Profit Source Publishing

Information has always been and always will be the most profitable item to sell. Once obtained, there is little or no production cost and there are plenty of information hungry customers just waiting to buy from you. Think about it, how many informational books and reports have you purchased over the last year?

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Paid survey income sites seem to be popping up everywhere. Paid survey sites are subscription websites that find surveys for you to complete that will pay you. Some of these sites claim you can make hundreds of dollars daily completing the surveys they find for you.

But, can you really make a decent amount of money with paid surveys? It may be a bit difficult for you to find surveys on your own that will pay you and subscription sites may be the most economical way to go. As far as making consistent money with paid surveys, we’ve found a couple articles on the subject that might shed a little light on the subscription websites and provide you with an objective opinion about the profitablility of completing surveys for cash.

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Every day someone “borrows” some text from another website to use on-line. Some people don’t understand that text written by someone else is protected under copyright laws while others just don’t care.

Copyright laws protect publishers of original content giving them legal power to sue for damages. But how do you find out if anyone has copied your web content? Answer: You use the free service at Copyscape!

Copyscape enables you to search the web for text copied from your web pages. Just put your URL in the search box and any web page with text blocks exactly like yours will be identified and presented.

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RSS feeds are the by product of several forms of fresh content and you can use these feeds to keep the content on your website fresh. There are literally thousands of RSS feeds that you can choose from. Even this webblog you are now reading offers an RSS feed through our RSS URL http://www.profitbooks.com/blog/?feed=rss2

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Google has recently introduced a free service called called Google Sitemaps. By using the sitemap generator suggested by Google, or your own generator, to create a list of all the URL’s you want indexed; Google suggests they will be able to spider a website quicker and more completely.

In order to complete the process, you need to create and upload a sitemap in one of two formats to your website. Then add it to your list of sitemaps in your free Google account.

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You’ve built your website but is anyone knocking on the door? The key to every profitable website is VISITORS!! You need people to visit your site. There are many ways you can do this including submitting to major search engines, related directories, paying for PPC (pay per click) search results, submitting both free and paid classifed ads and on and on.

You can learn the how and where of many of the free methods by visiting our free submission page at Free Website Promotion

Yahoo! News Search Results for website promotion

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It seems a large number of webmasters have already realized that Google’s AdSense can be revenue bonanza. Some webmasters with daily page views in the thousands are making a substantial income with AdSense. However, without the traffic, AdSense may not be the profit center you might expect.

With so many websites now displaying AdSense ads, advertisers are finding they can lower the cost per click and still get decent traffic from their advertising. Combine this with Google’s need to continue to grow it’s business and maybe take a bigger percentage of ad revenues and AdSense publishers can find themselves caught in the middle suffering a double whammy to payouts and profits.

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The Profit Source Publishing Blog was initialized today. We will be posting news and instruction for the beginning home business owner over the coming months and years.

Yahoo! News Search Results for blog publishing

• How Amazon Could Change Publishing (Forbes)
16 May 2008 at 4:02am
Will the world’s biggest book seller become the world’s biggest book publisher? Authors hope so.


• Foolish Fiction Writer Launches Serialized Blog Novel Two Years After The Nov…
16 May 2008 at 1:31am
Fiction Writer Launches Serialized Blog Novel Two Years After The Novel Was Rejected by Publishers (PRWeb May 16, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb949464.htm


• On his blog, Miguel de Icaza announced (OS News)
17 May 2008 at 11:18am
the first public releases of Moonlight. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight , the company’s Flash competitor. Moonlight is not yet free of bugs, though.

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