Posted by Mark B on December 8, 2009 under Marks Blog Posts | 
Setting up your monetised website is the easy bit. Now how do you get it to generate income?
If you pay any attention to some of the ‘gurus’ all you need to do is build a site the way they tell you to (after paying them a lot of money!) and the visitors will flood to your site eager to buy whatever you are selling.
But it doesn’t quite work like that does it?
How many ‘automatic cash systems’ and ‘push button riches’ opportuities are there out there promising to make you a fortune? And how many of these REALLY work and make the promised money to the people who buy them?
Hmmm, probably about NONE because they are just recycling old ideas that may have worked once but not any more.
Today’s internet users are a bit more savvy than before. People know that there are lots of free resources and information on a whole range of things and will look for those first. Why pay for something if there is free information on the same subject?
Lets take just one example. Many ‘automatic cash systems’ I have investigated will set you up with your own site promoting weight loss information. Great, massive market. BUT… see how many people already have sites promoting the same thing? Then see how much FREE information is being given away on the same subjects? Very few ‘newbies’ to the market will ever get a return on the money they spent on the system never mind make profit from it.
So what is the key to making money?
Well like anything else that is worthwhile the answer is not easy. There are no magic formulas. You have to do a bit of work and build things up slowly if you are to be successful. If that idea puts you off then you have 2 options available to you .
1. Quit and keep to your ‘real’ job.
2. Ignore me and go on spending money on ideas that will never work.
Still with me?
OK, so maybe you have what it takes to become successful. Now for the hard work.
Firstly you need to choose your market carefully. What are you going to sell and who are the people that will want to buy it?
Try and find a niche market that has enough people looking for it but not so many that you will never ever get a good placing in the search engines for your own site. This one task is probably the most important of all so don’t rush it.
When you have your niche you need to build a website and optimise it for your main keywords, the keywords that will bring you enough traffic to build your business but still allow you a good search engine placing (so probably not the main search terms for your product!).
These 2 jobs can take inexperienced people a few days to complete. Don’t rush the job, do it properly however long it takes you. A bad job will waste your time and money. Better not to do it at all than to do a bad job of these 2 stages.
Submit your website to the major search engines. This step is the easiest. If you have completed the 2 previous stages properly then your site will start to show up in google (often on page 1 for your chosen keywords) within a few weeks.
Build a mailing list. If you have attracted interested visitors why just let them go? Even if they don’t buy your main product or products right away you should try and get their details by offering a free product or report if they join your mailing list or subscribe to your newsletter. This will allow you to inform them of future site updates or offers you may make and will give you a second, third or fourth chance to sell your product to them. It is all about numbers at the end of the day.
Include google adsense ads on your website. Even if your visitors do not buy from you they may see an ad that catches their attention and click on the link to find out more, and you get paid for the click by google.
Market your website in other ways. In addition to search engine submissions you should consider article marketing. If you can write simple articles on your subject you can get additional links to your website and draw in more potential customers. Also consider advertising exchanges where your ad can be seen on other peoples websites and have proven a good way of drawing in potential customers on my own websites. There are numerous other ways, but these are a good starting point.
In a few paragraphs here I have briefly gone over the main tasks of getting yourself a profitable website. Obviously there is more work involved in each stage than I can cover here, but those are the principle tasks for you to complete.
If it all looks a bit complicated, there are places where you can get in depth information on all of the tasks and step by step instructions and videos to show you how to complete them.
The following sites compliment each other and provide help with the steps you need to complete to build up a successful website business.
1. To register a domain name and order reliable and cost effective hosting Click Here
2. For help choosing your niche market and building your monetised website Click Here
3. For the best way to promote your website by article marketing Click Here
4. Download a free trial of software to help get your website on google page 1 Click Here
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Posted by Mark B on December 4, 2009 under Marks Blog Posts |
Among the good and workable programs I have reviewed and recommended on this site several of them include or can be run by operating your own blog site.
Whether you are going to run a personal blog and add google adsense to the pages to monetise it, or build a series of blog sites to promote specific products, the one thing that will take up the majority of your time will be writing posts for your blogs.
Lets say, for example, you choose 6 products or services to promote. You have researched your market and selected the specific keywords to target, you have registered a domain name and ordered hosting. You have created your blog site from the free software provided by your hosting company, and you start building the blog to promote the products or services you chose.
