In today’s economy, finding ways to earn extra income can make a significant difference. One increasingly popular option is to monetize your underutilized spaces and assets by renting them out online. Thanks to the rise of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer marketplaces, it’s now easier than ever to turn your home, vacant rooms, storage areas, or even parking spaces into potential income streams. This comprehensive guide explores the various opportunities available for renting out parts of your home or property through online platforms. Whether you’re looking to host travelers in a spare room, rent out a vacation home, provide storage solutions, or offer parking spaces, there are services that can help you list, manage, and earn from your unused spaces. From well-known platforms like Airbnb and VRBO for short-term rentals to specialized marketplaces like SpareFoot and Neighbor for storage solutions, and JustPark and SpotHero for parking spaces, this guide covers…
Stock Investing with Robinhood in 2020
Robinhood, an App that allows you to invest in stocks, options, and ETFs, all commission-free with ($0) no minimum deposit. Now allows you to purchase Fractional Shares and reinvest your dividends. If you don’t know what a dividend is don’t worry about it. I didn’t know what it was until i got one. Whether it’s Dividend Reinvestment or Dividend Rollover. Understanding what a dividend is, was the easy part, thanks to the Robinhood app chat bot. Understanding it’s affects were a bit harder. The compounding effect of reinvesting your dividends can be nice if the stock rises. However, if the stock drops you will have compound losses. This is something you might want to try to remember. You can find out more information regarding financial lingo via Robinhood Learn. In addition to allowing you to invest in stocks, options, and ETFs there is also an opportunity to receive a free…
Different Types Income
Today, I would like to talk about income as well as the different types of income. Often you may hear the terms passive income or residual income. Whether it’s passive, residual, active, earned, capital, profit, rental, royalty, interest or dividend income. For most of us it’s about having something coming in (financially speaking) from somewhere and this is what we call income. Not only will we discuss the different types of income but also the many different ways to earn multiple sources of income and just how much you may need to invest in order to get started. The “cost to be your own Boss”. Before we begin we need to ask ourselves a few questions, the first being what is income and the second being what are the different types of income. Investopedia defines income as money (or some equivalent value) that an individual or business receives in exchange…
Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion. Before Submitting to a Search Engine Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories. Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words,…
How Search Engines Work – Web Crawlers
There are basically two types of search engines. The first are robots called web crawlers or spiders. Search Engines use spiders, sometime called a spiderbot to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program ran by a search engine system. A spider “crawls” a website. When a Spider crawls a website it reads the content, the Meta tags and also follows the links. The crawler then returns the information to a central depository that indexes the data. The spider will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders only index a certain number of pages on your website, so don’t create a site with 500 pages! Web Crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and…
The Importance Of Search Engines
It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. When you type a topic in a search bar. The search engine instantly sifts through millions of pages it has indexed and presents you with what matched your topic. Searched matches are also ranked. With the most relevant matches being first. Remember that a prospective customer will probably only look at the first 2-3 listings in the search results. So it does matter where your website appears in the search engine ranking. Further, customers are more likely to use one of the top 7 search engines. As they attract more visitors to websites than anything else. So finally it all depends on which search engines the customers use and how they rank your site. Importance of Keywords to Search Engines It is the Keywords that play an important role more than any expensive…
What Is Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization. A process of choosing the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases related to your website. Ensuring that your website ranks high in search engines. So when someone searches for specific phrases it returns your site on top. SEO involves fine tuning the content of your site. This includes the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building process. Popular Search Enginges The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo and Bing. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret. This allows them to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results. As well as deter spam pages from clogging those valuable search-results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200…