This is a Netfirms review and why I prefer them over Go Daddy.

People have a lot of preferences when it comes to domain registrars.  Some people prefer Go Daddy, others prefer Namecheap, and further, others prefer Netfirms.  I’m one of those who like to buy domains from Netfirms.  So far, I’ve registered about 30 domains through their company and I have been pleased overall with their service and speed.

First off, I’ll tell you why I don’t like Go Daddy.  Go Daddy at the end of the day is a rip-off.  It’s the greedy man of the domain registering world.   Go Daddy is insistent on up-selling you to other services and generally giving you grief about buying their web hosting packages, buying their privacy packages, or pushing more domains on you.  Overall, their entire selling process is a heart-attack.  I can’t tell you how much I don’t like having to click ‘no’ and ‘not interested’ on their various products and go through a ten minute process to buy one or two domains.  Second, Go Daddy can be a bit slow at times changing nameservers of your new domain.  Compared to other domain registration services I’ve used (like Netfirms) they’re like molasses.  When I register new domains I like to get started right away getting content on the site–I don’t like having to wait five hours for the domain to propagate.

Netfirms has by far given me everything I’ve wanted from a domain registrar.  They’re fast, cheap, and non-obtrusive.  Once I’ve done the research and decided on a domain, I can go to Netfirms and have the domain bought and paid for within two or three minutes.  There isn’t any upselling, just simple, straight-forward domain buying.  Once I have the domain purchased, changing nameservers is a cinch.  Unlike Go Daddy where you have to click-through deep into the site to change those details, you can do it all on one page with Netfirms (they use a nifty AJAX-ified interface).  I kid you not, changing nameservers is almost instant.  My web host (Bluehost) picks up the nameserver change almost instantly and I’m ready to go, on the web, within an hour.

If you haven’t tried out Netfirms I strongly suggest that you give them a try.  Their domain registration costs are among the lowest in the industry (especially when you couple them with a coupon).  I use ‘104DOMSPECIAL’ coupon to get $1.04 off the domains I buy.  If you want to try them out, click the banner on my site (yes I get paid if you buy through it) and try them out (use a Netfirms coupon).   I’m pretty darn sure you’ll enjoy them as much as I have.

Are you using AdSense on your websites and having a hard time making money?  Is your CTR (click-through rate) in the low single digits?  We can help you get your AdSense ads back on track to making you money!

Draanor offers consultation services to people needing to boost their AdSense income.  Most people don’t realize that the wrong ad setup, color scheme, or positioning and drastically impact their performance.  If ads aren’t tweaked “just right”, potential revenue could be thrown away each and every day.

Contact us to learn more about how we can help you increase AdSense Revenue.  Our rates are very competitive and we promise we can make a positive difference to your AdSense revenue or our services are free!

Are you interested in finding keywords that are easy to rank #1 for?  Are you sick of having to build keyword lists and checking for competition yourself?  Draanor.com is proud to present keyword research to its customers.

What exactly is keyword research?

Whether you own an existing site or starting a new one, keyword research is a key to every website’s online success.  Without proper planning and choice, you can have a website that is “dead in the water” for search engines.  Some keywords are simply too difficult to rank on the first page.  The competition is too stiff and have way too much authority to compete with in a reasonable amount of time.

How does keyword research work with you?

We build keyword lists from the ground up for our customers.  With the keyword list we make, we research the competition and find out FOR YOU how difficult it can be to rank on the Google.  We also can determine the value of keywords and let you know if a keyword is even worth fighting for.

How much do you cost to keyword research for me?

Keyword research for niche sites can be time consuming and arduous process.  Fortunately, we have the tools and methods available to make it cost less to you.  For our service, it costs $0.035 for every keyword researched.  If you want a list of 1000 keywords that have been researched, it would cost you $35.  Our lists are unfiltered and we cannot guarantee the number of low competition–easy to rank keywords–given to you.  It entirely depends on the niche or category chosen for the results you may receive.

We cost $0.05 per researched keyword.

What can I expect from you?

If you choose our service, you can expect to receive an Excel spreadsheet of the number of keywords you choose to buy.  As stated before, the number of low competition keywords can vary.  From our experience, ~1% of requested niche keywords are considered “low competition”.

Contact us for more information, sample spreadsheets of keywords, or to place an order.

InfoBarrel is one of the best resources for backlinking and generating residual income out there.  It is one of my most favorite places to post to and I would recommend them to anyone looking to make money on the internet.

There are two major reasons why you would want to start posting on InfoBarrel:  build residual income; or create links to existing sites.  InfoBarrel has the best of both worlds when it comes to Web 2.0 directories.  Done correctly, you can generate hundreds of dollars per month with just posting articles on InfoBarrel and backlinking them.  InfoBarrel can also give you a lot of referral traffic and added authority if you choose to use them for links.

