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Search Engine Placement
Improved Search Engine Placement Secrets by Mark Abrahams
When you develop your website do you stare into space? Do you keep on reading different forums and search engine ranking newsletters with different tricks to get to the top and wonder what steps you need to take to get it ranked well in search engines? It takes at least six months or more to get good rankings, but well worth the effort in the long run for all the free traffic you will get. Getting rankings in Yahoo and MSN takes much quicker a month to two while getting good rankings in Google can take up to 9 months for a brand new site with the Google sandbox.
Choose a good niche and do your keywords research to choose keywords without too much competition that will get good traffic. You can use the Overture search suggestion tool and the Wordtracker tool. Wordtracker has good guidelines for selecting keywords without too much competition. Follow these and select your main traffic keyword(2 to 3 words in length recommended) that you will optimize your home page for. You need to draw up a list of keywords preferably 2 to 4 keywords in length that will represent your main content of your website. Design each page of content based on these keywords, but remember to design the content for humans and not for search engines.
Your on page factors account for only about 10% of your search engine rankings. The title carries the most significance in your ranking. Use the key words in the title and keep it short 4 to 7 words and only target one set of key words in each title. The heading carries the next most significance and use your keywords in here. Use your keywords in the body of the web page 2 to 3 times. You can also place keywords once in the comment tags and the alt tags of the image tag.
Your off page factors account for about 90% of your search engine optimization. This mainly consists of getting quality back links to your website and you can use several ways to do this.
Get listed in the two most important directories on the web Yahoo and Open Directory. Google even mentions on their site that a link from these two websites constitutes as a vote of quality as in http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This definitely helps new websites trying to break out of the Google sandbox.
Second tier directories which are important and will also help your search engine rankings since these still contain a quality directory trusted by search engines. These include Best Of The Web, Business.com, MSN BCentral and Gimpsy.
A few third tier directories that will help your rankings in Yahoo and MSN, but these will not boost your Google search engine rankings. I suggest you submit to a few of these.
You can write your way using articles to the top of search engines. Submit your polished article to the article directories and get good quality back links. Make sure that you place your anchor text in the title of your link for your keywords. You can write a good article with the following tips. Think of an attention grabbing headline, write your introduction and conclusion first, list your main points of your articles with bullet points and expand on these.
Do a search on Google for the top websites for your related niche and get the top 50 websites linking to you excluding your competitors. Topical links will boost your search engine rankings while unrelated links will not help.
Do a newsworthy press release to obtain free publicity and get good quality links pointing to your website. Include your anchor text for your keywords in your link to your website, follow the press release format and avoid sales and promotion. Based on my research PRweb comes highly recommended as a paid option while pr.com, prleap.com and free-press-release.com comes recommended as good free options.
Once you start doing the above activities on a daily basis your search engine rankings will improve. Search engine optimization takes at least 6 months for a new site before you start seeing good results. Usually you see results much quicker in MSN and Yahoo, but Google takes much longer.
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Search Engine Marketing
Search Engine Marketing - Automotive Miracle Or Myth by Dan Mercurio
In the early days when computers were just coming of age and the internet as we know it today had yet to be born, it was difficult to see what lie ahead. Information was not as plentiful and moving from paper and pen to keyboard and mouse just did not seem to be what people were pushing for. But as time went on and more and more people began to see the growth of what has now become the world's biggest repository of electronic information, people and businesses alike have looked far and wide for how they can take advantage of this new age miracle to get their products and services seen by people everywhere.
The automotive market, in particular new car dealers have relied on traditional methods such as newspaper ads, TV commercials and radio spots to get the message out about whom they were and what they had to offer. It was not only costly, but reaching the market area desired and beating out the local competition was very difficult in deed. Like other large metropolitan areas, new car dealers markets such as Boston Honda, Los Angeles Toyota, and Dallas Mazda have caught on to the technology know as Search Engine Marketing.
Companies such as Elite Search Engine Marketing, a search engine optimization company, who know the ins and outs of how search engines promote people and products on the internet, are in the business of helping dealers to position themselves better and rank higher for their particular market areas for the goods and services they offer. They work with dealers to not only design a strategy for how the dealer needs to market themselves, but also help dealers to understand what they need to do better to both attract the customers and offer them what they are looking for to make the final sale as well.
