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Welcome!

Trust me, or don't! I'll tell you one thing right now. You're going to lose money before you start to make anything. By the way.. Creating a blog on how to make money is your first mistake if you think you're going to get rich. It doesn't work like that. The competition out there is extreme for the money millionare information. You've probably read this a hundred time over already.

First off.. Buy 1 of the guides on how to make money. They are mostly the same information, but if you don't have a clue where to start, it's a decent place to start.
Why! Cause you don't have a clue, and starting a website and sticking banners on it. Might make you enought to buy a pint of beer in a few months.. remember, hosting fees, your time and effort will eat most of the profit you'll make.

Google cash 3rd edition is actually a nice manual. It will show you a few streams of marketing ideas that create some instant gains. You'll be able to afford a few nights out next week.

You've read google cash!

• so you've set up and account at Commission Junction, Clickbank and Google adwords(PPC) and Google adsense.
• pick a product. remember to think about what you are going to market.. Halloween Costumes you think! Well as of this post it's too close, but three weeks ago you could of posted ads to baby stores that ship great costumes at great prices from commission juction. They pay commission on each sale that is made off your ad.. see how this works.. why is it too late.. that has to do will all the other people doing this.. They set up their campaigns in Sept and had them running early to gain better positioning being the first advertisers.. paying clicks up front and getting the ads better quaility scores.
• research up coming launches of products or events that have a global impact. Meaning you can sell to billions instead of millions.
• Create niche sites that are 20-100 pages that market products and have your adsense and affilate links on them.
• Create a blog on the niche topics and monitize the footer with adsense of links of the niches interest.
• Create Articles and post them with footers that have links back to your niche sites.
• Create Landing pages for Clickbank products that review multiple links, but have a common intrest.
• Create Squidoo lenses on your landing pages and place links to the squidoo pages in your footer section of your blog feeds
• Create a FeedBurner feed off those feeds and Squidoo lense those feeds.

Ok so now you've made a bit of cash.. re-invest it.. get a copywrite to write you a ebook on your topic. Affliate link the ebook to the niche interest. Sell it on clickbank.

Take some more of that money and buy a few domains.

1. have a pop-over or a pop-in to an email opt in.
2. ask those opt in's if they would like to get offers on different products.
3. create mail out's based on 4 or 5 categories.
4. use links banners to wrap your newsletters
5. mail to your opt in lists.

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Again, nothing is easy, I'm not forcing any links in this post, as it's how I see it. Take it or leave it.. it's up to you.

The biggest issue you'll have at first is traffic to your links. PPC will solve that, but it costs money, but you will make money back.

Dominate Adwords - Create keyword lists

If you're looking for a great little utility for building keyword lists, Keyword Elite seems to do a great job. After installing the product I quickly realized it's potential.

Just like my-self, I'm actually horrible at typing in the correct spelling on half of the things I type in the search engines, but magically! I get targeted responses to what I was looking for.

Keyword Elite actually helps you not only build a great list of keywords for common mistakes in spelling on both overture and google, but it allows you to export those list.

Think about it. You can create a ton of .txt files based on many topics that you are looking into, and save them, so that when your creating your adwords campaigns or overture campaigns you'll have them on hand.


So you can quickly create a new project. Enter any keyword in Step 2 and then you can select where to find keyword matches and how many you'd like to return.





I searched for apple iphone and stopped it right away in the above screen shot. I wanted to show you, more that the tool does provide you a few useful tools. First. You can limit the word count. Second you can Import or Export your lists. Third. I find this really usefull. You can manage your ad groups and it integrates to adwords nicely.








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Google Pay Per Action - Is it worth it

So Google launched the PPA campaign for google adsense.

If you don't have a google adsense account get it now!


Once you have your google adsense account, you can not only access google's content network and place the all too familiar google ads. You can sign up to the Google Referral's beta, this is google Pay Per Action program. You can customize links by categories or pick single creatives.

Now if you've used the Commission Junction Smart zones.. it's google answer to a smart zone, but they control the content for you. They add the companies. You don't have to apply to the company. That being said.

Will google's pay-out's match the other affilate programs like CJ,Linkshare,Red Golashes and such, or will goolge pay out lower. We will see. You don't really get any information on what % is being offered on the commission or what your PPA will be defined on a company basis.

I do like that this way of doing things, On some of my content pages, I don't have to worry about managing that ad space. It's the same reason I like using adsense.
I'm sure for some application the other companies will be a better fit.

When more companies affiliate with google referral, we will have a better Idea on what the PPA (Price Per Action) market will be like.

I'm sure also google ref will lay down a lot of usage rules on using the new referals.

Increasing Traffic to your websites.

