The Honest Way

How to Make Money Online Primer

2008-10-24T12:07:00.004+02:00

Hi again all you honest people out there! My last post Indexing Search Engines?, was a shortish info article about how you shouldn't expect to stay static in the SERPs especially with newish sites due to the more fluid approach the search engines seem to be taking with their indeces.

Well, that aside, many people are still floundering around trying to figure out how to make money online by writing about the same subject in their make money online blogs and wondering why they're not making any money!

Well, one of the not so well kept secrets to the whole ethos of the make money online idea is really to stay out of the MMO arena altogether and concentrate on far less competitive niches. While that may sound, to a newcomer to be gobbledygook, its actually a proven fact.

The MMO niche is so saturated with everybody and his dog trying to earn easy money from the Internet that the vast majority (I'm talking 95% plus here) simply are not actually making enough to cover the cost of their cheap hosting account.

The smart money is in the less competitive niches where there is less money to be made but a heck of a better chance of making it.

So the honest advice for today is to find a few low competition niches where people have a need for something, be it a product or information, then build your sites to target the long tail keywords associated with those niches. Build relevant, original content on and links to your sites, because that's the only way you're going to get any authority in each of the search engines' index placements, which will send targeted traffic to your site, then put up your ads, be they PPCm affiliate or lead generation and you should start seeing the dollars coming in. Not in great wads, but a steady stream that you can then build upon by targeting more fresh, low competition niches.

While all that's happening and you can see the money start to appear in your paypal or bank account, then you can start on the very long term projects of targeting more competitive niches.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Indexing Search Engines?

2008-08-05T10:22:00.004+02:00

Following on from that last post A Writer's Incredible Means to Make Money from the Internet, which was a bit of a mouthful, but typical of a freelance writer's way with words, it's time to tun my attention once again to gathering links to boost a site's SERPs authority.

It seems that a certain search engine is tinkering with their algorithms so much that the index is in a constant state of flux. This is probably fine for a casual surfer looking for some information on whatever, but a veritable pain the the rear for a more serious surfer who found a great site yesterday and wants to go back there today but forgot to bookmark it. They go back to the same search engine, type in the same keyword phrase but the site they found yesterday has disappeared!

How annoying must that be!

Well from a marketer's point of view its equally annoying especially if it was your site that particular surfer wants to visit again, maybe to buy something they saw on your site! I can see how that would be a tad annoying!

So for the one part, the search engines fluctuating index might be a good way to deal with spammers who are for ever trying to flood their index with crap sites that are full of ads and nothing else of value. For another part it can frustrate surfers looking to re-visit sites they found one day that are gone the next for no good reason other than the index is more fluid to frustrate spammers.

And of course for the other part it frustrates honest website owners who are trying to build up a legitimate commercial business online with websites that sell merchandise and provide useful information as well.

While there is no definite proof as to what makes the SE indexes tick exactly, it does appear that older, more established sites are left well and truly alone, while newer sites that are trying to carve out their own equally legitimate businesses are being thrown all over the place like they were no better than spammers themselves!

I would have thought that with the technical expertise and sheer weight of experience and ability available to that certain search engine that they'd have their index fixed to provide both information and commercial sites of legitimacy an equal standing in their index while actually dealing with the thin affiliate or MFA sites accordingly.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

A Writer's Incredible Means to Make Money from the Internet

2008-07-04T12:29:00.003+02:00

Following on from ny last post Domains vs Free Blogs, I'd like to mention a great way to make money writing.

Writing content for your own websites is a very important part of developing an interesting SEO friendly home where readers can be certain of a good read.

But it doesn't end there. I’d like to extol the virtues of a truly great additional source of income for anyone who is interested in making some cash from writing. That’s a place known as Constant Content.

Constant Content are an article/content brokerage website resembling the popular Associated Content (AC). The difference between the two is that Constant Content accepts written work from writers situated worldwide, whereas AC accepts only writers that live in the United States.

The potential amount of money that can be made from Constant Content are much greater than you would expect to earn from Associated Content. This is chiefly due to the fact that the way of selling your articles is rather different for each company.

