A great residual income generator is reselling domains names and web hosting. The reason this is so beneficial is that the customer must pay you annually to keep their domain name or monthly to keep their web hosting account active. Obviously they can pre-pay for a certain period but they still remain your customer.

Domain Reseller Earns $35,000 In One Month

It’s true, a domain name reseller earned over $35,000 just last month reselling domain names, web hosting and other website related services. Obviously this is a top performer that put a lot of work into their website and marketing but it definitely can be done.

This reseller started out small and as time went on he started building a client base that renewed their services which allowed them to earn more in month than some people earn in a year and all they do is market the services.

Resell Domains Through WebsiteSpot.com

WebsiteSpot.com offers a domain reseller option through WebsiteSpot.biz and gives you a pre-defined website already built, all you need to do is login and customize the page.

The great thing is that you don’t even need to support your customers if you choose not to. 24 hour phone and email support is part of the annual fee of $59.99. The is for a basic reseller program and to lower your buy rate on domains, web hosting, etc you can upgrade to the Pro Reseller for $159.99 per year and earn even more.

What You Need To Become A Domain Reseller

As I mentioned, there is an annual fee of $59 to get started which gives you a turnkey website. All you need to do is login and customize the look, enter the information as to where you want your commissions deposited and a few support options.

Then it’s time to start marketing, if you already do any sort of design services this is a great way to monetize the domain names and web hosting that you offer your customers. If you’re just wanting to start a website to make money it’s important to find a niche market to market to so that you’re not competing with the large domain registrars.

Support Options

Lastly to help you get started and make your domain reseller business successful there is a full forum to interact with current resellers along with a weekly online chat for you to share ideas and ask any questions that you may have.

There’s a 30 day money back guarantee and if you happen to have any questions feel free to email me at david@websitespot.com. To learn more feel free to visit WebsiteSpot.biz.

Best regards,
David L.
www.WebsiteSpot.com

This is actually a very simple snippet of HTML code. A hyper link allows you to create a link from a webpage to another webpage in your website or to a completely different website.

Basic Hyperlink

The code to use is:

<a href=”http://www.websitespot.com”>Domain Name Registration</a>

The link would appear as: Domain Name Registration

Creating Hyperlinks To Open In A New Window

If you create a link but would like to open a new browser window once it’s clicked you can simply add a little more code to accomplish this. I’ve highlighted the additional code below.

<a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.websitespot.com”>Domain Name Registration</a>

The link would appear as Domain Name Registration but would open a new window when clicked.

That’s it, if you’re using a WYSIWYG editor such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver you probably won’t need this know this code because you can simply click a button that tells the hyperlink to open in a new window but it certainly doesn’t hurt to know.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com

How Does Selling Advertising Work

If you have a decent amount of traffic to your website it’s probable that there are companies that would be willing to pay you to place a banner add or simply a text link on your website. Generally you’ll find that the companies that want to advertise on your website offer complementary products.

For instance, say your website is a tutorial about making your own website. If you can get a decent amount of traffic to your website it’s likely that you could sell advertising to companies that offer website building software or search engine optimization services.

The reason is that they know that the people that are visiting your website would be more interested in their product or service than if they were to advertise on a website related to cars.

How Much Can You Make Selling Advertising

This question is best answered by the amount of traffic that your website receives. If you get 100 hits a day your pricing would be significantly lower than if your website receives 50,000 hits per day.

The best way to determine pricing is by doing research on websites that currently sell advertising space. To take it a step further, it’d be best to research websites in the same market as the product or service that you offer.

How Is Advertising Billed

There are two main ways to sell advertising, you can either sell it for a flat rate per month regardless of hits to your website.

Another method is CPM, this is ‘cost per thousand impressions’, what this is saying is that you’re going to bill based on the number of times the advertisers ad is displayed.

For instance, say your website gets 50,000 hits per month and you bill at $5.00 cpm. This is saying that for every 1000 impressions (times the ad is displayed) it costs the advertiser $5.00. In this example you would bill the advertiser $250. As you can see the more traffic to your website the more you can make.

Another options is cpc, cost per click, this isn’t a very popular option because the opportunity for click fraud is there so it’s not an option that most advertisers would consider.