Increasing website traffic is basically what every website owner is after and one of the largest money making markets on the internet.

1. You are paying a advertising program to display website ads (Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture, etc), which may be costing more at a CPC (cost per click) then you like.
2. You are paying a auto generating traffic generator to advertise your site for you. This I feel is a bit shady as most are pop ups - pop unders, send browser exit redirects.
3. You are using an SEO company to customize your search engine optimization.

If you are interested in high traffic sites and generating quality traffic, it's best to do a few simple things which position your site to get the traffic you are looking for.

1. Write quality content, unique content. You can optimize your content with SEO software, but sometimes keeping your site more human friendly can keep your site visitors interested in your content and might ever translate into higher goal conversions.
2. Use Alt tags and Tooltips on all controls.
3. Use keywords, titles and descriptions that match your page content
4. Use Webmaster tools to see how the search engines are seeing your site. Fix errors
5. Add sitemaps or ROR files to your site
6. Submit your site to as many search engines you can find. ie Google, MSN,Yahoo,Jade,AltaVista,AOL etc.... you can find some free submission sites that will submit to most of the important search engines.
7. Build some quality link exchanges with sites that closely match your sites content. In the link that you have them post on your site.
8. Write articles with diffent topic and match the keywords to those topics.

The biggest point i'm trying to make is quality beats quantiy in the long run. Advertisers and Ad campaigns will pay out better on genuine content. Resuable trow-away content in the long run will end up costing you more. If you can find a new application or need or figure out a market trend, your build your high traffic website of returning and quality visitors.

Using EBAY .. Different ways to make Money.

EBAY Linking, Different ways to make money using ebay.

Ebay, Ebay, Ebay. Gotta love ebay.




Ebay US has 1 major rule. DO NOT USE ADWORDS that directly link to the Ebay sites. This mean do not embed links on the click URL that point to directly to the Ebay site.

1. Use the graphic banners and the links provide by Ebay through Commission Junction.


2. When you sign up for ebay affiliate program they give you a good selection of creative. They also provide a nice affilate web site.This site give you access to diffent tools that you will find very usefull.

• Get the editor kit HERE
  
• Get the Flexible destination tool HERE
  

Create a niche site!

Using the Flexible destination tool and api kit will allow you to customize a ebay affilate niche store. We've created www.treetopbaby.ca/reviews.aspx as an example of how to connect users to products that have reviews and automatically show that item if it's available on ebay.

You can also use some usefull tools

1. Micro Niche Finder, Determine at a glance if a market is a hidden goldmine or not worth your time!

"Powerful New Software Tool Uncovers Hot Untapped Niche Markets that Have Been Completely Overlooked by the Masses and Allows You To Swoop in and Absolutely Dominate these Niche Markets in Google!"

2. Easy Nich Store Script,The Easy Niche Store Script Is A Php Script That Plugs In To Your Existing (php Based) Website Or Existing Ecommerce Site To Allow You To Display eBay(R) Products Via Rss.

"WOW, wow, Wow! This new Ebay Store Feed is Amazing... its one of the coolest things I've seen for a while... I'm Excited!"

" excellent communication - great script - highly recommended"

"+++ Great Script, Easy for use +++ "

3.NichePowerBuilder Wordpress How Would You Like To Quickly Create A Profit Pulling Adsense Empire In WordPress Utilizing Your Article Content - All At The Push Of A Button? Our Complete 1-Click WordPress System Gives You The Tools And Training To Do Exactly That.

4. Build a Niche Store (BANS) The Build a Niche Store script is a dream come true for serious Ebay affiliates. Now, its incrediably easy to set up your own niche ebay driven affiliate site and earn generous comissions from other peoples eBay auctions!Did you know that some eBay affiliates earn over $100,000 PER MONTH?There's alot of money to be made from the eBay affiliate program

"This is the number 1 - Ebay Niche Store Creation script available on the internet! Must take a look"

Tip! - Remeber that adding adsense to your niche store can also drive more profit if it is well placed and doesn't distract users from the ebay content.

Using Affiliate Marketing to make money on the internet 101

Idea 1. Building a site. Using Blogger, linking affilates

Steps.

• Register a domain name

• Setup a hosting service with a website hosting company.

• Create a blog with Blogger.com and use the advanced option to save to your own website ftp (file transfer server)

If you are asking why you shouldn't just use blogger to host the blog you can. But your own site comes in hand for other ways to add to your income stream. I'll get into that later.

Biggest reason for having your site host the blog is that you can include the sites blog into many more search engines that limit the amount of submission from site names.

Blogger.com will hit it's max on engines like MSN live search before you ever get it added.