The marketing initiatives in the automotive industry are completely different than they were a few short years ago. When a dealership changed hands or branched out from a larger dealer group, such is the case of Audi Seacoast and Porsche North Shore breaking out from Dover AutoWorld, the concerns were less complicated than they are today. Beyond the obvious of relocation and spreading the word about the move, there are now additional issues that need to be dealt with that a few pieces of advertising cannot typically accomplish. The daunting task of designing, developing, and optimizing a new website is now part of this overall marketing strategy. Because a very high percentage of all dealership customers find and research their new cars via the internet, it is imperative for each dealership to have a strong presence on the internet. Search Engine Marketing was designed for just this type of situation.
The greatest majority of dealers are beginning to take this more seriously and moving dollars away from the traditional methods of advertising to a more substantial investment in an internet marketing strategy where they can get far more bang for their buck. The methods for how a dealer can market to a wider market area and how quickly advertising can change when necessary based on customers needs makes this one of the best investments any dealer can make.
About the Author
Dan Mercurio is President of Elite Search Engine Optimization Company. We can administer a quality SEM campaign for you as we have for Dallas Mazda and Ford NH | Chrysler NH | Dodge NH | Jeep NH |Kia NH
Residual income
Building Residual income by Daegan H. Smith
Currently, more and more people are trying to find ways on how they will earn more. There are actually a lot of ways to earn extra income. The most sought after income any man would like to get is the residual income.
What exactly is a residual income? For those who still donít have any idea what a residual income means, then here it goes. A residual income is a kind of income a person gets over and over again for a work or a job they did only once. Included are the person with good talents and skills. Like the authors, or a movie director etc. They have been paid over again for their creations. That is how a residual income is gained.
But how will one gain residual income through direct online marketing? The ultimate goal of an online marketer is to achieve the full time income. Well it is always easier said than done. You need to exert all your efforts and hard work.
How does an online marketer gain residual income? Residual income when applied to online marketing is gained when you make your first sale. Then automatically, you are going to earn your residual income for months and even years. That is the difference between the ordinary residual income and the online residual income.
Well does it sound convincing to you? But to tell you, many online marketers got a hold of their residual income already. Residual income is very good since you can get it while using the same reserves for you to achieve a sale and then you will receive payments over and over again for years if you are that lucky enough. So how will you build a residual income? Read on to know what necessary things you need to understand to achieve your goals and plans as an online marketer.
You need to enter affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing is specially made for those people who enter the world of the internet. Webmasters created a lot of websites so they can attract a lot of people each day.
Join these affiliate programs but make sure that you choose the one which is related to the products and services that you promote. When you do this so, you canpromote this programs to other company and visitors.
Definitely smart online marketers will find companies that will be able to provide them residual payments when they find accounts or clients for the companyís products and services. This marketing tactics has found to be giving huge profit for online marketers through this residual revenue flow.
Always find the best legitimate Affiliate networks, some of the most popular ones are the LinkShare, Commission Junction ShareaSale and many more. These are internet providers and programs that offer almost the top companies which you can promote.
Also you can get lucrative residual income from private deals. When you made a good deal with this particular company, you will get your most awaited reward. All you need to do is to find clients for that particular company. Smaller companies can be a good target too.
When you pick an affiliate program, make sure that they offer services such as web hosting, cable services, phone services and even marketing services. Pick those affiliate programs you think will make the visitors to sign up. This way, you will get your commission, maybe a monthly basis, as long as the users patronize the service.
These are some of the ways to build residual income. There are still many factors to do this. It just depends upon your will power to decide what the best way to start is. Just make a real hard work and every effort will not go in vain. Residual income, the best way to make money online. Just be patient and see how many rewards await you. Good luck!
About the Author
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Adsense Tips
Google Adsense Tips and Tricks... by Pat Watt
Every single website and its owner have the opportunity to make some great money by displaying Google Adsense ads on it. Although many webmasters are making a nice income with these ads, many aren't. Many people say that all you have to do is put up a website and you'll be making over $100 a day with Google Adsense. It does sound simple and it is, but you will need to optimize your site so that you do generate more and more clicks on the ads that are sitting on your site.
The first thing that you need to do is to Place the Google Adsense ads in the right spot of the page. This will determine how much money you will make each day. It is very important that you place the ad at the top of the page (above the fold) on your website in order to get the most clicks.
What this really means is that you will want to place the Adsense code that Google gives you high enough on the page so that your visitors do not have to scroll down to see the Google ads. If you choose to have the ads right at the top above everything else then do that.