Associated Content will take your article and pay you straight away for it. The amount is normally around $5-$7 per 500 word article, although that figure may increase the longer you are a member and the greater the number of articles you submit (which are accepted) to approximately $10 per article. The articles you submit then become the property of Associated Content, which they can then sell on to website owners as “usage” rights. This means they are able to resell each of your articles again and again meaning they are not unique. I guess we all know what Google's take on duplicate content is by now.

Constant Content, on the other hand are rather different. When you submit your article to Constant Content, you state the way you want it to be sold. It can be from a choice of either "usage" (the cheapest), "unique" or "full rights" (the most expensive).

This is so important to know. The majority of content buyers visit Constant Content looking to buy "full rights" articles. This means they become the sole owners of that article and can put their name to it as their own work, which is the main reason why it's the most popular. It is also guaranteed as original and unique content, which further adds to its appeal.

As to earning money, for a 500 word, "full rights" article, the usual fee is around $40. Of this, the author makes 65% ($26), while the remaining 35% is taken as commission and expenses by Constant Content.

Another difference of importance is that Constant Content do not pay you, the author for your article right away as does Associated Content. What happens is that your article remains in your own portfolio on the site and waits for a content buyer to select it. That’s the major downside and one reason why so many potentially accomplished authors drop out. People are often impatient and don't wish to be made to hang around for their article to be sold.

However, for those writers that are prepared to wait, once an article is sold, you get paid by Constant Content at the commencement of each month. This is how to make money online. Logic dictates that the more articles you store in your portfolio, then the more articles you will sell. Over time, your portfolio will grow and provide you with a ongoing flow of earnings as long as you continue to keep submitting more articles in order to keep it growing. As an author, you will begin to become known by a lot of the frequent content buyers and if they like your work in your portfolio, you might very well be asked to do private work for them, which many of the main authors there do. This can actually become extremely lucrative.

Wouldn't you like to collect $26 for a 500 word article and maybe wait some time for it, than get a paltry $5-7 straight away.

If you feel like this might be something you'd be tempted to have a go at, please visit my website at the link in my bio box below.

I personally recommend Constant Content if you want to make extra cash from your writing work and don’t mind being patient.

Of course, if you need cash fast and don’t mine being paid less than a third of what you’re work is worth, go for AC by all means. Ok, that was a low swipe, but the truth often hurts!

Here are some timely tips.

Always continue submitting your best quality articles. While you may not sell any right away, have faith but submit more articles and before you know it, your first article will sell. Its a great feeling and will prompt you to submit even more. By submitting your work constantly and often, more sales will soon follow.

To help you decide what topics to write about, Constant Content publish a list of content requested by buyers both on the site and via email to each author. Even if they don’t buy yours, it increases your chances of selling your artucles to another buyer. Its also a handy gauge as what subjects are hot amongst buyers.

If you want to sign-up with them, here is a handy link: Constant Content

So good luck with earning cash from your articles!

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
The Honest Way

Domains vs Free Blogs

2008-05-02T16:26:00.004+02:00

Following on from my last post here Alexa Gaming, where I spoofed the holy grail of gaming your Alexa rank in order to draw advertisers to your blog, I'd like to draw attention to a post I made over at another blog as it is a poignant view on blogging.

Here is the first paragraph:

There are many people who like to use free blogs not just for the enjoyment and personal satisfaction of writing down their thoughts and publishing them on the web, but also for Internet Marketing purposes in the pursuit of making money. Likewise, there are many people who prefer to buy their own domains and host them on a professional server, for much the same purpose...

Read the full article here: Domains vs Free Blogs

You may be thinking to yourself, hey, wait a minute, isn't he doing what he hates being done to himself in stealing content?

Nope.

As I'm the author of the article, I reserve the right to promote my own work by publishing small snippets of it on other websites and blogs that I own. That way, I not only widen the viewer base of that work, I can also legitimately give it a link to boost its own authority on the page it lives on. Better for the blog owner where its published and better for me by giving it a wider audience.

Win-win is the term, I believe...

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writers
The Honest Way

Alexa Gaming

2008-04-25T20:37:00.002+02:00

Hi again, it's been a while sinc my last post Honest Work, so I thought it woukd be nice to post something useful in here for all those people looking at the possibilities of gaming Alexa, or more correctly gaming your Alexa rank.

Let's face it, most advertisers and would-be sources of revenue for your blog all look very closely at your Alexa rank to see how much traffic your site is attracting, whether its make money online or work from home or another niche altogether. So you can see the importance of having a good Alexa rank to make your site or blog stand out from the rank and file crowd.

