Make Money With Both Big and Small Websites

One of the greatest implied conflicts in the "make money online" community is the debate whether we should focus on creating small "niche" websites or larger "flagship" websites. As someone who has found success in both niches, I've found the debate to be completely wrong-founded.

This article will introduce you to the two most popular website business models, and will compare them for you to choose.

Small Niche Websites

A small niche website is a website that has just a few dozen articles and is written to rank well for a very specific niche. For example, I built a website that details the basics of information dealing with short term loans.

The website details the basics of student, personal and business short term loans. It isn't amazing. The content isn't breathtaking. But I still make $20 per day.

That website is geared towards the search engines specifically. I focus on content and links -- and that's it. By focusing on writing a good 20-30 articles, you have enough content to rank in Google. By building links, you'll be increasing your ability to rank in Google as well as the other search engines.

The total amount of time to build a website is less than 2 days if you're a fast writer. The time to build links depends, but I usually spend about a month working on a new niche site.

The income is usually limited. I usually make no more than $5-10 per day per website, with the exception of the short-term loan site. But when you build 20 or so small niche websites, you have a relatively easy income stream.

Here are the reasons people like to try small niche websites:

-You don't have to constantly update
-You don't have to constantly manage comments
-You don't have to build links for years
-You can expand as you see fit

Large Flagship Websites

Large websites are different from the small niche websites. They aren't written only for the search engines, but are wired specifically for people. The goal is to get a large following of people to read the website. These readers will give you a huge level of traffic every day.

An example would be my How to Make Money Online website. My biggest money-making page is the affiliate page, where I help others make a few hundred per day who aren't looking to actually create a website.

You make money specifically by selling products, placing ads on the website, etc. You don't make much per visitor, but the theory is that with enough traffic, you can still pull a profit.

The idea is that you generate traffic by writing and publishing fantastic content every single day. Some blogs publish literally 5-10 articles per day, trying to shock and awe the Internet into gathering them a great income and following.

-It takes a lot more work
-It takes more time to succeed
-The competition is usually worse
-But the payoff can be lucrative

This is where most people earn millions online -- by publishing a flagship website in a competitive and high-paying niche.

Conclusion

There you have it. If you are willing to work harder to get the money, a flagship website might be for you. Of course, if you're just starting out a niche website is probably the best bet. I have used both and both methods work just as well in the long run -- it's really just up to you.

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Start Making Your Living Online

As somewhat of an Internet marketer myself I’m always looking for the good way to make money online. I’ve tried my hand in a lot of the different trades but the only problem is motivating yourself. More often than not internet marketing forces you to learn new skills, talk to different people and keep working even when there’s no end in sight.

Recently however, an amazing Internet opportunity has popped up. Tim Lowe one of the all-time successful Internet marketers is going to open up a membership website. Tim’s estimated online income is about 40 000 – 100 000 USD per month. I can’t imagine what doors are going to be opened once he opens up his site to the general public, and I’m just glad that I’ll be in on this huge insider secret.

This membership website is designed especially for people who need to make money on the Internet. The website is coming up shortly but because Tim Lowe is in such demand (currently in the middle of the 2009 joint workshop) he already started a priority waiting list.

Since his main membership site isn’t up all we can rely on is his temporary site at simplynoexcuses.com for information. To give you the gist of things Tim Lowe membership site is offering everything you need to start making money online including:

• A new professional website every month
• 100 of products you can choose from to promote
• Updated videos and training resources that teach you the success strategies and techniques
• And much more……

I think everyone is feeling a little excited after reading this including myself. This man is re-defining Internet marketing; he’s offering us the complete information and tools to start earning money online! In two week time, Tim’s membership site is going to be launched. But to ensure you get the immediate notification just after the site launched and join in successfully, sign up for his priority waiting list now at:

http://www.simplynoexcuses.com

Imagine sitting on a warm beach just watching the waves gently crash against the shore, while sipping on ice cold drinks and scrunching up finely ground up sand with your toes. This could be you because Tim’s offering you the chance to make enormous amounts of money. Don’t let this pass you by!

Conclusion
Tim’s offering to build an Internet home business for you each month and you will not be working alone. Tim and his team will guide you and give all the support you need to get started on the Internet. As spots are limited in the membership site, if you are interested in this opportunity, sign up for his priority waiting list now to guarantee you get a spot when the site opened.

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High Quality Customer Base for Surefire Affiliate Marketing Success

Building up a valuable email list is the very first step on the road to successful affiliate marketing. As an intelligent affiliate marketing, you are not resuming to send out numerous emails to a bunch of ordinary email addresses. It is preferable and more efficient to send emails to targeted prospects. Follow the next 4 tips to professionally build up a high quality email list.

- Build your landing page
A landing page is among the most efficient and successful tools in affiliate marketing. A landing page enables you to gather email addresses of prospects interested in your products or in what you have to offer. One method to get those email addresses is to offer them something for free. Among the things you can offer them for free are for example, online courses, e-books or special reports closely related to the targeted niche market.