By placing the Google Adsense ads at the top of your website above the fold, there is a greater chance that people will click on the ad, which will help your site generate a higher click through rate also known as CTR. The reason for this is because the majority of your visitors will not scroll down the page and look at it. A lot of the time, people look over the top part of the page without worrying about scrolling down.
The way you blend the ads with the rest of your page can determine if the ad is visually appealing or not. It is very crucial to make the Google Adsense ads look like your site and not another ad. You can do this by making the font and color of the ad's text similar to the rest of the page. I also recommend that you blend the background of the ad with the background of your page. It should basically have the same color.
Google gives you the option to go into your account and customize your ads in different fonts and colors. This will help you blend the ads to your site. Make sure that you don't use the banner ads on your site because this will decrease your click through rate.
People who visit your website usually try to avoid any banner and picture ads that they see. If you want to increase your click through rate, you will want to add text ads. Google gives you that option so use it.
Here are some other small tips to increase your Adsense income:
1. Google has confirmed that using the 336x280 rectangle ad block size does have the highest click through rate. Using this ad size will increase your click through rate and the income that you generate.
2. Using a blue underline for the links can also improve your click through rate. This allows the ads to actually stand out and look clickable.
If you follow the advice given above, you can improve your CTR and make more money with Google Adsense.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense - The Easiest Money To Make Online? by Jason Isakson
For the last couple of months, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet. Already, there are tales of fabulous riches to be made and millions made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense have already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to making money online.
The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. The higher the cost-per-click to the advertiser, the more you will receive per click from your site. Obviously, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on pages that do not receive hits.
With all the people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.
For some who are just new to this market, it would be a blow to their pride knowing that their homepage is buried somewhere in the little ads promoting other people's services. But then, when they get the idea that they are actually earning more money that way, all doubts and skepticism is laid to rest.
There are two major, and clever, factors that some successful webmaster and publishers are learning to blend together in order to make money easier using Adsense.
1. Targeting high traffic pages on your website. If you check on your logs, you will discover that many of your visitors are taking advantage of the free affiliate marketing resources and ebooks that you are offering on your site. In simple words, your ads are working effectively and are generating more clicks. It also means more money for you.
2. Placing Adsense links on pages that are producing little, or better yet, no profit. By placing Adsense on a free resources page, you will reduce the amount of potential customers being lost to other sites. Tricky, but effective nonetheless.
When learned to work effectively, these two factors are actually a good source of producing a minimal amount of revenue from a high traffic page. Many people are using this strategy to pick up some extra and cash with Adsense. This is also especially rewarding to informational sites that focus their efforts on delivering powerful affiliate link free content to their visitors. Now they can gain a monetary return on their services.
With the many techniques that people are now learning on how to make the easiest money by their Adsense, it is not surprising that Google is trying everything to update and polish their Adsense in order to maintain their good image.
The possibility of adding is 2nd tier in Adsense is not impossible. With all the people spending more time in their Adsense now and still more getting into this line of marketing, there is no doubt about the many new improvements yet to be made. Imagine the smiles on the faces of the webmasters and publishers all around the world if ever they sign up for sub-affiliates and double or even triple the amount that they are already earning. The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem "useless".
With Google Adsense, the possibilities are limitless. Yet there is also the possibility of someone taking advantage of the easy money process that this internet marketing is doing. If you think more about it, these negative factors may force Google to break down and thrash Adsense in the process. If that happens, people would have to go back to the old ways of internet marketing that does not make money online as easy as Adsense.
For now, however, Google Adsense is here to stay. As long as there are people wanting to earn some easy cash online just using their talents, the future ahead is looking good. Besides with all the strict guidelines that Google is enforcing over Adsense, it will take awhile for the Adsense privileges to be spammed and even terminated.
Adsense Is Profitable
Monetizing Your Website With Adsense Is Profitable! by Jason Isakson
How do you maximize your site? By earning some few dollars per click from displaying Adsense ads on it. Many are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made.
Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.
How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.
How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?
1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.
2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The AdWords will start appearing immediately after.
3. You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.
4. View your statistics. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.
Once you got your account working, you may still want to pattern them to the many sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your website will perform and the amount of money it will give you.
It is a common practice that when a site earning money, the tendency is for the owner to want to make more out of what they are getting already. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense contents.
