The YouTube web site has been around for awhile now and it is credited with changing the way video content is consumed online. The site introduced web surfers to funny unique videos, but the true value of YouTube is the educational content.

If I get stuck trying to do something I check YouTube and see if anyone has created a video that can help me. The other day I was having a problem with with updating my smartphone and in a few minutes I found a video that solved my problem. If you have not used YouTube or just look for funny stuff then try using YouTube to help solve your everyday problems.

The value of YouTube when it come to finding educational content is amazing. When I am looking for reviews on products I always check YouTube for the most part the reviews are from real people with no financial gain. There are a few other sites that work like YouTube, but I find I can get the results I want from YouTube. The nice thing about YouTube is having it anywhere I go I have an app on my smartphone and even my DVD player has an app making it easy to watch content on my television. The average YouTube user might find the site a source for comedy or music clips I on the other hand find it a useful resource to run my online businesses.

This post was created using Google docs for Android on a Galaxy S smartphone. As I explore my options for creating content on the go this seemed like a great solution and it’s free.

The Google Docs service is also cloud based which means I can work on my document back on my home computer without messing with disc swaps or bluetooth transfers. The creation of a doc on my smartphone was just like typing a text message.

The editing of the document through the google app was limited. There was no way of bolding or editing the text format. The document was going to end up my home computer anyway, and I can edit quickly through the full Google doc web site. As a quick and simple method for creating documents on the go I would say this is a great solution.

The Google Docs app is going to get much use this summer as I travel. This would be a great app to add to the cheap Android tablets as the screen size would be a better experience for touch typing. As I use this app more and more it has started to grow on me, I do think I can get many projects completed with Google docs. If you have an Android phone then make sure to download the Google doc app and you will have a great office suite for free on your smartphone or tablet.

If Google could just add spell check and the ability to format text then you would not need to do a final edit on your computer. There are a few other office suite products for Android that cost from $8.00 to $15.00 that might have a few more features, but aI guess if you can live without the fancy extras you can get a lot done with Google docs and the best part is that it is free.

If you need to use content from another web site and want to avoid a Google penalty you need to make a few changes first. When the Google bot visits your site and finds duplicate content it can de-list your site. This is why you want to make sure that you do not publish duplicate content on your web sites. If you need to use for an example a description of a product from the manufactures web site, you will need to change the wording first. It can be as simple as changing every few words or re-writing the whole description in your own words. It seems like a bit of trouble and effort, but take these measures can save your web site from being de-listed or penalized.

The more original content you have on your site that better for your standing in Google. There are time when duplicate content needs to be used. If you are quoting another source make sure you surround that content with your own, and make sure to identify the source of the content.

It’s an extra step you can’t skip if you want better ranking for your web site.

We have all seen pages with nothing but Google Adsense. You might think that these sites do not make much money or that they do not show up in the search engines. Well try searching for just about anything and one of these pages will show up. You get a page with very little information on the topic you searched for, but the rest of the pages has plenty of Adsense ad’s and they are all positioned in such away that most users will click thinking that the Adsense unit is part of the content. The trick is to blend Adsense into the content. Try a few searches and see if you can spot this type of site. The publisher of this type of site probably has many more just like the first. With each site getting clicks here and there and adding up to big money. You can play around and create your own site for Adsesne and see what works. Study other sites and get some ideas. You can hold up a big check like Shoemoney if you learn how to make Adsense work for your site. You need to do a little SEO in order to attract more traffic, but sometimes you can do little and still get a good amount of traffic.

One thing I learned very early on with doing business online is to diversify. What I mean by diversify is to have more then one source of income online. If you do any affiliate marketing, then make sure the offers you run are available on more then one network. If for some reason an offer is pulled on one network then you have it on another network and do not lose your source of income. When I first started selling online I had a CD shop. All I sold was CD’s and this was fine for awhile, then Napster happened. You know what that did to my CD shop it almost put me out of business. Luckily this happened at the same time the DVD’s were taking of and I was able to move my business in that direction. As the trend for DVD’s died out I got into other items to sell online and realized that if you do not have more sources you can be out of business very quickly. Now when I set up a business I know the risk and I try to have more then one source of income. If something happens to one source I have a few more to make money online. If you follow the old saying don’t keep all your eggs in one basket you should do well online. Try to reach out to new sources of income, study trends and be ready to move when opportunity comes along. You do not want to miss new sources of income keep you a journal write down any ideas that come to mind. You want to get more back up plans ready to go as some of your businesses experience decline. If you follow this and make it a habit to have back up sources of income will not be without income when one of your business slows down or dies out.

As many web site owners know getting paid from Google can take awhile. If you have Google Adsense on your site you need to get $100 in clicks before you get a payout. It took me about two years to get $100 in clicks. The addition of Adsense on a few of my web sites was just an extra way to monetize, as I already had other ways to make money from the sites in place.  If I had created sites just to make money with Adsense then I would have made a little more effort to maximize the site to ensure more clicks. One thing I did learn is that if you can make sites with keywords with a good payout, you can make a lot of money with Adsense. There are other PPC networks that you can try like Bidvertiser or 7 Search, but you might not get ad’s that are relevant to your niche. With the first payout on the way I would like to try to create more site and use Google Adsense as the only method of making money. Once my payment does arrive I will just toss it back into my Google Adwords account and try to make more money with my affiliate offers.

The changes made on this blog today was to optimize for Google. The plugins for WordPress made setting up all my different Google services very easy. Did the same for my other blog and also worked on some of my sites to make sure they were all properly optimized for Google. The sites that I have worked on in the last few weeks have seen big numbers in page views, so I want to make sure all my sites are done by the end of this month. A few sites are very dependent on the Holidays, and will not make many sales after so I need to make sure Google can find them and I am also using PPC on one of the sites.