But what if your Alexa rank stinks?

Well then you need to do something about making that Alexa rank look a whole lot better than your site really is. To do that you need to be able to game Alexa into fooling it that your site or blog is attracting a whole lot more traffic than it actually is. Basically, you need a good Alexa rank reading in the Alexa toolbar, often known as Sparky, which would-be advertisers and make money sources can see so they can determine that yoru site or blog is getting a shedload of traffic and they will want to pay you top dollar for placing an ad on your blog.

So we have that straight then?

Well, how is that done? How do you game your Alexa rank to make it look like you are really attracting great numbers of traffic to your site?

Hell if I know.

I didn't say I knew how to game your Alexa rank, I just said that if your site was getting crap traffic then you should fix it so that yoru Alexa rank looks beter than it really is. Of course you can't really game your Alexa rank, but you can help it along some by going around all the blogs you like to read and commenting in them with a link back to your site and hope the owner or some of the readers of the comments will come and visit your place.

But then you would be getting better traffic anyway, so yoru Alexa rank will go up naturally.

By the way, don't expect to make money from that rent-a-crowd of bloggers either. You won't.

But that's for anotehr post.

So long for5 now,

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
The Honest Way

Honest Work

2008-02-25T18:22:00.000+01:00

Well, it seems I'm approaching the 100 mark for my assortment of self hosted websites and blogs, free blogs and Squidoo lenses so things are rather hectic as I try to keep on top of them all!

Anyone still reading this blog may notice that I don't get to post in ANY of my blogs with the frequency that I used to, which is a knock-on effect of building up my portfolio and working them all into well stocked sites and blogs.

I've been moving into several different niches in the endless quest for money online, which to be honest is a tough target to hit with so much competition out there. But patience and toil are the two main virtues that will see this honest project through to its logical conclusion.

So stick around and visit my other, more worked on sites and see what's going on these days!

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
The Honest Way

Happy Christmas Everbody

2007-12-24T23:12:00.000+01:00

Here's wishing everyone a really happy, honest Christmas and a very prosperous New Year from The Honest Way!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Another New Blog

2007-12-22T17:49:00.000+01:00

The Honest Way announces another new blog in the family of make money blogs. This one's called Money Hints, and the domain is the first of the expired domains that I have been looking at and buying.

This first one was my first mistake, actually in that I liked the name as it lends itself nicely to a make money blog, but after I bought it I found out that you can buy expired domains that come with some PR.

So since this purchase, I have bought 3 more domains all with PR6.

I'll post when I take ownership of them and get new blogs up and running on them as well

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

The Honest Way to Blag a Blog

2007-11-30T21:56:00.000+01:00

The Honest Way to blag a blog is to use an almost unused blog to promote another blog!

Well if that sounds strange, it's not and it's perfectly honest!

So this blog was used more often in the past to push some link juice to it's big brother, my main Honest Way site and blog by simply mentioning it in posts and linking to it - like this one is doing right now.

Another use it to give a little something to some of my other free blogs that need a link or two to get them going. So here's some link juice to my other free blogs:

PayDay Loans Page
My Designer Bag
Bob Marley Music Page
Jennifer Lopez Music Page
Cheap Digital eBooks
Celebrity Gossip Page

And here's some for my other self hosted blogs:

Make Money
Make Money Blog
Alternative Cures
For Dogs
Natural and Organic Food
Hypnosis

It makes it worth while keeping this one going after all, because none of these free blogs that I have in here are just sitting idly by gathering cyber-dust. They all have a purpose.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Beware Plagiarism!

2007-10-26T20:46:00.000+02:00

Watch out, watch out, there's a thief about!

Content thieving sites are out there stealing your content. They then use it on their own crappy sites that are full of adsense ads. But you can hit back and turn this into your advantage.

In every blog post, make sure you place a few anchor links back to your own blog, like this one to The Honest Way Blog. So that when these low-lives steal your content, they inadvertently give you a free backlink! Even if they delete your signature at the end of each blog post (where you should always include a link to your blog), by placing the links throughout your post, you stand a very good chance of getting a backlink.

And duplicate content?

The search engines accredit your blog with the original post thanks to the time and date stamp of the article, so the plagiarizing sites get hit for having the duplicate content, not you.