Time and some important factors that you can practice and use.
How do you increase your Adsense earnings?
1. Choose one topic per page. It is best to write a content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher clickthoughs.
2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.
3. Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results. 4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed. 5. Site Build It. This is the perfect tool to be used for creating lots of Adsense revenues. Site Build It has all the tools necessary to quickly achieve a keyword-rich site that can rank high in the search engines. This will also produce a flow of traffic to your site of highly targeted visitors.
Currency Trading
Currency Trading - The Best Way To Make Money? by Jim Pretin
The Foreign Exchange market (Forex) is truly the largest exchange in the world. The amount of dollars traded on the Forex market on a daily basis is in the trillions. Most of this currency trading takes place between between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. However, individual traders are starting to get in the mix, using internet discount brokers such as Etrade to participate in the currency exchange market.
There is no central exchange or meeting place for the Forex. All trading is done over computer networks between traders in different parts of the world. Also, unlike the stock market, the foreign exchange market is open 24 hours per day, because it is a global market. A trader in Hong Kong may be exchanging currency with a trader in Australia while an American trader is sleeping.
There are several different markets within the Forex exchange system. First, there is the spot market. The spot market deals with trades that are based on the current values of currencies. One person trades a certain amount of currency with another trader in exchange for an equivalent amount of a different foreign currency. Spot trades take two days for settlement.
The other two types of foreign exchange markets are the forward and futures markets. In the forward market, the buyer and seller agree on an exchange rate and a transaction date is set for a specific time in the future, at which point the trade is executed regardless of what the rates are at that time. On the futures market, futures contracts are bought and sold based upon a standard contract size and maturity date. Futures trades take place on public commodities markets.
A currency quote is listed differently from a stock quote. Stocks are quoted in terms of price per share. Currency exchange prices are listed as either a direct quote or an indirect quote. A direct quote uses the domestic currency as the base and the foreign currency as the quote. An indirect quote works the exact opposite way.
So, if you were to view a quote in an American newspaper that said USD/JPY = 75, that would be a direct quote and would mean that $1 of U.S. currency is equal to 75 Japanese yen. If that same quote appeared in that same American newspaper and was listed as JPY/USD = 0.013, that would be an example of an indirect quote.
As with stock prices, currency exchange prices have a bid and ask spread. The current bid is the amount of foreign currency that someone is willing to spend in order to buy $1 U.S. base currency. The ask is the amount of foreign currency that someone is demanding in order to be willing to sell $1 U.S. base currency.
The Forex markets are generally considered to be less volatile than then stock market because within the course of a trading day, it is highly unlikely for the value of a single currency to move all that much. With equities, it is not uncommon for a trader to buy a stock, and then a negative press release causes the stock to lose considerable value within a day or even a couple of hours. Sometimes, however, the Forex can be volatile. If there is a significant economic or political development with a certain country, the currency of that country can lose value quickly.
There is a higher degree of liquidity on the currency exchange then there is on the stock exchange because the currency exchange is open 24 hours per day and because the very nature of currency exchange is to bet on when certain currencies will go up or down; so, it is easy to sell your position in a certain currency even when the value of that money is going down. A plummeting stock is more difficult to unload, but not impossible.
If you want to begin currency tranding, try to set aside some money and open an account with an online broker. Start slowly, then as you get the hang of it, work your way up to larger trades and higher volume. However, do not gamble your nest egg on currency trading because inexperienced traders can lose everything they have rather quickly in spite of the relative safety of the Forex market.
About the Author
Jim Pretin is the owner of http://www.forms4free.com, a service that helps programmers make an HTML form
Forex Automatic
Forex Automatic - Forex Auto Pilot System vs Forex Easy Cash by Peter C Johnson
Forex automatic is there such a thing? As an experienced currency trader this is a question I am often asked. There is a lot of suspicion surrounding automatic forex trading systems, more commonly known as forex robots, and for good reason. There have been many attempts at creating a successful forex robot, but most have failed. In the past month there have been 2 new additions in terms of automatic forex trading systems: Forex AutoPilot System and Forex Easy Cash.
Over the past 6 months I have marvelled at all the new forex products coming online promising instant riches and so called new forex tactics never been released before. The truth of the matter is quite simple however, if you want a forex automatic solution, all you need is a system that can identify and predict trends accurately and act upon them with precise timing. This is the core of successful currency trading and it is based on what is known as the Fibonacci formula.