Residual Income with InfoBarrel:

If you’re someone who is just starting out with making money on the internet, you may want to start with InfoBarrel before you start investing in websites.  Because InfoBarrel has a lot of domain authority with Google, many of the articles you post on their site will begin ranking and getting traffic immediately.  With backlinking, you can your posts ranked in the top 5 of Google search pretty easily.

InfoBarrel is one of the many sites that participate in what is called “revenue sharing”.  How it works is a portion of the visitors that see your articles will see advertisements that pay InfoBarrel when they’re clicked.  The other portion of visitors will see advertisements that pay you when they’re clicked.  The ad services that InfoBarrel currently employ are Google AdSense and Chitika Premium Ads.  The current revenue share is 75%.  This means that 75% of the time, your ads will be showing.  Go to InfoBarrel now and start earning residual income.

Backlinking with InfoBarrel

InfoBarrel is one of the best sites for obtaining links for your own sites.  With their domain authority and great policies concerning links, you can start building your site’s SERP rankings easily.  There are only a few simple rules that need to be adhered to when writing for InfoBarrel.

-Two self-serving links per article
-No self-serving links in the first paragraph
-No call-to-action links to affiliate products at the end of the article

Beyond those rules, everything is fair game.  If you’re looking for fast links that don’t require miles of red tape, you’ll love writing for InfoBarrel.  Go to InfoBarrel now and start building links to your websites.

If you need help with website development, PHP development, or graphic design, contact us to learn more and get pricing for our services.

Are you wondering why your AdSense earnings completely bites?  Is your click-through rate for your AdSense beyond abysmal?  If there was something I could claim to be good at, it would be AdSense placement and optimization.

In the image above, the optimum ad placement of a site is pictured.  This ad placement works with nearly every type of site out there (not just information related sites).  If you’re trying to make money with affiliate products, AdSense, Amazon, etc., this is the layout you’re going to want to have.

When someone comes to your site, for whatever reason, there is a certain area of your web page that they’re likely to click which is depicted as the green triangle.  This triangle is prime real estate on your site and you will get the highest paying ads in that area of your site.  Placing ads outside of this triangle (with exceptions) is like shooting your site’s foot off with a shotgun.  Sure it can stumble around getting some clicks, but it’s no where as good as a site with two working feet.

There are three types of clicks that visitors will do on your site:  bored clicks, lazy clicks, and call-to-action clicks.

Bored clickers are people surfing at home or at work with no real purpose.  They’re impulsive and fairly random.  They’ll click on anything with a blue hyperlink that seems interesting.  Bored clickers aren’t worth nearly as much as lazy clickers and call-to-action clickers.

With lazy clickers, they’ll click out of your website to avoid a block of informational text.  Pretend you have a website about caring for dogs.  A lazy clicker types into Google “caring for dogs” and finds your site in the number one spot.  They’re interested by the snippet of text Google provided and click into your site.  Once they arrive at your site, they see it properly designed and very inviting.  However, they see 400+ words of text which is your article.   Since they’re lazy, they decide on to read the article at all, instead, they see the perfectly placed ad about caring for dogs at their eye level.  They click that ad and make you some money.  These clickers are worth more than bored clickers.

Finally, you have call-to-action clickers.  These are the best types of visitors on your site and are worth a pretty-penny.  These visitors are on your site because they have something to solve or do.  They usually have  a full wallet and will open it and give you money if you play them a pretty enough song.  These people will usually read your articles and then click out using a call-to-action ad.  Call-to-action ads need to placed at the end of your articles.

After the types of clickers and ad placement, the next thing that will impact ad performance is size and color.  Certain sized ads are completely, and I mean, completely ignored by people.  Banner ads… they suck.  Skyscraper ads… they suck too.  They’re great for catching the occasional visitor but they’re going to have a dreadfully lower CTR% compared to rectangle and square ads.  If and when possible, use rectangle ads, your AdSense account will love you.

Color is the final thing that impacts your AdSense clicks.  The rules are simple for coloring your AdSense ads:

• NEVER have borders (color should match background).
• ALWAYS have the background match your website’s background.
• Title text color should match the color of the links on your website or be blue (#0000FF).
• Body text color should always match the text color of your site.
• URL text should be gray, silver, or black.  Sometimes doing blue or red works in your favor.

And that’s pretty much it.  If you follow image and the guidelines laid out here, I can almost guarantee your site’s AdSense click percentage will increase by at least several points.

Are you interested in having someone build Adsense Sniper sites for you?  We provide services to get your Adsense Sniper sites up and running at a price that anyone can afford.  Whether you’re a pro or a beginner getting their feet wet in the make money online business, we can provide services to you!  For Adsense Snipers we have two different types that you can buy.