- Redirect Subscribers to your Affiliate’s Link
Normally, you are waiting and wishing for your visitors to click on your affiliate links! You could eliminate that by redirecting them via your landing page to your affiliate site. However, this is considered to be a pushy marketing method that many visitors just hate, because they want to decide whether to click on your link or not.

It is preferable to use this method, if your affiliate website has for example related articles that are not considered spam. Instead, if you are marketing a particular niche market, that is well-known for detesting spam, it is recommended to simply place a link to your affiliate website.

- Efficiently manage your follow-up emails
It is essential to know how to distribute the emails you send out in a week, with maximum efficiency. You should not send message to your email list too frequently, as you will just irritate them, being considered spam and put on a blocked list. For best results, it is highly recommended to have a break of three or four days between your messages. It is also wise to have your messages contain something useful and valuable. You will not reach far as an affiliate marketer with clear advertising messages.

- Test your Landing Page’s efficiency
It is recommended to change from time to time the content of your landing page, as they are not normally ranked by the different search engines. You should build a couple of different landing pages and use them in rotation to evaluate how well are the visitors responding to them, which one of them have a higher response rate. Experiment different keywords and visual elements. Affiliate marketing specialists are saying that straightforward landing pages with professional look are producing the best results.

The above tips have to be taken in consideration when planning to build up your very own email list containing a valuable prospects list to use a long time fro now on for your successful long term business. Learn how to use it, apply it in your strategy and you will see the superior results.

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Twitter or Blogging

Rather than being faced with the choice of whether to use a blog or social networking to promote your website, service or product there is another solution. You can have both your blog and twitter run simultaneously as twitter is mainly a micro blogging site. Twitter supports tweets of user posts on any topic with a maximum of 140 characters and thus can never replace original blogs. A smart internet marketing strategy is to announce to your followers that your original blog had been updated by tweet and derive SEO benefit from combining the use of both platforms.

Now with a basic understanding of what the site is all about, let’s see what is achievable with twitter. After signing up at twitter, update your profile page with your information and website link. You can start posting posts and make it act like a mini advertising blog. You can post at any minute of the day and your post gets updated instantly. Follow fellow bloggers of your niche, can meet new people, post and Retweet other interesting news that you want to share with you followers. Hence the term social networking where members can use the work of others users to help their own profile and marketing agenda.

A good suggestion is to maintain good relationships with fellow twitter users and use it to improve your communication skills. Not even an internet connection is not necessarily needed because twitter has a feature that enables you receive tweets to your mobile and you can also update your posts through your mobile and even IM.

The most common mistakes people make while using twittering are, using auto DM (direct message) feature in the wrong way, spamming the inbox of followers, mass following, posting tweets only to promote their business, not using real profile pictures or vague profile information. Avoid these errors in order to achieve maximum potential from social networking media like twitter.

Irrespective of the increasing widespread usage of twitter, there are also some limitations to twitter. The 140 characters limited text support in each individual post id is obviously the major one. This does not allow posting of very detailed or descriptive posts and also, you are further restricted to using simple code structure to reply to your tweets.

The key to micro blogging is people learning creativity and to be able to appeal to readers from what is only a summarization of the information they wish to convey. For those that master this skill then twitter is going to be amazingly effective for internet marketing purposes. Write short and catchy posts and you can find people retweeting your posts if it’s interesting. Twitter can also be used with most of the IM clients such as yahoo and Google talk. All you need to do is with the help of a few tools, add the id in your friend list and whenever you send an IM, it gets updated as the post to your twitter account.

After time spent in the building followers stage this will now help provide instant promotion to a highly niche targeted list. Twitter can be used for any purpose but always remember to respond to tweets, update your posts, follow people and make good conversation with followers.

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Make Money Online by Referring Internet Users to Use HotelsCombined Search Engine

Online there’s tons of money to be made through various product promotions, companies and affiliations. The great thing about online affiliate programs is that you don’t put any money down. If you bring results to your affiliate program you will see the money starts piling in. Recently while searching for my next source of income I came upon Hotelscombined.com Affiliate Program.

I was unsure of the entire process at first but after reading the FAQ it started to come together. Hotelscombined.com is a search engine that lets Internet users to find hotels in many different locations in the world. For every visitor you bring to HotelsCombined.com that clicks through to any travel site listed in HotelCombined.com, you get 70% commission from the revenue generated.

I wasn’t particularly amazed at first because I’d seen these programs all over the place but I kept reading. Not only do they offer the highest commission out of all such programs but they also provide the largest database online. Their search engine archives over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 different destinations across 195 countries, simply amazing.

It was at this point that my heart began to race; I understood the potential of such a find. This wasn’t going to be a very tough thing to promote. In fact there is no sell involving in making money with this hotel affiliate program. All you do is send visitors to use HotelsCombined to find hotels and visit travel sites. You will make money every time a visitor visits a travel site in HotelsCombined.com to get more details about the hotel that they are looking for. This search engine is without a doubt one of the best, it wasn’t a matter of twisting the truth and tricking people into coming here it was just simply showing them what they were missing out on.