So it's one of those things that you can fight fire with fire and have the last laugh.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Honest Way to Make Money

2007-10-21T22:39:00.000+02:00

The Honest way to make money is a difficult path to go down.

Why?

Because while people respect honesty and integrity, they don't throw money at it. I've found this to be true since getting involved with internet marketing almost a year ago. While I've made money, it hasn't been a great deal. At the same time, I see others who resort to less than honest tactics to make money do so in much greater amounts than my honest methods.

What does that tell me?

I need to work harder at what I'm doing. The search engines don't help you when you're honest - at least that's the way it seems.

I've been trying to gain a decent page rank for The Honest Way blog so that I can use it to make money the honest way by writing paid reviews and by attracting text ads. But despite attracting a good regular readership, lots of good backlinks and a decent Alexa ranking, Google hasn't lifted that blog off the PR0 floor, so my potential earnings from honest sources is still very limited.

I'm the eternal optimist, however.

I'll simply keep slogging away, writing my ass off to keep the content fresh and interesting over there and call in here every so often to let off steam!

So if you're here reading this and you want to learn how to make money the honest way, then please head over to my main blog The Honest Way (or the two satellite blogs I also set up called Make Money and Make Money Blog) where you'll find between them an absolute ton of free information!

Here's to your success

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

WidgetBucks

2007-10-15T17:30:00.000+02:00

I just read in my travels that top blogger John Chow has unveiled yet another fantastic way to make money online with your blog. It's called WidgetBucks.

I was well impressed by what I read, so I went straight over there and signed up! It looks like it could be a desperately needed replacement for either Auction Ads or more importantly Adsense, especially if you are a blogger outside the US.

I just blogged about it on my Make Money blog, so if you want to read the full post with what it's all about, head over there now by clicking HERE: Make Money

Earn $$ with WidgetBucks

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Articles and Content Are the New Kings

2007-10-07T12:22:00.000+02:00

Over at The Honest Way I'm still posting regular updates on the blog to keep the momentum going and to try to get Google to see what a great, content packed site it is, so they'll graciously give me some PR.

After all, the word on the street is that Google are still tweaking their algorithm in favour of good quality, content packed sites that offer lots of information and entertainment for their readers.

This means that content is indeed king!

So I've got my finger crossed that all that hard work and writing tons of informational articles into the wee hours of the night will eventually pay off and The Honest Way and it's post-packed blog will get the PR they deserve!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

Don't Waste $100 on This Rip Off!

2007-10-04T21:31:00.000+02:00

Over at my main blog, The Honest Way, I expose a new rip off that's spreading across the internet marketing world in the form of a "Buy a page on the million dollar wiki site for $100".

The promise is that once you have your page, you will have a ton of traffic flooding to it's doors courtesy of the main high profile site the page is attached to.

Unfortunately, all that will happen is that any traffic your page generates will go to increasing the rank of the hosting site. You will have to generate that traffic yourself - it won't just come to you without any work.

So you might as well create a free blog and do the same thing.

The difference?

$100!

Read the full account over at The Honest Way Blog

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Don't Buy Me A Beer Either!

2007-09-30T20:52:00.000+02:00

I've already blogged about this growing trend amongst bloggers who have a small icon with a beer mug or a coffee cup saying something like:

If you like this blog, please donate so I can keep drinking coffee to keep me awake so I can keep writing... or some such nonsense.

Really!

Buy me a beer? Buy me a cafe latte? More like "Got change for a cuppa, guv?" as the tramp standing outside the greasy spoon with his hand out might say to the passing businessman in a suit.

Yep - it's begging. No other word for it.

If you don't want to encourage tramps, you don't give them money, right?

So that's why you'll never see me on any of my blogs asking for handouts - I'm not a beggar, I'm an online businessman who would much prefer to sell you something rather than take money from you for nothing.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Private Advertising The Honest Way

2007-09-25T20:24:00.000+02:00

Over at my main blog, I just posted about a great opportunity to invest in some private advertising with the site at a greatly discounted price.

So if you are looking to use a blog to get the word out, whether you want to use text ads, banner ads or have a review written especially for your site or blog, head over to The Honest Way Blog and check out the new "Advertise Here" page on the menu bar.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

An Online Version of QVC?

