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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

25 ways to drive more visitors to your Blog or website

The questions is why do you want to drive more visitors to your blog? The answer is pretty obvious to most people. If you have a monotized site with ads on, the more traffic you get, the more money you get. Pretty simple really. And if you don't make money of your site, you will still gain prestige and fame as your traffic gets more. These 25 ways are really good if you start out with a money making system like, The SpiderWeb Marketing System, where you could potentially make houndreds of dollars just by promoting your affiliate link or site very well. I just joined the The SpiderWeb Marketing System and I use all these methods to get my traffic up. It works pretty well.

1. Trends

One of the easiest ways to drive quick traffic to your blog is to write something which appears in the Google Hot Trends. Andrew Wise offers some insights about this technique, I tested it and worked very well and as anticipated.
The type of traffic is very short-lived, but the visitors can be converted to returning visitors.
The revenue impact is very low.

2. Text Search engines

People use search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Live to find information on the web. Every blogger should submit his blog to the major search engines to get the most precious type of visitors. The traffic will be long-lived and the revenue impact high enough to support the hosting costs.

3. Natural linking

Post a lot of quality content and people will link to you naturally. The traffic will increase exponentially as more bloggers and websites link to your pages. Since the links on the remote websites will remain in place, the traffic is long-lived. The referred visitors don’t seem to like to support your website, thus the revenue impact is low.

4. Social bookmarking

Submit your own posts and offer the opportunity to your visitors to submit your posts in social bookmarking service like Digg and del.isio.us. While the traffic will be short-lived compared to the traffic referred by search engines, the revenue impact can be quite pleasing if the website is optimized for AdSense.

5. Online feed aggregators

I know that many would rather consider Technorati a search engine than a feed aggregator, but I think it is, since it’s working based on submitted feeds. Anyway, be sure you submit your blog in feed aggregators like Technorati or BlogBurst. Blogburst will display your posts on websites like CNN or The Times if you’re lucky.
While the traffic is extremely short-lived, it’s good for building a community. The referred visitors don’t tend to click ads.

6. Directories

Google recently removed this suggestion from its guidelines but links back to your site is always good as your visibility is increased. Submit your site to as many free directories as you can but Never pay for submission. If your site doesn’t appear in a directory where you submitted your blog, don’t get annoyed and don’t try again, it’s normal.
Visitors and revenue impact will be similar to search engine referred visitors.

7. Ad Networks

Advertise your blog either contextually or by placement. You can always advertise your blog with Google AdWords and your contextual ad can appear in the search results or your banner even on YouTube.
The traffic will depend on you budget and how much do you wish to pay per click or per thousand impressions. The earnings from adverts on your own blog will be incredibly high as the users who clicked one ad, will click one more with pleasure.

8. Commenting and signatures

If you visit a fellow blogger’s blog, always leave a useful comment. Under ‘useful’ I mean something other than “Great blog” or “nice post”. Always specify your website URL in the comment form and if you can include in the comment a link back to your site, even better. But never spam others blogs.
Also, if you participate in discussions on forums, always include in you signature your blog’s URL. The same applies to e-mail signatures. We write dozens of e-mails daily, sometimes for people who we do not know. Why not let them know about your blog?
The traffic impact can be high, depending how many users visit the page where you left a comment or posted a reply. These visitors doesn’t help you at all earning a penny.

9. Give Away

Gifts are awesome things and everybody likes them. If you offer something for your visitors, an e-book, a mug, a T-shirt or even a pen, let’s say for every 100 visitor, the news will spread rapidly on the net and people will come to your blog to get a gift.
These visitors are likely to click ads, but the traffic will end just after you stop giving things away.

10. Social gadgets

Every humans have to be part of a community, period. Blogs are not the most community focused web sites, in order to change this, bloggers can install gadgets like the from MyBlogLog in order to form a community around the blog.
To understand how does this affect your traffic: John Doe tells about a brand new community he just signed up to to all of his friends. The next day, Jane Doe who is John’s friend will visit this community.
The traffic grows exponentially if you can maintain the interest of your community. The revenue impact is mid ranged from new members and after they familiarize with your site’s structure, the impact is almost null.

11. Trackback

When you write about a subject you know another blogger already wrote about or you even took his content as source, be good and link back to the original post. This will make the blog software’s engine to place a so called trackback URL on the blog post you linked to. People will click that URL and arrive on your website.
The traffic depends on how popular the source post is. The revenue impact varies between mid and high.

12. E-Books

Why wouldn’t you compose an e-book including your best 20 posts and which you can then merchandise either as a give away for those who sign up top your blog or by making as torrent publishing it on a public bitTorrent tracker, for example? Just be sure you include links in the text many times.
You will get direct visits which is usually has very good impact on your earnings. The traffic lifetime will vary widely. If people will like your book, they will share with their friends or seed the torrent more, thus the lifetime will be longer.
Worth a try.

13. Get social

Create as many free profiles on as many different social networks as you can. Start with MySpace, end with Twitter, but be sure to not miss any. In your profile add a link back to your blog and you’re set. If you want higher traffic, make friends.
The traffic can be incredibly high if you manage to build a great social network. The revenue impact will not be too impressive.

14. Guest Writing

Ask other bloggers to write on your blog and if you’re counter invited, accept it. You will be let to place a link back to your blog in the body of your post on the remote blog. While you lost one hour of your life writing the post, you earned a link. The more links, the more traffic.
The traffic will depend on how many links did you place on the remote blogs and how popular those posts got.
Revenue impact can be quite attractive.

15. Interact with users

If your user ask you something or just comments something, never forget to give a friendly answer. While this has no direct relation with your traffic, if you are friendly, your users will invite others to your blog and this can be very precious, both your earning and your traffic can be boosted easily.

16. Interviews

Write an interview with somebody who has greater reputation on the internet than you. Is that Queen Elisabeth or John Doe from the Elm Street’s 6th corner, it doesn’t matter. People like to read interviews. If you hit a good subject, people will flow to your blog.

17. Article directories

Write articles about something interesting and you have knowledge about, then submit it to article directories, for example EZArticles. You are allowed to place a link back to your blog. When people finished reading your article will search for something to click. Yeah, nowadays when people finish reading wants to click something. And that will be the link back to your blog you just placed in the article.
The traffic will be constant and depending on the quality and popularity of the article, can be extremely high. Revenue impact will be also high.

18. Mispell

Yeah. Misspell words, but be sure to not more than 2 per post. Incredibly high number of people misspell words when searching on Google, incredible but true. That’s why Google invented the “Did you mean…” thing. If you misspell the correct words, you will get some nice traffic.
Example: Instead of Obama you write Obaam

19. Reviews

Ask other bloggers to write a review about your site then offer the same for them. A well written review can have extreme impact on your traffic, if the review appeared on a high traffic site.

20. Offline media promotion

If you have a car, place a sticker on its back advertising your blog. Wear T-shirts which promotes your blog. You’ll be amazed how nicely these can increase your traffic.

21. Events

If you have a lot of local traffic, host an event where you promote your blog. If you see that another blog hosts such an event and you have the opportunity, grab your girlfriend and get to the event. Don’t forget to talk with many people, always mention your blog, give everyone a business-card and wear a T-shirt which promotes your blog.
The traffic will be incredible.

22. Image search engines

Many doesn’t know, but image search engines can send huge amount of traffic to your blog. To get the images in the search engines, you will have to use some attributes properly. For example every image should have alt and title attribute set. For example:

'some

When the image search engines will find your image and someone will search for the term “some image”, your image will be amongst the results.
You will get same amount of traffic and the revenue impact will also be the same like in the search engine’s case.

23.Testimonials

If you buy a product, if you sign up for a service and you like, ask the merchant to let you write a testimonial on their website. Both of you win. Just be sure you include a link back to your blog too.

24. CraigsList

Sounds stupid, I know. Write an ad and somehow include a link to your blog. Just be sure the editors will not consider the link spam.
If the readers click the link, you won. The experience is that this can confer you nice amount of traffic and users who will click on ads.

25. Video marketing

If you have the talent create videos and upload them to YouTube. People adore watching videos, and if you place either in the description or in the video a link back to your site, you won.

If you are interested in making money with affiliate programs like Self Bank Mobile and Direct Matches, or a integrated affiliate money making program like the honored, SpiderWeb Marketing System, you could really use these traffic improving ways. Good luck!

(Thanks to content from 25 ways to get more visitors to your blog)


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I just started with SpiderWeb Marketing System

Monday, 2 March 2009

Finished with your SpiderWeb Marketing System setup, now what?

As I have said in my previous blog post, I just started with SpiderWeb Marketing System. I am still fairly new to all this, but one thing that I have seen is that this system definately looks like it is what it boasts to be and I can see the potential in it.

Right, about 24 hours ago I got the The SpiderWeb Marketing System 100% free of course. Didn't have a lot of time though, so I just signed in, rambled through most of the step by step videos, but didn't really follow all their steps. I put a link on my Facebook profile and went to sleep, hoping that I would get time do more today.

Well, I locked in to my SpiderWeb account, and what did I see? I already have 8 leads, contact details of them and everything. The system is so cool that it actually displays this all and tells you until what step the lead actually watched the videos. Most of my leads didn't watch past step 3 or 4 so they wouldn't have had the chance to register for any of the great income generating affiliates like, Direct Matches, Self Bank Mobile and probably the affiliate the will make you the most money, Commission Junction, and of course GDI (You will need this if you want your own cheap website to promote with).

I just worked through all the videos accept Commission Junction's tutorial, and I can honestly say it looks like all these affiliates could make you good money. And it really is SO easy. Just follow all the steps in the videos exactly and I am sure you will be able to make money.

A few things hints that I could give you at this stage:

1. First fill in your details to request your own SpiderWeb Marketing System free.(Click here ----> The SpiderWeb Marketing System

2. Watch ALL the videos, do ALL the steps as the tutorial tells you to. ESPECIALLY 4,6,7,8, 9, 10. If you really don't have time to watch all the videos now, just make sure that you registered for every step's program like, GDI, Selfbank, Direct Matches, Commission junction etc. If you don't you won't have any income streams. (If you get stuck, you can always watch the videos again later. BUT make sure you register for all the sites, so that your leads can come streaming in.

3. Now, you can start promoting your stuff. Immediately go to every registered affiliate and mail the link to all your friends, send a message with your http://thespiderwebsystem.com/bertus SpiderWeb Address link to all your friends in Facebook, Myspace etc. Then you can start with your website, banners, links, advertising like adwords etc, while the leads come pouring in.

4. Remember to follow up all leads and mail them again to persuade them to pull through with all the steps, so that they can start making money, and you too.

Well, I will keep you updated on my findings, I am off now to continue my marketing of this brilliantly unique Money Generating tool.

If you havn't done so already, check this system out now, watch the videos and you won't be sorry.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System

Do you have your own world-wide-web yet?


