To my surprise, I managed to achieved a pagerank 2 on my new website in just 2 months. That’s indeed a very encouraging result to me.

In addition, I did things slightly differently compared to my ebusiness blog. I did not spend much time on getting backlinks. I did participate in some blog and comment. That’s the only thing that I did. Plus, I did submit two articles to ezinearticles but that did not give me much backlinks as well.

Another thing I did very differently, I used very few plugin this time round. I did not even generate the Google sitemap. The main plugin that I used is the All in One SEO plugin.

I will post next on what are the specific plugin I used tomorrow.

Internet marketing and making money online continue to generate lots of interest, more and more people are buying products or attend seminars to learn how to start their online business.

However, my experience tells me that do not hope for a quick success because internet marketing takes hard work. You won’t see the money over night or in few days or in few months even. All the headline telling you making thousands in few days are just a marketing hype. In reality, it hardly happen. There are some exception but it only happy for less than 1% by chance.

So, if you really like to make money online, I will suggest you give yourself a year to learn and set up your online business. Plan and arrange time to read, practice and work on the business. Success will come naturally!

Stock Market Produces Millionaires

There is a saying, “Stock market produces the most millionaires”. We are all looking for ways to make more money everyday. Some of us were finding ways to crack the secret using internet marketing or online business. Stock trading can be another new stream of income that you might want to look into as well.

I have been reading many many stock trading books recently. I am now in the midst of organizing those materials and I am also going to make some changes to this blog. What changes am I making? Well, I will be posting more stock trading post on this blog as a new stream of income.

All Investor Waiting for Fed Rate Cut Now.

Is Dow Jones going to Shot Up after annoucement? It will certainly makes many people happy. On the other hand, if Fed do not meet the analyst’s expectation or do not issue a rate cut, will the market tumble?

We will know the result tomorrow.

Finally, remember, to stay tuned to this blog again, I will be posting more secrets on how you can make easy money in the stock market…

I would like to know if the traffic from search engine will be affected if I stopped posting. The answer is NO. It is not affected so much. I still see search engine traffic coming in and also I am seeing my Google image optimization paying off. I am seeing increase on the traffic from Google image.

If you are new to search engine optimization, you must not miss the Google image, it is much simpler to optimize compared to Google search. And you will definitely be delighted to see traffic increase on your site as well. If you like to enjoy Google image traffic, read my tips on Google images SEO for details. It is very simple to follow.

Final note, I like to wish everyone Merry X’mas, enjoy yourself with your families and friends. Of course, I like to wish you earning money online too, if you have not started, maybe it is time to start to enjoy extra stream of income in 2008.

Wikipedia: Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

If you like to earn money online or to bring in more search engine traffic, backlinks are extremely important to indicate the popularity or importance of that website or page. However, links with a “nofollow” tag will stop any PageRank going from the linking page to the page being ranked, however, PageRank is only used by Google. Other search engines might also use “nofollow” for similar purposes.

What are the benefits of backlinks?

The key benefits of backlinks are Traffic and PageRank. If you place your backlinks strategically, it should see some quality traffic coming to your site. By, strategically, I mean the link should be placed on a visible location, a related and popular website. You can either buy a text link or you can also participate in Web2.0 to make your links visible.

PageRank improves your Google search engine position, when people search, your site appears higher up, so the more back links the better. The higher the PageRank on the site that is linking to you the more PageRank it will pass to you.

Do Not Forget Your Anchor Text

You must also put some focus on your anchor text. When you are linking to your website or webpage, use a relevant anchor text that tells people the topic of your website. For example when linking to this site, KPeBiz.com, I would like to be linked as Extra Income Earn Money Online SEO Blog. Search engine picks up links with their anchor texts. So, the more links to my site with anchor text: “Extra Income” or “SEO”, for example, would make my search engine ranking with the term “Extra Income” or “SEO” rank better.

How to Obtain Backlinks?

Now, there are many different ways you can obtain backlinks.

1. Write Articles

Submitting your articles to articles directory such as GoArticles.com, EzineArticles.com, Web Pro News, Site Reference, Article Dashboard, Articles Base. There are many publishers like to use reprint articles, they will come to these directory to source for relevant articles, once they pick up your articles, congratulation, you have a one extra backlinks.

2. Submit to Web Directory

Web directory is another great place you can submit your backlinks. Some are paid service while there are some free service.  Depending on your budget, you can pay for a backlinks for a high quality directory, for example, Yahoo charges $200 for a review of the submission, not quaranteed approval. Of course, it will definitely boost your search engine value if you are listed on Yahoo Directory. There are also many other cheaper service as well, or you can also place some directory for free.

I have worked our a free submission on a PR3 directory with one of my partner, you can read the Free Link Love for details.

3. Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites

Web 2.0 social networking sites are excellent medium to build quality backlinks and search engine likes them. This isn’t very difficult to do and many of the backlinks you can build there are quality one way link, which carries much weights on search engine. You can check out my 141 Web2.0 resource list to see where to find backlinks. You can also download my secret report to teach you exactly how to search for quality and relevant backlinks on these Web2.0 service. The download box is on top of this blog.

4. Forums

Please read my earlier Forum Traffic post to learn how you can skyrocket your forum traffic.

5. Buy text links

Buying links is the one of the easiest way to get backlinks and it is one way link. Great, search engine likes one way links. However, Google doesn’t like link sale or purchased link, if you like to use this service, you must not buy too many at one go to keep under the search engine radar.  it is still very popular.

