Basically each time you link to an external site you are giving away some of your sites PR (page rank) as you are voting for that site by giving them a link.

If you spend a lot of time link building for your website or affiliate sites, you don’t want all your hard work to be for nothing, so here is what you need to do to ensure you are not giving away more that just a link.

An example hosting affiliate link

  <a href=”http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=hostingosc” target=”_blank”>Hosting</a>

An example of the same link but with NO FOLLOW

<a href=”http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=hostingosc” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Hosting</a>

When using the no follow tag rel=”nofollow” visitors will still go to the site and you will make your commission, however google will not count the link as an outbound link thus saving you sites precious pagerank.

Thats smart link thinking!

AdSense is easy to set up and if your getting traffic to your site then that should convert nicely into a bit of extra pocket money for you.

If your site is in a common niche you may only get a couple of cents per click, but with enough traffic even the poorest of niches can still make you a few extra $’s a day.

So what if you are getting traffic but not getting any clicks throughs?

Well this was my case with my Dream Interpretation site. i was getting hundreds of visitors a day, about two thousand page views a day and making less than $1 a day

I decided to create a new template for the site more geared up for displaying AdSense ads, I now have a text ad unit near the top and 2 large vertical columns one for a banner and one for text ads.

So far this is working much better and i am now getting around 5x the revenue each day.

It seemed like a lot of work at first but its worth it long term, if you have a wordpress blog its a lot easier you can just upload a new theme, if you are running a 2.3.x wordpress blog and above i recommend having a look at this site as the have links to all compatible 2.3.x themes that are free.

Good luck and happy earning

To create a sitemap first you need to download a wordpress plugin. you can get it from the creators site Here

Once you have downloaded it, unzip and upload to your plugins directory. using FTP got to you root directory then its /wp-content/plugins/

Once uploaded activate it in the wordpress admin / plugins section

Then configure it in wordpress admin / options / XML-Sitemaps

You may also need to upload 2 additional files sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz to the root directory of you wordpess install, you can create them on your desktop as blank files then upload them and CHMOD 777 so the pluging can write to them.

Once you have run the plugin the fist time it will automatically ping Google and other SE’s to notify them of your new sitemap, in the future new posts should automatically get rebuilt into the sitemap.

It is also good to let Google know the location of your sitemap in your google webmaster account, but i will cover that in more detail in the future.

When you write a new blog post and publish it, wordpress automatically pings http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
thus notifying it of a new blog post. If you update your ping list to include the following services. more sites and people will be aware of your new blog post and now you potentially have a better chance of getting more people to visit your blog

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

To update the list go to your wordpress admin section and then go to options / writing
you will see update services at the bottom of the page, copy and paste the above list there.

1. First you must download the plugin from the authors site here
2. Once you have downloaded the plugin, unzip and upload to your plugins directory.
3. Activate the plugin in your wordpress admin / plugins section.
4. Time to create the sitemap page, go to wordpress admin and select write, then write page. Give the title of the page the name sitemap, then for the post go to the code tab and enter:

sitemap code – <!– ddsitemapgen –>

Click on publish and if you have done everything correctly you will now have a new page on you blog called sitemap and it should list all your categories, posts and pages.

The best permalink structure i like to use is this:

/%postname%.html

This will rewrite the url as your post title and give the url the .html extention.

Reason i like this structure, Its a keyword rich URL that is SE’s friendly, Easy to index and good for SERP’s

There are several websites that specialise in automatic link exchange programs, the one i am going to discuss is called receive links.

The reason i prefer this one to other similar sites is because the links are permanent, link placement frequency is better and the paid upgrades are cheaper.

So how does the program work?

You have to go and sign up for a free receive links account, then add your site to your new account, then all you need to do is download 3 files that need to be added to your site and then add a piece of code to your sites footer or other similar file that is used sitewide. You can specify how many links you want to display up to a maximum of 5

You will then be given “points” based on a number of factors, PageRank, Number of pages cached by search engines, points are built up over time so don’t expect to see huge amounts of points straight away, but they do build up quickly.

Once you have your points you can then start to advertise your site/sites. you dont have to advertise the site you are placing ads on, so you can have one site for showing ads and another one or more than one site for promotion.

There are also other features like sending points to other accounts, so webmaster with large sites can rent points to other receive links users and make some $$

Once set up it runs on autopilot, just add new ad’s when needed and new site when you need more points.