• Create an account at CJ.com (Commission Junction) or LinkShare or Red Goloshes.

Now that you have a blog setup. Now you need to pick topics to write about. The more you write about a topic you know. The more text that is added, the more "FOOD" for the search engines to chew up.

• Write your head off! And embed links into your blog articles. If you are writting about brand new cars.. link it.
• Submit your site to the search engines.

This idea takes time, lots of work and isn't a get rich idea. This is about writing about topics you know about, linking to affiliate products that are products that your reader base would find useful and would actually buy.

Remember, the more content that is new, fresh, unique. The more the search engines will love you. Yahoo and Google spend plenty of time and effort in matching duplicate text and driving those pages to the bottom of the index.

Domain names that contain your topic and keywords that you build into your template also help with search engine opt. The more time you spend creating quality articles the more you will hopefully earn as a result.

Now.. a little hint. Find a good keyword tool and do some research on those keywords.

Yahoo Domain names, drugs, mortgages, loans, Yahoo Domain Registration have higher CPC than others, but the competition is so flooded you could never successfully use these to make money as you'll never make past the hords of wanna make money folks out there using them.

Try making several blogs on easy topics to write about. Pets, Family, Kids, Photograpy, Schooling, Sports, Collectables.. I'm sure you'll find great products to link to. You might even make enough to go out for a nice dinner once a month.

It's not about getting rich, but making a profit and enjoying what your doing.

$$$ Money - Can it be made on the internet.

Rich Jerk, Matt Callen, Etc.. All claim that money can be made on the internet.

It's true. Money is being made but not by everyone. Most of us enjoy a small supplemental income generated by different sources.

Remember the 80's, the biggest money making idea for do little make it big, was about placing 1-800 ads in local news papers. Place many ads and generate call in's and you'd be paid per call to you number extension. Generate enough, make it big.

I guess if you think about it. Money can be made.

Idea 1.
Create a website on your niche topic, place google ads and get paid for the click. Now unless you can drive tons of traffice to your niche site, you are not going to make it big.
So you can make many sites. Well this can be a full time job.
Idea 2.
You might try creating an article site, you can join an article site that promises that the articles you are paying for a not flooded on the internet. Search engines love new content. Using article RSS feeds to generate content mostly consists off articles that are usually skipped over by the search engines as they are found to be duplicate content. So using applications like HyperVRE to find and link RSS feeds and Public articles to templated mass generated website usually don't make it on the search engines. Also doing this makes other people money. See the article has other peoples affiliate links and click scripts embedded. So using it is a great ways to make money for other people.
Idea 3.
This is another great way to make some money. Affiliate Marketing.. Clinkbank, Commision Junction,Red Goloshes, Link Share etc.. are all trying to get you to place there javascripts on your site. What is this.. well you sign up.. sign up to different companies and you place thier ads. (Amex, Capital One, Ebay, 1-800 Contacts etc) They will pay you a commission if someone buy something after using the click from the ad you places on your site, using overture or google, etc.
A couple issue and unless you drive a lot of traffic you'll notice it.. you get the clicks but you don't get paid.. how come.. 1. They didn't buy anything. They did but it was on a return trip and the computer didn't allow the cookie to be saved and your linking information was lost.
Now if you pay for a lot of clicks or generate a lot of traffic from you own sites this can make money.
What I'm saying is it's a gamble, keywords are expensive. a list of the top paying key words shows that you would have to convert a high amount of Clicks to get a ROI (Return on Investment)
If you can find a low paying keyword and generate high traffic and generate clicks that convert you would be laughing. I'm still searching.



Max CPC ($) Avg CPC ($) Keyword
520.52 97.44 domains yahoo
418.63 79.81 domain name yahoo
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135.94 51.14 hair removal washington dc
493.73 41.97 domain registration yahoo
262.02 40.36 benchmark lending
438.23 38.05 domain yahoo
330.50 37.86 yahoo web hosting
121.86 37.29 hair laser removal virginia
121.27 36.59 peritoneal mesothelioma
46.38 36.55 ca lemon law
81.58 34.13 best buy gift card
96.87 31.10 adverse credit remortgage
234.33 30.98 mesothelioma information
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54.31 29.34 att call conference
83.22 29.10 insurance medical temporary
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Idea 4. Using high keywords in articles to generate higher paying adsense payouts..
Actually this doesn't work that well.. Adwords actually allows for a serperate setting for the content network and Max CPC. Most advertisers believe that the content network generates lower conversions than the search engine listings.

So if you listen to all the get rich quick stuff you find on the internet..

if you promote Yahoo. joing Commision Junction and join the Yahoo Affiliate program, and place ads on the Yahoo Domain Registration then bam! Your a millionare.