How to Make Money Online During the Recession

Although we are presently confronted with what is generally thought to be the worst recession since the 1930s, the world of e-commerce continues to grow, showing few sign of peaking anytime soon. In an effort to get the most bang for the buck, savvy businesses and marketers are moving traditional ad spend dollars online in ever-increasing numbers.

This growth has not come without a price. Newspapers and periodicals across the country and around the world continue to fail at an alarming rate as readers (followed by representative ad dollars) continue to move to the Net.

Web 2.0 technologies present new opportunities and hazards

In an effort to make the most of this trend, thousands of astute Web surfers are actively learning to leverage Web 2.0 technologies in order to make money online during the economic downturn.

Just as surely as there are many eager to learn this nascent trade, so too is it certain that unscrupulous businesses and marketers will look to take advantage of these “e-newbies” with promises of riches from programs that “do all the work, while you need only sit back and count the cash.” As we have heard too many times before, “if it sounds too good to be true…”

Most online marketers fail

The simple truth is that most surfers with little-to-no marketing experience who turn to e-commerce as an income source fail. However, it is important to note that failure is no less certain for those who try to make it on their own, than those that fall victim to scammers.

I will elaborate.

There is no better place to start a business than the Web

Despite the fact that most online business ventures fail, the potential for earning vast sums of money quickly is far greater online than off. The Web provides heretofore unforeseen opportunities to anyone with access to a pc and an internet connection. To boil it down to a single factor-the Internet provides potential access to a virtually unlimited consumer base for a tiny fraction of the cost required to reach those same consumers via traditional marketing methods. Those that understand this concept and implement an effective plan to take advantage of it become wealthy.

Brilliant Internet concepts and the riches that follow are not necessarily the fruits of experience

One favorite example of high concept is “The Million Dollar Homepage.” This stroke of genius plan was hatched in August, 2005 by a young Englishman, Alex Tew, who needed a way to pay for university. In short, he decided that he would put up a Web page and sell space by the pixel (at $1.00 per pixel) to advertisers. He earned his million without spending a dime on advertising as Web surfers from around the world visited “The Million Dollar Homepage” just to see for themselves if it actually existed and what such a page would look like.

Of course, such high-concept sites are the exception and not the norm. People have made fortunes small and large with far more mundane ideas.

How much is one “dumb” idea worth?

In 1999 a shopper in San Francisco went in search of a certain type of shoe in a specific size and color. He left the mall tired, frustrated, and empty-handed. Back at home he decided that the task could be better handled online. His only problem was that there was no major online shoe retailer to buy from. That day, Nick Swinmurn founded Zappos.com. “Who would be dumb enough to buy shoes online-without even trying them on?” people asked. Hundreds of thousands of customers and millions of dollars later, Nick had his answer-almost everyone. Despite the recessionary woes faced by most retailers, Zappos did more than $1 billion dollars in sales last year.

Alex Tew’s and Nick Swinmurn’s dreams really only had one thing in common, the fact that they would not have been possible without the Internet and its low-cost access to millions of consumers worldwide.

OK, OK, I get it. But what’s in it for me?

We’re glad you asked, and the answer is, almost anything you want-if you are willing to learn the skills required.

While the internet continues to have many success stories, it has many more failure stories, and those remain mostly unheard. There are thousands of budding entrepreneurs who may have had a good idea, but didn’t know how to effectively market it. Or, perhaps they were top-notch marketers, but had no idea on how to deliver the product cost-effectively. Or perhaps they just lacked the fortitude or the dollars to stick it out.

Please, no more stories; just get to the point. I have things to do.

While the Editors at Top 5 Online Jobs rarely agree about much, we are virtually unanimous in the opinion that most budding online entrepreneurs fail because they are generally undercapitalized and too easily discouraged by the almost inevitable initial failures. Far too often they quit just before reaching the “tipping point”-that magical moment when the idea begins to realize a profit.

