Making Money Online with Mr. Javo

Are You Ready For The Change?

Written by Mr. Javo

Hi readers, first of all, I want to thank to all of you because without its readers, this blog would be nothing. Constantly I’m thinking different ways to improve the blog besides the readers experience, so now I want to tell you what I have been thinking all the last week, so I would like to read your feedback about it.

Main changes you will see next on Mr. Javo dot Com

New Theme: I have designed a theme for my blog, with another colors different than actuals. This theme is more serious and more professional, I think you will love it. Since some time ago, I wanted to change my actual theme but it’s a little expensive to get an unique theme, so I was saving… Then, I think about the possibility to make a theme by myself ( I have some designer skills ) and I start looking for tutorials or guides on Youtube and through the blogosphere. After a long research, I found a tutorial ( part of an ebook ) to create your own theme. So I have been checking it, and I noticed it’s not too hard to make your own theme, the hardest part is the coding, but there are many guides including in the official page of wordpress where you can find those things.
A Newsletter: I will get the service provided by Aweber to make the newsletter. By subscribing to it, you will receive several information that regular readers won’t have access, such as eBooks, special offers, special tips, reports and other exclusive content I have in mind.
Fixed Categories: I will edit all the categories, there are some of them which I don’t use anymore and the articles published under those categories are not relevant.

Another things I’m going to do

Reward Commentators: At the end of the month, I’m going to reward the user with more comments on my blog. I have some rewards on mind: Blog reviews, 125×125 banners, Text Links, Guest Posts… But take care of this, I’m not going to reward any spammer. I will reward a person with relevant comments, so if the first person with more comments was spamming, I’m going to reward the second one.
Q&A Rounds: I will write posts answering your questions. Of course, only if you have questions .
Guest Posts: I love to see other blogs growing up. So, I thought on publish 1 or 2 guest posts per moth. I will let you register at this blog but you will have privileges of subscriber. If you want to publish something, send me an email using the contact form and I will give you privileges of contributor. Note: I will publish only good and quality content, I don’t want spammers who want to promote their own pages. I will give you in a future the rules to write guest posts here.

I have more ideas on my schedule but I don’t want to tell you everything! If you have any suggestion to improve this blog, I would like to read them.

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>> Posted on August 28st, 2008

Building A Business Through Blogs - Part Three

Written by Mr. Javo

In the previews lessons of this series I talked about the importance of Selecting a Niche and Planning your Strategies. In this third part, I’m going to talk about everything you need to know when you are creating the blog. I wanted to write this post earlier but I couldn’t because of its dense content. I will cover this part with sub-chapters, to make it easier to understand.

3. Create A Blog

3.1 Choose a Brand Name

Before thinking in the hosting or theme for your blog, you need to think about your brand. This is not an easy step, because sometimes it’s hard to decide something, specially because there are a lot of blogs over there and the brand you are thinking to adopt could be in use.

So, think well about the name you want to be represented by, because once you start promoting yourself with a brand, you should not change it. Catchy and short names are perfect for your selection. Once you have selected a brand name, you can use it as the title of your blog.

3.2 Choose your Keywords and Taglines

This is a very important step because the keywords will determine your ranking on the search engines such Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc… There are a couple of free tools which you can use to select your keywords:

- Traffic Travis: This is a good tool which you can take your market research, search engine optimization and PPC campaigns to a whole new level with this suite of tools.

- Digital Point Keyword Suggestion: This is a web based application of the DigitalPoint’s team.

- Google Keyword SandBox: Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. You need to give a few descriptive words or phrases to get the keywords.

- Google Sets: Another great tool of Google. You need to type some words and you will get a list of related keywords.

- Good Keywords: This is a simple and good Windows software to find the right keywords for your web pages.

I recommend you to use all those tools to get your keywords, and after then start merging the results. This way you will get a more accurate result.

3.3 Choose a Logo

The logo it’s very related to the Brand. In this case, it’s not 100% up to you, at least you are a designer. If it’s not your case, you can pay for a logo. There are many people (including me) willing to design a logo for your website or blog for a cheap price at DigitalPoint Forums. So you need to describe what do you want, the colors you want to have in your logo and the designer will do the hard work for you.