2007-09-13T14:04:00.001+02:00

You are among the first to hear about and potentially profit from this.

Now most of you will have heard of QVC, the cable TV show that advertises stuff and sells it all at bargain prices every day! This show attracts an incredible number of viewers.

Well, imagine a similar thing in the online world.

I just heard about this and was impressed enough to jump right on it.

DealDotCom have what looks like a killer affiliate program to go with their new site that will sell one item per day at a huge discount! I signed up as an affiliate and would love to extend the offer to you too. You can click on one of the links and be nice to me by signing up with my link - then start promoting it yourself and get people to sign up with yours!

The best bit is: It’s free to sign up!

Just like QVC, they sell consumer goods at bargain basement prices. As an affiliate, for every customer that you send there who buys, you get paid! The site is in pre-launch at the moment but is about to go live any day now.

So what are you waiting for?

You can click here: DealDotCom to go to their site.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

Blogging With Intent

2007-09-08T10:41:00.000+02:00

The whole reason this blog was put up in the first place was to hopefully drive lots of curious visitors to the main website.

Once there, they will be able to see what's going on in terms of new free to read articles, resources and information to help anyone coming into the business of Internet Marketing to get started and do things the right way and at least stand a chance of succeeding in this cut-throat business!

Well it wasn't long before I realised that it made more sense from a traffic and popularity point of view to set up this blog on the main host, which I did. But I didn't delete this one, because I came to the conclusion back then that it would still have some value in terms of helping the main site and its new blog with its traffic flow.

To some extent it has, but I made the mistake of leaving this to stew for a few months with no new entries and that was a shame, because had I kept up with this, it would now be a useful additional source of income from advertising.

Why, well as I mentioned in a previous post, this blog managed to get a PR1 from Google, which, while not a massive accolade was at least better than the blog on the main host ever got. Which meant that any links from here to the main site carried a little more weight and could help with the rating over there.

Well, maybe it will be enough to tip the balance in the right direction - we'll see.

For now, it's still worth keeping this blog fed with new posts because people do read it and will be curious to see the other blogs I author and hopefully learn a whole lot of stuff from my main The Honest Way site!

So if you haven't already been over to see what's new, so there now - you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

A Little Honest Info

2007-08-30T22:21:00.000+02:00

A short post to mention the recent success of the main site and its blog (and forum).

The Honest Way is getting over 200 visits a day now and most of that is attributed to the blog. The stats have been increasing every month since its inception, so I must be doing something right!

The Alexa rank for the whole site is around 113,000 and falling (lower is good), so that's also good news.

Still haven't picked up a page rank for the blog yet. How this one managed to even get a PR1 baffles me - hardly anything links to it! The Honest Way blog has been collecting back-links from all over the place in the last month or so. Hopefully, when Google next take a good hard look at it, they might give it some PR love!

Terry

First of the New Make Money Blogs

2007-08-22T19:25:00.002+02:00

I've been busy just lately with the creation of some new blogs and websites. I'll concentrate on the first of my new "Make Money" blogs, called unsurprisingly, Make Money!

I built it as a subdomain of my Honest Way site to prove an SEO theory that I have, that having your main keywords in your domain name count plenty in your favour when fighting the "Battle of the Search Engines". So it was originally put together as a new website with an articles page, a resource page, sitemap etc, but while all the work to create it was going on, I made a further discovery that changed everything.

It was nothing really new or unknown, just something I hadn't really thought about or put into practice, but that blogs were the new thing with Google et al and they love them because they are a natural source of constantly updated and relevant content.

Add to that the business of Page Rank (or PR).

Take any website, and in the webmaster's efforts to gain a decent page rank, he will do a lot of off-site SEO as well as on-site SEO. The off-site SEO consists of gaining popularity through links from other relevant sites. But the thing about this is, that most sites, when they put up a link to your site, will naturally point those links to your homepage. All well and good, and in good time the page rank of that homepage will increase as Google sees fit.

But what about your blog? It is common with websites to have a corresponding blog - often hosted on a sub-page of the main site, like all the other sub-pages. These are generally not linked to from other websites, so their PR remains low or non-existent.

So if you want a decent page rank for your blog, you either have to do all that off-site SEO again for the blog page, or make the blog the homepage of the website in the first place. That way, visitors to your site hit the blog first and read all your new and constantly updated content. Then they can browse through your site's other pages as well if they want.