Additional Information

If you’d like to read more on selling advertising on your website you can visit a page that I put together with detailed information on how to sell advertising space on your website. You’ll also find a couple of free software options to manage your advertising campaigns.

In my next post I’ll cover selling products online.

Best regards,
David L.
www.WebiteToad.com

What Is Drop Shipping

Drop shipping is a method of selling a companies products without having to invest in buying the products in bulk. The pricing is generally slightly higher than if you were to buy them wholesale but they are still priced to allow you to make a profit.

How Does Drop Shipping Work

Drop shipping works by setting up an account with a company that offers drop shipping. Then you place the products on your website, generally through shopping cart software of some sort. Your visitors then complete the purchase through your website. You’ll need to accept payments online through either a merchant account or even through Pay Pal.

Once the sale is completed you’ll need to notify the drop ship company via the method that they specify. Some companies will want you to email it to them while others will require the order be faxed in or completed on their website.

Once this is done they will fulfill the order that you specified and generally email you a tracking number which you can pass along to your customer.

Benefits Of Drop Shipping

The main benefit of drop shipping is that you have no up-front cost. If you don’t sell anything, you don’t need to pay anything.

Another benefit is that most drop shipments are done anonymously meaning that the companies information is nowhere in the delivered package. This is a benefit because if the customer wants to reorder, they will most likely come back to your website for repeat purchases since they know nothing about the company that actually shipped their order.

Also, one nice thing about drop shipping is that it’s low maintenance. You don’t need to keep inventory, pay payroll or even rent to store all of the merchandise.

Additional Information On Drop Shipping

If you’re interested in reading more on drop shipping companies you can view an entire article that I wrote on making money drop shipping. In the article you’ll find information on locating drop ship companies in additional to common fees that you’ll likely incur.

Best regards,
David L.
www.WebsiteToad.com

What Is An Affiliate Program?

Affiliate programs allow you to make money by referring your website visitors to a specific companies products or services. Most affiliate programs are free and can be setup in about 5 minutes.

After you have completed your registration you’ll be given a unique id within a link to the website for example, www.VendorSite.com/affid=1234. When you make your own website you’ll simply link to the vendors website using this unique URL.

When a visitor to your website clicks on that link a cookie is placed on their computer to ensure that you are given credit for the referral. If the visitor completes a purchase with the vendor you’ll receive a pre-defined percentage of that sale.

Some companies pay you per lead such as mortgage companies. What happens here is if the visitor completes a form or some other lead generating method you are paid for that as well. As I mentioned, you’d run into this will mortgage companies in addition to insurance companies, credit card companies, etc.

Low Startup Cost

As I mentioned, setting up an account as an affiliate is generally free so it’s a great way of making some additional money without having to come up with any sort of money up-front.

If you happen to have a particular subject that’s related to your website you can search for companies that offer affiliate programs and link to them. This is your best option because if your website is related to cars it doesn’t make much sense to have affiliate links to baby gifts.

Additional Information

I have created an ‘how to’ page on making money with affiliate programs if you’re interested in reading information on affiliate marketing and easy ways to manage you’re affiliate campaigns it’s definitely worth reading.

Best regards,
David L.
www.WebsiteToad.com

He’s been a friend of mine for many years so I knew that he knows a lot about Ford Mustangs and he stays up on the latest Mustang trends. I mentioned that he may consider making a blog and adding Google Adsense to it. Once I talked to him about the ease of it and his only investment is $6.95 a year for a domain name and about $4 a month for web hosting he was sold.

We registered the domain name and setup a hosting account and then we installed WordPress on the domain name and found a free WordPress template to give it the feel that he wanted. It took us about 30 minutes to the the blog online.

After that I had him sign up for a Google Adsense account and added the code to a couple of places to his blog. After that he was ready to go and started writing various posts related to Ford Mustangs.

That was about 5 months ago and since then he says that he’s bringing in about $500 a month through his Google Adsense account. It’s not something that he’s going to retire on but as he builds a larger following he’ll start to earn more. Plus it sure helps with the way gas prices are today.

The other thing is that he’s considered starting a couple more blogs and if he can get them to the point where he is now he can make a nice supplemental income for about 1 hour worth of work a day.

