One of the biggest and most frequently asked question online in the
Internet Marketing industry is "How do I get started".
Most people, acquire a cheap "
Make money online" E-book and then they read half way through it and think "well this helped me none.. I just don't understand".
I know some people will disagree, but breaking into Internet Marketing and being successful takes determination and is very hard to do.
FIRST OFF: I see too many people trying to just make money. They're only in it for the money and only want to make some sales.
This is a big problem. Why?
No one comes online looking to randomly buy things. Everyone is looking for an answer to a problem they're having or looking for a solution to something. Remember.. your job is not to make a sale but to solve someone's problem and in turn.. that is what will make you a sale.
So what do you need to make money online?
#1: You need a clue.
Anyone can search google for answers to making money online, but you've got to have an understanding of what you're doing or you'll always be running around searching for answers.
#2: You need a plan/idea.
Brainstorm! You need to have a mapped out vision in your head of your business. Do you plan on purchasing a domain and starting a product on dog health care, buying domains and selling them, selling home made materials on e-bay, writing articles, etc. There are so many options out there for what you want to do, but you've got to have an idea and a plan before you can start making money. Brainstorm in your head and think to yourself..
"What am I good at?"
"What am I knowledgeable about?"
"What is something I really enjoy doing/talking about?"
"How do I plan on providing information on this product?"
#3: You need a website.
Unless you plan on marketing to forums and groups (which isn't a very well played out business plan) you need to establish a website. Before you start thinking "I have no money for a website". You can always start a blogger - www.blogger.com
If you're looking at starting a website, I would highly recommend Host Gator to beginners and novice marketers. The options of managing/running your website are great and at such a low cost, it's hard for me to refuse Host Gator when ever I plan on getting a website.
Hosting at Host Gator starts out at $4.95 so this is great for a beginner's website or just starting out.
Now comes the part I had trouble with when I began. Website Design/Website creation. I am not a HTML savvy guy.. believe me. While I am sure there are many sources you could hire for you to create your website, I believe everyone should learn to create their own material at one point or another.
You need a website with an easy design/layout because anything hard to read or something that doesn't look professional will have a much lower conversion rate than what you hope for.
Remember, when you're writing your sales copy/creating your product... you're speaking out to people that have a problem and are in need of a solution.
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Do you see what I am saying? You have to speak to people in the certain niche you're trying to sell in, because you're trying to fix a problem someone has or answer a question that someone has.
In my opinion, fear and hype are two of the biggest sellers there are.
Trying to sell a vehicle? Examine your audience.. a young man will be interested in something fast and loud and will want to impress the ladies in his hot new ride. You have to know who you're selling too and get them hyped, because a hungry crowd always comes back for more.
Don't get me wrong now.. I am not saying a website is the only way you will ever make money period, I am just saying that this is probably the best way to create an automated source of income.
#4: Patience/Consistence.
If making money online was as easy as snapping your fingers.. everyone would be e-millionaires.
So many people quit trying once they find out how much work is actually involved in creating an online business and being good at what you do. You have got to keep consistent.
You've got a killer website but no sales, why not?
Get inside your market's head and view your website not from your point of view but theirs. Do not think "how will this make me money" but "will this solve my problem"?
Be consistent and always add new fresh content and possibly new products to keep your customers/readers coming back for more. A hungry crowd can never get enough no matter how much they spend.
Now then, here are some suggestions as to when you do get a business up and running, but are not mandatory.
E-MAIL LISTS!
If someone opts in to your e-mail list.. chances are.. they're interested in what you've got or curious. A lot of websites don't offer a chance to opt in to an e-mail list and a lot of money is to be made off this. A lot of people who see a website once won't purchase something because they simply don't know the source. A couple of e-mails possibly sending out some free methods/tactics or newsletters might change Curious George into a buyer.
Remember.. Internet Marketing is not an overnight task.
You can either sell your own or someone else's product.
If you're new to the game.. I don't recommend purchasing any products, because I guarantee you that 75% of the information you just paid for can be found on a forum or a blog like this one for free.
