Unfortunately the turnaround on applying to some of the programs and actually being accepted is quite a long time in terms of the internet, but this is to be accepted when dealing with financial institutes, my blog has been rejected a few times but hopefully with some content it will be accepeted soon. With only one post there isnt much oppurtunity to gather much search engine traffic and the only way feasible is to target keywords with a ppc campaign.

Unfortunately a l0t of the programs that you deal with on commission junction and similar sites have people operating paid search programs through cpc/ppc and they dont allow you to promote on certain keywords and this just makes your job harder but luckily enough, if you know what your doing it will be easy enough.

But once i do get a few more programs i will start to build hardlinks and submit the blog to more places and hopefully the big bucks adsense and commision from sales will be coming my way.

This was just a short update in case you where wondering why i had not posted about the uk finance blog.

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So ya got your brilliant new domain name picked. where to purchase it? well i came across a great offer for you to grab yourself a cheap domain name, not many domain registrars offer a buy one get one free on domain name registrations, its the first time i have heard of such an offer of buy one domain get one free! this would be excellent offer if your registering a lot of domains and you dont want copycat domains or people buying misspelled versions of your domain. This is a great offer which will allow you to buy domains online! I registered follor.com as a kind o a phonetic way of follower, i thought this would be a great name for a social network or a micro blogging service but it never turned out that way so i thought to myself, why not use this domain to create my own blog, which i have done! And i love blogging, love sharing my knowledge to others and hopefully will be able to share even more as this blog grows in popularity!

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Make money with cj.com, i havent posted in a few days and decided to start a new site, with the current finance markets in turmoil and everyone loosing jobs, its a great time to offer loans and cheap finance products so i have started a uk finance blog since am based in the UK. Commission junction offers many affiliate programs in the loans, mortgages and insurance market both here in the UK but also in other countries around the globe. So how are we going to make money online? Well it wont just be with commission junction, we can also run adsense over the blog.

Some of the top paying keywords are-

for insurance-
van insurance quotes uk $23.75
uk life insurance $21.07
car insurance co uk $18.51
motor insurance co uk $18.12
uk insurance quotes $17.37

for mortgages-
uk remortgages $27.34
uk remortgage $22.43
self cert mortgages uk $21.87
bad credit mortgages uk $20.89
best buy mortgages uk $16.36

for loans-
yes loan uk $36.59
secured loan uk $24.79
bad credit mortgage loans uk $24.41
low rate loans uk $23.06
log book loans uk $22.37

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Make a website- to throw away or keep?In this post i will be discussing the art of traffic filtering and how that relates to different types of websites that can be used by online marketers.

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Another tutorial today, this time is to create some nice and effective web buttons in photoshop. This is easy and does add that extra edge to your pages.

Our finished web button

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An essential part of every website is the domain, thinking of a good name to register and name your website is probably the hardest part of the process, luckily there are many domain name suggestion tools out there online. The domain name generator that i have used the most over the years is Nameboy.com and I have also had success with DomainsBot.com but since they only suggest the domain names that is all I use the website for since they tend to be more expensive than other services online. The steps in registering a domain are listed as follows.

1. Choosing the domain name and checking availability, I use namecheap.com to register all my domains as i like their user panel and interface.
2. The next process is registering a domain is selecting how many you want to register, if your site becomes popular, people will register similar domains to yours and try and cash in on your sites popularity. Larger sites register every domain that you could think of
3. Next step in the process is to choose how many years you want to register the domain for, usually i only register the domain for one yar s if the site doesn’t take of i haven’t wasted any money, you can always renew the domain if does become popular
4. When you go to pay for the domain on namecheap.com include the voucher for January 2009 “happy2009″ will entitle you to a domain at the price of $8.81
5. Next step is to setup your hosting, you need to get the name servers for your webs host and once you have registered your domain on namecheap there is a link at the side panel to manage the name servers, you need to change these from the default namecheap servers to your own.

That should be your domain will resolve to your web host, it may take a couple of hours for the servers round the world to refresh. I will update this post with some links to cheap domain registrars when i get them

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For key words targetting with adsense am going to post a list i found of the topkeywords and the average payout with them! I use this list when I am building websites to target which websites will make me money. From domain names to mortgage advice to gambling, these are the ones that pay the most, unfortunately google wont pay out these amounts on new sites until you reach a certain level!

Usually i create the domain or sub domain for the blog or site i am using the term im targetting then create a few posts and run adsense over the top of it. An example would be- domain name- I would create domain-name.follor.com then any related terms would be in the title of the site and post titles.

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When i was working in adult and targeting many different search terms i used sub domains! I was usually building sites to forget about, what i mean i would spend a couple of hours developing a website or setting up a blog with some posts then go of and promote the site, that would be it, i would never update.

This is a technique employed by a lot of people making their income online, but a lot of these guys go and buy and endless amount of domains, i buy one, host it on a shared hosting account with unlimited sub domains. I then would do the same on a different shared hosting account elsewhere which then let me build back links between similar sites.

Heres how I discovered keywords and targeted the search terms.

1. To start with i would go brainstorm the keywords i was targeting- webmaster
2. To help with this i used a tool overture but i cant seem to find it any more but google luckily enough has its own version which is similar- Google keyword tool
3. I then would use this tool to check which keyword or search term got the most terms.
4. Taking this information i would google it and see what the competition was like, if there was none, great! But if the search results where overloaded with pages targeted to this search term it would make it difficult but i would quit.
5. I would create my sub domain and then get to work.
6. If i was going to blog on this site i would upload wordpress and place the search term in the page title and create the categories with the search term in them-

Say skydiving was my search term

• The domain would read something like http://skydiving.follor.com
• The categories that my posts on the blog fell into would be skydiving pics, skydiving stories, skydiving videos, skydiving info and so on
• Also i would include all this in the title “Skydiving pics, info, videos and stories”
• The title of each post would have skydiving in it, an example would be “Skydiving in Ireland” which would fit into all categories
• The final trick is to make sure you have permalinks enable in the wordpress settings to include the name in the URL

Thats it for today, hopefully i have inspired you to how to target keywords and search terms cheaply without having to buy a lot of domains, and by the way i have no interest in skydiving, the term was the first thing that popped into my head while writing this post.

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I thought i would share some of the RSS feeds i regularly read and stay abreast of.

Tech Crunch- great blog for keeping up to date with online business and WEB2

http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch

And since i live in Ireland and need to keep up to date with the European scene as well.

http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunchUK

Also another Irish RSS feed i follow is the web2ireland one-

http://feeds.feedburner.com/web2irelandposts?format=xml

Slashdot- pretty self explanatory- news for nerds

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

Digg- social news and funny stuff

http://feeds.digg.com/digg/news/popular.rss

Y combinator news- startup news and tech articles

http://feeds.digg.com/digg/news/popular.rss

The paradigm shift, excellent blogged maintained by an Internet wonder- Markus Frind, the CEO of plentyoffish.com

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/feed/

This is my daily reading list, everyone who is everyone blogs nowadays and even the micro blogosphere is riddled with Obama and Britney who all got recently hacked, Britney Spears updating us on the size of her lovebox-

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/either-fox-news-had-their-twitter-account-hacked-or-bill-oreilly-is-gay-or-both/

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