Affordable Online Business Strategies
Archive for June, 2010
Fast And Furious Niche Site Creation
Jun 26th
One of the most important things you can do as an online marketer is getting niche sites online – fast. Don’t get caught up in planning and tweaking your site ideas for so long that you never get around to getting the site online. Your niche site ideas will never make you any money if you don’t get them online. And remember that you can never be sure what will work BEFORE you upload your site.
In other words, there is no way to know in advance whether or not your site will make profits. You can spend a lot of time getting your search engine optimization just right, selecting keywords, and writing a lot of content, but the only way you’ll know if what you’re doing is working is to get it online!
Another mistake is to focus all of your attention and weeks of your time on one site. Again, you have no way to know if a site is going to generate traffic and sales if you don’t get it online.
The key is to create sites quickly, get them online, get the search engines to visit, and move on to another niche site idea. Once you get several niche sites up and running, go into your cpanel and see how much traffic you’re getting and keep track of any sales you’re generating.
If any of your sites are not performing very well, you can either work on them to get more traffic by adding content and backlinks, or you can drop the site and concentrate on the sites that are doing better.
The quicker you can get your niche sites created and the more sites you can create, the better your opportunity to start making money. And speed is the key.
The preferred way for a lot of marketers to create sites is to use WordPress blogs for your niche sites. The advantages are many:
- There are hundreds of free themes you can use, so it is relatively easy to find a theme that will match your niche.
- There are plugins that you can use to make your site search friendly and to get your site noticed.
- WordPress blogs are indexed VERY quickly by the major search engines, so your site will get noticed almost immediately.
- Installing a blog takes literally about 5 minutes if you have web hosting with cpanel and fantastico.
- Adding pages and posts is fast and easy to do.
- You don’t have to mess around with a lot of HTML code.
There is no reason that you can’t have a niche site up and running in under 2 hours. If you create one site a day, 5 days a week, you’ll have 20 sites in a month and over 20 in a year. This is how you can test a lot of niche markets and not waste a lot of time trying to create the “Perfect” web site. There is no “Perfect” web site, just sites that product results.
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Why Some Affiliates Don't Make Money
Jun 19th
Afflilate marketing is a great way to get started online. You can choose from hundreds of products, so it’s a bit overwhelming trying to decide what to promote. A trap a lot of us fall into is only promoting internet marketing related products.
In a way, that makes sense. If you’re interested in starting an online business, you have to learn a few things. One of the first things you do is subscribe to a lot of internet marketing related lists. Then you end up buying a few courses, investing in software for your business, and joining membership sites.
You get to see first hand how products are promoted and hear about how the product owner is making a lot of money really fast. You want to get in on the action, so you sign up as an affiliate for these products and start promoting.
Here’s where the reality starts to set in. You spend the time and money to start promoting the latest hot internet marketing product, and you can’t seem to make any sales. The product had a lot of interest, but you’re not getting results. This doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough. Why?
Internet Marketing is a good market to be in, but there are some things you need to realize. The affiliates that make the most money are the ones who are able to promote the product on launch day. With the product launch sequence that is used, there is a lot of anticipation built up before launch, and if you’re not able to become an affiliate before the launch, you’re going to miss out on the initial surge of buyers.
Another problem is that in the Internet Marketing space, the life span of a product is relatively short. This is because the Internet is always changing, and what works now may not be valid in a few weeks. The other reason is because people seem to want the newest information. They seem to think that if a product was launched a year ago, it is outdated, and they want the new stuff that’s coming out right now.
To succeed with affiliate marketing, you have to carefully select the products you’re going to promote. This doesn’t mean that you should ignore Internet Marketing products. Just remember that most of the people who are spending money online are not marketers. They aren’t interested in product launches or the latest money making course.
The markets that people are spending lots of money in are markets that are well established and that have steady long-term demand. Markets like weight loss, fitness, consumer electronics, and pets for example. You won’t have to worry about chasing trends.