From the mouths of hucksters…

If you are old enough to remember get-rich-quick king of “tiny classified ads” infomercials, Don Lapre, you might recall this pitch:

“If you can create and test one tiny classified ad in the newspaper that makes just $30-$40 profit in a week, it could make you a fortune, because the secret is learning how to take that one tiny classified ad that just made $30-$40 profit in a week and to realize that you can now take that same exact ad and place it in up to 3,000 other newspapers around the country…”

You can almost smell the hair gel.

Despite Don’s reportedly questionable business practices which made him subject of many a Better Business Bureau complaint, his thesis was correct. If nothing else, Don understood that the concept of scaling could be used in marketing to multiply a campaign that shows a small but consistent profit into a small (or even large) fortune.

Today’s Web is a Don Lapre dream come true-potential access to a virtually unlimited number of eager consumers-if you can figure out how to reach them cost effectively. And while the ROI on successful Internet campaigns is difficult to match in the offline world, the Web is also a place rife with costly and frustrating hazards that chew up and spit out budding online entrepreneurs with clock-like regularity.

How shall I begin?

The very first thing is to decide what type of an entrepreneur you are or would like to be:

1. The Fiercely Independent Entrepreneur
This person is a strong-willed, highly motivated, self-starter. This sometimes egotistical entrepreneur would rather succeed or fail on their own terms rather than follow in someone else’s footsteps. This is a high-risk, high reward approach and not for someone who is easily dissuaded by initial failures. This entrepreneur’s Achilles’ heel is the tendency to enjoy the hunt more than the feast. However, this entrepreneurial type is far more likely to launch the next Million Dollar Homepage, Zappos or Twitter.

2. The Template Entrepreneur
While also a highly motivated, self-starter, the template entrepreneur allows others to blaze the trail and follows only when they feel confident that the successes of the trailblazer can be achieved without suffering through the same mistakes. To this person the bottom line is the destination, not the journey. They generally prefer fast nickels to slow dimes, are willing to utilize the advice of experts, and are less likely to lose interest in a project once they have achieved success. It is of course far easier to navigate a path that has already been cleared, but the downside to this approach is that if they wait too long, it may be difficult to emulate the pioneer’s results due to the inevitable increase in competition. And while this entrepreneur is less likely to launch the next Facebook, they are also more likely to turn a profit.

What do I sell online?

Here’s where you have to make another big decision – should you begin by marketing your own product/service and keep 100% of the profits, or marketing someone else’s product/service and keep a percentage of the profits?

For persons new to the world of e-commerce, we would suggest that you begin by selling someone else’s product or service. Consider selling your own only after you have demonstrated a thorough understanding of Internet marketing techniques and achieved a satisfactory level of online success.

Affiliate Marketing

Many Internet marketers begin with affiliate marketing-the practice of advertising someone else’s product or service in exchange for a commission for each sale referred.

The methods utilized most often by affiliate marketers include PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, posting links on your own search-engine-optimized, content-related website or blog, banner advertising, and e-mail/e-newsletter marketing. There are of course, other “outside-of-the-box” methods used by savvy “super-affiliates,” but these are rarely revealed freely, as the key to successful affiliate marketing is referring traffic to the seller at the lowest possible cost.

For example, if you were to purchase 1000 clicks from Google by using their AdWords program and you paid $0.50 for each click, and 1% of the clicks resulted in sales, and each sale yielded a $10.00 commission; you would produce 10 sales and lose $400.00. Ouch.

Commission ($100) minus Cost ($500) equals Profit/Loss (-$400)

However, if you paid $0.05 for each click, assuming the same 1% conversion rate, you would profit $5.00 for each sale-a very healthy ROI (return on investment) of 100%.

Commission ($100) minus Cost ($50) equals Profit/Loss ($50)

Scaling Marketing Campaigns (the “Don Lapre Method”) to Maximize Profits

Using the same parameters, an investment of $500 in AdWords clicks would return your $500 investment plus an additional $500 profit.