To get yourself a decent position in google (where most of the free targetted traffic will come from) you will need to post regular and relevant articles or posts on your site. Do you know enough about writing or about several different products or services to write at least one new post or article on each of them each day?
Probably not.
Neither do I but it does not stop me from getting my blog based sales sites up into high rankings with google and yahoo and receiving around 300 targetted hits every day to each one.
How? I use a word press plug in for my blog sites (Only works with wordpress blogs!) that searches for articles about my chosen subjects and containing my chosen keywords, and publishes them to my blog site as often as I want it to. I can select the frequency of the posts it makes from every 6 hours to every 30 days, but I usually go for one every 24 hours which is more than enough to keep the site full of ‘fresh’ content.
One example of a site using this plug in is www.justcures.com . I have set this up solely for the purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of this plug in. It is not something I intended to do any work on or expected anything from but it still pulls in hundreds of visitors a day from google and creates a reasonable income from affiliate sales and google adsense.
I have selected the keywords I wanted to aim for, set the frequency of the updates, and that was it. The plug in does all of the updates for me. All I do is check how many visitors I have received and how much money it has generated for me each day. Simple.
And more, you can also use it to update Amazon products for sale on your site, and a whole range of other updates, to keep your site fresh and monetised. However in this example site I have only used the Article Autoposter part of the plug in but it more than demonstrates the effectiveness.
If you currently use WordPress for your blog site, or are going to use WordPress (available free with good hosting packages) then this plug in is a fantastic addition that will save you time and make you money. You can find out more about it by following the link below:
Click here to view more details
Posted by Mark B on under Marks Blog Posts |
Well it is almost Christmas and I am feeling generous!
The recommended selling price of this book is $27 but you can have it for free from me!
All you have to do is sign up for my occasional newsletter by entering your name and email address below and you will be sent the link to download this e-book absolutely FREE.
This comes with full resell rights so you can even sell on this e-book or give it away from your own website!
Posted by Mark B on December 3, 2009 under Marks Blog Posts |
With Christmas just around the corner I have gathered together for you a bundle of free services and opportunities for you to get stuck into and add to your online portfolio.
As any successful marketer will tell you MSI (Multiple Streams of Income) are key to securing your regular online income, so take advantage of these freebies and start earning:
1. Domain name and hosting reseller account:
2. Clone Cash System – A free to join opportunity with BIG potential.
3. Me2Everyone – A new online community with FREE shares for joining.
4. Traffic Buddha – FREE to join traffic creation program for your site.
5. Internet Business Promoter – The best software to get your site onto google page 1. FREE trial download.
6. Build text links to your website. FREE 21 day trial – links created during the trial are permanent!
7. FREE submission to the GO FIND IT 4 ME search engine – get your site listed FREE
8. FREE classified ads for your business , service, or items for sale.
9. FREE downloads of the TOP movies. 30 day free trial so download as many as you like, PLUS affiliate program means you can offer this to others from your website and earn money!
10. FREE online logo creator for your website.
11. FREE advertising for your website. In pre-launch so get in now to get the best ad exposure.
12. FREE dropship supplier account – Dont pay to open an inferior account elsewhere or for a list of suppliers. This is FREE to register, has no minimum order, and is full of quality items for you to sell.
There you are. 12 free offers to give a boost to your earnings or just give you more ideas for your money making website.
Posted by Mark B on December 2, 2009 under Marks Blog Posts |
I had an email today that got me thinking…
A visitor to this site said that there were loads of good opportunities listed here, that seem to be genuine and workable (they are!) but for a total newcomer to this online world could I put together in one of my posts a simple step by step guide to getting an income growing online. What should people do to start off with, what comes first, then what follows it in a logical order to get an income building up as quickly as possible.
Well, most of the opportunities that I list here are fairly straight forward in themselves, and I know that they all work from personal experience – I make money from them, but he did have a good point. A simple step by step guide from a standing start for a total newcomer would be a useful resource.
And so I decided that I will act on this request. I will not post the instructions on a page of this blog though, because it would soon get swallowed up and lost among my other posts, BUT I will create a guide and save it in PDF format. That way I can give it away from a link on the front page of this website and it will always be there for all visitors to see and download if they wish.
I will make a start on this and have it available for everyone soon. And of course it will be FREE to all visitors of this site.
Watch this space …
In the meantime this is another useful resource for anyone new to internet marketing:
