Saturday, December 6, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
How Do FREE Making Money Programs Work?
Special Report
A lot of people always ask or wonder are FREE money making programs a scam? NO they're not. It's true that there are alot of scammers out there just ready to take your money but there are also alot of good FREE making money programs as well. Most FREE making money programs ask you for very limited sign up information and most will attract you with FREE offers. Just remember that if you don't give out your credit card number, you can't be charged. So what's the catch to get something for FREE? NOTHING. People that offer you FREE making money information will most likely try to sell you or have you buy into their making money program at a later date. If someone wants to give you a FREE eBook, FREE money making system or FREE making money kit then TAKE IT!!!
Some money making programs are good and others are just a waste of time. Just remember that it's always good advice to take some FREE money making information from someone that is doing better than you financially. If it doesn't cost you anything then you have nothing to lose.
It's always good to learn new money making ideas from successful people. Finding out how they became successful or how there business ticks is the perfect place to learn and to get new money making ideas. All it takes is that one big idea to put you on the road to success and the path to financial freedom. Maybe you already have an existing business? Some of these FREE making money offers will give you the key ingredient to take your business to the next level. If you don't have a business and you looking to start something, maybe a combination of ideas from different FREE money making programs will help you develop a brand new making money opportunity or maybe you'll get a great idea to start your very own business.
There are also free making money programs where you'll get a free website or product to promote and you'll get a commission or percentage of the profit or sale from an item or service. In cases like this, there is no inventory, shipping or collecting money. The program or service you're promoting will take care of all of those details for you and pay you a commission. At the end of the day, it all comes down to marketing. You could have the best product or website in the world but if nobody can find it, you'll never be successful.
The biggest mistake people make with money making programs are that they spend a whole pile of money on a business opportunity but don't know what to do with it. You can't give somebody money and expect them to make you a millionaire! Success comes from good work ethic and solid business knowledge. Any product or service can be marketed to make money. That's why signing up for free making money programs and getting new money making ideas is a perfect starting point to get your business up and running
Most people that ended up being financial successes with their business venture or combination of business ventures will tell you that they've tried alot of different things before making their fortunes. You just have to try different things to make money to see what works for you.
You have to get excited about whatever you're doing to make money. If you can't get motivated enough to generate alot of excitement about your own money making opportunity, then your business will never be successful.
ARE YOU READY TO MAKE MONEY?
Make Money With FREE MAKING MONEY PROGRAMS
Make Money With FREE MONEY SURVEYS
A lot of people always ask or wonder are FREE money making programs a scam? NO they're not. It's true that there are alot of scammers out there just ready to take your money but there are also alot of good FREE making money programs as well. Most FREE making money programs ask you for very limited sign up information and most will attract you with FREE offers. Just remember that if you don't give out your credit card number, you can't be charged. So what's the catch to get something for FREE? NOTHING. People that offer you FREE making money information will most likely try to sell you or have you buy into their making money program at a later date. If someone wants to give you a FREE eBook, FREE money making system or FREE making money kit then TAKE IT!!!
Some money making programs are good and others are just a waste of time. Just remember that it's always good advice to take some FREE money making information from someone that is doing better than you financially. If it doesn't cost you anything then you have nothing to lose.
It's always good to learn new money making ideas from successful people. Finding out how they became successful or how there business ticks is the perfect place to learn and to get new money making ideas. All it takes is that one big idea to put you on the road to success and the path to financial freedom. Maybe you already have an existing business? Some of these FREE making money offers will give you the key ingredient to take your business to the next level. If you don't have a business and you looking to start something, maybe a combination of ideas from different FREE money making programs will help you develop a brand new making money opportunity or maybe you'll get a great idea to start your very own business.
There are also free making money programs where you'll get a free website or product to promote and you'll get a commission or percentage of the profit or sale from an item or service. In cases like this, there is no inventory, shipping or collecting money. The program or service you're promoting will take care of all of those details for you and pay you a commission. At the end of the day, it all comes down to marketing. You could have the best product or website in the world but if nobody can find it, you'll never be successful.
The biggest mistake people make with money making programs are that they spend a whole pile of money on a business opportunity but don't know what to do with it. You can't give somebody money and expect them to make you a millionaire! Success comes from good work ethic and solid business knowledge. Any product or service can be marketed to make money. That's why signing up for free making money programs and getting new money making ideas is a perfect starting point to get your business up and running
Most people that ended up being financial successes with their business venture or combination of business ventures will tell you that they've tried alot of different things before making their fortunes. You just have to try different things to make money to see what works for you.
You have to get excited about whatever you're doing to make money. If you can't get motivated enough to generate alot of excitement about your own money making opportunity, then your business will never be successful.
ARE YOU READY TO MAKE MONEY?
Make Money With FREE MAKING MONEY PROGRAMS
Make Money With FREE MONEY SURVEYS
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
How to make money
By Gritz
Sorry for the bland Post Title my friends but I won't be giving away my topics in the titles anymore and if you want to know why then read on.
For the past month I have been fiddling with this blog in order to come to a few basic conclusions. The goal of this blog is to make money with Adsense and not just a little money but rather I want it optimized to bring in the most earnings possible. I have written extensively on this topic before and I am currently trying to fashion a short "everything you need to know about Adsense" book for others to duplicate my success so I won't get into much here. Oh for those interested, you can see my Adsense earnings for the past year here Make Money with Adsense
What I will tell you is that your post title is the hinge that your adsense income swings on. Yes there is more to it than that but in brief let me fill you in on what I have been doing.
My last post was entitled "Does Trackback Spamming Make Money Online" and no sooner did I post the article than my earnings per click dropped in half - about 30 cents per click. The post prior to it was entitled Make Money Online in Canada. While that post sat on the front page I earned 60 cents per click.