Commission ($1000) minus Cost ($500) equals Profit/Loss ($500)

Rather than be satisfied with a $500 profit on a $500 investment, once convinced that the results could be repeated with a reasonable degree of consistency, a savvy internet marketer would reinvest profits in increasingly greater amounts. If successful, the marketer would become wealthy in short order.

A Little Online Marketing Perspective

While you don’t run into campaigns with 100% ROI on a daily basis, they certainly exist, and they have and will continue to make Internet millionaires of many. If we were to think of such a campaign as a machine into which you could put a single dollar and have it spit out two dollars a few days later, what that machine be worth? What would you be willing to pay for the plans to build such a machine?

But you don’t need 100% ROI to make a very good living as an affiliate marketer working only a few hours per day from home. A fairly consistent ROI of 50% would be enough to allow you to quit your day job in relatively short order. All you really need are the plans to create your own ROI machine.

Building Plans for Sale

While some “super-affiliates” will take their methods to the grave, there are others that are willing to part with them-for a price. The trick is of course, to get the best possible “plans” at the lowest possible cost. All plans are not created equal.

It is our recommendation that persons new to Internet marketing seek out the mentoring of someone who has already become wealthy by creating high ROI affiliate campaigns (not by selling online courses). Contact this person and offer to work as an apprentice for an hour or two per day to learn the methods used to create and implement high ROI affiliate campaigns. Or simply ask them what they would charge for weekly phone consultation. Or if they give seminars or webinars, begin by attending one. Or if they offer a class, take it. Or if they offer an online course, buy it. Keep in mind that doing so will likely save you the time and cost of many of the initial failures encountered by most if not all Internet marketers.

If you find the right mentor and truly heed their advice, it would probably be difficult not to at least approach their level of success.

Finally: A Word about Work from Home/Online Job Scams

While there are certainly more than enough online scams to go around, it is amusing to hear programs created by some of today’s top online marketers referred to as scams. To keep a bit of perspective it might be helpful to note that a college education generally costs tens of thousands of dollars. Somehow graduates who find themselves amongst the unemployed rarely refer to their degrees as scams. Yet, when someone takes an online course and fails to produce a profit within 30 days, the word “scam” is thrown around freely. We would suggest that students of online courses also examine their own efforts before referring to anything that has been proven to work for others as a scam. The price of a book is never a guarantee of the knowledge within.

Can I Make Money Online Quickly and Free – Yes It’s Possible!

The internet is currently one of the biggest resources in finding money making opportunities. The thing is that you probably don’t know where to start, especially since there are so many scams out there. Are you one who’s been using search engines to find ways to make some quick cash without the worries of having to pay ‘Sign up fees’. Or maybe you’re a stay at home parent who’s searching for ways to make extra cash to pay for the groceries or gas bills. If this is the case then this is for you! One of the fastest ways to make money online free are through taking Paid Surveys.

What are Paid Surveys?

Some of your might of heard of Paid Surveys, some of you may not, but here’s the low down- Paid Surveys are questionnaires formed by market research companies. They use these surveys to gather our opinions on new brand products that are about to be put out into the market. Now some of your are wondering why they need such things from us. New products and services are being developed daily, but the companies who make them don’t know how they will fare in the markets. So they rely on market researchers to help them on that subject. Market researchers relies on consumers; everyday people like us, to give our thoughts and say on the new products. Our opinions helps the companies improve their products, and services.

How Do I Start Making Money From Surveys?

The first thing you need to do to start earning quick money is simply register to become members of the paid survey websites. Once you’ve signed up very often you’re asked to complete a few surveys called ‘profiles’ These profile surveys ask you certain questions such as hobbies, entertainment, your likes and dislikes to name a few. You must answer them honestly, because this helps the paid survey websites send you surveys that fits you, and your interests. Say that you’re sent a invitation to take a survey on broccoli meals, but you don’t like broccoli. You couldn’t answer the questions on that survey. This is why it’s important to fill out the profile surveys so you won’t get surveys like that. Once you’ve done that you’re immediately sent surveys that pays you in cash.