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Sunday, 1 March 2009

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Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Make a fortune promoting other people's stuff online

I found a great book online that tells you the ins and outs of affiliate marketing online. It's called "Make a fortune promoting other people's stuff online" and I can really recommend it to everyone who wants to start out with an affiliate program, anyone who wants to start making money online, or anyone that is struggling making making money with their affiliate programs.

The definitive guide to planning and managing a successful online affiliate business!. .

Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online is your hands-on guide to starting your own profitable affiliate marketing business quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Leading affiliate marketing authority Rosalind Gardner gives you a proven five-step plan for identifying a niche with a huge market, choosing products to promote, and selling the benefits effectively. You'll see how to:. .

Navigate the different affiliate programs, from commissioned-based �click-through� programs to CPM impressions to flat-fee referral.

Identify the products and programs that are profitable-and the ones to avoid.
Ask the right questions before you join an affiliate program.
Research, understand, and sell to your niche market.
Negotiate for a higher percentage on your commission.
Stay on top of developments in the industry. .
Packed with time- and money-saving techniques-including twelve ways to drive traffic to your
website at no cost-this comprehensive guide is all you need to make big profits as an affiliate
marketer!. .

Rosalind Gardner is the creator of several successful online businesses and the author of the bestselling Super Affiliate Handbook. Her website is NetProfitsToday.com.





Reviews of this product:

A wonderful little book about how to sell product or services online!, October 20, 2007
By
Jeff Lippincott "www.Jlippin.com" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

A good little book about how to promote YOUR BUSINESS using your Web site, Internet search engines, and other marketing techniques. I'm a SCORE volunteer who counsels small business owners on how to improve their Web presence and make the Internet work for them in bringing in clients. Much of the material covered in this wonderful little book is exactly what I explain to my clients. As a SCORE counselor I discuss market research, competition research, Web site research, keyword research, profit research, how to design a winning Web site, how to build a winning Web site, and how to market the winning Web site. This book covers all of these things. If you are looking for advice on how to do these things, then look no further. You have found it when you get a copy of this book. About three years ago I did a bit of research on affiliate programs on the Net and how to build my own affiliate program and upload it onto the Net. There really wasn't a lot out there to read about the subject at the time. Still isn't. But I was able to figure out back then that affiliate programs were not worth the effort to get involved in or to put together. I learned that if you can do a great job selling through an affiliate program, then you can do just as good selling your own product and make all the profit on the sale instead of a silly commission. This book helps explain how to do a great job selling. So get it for that angle and not the affiliate program angle. I'm giving this book 4 stars because in my opinion the title is a little misleading. I don't know anyone who is or has made a fortune in affiliate programs. But if the title were changed to something like make a fortune selling your own stuff online and the content was reworked a little, then the star rating would go up.



Great book for learning and implementing affiliate marketing, August 20, 2007
By
Deborah Crawford "Writer, Trainer, Walker, Sm... (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews

I don't know anyone making a fortune with affiliate marketing, but I do believe it is possible, which is why I bought this book. If you are an affiliate marketer, you might find much of this book repetitive. But, if you are not making a fortune and want to, then this book is for you. Most of us know it takes a llloooooonnnnnngggg time to make any money from most affiliate programs, and Gardner doesn't tell you you can get rich overnight. I found her information to be true to what everyone else is saying--build a good website (or websites) with great content, find good paying companies to promote and run your affiliate business like---a business. What a concept! (I find many people throw up a few pages of content and a couple of links and then start waiting for the money. As if. . .) I like this book because there are actual "how-to's" in here--how to set up tracking tools and spreadsheets, how and when to create content, how to promote your business, how to get your website up, when to expand your business, what to do when an affiliate doesn't pay, how to find affiliates, and much more. If you are looking for get rich quick scams, look somewhere else. If you are looking for a guide to having your own successful affiliate business, get this book.

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Monday, 1 December 2008

Successful SBI affiliate assures you that Site Build It works


Site Build It! - A Scam? - For more amazing video clips, click here

Today I posted some Videos that explain and gives more proof about Site Build It(A very successful Website building and promoting tool used to generate a money making website of your choice), tells how it works and why it works and to assure you it is not a scam. This is a youtube video of a woman that had great success with SBI and also got to meet the man who started SBI. It's really great to see real people like us who had so much Success with Site Build It. These days, anyone could make money with the internet, but only people that do it the right way and that works smart and hard will make it to the top. Check out this video and also the other videos posted today to Learn more about SBI and you can also see more proof that SBI works and see some Successful Case Studies of Site Build It.. Enjoy and good luck.

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Quick Video Tour of Site Build It (Most successful money making website builder)




This is a short video tour I came across explaining more about Site Build It, and explaining more about how you can use SBI to start your online business and successfully make money online. There has been a lot of proof from happy customers that used SBI to start their business and a lot of them are now financially independent. SBI definately Compares well with other programs. If you want to learn more about using SBI and use it to make money with Affiliate marketing also read the Affiliate program tutorial

Proof that Site Build It could make you money online


Site Build It!: The Proof - Click here for more blooper videos

In this short video we have one customer of Site Build It, a website building and promoting online money making program, talking about Site Build It and giving proof that Site Build it works and is not a scam and that he uses it to make legitimate money like houndreds of thousands of other satisfied customers. Check it out. If you really want to start your own online business and become financially independent also read Affiliate Program Tutorial on how to start your own sucessful online business.