3.4 Choose a Theme

You can get a free theme to start, but I recommend you to get a personalized design specially for you. There are many companies which you can contact to create your theme: Unique Blog Designs, Weborithm, Reality Hosting etc… Also, if you have web design skills, you can create your own WP-Theme. If it’s the case, I highly recommend you to check the guides of WPDesignder, he has a very useful material there.

3.5 Get a Domain & Hosting

This step supposes to be easy, but it’s not. Getting a good domain could be a very hard task, specially if you looking for a domain which includes some of your keywords. There are many good domains already taken, and when you think you have found a good one, you notice it’s taken too. I usually use GoDaddy to verify domain names, also you can use their Bulk Register tool to search domains based in the keywords you want.

Then, talking about the hosting I don’t recommend you to use GoDaddy. It seems to be cheap, but it’s really not. It’s truth that you can get a hosting for $6 a month, but when you start adding more services like php support, infinite subdomains and that kind of things, the bill flies like a rocket. So, I recommend you to use BlueHost, you pay $7 a month with no hidden fees, and by joining them you get a $50 coupon to advertise on Google, and a $25 coupon to advertise on Yahoo.

Wow what a large article, it has over 700 words! Well, I hope this lesson can help you to create your blog. I tried to cover everything but may be I missed something, so if you think I need to add something else to this phase, don’t be afraid to leave your comment .

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>> Posted on August 27st, 2008

The Importance Of Masking Your Affiliate Links

Written by Mr. Javo

Some days ago, I noticed someone linked one of my posts related to an affiliate program and checking the statistics, I saw that many people left my blog through the affiliate link, something good for me. Yesterday, I was checking that affiliate panel to verify how many people joined to my network, but I couldn’t find those affiliates… what happened here?

Loosing Your Referrals

Many people when you invite them to a network through your referral link, delete your referral code to give you nothing of their sales. Here is how it works:

Step 1 - Copy Link Location

Step 2 - Paste the link in the bar and select the affiliate code

Step 3 - Delete the referral code and load the page

So, if you load https://users.marketleverage.com/ you will be redirected to http://www.marketleverage.com/ . After then, the people will join to the program by “themselves” and you won’t get any commission for that.

This is a really bad problem because you are losing money, you could be earning a lot of commissions from the people who didn’t join with the referral link you gave them. And this problem is not only on affiliate programs, there is another services like Plurk which you can join with a referral link, giving some karma points to the person who invited you.

Of course, not everybody do this for bad. Sometimes the people are reading a post very quick because they need to go or something like, and when someone invite them to a network they don’t click the link, instead they memorize or take a note of the network’s name. Then when they have time, they search on google for this network to know more about it, joining to it without a referral link.

How To Solve This Problem

Some time ago, I noticed many bloggers sharing their referral codes in a different way, I thought it was a plugin or something like that… May be you have seen this before, something like theblog.com/out/marketleverage.php for example. Well, this is called Link Masking, and you can do that to protect your affiliate links.

When someone click on that link, it will be redirected to your referral link, avoiding the steps explained above. But the question is… How do I make that php file? Well honestly, it can be a html or htm file because the little code don’t use any special php function, but it’s more common to use that extension because wordpress is written in that language…

However, you need to follow the next steps to create that file:

Step 1 - Open a new text file and copy this:

<html> <head> <title>Your-Referral-Tittle-Here</title> <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”> <script> window.location=”your-referral-link-here“; </script> <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=your-referral-link-here“> </head>


<body>

<p align=”center”>You are being taken to the correct page. <br>If the page doesn’t load after 5 seconds, <a href=”your-referral-link-here“>click here</a>.</p> </body> </html>

Step 2 - Save that file as thenetwork.php, i.e. marketleverage.php.

Step 3 - Use an FTP program ( I use filezilla ) to create a folder into the main directory, you can call it out, links, go or whatever you want. I called it go.

Step 4 - Upload the .php file to the created directory.

So then, you need to create a file for each referral code you want to share. This way, you will protect all your referral links and you won’t lose anything in a future.

Enjoy protecting your affiliate links!

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>> Posted on August 26st, 2008

Spreading Love - August 08 Week 4

Written by Mr. Javo

Hello buddies, this weekend was so busy for me. I’m planning some projects which I would like to share with you in a future, plus I was planning a extreme make over for this blog . I mean, I want to change many things to improve the interface and the blog itself, so I will share with you the next week the new features, plugins and changes that I want to implement here, I’m sure you will love many (or all) of them.