How Much Can I Make?

That is a question asked by many. When you complete a survey, the amount of money you’re rewarded varies. Some surveys pay you a few cents while some pays you a few bucks. Now it may not seem much but when you do a lot of surveys, it adds up as you go. Another thing is that you’re not only paid cash, some websites even pay you with gift cards, electronics, DVD’s, and so much more. In addition to completing surveys you may gain entries to their sweepstakes to win amazing prizes!

Creating an email mailing list is the most important step of making sure your online business survives. There are several services offering ways to do this. Aweber is arguably one of the most popular autoresponder services on the internet, coming recommended by such A-list bloggers as Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Aweber was founded in 1998, so when you deal with them you’re dealing with a company that has 12 years of experience in the field of autoresponders and email marketing.

Aweber Autoresponder Plans

Aweber has a variety of plans, starting at the very reasonable price of $19 a month, with the first month being an introductory rate of $1. The $19 a month rate is for a plan of up to 500 subscribers. You can also pay a quarterly rate of $49 or a yearly rate of $194, for a discount of almost $3 a month and a little over $11 a month, respectively. All of these prices include up to 500 subscribers.

If you have more than 500 subscribers, you will pay a monthly subscriber fee on top of the base membership fee. For 501 to 2,500 subscribers, the monthly fee is $10. For 2,501 to 5,000 subscribers, the monthly fee is $30. For 5001 to 10,000 subscribers, the monthly fee is $50. For 10,001 to 25,000 subscribers, the monthly fee is $130. For a list size of over 25,001, contact Aweber at AWEBER.COM to speak with them about pricing. These prices are extremely competitive with other autoresponder services, letting you have the option of having an excellent way to manage your email list without spending too much money.

Aweber Autoresponder Features

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Aweber has a large variety of features to help you make the most of your autoresponder emails and campaigns.

To make a good first impression on email readers, Aweber offers over 150 customizable templates, with single and multi column designs included. Numerous color schemes are available, and there are dedicated places for you to put your logo and images. These templates have been tested in every major email client (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and more) to make sure they look great. With Aweber’s templates and color schemes, all you have to do is pick a template you like, change the color scheme to match your branding, and place your logo in the appropriate areas – voila! You have an email designed for brand consistency, that looks great.

Another feature is the ability to send your blog content automatically as an email newsletter. This is a great option for those who don’t want to manually send out the same content twice. All you have to do is set the preferences, such as how many articles to send in a newsletter, how often to send them, and which subset of your subscribers will see them, and the rest is automatically handled for you. This is a great option to keep your name and information fresh in the mind of subscribers without having to come up with original newsletter content, saving you time and effort.

Aweber is easy to integrate with your other online presences, with Twitter and Facebook integration. You can instantly send your Twitter followers a link to new emails, keep a record of your past newsletters with the Broadcast Archive, and grow your list with a customized sign up form for these places. You can also share your past newsletters online via your website or social media profiles, to prove to subscribers that it is worth signing up to your list. Hundreds of available sign up form templates make it easy for you to customize a sign up form to match your web presence and then place that sign up form on your blog or website, to help maximize email list sign ups.

The ability to track subscriber activity with ease is another feature of Aweber’s services. You’ll know who opened what emails, who didn’t, which links were clicked and by whom, how much revenue each message brought in, and how many people unsubscribed. You can then send specific updates to certain segments of your email list, based on these details or others (such as geographic location or details provided at sign up), to make sure that the content each list subscriber is getting is relevant and designed to persuade them in the best way suited for that subscriber.

And of course, Aweber’s autoresponders are easy to set up and totally automate. Set them once, decide when to send and who to send to. Then forget about it and simply lean back while Aweber does all of the sending for you.

Aweber Service

Aweber offers free customer service to all of its customers, based in Pennsylvania in the United States. Their customer service is available Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 8 PM EST, and Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM EST. Support is offered over the phone, through email, or through an online chat. Aweber prides itself on the response time of its customer service team as well as their expertise. All Aweber customer service agents complete individual training and are kept up to date with classes.