So why the sudden drop in earnings?
I'm going to keep this short and simple.
Below is a list of keywords visitors have used over the past hour and half (approx) to find my site.
Click Image to enlarge.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what keyword brings in the most search traffic. "How to Make Money" is by far my best traffic gatherer.
Now let me explain this so that there is no confusion.
Your post title sets the tone of your post in regards to how the Adsense Bot reads your page. Yes it looks at other factors but the single biggest factor is the Post Title.
When it read the last post it determined that my main focus was on "Trackback Spamming" and when it failed to find relevant ads for that term it then produced ads for "make money online". However it did not provide me with the prime ads for make money online because the post was really about trackback spamming. My traffic came looking for "how to make money" and clicked on the ads but G paid me half of normal because the traffic really wasn't targeted for the post title.
Today the Adsense bot will give me prime ads for "How to Make Money" and the majority of my traffic will come here looking for exactly that - and I will get the best earnings per click.
I will be discussing a number of my findings over the past month in a series of short posts (yes faithful readers - just 1 cup posts) starting soon.
I will leave this post for you to think about - if you are using adsense and not making more than a few cents a click then you now know the biggest reason for your dismal earnings.
You need targeted traffic and targeted posts.
Cheers,
Griz
Update Nov 12
I thought it might be useful to show what happened as far as my Adsense Earnings reacted to the change in post titles. I posted the "Trackback Post" late on November 6 and while the day finished with decent earnings you can see below how quickly the revenue began dropping over the next several days. I posted the "How to Make Money" post on Nov 10 and look at how quickly my earnings changed direction.
Click Image to Enlarge.
Griz
Sorry for the bland Post Title my friends but I won't be giving away my topics in the titles anymore and if you want to know why then read on.
For the past month I have been fiddling with this blog in order to come to a few basic conclusions. The goal of this blog is to make money with Adsense and not just a little money but rather I want it optimized to bring in the most earnings possible. I have written extensively on this topic before and I am currently trying to fashion a short "everything you need to know about Adsense" book for others to duplicate my success so I won't get into much here. Oh for those interested, you can see my Adsense earnings for the past year here Make Money with Adsense
What I will tell you is that your post title is the hinge that your adsense income swings on. Yes there is more to it than that but in brief let me fill you in on what I have been doing.
My last post was entitled "Does Trackback Spamming Make Money Online" and no sooner did I post the article than my earnings per click dropped in half - about 30 cents per click. The post prior to it was entitled Make Money Online in Canada. While that post sat on the front page I earned 60 cents per click.
So why the sudden drop in earnings?
I'm going to keep this short and simple.
Below is a list of keywords visitors have used over the past hour and half (approx) to find my site.
Click Image to enlarge.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what keyword brings in the most search traffic. "How to Make Money" is by far my best traffic gatherer.
Now let me explain this so that there is no confusion.
Your post title sets the tone of your post in regards to how the Adsense Bot reads your page. Yes it looks at other factors but the single biggest factor is the Post Title.
When it read the last post it determined that my main focus was on "Trackback Spamming" and when it failed to find relevant ads for that term it then produced ads for "make money online". However it did not provide me with the prime ads for make money online because the post was really about trackback spamming. My traffic came looking for "how to make money" and clicked on the ads but G paid me half of normal because the traffic really wasn't targeted for the post title.
Today the Adsense bot will give me prime ads for "How to Make Money" and the majority of my traffic will come here looking for exactly that - and I will get the best earnings per click.
I will be discussing a number of my findings over the past month in a series of short posts (yes faithful readers - just 1 cup posts) starting soon.
I will leave this post for you to think about - if you are using adsense and not making more than a few cents a click then you now know the biggest reason for your dismal earnings.
You need targeted traffic and targeted posts.
Cheers,
Griz
Update Nov 12
I thought it might be useful to show what happened as far as my Adsense Earnings reacted to the change in post titles. I posted the "Trackback Post" late on November 6 and while the day finished with decent earnings you can see below how quickly the revenue began dropping over the next several days. I posted the "How to Make Money" post on Nov 10 and look at how quickly my earnings changed direction.
Click Image to Enlarge.
Griz
Friday, November 7, 2008
A Legitimate Home Business Opportunity Isn’t That Hard to Find!
By Teresa Tackett
Have you searched for a legitimate home business opportunity, only to find what seem to be scams? Or maybe you just haven’t found anything that fits your interests and needs. Whatever the case, there really are many ways to make money from home. Here is some information that may help you in your search.
First of all, try to decide what area of business you want to work in. For example, are you interested in direct sales or marketing? Are you a good writer? There are many online opportunities from marketing and freelancing to online surveys and affiliate programs. Finding a legitimate home business opportunity really isn’t as difficult as it may seem.
Of course there are hundreds of ways to make money offline, which we will get to in a moment. Continuing with online work, maybe you have experience in a certain field such as bookkeeping or medical coding. These are highly popular ways to make money online. If you don’t know anything about these subjects but would like to, why not learn? There are endless resources online like online courses and guides.
Now, if working at a desk or from your computer is not exactly your idea of the perfect home job, there are many other methods. Finding a legitimate home business opportunity can be as easy as thinking of your hobbies and interests! Here are a few ideas:
1. Are you artistic? If you are good at making home crafts or hand made jewelry, you can start a business either online or off. By building your own website, you can reach millions of people to show your wares! Of course you can open a craft or jewelry shop in your area, or even have home parties.
2. Do you own a digital camera? I am amazed at the number of people who do, and don’t realize you can make great money with it. By submitting digital photos online to lending and financial companies, you can rake in huge profits.
3. What are your interests? If you love cooking or cleaning, start a catering business or office cleaning service. These are perfect examples of legitimate home business opportunities that would be profitable for you.