Well now, I am at the beach enjoying and taking a break of all those brainstorm I got with the make over plans. I invite you to take a look at this content, which I found this week:

When Is The Best Time To Start A New Blog?- Really nice post for the people who want’s to create a new blog.
The Top 5 Ways to Keep Your Blog Content Fresh- Nice tips to keep your blog fresh and enjoyable.
How To Create Your Own FeedBurner FeedFlares - This is a very worthwhile thing. By creating your own feedflares, you can perfectly personalize your feedburner.
Making a Killer Link Bait Page - A great article which will help you to promote your website.

Offers & Contests:

Win 1 Month Free Entry Into Blog Mastermind! Blog Mastermind is the program of Yaro Starak which you can learn how to get an full-time income without selling your soul. With this contest, you can get back the money of the first lesson through PayPal.
Lets Win This Contest Together A contest which you can win a lot of prizes. The prizes worth 16k E-Credits and over $1000.

I hope you enjoy the content I gave you here, at least the post are good for reading… Well my readers, the next week I will talk about the changes on Mr. Javo dot Com, so I would like to read your feedback.

Have a nice weekend!

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>> Posted on August 24st, 2008

UBD Anniversary Contest

Written by Mr. Javo

Unique Blog Designs was born the past year, with the redesign of John Chow dot Com. Unique Blog Designs is a team of bloggers, just like us. They have designed many good blogs, so if you want to redesign your blog check out their portfolio.

So to celebrate its 1-year anniversary, Unique Blog Designs is holding a contest, which is open to everybody.

The Prizes

Grand Prize - Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week).
Three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

How To Enter

There are 2 ways to take part in this contest:

For one (1) contest entry - Comment in the contest’s post. Only one comment per person will be counted.

For five (5) contest entries - Write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.

Contest Rules

The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008.
Winners will be chosen Monday, September 1, 2008 through a random drawing.
Only one (1) comment entry per person and one (1) blog entry per person. The total number of entries any person can receive is six (6) entries.
Prizes include (1) grand prize of an Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($299 value) and three (3) copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme ($99 value) - coming next week.
Contest is open to everyone world-wide.

Enjoy this awesome contest, good luck for everybody!

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>> Posted on August 23st, 2008

Recognizing Your Work Can Help Yourself To Work Harder

Written by Mr. Javo

The bloggers feel the same in some point of their blogging career, they lose their ideas or their motivation, even some of them feel lost and don’t know how to keep their blogs. In a preview article I talked about how to overcome the moments when you feel exhausted of all the activities you do as a blogger, so in this article I will touch the same idea but with another point of view.

This week I felt without motivation, the vacations are like a two - way street, can work with you or against you. In this case, it worked against me, it made me lazy to do some blogging things. So today, I started looking the statistics of my blog: rankings, subscribers, comments… And after then, I noticed somethings never noticed by me before. For example, I didn’t know that my blog reached almost 18k unique visitors in its second month, getting a big peak of 30k monthly visits on February ( You can check this stats with compete ).

So then, I took some minutes to make a complete analysis of my blog, to deeply understand the work I have been doing here… After some minutes, I felt so proud of myself, motivating me to continue improving and doing what I know to do.

So when you feel bad or without motivation to keep working, I suggest you to do the following things:

Analyze your blog: Check all your statistics, incomings and profits. Visit every social network you are registered on, and study how do you impact on their users.
Take a break: Take a day to do whatever you like to do, aside blogging. Get away from your business and clear your mind, this way you will have more energies to keep working the next day.
Set Goals: Sometimes the bloggers lose the interest because they don’t set goals. Setting a short - term goal, like reach X quantity of subscribers can be a perfect motivation to keep working on improving your blog. Also, you should set long - term goals, like something you want to reach in a year. This will help you to see a light in the horizon and keep following that way.

Well buddies, in the next days I will be writing the third part of my series “Building a Business Through Blogs” which is about Creating a Blog. I won’t be online this weekend, so tomorrow I will give you some useful material that I found this week by surfing the web to keep your mind busy!

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>> Posted on August 22st, 2008