Aweber also features an online knowledge base with instant answers to frequently asked questions. There are detailed instructions and clear explanations covering basic through advanced topics, to ensure that all of the common issues email marketers faced are addressed.

All Aweber customers have access to their free, live webinars. These events take place weekly and are live video training where you can have your questions and concerns addressed. You can also hear other marketers’ concerns and ideas, and watch past videos at any time you want.

Last but not least, Aweber offers the service of sending their blog posts directly to your inbox. This lets you read email marketing tips from Aweber’s experts, stay up to date on email industry trends, and if you choose, add your own comments to the conversation.

Aweber is an excellent choice for anyone looking to start an email list and use autoresponders to grow their business. Their combination of reasonable prices, great features, timely support, and teaching their customers makes them ahead of the pack in the autoresponder industry.

What’s a targeted traffic made of?

The people that wants to find on Internet, what you are offering on your web site, and visit your web site, are called targeted traffic
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What kind of traffic will visit your web site?

You will be visited by:

*  People that where looking for other kind of products and services and arrived there by mistake
*  People that are looking for similar things to those that you offer at your site
*  People that are looking for what you have to offer

You must certainly try to avoid the visits of the first group, and encourage the second and the third group people

The second group, are targeted traffic, and even when they are not going to buy YOUR products, may buy Affiliate Program’s products offered at your web site or provide you a source of income through Adsense

And the third group, is the kind of targeted traffic that’s going to arrive to your web site, with a desire of finding what you are offering, and most probably buy it from you.

The targeted traffic might not be in a buying mood the day that they visit your web site, but they will be receptive to your offerings, and if you give them a reason to return to your web site (having a good content site), they might buy from you in the future.

You may have heard that what you need in order to do a good business with Internet is traffic, tons of traffic. But you don’t need just traffic, you need TARGETED traffic because is the only kind of visitors that will provide you a revenue.

So you don’t need any visitors, you need qualified or targeted visitors that will respond with a positive attitude, and will want to read what you say at your site.

Can you do business with untargeted traffic?

Yes, you can, but it will cost you much more money and time to do it.

For every 100 or 1000 bulk untargeted visitors you might find one that’s really interested in your offer, but if you are in a pay per click campaign you will need to pay for 100 or 1000 clicks to get each sale.

If you are trying to drive traffic through the search engines, is the same, you will need 100 or 1000 times more visitors to get the ones that really care for what you offer.

How can you get targeted traffic?

The most cost efficient way to attract targeted traffic to your web site, is utilizing the search engines, the directories, and links from other related sites.

And how will they provide you with targeted traffic?

They will do it if you reach a high ranking, because if you have the right product or service for your targeted customers, and when they search for it on the search engines or directories, you have your site on place 400, they most likely NEVER find you or buy from you.

So high ranking on the search engines will not only provide you with your targeted traffic, they will also provide you with credibility, and people that find you on their lists, will arrive to your web site, with the kind of mood that you need in a visitor.

How To Make the Most of a Free Internet Marketing Tool

Are you looking for the best free internet marketing tool? The bad news is that it is probably hard to determine the best one, since it depends on your business, your target audience, the marketplace, and other issues. But the good news is that there are many that you can take advantage of to build your image/brand and obtain leads and sales.

One of the most popular free tools today is Twitter. Its popularity increases exponentially every month and many new free “Twitter-enhancing” products have also come out that can allow you to automate your Twitter account and save time. Twitter is extremely easy to use. Sign up for an account, upload your picture, write a brief description of what you want to say, and include whatever url you would like to promote, such as your website or an affiliate link. Next, you “tweet” something out to the world. Try to keep it conversational and social. Avoid too much promotion. If someone likes what you have to say, they will check out your profile and your link. Then, you will look for people to follow–people who could be interested in what you are offering. You can search by keyword to target the audience that you would like to follow. When you follow someone, they will generally follow you back, and then you can let them know more about yourself and what you have to offer, and they will do the same.