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Affiliate Tutorial - Tweak your site (Final Steps 16 - 18)

STEP 16: Tweak your site

To boost your conversion rate (your visitor-to-sales ratio), try little experiments, one thing at a time.
Try changing the heading on a page, the words, the colors, the placement of your links. With each change wait until about 1,000 visitors have seen the change, and monitor your affiliate commissions to see if they rise or fall.
You do this because you understand that if 1% of your visitors are buying and tiny changes boost your success rate to 2%, you'll DOUBLE your commissions.


STEP 17: The future

When you reach your goal of $300 a month, you wonder whether you should expand your site, perhaps adding a newsletter, an autoresponder course or two, a forum, RSS newsfeeds, a blog, a whitepaper, a report to sell ... and turn it into a portal. You dream big. Perhaps you even start dreaming of having your own affiliates promoting your reports for you...
Or perhaps you just research another little overlooked niche and start on your next simple little, low-maintenance money-generating site.

It can be done. The main ingredient needed is persistence. Been there, done that, and I have a very nice lifestyle to prove it.

The $300 a month target is very conservative. If that's all you earn, you've done something "wrong". You haven't chosen profitable keywords carefully enough, you haven't built enough attractive, keyword-rich pages, you haven't learned the basics of optimizing pages for search engines, or you haven't attracted enough good quality links to your site.
That's the wonderful thing about this business. You can make lots of mistakes and still earn useful money. Just don't make TOO many mistakes.

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STEP 18: Take the first step

That's the one that matters most.
I suggest you go back and read through this affiliate program tutorial again.
Picture yourself owning a successful online business. Picture yourself opening letters and finding checks in them. Picture yourself going into your PayPal account and seeing the latest commissions you've been paid by affiliate merchants.
Imagine enjoying yourself spending the money, perhaps even giving up your day job so that you can concentrate on your own business.
Now take the first step.
And when you've quit your day job, please write and tell me. I love getting emails like that.


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All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Affiliate Tutorial - See affiliate success (Step 14 - 15)

STEP 14: Expect to see signs of success.

Eventually, because of all the links to your site on other sites, Google, Yahoo! and MSN will find your site and start sending you traffic.
Perhaps around the three-month or four-month stage you'll be receiving 100 visitors a day. Visitors will like what they see and some site owners will start linking to you and asking you to link to them.
Keep at it. You're just getting warmed up.

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STEP 15: The payoff...

About six months down the road, after little expense but quite a lot of hard work and research, you hit your magical $300 a month mark, from affiliate sales and from AdSense ads on your site.
Depending on the niche you've chosen and the skills you've learned, you might earn considerably more than $300.

Perhaps after 12 months, you'll be earning $500 to $1,000 a month from your site.
The checks keep coming in, month after month, even when you take a little vacation. You start telling friends how easy affiliate marketing is, and are puzzled when they're not convinced.
Of course, it's not really easy. It just seems easy after you've done the hard work.
...or the NON-payoff

If you've merely scanned the instruction manual and jumped right in without doing any research and built a "Make Money on the Internet" site, you'll probably earn very little. A search on Google for "make money" displays more than 4 million pages. If one of those is yours, you have a LOT of competition.

If you did this and it isn't working for you, go back to step 1 and start again.



All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Affiliate Tutorial - Place articles on websites (Step 11 - 13)

STEP 11: Place your articles on other websites

Write articles and distribute them to article directories (fairly easy) and try to persuade newsletters and other sites to publish them (more challenging.
This step isn't absolutely essential, but it helps enormously if you do it. Now you understand why it was so important that you chose a topic that was easy to write about.

STEP 12: Add more pages and get more links.

Keep adding useful, interesting, keyword-rich pages (you do research at Wordtracker for this) and keep encouraging more sites to link to your site.
Make friends with other web site owners, and more people will link to you...

STEP 13: Be patient.

If your new site is typical, nothing much will seem to happen for the first couple of months or so, and you'll probably become frustrated and find it hard to believe that this is going to work.
You're likely to feel annoyed, cheated and ready to quit. You're likely to be a prime target for people selling get-rich-quick junk.
Many affiliates give up at this stage. Stick with it. If you're persistent and get the details right, the process I'm describing works beautifully.
Learn something new every day. Do something to improve your business every day. If you do this, success is inevitable. My Funny videos blog Oraclevid Funny Videos took a while to pick up and now it gets over 400 hits a day in just a few weeks.


All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Affiliate Tutorial - Good links to your site (Step 8 - 10)

STEP 8: Get good quality links to your site

Without links to your site, your site won't be found in the search engines. So you MUST get links to your site, if possible from "authority" sites - ones that have lots of links to them.
First, link to other sites. Choose sites that have similar or related themes, and invite those sites to link to you.

This is hugely important. Search engines love sites that have many links to them - especially if those links come from sites which are themselves popular.
Now you see why I said build a useful, interesting site. If you do that, people are more likely to link to your site.
Here's an article I wrote describing how to get reciprocal links.
Reciprocal links should be only a small part of your marketing strategy - not your whole marketing strategy.
Even better than reciprocal links are one-way links. Here's an article describing how to get one-way links.
Some of these one-way links techniques are fairly advanced and require considerable work. Most of your competitors will be too lazy to do them, so you'll have a big advantage if you do. They can make the difference between a hobby site and a serious, very profitable business.

Finders Fee

STEP 9: Anchor text

You'll also need to understand the importance of anchor text, the words you use to link to pages on your site, the words people use when they link to your site.
To search engines, anchor text is very important.


STEP 10: List your site in major directories and niche directories in your industry.