What I’m getting at is that it’s very easy and affordable to make money online especially when you can integrate something like Google Adsense onto your blog. It’s free to setup an account and after you go through a short wizard you’ll be given a snippet of code that you can place in your blog.

If you’re interested in reading more on making money with blogs take a look at ProBlogger.net. In my opinion it’s the authority on the internet about how to monetize blogs.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com

In my opinion the best book for SEO is SEO Book. This is the most complete source for optimizing your website for search engines. Aaron Wall, the author, has taken the time to write an entire book on SEO and has done a fantastic job. Realizing that you’re new to website building I would strongly suggest that you spend the $79 for this book as it starts from scratch and build from there.

The great thing is that he tests his theories on his own personal sites and has developed the book based on his results. The great thing is that once you’ve purchased the book he offers a huge selection of free SEO tools to help you with your search engine rankings.

Here’s my personal case study that had me floored. I run the website SteakBrands.com and used to rank very well for my top keywords. Well slowly I started to slide down the top 10 until I was nowhere to be found. I purchased SEO Book and read it cover to cover even though certain parts were very basic. I then registered SteakBrandingIrons.com and built the site based on the information that he suggested.

Well, since I published the new website based on Mr. Wall’s recommendations, I rank in the top 5 of majority of my top keywords as well as number 1 for a ton of other keywords related to steak branding irons. His suggestions took some time to put in place and were very time consuming but in the end I achieved the search engine rankings that I expected.

With all of this said, I wouldn’t refer you to a product that I didn’t stand behind and this is definitely one that I would suggest. Also, Mr. Wall has a blog that he updates just about every day that has great tips for SEO.

My suggestion is to take a look at the SEO Book site and the testimonials. You’ll be very happy that you did!

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
CEO/Founder – www.WebsiteToad.com

For those are unfamilar with an online website builder, it’s an online application that will allow you to build a website without needing to purchase software that needs to be loaded on your computer. You simply visit the login page and everything is there ready for you to make updates from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection.

This is ideal for those who just want to put up an informational site with some text, photos & images related to their business without having to learn all of the HTML involved with building a website we offer Website Tonight.

Online Website Builder Demo:

URL: login.websitespot.com
Username: wssdemo
Password: Wsspassword1

Popular Online Website Builder Features:

1. Step by step setup
2. No HTML needed
3. 100+ Templates
4. Video & Audio Uploads
5. Easily publish changes
6. Click Here For A Complete List Of Features

This will allow you to login and see exactly how easy it is to change templates add images & text as well as publish your website. Once you’ve made some changes & published them you can view your changes at www.WebsiteSpotDemo.com.

The great thing is that you can update the template that you choose at any time and we offer upwards of 100+ templates to choose from. It’s definitely an option for building a website without the struggles of developing a website from scratch.

Another great thing is the built in HTML modules that will allow you to customize your site with HTML if you happen to need to insert HTML code or you’d like to have more control over the look of your site. You won’t find this flexibility with a lot of online website builders so please be sure to take a look at this when you’re testing out our demo.

Please contact me with any questions because I think that once you’ve had a chance to try the demo that you’ll love the online website builder.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com

Search engines are always changing and the competition is becoming more informed so it’s important to visit sites that are dedicated to the subject of search engine optimization. By far, my favorite site in regards to keeping up with the latest search engine trends & releases is definitely SEO Book.

Tip 9: Reciprocal Linking Campaigns

I’m going to write a couple of in-depth posts on linking in the near future but I wanted to at least give you a heads up to again at least let you know that it exists and to get you thinking about it. Reciprocal links are links to another website placed on your site in exchange for links back to your site from theirs. This is a very important method of building link popularity which is an instrumental part of getting high search engine rankings.

It’s actually very simply to do but there are certain things to think about. Basically you come up with an agreement with the webmaster of a website related to your topic and you place a link of your website to their website and in exchange the webmaster places a link back to you.

The most important aspect of reciprocal links is the ‘anchor text’ that’s used to link back to you. For example, you have a website name ChromeWheels.com, you would want the anchor text from the other website to use the anchor text of chrome wheels in the link back to your site. It would appear similar to this: Chrome Wheels. The code would appear something like this <a href=”http://www.chromewheels.com”>Chrome Wheels</a>. This is basically telling search engines that this page is related to chrome wheels.