4. Love children? Start your own home daycare. Like playing video games? Get paid to test games for gaming companies. This is a fun and easy way to make money from home.
No matter what method you choose to make money from home, you must have a business plan and ask yourself a few questions. Are you self motivated and able to meet deadlines? Do you have a special place in your home where you can conduct your business without interruptions?
If you can work for yourself, there is definitely a legitimate home business opportunity just waiting for you! You can find the best ideas and resources by visiting the links below.
Finding the right legitimate home business opportunity really isn’t that hard! For more tips, ideas, and resources for working from home with YOUR perfect business, visit Simply Make Money from Home.
Also visit our blog, Legitimate Money from Home
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Teresa_Tackett
http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Legitimate-Home-Business-Opportunity-Isnt-That-Hard-to-Find!&id=1447564
Have you searched for a legitimate home business opportunity, only to find what seem to be scams? Or maybe you just haven’t found anything that fits your interests and needs. Whatever the case, there really are many ways to make money from home. Here is some information that may help you in your search.
First of all, try to decide what area of business you want to work in. For example, are you interested in direct sales or marketing? Are you a good writer? There are many online opportunities from marketing and freelancing to online surveys and affiliate programs. Finding a legitimate home business opportunity really isn’t as difficult as it may seem.
Of course there are hundreds of ways to make money offline, which we will get to in a moment. Continuing with online work, maybe you have experience in a certain field such as bookkeeping or medical coding. These are highly popular ways to make money online. If you don’t know anything about these subjects but would like to, why not learn? There are endless resources online like online courses and guides.
Now, if working at a desk or from your computer is not exactly your idea of the perfect home job, there are many other methods. Finding a legitimate home business opportunity can be as easy as thinking of your hobbies and interests! Here are a few ideas:
1. Are you artistic? If you are good at making home crafts or hand made jewelry, you can start a business either online or off. By building your own website, you can reach millions of people to show your wares! Of course you can open a craft or jewelry shop in your area, or even have home parties.
2. Do you own a digital camera? I am amazed at the number of people who do, and don’t realize you can make great money with it. By submitting digital photos online to lending and financial companies, you can rake in huge profits.
3. What are your interests? If you love cooking or cleaning, start a catering business or office cleaning service. These are perfect examples of legitimate home business opportunities that would be profitable for you.
4. Love children? Start your own home daycare. Like playing video games? Get paid to test games for gaming companies. This is a fun and easy way to make money from home.
No matter what method you choose to make money from home, you must have a business plan and ask yourself a few questions. Are you self motivated and able to meet deadlines? Do you have a special place in your home where you can conduct your business without interruptions?
If you can work for yourself, there is definitely a legitimate home business opportunity just waiting for you! You can find the best ideas and resources by visiting the links below.
Finding the right legitimate home business opportunity really isn’t that hard! For more tips, ideas, and resources for working from home with YOUR perfect business, visit Simply Make Money from Home.
Also visit our blog, Legitimate Money from Home
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Teresa_Tackett
http://EzineArticles.com/?A-Legitimate-Home-Business-Opportunity-Isnt-That-Hard-to-Find!&id=1447564
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
How To Make Money With Articles?
Article Syndication, what is it; why is it useful and how can you use it to make money and build your business. These are the questions that will be answered in this article.
Article syndication is the process of submitting your written articles to different content websites. The purpose of doing this is to gain exposure for yourself and your business. You gain exposure when a webmaster likes your article and publishes it on their website. In doing so the webmaster is giving you free publicity by presenting you as an authority on the subject of your article.
The article will generally get placed on a higher traffic webpage on the site where the visitors can read and learn from it. It is required by the content publishing company that the webmaster leave your 'Author Bio' information attached to the article, which will effectively advertise you and your chosen website. This non-reciprocal link from your published article to your website serves multiple purposes. One it makes your website more popular in the eyes of the Google algorithm and two it drives targeted traffic to your website. The traffic is targeted because the person who just read your article is clicking on your link; this is done generally because he/she is interested in you and/or your business.
If done effectively, article writing and syndication can do wonders for your business. The usefulness of articles doesn't stop at the benefits listed above. If you tailor your article correctly you can have it reach top rankings in Google and create multiple instant sales.
The key to getting your article to the top is by targeting certain keyword phrases. You don't want to target the most used and most popular keyword phrases, instead you want to target less used keyword phrases. What you want to do is look for phrases that only have from 500 - 1500 results in Google.
To start you can research phrases with a handy little tool located here:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
This tool will allow you to input a popular keyword phrase and it will give you a list of related keyword phrases. You can use this to find keyword phrases that gets about 500 - 1000 queries per month. After you find a few good keyword phrase candidates, you can go to Google and check the current number of results. To do this you simply type the keyword phrase in "quotes" and Google will return the number of results for that particular phrase. Remember you are looking for anywhere between 500 and 1500 results.
Once you have your targeted keyword phrase, its time to write your new article. Of course your article will be based on the keyword phrase you are targeting and not only that but the title of the article will need to have the keyword phrase in it. Ill say that again, your article title needs to have the keyword phrase that you are targeting in it, preferably word for word.
Many people are lazy and are not going to write articles and that's ok, but those people should definitely invest in a good ghost writing company to write their article for them. I use JustArticles and a special home business niche club in addition to writing my own articles.
Once you have your article or articles written, now its time to syndicate them to as many content sites as possible. You can do this by hand or with special software, I prefer to use the software (article submitter pro - http://www.articlesubmitterpro.com/) because I can syndicate to about 700 sites in a few days instead of a few weeks. If you choose to syndicate by hand you can get a huge list of article directories through this link:
http://www.plug-in-home-business.com/freestuff.html
Simply following the instructions above will do wonders for your business, by getting your article published with your website link at the bottom. However, we are going to take this a few steps further to maximize our profit.
