conversion

Workshop: automate the conversion using a PowerPoint plug-in and embed the result in a blog post.

6. Flash Site Builder

Workshop: After the intro builder, let’s expand the exercise to build a flash website.

Prerequisites:

Flash Pro CS4 or CS5

Materials

All materials, scripts and literature are included.

Price

Tickets: $80

Ycademy Pros: $25  (the Discount code will be sent to you)

Please Register from HERE

After registration, contact Bianca (bianca -at- ycademy.com) to get download links for the course materials as they become available.

Information:

Join our call tonight to get more details.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Embed PowerPoint in Flash

While we are focusing on Flash these days, we are also interested in tools which can make our life easier, namely PowerPoint to Flash converters.

Ycademy May Seminar Participants will be playing with an advanced PowerPoint to Flash converter. The below sample is how a light and relatively low quality Flash PowerPoint looks like.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Create your First Flash Document Tonight

At tonight’s Ycademy Flash Workshop we will finish the intro to Flash and create a first animated Flash Document.

We will continue working with the Live Conference tonight; please login from HERE.

We will create step by step a similar flash as above tonight.

Download the above sample files from HERE.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.