The more consistent you are, the more determined you are, the more it will show. Don't give up just because you don't hit the lottery over night because like I said.. if making money online was truly "That easy", everyone would be doing it.
Until next time. See you around :) ...
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Google AdSense is the Google program where you can host pay-per-click ads on your Website. When someone clicks an ad, you earn money. Simple as that.
Is it really as easy to make money with Google AdSense as many would lead you to believe? Now that I've become heavily involved with managing Google AdSense programs for my clients, I can see it's not all play and no work.
Unfortunately, a lot of people bought into the idea that there was a lot of easy money to be made and they are now finding out they aren't making nearly as much as they thought they would. Additionally, Google has a lot of prohibited practices when it comes to AdSense, and too many Webmasters are finding out they violated Google's policies after the fact - often because they never bothered to read the
AdSense policies in the first place.
Webmasters must not only comply with AdSense policies, but their Websites must also comply with Google's webmaster policies.
Prerequisites for Making Money with AdSense
To make money with Google AdSense you need plenty of traffic coming in to your site or there won't be anyone to click the ads. Website promotion techniques, especially search engine optimization and article marketing will bring more traffic to your site. You also need to have content that will attract the ads with the highest Pay Per Click (PPC) rate that are relevant to that content. Then, you need to lay out your web pages so the ads blend in with your site.
Studies have revealed that people who visit sites that contain ads that use colors that are not in harmony with the actual Web site tend to develop "ad blindness". Meaning no matter how much traffic comes into your site, chances are no one will click the ads because they'll be ignoring them. If no one clicks, you make nothing.
Dealing with Competitors' Advertisements
If you offer products or services on your Website, the first thing you'll notice when you begin hosting PPC ads is that many of the ads are coming from your competitors. Therefore, you'll want to put ads on pages that aren't earning you any money, or do like I did and not put ads on your site until you're so busy anyway you'd rather make a few dollars off of your competitors than to continue turning business away with nothing to show for it.
Google AdSense allows you to specify up to 200 URLs for sites you want to bar from placing ads on your pages. The problem is that most times you won't know the competitors are out there until their ads appear.
Google Money Making Ad Options
Google offers three ways to make money from them:
- Google AdSense for Content - A variety of size and shape ads for placing in your content are available. These can be text or image ads or both - you specify what you'll allow. Ad units are full ads. Link units are simply a strip of text links that your visitors might want to click. Google allows you to put up to 3 Ad Units and 1 Link unit on each page of your Web site, provided you follow its policies - both for AdSense and for Webmasters.
- Google AdSense for Search - This places a search box on your Web site. When a user enters a term and conducts a search, a search results page opens, that hosts more pay-per-click ads. You can customize the color scheme of the search results page to harmonize with your web site.
- Google Referrals - Here you make money by referring visitors to use a Google product, like AdSense, AdWords, the Google Toolbar and other Google software. Just like Google AdSense for Content and AdSense for Search, Google generates the code that you paste into the desired location on your web page. You can choose from a wide variety of buttons and text links of different colors. As an example of how Google Referrals works, if someone goes to your site and clicks the link and signs up for an AdSense account, when that person earns a $100 from Google AdSense and receives a payout from Google, you'll also receive $100 for referring them. This is a great idea to me, because you can be the world's worst Google AdSense advertiser, but if an ad dynamo happens to visit your site and uses your referral link, you can make money anyway!
Google AdSense Payments
Google will not issue an AdSense payment until your earnings exceed $100. Unfortunately, there are loads of Google AdSense Forum entries about website operators who accumulated $90 or more in click through earnings only to get banned from Google and not get paid anything at all before they ever reached $100. This may be because Google doesn't take a close look to see if you're complying with their guidelines until it comes time to pay you. So yes, there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye.
Other Programs Besides AdSense
Yahoo and MSN have similar programs, although those programs aren't as well-developed as Google AdSense and there aren't as many available advertisers to display ads on your site. The fundamentals for making money are the same: You still need plenty of traffic, you still need high-paying ads, and you still need to design your site to harmonize with the ads to get people to click.
