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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