The secret is to embed links in your article body which point to products that you are selling. Not just any products will do, you should have products that directly relates to the article subject matter.
You can NOT embed links on every article directory site. You must read each article site's 'submission guidelines' before attempting to put in any live links in the body of your article, otherwise your article will not get approved. Some sites only allow text, some only allow certain types of html code, others allow 3 links in the body and still others do not allow affiliate links at all, so you have to read what you can and can not do. My advice is to submit your article no matter what, weather it has the links it or not.
The fact is most submission sites state that affiliate links are not allowed however they do allow you to link to your own site which can then redirect them to your affiliate product. If you have a website you need to make some redirect links, if you do not have a website then you can use usfreeads.com and redirect (checkbox) through the classified add that you would setup for each product.
To setup a redirect link simply follow the directions at this website:
http://www.macalester.edu/its/docs/howto/urlredirect/
You will need one redirect (name.html) page for each affiliate product that you are selling. Now its time to insert the links into your article using the a href="" tag to embed the link in a word. Be sure to save your article as a simple text file before you begin to code. It is a good idea to have a few different versions of your article on hand for each article directory. I usually save a text version, a light (3 links) html version, a heavy (<3 links) version and a full html version. This makes your submission time much more efficient, and you won't find yourself coding and writing on each article content site.
When you take these lessons and put them into practice you are not only achieving long term traffic and better Google rankings, but you can potentially make some very quick sales.
------------------------------------------------
Adam Beazley
http://www.Plug-In-Home-Business.com
Want more marketing tips?
Sign up for my newsletter here:
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Article syndication is the process of submitting your written articles to different content websites. The purpose of doing this is to gain exposure for yourself and your business. You gain exposure when a webmaster likes your article and publishes it on their website. In doing so the webmaster is giving you free publicity by presenting you as an authority on the subject of your article.
The article will generally get placed on a higher traffic webpage on the site where the visitors can read and learn from it. It is required by the content publishing company that the webmaster leave your 'Author Bio' information attached to the article, which will effectively advertise you and your chosen website. This non-reciprocal link from your published article to your website serves multiple purposes. One it makes your website more popular in the eyes of the Google algorithm and two it drives targeted traffic to your website. The traffic is targeted because the person who just read your article is clicking on your link; this is done generally because he/she is interested in you and/or your business.
If done effectively, article writing and syndication can do wonders for your business. The usefulness of articles doesn't stop at the benefits listed above. If you tailor your article correctly you can have it reach top rankings in Google and create multiple instant sales.
The key to getting your article to the top is by targeting certain keyword phrases. You don't want to target the most used and most popular keyword phrases, instead you want to target less used keyword phrases. What you want to do is look for phrases that only have from 500 - 1500 results in Google.
To start you can research phrases with a handy little tool located here:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
This tool will allow you to input a popular keyword phrase and it will give you a list of related keyword phrases. You can use this to find keyword phrases that gets about 500 - 1000 queries per month. After you find a few good keyword phrase candidates, you can go to Google and check the current number of results. To do this you simply type the keyword phrase in "quotes" and Google will return the number of results for that particular phrase. Remember you are looking for anywhere between 500 and 1500 results.
Once you have your targeted keyword phrase, its time to write your new article. Of course your article will be based on the keyword phrase you are targeting and not only that but the title of the article will need to have the keyword phrase in it. Ill say that again, your article title needs to have the keyword phrase that you are targeting in it, preferably word for word.
Many people are lazy and are not going to write articles and that's ok, but those people should definitely invest in a good ghost writing company to write their article for them. I use JustArticles and a special home business niche club in addition to writing my own articles.
Once you have your article or articles written, now its time to syndicate them to as many content sites as possible. You can do this by hand or with special software, I prefer to use the software (article submitter pro - http://www.articlesubmitterpro.com/) because I can syndicate to about 700 sites in a few days instead of a few weeks. If you choose to syndicate by hand you can get a huge list of article directories through this link:
http://www.plug-in-home-business.com/freestuff.html
Simply following the instructions above will do wonders for your business, by getting your article published with your website link at the bottom. However, we are going to take this a few steps further to maximize our profit.
The secret is to embed links in your article body which point to products that you are selling. Not just any products will do, you should have products that directly relates to the article subject matter.
You can NOT embed links on every article directory site. You must read each article site's 'submission guidelines' before attempting to put in any live links in the body of your article, otherwise your article will not get approved. Some sites only allow text, some only allow certain types of html code, others allow 3 links in the body and still others do not allow affiliate links at all, so you have to read what you can and can not do. My advice is to submit your article no matter what, weather it has the links it or not.
The fact is most submission sites state that affiliate links are not allowed however they do allow you to link to your own site which can then redirect them to your affiliate product. If you have a website you need to make some redirect links, if you do not have a website then you can use usfreeads.com and redirect (checkbox) through the classified add that you would setup for each product.
To setup a redirect link simply follow the directions at this website:
http://www.macalester.edu/its/docs/howto/urlredirect/
You will need one redirect (name.html) page for each affiliate product that you are selling. Now its time to insert the links into your article using the a href="" tag to embed the link in a word. Be sure to save your article as a simple text file before you begin to code. It is a good idea to have a few different versions of your article on hand for each article directory. I usually save a text version, a light (3 links) html version, a heavy (<3 links) version and a full html version. This makes your submission time much more efficient, and you won't find yourself coding and writing on each article content site.
When you take these lessons and put them into practice you are not only achieving long term traffic and better Google rankings, but you can potentially make some very quick sales.
------------------------------------------------
Adam Beazley
http://www.Plug-In-Home-Business.com
Want more marketing tips?