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Making Money by Flipping SitesIntroductionThis is not one of the “Don’t work earn money” concept. This article teaches you to earn a lot of money by flipping sites but it has some work involved. The main thing is we are going to make a automated website or more specifically a blog and then going to sell it for a good price. That’s all ;) ...
Getting startedHere is something you need before getting yourself started:
- Domain
This is where you have to be creative before you can start selling your blog. Chose a creative domain name.
- Hosting
Here you have to choose. If you have fund and you want security you can go for the paid ones. Any hosting package will do. Another choice is to choose free one and you can get a load of free hosting from www.freewebspace.net
- File uploading software
Don’t need to buy one because free ones are lying around. Try FileZilla, it's great and user friendly.
That’s all you are going to need to get started. You should start the work straight off.
Start working on the domain
Here is mainly where you have to invest your time. Here is a short and sweet guide to help you do the work swiftly.
1. Install wordpress in your domain. If you have cpanel this use fantastico, if you have php hosting with application installer then install wordpress from there. If you don’t have anything then download wordpress from www.wordpress.com and install it in your domain. I think they have installation guide so you will not have any problem.
2. After you have installed wordpress next thing you have to do is customize the site with different type of templates. You can choose from one of these, they are great looking with great CTR:
http://www.doshdosh.com/16-adsense-optimized-wordpress-themes-to-maximize-your-contextual-ad-earnings/
You should add the adsense code from your adsense account in the template (or wherever you want) file to make adsense appear in your site.
3. When you have done installing the theme (If you don’t know how to install theme find the installation guide from the wordpress main site) you have to install some plugins to make your site automated.
4. First download Google Sitemap Generator from http://tinyurl.com/2bbwmg .Don’t think it’s an affiliate link. The link is so big that I used tinyurl to short it. Then setup the plug-in in wordpress. Again I will point you to the wordpress main site for the guide to install plug-ins. Go to the plug-in from WP-ADMIN section and activate the plug-in, edit the options to make the plug-in work. When you have done these then 30% of your work is done.
5. Download and install SmartRSS from http://www.devplug.net/smartrss-plugin/ . You can view the installation guide there. Here is a thing you have to note. You'll need to upload smart_rss.php to the plugins folder, and wp_smartrss.php to your blog's home path. Activate the plugin in Wordpress's admin panel, and you are ready to go!
6. Now you have to find a xml source to make your site automated.
Go to www.google.com and enter “your niche site:blogspot.com”.
Replace your niche with your niche like credit card and find a good source to copy. If you find the RSS same with the main site then this is the site for you. Copy the RSS url (Most of the time it is
http://blogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml).
7. Go to your blog and open the WP-ADMIN and go to plug-in section.
Open the options of smartrss and add as many feed as you can.
8. Now go to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp_smartrss.php and if you have your site everything ok then you will find the site full of articles.
9. Well that’s enough but here is an overstep for the ones that have cpanel with cron jobs in it. You will have to setup cron jobs to make the site automated. Try to add some new entries in the cron jobs.
Try to find the path of the file wp_smartrss.php like /user/bin/php/
/home/SEA/public_html/blog/wp_smartrss.php . If you don’t know what the path is try to contact your host they will tell you. Set the cron jobs to run every 15 minutes. That’s all.
10. Now make sure google sitemap is running fine. The problem I had was the plug-in was not finding sitemap.xml . For this case open notepad, keep it empty, save the file with name sitemap.xml and select all files (*.*) from the dropdown menu. Upload it in your domain and you are done.
That’s all you have to do in order to make your site automated. Now your domain is ready and ready to be sold.
Selling the domain
That’s the easiest part of all. Just go to DigitalPoint forum’s Buy, Sell and Trade section and find sites from there. Post your offer with attractive title like “WTS | Automated Blog Site | Adsense optimized | High paying keywords”. Try to give specific description and specify a BIN and BID.
Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!! Repeat!!
Hehe do as many time as you want.
