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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.
Underground marketer lays out the method he uses to create profitable sites in less than an hour, get them indexed in minutes, and earning in less than a week. Get more here…
Make Money Selling Your Articles
May 8th
If you’re doing any type of marketing online, you know about the power of writing and submitting articles to get traffic and backlinks to your site. And you also know that if you write the articles yourself, it can take a lot of time. Time spent coming up with titles, time spent researching the topic, time spent creating an outline, and the time to actually write and proofread the article.
If you’re able to write an article from start to finish in an hour and you need a dozen articles, you have a lot of time invested. Even if you’re able to cut that in half and do it in thirty minutes, you still have to set aside that time to do it. And you have no way of knowing ahead of time if you’re going to get any traffic from the articles after you submit them.
Writing and submitting articles is a powerful marketing strategy, so don’t stop doing it.
Here’s something to think about. Other marketers are always looking for articles they can buy. And you can be the one who provides the articles.
Here’s the downside:
People don’t want to pay a lot for an article. They can get them all over the place for around $5. If you write 2 articles an hour, you’re going to make $10 and hour. If it takes you an hour to write an article, you only get $5 an hour. Not good.
No, I don’t suggest that you hire yourself out to write articles for $5 per article.
There’s a much better way…
Write a series of articles on a market that is in high demand. It could be a ClickBank product or any other affiliate product. It could be a series on digital cameras, video games, or treadmills. What you’re after is 5-10 articles that you can write for a market.
For this example, write 5 articles on exercise equipment. You’re going to be selling these articles for $1 each for a total of $5 for the package. If it takes you 5 hours to write these articles, you’ll get $5. But there’s more to it…
The idea is to sell these articles with private label rights, and to sell several of these packages. To make it more attractive to potential customers, limit the quantity. In this example, promise to only sell 50 copies of these article sets.
You’re selling 50 sets of 5 articles for $5 each, for a total of $250. Not bad for 5 hours of work. Don’t stop there. Once you get your first package of articles written, move on to another set of articles. You can build this as big as you want.
The demand for content is huge, and you’ll never run out of topics to write about. Once you have a few sales, ask your customers what other niches they are interested in. That makes your job easy, and if you write quality articles, the word will get out and you’ll be on your way to making a lot of money selling your articles.
Did You Miss Out On List Control?
Mar 20th
Did you miss out on your opportunity to get in on List Control? Too bad you couldn’t spend that extra $2,000 on training that would have taught you how to build a list!
Note: I’m having a bit of fun here. I am a fan of Frank Kern, and if I had the extra cash, I would have considered buying list control.
It is necessary to your online success that you build a list. But it isn’t necessary to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to learn how to do it. What I want to let you know is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to learn how to build a list, and you don’t have to wait until you save up the money to invest in an expensive training system to get started.
You can get started right now for a fraction of what it would have cost for List Control. You can learn from one of the best in the business, Marlon Sanders, who has been building lists for over 10 years. Marlon Sanders is one of the pioneers of online marketing, and he was building lists when list building wasn’t cool.
Marlon has a product called The Promo Dashboard. In this product, he shows you how he started an internet business at home from scratch and sold $1,000,000.
It’s not about product launches or directly driving traffic to your sales page. What it IS about is building a list of subscribers that will buy from you over and over again.
What he does is take you from someone who doesn’t have a list through all of the steps needed to get subscribers, send them useful information and offers, and getting them to buy from you. Not once. But over and over.
Here’s what is covered in The Promo Dashboard:
- Discovering where your target market is hanging out – forums, blogs, what sites they visit.
- Creating a really cool bonus that you can offer as a free gift for subscribing.
- Setting up and creating your opt-in page.
- Setting up your autoresponder account.
- How to get people to your opt-in page.
- How to keep your subscribers eager to read your messages.
This is a complete course on list building. You get access to training that includes videos, audios, screen capture examples, and links to free tools you can use to build your list.
Yeah, you can spend a lot of money and purchase several list building products. The Promo Dashboard has everything you need, and it won’t cost you a few weeks salary. I use it, like it, and think you will too. If you go to the sales page, sign up for the free List Building Hover Pops that you can get just for visiting the site. Click here to get started…
How To Avoid The 3 Big Mistakes Of Web Site Creation
Mar 19th
Does the thought of creating your own web site keep you from doing anything about it? Does it seem like there is too much to learn, and that you’ll never figure it out? Let’s go over 3 things that are likely holding you back from getting your own web site created and getting traffic and sales.
Mistake 1. You need to spend hundreds of dollars on the software to create your web sites.
There is a lot of advice on what software you need to create a web site. One of the most recommended products, Dreamweaver, costs almost $400. You can also get the software to create web sites for less than $100. Buying the software will not create web sites for you. You have to learn how to use it.
The big lie here is that you need to pay for the most expensive software to create a good web site. That’s simply not true. You can use free software to create as many professional web pages and web sites as you want. Don’t let the expense of the recommended software keep you from getting started.
Mistake 2. To get the graphics you need for your site – headers, buttons, images, ebook covers – you need to spend a lot of money on software, or pay someone to do it for you.
Once again, this is simply not true. If you are just getting started, don’t be fooled into thinking that you need to spend a lot of money to get graphics for your site. There are free graphics programs that will allow you to create your own graphics. And you don’t need to shell out the hundreds of dollars for Photoshop to get great looking graphics. You can spend less than $100 and still create all of the graphics that your sites will need.
Mistake 3. You have to spend a lot of money to get a quality web hosting account.
Again, not true. The monthly cost of web hosting can vary widely. The truth is that paying a lot for web hosting does not necessarily mean that your site will work better. You do have to be careful when you’re shopping for web site hosting. But it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. You can get quality hosting for less than $10 a month.
Creating a web site does not have to cost a lot of money. And it is not difficult to learn how to do it. You can have a web site up in a matter of days for a lot less than $100.
If the idea of getting your web site up and making money appeals to you, but you’ve been putting it off because it seems too expensive and too difficult to learn, I suggest that you take a look at the Design Dashboard.
The Design Dashboard will take you through a step by step approach that will guide you through everything you need to do to get your web site online. Nothing is left out, and you can do it for less than $100. No expensive software. If you have 30 minutes a day, you can create your own web site. Get all the info here…