You probably already know about Yahoo! (good but expensive) and DMOZ (often takes months to get into).

Here are some more directories (some charge a fee):
Gimpsy

Skaffe
Joeant
Business.com
SevenSeek
ThisIsOurYear
Looksmart (probably too expensive)
BlueFind
WowDirectory
Best of the Web
GeniusFind

Guides to web directories
David Mahler has a Guide to Web Directories. It's a good list of recommended web directories.
Here's another list: http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

How to find niche directories:
Go to Search It! (It's a very handy free research tool.)
Scroll to the Search Category, "Specialty Hubs and Directories"
Choose one of the 4 options in STEP 2
Read the "Click Here for Information..." help before proceeding
Complete STEPS 3 and 4, and then click on Search It!
Read the tutorial. It tells you what to do with the search results
Get your search results. You should be able to find relevant, themed hub sites and directories which will list your site. Some charge a fee, some are free.



All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Affiliate Tutorial - Affiliate links (Step 6-7)

STEP 6: Add affiliate links

As you write the articles for your site, weave affiliate links into them. Always have a typical visitor in mind as you write the articles. Speak to that visitor.
Your task as an affiliate is to help your visitor decide what to buy.
One successful technique is to gradually lead your visitor towards a purchase. Start by outlining a problem, discuss a good solution that has worked for you, and end the article with a link that is a call to action, such as a hyperlink that says, "Find out more here."
Your task as an affiliate is NOT to sell (that's the merchant's job) but to presell, to warm up your visitors. You want your visitors in a ready-to-buy frame of mind when they arrive at the merchant's site.

For superb advice on preselling, I strongly recommend you join Ken Evoy's 5 Pillar Affiliate Program. It's free to join.

Ken is an absolute whiz at preselling and he's renowned for working extremely hard to help his affiliates succeed. He has a superb program. It's been No.1 in my Top 10 for several years. I earn five-figure monthly commissions from this affiliate program.

STEP 7: Place AdSense ads on your site

If you have a good, popular site, it's remarkably easy to make good money with Google AdSense. AdSense is free to join.

Here's an excellent free Google Adsense Tutorial.



All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Top questions and review of Site Build It

Many people wonder how you can use Site Build It to make and design a money making website without any web building or programming experience. Here are some top questions that one of our affiliates, Nicole answered for us. I hope it would set your mind at ease.

#1 Can you explain simply how Site Build It works?

In a nutshell Site Build It is an online/download program that guides you step by step how to turn a hobby/passion/interest/…into an online business through building a website.
This is not just some software that you are left to follow on your own but it is a program whereby you are supported all the time by real people either in the forum or in the SBI headquarters. You are guided every step of the way.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#2 How much does it cost?

It costs $299 USD per year. I've paid the same amount since I started in 2003! That works out at just under $1 USD per day. There are no extras to pay and no hidden costs.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#3 Can anyone use Site Build It and do I need to already know how to build a website?

YES anyone can use Site Build It and NO you don't need to know anything at all about building a website. Of course it helps but is not obligatory.
I knew nothing when I started (remember I was on a dial up connection and could just about surf the internet).
Site Build It have an incredibly simple block by block website building system. They have stacks of templates which you can customize and they guide you the whole way. Of course if you want to make a more complicated website or use your own templates, they allow you to do that too!
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#4 How do you actually make money?

I wondered that too! There are 2 main ways:
Firstly you might sell a product (or service) that you own or make e.g. homemade jewellery, eBooks, graphic design, language translation. You will physically ship or provide a service.
Secondly you might sell a product/service that you don't own - this is what I do. In this case you join forces with a supplier (I joined forces with various party product suppliers) and then if I refer people to them who then go on to buy their products, I get a small percentage of the sale. This is called "Affiliate Marketing".
Don't get scared of that word as Site Build It will explain it all in a very simple way and walk you through the whole process.
There are other ways to earn as well such as by putting Google ads on your web pages or writing articles for other sites plus many more.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#5 I have no idea what to build a website about. Can you suggest anything?

This is a question that I get asked all the time and I asked myself the same question when I started.
Don't worry though as Site Build It walk you through the whole process of how to choose something interesting and profitable to you.
For some examples here are some websites that other SBI'ers have built
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#6 How long did it take you to build your website?

I won't pretend that you can build it in a day or even a month. It takes time. Remember though you are not just building a website you are aiming to build a business, a business that earns you money.
Site Build It have what they call a "10 day" course to enable you to get your website up and running. Although they use the word 'day', a day sometimes took me several days or a week. It all depends how much time you can devote to it.
I started kids-partycabin in early 2003 and it took me about one month to put my up my first few pages but another 6 months before I felt I had a decent looking website.
I started my second website learn-french-today in 2007 and it was so much quicker to get going as I already had the experience behind me.
I never stop building them though as there is always something new to write about. I'm always thinking up new kids party games and or plotting and planning new kids party themes.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#7 How much money do you earn a month?

The big question that everyone wants to know and quite rightly too! You want to know that your time and effort is paying off.
My first year on both my websites I earned nothing. Remember the first year you need to build the foundations of your business and this is hugely important. You need to research and plan – Site Build It shows you how to do all that.
The second year I earned double of my Site Build It fee and each year after that my income has doubled.
I now earn around $1200 per month on kids-partycabin.com and am just starting to earn on learn-french-today.com as that is just a year old.
Some people earn much more than me but they probably put in more time and effort. You put in what suits you.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#8 How many hours do you work a day?