Another very fundamental-to-your-online-business free internet marketing tool is the Google Keyword Research Tool. No matter what kind of marketing you do online, you will need to tap into the keywords that are relevant to your business. You will use these keywords in your blog, website, PPC ads, articles, videos, and any other type of marketing that you do. And the free Google tool allows you to find the exact keywords to target in your promotions–for free. Simply type in a word or phrase that relates to your business, and the tool will provide you with a list of all related keywords that people are typing in, how many people are typing each term, and how competitive the terms are (how many other marketers are using them in their marketing efforts).

Videos are another very powerful, and free, way to market your business. All you need is a web-cam or a digital camera, and one to ten minutes of time to make a video. Simply upload it to YouTube or any of the other video sites, write a description of what you are speaking about in your video (make sure to include the right keywords), and include your link, and you’ve got a magnet for people who are searching for whatever it is that you are speaking about or demonstrating on your video.

As you can see, there is more than just one free internet marketing tool that you can use to promote your business or affiliate products.

Here are 7 important online marketing tips for beginners. We all have to start somewhere and there is a learning curve for selling information and products on the internet. That is why I wanted to provide you with the best online marketing tips that I have developed.

1.) An online marketing tip that I would advise everyone to take is to take some time to learn a system. Almost every system can produce results. Don’t go from one system to the next. Take some time to learn one system.

2.) Take action! People get stuck with “analysis paralysis.” Once you have settled on a system and learned the basics, don’t be afraid to take action. Get out there and do it. If you make mistakes, so be it. You will have setbacks, but don’t worry about it. Fail fast and fail forward.

3.) Learn to write sales copy. Perhaps the most important online marketing tip I can give you is to learn to write sales copy. There may come a time when you outsource this task to professional copywriters, but knowing the basics yourself will allow you to evaluate their work. Besides, you probably can’t afford to spend thousands of dollars right now on a professional, so learning to do it yourself is important.

4.) Learn to write articles quickly. One of the best ways to promote your products is to write articles like this one and submit them to directories. But, if it takes you 2 hours to write a single article, you will not be able to put out the quantity needed to make money online. One expert has a system down where he can write articles in just 7 minutes. While it will probably take you more than that at first, strive to write at least two an hour. They don’t have to pass your 10th grade English teacher’s muster, they just have to send people to your site.

5.) Consider Pay Per Click. PPC is the quickest way to deliver traffic to your website. However, if you don’t learn how to do it, you can lose your shirt. If you have a product that you want to start selling right away, PPC is the best avenue for you. But learn the ins and outs before you bid on high priced, high trafficked keywords.

6.) Create processes. You shouldn’t re-invent the wheel every time you create a new product or a new web site. Instead, have a specific system. Develop your own guide book to setting up a blog or promoting an ebook. Not only will this save you time in the long run, it will also help you make more money. This is one of those online marketing tips that so many marketers miss.

7.) Create value. Don’t think that internet marketing is all about taking your customer’s money. Don’t think of your customers as “marks.” Develop relationships with them and provide value to them. It’s much harder to get an initial customer than have someone who trusts you buy from you again.

So, there are seven online marketing tips to get you going. Now, go get started!

Link building is one of the many tasks you need to allot time to when you’re marketing online. And what business isn’t marketing online nowadays? Link building refers to both incoming links and your internal linking structure. This article will provide you with some of the link building tips to get you started in the right direction.

First of all, before you even put your link building strategy into place, you want to make sure you are offering top-notch quality and information on your site. This is the foundation that holds it all together. Interesting and informative content will bring more links to your blog naturally, without you having to go out searching for them.

Make use of blog directories. There are quite a few blog directories where you can pick up a link to your blog. Just to mention a few. . .BlogHer is more geared towards women and BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog also include a social aspect to them. These can give you many ways to increase the number of incoming links to your blog just by registering.