If you’re having a hard time making money with affiliate marketing, it isn’t because affiliate marketing doesn’t work. It could be as simple as the products you select.
See XSitePro In Action
Jun 12th
I’ve been using XSitePro to create my web sites for a couple of years now, The reason is that it’s so easy to use, and it automates a lot of tasks that used to take up a lot of my time. I haven’t mentioned it before because it is hard to describe the power of XSitePro with words. Not anymore…
The team at XSitePro have released a series of videos that will actually SHOW you what the software can do. If you’ve ever considered looking into XSitePro but wanted to actually see examples of what it could do, now is your opportunity.
These videos are free to watch, and you DO NOT have to give up your contact information. So click on the links below to see what XSitePro can do for you.
1. Inserting Video (4:31)
Adding video to your site is a powerful way to monetize your site. But it can be a hassle inserting the code into your web pages and getting the video to appear exactly where you want it.
With XSitePro, you don’t have to mess with any code. See how easy it is to insert a video into any web page.
www.xsitepro.com/insertingvideo
2. Magical Page breaks (3:46)
Having a long web page that your visitors have to scroll through can be frustrating to your visitor. See how you can easily split a long web page into several pages in less than 5 seconds. If you have a public domain ebook or a PLR document, you can easily divide it up into dozens of pages.
And what’s really nice is that XSitePro will automatically add the navigation links for you, at the top and bottom of each of the created pages.
www.xsitepro.com/insertingpagebreaks
3. Quick Pages (3:22)
With Quick Pages, you can easily create a professional web page for your press release, article, privacy statement or any other type of page you need. Watch this short video to see how you can easily create great looking pages in no time at all.
4. Google Adsense Tutorial (5:32)
Inserting Adsense advertising is really easy with XSitePro. No more wasting time trying to get your ad blocks exactly where you want them on your web page, and no more messing with the source code of your web pages.
www.xsitepro.com/adsensetutorial
5. Affiliate Wizard Tutorial (4:16)
Keep track of all of your affiliate details and easily add your affiliate links to your web pages.
www.xsitepro.com/affiliatewizard
6. Amazon Product Advertising Tutorial (5:40)
Amazon is a great addition to your marketing, and with XSitePro it’s really easy to add Amazon ads to your site. All you have to do is select the type of advertisement you require, and XSitePro will guide you seamlessly through the process.
Optimizing SEO For Your Blog Posts
Jun 4th
The use of the Title tag and the Meta-Description tag are easy and powerful ways to get free traffic to your site. It’s easy to do with an HTML web page.
It’s a little different when it comes to a WordPress blog. If you publish a post or page with a basic installation, what you’ll likely end up with is the title of your content and the first few words of your post come up as your search engine listing.
The good news is that you can do essentially the same thing with a WordPress blog by using one of two very popular plugins. And the best part of this is that these powerful plugins are free.
Which one you choose to use is up to you. Both of these plugins will do the job, and they both have tons of happy users.
The first one is All In One SEO and the second one is Platinum SEO. If you’re not using one of these plugins, go get it now and install it. It’s that important!
The power of these plug-ins is that they give you the opportunity to enter any title you want for your post. You can choose to use the actual title of your post, or you can use a keyword optimized title instead. Why would you want to do this? Maybe the title of your post is very long. Or maybe the title of your post doesn’t include your keywords. You can enter a title for your post that is shorter and has your keywords.
You can also write a description for your post. This can be a short summary of your post. The reason to use this feature is because what you enter will likely end up on the search page results. And the job of this description to get people to click on the link and get to your site.
You can get the All In One SEO plugin here.
You can get the Platinum SEO plugin here.
If you don’t want to download the plugin to your hard drive and then upload it to your hosting account, you can install it inside of WordPress. Click on the Plugin link and select the ADD NEW option. Enter the name of the plugin you want, and you can install and activate it inside WordPress.
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