Search Engine Submission

In order to get search engines like google and yahoo to have their robots crawl your web site or blog they have to know where to find you.
You can submit your web site and blog url's to search engines manually for free. Once at the site you enter in your url and you have the option of providing a description. Always include a clear and focused description of what can be found on your web site or blog.
To submit to google:
www.google.com/addurl
For google Canada:
www.google.ca/submiturl
For Yahoo:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
At google you'll also need to enter the Human Verification Code.
It can take anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks or longer before the robots get around to crawling your pages. Once your pages have been crawled there is no guarantee that your site will be listed. So while you are waiting keep adding quality, relevant content that stays within the focus of your website or blog.

A Picture Deserves a Few Words!

Does your web site or blog have pictures? Have you posted them using detailed descriptions? If you are posting a picture and you are not "naming" it with a detailed description you are missing the search engine boat.If someone is searching for a picture of a black 1967 mustang they are going to type black 1967 mustang into the search bar. If the picture of the black 1967 mustang on your site is labeled #0000764 then you have just lost a potential visitor.
Even though a picture is worth a thousand words it still needs a good title so it can be found easily. This small detail is often over looked by webmasters and bloggers. Using descriptive titles for your pictures is one way to increase visitors to your site that doesn't require a lot of time or money.
Remember no one is going to search for #0000475 and hope they find what they are looking for.

Monetized Blog

Another good way to earn money from your blog is with Amazon.com. Just go to amazon.com and apply to be an Amazon associate. You’ll know if your account has been approved in a couple of days.

Amazon offers a very wide variety of products. You’re sure to find something specifically related to your blog. It could be books, merchandise, music, movies, software etc.

You select the products you want to list for sale on your blog. You can customize the colors of the ads to match your blog. Just highlight and copy the html code and insert it into your blog. You can place the ads anywhere you want in the body of the post. You can also post the ads in the sidebar or in the footer. If you place them in the footer they will appear at the bottom of every page of your blog.

Amazon commissions start at 4%. You will have a better chance of selling the product listed if you actually mention it by name in your post somewhere. If you have a gardening blog and were giving your readers information on purple haze carrots then purple haze carrot seeds would be a good item to list.