The thing that’s great about HotelsCombined.com is that they pay you for repeat visits. Their 12 month cookies ensure you get paid for all your visitor that comes back to HotelsCombined and click through the traveling sites.

How to direct visitors from your site to HotelsCombined.com?

HotelsCombined provide all the tools you need to turn your website into a powerful and strong re-director towards them. They have banners, scripts, deep text links, custom search boxes, data feed and more that you can put them on your site to direct your visitors to HotelsCombined. And each of these marketing tools is highly customizable in terms of size, color and layout.

Another great aspect is their tracking system. They have a reliable, faster or efficient tracking system for you to monitor your performance. Good result comes from tracking and effort on optimization. With the data from the tracking system, you will know what marketing tools are most effective for directing visitors to HotelsCombined and the best locations for displaying the HotelsCombined ads on your site.

If you’re fed up with programs that don’t pay on time, ask for too much, can’t be trusted or don’t even provide the best services then you should switch to hotelscombined.com. They know their program is great; in fact they even recommend you sign up for other affiliate programs just so you can rest assured yourself. It’s written right there in their FAQ!

I’d definitely recommend this to anyone looking to make money online using a trusted, secure and reliable affiliate program. Especially those who run traveling or hotel websites, this affiliate program is definitely worth a test. Who know it might become your biggest source of online income.

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Make Money using Google Adwords and Clickbank

Out of the different ways to make money online, the most popular one is affiliate marketing. It involves promoting and selling different products for which you are an affiliate. There are hundreds of affiliate networks available. Of these, the most popular network is Clickbank. Clickbank is the largest market place for digital products like e books and electronic services like web hosting. There are both publishers and affiliates.

Publishers are those who have there own products to be promoted by the affiliates. Affiliates are the ones who promote the publishers' products and earn commission on each sale. Different techniques may be used to promote the affiliate products. Out of these, 'Pay Per Click' advertising like Google Adwords is the most effective one as it can deliver immediate results. A combination of Google Adwords and Clickbank may be used to build a successful online business.

Signing up with Clickbank as an affiliate is easy and takes only a few minutes. After signing up, go to the 'Clickbank Marketplace' where there are thousands of products which you can promote as an affiliate. The products are ranked according to a system which takes into account the conversion rates and similar other factors. Look for products which have high demand in the market and offer good commissions. After you select your product, get the affiliate link which you have to promote. When people click on this link, they will be taken to the product's home page and if they make any purchase from there, you earn a commission, which is generally a percentage of the price of the product.

There are different ways to promote your affiliate link. The most popular way is to use 'Pay Per Click' advertising like Google Adwords. Before you start using Adwords, you have to open an account with it. You will also need a credit card. While writing the ad text, you must follow the editorial guidelines of Google. You must do some keyword research to find out the relevant keywords which can attract some traffic from the search engines. These keywords should be used in your ads. After you submit your ad, it has to go through a review process before it goes live. While using Adwords, the best thing is to start small. Spend a small amount each day to find out which ad brings the best returns. Monitor the results and continue with the successful ads. Start small and work your way up slowly to success.

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Drive Traffic to a Blog

As the phrase ‘make money online’ becoming more popular now days, there are a lot opportunities available on the net for public to join. Many people get caught with the phrase because they always thought it is easy as it sound but the true is not. A lot of work and effort must be done before you can get what you are looking for.

Anyway, the simple and basic strategic for every business is to bring as many customers as we can because no matter how good is our product without customer it is nothing. In this case traffics are our main objective. I am not going to talk about SEO or how to be on the first page of organic search but I am going to discuss about how to bring in traffics to your blog using tools other than the organic search. There a many ways but below are a few that I feel most popular and effective way that will generate traffics to your blog.

Pay per click
This is an Internet advertising program that applies on search engines, advertising networks, and content sites, such as blogs or website, in which advertisers pay only when their ad is clicked. With a proper keyword and budget setting, pay per click can be very useful tools to drive traffics and eventually generating money. Example of pay per click advertising program is Google Adwords.

Social networking website
No money needed but yet still manage to drive in a huge amount of traffics to your blog. I have made a quick search on one largest and most popular social networking website Facebook and have found there are more than 20 million people in United Kingdom have sign up for Facebook.

Tell a friend
Don’t forget that by sending a marketing email is also a good way to promote your blog. Tell a friend is a tool that will allow your visitors to promote your blog on your behalf. If the contents of your blog are interesting, useful and informative, people will recommend to others using tell a friend tool and your will see that your blog spreading like a wild fire. Socialtwist is a good example of tell a friend

Actually there are many more ways to generate traffics other than be on the first page of an organic search. Eager to be on the first page sometime make people forgot about other opportunities to generate traffics.