Sign up for my newsletter here:
http://www.Plug-In-Home-Business.com/PIHB.html
------------------------------------------------
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
How To How to Really Make Money on the Internet With an Amazon.com Affiliate Site
By Scott Allen, About.com
You've probably heard before a lot of hype about how much money you can make with affiliate programs. Maybe you've even set up a site yourself, only to find that after buying the domain, a few bucks a month in hosting, software or a web designer to
design your site, etc., that the piddly affiliate fees hardly even covered your cost.
Well, here's the hype-free way to really make money with an Amazon.com affiliate
site. And it'll only take a day to make the site. The secret? Low cost, low effort.
Difficulty: Hard
Time Required: One day
Here's How:
If you don't already know it, learn some basic HTML. You have to do this to keep your costs down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you're going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text formatting. Our HTML Guide offers a free 10-week HTML class and a great collection of beginning HTML tutorials. Get over any anxiety you have about this. Just do it. You'll thank me for it later.
Decide on your topic. You're going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about. If you can't stay passionate about the topic, that will show, and it also won't hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be distinctive, e.g., bands from your city, left-handed guitarists, music for a certain kind of dancing, authors of a certain religion, books about arts & crafts, etc.
Choose your domain name. Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Here are some ideas (all available, by the way):
Music: BandsFromTexas.com, BandOutOfBoston.com, SouthpawGuitarists.com, ClassicPsychedelia.com, Non-Stop-Hip-Hop.com, Merengue-Music.com
Books: Mormon-Authors.com, Arts-and-Crafts-Books.com, Books-by-Stephen-King.com, ClassicBusinessBooks.com
Others: Best-Baby-Toys.com, MomsMags.com, FelliniMovies.com
Register your domain name. If you're not technically inclined at all, register your domain wherever you set up your hosting in step 5. Otherwise, you can save a few bucks by choosing a lower-cost provider. Not a big deal for one or two sites, but it can be for ten or twenty. I use GoDaddy, who have great domain management tools and are less than $10 a year. The least expensive I've found from a reputable source is 1&1, whose price is under $6 a year (last I checked).
Set up your web hosting. This is where most people get burned. For this kind of site, you do not need $10 a month web hosting! Check out Discount-Hosting.com for no-frills hosting with adequate functionality and bandwidth, for around $10 a year! If you want more features, or especially if you're planning to run multiple sites, see GeekHosting.com or Multidomain-Hosting.com.
Install weblog software. "Weblog, you say?" Yes. It will give your site all the structure you need, plus make it easy to quickly post new content. My pick is WordPress, which is open source (i.e., free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Download it and follow their installation instructions. Turn on notifications to Weblogs.com and Blo.gs. In WordPress, this is under Options | RSS/RDF Feeds, Track-Ping-backs.
Make it pretty. Free templates for WordPress are available at Not That Ugly. Choose a style you like and then tweak it to suit your tastes and the theme of your site.
Set up categories. Most blog software allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests. For example, BandsFromTexas.com might have one group of categories for genre — rock, country, blues, etc. — and another for city of origin — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc.
Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It's simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page (here's a direct link for your convenience). Your site should already have at least the basic setup done, even if you don't have any content there yet.
Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a "bookmarklet". Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to your Links toolbar in your browser (assuming Internet Explorer), or your Favorites menu. This will allow you to blog a product with one mouse click.
Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link. This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.
Build your first link. Go to Amazon and find the product you want to review. Scroll down to Product Details and find the ASIN or ISBN. Double-click on the number itself to select it, then right-click and choose Copy. Click on your Amazon Build-A-Link link. Right-click in the search field and choose Paste. Change the selection from Served Link to You Host. Click Go. Your selection should show up. Click Get HTML. Choose the kind of link you want, select the highlighted text and copy it.
Blog your review. Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you're using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with "Associates Build-A-Link >< /a >". Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.
Build out your site. Before you promote your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you've created. You may also want to make a categories for articles, news, and commentary about your topic. The more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you're writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically, assuming you turned on the notifications mentioned in step 6.
Promote your site. The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed. See the Online Business Networking category for ideas, as well as the Internet Marketing category.
Tips:
You have to learn some basic HTML and basic concepts about running a web site. It's just not that hard. If you have to rely on purchased software, you won't be able to get exactly what you want, you won't know what to do when things go wrong, and you'll end up spending money you don't need to. Spend the time to learn it. It will be well worth the investment.
I slightly recommend music over books and other products, mainly because you can listen to the clips of an entire album in about 10 minutes and get a good enough feel for it (without buying it) to do a short review. If you have another topic that you're passionate about, great, but make sure you have a unique angle on the topic. People can get reviews about a lot of those consumer products anywhere. You need to give them a reason to come to your site.
To draw repeat visitors, create a newsletter. Frequency should depend on how often you're posting new content. Start with monthly. EZezine will let you send up to 1,000 messages a month for free, with no ads. By the time you exceed that, you should be able to justify paying for the service.
To pick up some extra pennies, sign up for Google AdSense. It probably won't generate a lot of revenue, but it's free to sign up and completely effortless to maintain.
Set reasonable expectations for earnings. You've only invested $20. You're going to make 5% on most products. That means that you need to sell $400 worth of stuff to make back your investment. To make $20 an hour, what you write must generate $400 worth of purchases. You get credit for other purchases made while at Amazon besides just the product you linked to, so it's not as hard as it may sound. It won't make you rich, but it's not hard to be profitable, and it builds over time.
What You Need:
A credit card with about $20 available
You've probably heard before a lot of hype about how much money you can make with affiliate programs. Maybe you've even set up a site yourself, only to find that after buying the domain, a few bucks a month in hosting, software or a web designer to
design your site, etc., that the piddly affiliate fees hardly even covered your cost.
Well, here's the hype-free way to really make money with an Amazon.com affiliate
site. And it'll only take a day to make the site. The secret? Low cost, low effort.