As I don't go out to work and my kids are no longer babies, I have more time than other work at home mums.
I probably spend about 4 hours a day at the computer but a lot of that time is spent gleaning information and tips off the Site Build It forum. Some days I don't work at all and other days I just answer emails.
-- Review of Site Build It! --

#9 What if I get stuck or I want my money back?

When I started 5 years ago, I relied on the Site Build support center - I had so many questions I wonder if they ever got fed up with me. They say not!
You are lucky though as recently they have set up a fantastic forum which is alive and throbbing with people like you and me, all trying to set up a web business. There are beginners and experts alike all asking every manner of questions. It really is the best forum I have come across.
Site Build It also have a 30 day 100% money back guarantee and after that you are refunded on a pro-rata basis, for whatever part of the year remains. Not bad at all compared to other programs.
-- Review of Site Build It! --


Site Build It!

#10 I am not sure if I am ready. Can I get some FREE stuff first?

There are lots of FREE Site Build It products. I love a freebie so definitely took advantage of them!
Below is a list of some of their free downloads so you don't need to commit to anything. I have only listed the ones you might find interesting.
I read lots and lots before I made the decision to go ahead. It's a bit scary at first so I really wanted to check I was doing the right thing.

Work At Home Mum (WAHM)If you are a stay at home mum and are looking for an income but also want to be with the kids, then this is for you! - FREE

Affilliate Masters Course Explains what being an affiliate means and all the ins and outs and dos and don'ts! - FREE

Netwrtiting Masters Course Think you can't write? This will show you that you can! - FREE

What is Site Build It? Explains what exactly is Site Build It and how you can create a money making website out of any topic/hobby/interest/passion.

Video Tour of How Site Build It Works This is a great video that explains simply how Site Build can work for you. Definitely worth watching.

What Sort of Business Might Suit You? Have no idea what sort of business/website to set up? Whether you are a student, retiree, stay at home parent, employee or employer, this will show you what you can do.

Case Studies to Inspire You! - Plus Their review of Site Build It!Read about Elad a work at home dad who set up a kids party website, Michelle a WAHM who set up a hairdressing website, Marney an art website, Shaun an writing website. Plus loads more case studies.
-----Review Site Build It -----------

Regards,
Nicole


Find out more about starting your own money making website!


PS: Still got some questions? You can mail me at bertuseng@yahoo.com You can also ask questions through SBI and they have way more experience than me! All the best

Review: Top Site Building Money Making Package

Site Build is a very successful website build and marketing tool for making money with your own web page, one of the most successful out there. Over 100000 people have benifited from this and a lot of them got rich from this program. So, will this program be good for you? We will review the key features and components that come in the package.

Site Build It Website Building Features:

Site Build It has built-in webpage templates for your site. So you can build a website, without knowing HTML and program. All you have to do is to create content - something that you probably know about.

For example, if you are planning to open an online store for clothes and shoes, I guess you might know quite a lot about the clothes and shoes that you want to sell, and those things will be your content.

Site Build It takes care of the programming part for you. It provides the entire interface for you to input your content so that you don't need to know about those coding stuffs.
Site Build It has built in graphics tools as well, so that you can modify to make your site look customized. And when you change the graphics (on your logo or master template) ALL the pages are changed. This is a big time-saver.

Site Build It Marketing Tool Features:

Site Build It has a Keyword Research Tool that helps you the profitable keywords in your niche. This tool is very helpful, no matter you are a novice website designer or experienced webmaster.
The basics of keyword research are described in MYSS. You can do the keyword research manually, it usually will take days of work. Using Site Build It, same or better results can be achieved within minutes (better in the same that Site Build It also tells you the profitability potentials of each keyword).

The Keyword Research Tool might cost well above $200 alone by itself.
Sit Build It package includes an electronic newsletter publishing system, so that your visitors can join your mailing list. You can e-mail your visitors/clients regularly and stay in touch.
Paying for a newsletter publishing system alone could cost you about $300 per year if you buy it somewhere else as a stand-alone tool.

The autoresponder system is also included such that if someone commit a purchase on your site, she/he will get an automatic response.
Site Build It Traffic Building Features:
After you set up your site, Site Build It will submit your site to major search engines, including Google and Yahoo, among others.
It will also report to you the rankings of your webpages. If your ranking is not high (not among the top 10 pages returned by, for example, Google), Site BuildIt will analyze your webpage and tell you how to improve it.

Site Build It!

Using the search engine optimization feature offered by Site Build It, an almost computer illiterate, Karen Copeland (http://www.golf-travel-packagessouthafrica.com), achieves #1 rankings in Google for 75 of his pages, besides others in top 10.
Well, these are features I think that are important. They are also unique since usually hosting package won't have them.

Considering that a regular hosting package without these features will cost you above $200, and taking into account the fact that Site BuildIt also has unlimited storage and bandwidth, you can't lose by choosing them. In fact, you are making a smart decision if you buy Site Build It now at the price of US$299.

A final note, Site Build It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee. After the 30-day money back period, they will refund on a pro-rated basis.
In summary, I highly recommend Site build it!

Click to find out more about Site build. Be warned, this is no get rich quick scheme. You should make money quickly, but the only road to wealth is hard work.

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Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Affiliate Program Tutorial: (Step 1-3)

This Affiliate Program Tutorial aims to give you a quick overview.
It's your road map to success as an affiliate.

