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The easiest thing to do, without investing money, is to get yourself a blog and start writing about interesting things. You can monetize it with Adsense.
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If you have some good experience with websites, you can join Sitepoint or Digitalpoint Marketplace and buy a couple of websites that have potential. Make them better, like better content, more backlinks, better design, then sell them for profit.
- Use affiliate programs. Build a website dedicated to some niche and review products. Join affiliate programs like Amazon and get commissions for each product sold through your site. Amazon is good to start but you should search programs that offer higher commissions.
- Online Stocks and Forex trading are a good option if you have the knowledge to do them.
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Google has been working on some new technology that improves indexing infrastructure. They named it Caffeine. The aim is to make Google faster, more accurate and to give the ability to index more pages.
Currently the update is live only in one datacenter and in January 2010 it should go live on all of them.
Speed is now important.
A new factor in ranking will be the time it takes for a site to load, this means both hosting and site optimization will count.
This is a little strange, because Googlebot crawls from US, so websites that are hosted in Europe or Asia will generally take more time to respond than those nearby in US. The closer you will be to Google, the better ranking? Does this means Google wants to enter the Hosting Business? It could be a good plan, their customers will have faster sites, so they will be better ranked so competition will have to do the same.
Anyway, we’ll find out soon…
There are many factors, when we talk about the value of a website:
- domain name
- traffic
- income
- content
- members database(if available)
- page rank
- backlinks
- others(brand, age, …)
To simplify things, some people take monthly income, multiply it by 12 and get the price to sell their website.
Others use paid appraisal, like the one on sedo.com. You pay a fee and an expert analyzes everything in detail for you. When we talk about 4 zeroes or more, this is a good idea, otherwise it’s a waste of money.
Lastly, there are some free programs that do everything automatically:
In my opinion these are just to make you feel good, like you are sitting on a gold mine, because they always seem to show big numbers.
