Archive for May, 2008

Making Money Online: Pre-Requisites: Coding

Making money online is what a lot of people try to do, a fair proportion report to achieve this goal however the remaining proportion seek quick fixes, instant money makers and one time money making schemes.

“If it seems to good to be true - it is” - this is a common phrase but theres another which I hear less of “If it seems to good to be true 9/10 times it is” - I prefer that one personally because with making money online these one off lucky finds, code glitches, manipulations or competition niches are there - but like the gold mining of generations before us they are rare and can take a lot of looking.

When I talk about making money online I do talk from experience, I do make a bit of money online, a reasonable positive balance that is incremental - but as with all these things it won’t happen over night (at least in 999/1000 cases.)

I have had times amongst my years on the case where one night or one page or one small website has been enough to make a happy man of me but that is due to perseverance and odds not curealls and other peoples “wonderful linkbuilding services”, “directory submissions or similar”.

I am beginning to go on here so here’s the point:

You will find the odds of making money a lot easier the more practical knowledge you get in coding. Even if you are in enough liquidity to pay a coder, or coders - you will want to know what your paying them to do. With this in mind there is a few things you SHOULD learn and do before ever asking questions or worrying your not making enough or even expect to make money. If you have a job to go to, family to support, things to do and give yourself other excuses, that’s your trip - but perseverance I am afraid is I think a pre-requisite in this game.

With that LEARN THESE:

  • HTML, CSS, Basic web complimentary technologies like ftp, photoshop etc.
  • PHP & MySQL - most integral skills in my opinion - LAMP is not necessary you can run it all thru ur windowz
  • SEO - What it is, why we do it, how we do it and how you can use the previous two to help

If you learn these basics, read this and other aforementioned blogs then I don’t see how given time and a fair amount of effort, regardless of the colour of your hat you can fail! That is unless your one of those negotive bastards then you shouldnt be here neway!

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Filed under Basic, Uncategorized : Comments (0) : May 31st, 2008

*Waves : Hello

Hello everyone!! Welcome to SEO underWorld, yet another crappy unskilled seo blog on the net - oh wait - no it isnt!

If you want to read about me checkout the about page - basically its a clean slate from an old website - something to theorize new stuff and lay down a good bit of search engine ranking goodness for all you avid online money makers.

First posts’ are meant to be full of introductions, but rather than introducing myself I thought I would give a few shout’ outs to some blogs I have been reading for a fair while (please note all the following are quality blogs with good writers behind them, doesn’t mean I completely agree with some of what they say! IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!)

  • Blue Hat (Eli) - Inspirational writer with excellent tech, Confirmed a lot of things I had started last year and SEO Empire is excellent read, I’d go as far as saying it should probably be the first thing you should read before setting off on the deep dark path of bh/greyhat seo.
  • Slightly Shady SEO - About as young as me but with good smarts - Always an interesting read and good tech/seo stuff.
  • Dosh Dosh - Good writer on the nice end of the scale ;)
  • Dark SEO Programming - I came accross this blog when messing about with captcha’s. Techy, but in a good way.
  • 5ubliminal - Excellent bh and nicely techy, good ideas and lots of nice snippets!
  • SEO Theory - Written by Michael Martinez, someone whose writing I have read a lot. Its a public facing seo companies blog really, and that says a lot about it. Quite opinionated but always an interesting read, if only to compare notes.
  • W Shadow - Excellent name, can’t remember how I found this blog but its a good read.
  • The Mad Hat - Again can’t remember how I ended up with this blog in my feedreader but its their, providing a nice bit of madness seo to the mix. Although being serious gets things done, its no fun!
  • Seocracy - Another good look at whats happening - less often but useful posts.

Thats it for now, I have a lot of other stuff in my feed reader but you will all have to wait for my next instalment of friendly mentionings.

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Filed under SEO Underworld, Shout Outs : Comments (4) : May 29th, 2008