Once you have a good amount of compelling content published on your blog, approach other bloggers with equal or more authority than your blog (you’ll have to find this out by using various tools) and suggest a blogrooll reciprocal link. It’s better to do this (1) when your blogs are relevant to each other and (2) when you have already been in contact with your potential link partner.

This is one of the best link building tips: Write an Article on another site that allows guests. Just make sure that you add content to blogs that are higher ranked than yours.

Holding blog contests is a very effective way to drive traffic to your blog and increase your quantity of incoming links. How do you do this? You can actually promote your blog contest on a variety of blog contest promotion sites. You can even “bribe” contestants with extra entries if they write an article on their blog which links back to your article about the contest.

Create other content that links to your blog or even create another blog that links to your blog. And the key to making the most of this other content is to comment on other people’s content. When you comment, make sure that you include the link back to your blog. It’s important to remember that your comments should be informative and interesting, not simply spamming others with your link.

Joining forums is a great way to start building relationships with people and getting your blog noticed. Just make sure you include your blog url in your profile and signature.

Similarly, participating in social networking sites like Facebook allows you more opportunities to
make your blog more visible. You will most likely include the link to your blog in the profile areas.

Hopefully these link building tips will be useful for you and your business.

WordPress is one of the most powerful marketing tools that are available on the internet today. It can be used to create a blog for your internet business or your very own website to promote your product. What is really great about WordPress is that you can create either of these in a matter of minutes even if you do not know how to do HTML. The key to a successful WordPress blog or website is the SEO Capability. Here a few tips that you can use on your WordPress Marketing blog or website to make it SEO capable.

1. Titles:
In the permalinks section of your WordPress marketing software you have the option of date and name based.  This option will place the year, month, date, and post title in your URL.  For the SEO webcrawlers it is best to have the site of your site appear in the front of this URL.  So instead of using the basic URL you should choose the custom URL and create a link that has your site name appearing first.

2. Page Titles:
You will need to make sure you have good titles on all of your webpages.  Just as you put the site name at the beginning of your URL you will need to do the same thing with your page title.

3. Post Titles:
The post titles that you choose should be clearly written.  Do not stuff these titles with keywords that you are using to target your site or blog. Choose your keywords carefully when you are posting and get those words in your post title.

4. Permalinks:
You need to be sure that you are using permalinks on your WordPress site.  By default your WordPress software contains web URL’s which contain question marks and numbers inside of them. These links are hard for the search engine web crawlers to attach themselves to. As a result your site will not be indexed as fast as it would normally be.  WordPress also, however, does offer you the opportunity to create custom URL’s for both your permalinks and archives.  You will be able to find this option under your Administration panel.  All you will have to do is to choose the options panel then click on permalinks.

5. Tags:
Tags are a great addition to your site on a SEO standpoint. They will enable the search engines web crawlers’ crawl through your site more easily and also it will allow you to create specific pages for your tags and keywords. You can also install the Ultimate Tag Warrior for your WordPress.

6. Autolinks:
You will also need to cross link to your own posts and pages in your content. You do this by linking keywords to your relevant posts.

7. Relevant Posts:
Be sure to post links to related posts under all your postings. This will help the web crawlers that are crawling through your site and indexing all of your posts.

8. Ping Services:
Each time you post or edit either a posting or a page your Wordpress blog can notify a variety of different sites that you have updated your blog.  It is very important that you use this step.

9. Google Sitemaps:
Google has a tool for you that are called Google Sitemaps. This tool will help you index your site and allows you to tell Google which pages are the most important.

10. Categories:
Categories will help you organize your content. If you have your permalinks turned on, the category names will appear in your URL. This is why it is very important that you name your category names very carefully. Try and make sure that you use keywords to name your categories and do not be afraid to make loads of them. WordPress gives you the ability to use sub categories and sub-subcategories so make as many categories you can. This way you are able to down your focus on certain keyword phrases.

Creating a WordPress site that is SEO ready is simple if you know how to do it correctly. Using these steps can help you create a great SEO site in no time.