Difficulty: Hard
Time Required: One day
Here's How:
If you don't already know it, learn some basic HTML. You have to do this to keep your costs down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you're going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text formatting. Our HTML Guide offers a free 10-week HTML class and a great collection of beginning HTML tutorials. Get over any anxiety you have about this. Just do it. You'll thank me for it later.
Decide on your topic. You're going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about. If you can't stay passionate about the topic, that will show, and it also won't hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be distinctive, e.g., bands from your city, left-handed guitarists, music for a certain kind of dancing, authors of a certain religion, books about arts & crafts, etc.
Choose your domain name. Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Here are some ideas (all available, by the way):
Music: BandsFromTexas.com, BandOutOfBoston.com, SouthpawGuitarists.com, ClassicPsychedelia.com, Non-Stop-Hip-Hop.com, Merengue-Music.com
Books: Mormon-Authors.com, Arts-and-Crafts-Books.com, Books-by-Stephen-King.com, ClassicBusinessBooks.com
Others: Best-Baby-Toys.com, MomsMags.com, FelliniMovies.com
Register your domain name. If you're not technically inclined at all, register your domain wherever you set up your hosting in step 5. Otherwise, you can save a few bucks by choosing a lower-cost provider. Not a big deal for one or two sites, but it can be for ten or twenty. I use GoDaddy, who have great domain management tools and are less than $10 a year. The least expensive I've found from a reputable source is 1&1, whose price is under $6 a year (last I checked).
Set up your web hosting. This is where most people get burned. For this kind of site, you do not need $10 a month web hosting! Check out Discount-Hosting.com for no-frills hosting with adequate functionality and bandwidth, for around $10 a year! If you want more features, or especially if you're planning to run multiple sites, see GeekHosting.com or Multidomain-Hosting.com.
Install weblog software. "Weblog, you say?" Yes. It will give your site all the structure you need, plus make it easy to quickly post new content. My pick is WordPress, which is open source (i.e., free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Download it and follow their installation instructions. Turn on notifications to Weblogs.com and Blo.gs. In WordPress, this is under Options | RSS/RDF Feeds, Track-Ping-backs.
Make it pretty. Free templates for WordPress are available at Not That Ugly. Choose a style you like and then tweak it to suit your tastes and the theme of your site.
Set up categories. Most blog software allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests. For example, BandsFromTexas.com might have one group of categories for genre — rock, country, blues, etc. — and another for city of origin — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc.
Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It's simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page (here's a direct link for your convenience). Your site should already have at least the basic setup done, even if you don't have any content there yet.
Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a "bookmarklet". Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to your Links toolbar in your browser (assuming Internet Explorer), or your Favorites menu. This will allow you to blog a product with one mouse click.
Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link. This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.
Build your first link. Go to Amazon and find the product you want to review. Scroll down to Product Details and find the ASIN or ISBN. Double-click on the number itself to select it, then right-click and choose Copy. Click on your Amazon Build-A-Link link. Right-click in the search field and choose Paste. Change the selection from Served Link to You Host. Click Go. Your selection should show up. Click Get HTML. Choose the kind of link you want, select the highlighted text and copy it.
Blog your review. Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you're using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with "Associates Build-A-Link >< /a >". Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.
Build out your site. Before you promote your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you've created. You may also want to make a categories for articles, news, and commentary about your topic. The more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you're writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically, assuming you turned on the notifications mentioned in step 6.
Promote your site. The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed. See the Online Business Networking category for ideas, as well as the Internet Marketing category.
Tips:
You have to learn some basic HTML and basic concepts about running a web site. It's just not that hard. If you have to rely on purchased software, you won't be able to get exactly what you want, you won't know what to do when things go wrong, and you'll end up spending money you don't need to. Spend the time to learn it. It will be well worth the investment.
I slightly recommend music over books and other products, mainly because you can listen to the clips of an entire album in about 10 minutes and get a good enough feel for it (without buying it) to do a short review. If you have another topic that you're passionate about, great, but make sure you have a unique angle on the topic. People can get reviews about a lot of those consumer products anywhere. You need to give them a reason to come to your site.
To draw repeat visitors, create a newsletter. Frequency should depend on how often you're posting new content. Start with monthly. EZezine will let you send up to 1,000 messages a month for free, with no ads. By the time you exceed that, you should be able to justify paying for the service.
To pick up some extra pennies, sign up for Google AdSense. It probably won't generate a lot of revenue, but it's free to sign up and completely effortless to maintain.
Set reasonable expectations for earnings. You've only invested $20. You're going to make 5% on most products. That means that you need to sell $400 worth of stuff to make back your investment. To make $20 an hour, what you write must generate $400 worth of purchases. You get credit for other purchases made while at Amazon besides just the product you linked to, so it's not as hard as it may sound. It won't make you rich, but it's not hard to be profitable, and it builds over time.
What You Need:
A credit card with about $20 available
Monday, October 27, 2008
The Big Mistakes to Avoid When Making Money Online from eBay
by Alan Liew
After you have successfully setup your eBay business and started to make some money from the eBay auctions, it is a wise idea to keep on reading and learning about eBay selling as much as you can.
There are a few big mistakes that you might be making when doing business on eBay. That can cause you a lost. But, these mistakes aren’t difficult to correct if you know what they are. Below are some samples:
Setting Wrong Timing for Your Auction
The time that most people have a few hours of free time to spend is Sunday evening. Researches show that this is the most popular time for going online and purchasing on the Internet. So, if the timing of your auction has been set to miss Sunday evening, then you could be losing a lot of good sales.
Ignoring the Importance of Photos
If you think the item photo has not much help in your eBay selling, you could be losing many buyers. The eBay buyers often want to see how the item looks like before bidding it. So, it is necessary that you take 2 to 3 photos in different angles for every item, letting the potential buyers see totally your item.