I've been earning a good living from affiliate programs since 1998. Based on that experience, this tutorial tells you the 18 steps to take to generate a useful income from affiliate programs.
No tricks. No gimmicks. Just solid, reliable methods designed to work for years.
You have the choice of many different ways of earning affiliate commissions.

In my experience, you'll have your best chance of success if you do the following. Find a niche and create a useful, interesting, content-rich, keyword-rich website on one topic and weave in affiliate links and AdSense ads.

This method - with the more recent addition of AdSense ads - has worked beautifully for me since 1998.
I urge you to master this basic method. It's a bit like serving an apprenticeship.
As part of your apprenticeship you'll learn SEO (search engine optimization) skills, copywriting skills and various other Internet marketing skills which will prove to be invaluable, whatever route you choose next.

With any luck, you'll have a bit of fun, too! I do.
I include Google's AdSense in this tutorial. Strictly speaking, AdSense is an advertising network. However, in many ways it's similar to an affiliate program. I think AdSense is fantastic. It's free to join, free to use and easy to use.
It's often much easier to earn good money from AdSense than affiliate programs, so it's essential that you include AdSense in your plans.
OK. Let's get started...

STEP 1: Set a goal

If you want to go somewhere, you need to know where you're going.
Let's start with a modest goal. Say you aim to earn a total of $300 (US) a month in affiliate commissions and AdSense revenue. Imagine what you could do with that money. A holiday? A better lifestyle?
I've kept the amount low, because it's important that you believe you can do this. Achieve small successes first, see the money in your hands or in your bank account, and then increase your goals.
Perhaps you have much larger goals. That's OK. Whatever your goals, I strongly recommend that you serve your apprenticeship by taking these 18 steps. They'll give you solid knowledge and experience on which to build your affiliate business.

STEP 2: Find your niche

To help you find your niche topic, read Ken Evoy's free Affiliate Masters Course and use the excellent advice in it to find a niche that suits you and your interests.
Print out the Affiliate Masters Course, find a quiet, comfortable spot and read it several times.
Spend a lot of time thinking carefully about this and jotting down notes. You're planning a business, so don't rush it. It's very important.

You'll probably avoid Internet marketing topics because that field is so overcrowded and competitive. It's much easier to succeed if you locate a less competitive niche.
Choose a topic that is easy to write about.
Even if you've already chosen a niche, I urge you to read the Affiliate Masters Course. It might make you change your mind.
You can follow your passion or chase the money. With luck - and a bit of keyword research - you may be able to do both. I found this Affiliate money making program by searching google.

Examine your potential competitors If you're considering building a site about hiking boots, type "hiking boots" (using quotation marks) into Google and Yahoo! and carefully examine the top 10 sites which appear in the search results.
They're your real competitors. Can you create a better, more interesting, more useful site? Can you think of a new angle, a new approach? Do those top 10 sites all have high PageRank - say 6 or more? If so, you'll have to work really hard to get in the top 10.
Let's say the top 3 sites in Google are PageRank 8, 7 and 6. If so, you'll probably have to work hard for a couple of years or more to outrank them. I'm not saying it cannot be done, but it will require either a great deal of work, or a very innovative, eye-catching approach.
You can quickly check the PageRank of your potential competitors by using Seochat's free online tool - http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search . Type in "hiking boots" or whatever and you'll be able to see the PageRank of the top 10 sites.
Do those sites all have the phrase in the title? (The title is the words that appear at the very top of your screen when you visit a site.) If not, you may be able to beat them. How many links do your potential competitors have?

Do your potential competitors all have thousands of links to them? This is important, because links are important to search engines. You need good, relevant links to your site. To find out how many sites are linking to a site, use the free Yahoo! Site Explorer. Go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ - and login (set up a free account if necessary).
Type the URL of the site you want to explore.
Click on "Explore URL".
Click on "Inlinks".

Modify your search to make it more useful. Select the options to show Inlinks "except from this domain" and "entire site". This will exclude internal links and show you all external links that Yahoo! knows about to ANY page of the website.
If your potential sites have thousands of links to them, they're likely to be very tough competitors.Don't decide definitely on a niche topic until you've taken the next two steps...

STEP 3. Choose a profitable niche

Do some research on Google AdWords and Wordtracker to choose the most profitable niche from among the ones you're considering. (The free trial at Wordtracker is fairly restricted. You need more than that. I find Wordtracker so useful I have an annual subscription. However, you can get a cheap one-week subscription and do an awful lot of research in one week.)Because you're planning to use AdSense, you want valuable keywords or key phrases, if possible ones that people are paying at least 50 cents per click for on Yahoo! Search Marketing and AdWords.
You're going to build a site the search engines love, so you also want to find key phrases that many people are typing into search engines. You don't rely on guesswork.
You must do this keyword research BEFORE you start building your web site. That's critically important.

Find out how much advertisers are willing to pay for the keywords or key phrases you're interested in. Here's how.
Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and play around with the free Keyword Tool.
For example, try putting in a keyword or phrase, such as "recipe" and click on "Get More Keywords". Pretend you're willing to pay the maximum per click the tool allows - 100. (You can choose any currency. I choose US.)
Over on the right side of the page, make sure that "Cost and position estimates" is selected.
The tool will calculate for you the estimated average CPC (cost per click) for a whole lot of words and phrases.
Try entering a different word, say "debt" or "free", click on "Re-calculate" and watch how the CPC changes.