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Make Money Online at MoneyStance.com

A new site called MoneyStance.com has emerged for webmasters and beginners to use as a reference in finding ideal online money making opportunities. In general they offer independent, editorial, and user reviews on the variety of opportunities to make money online, such as affiliate and pay per click programs. The editorial reviews are in-depth evaluations of an opportunity with each aspect of the program being individually rated and scored. Users can also rate the opportunities based on their experiences and write reviews to expose the scammers or highlight the profitable. Independent reviews, elsewhere on the internet that are deemed to have an honest impartial perspective, are linked to for your convenience.

In addition, a community of money making enthusiast can share and absorb each others experiences through free member blogs and a discussion forum. Contributors of the site are rewarded a number of ways including, contests, paid review contracts, free ebooks, software, and other downloads.

Pros

Reviews – MoneyStance has a great reviews format with the opportunity’s claim to start, followed by some quick facts of the program, a video reference, an example of implementation, the editorial review, the independent reviews, the user reviews, and a link to the actual opportunity and internal discussion forum related to that area of making money. As an example see the Chitika Review.

Opportunities – So many have already be archived and reviewed in such a short time, and it is not only online opportunities but also in business, real estate, and personal finance.

Rewards – A contributor rewards system to give back to the participating community.

Community – All the tools are there for a burgeoning community; blogs, forums, reviews, profiles, avatars, signatures, do-follow postings, contests, contributor rewards and points system, contact forms, etc…

Easy Navigation – It is fairly simple to find what type of opportunity you are looking for and which programs have been reviewed. On the home page or top menu, you can click one of the 4 parent categories: Online Money Making Opportunities, Real Estate Money Making Opportunities, Personal Finance & Investing Opportunities, or Business and Entrepreneurial Opportunities and then move onto subcategories; browse directly by the tags in the left sidebar; or by top rated.

Cons

Editorial Reviews – These reviews are some of the most detailed I have ever seen, but there are too few of them. However, there are quite a few independent reviews for each opportunity.

Community – The site is still fairly new and the community has yet to be established.

Rewards – There should be more rewards to fully flesh out this incentive program, but the $100 giveaway contest is a great step in the right direction.

Archive – There are thousands upon thousands of opportunities online alone. I assume it will take some time to list them all for review.

Top Rated – Currently, you can not sort the top rated opportunities by tags, only by their parent categories. However, I’ve been told this is in development.

Conclusion

If there is a way to make money, aside from illegal activities and gambling, MoneyStance.com has a reviewed opportunity or resource for it. I give MoneyStance an 8 out of 10, but with the future potential to be a 9 or better. I can see this site becoming an authority on what money making opportunities webmasters choose to deploy on their sites as well as those seeking other endeavors.

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Know about Internet Marketing Tools

Marketing is a basic need for any business to flourish and expand. Internet is the easiest, fastest and the most effective way of making people aware of your organization and your products and thus increasing or expanding potential sales opportunities of the product.

Thus, Internet marketing can be summed up as a process of providing information about your organization and its product and also taking feedback from the users about their preferences and their needs, using internet as a medium.

Many people, who own a business, usually launch their own website in order to promote their products and business. But, after starting the website, one thing that you will discover is that there is low traffic or initially no traffic at all. This means there is a need for good Internet marketing tool. Under are some of the best tools with the help of which you can improve and support the marketing objectives of your business online.

Website Blog: Blogs are one of the best internet marketing tools. Blogging is very effective in attracting visitors towards your website and to share their personal thoughts, ideas and experiences. Blogs should have some basic elements like a proper name and category so that blogs can be easily classified, which helps in further easy navigation through the various blogging topics. It should welcome comments from the users thus helping in achieving proper feedback from the users.

Pay-Per-Click Marketing: In this marketing tool, price is paid to the search engine providers with a view that when a user enters and searches some keyword prominent in your ad or article, he/she can view your ad and may click on it. In this way, traffic to your website can be increased. Cost involved in this strategy depends upon the traffic visiting your website.

Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine optimization is similar to Pay-Per-Click marketing tool. The only difference is that it is less expensive, as it requires you to pay an initial cost and later small overhead cost. With that, you can enjoy greater traffic. There is no need to pay according to the traffic visiting your site. The only drawback in this tool is that, if you do not use an effective keyword, you may not attract traffic as desired.

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Write Compelling Sales Letters for Any Online Business

Sales letters are still a very effective way to generate demand for all sorts of products or services. This is especially true if you already have an opt-in list. However, everyone knows that most people don't like receiving sales pitches in their emails. For your sales letter to be effective in generating demand for the products and services of your online business, there are a couple of steps for you to follow.

Step #1: Determine Your Objective

Before you begin composing your sales letter, be sure you have a clear notion of what your objective is. Think about what exactly you want to communicate and what you hope to achieve with your sales letter.

Step #: Consider Your Target Market

As an online business owner, you should already know the demographics and psychographics of your own target market. Consider their needs and preferences before you begin writing your sales letter. This will help you determine how best to communicate with them.

