Thanks!

You know I do the affiliate marketing thing, adwords, adsense, PLR articles and  I do really well. I had a heck of a learning curve getting to where I am today and I share what I’ve learned with you so that you can avoid the costly learning curves and get straight to making money!

Dave Hermansen has put together the bar-none best guide I’ve ever seen for flipping websites. If you’re not sure what flipping websites is, that’s simply the process of buying a “dead” website for cheap and then adding content and turning it around through a very streamlined method that Dave has put together. Then, you sell the same previously dead now very much ‘alive” site for a healthy profit.

If the thought of flipping websites intimidates you to even consider - seriously give Dave’s guide a glance - the link is here Flipping Websites with Dave Hermansen and you can get a good idea of what I’m talking about. This is a wonderful way to make a good extra income - check it out and you’ll find it’s a lot easier than you think!
 

I decided to test them out so I signed up - if you have a product you sell, it’s a breeze to set up to sell it. No long, drawn out approval process or uptight editors like at Clickbank and if you already have a download page - you just link to that. You can sell unlimited products.

If you merely want to sell products as an affiliate - they have a huge marketplace that is growing
and there are thousands of products to choose from. If you haven’t already - sign up and give Click2Sell a whirl!

Visit Click2Sell.

Moms can benefit hugely by finding a way to make money online. The savings on child care expenses (and all the glorious illnesses your kiddos will pick up in daycare) can be avoided and the biggest bonus of all, you get to be home with your kids. Learning to use your writing skills at home can be an easily marketed skill that many people don’t realize they have.

A huge amount of the blogs and articles that you read online were created by folks like you and I, not professional writers. Many companies will hire individuals that have experience or a great interest in a particular industry to write for them. I have a really good friend that is addicted to home decorating shows. The FLVG and STYLE Networks were specifically designed with her in mind.  When she wanted to start making “a little money” at home, I referred her to a company that needed someone to write a home decor idea blog. My friend isn’t a professional writer but she’s PASSIONATE about interior decor, decorating for the holidays, entertaining, home makeovers and more. She got the bug for writing and found two other websites through Craigslist that needed someone to contribute articles to their blogs about home furnishings and home makeovers on a budget. She’s was able to take a one blog part-time gig and turn it into a full time income and she no longer has to work outside the home.
This could be you.

A great resource for learning to write from home is  “Write All the Way to the Bank” and learn how to start earning money. This book will show you how to get started writing, find writing jobs and make money with your writing.

If you’re looking for a way to make money from home - this is an excellent way to get started.

Anyone that has been doing this for a while knows the drill:
a) find a product with a decent pay off.

b) research the demand in terms of searches.

c) get a keyword list together

d) set up a landing page to entice people to buy this product

e) write articles and set up a Squidoo Lens, Tumblr, Twing Forum posts and other directives back to your site to help send traffic.

(f) and last but not least, some affiliate marketers get into Adwords.

Adwords can be scary and it will turn into a money sucking machine if you don’t go in with a little headstart on how it works.

Remember, Google is a business and the responsibility of a business is to turn a profit. There are many ways Google has built in to Adwords to allow them to turn a quick profit.

First of all, don’t choose worldwide coverage unless you *know* for a fact that your product has international appeal, otherwise you may wind up with a lot of “curiosity clicks” from other place that had no intention of buying from you. Normally when I go into a campaign, I use US, Canada and UK. That’s it for my campaigns and they pay off fine.

Next, don’t choose to show accelerated ads, show your ads evenly as that way you won’t burn through your adwords budget quicker.

You don’t need #1 position on Adwords results to be popular with customers. I usually rank about position #6-#8 in my bidding and my ads cost less and I still appear on the front page and plus I add this. Here is a technique you may not know. When you set up your Adwords ads, use the following formula and you can use it on any line:

Here’s a sample ad for promotion of our PLR articles at Keyword Content

{KeyWord:Niche Content} Articles
Quality PLR articles written by our
own inhouse writers. No Memberships
www.keywordcontent.net/PLR

Okay, see that first line? Here’s the breakdown:
{Keyword: means that if someone searches for Dog Training PLR, their EXACT keyword will appear in the place of the word “keyword” however if they type something too large to appear the word “Niche Content” will appear instead.
Either selection will be followed by the word “articles”.

so
{Keyword:Heartburn} Cured Now!

Would appear as : “Acid Reflux Cured Now” to someone that was searching for acid reflux.  That person would be more likely to click on my ad because it has their exact keyword phrase their were using. This is a great way to really laser target your Adwords advertising and spend less while making more.

You can use ANYTHING as long as you write it like this {Keyword:Your Chosen Words}
Also, you can use this technique on ANY line of your Adwords ads. This is a great way to get more clicks and find targeted visitors that want your product. I’ll repeat it again, people will generally click an ad that has their exact keyword phrase.

Best of all, this is absolutely legal and Google Adwords has instructions on how to do this in their Adwords instructions.

I’ll talk more about content versus search networks on Adwords later this week.

Source: www.youreapoorloser.com/

There are ways to remedy this situation so that your affiliate marketing programs will start paying off:

Be Unique
Google loves uniqueness and richly rewards it.
Sounds easy enough right? Take a minute and take stock. Are you using an unchanged template for your site? Change it so it isn’t leaving a duplicate footprint with Google and other search engines.

Is your content the same as everyone else’s? Change it. There are numerous ways to do it. Use a content spinner. A content spinner will take your articles (content) and then you choose to change the keyword and the content spinner will “spin” your article into something unique. Read what it spits out though- sometimes content spinners get it all wrong and come up with some interesting phrases.

Another option is to use limited edition private label rights (PLR) content. That’s a great way to get quality content. There are PLR companies where you can pay a monthly membership fee and also places like Keyword Content’s PLR where there are no fees, content written by professional writers and a TON of freebies.

Don’t use RSS feeds to fill your site with content. Those feeds are not unique to your site and won’t help your rankings at all.

Beware free article databases - yes the content is usually pretty good, yes it’s free, but it’s been out on the net for who knows how long and putting on your website won’t do a hill of beans worth of good for your own page rank or traffic building. If you want content, you’re either going to have to pay a writer, go the PLR route (always a good choice), or write it yourself. Yes, I said write it yourself.

If you’re wordy, you can write your own content. For my own content, I hit Google Trends and talk about things that are relevant to whichever one of my affiliate sites that I’m working on that day. Which brings me to another point, I know some people say you can put up a site, throw up Adwords.com advertisements and walk away - I have never had that luck. I find if I log into my sites once a week and put up content - it works and it works beautifully. It keeps the site fresh, the content relevant and the traffic coming which equals PPC + affiliate marketing $$ - and that’s a good thing.

After you take your website content up a notch, check your affiliate programs. Is each and everyone relevant to your page - if it’s not and you really feel the affiliate program has merit - create another site or blog. Try to not have more than 1 to 4 programs on a site - more than that is really over kill and tends to make people choose nothing. I have had the best success with 1 to 2 affiliate programs in my own humble experience.

And that’s just a little overview for today, I’m going to be talking about Adwords and how to get the most bang for your buck in my next post.

Have a super day!

First of all, decide on the product you want to represent. Sounds moronic and simple, well that’s because it is.

Go to any of these places that have affiliate products to choose from such as Clickbank.com, CommissionJunction.com, Linkshare.com, Paydotcom.com, Clixgalore.com. Shareasale.com, MaxBounty.com, Tradedoubler.com or Amazon.com and choose 1-3 products. I’ll tell you why in a bit.

For the sake of argument, let’s run with Clickbank.com.

Okay we’ll choose one product to start with and run with that.
Let’s go to Clickbank.com and click on Marketplace. There we will find a huge number of choices - now we just need to narrow down our products to what we want to promote.

Think of common issues you’ve had or know people that have had.

Potty Training Kids?
Dog Training?
Cat Training?
Losing Weight?
Making Money From Home?

All of these are common issues and good choices. Now narrow it down.

Since more than half of America is overweight, let’s help them out and rep a weight loss program we like.

You can sort your results however you like, the default is by popularity. Here are the top 2 choices for weight loss programs as of today:

1) Fat Loss 4 Idiots. Affiliates: FatLoss4Idiots.com/aff :::: Thanks.
$/sale: $31.05 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $31.05 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 94.0% | grav: 597.85
view pitch page | create hoplink

2) Top Secret Fat Loss Secret :: 75% Commission:: Best Affiliate Toolkit. Makes $25-$60 Per Sale | Converts As High As 3%-5% | We Tested Just 1 Promo & Made $2,280/24hrs | We Give You Same Promo Free! | Sells Itself! | Get 1st-Movers Advantage | Join Now Free! | TopSecretFatLossSecret.com/affiliates.php.
$/sale: $32.33 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $32.33 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 91.0% | grav: 235.06
view pitch page | create hoplink

Both of these are high gravity, meaning they have a lot of affiliates representing these products so if you fear competition, choose a product with lower gravity.

The pay out for these is just over $30 a sale each so that’s not bad at all.

Okay now for the promotion you will have a couple of options-

*Create a review page where you compare the two weight loss plans. Even better if you’ve used them or know someone that has. Make one slightly better than the other - pros and cons work well. Search YouTube for a video - I guarantee you’ll find one - videos add a lot of OOmph to affiliate review pages. This will entail having a domain and you can get one dirt cheap at Web Host Giant. Here’s an example of a pros and cons website, it would be even better if there was video too. http://weightloss.4infoandreviews.com/weightloss.html

*Create an informational blog and make 3-5 postings about one or both programs. Here is the exact same website text in a blog (Wordpress) format.http://weightloss.4infoandreviews.com

* Magically Redirect - You can simply get a domain name and then redirect it to the landing page of your affiliate product. This involves zero creation of pages of any kind and you simply tell your web server to bounce anyone that lands whatever URL you choose to youraffiliatename.affiliateproduct.hop.clickbank.net.
Here is an example of a redirect: http://find.4infoandreviews.com

Now you can got out and post yourself on Digg.com, Stumble.com, Sphinn.com and Squidoo.com yourself however nothing will have the traffic driving ability of Adwords.com.

Adwords.com will kill your bank account if you’re not careful but if you play the game right and I’m about to lay it on you how, you can win and create a steady stream of passive income. You pay in advance so if you only want to spend $10 advertising, just put in 10 bucks and when that is gone - your ads will be suspended until you make another payment.

Now what I’m about to tell you works for my products with my keyword choices and my ads that I write.
Tweak this to be your own system and you’ll have a way to see very quickly what will work and what won’t with Adwords and you can make great money when you line it up right.

Okay I use keywordspy.com first to see what the best ROI (return on investment) keywords are for products.

I go to www.keywordspy.com and input a keyword or product name. This time I am using “4idiots” the Clickbank name of our product “Fat Loss 4 Idiots”.

At the next screen I click on “Affiliate Keywords” and I’m about to show you how to dig for gold.

There are three tabs there “affiliates” which will show you the top affliates selling this product.
“Keywords” is the total keywords used in selling this particular product.
“Ad Variations” will show you the various ads that are being used.

Under keywords, click on the ROI column and sort to show the best to the least return on investment keywords. Cut-n-paste or write ‘em down. That’s the ones we’re using for Google Adwords first. These keywords have already proven they are giving a return on investment - why not benefit from someone else’s research?

Next look at the ad variations, but DO NOT COPY THEM. Just glean what they are hitting on. Use each keyword in your title and ad body for greatest relevance. I have found most people will click an Adwords ad that asks a question, it’s like they feel the need to answer or something and usually they answer by buying the product -ka-ching!

Be targeted in your keywords. “Weight loss” is a logical keyword but it is also way too broad of a keyword and it doesn’t target people wanting to lose weight specifically. “Permanent weight loss” is one with a good ROI as is “Lose weight for wedding” these are both people looking to lose weight and keep it off and that should be the basis of at least one of your adwords ads. Sure you won’t get 3,000 clicks a day but who wants clicks with no sales?

Now get your webpage, blog or redirect up and running. It doesn’t have to be fancy-dan gorgeous - friendly, believable and easy to read will garner you far more sales. Redirects either piss people off who didn’t want to visit a sales page or they work great on a well written campaign. Sometimes I’ll test out a redirect for a week and if I see it’s not converting sales, I’ll throw up an html page or a blog page to promo the product and it give it a week to perform.

Now head over to Adwords.com and create your campaign.

It’s pretty self explanatory, but take your campaign out of the partner search network and the content network. Put your keyword phrases in [brackets] so you target people searching EXACTLY for those keyword phrases.

You don’t need a ton of keyword phrases - longer (long tailed) more exact keyword phrases will bring you less traffic but they will bring you the people that really want to buy.

This will cut down on clicks that are basically wasted that cost you money because someone was curious. This will lead to more targeted clicks by people that are actually part of your own targeted consumer base.

Here’s a cool hint too - you can’t put call to action phrases in your adwords ads like download now, click here, visit now - however it CAN be in your URL. Like one of my book ads has the URL http://www.keywordcontent.net/download-now it’s a definitely call to action that shows in my Adwords, however it’s legal because it’s not in the text. But I have more conversions on this link than any other.