What has happened is that visitors to your site have made a mental note that the blog is of interest and will bookmark it or make a point of returning often to see what is new. Better for your site's traffic stats and better for your site's readers, as they are getting new content every time they visit. You get the page rank your blog deserves.

Win-win!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

The Resurrection...

2007-08-14T15:56:00.000+02:00

Ok, this blog sort of died for a while as I was concentrating on my other websites and blogs. But now I think it's time to do a bit of a resurrection on it and breathe some new life back into the old dog!

I have a few more sites dotted about the place now so I'll be updating the link list here as well as adding some bits and pieces of interest to rekindle the popularity this once had. I'll link back here from my sites as well because although it has a close sister over at the main Honest Way website, the posts here will be different. That's mainly to avoid duplicate content, but also to widen the scope of my readership.

So watch out - here I come again!!!!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

The Honest Way Blog

2007-04-24T20:26:00.000+02:00

Hi all,

The Honest Way Blog at the main website has been updated a few times since my last post here. My apologies, but time has been a little tight recently as I have a lot of things going on now.

I was pondering the idea of shutting down this blog to concentrate on the website's hosted blog. Not too sure that's a good idea, as this one's been up and running much longer and still has a big readership. So for the present time at lease, I'll keep this one going in parallel with the website blog.

The updates are there for you to see, so if you want to know what's been happening oiver there, click the link below and check it out!

Terry Didcott
THE (OTHER) HONEST WAY BLOG

Article Writing and Constant Content

2007-04-13T20:12:00.000+02:00

I've put together quite a comprehensive blog report on the article submission site, Constant Content over at the home site's blog.

I don't want to duplicate that post here (because I don't like duplicated content), so if you are interested in writing articles to make an income online, it's is something that you should read.

Follow this link to go straight there: The Honest Way Blog, or go to The Honest Way website and click on "BLOG" in the menu bar.

Take some time to read it. It could change your life!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

AWeber?

2007-04-05T10:24:00.000+02:00

Welcome back! I've just finished setting up a free trial promo that those masters of the autoresponder, AWeber are pushing on their site's affiliate page. They give you the code to create a small opt-in box that goes straight to them (it doesn't count towards you list) but they then promote themselves to whoever fills in the form which gives you a better chance at an affiliate sign-up.

And there should be plenty of takers as all internet marketers need an autoresponder and AWeber are the best in the business! If you haven't set one up yet, take a look at AWeber and see for yourself.

Now, having given them the benefit of a nice plug, I'm going to give them a bit of a rollicking.

I'm picky when it comes to code and as I've built what I belive is a damn nice site in The Honest Way and I've spent time and effort to ensure all my code is xhtml 1.0 compliant. So I don't really appreciate third party code messing it up with things like nested tables. Yep, for all their high profile in the online world, AWeber are still giving out prehistoric html code for their opt-in forms that contain nested tables, repeating <font> tags and other nasties. Ugh!

So I had to spend time modifying their code to work with a <div> tag using css to create the style. But it's worth it as it looks better and the w3c people prefer clean html/xhtml.

End of rant.

The Honest Way News

The "other" Honest Way Blog is coming along nicely with it's second post pinged to all and sundry yesterday. The Honest Way Forum is also enjoying a good start in life as we now have 20 members at the last count and I predict that number to double by the end of the week. So if you haven't registered yet, now's the time if you still want to get in early.

That's all for today. Thanks for dropping by and having a look at what's happening here.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

The Scaling Down

2007-04-02T00:56:00.000+02:00

This new post is actually an announcement of the arrival of the all new Honest Way Blog.

It can be found living on The Honest Way server at http//www.thehonestway.com/blog/. I've posted its first instalment and will be making all the major posts regarding the website there instead of here.

Having said that, I haven't gone to all the trouble of promoting this blog only to let it fall by the wayside. Oh no.

I'll be posting here too in tandem with the live blog so as to keep up the link structure that I have been slowly building over the past few weeks. How I shall use this blog from now on will be more of a pointer to things happening over at The Honest Way and elaborating in more detail on the new blog.

So keep looking in here, because the content will be different to that on the new blog and I'll probably keep things separate and distinct, so there will be two different sources of information and content pertaining to the day to day life of The Honest Way.