Step #3: Come Up with a Catch Phrase

Think of a catch phrase that would best describe what you have to offer. Make this the first thing that your reader will see upon opening your sales letter. By making your catch phrase immediately visible, you are more likely to capture the interest of your readers and entice them to read on. A short testimonial may work as well. Just be sure that your catch phrase or your testimonial describes how people can benefit from what you have to offer.

Step #4: Introduce Your Online Business

The next step is to introduce your online business and the purpose of its existence. Take note that it is not your goal to boast about your online business but to detail your objectives in terms of helping other people out. For example, it is better to write about how your online business has helped other entrepreneurs to be successful than about how much profits you generate in a year. Detail the issues of your target market and how it is the goal of your online business to address those issues. Remember that your readers want to know how they can benefit from patronizing your company and not how you are more successful than they are.

Step #5: Describe Your Products and Services

Once you've introduced your online business appropriately, it would be time to introduce the specific products and services that would help solve the issues you've described. Make this part of your sales letter short but be sure it details what benefits your readers can gain from your products and services.

Step #6: Persuade Your Readers to Take Action

At the end of your sales letter, be sure to include a call-to-action statement so your readers will be prompted to make a purchase or, at least, visit your website. To make your call-to-action stronger, you may want to include a time-limited promo. Doing this will encourage your readers to take action quickly.

By following the steps detailed above, you can easily develop effective sales letters for your online business. Once you send it out to your mailing list, you will quickly generate the demand you need for your online business to succeed.

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7 Tips About How to Increase Your Backlinks

Traffic from search engine is the main source of traffic this days and to get more traffic from search engines you should be ranked high and for this well SEO is needed. When it comes to SEO[search engine optimization], getting other websites to link to your website is the most important factor in achieving top search engine rankings. Here are 10 link building strategies listed which surely help you for top search engine rankings:

1. Quality Article Is Must – Write quality articles that other websites will want to post on their websites and link to. The higher the quality of the article, the more one-way links you’ll get. The best articles to write are ‘how-to’ and informational articles.

2. Google loves wordpress blogs – Setup a Wordpress blog on your website and post articles to it once per week. It’s a great way to build the size of your website, keep your website content fresh and get incoming links. Plus Google loves Wordpress!

3. Promote your articles online – Take the articles that you’ve posted to your blog and syndicate them on article directories such as Ezine Articles and Go Articles, so that other website owners can post them on their websites.

4. Website or blog directories also help – Submit your website to free SEO friendly website directories for a quick way to start building one-way links to your website.

5. Link exchange with relevant blogs – Exchange links with high quality, relevant websites in your field. This can be extremely powerful, as long as you are very selective with whom you exchange links with.

6. Submit to social bookmarking sites – Submit your blog posts and other high value content to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Aside from the one-way link you’ll get and the (short-term) top Google ranking, you can hit the ‘jackpot’ by getting to the first page of digg.com, where you’ll receive thousands of one-way links.

7. Commenting on blogs with same niche – Post high value comments on other blogs in your niche to spark discussion. Even if the comments are ‘nofollowed’, you can still get links to your site from other bloggers that refer to your posts.

I think these tips really gonna help you. If you have any suggestions or comments or questions post below.

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Make Money Online Without Spending Money

In the business world, you are required to spend money in other to get more money. This separates the serious business owners from the non-serious ones. But having an online business is different from the traditional business. In the online business, you can use a blog and make money from it. You don't have to spend money hosting your blog or to pay for any service. If you want to make money online without spending any money, these are what you should do.

1. Get a free blog:- Any one would work just fine, but the blog of most internet marketers is blogger. This is easy to create and set up. You would have to decide if you want to make money with contextual ads or through affiliate program. After you have decided what you want to do, you would go to blogspot and publish the post you have written.

2. Get Traffic to the Blog:- After publishing your blog post, the next thing you want to do is to get traffic to the blog because traffic, your blog is like a fish swimming in the pacific ocean. Without traffic, your blog is another blog that is in the blogosphere that no one knows about. You can get traffic by commenting on other people's blog, being active in forums, doing article marketing and social bookmarking. All these methods are free. They just require your time.

3. Track Your Traffic:- When you see that you are getting traffic to the blog, install a tracking code to see where your visitors are coming from. There are many free tracking codes to use on your blog. Check where the traffic is coming from and capitalize on that traffic. By this I mean you would continue doing what you were doing to bring more of that traffic. If you are getting traffic and you are not making any money yet, that means that you have the wrong traffic. Check your traffic stats again and see where the second source of traffic is coming from. Put more effort so that you get more of that traffic and maybe you might start making money money.

Making money with contextual ads such as adsense needs more work. It required you to get traffic from search engine to get clicks on the ads. Affiliate marketing is much easier because if you do article marketing, people would find your article from search engine and click to your blog. If you have more articles that they like, they might click on your affiliate link and buy a product you recommended. It is easier for search engine bots to see and index your article on article sites than them to index your blog because your blog don't have much authority like the article site. It would take a while for your site to reach that type of authority.

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Blogging is More Fun

Because the blogosphere keep growing at a rapid rate, bloggers can't stand to explore the potential of their blog to make money. There is really nothing wrong to use a blog to generate income. More and more people are seeing this great opportunities and setting up their own blog to get into the blogosphere for profit.

It is excited when you are able to turn a much loved pastime into cash. Bloggers who are enjoying sharing their favourite topic can double their satisfaction when they know how they can use their blog to earn money.

Below are some common ways for blogs to generate online revenue:

1. Advertising

All online business owners and e-entrepreneurs need promotion and advertising. They must reach their marketing messages to their target prospect first before they can effectively sell their product or service in the market. For a blog that gained high volume of traffic, selling ad spaces directly to these online companies and e-entrepreneurs will be a great source of income. The types of ads you can offer for sale on your blog are banner ad and text links.

Even a low traffic blog can take advantage of advertising. There are well known program like Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network that let you display their contextual ads and earn ad revenue for each ad click.

There are also networks that help bloggers to find advertisers. Advertising networks like AdBrite and Text Link Ads provide a marketplace where bloggers can add their blog or site with details on their advertising offers into the marketplace. The interested advertisers will find the blogs and pay for displaying a text link ad or a contextual ad on the blogs.

2. Affiliate Programs

Blog is also ideal for promoting affiliate products or services. You can place affiliate banner ads or text links on your blog sidebars to market your affiliate programs. While this isn't a very effective way of generating affiliate commission but you can possibly get one or few sales each month with this easy technique if you get consistent blog traffic.

Another way you can market your affiliate programs is by publishing product review or recommendation posts on your blog. Review posts work very well in generating affiliate sales when you have built your image as a reliable and well liked blogger with many loyal readers.

3. Sponsored Posts

After trying to sell ads and promote affiliate programs on your blog, if you still not satisfying with the amount of money you made, you can think about posting sponsored or review posts.

There are not strict requirements to get started with sponsored posts. You don't have to get much traffic either. All you need is a blog that is older than 3 months and indexed by Google to participate into the sponsored post networks such as Payperpost and Sponsored Review. In these networks you will find advertisers willing to pay you at least $5 for writing and publishing a blog post about their product, service or website.

There are people posting sponsored posts regularly on their blog and making over $1,000 per month. However, the drawbacks of posting sponsored post regularly are that you will lose lot of traffic because readers don't like sponsored post and Google will soon find out and penalized your blog for posting too many sponsored posts.

Thus, if your goal is to build up your blog and establish a reputation, definitely you shouldn't write sponsor posts on a regular basis. But publishing a few sponsored posts each month would hurt your blog and will earn you extra money.

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Make Money Online With Keyword Marketing

I get emails all the time from people asking me to summarize exactly the steps I take to make money online. This is mostly because I built an online income that was enough to pay for college in less than a year. I used the business model called "keyword marketing".

Keyword marketing is where you build a website about a specific topic, and then rank it on Google results for that keyword. This website, for example, is built around the keyword "make money online" and might be how you got here.

Here's exactly how I do it, step by step.

1. Get a Domain and Host.

Every website needs a host. A host is basically the place that your website is located. It's the "address" of your website -- a home for the articles and posts. Hosting can be as cheap as $3.95.

Your domain needs to focus on a keyword that people are searching for. For example, my website targets "how to make money online."

2. Get a usable website design.

Install WordPress or Blogger on your domain. This can usually be done by your host in just a few clicks. Make sure your design makes sense and is easy to use.

3. Plan out 50 articles.

Plan out the top 50 things you need to say about the topic that you've chosen to write about. You don't need more than 50 to start with, though more never hurts.

You can either write the articles yourself (they need to be at least 350 words long), or you can outsource the word to a cheap article writing service. I pay for most of my articles, and pay roughly $5 per article.

4. Place ads and affiliate programs.

This is the fun part. Sign up for programs like AdSense, Commission Junction and ClickBooth. Add the advertisements to your design, find a few products to make sales pages around, and then link to those sales pages from most of your other articles/posts/pages.

This means that you basically have a money-making machine. The more traffic you get, the more you make money.

5. Build Links.

The best source of traffic to get is straight from Google. These visitors are more likely to click ads, buy products and earn you money.

To get Google traffic, you need to have links pointing to your website. Guest posts, article marketing -- find at least 10 different ways to get links, and then build at least 10 links per day. Within a few months, your income will be considerable, if you picked the right topic.

Conclusion

It's not easy to make money online, and most people give up before they get where they are trying to go. But if you follow the above steps to the letter, you'll be able to build an income.

It takes hard word, dedication and will-power. But you can do it. I did it in less than 6 months, and am paying for college this way.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Freelancing to Make Money Online

Offering your services as a freelancer can be a very good way to make money online. However, just like with every opportunity, online freelancing has both advantages and disadvantages.

The main advantage of being engaged in freelancing online is that you get to work for yourself. You don't have to put up with superiors who tell you what to do, requirements that make you work on crazy schedules, or office policies that limit your earnings no matter how much you've done. When you work for yourself, you get to decide how much you make and all there is to it is putting in the appropriate time and effort based on your income goals. You also don't have to get up early in the morning to avoid rush hours or make insane deadlines by working through your lunch hour. Whether you or a family member is sick, you have to pay bills during the day, or life is just getting too much for you and you want to take a day off at any random period, you have the ability to do so because you're not tied down by a specific set of rules and regulations. You can work in your underwear (if you're in to that kind of thing) or simply make your financial decisions at a table with your favorite newspaper and cup of tea or coffee: A wonderful start to any day of business transactions.

As good as freelancing is, there are a few drawbacks. For one, there are no guarantees of a paycheck. You must make sure that you are doing enough in order to cover all of your expenses. There are also no corporate benefits when you work for yourself. There's no such thing as company dental care or health insurance plan. When you work for yourself, you must pay for these things out of your own pocket. You must also keep track of your own income for tax purposes and set aside your own fund for retirement. It's a lot of struggle when it comes to running your own business because you have to be an employee and a manager at the same time. However, it does pay off especially if you're dedicated to what you are doing.

When you decide to become a freelancer to make money online, you need to know exactly what you are getting yourself into. As long as you're ready to make a commitment to providing your services as a freelancer, you'll be rolling in the big bucks in no time!

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Tips to Write a Guest Post

Guest Blogging is the one of the popular way of increasing backlinks. It helps to increase visitors to your blog. But some beginner bloggers are sending copy/paste articles to the blog authors and some are sending the articles with no sense or many mistakes. So i hope this article will help you to write a guest post to the blog with your parallel niche.

Here are some tips to write a beautiful and unique guest post:

1. Choose A Blog With Parallel Niche: First be sure the blog you are going to send a guest post has the same niche that your blog have. And then only start to write the post. If u send post to the blog which has not same niche as your blog then it will not work. So be sure....

2. Write On The Not Repeated Topic: Read all of the articles of the blog and write about the topic which is not described so much in the blog but should be on the same niche. If you write about the topic which have previously described at the blog then admin of the blog cannot find uniqueness in your article and may reject it......

3. Reference a Previous Post: This is not a must, but it helps to include a link to a previous post the blogger in question has written. It lets them know that you've read their blog in detail and this will create an impression to the admin of the blog and who know this may be the only reason that why S/he publish your article at their blog.

4. Submit Original Material: All blogger want fresh content so post the self written article which is not posted anywhere else. So send the unique article which is not published even at your blog.

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Mistakes Made in Affiliate Marketing

You have heard of all of the positive things that can happen when you start an affiliate marketing website but have you heard the negative effects of it? There are a few things that can stop a website dead in the water if you don’t know what you are doing. Here are a few tips so that you will aid you in your search to find that perfect business for you and how to make it thrive in today’s sluggish economy because there is still a lot of money to be made and everyone wants to get apart of the money to be made.

One thing you have to make sure you don’t do is to not to pick a dead product. If no one is interested in the product you’re selling then no one is going to buy it. You want to make sure the product you are going to be selling is something you know a lot about and has a good market base. If the market base is there you are going to have no problems in finding the clients that you want. You need to be sure the product you choose is going to be demand for many years because you don’t want have a short term product that sales start dropping off in a month or so.

Another problem that people face in affiliate marketing is that they are trying to promote so many products that they are trying to sell that they can not keep their own merchandise straight. If you have a lot of products that you are trying to sell you want to keep the descriptions of the products short and to the point. The simpler you keep the description the more products you can have but you need to keep them straight. You don’t want to end up putting the wrong description on the wrong product.

Many people who are starting up an affiliate marketing website make the mistake of not taking advantage of the free marketing tools that are offered on the internet. Take advantage of all of the free internet marketing tools you can because it can create a whole new avenue of income that you might not have discovered otherwise.

The other thing that you should not do is to give up. Think positive and keep your head above the clouds because you can make a lot of money working from home and with the affiliate marketing programs that are scattered all over the internet.

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Source of Free Traffic with Juicy Returns!!!!

Article Marketing is by far one of the best ways of making income online, getting ideas of what kind of topics to write on and then proceeding to writing the article shouldn’t take lots of time, there are lots of topics regarding making money online, whether it be SEO, blogging, affiliate marketing and a hundreds of other different topics, not preparing articles and submitting them to the appropriate directories makes you lose the huge advantage this medium offers.

I know lots of people who get articles prepared but at the end of the day, they don’t actually submit these articles, being an article writer myself, I have made lots of discoveries with people who write articles, I found out that people don’t actually know how to submit articles, it may seem a little confusing but it’s the truth.

There a whole of article directories out there and they all have guidelines that everyone has to follow. I’d advice that for every article directory you go to, read the rules that govern article submission before actually proceeding with submitting the article, that way you have a high chance of getting the article directory to accept the article.