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Feed Ads Service to Monetize your Rss FeedWhat is a
RSS Feed?
In simple words, a RSS Feed is mainly a content delivery and syndication system that allows readers to have access to your content without visiting your website.
There is an ever increasing amount of web surfers who prefers to favorite blogs via RSS Feed rather than visiting the blog. If you have a huge amount of Rss readers subscribed through your blog, unleashing the full potential of ads impression is affected because a portion of readers have connected your blog with their reader application and thus your optimized contextual ads are not fully monetized.
Feed advertising allows you to integrate ads within your community of readers who frequently reads your post through their reader application. Here i have a collection of Feed advertising network that provides you with options to monetize your feed.
Allows to run Broker Text Ads on your rss feed. Apart from the Feedvertising ads, you can also choose to run your own in-house ads or affiliate links. Feedvertising is currently on open for wordpress 2.0+ users and the service is free! Tubetorial actually made a short video clip explain step by step on how to use feedvertising on your Rss Feed.
Type: Text Link ads | Rates: Flat Price | Payment:Check/Paypal
This services does not work for me since i don't stay in the US as participants of the program must have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominantly in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. Yahoo! will contact you about your eligibility to participate and about availability of the program. Talk about being friendly, If you want to know more of this beta service, loren baker of searchenginejournal have provided a post on how YPN can work for you.
Type: Text Link Ads | Rates: CPC | Payment:Check
This network is upon invitation and even when you contact them, which i have spoke to one of their team editors, chances are you will be decline due to the size of your Rss Feed, i think they only accept blogs that have big Feed counts. Unless your blog is the meanest and baddest blog, chances are unlike you will be accepted.
Type: Text ads, Banner | Rates: CPM | Payment:Unknown
RSS Interstitials that allows publishers to insert advertising into the links contained within their RSS feeds. When a user clicks a link from your RSS feed, they will are shown a short, fully branded, interstitial advertisement between the click of the link, and the final destination. They only accept US publishers for now.
Type: Full page interstitials | Rates: CPM & CPC | Payment:Check
Advertisements are served based on topics, not to keywords. Kanoodle shares 50% of the revenue generated from the advertisements with the publisher serving the ad. It takes about 15mins to complete your questionaire which is full of questions to apply and only when you are accepted then will they disclosure further information.
Type: Contextual ads | Rates: CPC | Payment:Check
Q-Ads is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. Q-Ads is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Using your keywords on post, you are fully in control of your ads.
Type: Text & Video ads | Rates: CPC | Payment:Check/Paypal
It allows you to monetize your Rss Feed through adverts are inserted every x articles where you control the value of x or by matching keywords to your article contents to target relevant advertising. The network provides adverts for a large range of channels but the system also works with most industry leading ad serving solutions allowing you to provide and control your own creative if you wish. They don't accept public application so you need to contact Ashley Harrison on email.
Type: Banner ads | Rates: Unknown | Payment:Unknown
Pheedo's advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers.
Type: Text, Banner ads | Rates: CPC | Payment:Check
FeedDirect will allow content owners to not only monetize their assets with content-targeted sponsored links via Kanoodle but also get maximum distribution through the moreover network.Using a Service called Brightads to generate revenue on your Rss Feed. It seems to me this is the only advertising feed network for adults.
Type: Text, pop under,banner ads | Rates: CPC | Payment:Check
Debates on whether you should use them
Web Surfers who subscribes to your Rss Feed basically do not want to have those pesky ads floating around your blog or site, that is why they choose to read it in a application that does not apply primary ads and images to show. By force inserting ads on your feed, you can lose a number of readers if you do not handle the situation properly. On the other hand, you can start to reduce the your ads that are cluttering on your blog and balance them on your Rss feed to encourage web surfers to read your blog daily instead of reading your updated post from their reader application.
Are you ready to monetize your Rss Feed and make more money, here i have listed out 10 great feed advertising networks which i know, if you have another amazing network which you would like to share, drop me a comment :-)
Until next time !!! See you around :-)
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