Poor quality of the photos is another mistake. eBay does give advice about the types of photos that work best. For example, the photos need to be in plain background so that the products can be appeared clearly and eliminate confusion on what actually you are selling. Clear photos that show up your products well will certainly attract more and higher bids.
Over Formatting Your Sale Text and Descriptions
Putting too much animation, eye-catching color text and other distractions in your sale description isn't a good idea. This attempt was actually to get the customers' attention and bids. But, it results the opposite way. It provides great distraction and causes the sale message and details difficult to read. If a potential eBay buyer has clicked on your auction, you already have got their attention. The details and description should be clear, easy and simple to read with the aim to get the viewers' bid.
Setting a Reserve Price may be a Bad Idea
Placing a reserve price on your item can scared off your potential eBay buyers. Many of the potential buyers will not place a bid on the listings that have a reserve price because they worry that they are going to pay a lot money if they win the auction. So, it is better not to set a reserve price on your listed item. Low starting bid price is encouraged to get the maximum bids.
Mistakes cause you lose money. But once you have learned and found out what you are doing wrong, you can deal with them easily.
After you have successfully setup your eBay business and started to make some money from the eBay auctions, it is a wise idea to keep on reading and learning about eBay selling as much as you can.
There are a few big mistakes that you might be making when doing business on eBay. That can cause you a lost. But, these mistakes aren’t difficult to correct if you know what they are. Below are some samples:
Setting Wrong Timing for Your Auction
The time that most people have a few hours of free time to spend is Sunday evening. Researches show that this is the most popular time for going online and purchasing on the Internet. So, if the timing of your auction has been set to miss Sunday evening, then you could be losing a lot of good sales.
Ignoring the Importance of Photos
If you think the item photo has not much help in your eBay selling, you could be losing many buyers. The eBay buyers often want to see how the item looks like before bidding it. So, it is necessary that you take 2 to 3 photos in different angles for every item, letting the potential buyers see totally your item.
Poor quality of the photos is another mistake. eBay does give advice about the types of photos that work best. For example, the photos need to be in plain background so that the products can be appeared clearly and eliminate confusion on what actually you are selling. Clear photos that show up your products well will certainly attract more and higher bids.
Over Formatting Your Sale Text and Descriptions
Putting too much animation, eye-catching color text and other distractions in your sale description isn't a good idea. This attempt was actually to get the customers' attention and bids. But, it results the opposite way. It provides great distraction and causes the sale message and details difficult to read. If a potential eBay buyer has clicked on your auction, you already have got their attention. The details and description should be clear, easy and simple to read with the aim to get the viewers' bid.
Setting a Reserve Price may be a Bad Idea
Placing a reserve price on your item can scared off your potential eBay buyers. Many of the potential buyers will not place a bid on the listings that have a reserve price because they worry that they are going to pay a lot money if they win the auction. So, it is better not to set a reserve price on your listed item. Low starting bid price is encouraged to get the maximum bids.
Mistakes cause you lose money. But once you have learned and found out what you are doing wrong, you can deal with them easily.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Work at home with online business you love
Nowadays, making a work at home business could be very difficult. And as an average person, working at home with online business you love would just be a dream.
Before it is just doable but now it is doable and a lot easier. SBI! is sharing its high-traffic web site expertise and the proven online-business-building system to all those who are interested in having a profitable online business, full time or part-time. It launched an SBI! Core Packages that build work at home business online with keyword-focused content pages that attract free traffic from search engines and presell your visitors, based on the core principle of C-T-P-M (for Content-Traffic-Presell-Monetization).
The SBI! Core Packages are in 3 schemes of providing you top-quality web pages. First is SBI! Core 10 Package for 10 quality content pages. Second is SBI! Core 20 Package for 20 pages. And the third is SBI! Core 35 Package for 35 pages. Each package builds a top-quality web site with keyword-focused and high-traffic web pages for your online business.
After you explain and describe the work at home business you love (your hobbies, interests, knowledge, experiences and expertise can be a work at home business), your SBI! online business expert called SBI! Specialist will research on high-potential keywords based on your business theme and will give you an outline for the creation of high traffic web pages. The Specialist will recommend and register your chosen domain name and present you the outline of building your web site, with goals, tasks and timeline.
The SBI! Specialist will actually do all the dirty works. He will do the web design or the Look and Feel of your site, research the quality content and the building of the web pages that will attract Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live and other search engines for high rankings. He will review the results and will explain to you why the process works.
When your work at home business is running online, you may consult your Specialist about your online business to grow your site as large and as profitable as you want. You may add additional quality content pages to your web site and generate more free traffic from search engines. Your SBI! Specialist will then, takes care of all the technical tasks like domain renewal, advanced management of search engines, updates on the latest technology changes on the net.
The SBI! Core Packages include the SBI! Monthly Service that will make your web business works well beyond the capabilities of most of the popular hosting companies. This Service includes:
Dedicated, Fast and reliable Web hosting
Unlimited e-mail accounts
Powerful research tools for finding potential keywords for your site
Page by page Search Engine optimization
E-mail list builder and E-zine publishing tool
Highly sophisticated Search Engine submissions to Google, Yahoo! and others
Advanced tracking and monthly performance reports
Ongoing access to Web site improvement packages to beat competition
And other online business-building services
With the above services, you can surely have a winning and profitable work at home business. This could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for…to work at home with an online business you love. In addition to that, it has potential of becoming a global household brand.
So, start exploring or building the online business you love and work at home, NOW!
Before it is just doable but now it is doable and a lot easier. SBI! is sharing its high-traffic web site expertise and the proven online-business-building system to all those who are interested in having a profitable online business, full time or part-time. It launched an SBI! Core Packages that build work at home business online with keyword-focused content pages that attract free traffic from search engines and presell your visitors, based on the core principle of C-T-P-M (for Content-Traffic-Presell-Monetization).