You don't HAVE to choose a topic which has expensive keywords. Often topics that have expensive keywords are very competitive. You may do better choosing a less competitive niche with cheaper keywords.In July 2008, Google improved its free keyword tool, making it much more useful. It now shows you the approximate number of monthly searches done at Google for any keywords you type in. So you can now do some fast, reliable keyword research there free. So this is a very good place to start your keyword research, using real search numbers from Google.If you use Site Build It to build your site, you'll find the brainstorming tool in it awesome to help you come up with ideas and phrases you wouldn't have thought of without it.
Beware: If you choose certain topics, Google will not allow you to place AdSense ads on your site and you'll miss out on a very lucrative opportunity.

Such topics include gambling, firearms, ammunition, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles; beer or alcohol; tobacco or tobacco-related products; and prescription drugs.
For a full list of topics you may wish to avoid see: https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US

Advertisers can choose to have their ads displayed only on Google or also on a large network of sites. Will AdSense ads you see on Google appear on your pages? To get an idea, find web pages that have material similar to the content you're planning to create and look at their AdSense ads.
For more accurate research, you can also use the free AdSense preview tool to see which ads are being displayed to people in different countries.


All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money



Monday, 24 November 2008

Writing reviews and doing surveys for money on Ciao

I stumbled across Ciao on a particularly productive day at work...I think I found it through a freebie site or something. I am very very broke at the moment as I have just moved to London, moving is always really expensive and London is even more expensive - especially because there are so many pubs/clubs/restaurants/gigs begging me to go to them!Ok, so Ciao is a consumer review website, that pays you to write reviews on various things.

You can write reviews on pretty much anything that you want - CD's, DVD's, Electrical Goods, even on what you do during a normal day (a challenge), some even submit their own poetry.How to start earning money:To start writing reviews and get paid some pennies you need to become a member, this is a really quick and easy process, you put in a couple of details and then are sent an email with a link to confirm that you really want to join - then done! Now you have become a member you are entitled to write reviews on what ever you want, you can tick a couple of boxes on your profile so that you can get sent email surveys (which also earn you money), have access to a guestbook so that other members can leave you messages/advice and you can even link your ebay auctions to Ciao so that other members can view them too.

Writing your first review:

Once you have found something that you want to write about, you can begin writing a review. There is a list of links down the far right handside of the page, under the Community Section you will find a link saying write a review. I would definately reccomend reading other reviews to see how they scored, so you know what sort of quality the readers expect. The format is quite easy to follow, quick blurb on advantages, disadvantages, a title & then write away. At the bottom of the page there are a couple of drop down boxes asking you to rate whatever it is you are reviewing (normally from outstanding to pants (pants is my word not theirs!)).

Earning money for reviews:
To earn any money for any of your reviews, other users will have to have rated your review in one of the top three categories (helpful, very helpful or exceptional). Each category of review gets given a certain amount, so helpful is 0.5p, very helpful is 1p and exceptional is 2p. Your earnings are calculated by multiplying the number of helpful's by the number of people who have voted them helpful so if you have 4 people who thought your review was helpful then you get 2p.

More ways of earning money:
As I mentioned earlier you can take part in surveys, and earn more money. I have followed all the instructions, and checked all the right boxes and filled in my profile, but I still have not recieved a survey :(There is another link to earn money called "Ciao Plus Offers" and the page has links to other sites where you can enter surveys and earn money or do some form of online dating and earn money.Website in general:Overall the website is very nicely laid out, easy to use, clean and simple looking. The basic search functions seem to work well. There seem to be a couple of ways to search, you can do a specific search, using the "Product Search" bar or you can use the little tabs that run across the top of the page to take you to specific categories and then browse from there.The search functions seem to work pretty well and efficiently, you do have to scroll through a number of sponsored links before you get to the Ciao reviews, but this isn't a problem at all really.Along the top right hand corner of the page are the links that I find most useful, links to "My Ciao" from here you can view your personal information, view your account (see how much money you are making), create a personal homepage, view the reviews you have written and see how they are doing, statistics (view the number of ratings you have given, have been given), a list of your buddies (people who are in your circle of trust) your guestbook (where other members can leave you messages) and finally view your ebay auctions that you have listed via Ciao.

The "My Ciao" page is simple to use and arranged in tabs again (click the tab of the information that you want to view), and I found as a new user quite easy to navigate.As I used the site a bit more, I began to get a bit frustrated with it, it was quite difficult to find out how to do things, such as editing your review (a friendly member left me a message in my guestbook telling me how), which was a small link down the side of the page...I have found the site a little conveluted and all the important links seem to be in tiny writing down the side of my page, in general if you are searching for information it is quick and easy to use, but if you are a member trying to do things it is not that clear or easy to use.Other Members & Feeling of Site:I have found that most of the members are quite friendly and helpful and leave suggestions in the comments section of reviews to help you to improve your writing. Although I have found that a lot of the members are quite harsh in the messages that they leave so these really need to be taken with a pinch of salt. I have found it extreamly difficult to get any rating over a helpful on this site, even though the same review has been well recieved on DooYoo.

A lot of the members are really critical and a little too anal for my liking. Although there have been quite a few people who have been really nice & helpful (have noticed that they are members of DooYoo too) more often than not the other members are quite cutting with their comments and almost snobbish about it all - there is constructive critisism and just plain critisim. There are a lot of members (more so than DooYoo) so in theory you should be able to earn quite a bit just by the laws of maths - more people read your reviews, more people rate your reviews, therefore more money to you!

Parting Words:
Although in theory a really good site, it works well, is efficient, all the reviews on the site are of a really high level (this is because of the tough paying out system), so this is a great site if you want a good review on a product.

If you want to try it out and see how much money you can make: