Make Money Online with Affiliate MarketingBlogs, SEO, Niche Product Stores and Social Media
The subject is making money online, a process I have been involved in for 12 years of my life. I do not pay for links to be seen on popular search engines. I use a process called SEO (search engine optimization) to bring natural organic traffic to my websites and informtional pages. I specialize in designing pages that rank well in search, including the most popular search engines. I make these pages and websites on my domain which you are on now, and on other domains as well. For instance, you can open a free blog on any number of other domains and publish your content on those blogs. Using common sense methods and great content, your pages will rank in the top listings of the SERPS (search engine results pages). After visitors find your page on the listings, they will click through and after they buy something you will receive an affiliate commission. That is exactly how I make money online. I put a lot of work and thought into whatever I publish online, so I do not use software to create anything. I do not recommend auto publishing software programs that make pages full of gibberish to get clicks on 3rd party ads. Don't do it, as it will get you in trouble and the traffic will be short lived. Permanent, updatable and editable pages will pay off in the long run. Don't buy into fast money offers from guys who are selling snake oil. Do it right!. Primarliy I use Affiliate Networks to drive my stores within niche markets. These networks offer many thousands of merchant members who sell a wide variety of goods and services online, and by joining their affiliate programs within the networks, I am supplied with endless numbers of products to offer on my stores. I call what I do "Affiliate SEO Content Publishing and Marketing". Just to give an example of this kind of publishing, take a look at my Russian Gifts and Collectibles Store. When you look at it you will see many different gifts displayed in various formats. This is just one of my many designs that work for search traffic.
Monetize Your Websites and Blogs Do you want to build websites offering products for sale to earn affiliate commissions? That is a big part of what I do, but not all of what I do to make money. I make my niche stores currently the labor intensive way with HTML. I code my pages myself, with the help of product displays from several affiliate networks like Ebay, Shareasale, Avantlink, Commission Junction and others. I also include Ads from the Google Adsense Program in each niche store I create, and I round the stores off with information about the products and companies represented on the store. I then add tracking and social media interactive buttons, and the store is ready to ramble. Now however there are many new and exciting tools to use for the purpose of creating niche stores. One such tool is the famous BANS (Build a Niche Store) Version 3.0. This new version is sold with the designer's Niche Store Blueprint Guide for a total cost of just under $100. If you buy one, I believe you must buy the other. Also, if you opt for this amazing system, you must also be a member of the Ebay Partner Network. I love this network for making money, and I do include ebay products on all of my niche stores. The BANS option only interfaces with ebay, so membership in the network is essential to making it work and make money for you. This is one very effective way to enter the money making space online. The new niche stores you make will eventually be what I call SEO Affiliate Content Creations. Fits right in with what I do. As this money making presentation continues, you will be introduced to more options like blogs, HTML Static pages and social media member driven website systems like Twitter and Facebook. All of these digital mediums can be utilized to become a niche store in whole or in part. Whatever you decide, keep in mind that there is a learning curve for all things in internet and affiliate marketing. No one ever enters this space and makes big money overnight. Some are quicker than others of course, so it all depends on your abilities and the amount of vision and knowledge you can absorb. Everything I do is geared towards earning my living online by selling products, services, software, advertising upgrades and similar things. If that is not your goal, then this entire page might not be for you. You must decide this for yourself about this time. I want to save you a lot of headaches if you are just starting out in the business. Buy the Ebook Super Affiliate Handbook to get an education in Affiliate Marketing. This ebook gives you a winning platform of knowledge on how to make money as an affiliate marketing with a blog. Fundamental marketing knowledge! Are you already smart enough to skip this tip? OK, I am really just trying to save you time floundering around. I already know most of the good stuff in the book, but it took me years to figure it all out. In a hurry to make money? Buy it now! I already said that I use blogs in making money online, so this too is a learning curve activity. This ebook will be of great value to you no matter what subject matter goes into your own blog.
My method for making money is to create targeted sites in many niche markets. I use a form of diversification, like investors do. The result is that I have multiple streams of income from the diversification I have worked on, and that has allowed me to survive many different and difficult ups and downs in the affiliate marketing business. I market in these areas: Affiliate marketing, classified marketing, women's health, men's health, online retail shopping, Sports marketing and 2nd tier recruiting. Within each of those sectors I have published content that supports the specific niche described, and many sub-niche markets within each niche. As time goes by I continue to create new content on a daily basis, adding to my own archived content online. Search engines do save everything out there, and if it is related to search queries, it will still come up in the SERPS even if it is old. Be sure to delete any content you know is bad, outdated or no longer accurate. Replace it with what is correct, relavent and effective. I practice a form of marketing I call Affiliate SEO Content Publishing and Product detail Marketing. There is no way I can teach this method of marketing to others for one simple reason. I use the process to earn my living and it has taken me years to learn how to do this. I would rather offer you a class to teach you how to optimize websites from SEO pros who have years of experience, and then you could apply that knowledge to affiliate marketing like I do. Take a look at the courses offered at Search Engine College. Take an Online Marketing Course from Search Engine College. Then you can use the new applications you learn to make money in affiliate marketing. I never buy links on search engines through the PPC process. I don't have to because I have learned this amazing system of getting web pages, blogs and websites ranking high in the SERPS (search engine results pages). Take that link to the college and learn how to optimize your affiliate sites. It will give you a great ROI and increase your income potential.
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I know of this company that will do a free SEO website analysis for you. All you have to do is fill out a form and talk to them on the phone and they will look over your site and give you a very impressive report with some recommendations for what can be done to make your site more search engine friendly. This is what you need to do to make more money, and you might be surprised how it turns out. Please consider the rules: Business service or commerce sites only, no blogs or SEO sites, and they must be from the US or Canada only. Read the Rules Hereand signup for the free SEO analysis. You might be surprised at what you will learn. Visit the Get Targeted Traffic Page for some additional resources available for a fee, if you have money to invest. Of course, I recommend that your site be optimized first, before ordering any promotions.
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Look for a lonely niche I do not participate in PPC (pay per click) campaigns. This involves signing up for an advertising account on such sites as Google Adwords, or Yahoo. You then "pay per click" on your bidded keyword that lead to your sites. Rather, I rely on my skill to create pages that rank naturally, or "organically" within the search results to get the targeted traffic to my pages and to realize income from sales that happen as a result. Just because I don't use PPC campaigns to make money online, that does not mean you should not. If you can create profitable PPC campaigns then more power to you. I utilize my own optimized domain pages, several targeted blogs and membership sites on several good social media sites to drive traffic. Even though I do not use Google Adwords, I do belong to the Google Adsense program, and I advertise other people's PPC ads on my site through that program. I highly recommend that if you are going to build websites, that you sign up for the Google Adsense Program for webmasters and place the ads on your new websites and webpages. This is one of the best money making programs in the entire world, and that is NOT an overstatement. Google has several good and effective ways for you to make money with their program. You get a percentage of the ad click cost per unique click-through. Adsense is amazing and one that all website publishers should consider joining. I recommend that you place Adsense code on every page you publish. They have rules about this, so read their TOS and use this system to make more money. It is a no brainer. I have developed my own methods of linking through the creations I have made to enhance my own listings on search. To even try to tell you how this works is almost impossible, but I will attempt to summarize it. I make a targeted and optimized domain page within a specific niche market. Then I place navigation links from that page to other related pages on my own domain, and to other domains. In many cases I place links to a site that doesn't even link back to me, but it benefits the page with relevancy. Then I take that new url and list it on the sidebar links on my blogs within that niche. On the blogs I will link to a social media site I am a member of, and then that social media page will also have a link back to the original niche site on my domain. This process could be defined and made into an ebook if I wasn't so lazy, but I have never started that project. I sometimes link from site to blog to blog, and back to site. There are many variations of this, but the end result is highly targeted niche listings. I use 7 blogs at this time, all targeted towards different niche markets. Overall, these blogs serve as my own built-in backlink platform for new niche pages I need to promote. Read my Affiliate Blog Articles for more details about this procedure and others I use to make money.
Promote with RSS the Right Way Some of these sites actually reproduce my blog articles as separate web pages on their site, and then the search engines index those pages. All you have to do is search for these types of social media sites. This is where I lose a lot of people who are just starting out. Who wants to do research anyway? Lazy people will not do it, and since they just want fast money, they never do the work to find stuff that can automatically help them achieve their goals. The hard working person will continually research and find other social media sites to join and utilize in this fashion, while the fast money lazy guys will not. Do the research and you will find what you need. I actually receive invitations now on a regular basis to join these kinds of social media sites. I evaluate each one, and join the ones that will accept my RSS feeds from all of my blogs. Win/Win deal for all.
I have many niche market sites and not all are retail. Some of my money making material is within the Free Classifieds niche. I also market certain products and services that allow newer marketers to find their way up the learning curve at my Get High Traffic page. Everything I do is linked within platforms of website and blogs which help any site I create to be indexed quickly in the top search engines. I also work very hard to stay within the acceptable limits, or terms of service, for each and every search engine or social media site I use. Staying out of trouble is the first order of business on the internet. when you violate terms, you risk deletion of your account or pages. Always work within the system. Short cuts never amount to much more than heartache!
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I am a member of the affiliate program listed above. It is very interesting to work with, but since it offers many products in the sexual enhancement niche, I only promote a limited number of their products within my domains and blogs. You may have a different take on it, and may feel free to promote all of it. That is up to you. Either way, Worldniche is a really good program and they pay right on time twice a month by check or Paypal. I feature many Affiliate Networks, but I can tell you that there are many hundreds of other networks out there. You may find one that you like better than the ones I use, and that's ok. I just know what I know, if you know what I mean. Learn how to build websites first, then how to publish them to the internet, then start publishing. If you want to make money, join affiliate programs or ad sharing networks like Google Adsense and you will be on the way to success. Recently I have discovered that the AvantLink Affiliate Network has some very good tools to make product display pages similar to the ones I create at Shareasale. Affiliate product display sites are good sales platforms, if set up correctly with SEO techniques. Many of my product display sites are active in search. What is affiliate marketing anyway? The answer depends upon who you ask. A merchant will define it as a way to increase sales of their products by employing the affiliate sales force. The affiliate marketer will say it is a way to make money online (usually in 2 tiers) by marketing the products and services within the content of websites and receiving a commission when sales are realized. I have a page that is not too extensive, which sort of defines it and lists some outstanding affiliate networks as well. The page is simply called What is Affiliate Marketing?. With the evolution of Web 2.0 Community portals, the aspect of "revenue sharing" has been introduced. It is a natural extention of affiliate marketing, but it not called by the same name. I also publish a blog called Affiliates Make Money Online where I discuss many affiliate related things, including ways to make money online in this business. Having a blog is essential in the money making environment in my opinion. Currently Google has a new search engine in BETA called Google Blog Search. Your blog posts will be included in that search automatically. I use blogger, and Google owns that site too, so I don't even have to submit my content to them. It is picked up and indexed daily. I practice a kind of "money philosophy" which I call diversification, but many others call it "multiple streams of income". There is a ton of information about this subject. Just do a search on Google for "multiple streams of income" and you will see what I mean. In Affiliate Marketing it means that good affiliates have more than one relationship with successful companies online. If you only do business with company "A", and suddenly that company decides to cancel it's affiliate program, you are out cold. However, if you do business with several different companies then of one goes away, you still have the others to rely on for your income. I do business with several affiliate networks, and in several different niche markets. I am so diversified that even if 2 or 3 were to go out of business, I could still stay alive in my affiliate marketing business. It is a matter of personal survival to diversify in this business, and to be able to continue making money online without major interruption. I have written a short article about Multiple Streams of Income Here.
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Keyword Country offers an excellent service for Adsense Publishers. The service gives users a Adsense Keyword Search Engine that gives them more control over the amount of money they can make with Adsense. If you decide to join Adsense, then this service is recommended so you can make more money with the system. I ask you to look all around my website, with emphasis on my Online Shopping Center. There are many examples of content optimization and product display sites within those links. Study the presentations and the way the links are set up. It is all a part of my methodology in making money online. If you are smart, and if you are patient and willing to learn, then I predict you also will be able to make money online with your blog, website, web 2.0 member publishing platform or online forum. I also recommend that you have a good look at my blog called Affiliates Make Money Online and look at the different sites I link to on the blog. Sure, read the articles, blurbs and content too, but equally important is how I have set that blog up. The way it is set up, combined with the links I use on the right side allow me more success. There is so much information to consider within this subject area that it is impossible to write it all down. It takes patience, focus, enthusiasm and drive to get into the money making space. My way of making money is only one way of many thousands of ways, so if you are just starting out, just bookmark my site and move on. You will have to investigate many sites and many ideas and systems before you will figure out exactly where you belong. I wish you the best of good fortune in your endeavor to make money online!
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I decided a long time ago to work with the search engines to comply with their rules and standards. Since Google is the leader in online search technology and the market leader, I started there. After joining and registering my website in the Webmaster Tools area, I created a sitemap as they recommend. Turns out that the entire search industry is moving in that same direction. Now I create 4 different types of sitemaps for every website I create, mine or a client's. Interestingly, if you follow their guidelines your online content does better in search. So I do recommend if you are just starting out, that you create a Google Webmaster account and read all the material they provide. They have keyword tools based on usage and queries in their system. They offer widgets and many other tools to help in optimization and actually lend to your success. Bing and Yahoo also have similar tools which are helpful, but the Google material is the best. Learn the right way, and do not practice illegal or unethical methods
in promoting your websites. The old adage rings true in this business: "If you can't beat em, join em". Search engine optimization is a skill set you must develop to be successful if you want to make money the way I do. Otherwise, good luck to ya!
