As a SEO, what qualities should you have? Have you ever thought about this question? You may treat your SEO job as a hobby, because you are not sure whether you can make a living off SEO. If this is your condition, I suggest you changing it as soon as possible if you want to achieve success. You should treat your SEO job as a serious business, in fact, it is a serious business. This is the first quality you should have as a SEO: Treat your job as serious business.

The second quality I think is Do NOT quit what you think is right. This is very important for you. It will determine whether you can adhere it or not, and of course it will determine whether you will succeed or not.

The third quality is Do NOT fear failing or trying new things. Yesterday I read an good interview with Google’s founder Larry Page, the subject of this is interview is How To Change The World. Some of the ideas Larry Page expressed are very useful and important and encourage me. Let’s enjoy them here and you can share what you think about them:

There are a number of barriers in place. Let me give an example. In our first founders’ letter in 2004, we talked about the risk profile with respect to doing new innovations. We said we would do some things that would have only a 10% chance of making $1 billion over the long term. But we don’t put many people on those things; 90% work on everything else. So that’s not a big risk. And if you look at where many of our new features come from, it’s from these riskier investments.

Even when we started Google, we thought, “Oh, we might fail,” and we almost didn’t do it. The reason we started is that Stanford said, “You guys can come back and finish your Ph.D.s if you don’t succeed.” Probably that one decision caused Google to be created. It’s not clear we would have done it otherwise. We had all this internal risk we had just invented. It’s not that we were going to starve or not get jobs or not have a good life or whatever, but you have this fear of failing and of doing something new, which is very natural. In order to do stuff that matters, you need to overcome that.

What do you think now? And are sure you’ve already known what qualities you should have as a SEO? Good! Show me now.

You may already heard that Microsoft Withdrawed Its Bid for Yahoo. Microsoft said yesterday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after it raised its offer by $5 billion but Yahoo rejected it as still too low. Yahoo has a bigger appetite. This is what I predicted at the beginning and it is what I wish.

This is not the whole story, I mean, the game is not in end. The following story is that Microsoft and Yahoo will combine with each other to beat Google in online advertising marketing. So please pay high attention, you Google fans. You know, for we webmasters, Google is a major resourse of our profits. What if Microsoft and Yahoo defeat Google? Have you ever thought about this question? Are you worrying for Google now?

In my opinion, we don’t need to worry about Google. Competition is a good thing, and it is always a good thing. I will make us earn more and let internet become stronger and healthier. You know, internet is big enough to raise all of us. No need to worry about it. This is the thing Google should do, not us. I believe Google will think it carefully and they will take wise action very soon.

What I want to know now is that whether Google will give up Google Page Rank or not, because you know it seems that Google is doing wrong thing on that. I hope they will do some wise change.

Good luck for Google!

Since we’ve already known that Google page rank now means nothing for websites’ authority, so how can we judge whether a website is good or not? Of course you will say that we still have Alexa. Yeah, you are right, but it is only a traffic rank system, it is quite different with Google PR. So is there any other alternatives? I haven’t seen one.

Now I want to know is why Google PR can dominate page rank system for so many years? and why aren’t there any other authoritative page rank systems? This is definitely a shame!

So now think about this question, what can SEO do without Google Page Rank? Shouldn’t we develop some Google PR alternatives?

Now what I am eager to see is someone have ability to launch a Google Page Rank alternative. Can you?

You may have noticed that Google updates Page Rank more frequently than before, now it updates once a month, it updated once every 3 months before. But it seems that Google Page Rank System is now killing Google’s reputation. Why do I say that? Yeah, I have to say that Google Page Rank was a famous rank system, but it is different now. Everything was changed when Google decided to punish websites which sell links last December. I can understand why Google do that, Google wants to keep search engine pure and fair. But they forget one thing, that is, where there is need, there is meet. This is a golden formula, nobody can change it.

Google wants to let webmasters stop selling links on their sites by decreasing their PR manually. I didn’t think it was a good idea to do that when Google first took action, and I predicted that it would destroy Google’s reputation.

Now my prediction comes true. How do I know that? Let’s see an example, my new website www.beautycomes.com is  a very new site, and I haven’t promoted it yet, it means there is no links to it, but Google gives it PR4! It can’t be possible, and it is no sense. Now I can see Google PR is doing the wrong thing, and it doesn’t represent authority anymore.

Now I think Google has only two choices, one is stop punishing websites which are selling links, giving their PR back, the other choice is continue to kill such websites, but at the meantime, kill Google itself, too.

I believe Google will make a wise choice.

For most webmasters, eBay is a great source of revenues.

Now we have good news from eBay! Their launched their own partner network on 1st, April. They hosted it on Commission Junction before. Now it has more features.