As far as bidding, I like to have my advertisements appear in the top 5 ads so I bid higher initially then take it down .25 to .50 a day until I’m still in the top 5 but not spending too much on my Adwords campaigns. Think about when you search - do you click down 4 or 5 pages to find something?
Of course not.

Also, if you’re using a site or blog - by all means, try to hit organic results too by using places like Socialmarker.com where you can submit your website or blog to something along the lines of 30 different networks and generate free traffic.

I wish you tons of success!

Blah, blah, find a niche, blah blah make a blog, blah blah, keywords, blah, blah, adsense code-insert here and blah blah adwords… you know the drill, you’ve seen it too.

Today I got an email from Rob Benwell, a guy that definitely knows what he’s talking about; and it outlined a new affilate marketing system that makes a bold claim, “It has never failed”..in fact the creator of the system, Nick Marks insists that if you don’t make your $49 bucks back in one of the ways he shows you how to generate income, - he insists you ask for your money back.

Pretty bold indeed right?

So, I bit and bought a copy and upon reviewing Forex Enterprise - I have to admit I went in thinking it was just a rehash but he has some majorly good information here. Actually what put me off the most was the name. I really detest Forex - trading currencies and that stuff - and I thought it was based on doing that somehow so up until today, I had avoided even reading the sales copy. I wish I had read it sooner.

It’s not just one way or even two ways to generate streams of income, but rather a several - you could literally create tiers of income and this is so smart - if one dries up or has a bad month - well you’re not dependent on just one online source of income.

I’m currently setting up one of the suggestions to test it out and I’ve already had one sale so to say I’m pleased is an understatement at this point. The only program that has performed this well for me out of the gate is “Niche Marketing on Crack”.

So this is one money making system I will give a full thumbs up too - give it a look - I think you’ll like it too!
Click here to check out Forex Enterprise

Y’all ever heard of this one?

Me either.

So I clicked the link and had a look.

First you have to go to www.adsensebig.org/ where you fill out a page and give your email address (yeah, I know the drill) and then you’re sent the link to Adsense Big.

So I did and I got my link (from a fellow named Bob Smith). So I clicked it and visited the sales page for Adsense Big.
http://incomestarters.com/recommends/adsensebig/

It’s made with optimized pages that include articles on each page. And several categories that anyone that plays the Adsense game knows are good bets for people searching for information.

Here’s an overview:

Homepage: Search page.

How often do you use search engines? How often do you think other people will? (A lot!) And if they do, do you think they’ll click on ads? Of course they will! It’s free for them… And money for you.

Section 1 - Shopping

People will have no problem with coming there in droves. They’ll click, and you’ll earn the cash. Piece of cake!

Section 2 - Travel

Snobby rich folks use the “Web” to plan for travel… They’ll use your site for advice, and click while they’re there. It’s like a fat injection for your bank account!

Section 3 - Finance

Hundreds of millions of people need help with their credit. Poor guys have debt coming out of their ears… They’ll come to your site for help… And they’ll be making you rich

Section 4 - Cars

Millions of people love cars… but the sorry souls have to watch how much they spend, so they need advice on buying… That’s why they’ll come to this site. They come, and click, and you’ll get rich (and maybe filthy rich, like me).

Section 5 - Computers

Most people own a computer but don’t have a clue about the technical stuff like upgrading, which software to buy, how to protect themselves from viruses etc. This is a website they would need to keep coming back to again and again which mean money for you again and again.

Now here’s why this probably won’t work for you.

Original content is king on the Internet. If you put up a site and use the same layout, same wording, and those tired old articles that have been sold and resold to others with the $40K a month Adsense dream, then you’re going to further liquidate the exclusivity of your site (and theirs) and all of you will wind up in supplemental results meaning no one will find your site.

This could work if you were willing to write your own content but in that case - why not just get yourself a WebHost Giant reseller account (see the ad on the right hand side of this page) and for less than $5 a month you can put up unlimited domains with your own fresh content and instead of html-ing it - use Wordpress blogs and get those Super Adsense Themes at www.easywordpress.com and you can get a ton of plug ins that fully optimize your pages. I know, because I use them and they are free. There are themes for computer, travel, nutrition, fitness and a ton more.

Do your own content, hit up Google Trends to see what’s hot and make your postings about things people are looking for as long as it’s relevant to your site..