Thanks for calling in and keeping up with events
Call back again soon, won't you!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Now you can opt-in!

2007-03-25T20:16:00.000+02:00

It's taken longer than I expected - and this was supoosed to be ready last Sunday when the site went live - but today saw the implementation of the sacred opt-in form on my homepage! I've been preaching this in my eighth article about the several ways in which your business can fail. One of them is failure to build a list.

Oh well, ho hum, stammer, mumble... Not good enough, is it?

That glaring omission has at last been put right and I now have the required opt-in box especially for the purpose. Well, now I can sleep at night.

Another change to the site has been the big move of the member's forum from the freehosting server over to my own at HostGator. The reasons for this are few but important.

1. My own server guarantees better uptime.

2. By occupying a page on the website, site traffic will increase.

3. Content will continuously be added and changed. Search engines like that!

4. More people will get to know about my site through word of mouth (or post!)

All in all a very good move, methinks! Now at the moment, there are, of course no members on the forum as it hasn't been advertised yet. That is about to change. My next awsome task is to visit every forum and message board I know and welcome all comers to my forum.

They'll come.

In dribs and drabs at first, granted, but come they will. Why? Because I have created a forum thread purely for blatant ads to be posted - the only proviso being you have to register first. Plenty of marketers will do that purely because it is another place to advertise for free and we all do it. But some will stop and post meaningful topics too and the serious side of the forum will gradually grow.

As traffic to the forum grows, content will increase and change more rapidly, the search engines will like it even more and the site's rating will also improve. Good theory, no?

So that's about all for today's post. Lots of exciting things happening and more looming on the horizon for The Honest Way.

Thanks for looking in, see you again soon!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
http://www.thehonestway.com

Article Writing

2007-03-22T07:47:00.000+01:00

As part of the promotion of THE HONEST WAY, I submit articles to Ezine Articles on a regular basis.

The reason for this is that lots of people read through the list of articles posted there and will come across my informative articles. These articles contain a link back to The Honest Way. Should the reader be sufficiently impressed with the content of the article they just read (and I'm sure they will), they will click the link and head over to The Honest Way to see what it's all about out of curiosity.

That visitor might already be thinking about purchasing a product or service to help them with their online business in some way, be it getting started, boosting sales, attracting visitors to their website etc. So when they see the list of great products and services on offer at The Honest Way, they'll be tempted to click on the one that most suits their needs to get more information from the owner of that product or service. Should they go on to purchase the product or service, The Honest Way benefits with affiliate commission from the sale, the owner of the product makes another sale and the buyer has a great product to help them with their online business.

That sounds like a win-win-win situation!

Isn't that what an internet business should be achieving all the time?

Thanks for calling in and reading my concise post on submitting articles. Please come back again soon for more instalments and updates. And if you do happen to be looking for a certain product to help either starting up, or boosting the effectivemness of your online business, please take a look at The Honest Way and see which product best suits your needs.

You might just find the one thing that will boost your online business to the next level of success!

Terry Didcott

Now There's a Forum!

2007-03-19T20:03:00.001+01:00

Forums are great places to meet people and get acquainted with new friends online. Forums that concentrate on how to make money online are springing up all over the place so I thought it wouldn't hurt to add another one to the growing army of member's forums hatching out all over cyberspace.

I added a forum to the main Honest Way site late last night to give visitors the chance to meet each other in a friendly and hopefully informative meeting place. The link to the forum can be found on the homepage of the website in the top righthand corner below the navigation bar.

But for the lazy ones amongst you, here is the direct link to the Honest Way Forum.

So why not have a look in and see for yourself. The site continues to grow and grow!

THE HONEST WAY

Terry Didcott

THE HONEST WAY IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!

2007-03-18T10:57:00.000+01:00

Yes, that's right. THE HONEST WAY is truly alive and well today.

The article database continues to grow, as it will steadily over the life of this website. New affiliate products will contine to be added to the Products page too.

The whole concept of the site is to bring the information on how to earn a successful and honest living online together with the best products, packages and strategies so that a whole business approach can be achieved from this one site.

A note about the products that we promote. There's no need to go searching for good products to help you build your online business - you'll find what you need right here at THE HONEST WAY.