By submitting to a whole lot of directories, you would finally get used to submission of articles, there are chances that your article might get rejected, in those kind of scenarios, go again and review the particular article directory’s guidelines, see if you missed out something, correct any discovered error and then re-submit. I always advice people, your articles should be between 400-600 words and the content should be one that captures the reader’s attention and contain valuable information, be it a product review or website review articles, make the article content be so intriguing, so as to make the reader look for more related articles on that subject, maybe from the writer of the article itself, I have had people emailing me about tips on certain articles topics I have written.

Also, article title and keywords, for the article title, don’t be so “boring”, there are lots of articles out there, the question is why should anyone click on yours? The article title is what differentiates you from the rest of the others, whatever you title you use for your article has to contain text that would make the user click on your article when given like 10 different article options.

Keywords are what individuals’ type when they looking for an article for a topic, your articles should have these keywords and also some article directories have a certain area where you could type in the keywords related to the article, make sure these keywords are relevant to the article.

An article summary is also necessary, it describes what the articles is about in just a few sentences and also the author’s resource box, information about you would be put in there, usually and also generally I always tell people not to over hype themselves in the resource box area, just put a simple summary about yourself and that is that!!!!. Your resource box should have your name and website link.

For internet and affiliate marketers, one of the best ways of promoting your products is through article marketing, it is a free source of traffic and it gives you backlinks to your site. Take advantage of article marketing now!!!!!

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5 Ways to Make Money with Google Free Blogs

I'm going to introduce top 5 techniques that anyone can use to make money from their free blogs created on Blogger.com. So if you have a blog already created on blogger.com and looking for some ways to monetize it, keep on reading:

1. Pay per click advertising programs - one of the easiest and most used method to make money from blogs is using pay per click advertising techniques. There are many advertising companies available on internet like Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Adbrite, Bidvertiser etc that paying you for every click made on their ads that are placed on your blog. But Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) are most popular and most used networks.

So apply for an account on Adsense today if you don't have an account on Google Adsense by now. You can even apply for YPN if you are staying in US as YPN is currently open to US citizens only. Once you got approval for your account from any of advertising networks, you have to just paste java script code into your blog template where you actually want to show the advertising widgets. And once you have added the advertising widgets, you are ready to start making money with these pay per click networks where you surely will be paid for every click made by your blog readers.

2. Affiliate programs - Another good way to make money online with free blogs is with affiliate programs if your blog is focused about a particular topic or product. So visit some of popular affiliates sites like Amazon, Clickbank or LinkShare and see if there is something for sale which is someway related to your blog topic.

3. Get paid to blog networks - You hold a good chance to make money with paid blogging networks if you have an active blog. Some of paid networks that you can try to make money with your blog are ReviewMe, Pay per post and Smorty. You need to have an active blog with some real page rank to make decent money with these paid blogging websites.

4. Text link ads selling – there are many text link selling networks available on internet that you can use to sell text links on your blog. Some of popular text link selling networks are text link ads, TNX and Linkadage. You need to have a decent page rank and good alexa ranking to be able to earn any revenue from these networks.

5. Private link selling – try this technique if you have a very popular blog in your niche. If you have a established blog in your niche, create an advertise here page on your blog and mention all advertising option you are open for on your blog.

Author Bio:
Anil Gupta is the owner of make money online blog where he writes about blogging, seo, affiliate marketing and money making programs that one can use to make money online at home

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Online Revenue With Google Adwords

Your favorite marketing guru will tell you that Google AdWords is a heaven-sent opportunity to make money on the internet, so amazing that it sometimes seems unreal. However, it is a two-way traffic like any other business, there are people who get very rich off Google AdWords and there are those who simply sweat themselves off and get frustrated because they haven’t made even a single sale using AdWords.

The truth is you can generate profit from using Google AdWords advertising, but only if you apply the right strategy. Note that while quality score algorithms and click through rate are crucial technical issues that shouldn’t be undermined, they somehow tend to mask the basic promotion fact – product/niche. The sales letter of what you’re promoting is what is more crucial. The number of keywords you’ll add will be irrelevant if the product you wish to market is wrong choice. Well, getting started on the business you might not be in a position to know the products that are ideal and those that will not work and as such, you should be ready to do some homework and experiments.

Therefore, rather than put all your focus on your Adwords campaigns, just select various affiliate products on multiple niches. Each niche will only take you an hour to find it and an hour to set your AdWords campaigns up to promote the products you picked. As simple as that and you’ll know whether the product you wish to promote will swim or sink. Whatever the outcome, put that aside and repeat it, you’ll find that 4/5 attempts will be successful and it will be a lucrative niche worth focusing on.

Once you locate that lucrative niche, you can be seriously investing your time and money on the AdWords campaign now. This method will allow you to go through around 20 niches and 10-20 micro-niches each month. Along the way, you’re sure to land on a particular goldmine that has been overlooked by your competitors because they were so much focused on building up their keyword or key phrase lists.

Cast your net and keep experimenting and be guaranteed of making money from Google AdWords. Keep in mind that everything comes down to the sales letter, the product that you’re promoting. You’ll never know the kind of product that will work unless you’re ready for trials and errors.

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