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Residual income is when you do the work one time and get paid forever.
Sounds great… huh?

It is passive, recurring income that comes to you every month or time
or certain thing happens.

Think about this - If you work on hourly basis for 2 hours and get paid
of say… $100. You don’t get any backend income on your 2 hours
hard work. Your profit is just $100.00 onetime.

If you work the same 2 hours on some of the projects that are around
or your own, you will be paid continuously month after month. So if you
get paid $20 every month , your profits will be $240 per year.

This means multiple payments of $20 every month will be always profitable
than one time payment of $100. This is the charm of the
residual income programs.

Every online business person needs to follow this principle to start
earning residual incomes.

Here are a few of the ways you could be earning residual profits in
your business:

1. Membership site - If you have your own membership site, you will be
paid every month by your members. No need to sell again and again to them.

2. Affiliate Programs - There are hundreds of affiliate programs on the
net. Choose wisely before expecting your reasonable residual income.

Your affiliate product should offer you atleast 30% of the product prize.
If your affiliate product is good and with your effort, certainly you will
be profited by the affiliate programs.

Most of the people join in every affiliate program and advertise for few
days and quit and join in another program. This will be pure waste of
time. So try to concentrate on few selected programs.

3. eBooks - Yep…Another way of getting residual income. Whether free
ebooks or ebooks with resale rights or ebooks for their personal use, once
they go with your name and web site links means, they will send you constant
traffic to your web site.

After keeping links, always check them whether working are not.

4. Sell a product and offer upgrades for a minimum fee: This is another
way of getting residual income. If your product needs to be upgrade, you
can do that at specific intervals with minimum fee.

At these situations, your initial product prize should be reasonable. Otherwise
nobody will buy a high prized product that needs to pay for upgrades too.

5. Certain businesses: Like web hosting business. Once you get a customer
means, you will get everymonth payment from him. Some other businesses
like offering merchant accounts, hosting forums, shoping carts etc also produce
regular monthly income.

Conclusion: These are only few ideas on getting residual income.You can think of
your own way of getting it on your specific product.

No matter whether you started your online business few months back or today…
Always try to get something from it in the coming years.

Radhika Venkata (c)

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“Link Spam” is a growing threat to the Internet as a whole. One
of the most powerful concepts introduced by the Internet is a
non-geographic, interest-bound system of communities. The blogs,
guestbooks, forums, and wikis that you frequent are all
locations where you can contribute to and learn from a body of
knowledge previously unavailable. Unfortunately, the same
openness of these communities leaves them vulnerable for the
growing threat of link spam.

Link spam is a growing method used by “black hat” search engine
optimizers to improve their search engine rankings by acquiring
huge quantities of links back to their sites. Using automated
programs to cycle through long lists of blogs, wikis, forums,
etc. these programs automatically post to these locations with
links back to their sites in the content. Below, I address a few
of these types of spam, and the best available solution.

Blog Spam: Blog spam is perhaps the most notorious and common
method of link spam today. There are, however, multiple types of
blog spam to deal with, although there is a common denominator.
The two most common types of blog spam are comment spam and
trackback spam. Comment spam is perhaps the most obvious type of
spam. Comment spam occurs when unmoderated comments are posted
to a blog entry with dubious links included. Comment spam can
easily be automated, even through logins and, sometimes,
CAPTCHAs. Trackback Spam is a little more complicated.
Trackbacks are a method of content amalgamation - letting
authors know of other interesting information on the web
relating to their article. By automating a trackback request, a
black hat search engine optimizer can get your blog to post a
link back to the black hatter’s website

Forum Spam: Forum spam has two methods as well. The most common
is forum post spam. In forum post spam, users post large numbers
of comments in an automated fashion with links either included
in the content or in the footer. Unless the forum is closely
moderated, these types of posts get published and indexed by the
search engines, improving the rankings of the blackhatters site.
Profile Spam is another new form of forum spam. In profile spam,
the blackhatter needs only to create a login for the forum, with
the link listed in the profile, for them to acquire the backlink
they want. By automating this procedure, they can acquire links
off of your site without ever posting at all to the forum.

Guestbook Spam: Guestbook spam is the oldest trick in the book.
Useless entries like “I like your site, here is mine: link”,
fill up defenseless guestbooks across the web. While the search
engines have done a decent job to stop counting guestbook spam,
it is still prevalent and going strong. Like the other types of
spam listed above, there is a common thread that makes them easy
to capture and remove.

Wiki Spam: Wiki spam is the newest kid on the block. Wikis allow
almost anyone to edit the content of a page. If a crafty black
hatter can hide the link into a wiki page (especially those that
allow for HTML and CSS), their job is done. Automating this
procedure is particularly easy as well, as most wikis do not
require a login and, even worse, accessing each edit page
requires a simple url change. Furthermore, many wikis allow for
page creation on-the-fly without moderation. This is an
incredibly easy way to get a lot of links onto your Wiki without
your permission.