So click this link and hop over there. Have a good look around and if you see what you like, click the link to go to the affiliate page for more info. It's that simple!

Thanks for your visit - I wish you success with your online business!

Terry Didcott

One More Day...

2007-03-17T13:00:00.000+01:00

It's almost there. The site's article base has now grown to 6 and I'm looking at a few more products to put on too. The splash page is just about ready to unleash on the traffic exchanges and an opt-in form is about there for the homepage.

That will all be unveiled tomorrow, but you can see the page in it's pre-launch layout right now.

THE HONEST WAY

See you there...

Terry Didcott

Please Don't All Rush At Once...

2007-03-14T18:52:00.000+01:00

No stampedes, please. There's another great product added to the list on the Products page, which will help you in the arduous task of article submission to directories. This long winded and time consuming task can be alleviated by this simple, yet powerful piece of must-have software.

Want to know what it is?

You'll have to get over to The Honest Way and take a look for yourself!

See you there...

Terry Didcott

Just Five Days To Go...

2007-03-13T23:04:00.000+01:00

Yep, it's just five days to go until THE HONEST WAY goes live. There are now three articles posted to the articles page with a new one per day to follow until 18th March.

After the site is officially LIVE, I will contine to add articles and submit more articles to e-zine articles in order to boost the site's online presence. I am also lining up more honest products to promote on the products page. I'm very excited about this website and have high hopes for its success in the coming weeks, months and years.

If you haven't looked in yet, why not go over there now and see what's happening:

THE HONEST WAY

Terry Didcott

Next Article Posted

2007-03-12T19:30:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody! We're into day two of the pre-launch phase of our super new internet marketing experience... THE HONEST WAY website.

Today's blog instalment is to let you all know that I have posted the second article in the series to the website and it's entitled "Finding Your Online Business".

The article makes you want to put your thinking cap on and get your brain juices flowing! It starts you thinking about what you want your online business to be. A rather important step, would you not agree?

I'm also in a bit of a thinking rut myself at the moment. I need to add some good, honest products to my affiliate list, but I'm having a bit of a struggle to find the most suitable ones. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears! But please don't bombard me with stuff that is not 100% honest - after all, if it doesn't pass the honesty grade, it won't get into the site!

With day two almost gone already, I'm getting prepared for tomorrow's additions to the website. There will be the next article in the series, plus another product added to the list.

You can check out THE HONEST WAY by clicking on it's link and a having a sneak preview of the site before it goes fully live on Sunday 18th March.

Thanks for looking in, see you all tomorrow

Terry Didcott

Its Pre-Launch Open Day

2007-03-11T14:23:00.000+01:00

It's time to officially open the site to it's week long pre-launch.

The main page along with products, articles, links, contact and site map pages are online now and can be viewed. I've added the first article (entitled "Where Do You Start") and also a contact email address should anyone want to email me with any suggestions or improvements to the site.

It begins...

New Website

2007-03-10T19:05:00.000+01:00

The Honest Way. Announcing the imminent arrival of a brand new website of the same name. Release Date is expected to be Sunday 18th March 2007, although there will be a limited access pre-release on Sunday 11th March.

Hi, I'm Terry Didcott and I'm the author and creator of "The Honest Way". The website will highlight honest ways to make a living online. There will be an extensive article section covering the many products, strategies, plans and pitfalls associated with setting up and running an honest online business.

By honest, I mean an online business that is free of scams, rip-offs and underhand tricks to get people to part with their hard-earned money. An honest online business means selling useful products or ebooks for reasonable prices and delivering what you say you'll deliver!

Too many websites abound that are simply put up with a bit of useless content in order to earn revenue from advertising. They don't offer anything to the browser in terms of real value but still try to push products and services that are second-rate and expensive just to try to scam the newcomers to the internet marketing scheme.

The Honest Way sets out from the start to provide plenty of good, useful and free information about setting up an online business THE RIGHT WAY as well as promoting only those products that are useful to online entrepeneurs be they from anywhere in the scale from seasoned professionals right down to absolute beginners.

There is something there for everyone, so starting Sunday March 11, you can get your first sneak preview of this fascinating new site and watch it grow over the week into a powerful tool for the online business person until its scheduled Go Live! date on Sunday March 18th 2007.

CLICK HERE to go there. Hope to see you all there!

Terry Didcott