As far as I know, it’s not important if the link is case sensitive such as ‘chrome wheels’ or ‘Chrome Wheels’. This definitely doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter so I would just request that it be formatted the same with all websites. Also, I request that all links contain the www such as www.chromewheels.com rather than just chromewheels.com.

It’s best to manually contact potential link exchange partners but I use Arelis to manage my link exchange campaigns as you can run a script to see if anyone has removed links to you plus a variety of other features that makes managing a link campaign easy. Again, I would never use it to automate link exchange request emails but it’s a great way to manage your current links.

Again, I’m going to do an couple of in depth posts on reciprocal links but I wanted to at least bring it up.

Tip 9: Meta Tags

In my opinion, as well as many other people, the most important meta tag is the Title tag. This is the tag that displays at the top of your screen and is a very important part of SEO.

A couple of other tags that are used are the Description & Keyword tags. As people have abused them by stuffing them with keywords, related & not related to their website, they have become less effective. With that said, you’d never find a page of mine without these two tags because it definitely won’t hurt, just keep them related to your web page without stuffing them with too much repetition of your keywords.

Here is how a basic meta tag would appear on a web page. I’ll again use the chrome wheels example.

<HTML>
<head>
<title>ChromeWheels.com – Chrome Wheels, Custom Rims and Tires</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”ChromeWheels.com offers the internet’s largest selection of chrome wheels. Shipping discounts available on all chrome wheel and tire packages.“>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”chrome wheels, chrome wheel, custom rims, tires, rims, discount chrome wheels“>
</head>

I’ll save some additional meta tags such as ‘revisit-after’, ‘robots’ & ‘distribution’ for another post but these are definitely the tags that you don’t want to miss when creating your pages.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com

Tip 7: Images & Photos

How often to you revisit websites that don’t spice up their site with images or illustrations? For me, it’s rarely. I like to look at images & photos because it can answer questions without having to read through tons of content.

It’s important to place images on your website but don’t over do it. Many people still use dial-up for their internet connection so it’s important to use images that aren’t to large or exceed 72 pixels/inch. Most monitors don’t resolve more than 72 pixels/inch so you’re just making the images larger for no reason at all.

Another important part of images is the ‘alt’ tag, obviously search engines can’t figure out what an image relates to so it’s important to give your file a descriptive name and use the ‘alt’ tag. A good example of this would be something on the order of <img src=“chrome-wheels.jpg” alt=“Chrome Wheels” />.

To break this down you’re telling the search engine that your image is named ‘chrome-wheels.jpg and the alt tag is another way of describing to the search engines what the image is related to. It’s important to use the alt tag as often as possible because it’s a way of optimizing your web page for search engines.

There is a huge selection of image editing software on the market from free options like Gimp to higher priced editors such Adobe PhotoShop & Adobe FireWorks. I personally use both, I use PhotoShop for editing photos and I use FireWorks for creating and editing images such as banners & buttons. The later two offer advanced features so be sure to research them before making a decision.

Tip 8: Blogs

I’m running long so I’m going to make this short. Blog is short for Web log that consist of regularly updated entries displayed in reverse chronological order. Essentially an online diary or journal. The great thing about blogs is that search engines love blogs because of they are generally updated with new content and generally updated with unique content. You’ll find that almost every single web host offers a blog application with their hosting services.

There are a lot of different options in regards to blogs from hosted versions such as BlogSpot.com to versions that you host under your own domain such as WordPress. I personally use WordPress because I can host it on my own server and there are so many features that you can add to it. By the way, no matter which you choose, blog software generally is free.

You’ll find that we offer WordPress with all of our web hosting accounts as well. One final thing, I’ve covered just a very small area of blogs. In my opinion the best website regarding blogs and how to make money with blogs is at ProBlogger.net. I personally check with ProBlogger.net about 2 – 3 times per week so it’s a great idea to check them out.

In my next post I’m going to cover a couple of SEO, search engine optimization techniques.

Best regards,
David Lalumendre
www.WebsiteToad.com