Special Bonus for You!

Now, you can gain some popularity by having a sitewide backlinks from my blog for free. It is very simple to do, simply follow the instruction on my Link Love post, leave me a comment and you can get a PR3 backlinks for free. You can also have a free listing on a PR3 directory as well,  you can visit my partner site, read Free PR3 Directory Listing Now to get a backlinks or spread this wonderful news to your friends.

Today, I have decided to spread some link love, both on my site and on my partner site. It is very easy to take part!

Free Submission & Listing on PR3 Web Directory

My purpose of setting up this blog is to bring you the latest tips and hints of earn money online and SEO. I need to have more readers to motivate me to continue my research and writing further. Simply subscribe to my RSS feed and you will enjoy a life time listing on my partner site which is a PR3 web directory at Odra-Oder.org

Here’s the step by step instructions to enjoy your Free PR3 Web Directory Listing & Submission:

1. Click on the RSS feed button on top of the page and subscribe the RSS full to your favourite RSS reader.
2. Go to Odra-Oder.org and select your appropriate category, then click on the “Submit Listing” on top menu bar.
3. Fill in your website information and fill in “http://www.kpebiz.com/rssfeed” in the reciprocal link box. The editor will know that you have sign up my RSS and they will approved your listing within 24 hours.

Free Feature Listing on my Blog or Odra-Oder.org

Now, if you like to enjoy more link juice, you can have a free 1 month listing on the feature site space worth $20 or free 1 month listing on the feature listing on Odra-Oder.org worth $10. I am giving 20 spaces for free.

How can you enjoy this feature listing for free?

Here’s the step by step instructions to enjoy your Free Feature Listing:

1. Write a review of my blog or write a post about this Free Link campaign on your website.
2. Include 2 links in your post with anchor text Earn Money Online & SEO Blog & Odra-Oder Web Directory
3. Leave me a feedback on your post.

I have 20 spaces for 20 lucky winners. I will give away the first 10 spaces based on 1st come 1st serve basis. The remaining 10 will be given to the best 10 review or post.

Do it Now to capture the best spot for your backlinks!

If you like to have some link juice, here’s the opportunity. You now can have at least 2 quality backlinks from a PR3 web directory and PR3 blog, so act now and leave me reward you with these back links.

Take note that ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.

So, do not follow my foot step, read this post to find out how to improve your Alexa ranking immediately!!!

What is the Alexa Rank?

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.

The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Alexa Ranking is Not Accurate?

Well, I am sure you have heard people saying that Alexa ranking is accurate, is it true? Yes, it is true that there is bias in using Alexa ranking. The reason being Alexa can only calculate your traffic volume only if you have included the Alexa tracker on your website. That helps Alexa to track your traffic volume. If you do not have the Alexa tracker, Alexa can still add the traffic count if you visitor has Alexa toolbar installed on their browser.

On the internet, let’s face a fact, Alexa toolbar is not that popular and not many people will install Alexa toolbar. Only webmaster or more computer savvy people will install Alexa toolbar for SEO or traffic purposes. Normal web surfer will not bother to install Alexa toolbar. But if you have the Alexa tracker on every pages of your website. Alexa will be able to count the traffic volume more reliably.

Secret 1 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Add a Alexa Tracker on Every Pages

I mentioned earlier that Alexa ranking has a bias. Why is that so, the reason is simple if you understand how Alexa tracks traffic as explained in the earlier paragraph. Alexa ranking tends to track the search volume for website which is more tech savvy people, so, it compares the websites among those with Alexa tracker. If I have a 1 millions visitors a day but I do not have Alexa tracker on my site, you can see a lousy alexa tracking still.

Now, even though Alexa is bias is not totally accurate, it is still the favourite indicator among ads publisher. If you like you sell ads space, the publisher still likes to know your Alexa ranking despite its biaseness.

Now, this comes to marketing, Alexa ranking is simple one of the marketing trick you must use to boost your website or blog value… Do not deny the fact that people just like to see the number even though it is not 100% accurate. This is a number game

Secret 2 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Add a Alexa Redirect

You can use a Alexa Redirect http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=kpebiz.com whenever you are placing a link back to your website. That is another way for Alexa to track the data. However, take note that you do not want to have all you backlinks using the re-direct, then you won’t have backlinks to your own page and that hurts your SEO value. You need to have a balance if you are using this method. Make sure you have a good mix of normal backlinks, deeplinks and also some Alexa redirect links.

Secret 3 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Any Other Methods

Well, I have read many people telling you that to write a review, place a redirect link, buy backlinks on exactseek, digg, stumble. Well, after you have the Alexa tracker on your website, just concentrate your effort to build up your traffic, all visits will be tracked and naturally you will see your Alexa shooting rocket high.

Alexa Ranking Resources

• 7 Proven Strategies for Improving Your Alexa Ranking By Michael Fleischner
• 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank by Dosh Dosh
• How to improve the Alexa rank of a sports blog by SECFootballBlogger
• 15 ways to soar your ranking in Alexa! by Etienne Teo
• 5 Minute How To: Improve Your Alexa Rank by Freshblogger
• How I improved my Alexa rank by Davidairey
• A guide to Alexa Rank by TheSitewriter
• Monetize-your-alexa-ranking by Homeprofitsguide
• How To Increase Alexa Rank by JohnTP.com

P/S: If you have any good Alexa ranking resource, please leave a comment here and I will add on to the list