There is hope though. The common thread between all link spam is
just that - links. If a link spammer cannot acquire a lot of
links, they have failed. Thus, the solution is an internet-wide
throttle on user-submitted link acquisition. Sounds complicated
eh? Well, it is not. LinkSleeve: http://www.linksleeve.org, a
free, XML-RPC based system already works with a large number of
the most popular systems out there to prevent link spam.
Furthermore, because it is platform independent and uses the
XML-RPC standard, it can be integrated into almost any software,
period. There is even an integration with Blogger to prevent
Blogger Spam. LinkSleeve is a community wide approach to
fighting Link Spam, and because of its ubiquitous availability,
it is most capable of addressing the issue on an internet wide
level.

Most people don’t know it, but headlines are the most important factor in any pay per click affiliate site. Headlines impact directly on how many clicks you will end up getting and what your earnings will be at the end of the day.

Pay Per Click Affiliates will spend hours adjusting their ads and researching the most valuable Adsense or Overture keywords. Then they will spend hours of the remaining time ensuring that they maximize on the traffic heading to their pay per click affiliate site. They will then proceed to take a few hurried seconds to decide on their headlines.

Big mistake. A change of headline can multiply the readership of an article, post or web page by a staggering 100 per cent or more. What this means is that it hardly matters what content you’ve had written or how good it is, if the headline does not do its’ job. The first job of a headline is to ensure that as many people as possible read your article. They will hardly have an opportunity to click on your ads if they never make it to the page. Once your visitors are at your pay per click affiliate site, your headlines are also what will decide whether you’ll hardly get any clicks or if you’ll get people clicking feverishly at your ads.

In fact the power of your headlines starts right from the search engine results page. It is fairly common to see sites that for example, rank 10th on a page receive many more visits than sites that ranks first on the same page, simply because of a more attractive headline. It’s all in the headline. Your pay per click affiliate earnings depends more on headlines than you could ever imagine.

Your Headline Should Only Pick Out People You Can Interest In Your Pay Per Click Affiliate Subject

Headlines that hardly get clicks, let alone enough readers are the general ones. There is little doubt that this is one of the most common mistakes made by pay per click affiliates when it comes to writing headlines. The tendency most people have is to write the sort of headline that will attract as many people as possible across as wide a spectrum as possible. Usually this effort to attract everybody ends up attracting nobody.

Instead your headlines should tightly focus on exactly the kind of people you know will be interested in the content provided. Pay per click affiliate programs makes this easier because of the importance of using keyword-rich articles. Still a great effort should be made to interest the target group you have in mind, as much as possible with your headline. Every effort should be made to narrow the focus of your headline as much as possible.

A clear sign that your headlines are too general is when you find that most of your visitors tend to spend only a few seconds at your pay per click affiliate site. This is a clear sign that they get there only to find that the content is not what they were looking for, the headline was somewhat misleading.

Your Content Provider Needs To Spend Lots of Time On His Pay Per Click Affiliate Headlines, Your Earnings Depend On Them

This is the reason why you or your low cost content provider should spend a lot of time on your pay per click affiliate site headlines. This writer usually writes out several headlines to the same article, before and after writing out the content. I will then go back and spend time adjusting and changing the headlines until I decided on the one headline that I feel will be the most effective. I usually do the same for my clients and also for my own pay per click affiliate articles.

Headlines Should Create More Hunger And More Pain Than The Pay Per Click Affiliate Article Can Satisfy

This is the most important pay per click affiliate headline secret. Just analyze for a minute the reason why somebody would want to click at your pay per click affiliate ad. It is the same reason that folks click on the same pay per click ads when they appear next to search engine results. They are usually seeking even more information than has been provided by the search engine.

So an effective strategy to use with articles is to create such a deep hunger for even more information on the part of your readers that they will feverishly click on your pay per click affiliate ads in search of it. All this starts with the headline of course.

I am not saying that you should provide only sketchy and inadequate information. If you do this, nobody will spend time at your site. Instead you should provide such valuable articles that have such precious insights that you create a hunger for more knowledge in your readers.

Your pay per click affiliate headlines should make readers aware of their “pain” or “headache” in the form of inadequate information. The more “pain” in which visitors to your site are in, the more clicks they will execute on the pay per click affiliate ads.

Christopher Kyalo is a successful online writer and entrepreneur. Visit his blog Pay-per-click affiliate secrets blog for another interesting article like this one. He can be reached at strongwallafrica at yahoo.com