Beginner Adsense Snipers

Are you new to SEO and making money online?  Do you want to avoid the extra work and time that keyword research requires?  If you’re someone that answered “yes” to any of those questions you’ll want to buy our Beginner Adsense Sniper product.  With these Adsense snipers, we’ll do all the work necessary to get your new site up and running.  We’ll do all the necessary keyword research and will get you a site up and running as fast as possible.  Once we’ve done the necessary keyword research and found a keyword that has a chance to be profitable with low competition we will contact you to have you set up a domain and host.  Once the domain is registered and set up, we will require access to your FTP account and MySQL database.

With the Beginner Adsense Snipers we will:

-Install the latest version of WordPress, install a stock theme, and include installing and setting up popular plug-ins used for SEO.

-Set up of a basic “about me” page, contact form, and privacy policy as required by Google.

-Create five 400+ word posts of content.  These posts will feature the keywords that we researched for you and will be optimized for on-site SEO ranking.

-Set up Adsense on your site using strategies (colors, placement, and size) proven to have high CTR rates (3 ad units per page).

-Include one back link from a Web 2.0 directory like HubPages, InfoBarrel, or Ezine Articles to get your website indexed fast.

-Every Adsense Sniper we create will conform to Google’s webmaster quality standards.

-Provide technical support via instant message or telephone (United States only) as required for web domain registration, name server set up, and other necessary functions required to do the Adsense Snipers.

Price: $80

Bulk pricing is available for people ordering 3 or more Beginner Adsense Snipers.  Please contact us for more information!

Basic Adsense Snipers

If you’re experienced with keyword research and are able to do the preliminary research for your Adsense Sniper sites and want to save money and time building sites you’ll be interested in our Basic Adsense Sniper product.  With the basic level snipers, you’ll provide us with the keywords that you want to target with your new site.  You’ll also need to register a domain name, have a web host, and be willing to give us access to your FTP account and MySQL database.

With the Basic Adsense Snipers we will:

-Install the latest version of WordPress and include installing, installation of a stock theme, and setting up popular plug-ins used for SEO.

-Set up of a basic “about me” page, contact form, and privacy policy as required by Google.

-Create five 400+ word posts of content.  These posts will feature the keywords that you gave us and will be optimized to give you the best results with search engines.

-Set up Adsense on your site using strategies (colors, placement, and size) proven to have high CTR rates (3 ad units per page).

-Include one back link from a Web 2.0 directory like HubPages, InfoBarrel, or Ezine Articles to get your website indexed fast.

-Every Adsense Sniper we create will conform to Google’s webmaster quality standards.

Price: $60

Bulk pricing is available for people ordering 3 or more Basic Adsense Snipers.  Please contact us for more information!

Advanced Adsense Snipers

Do you require more than what our Basic Adsense Snipers give you?  Do you want your snipers to feature custom logos and images?  If so, you’ll be interested in our affordable Advanced Snipers.  As with basic snipers, we’ll require you to do the necessary keyword research for your site before we can begin setup of your sniper site.  You’ll also need to register a domain name, have a web host, and be willing to give us access to your FTP account and MySQL database.

With the Advanced Adsense Snipers we will:

-Install the latest version of WordPress and include installing and setting up popular plug-ins used for SEO.

-Create 1 custom header image for you site.

-Set up of a basic “about me” page, contact form, and privacy policy as required by Google.

-Create five 400+ word posts of content.  These posts will feature the keywords that you gave us and will be optimized to give you the best results with search engines.  We will also find and put 1 related image into each post.

-Set up Adsense on your site using strategies (colors, placement, and size) proven to have high CTR rates (3 ad units per page).

-Include one back link from a Web 2.0 directory like HubPages, InfoBarrel, or Ezine Articles to get your website indexed fast.

-Every Adsense Sniper we create will conform to Google’s webmaster quality standards.

Price: $75

Bulk pricing is available for people ordering 3 or more Advanced Adsense Snipers.  Please contact us for more information!

Are you sick and tired of unreliable programmers?  Do you hate long waiting times for web projects that should only take a week?   Well if you’re ready to take step away from unreliable cheap web programmers and need someone who can get your job on-time and right the first time, try out the services from Draanor.  We have experience with PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS and have extensive knowledge about SEO–both on-site and off-site.  We also have extensive skills with graphic art suites and can create custom headers or logos for your site to put your site at a visual level above the competition.

Do you need someone to make websites for you?  Are you interested to making money from Google Adsense, Amazon, and other affiliate programs and don’t know where to start?  Do you hate creating content for your websites?  If you’re someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing and needs someone with proven experience of generating revenue from Adsense to make your websites for you, you’ve come to the right place.  Whether you’re looking to create multiple Adsense “sniper sites” or looking to create one massive one-stop authority site, we can accomplish everything you need.

So what are you waiting for?  Get started and contact us today for a free quote!