The greatest thing is that their will pay you as high as 50% commission per finished deal you refer. All you have to do is putting their codes into your website and drive traffic to their ads, then money will visit you. It’s just that simple.

Now let’s take a look at eBay Partner Network:

From the picture above, you know that with just a little effort, you can earn a lot of money in the eBay Partner Network. All you have to do is drive traffic to eBay or one of their partners.

Now let’s take a look at what tools their provide us:

If you are serious about making money online, I believe eBay is a perfect source that you should make good use of.

So now all you need to is join them and generate revenue from them!

Alexa and Google Page Rank are the most important ranking systems in the internet world. Google ranks sites by their authorities, and Alexa ranks by traffic. We can evaluate whether a website is good or not by these two ranks.

Let me talk about Alexa ranking here. Alexa defines themselves as “the web information company,” but to webmasters and bloggers, they are so much more. Essentially, Alexa is a company that measures web traffic on almost every website on the internet through their increasingly popular toolbar plugin. It means that your visitors must have installed alexa toolbars on their computer so they will be counted into your rank. If not, your website won’t get rank from these visitors. But now Alexa has changed this Ranking Metrics. Alexa is now using other sources apart from the toolbar to draw its traffic metrics. I believe this is a great progress for Alexa. It is more reasonable and scientific.

You can check your Google PR and Alexa Rank by visiting dnScoop.com.

As a SEO, your must pay much attention on Google PR and Alexa Rank. So now you should learn more about them.

Keep one thing in mind “Where there is human, there is money”. So you should know where is human, I mean you should know where visitors are on internet. It is no doubt that social network is good place for guys live. They talk and communicate with others in social networks everyday. Social networks received most traffic. So it is a good idea to advertise on popular social networks.

Tip: Register with top social networks and create attractive profiles, then promote your websites in your profile. Make friends with other members. Remember to keep active in these social networks.

Here is a list of top social network provided by Compete.com, enjoy!

Now you must have some ideas on driving traffic with social networks, do you?

Make money online becomes one of the most popular things these years. But do you know which is the right program for you? I mean do you know which program works best for you?

In fact, internet revenue is advertising revenue. So nearly every revenue you get from internet is generated from advertising. Advertising is the most profit industry online. There are many kinds of advertising. For example, Pay Per Click Ads: the best one is Google Adsense. Affiliate Advertising: Most popular ones are Commission Junction and Clickbank, but I like Tradedoubler most, they support bank transfer payment method.

I think affiliate marketing is the most profit marketing in online advertising industry. So now let’s talk about Tradedoubler.com, there are many famous advertisers in this affiliate network, such AOL, American Express, Emusic, etc. If you are serious about making money online, I do recommend you try Tradedoubler. But in order to make much money out of it, you should master combining PPC like Adwords with it.

Good luck!

Many guys often ask me how to make money online. My answer is, making money online is simply. It is all about two things:

1. Driving Traffic

2. Monetize Traffic

How to drive traffic to your website? It is a long term thing that you should do. You should build link first, in fact, link equals traffic. Build as much links as possible. To do that, you can use both free ways and non-free ways. Free way is leave honest and useful comments on other blog, include your site address in your comment, another free way is write are articles and submit them into article directories like EzineArticles.com. Non-free way, you can see my previous post for more information about that.

How to monetize your traffic? This is the most important part. You should know how to monetize your traffic, I mean you should learn how to let your website to be a cash machine. Here are top ways of make money online:

Google Adsense

Adbrite.com

Kontera.com

Bidvertiser.com

Widgetbucks.com

CJ.com

Clickbank.com

Linkshare.com

Shareasale.com

Performics.com

Zanox.com

AffiliateWindow.com

Tradedoubler.com

Buy.at

These list contain both PPC advertising and affiliate marketing. They are the best two ways to make money online till now. So what you should do is try your best to master these money make machines.

Now you’ve got every tools to make money online, what left you to do is just take action and master them. If you do that, there is no doubt that you will make big cash every day.

I suppose that you’ve know the importance of link. Now what I want to share with you is a secret way to get link. The premise is you have some money in your pocket, because it will cost you some money.

The secret is buy links from other blogs. How to do that? There are some companies provide such service, you just register with them and find bloggers to write for you. You will pay every post that they write for you on there blogs. Here is a list of such companies:

PayPerPost.com

Smorty.com

Payu2blog.com

Reviewme.com

Sponsoredreviews.com

Blogsvertise.com

Linkworth.com

Here are best ones, you can give them a try and see whether they can bring you money. You know traffic is money, link is money. So take action right now and begin to expand your profit.