The SBI! Core Packages are in 3 schemes of providing you top-quality web pages. First is SBI! Core 10 Package for 10 quality content pages. Second is SBI! Core 20 Package for 20 pages. And the third is SBI! Core 35 Package for 35 pages. Each package builds a top-quality web site with keyword-focused and high-traffic web pages for your online business.
After you explain and describe the work at home business you love (your hobbies, interests, knowledge, experiences and expertise can be a work at home business), your SBI! online business expert called SBI! Specialist will research on high-potential keywords based on your business theme and will give you an outline for the creation of high traffic web pages. The Specialist will recommend and register your chosen domain name and present you the outline of building your web site, with goals, tasks and timeline.
The SBI! Specialist will actually do all the dirty works. He will do the web design or the Look and Feel of your site, research the quality content and the building of the web pages that will attract Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live and other search engines for high rankings. He will review the results and will explain to you why the process works.
When your work at home business is running online, you may consult your Specialist about your online business to grow your site as large and as profitable as you want. You may add additional quality content pages to your web site and generate more free traffic from search engines. Your SBI! Specialist will then, takes care of all the technical tasks like domain renewal, advanced management of search engines, updates on the latest technology changes on the net.
The SBI! Core Packages include the SBI! Monthly Service that will make your web business works well beyond the capabilities of most of the popular hosting companies. This Service includes:
Dedicated, Fast and reliable Web hosting
Unlimited e-mail accounts
Powerful research tools for finding potential keywords for your site
Page by page Search Engine optimization
E-mail list builder and E-zine publishing tool
Highly sophisticated Search Engine submissions to Google, Yahoo! and others
Advanced tracking and monthly performance reports
Ongoing access to Web site improvement packages to beat competition
And other online business-building services
With the above services, you can surely have a winning and profitable work at home business. This could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for…to work at home with an online business you love. In addition to that, it has potential of becoming a global household brand.
So, start exploring or building the online business you love and work at home, NOW!
Friday, October 24, 2008
Welcome to nedulyns blog
Hi everybody im just starting new so u ll understand why this is so virgin but i will improve cause i have stuff to say. Basically, i am all about making money online well not only though i will have othe things to write about but i always wish for a better life for my self and family and its always goood to pass on such information around. I promise to deliver the right stuff at all times tried, tested, and trusted cause i know if i mislead you, you will not come back anymore and i would not want that so just give me this one opportunity to pass on good knowledge to all my friends .Thank you.
Basic Money Skills
By Frederick Mann
There are thousands of self-improvement, success, and money-making books. Many of the authors have attempted to put together some "integrated formulation" from their own experiences and from all the other sources available to them. Unfortunately, most of them -- if not all of them without exception -- are somewhat incomplete and sometimes even hopelessly misguided in some respects. I hope my attempt at formulating some money skills will become more complete than most.
Robert G. Allen (also best-selling author of Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, and Challenge) writes in Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth:
"Prosperous people practice seven financial secrets. I call them "secrets" not because very few of us are aware of them, but because very few of us use them. The secrets are, in reality, skills ... essential money skills that all wealthy people practice. I believe that if you learn these skills, wealth can flow into your life ... multiple streams of increasing prosperity. Wouldn't that be nice? Money to buy whatever you want ... houses, cars, travel, freedom. Surplus to share with the people you care most about. Security. Peace of mind. That's what these skills will bring you."
Money Skill #0: Overcoming the denial of personal disadvantageThis may be the most important money skill of all. It is also a most important life skill. It's a central aspect of the most powerful success principle ever discovered. If you cannot master this skill, you may not make much progresss with any of the others. If you do master this skill, then all the other money skills will be easier to master. See #TL04C: The Ultimate Success Secret.
A reader wrote me, "...How can anyone be expected to understand a phrase like, "Overcoming the denial of personal disadvantage?"" What may seem obvious once you've recognized it, may seem incomprehensible to someone else. Some people have "personal disadvantages." Some of them deny to themselves that they have these disadvantages. In order to handle this situation, they need to overcome the the denial of their personal disadvantages.
Basic Money Skills
By Frederick Mann
There are thousands of self-improvement, success, and money-making books. Many of the authors have attempted to put together some "integrated formulation" from their own experiences and from all the other sources available to them. Unfortunately, most of them -- if not all of them without exception -- are somewhat incomplete and sometimes even hopelessly misguided in some respects. I hope my attempt at formulating some money skills will become more complete than most.
Robert G. Allen (also best-selling author of Nothing Down, Creating Wealth, and Challenge) writes in Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth:
"Prosperous people practice seven financial secrets. I call them "secrets" not because very few of us are aware of them, but because very few of us use them. The secrets are, in reality, skills ... essential money skills that all wealthy people practice. I believe that if you learn these skills, wealth can flow into your life ... multiple streams of increasing prosperity. Wouldn't that be nice? Money to buy whatever you want ... houses, cars, travel, freedom. Surplus to share with the people you care most about. Security. Peace of mind. That's what these skills will bring you."
Money Skill #0: Overcoming the denial of personal disadvantageThis may be the most important money skill of all. It is also a most important life skill. It's a central aspect of the most powerful success principle ever discovered. If you cannot master this skill, you may not make much progresss with any of the others. If you do master this skill, then all the other money skills will be easier to master. See #TL04C: The Ultimate Success Secret.
A reader wrote me, "...How can anyone be expected to understand a phrase like, "Overcoming the denial of personal disadvantage?"" What may seem obvious once you've recognized it, may seem incomprehensible to someone else. Some people have "personal disadvantages." Some of them deny to themselves that they have these disadvantages. In order to handle this situation, they need to overcome the the denial of their personal disadvantages.
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