There will always be risks involved in using an automatic forex trading system, and it is no different for these recent products Forex AutoPilot System and Forex Easy Cash. These products are so similar, and ultimately it will be a personal preference as to which interface will please a user. The fact that Forex AutoPilot Sytem runs on the Meta Trading platform is certainly a distinct advantage. Both systems allow for automated trading which can be experimented via a demo account so there is no need to risk any of your own capital.
Conclusion
Whichever forex automatic system you decided on ensure it comes with a money back guarantee. In terms of Forex AutoPilot and Forex Easy Cash the products are so similar it might be worth purchasing both and refunding the product which doesn’t perform the way you want. Ideally user should have a basic grounding of currency trading principles before considering an automatic forex trading system.
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Best Forex trading education
Best Forex trading education - Learning the right stuff by Harold Hsu
It is the aim of all retail Forex traders to make money from the market. We read books, take courses and search the web for all kinds of Forex-related information to best educate us on how to trade profitably.
Unfortunately, most of the time retail traders are looking to learn about the wrong kinds of things. We spend our time looking for the “best and latest†techniques and systems with the hope of making money once we adopt them.
The truth, however, is that there are other more important aspects of Forex trading that we should all be paying attention to… and these are the aspects that separate a consistently winning trader from a consistently losing one.
Forex Education Topic #1 - Understanding Leverage
One of the biggest attractions of Forex trading is leverage. We are all aware that in the Forex market, we can trade with a large amount of currency using only a fraction of our own money.
What most retail traders dont realize, however, is that leverage actually plays a major role in how they should manage their money (and risk).
Simply put: the more leverage one trades with, the smaller the stop-loss allowance would be available to them. If you dont know why this is so, I highly recommend that you study the impact of trading with leverage more carefully and how it affects your money management system… too many beginner traders have wiped out their accounts because they didnt truly understand the risks involved here.
Forex Education Topic #2 Understanding Yourself
Among all the aspects of profitable Forex trading, this is arguably the most difficult to master. You can have thebest†trading system in the world; but if you find it hard to trade according to its rules, then its still useless.
Understanding your own risk appetite is a crucial component of deciding which trading system you should adopt. If youre an aggressive trader, find a trading system that reflects your style. And vice versa if you a conservative trader.
An old trader once told me, The market is the perfect place to discover your true flawsâ. And now, I finally realize what he meant. My flaws of greed, fear and discipline have all been exposed to the market and its through the conquering of these flaws that you can emerge as a profitable trader.
Dont trade if youre not prepared to have your vulnerabilities exposed by the market.
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Best Way to Make Money Online
Best Way to Make Money Online: An Internet Marketing Primer by Robert Matthews
As an Internet Marketer, one of the questions I get asked most often by people wanting to get started in this field is, "What is the best way to make money online?" It is a relatively simple question, but it has many answers. There are tons of ways to make money online. People do it every day, and some of them make quite a good living at it.
But, what is best for one person may not necessarily be the best way for you. It all depends on the level of Internet marketing experience you have, what areas you are knowledgeable about, how much you have to invest and your threshold of risk for losing money.
If you are just starting out, I don't recommend spending a lot of money on a project. It is best to start small and learn the ropes. It is tough enough to learn the ins and outs of Internet Marketing without a big investment riding on it. There are numerous low-dollar ways to break into the field, and still make decent money online. Once you learn the ropes, then you can target the more ambitious projects.
How Much Can I Make?
A little bit of a reality check here. You are not going to make millions overnight in this business. If anyone promises you this, run the other way quickly. That is a sure sign of a scam. Don't get me wrong, it is possible to make that kind of money online. It is just not going to happen that quickly or easily. If it did, everyone would be doing this for a living.
A realistic goal for when you are just starting out is to make between $200 to $1000 a month. I know, it is not a fortune, but it is nothing to sneeze at either. That extra money every month could buy you that new car, help you cover the mortgage payment, take a nice vacation or whatever else you would like to do. The most important thing is that while you are earning this extra income, you are also learning the skills that will allow you to possibly bag that million dollars on down the road.
What about the Scams and Rip-Offs?
The most difficult part of getting started is avoiding all the scams and rip-offs. There are many programs out there that promise Internet riches and offer to train you to tap into it and make millions overnight. All of them claim to be the best way to make money online. Quite honestly, these programs are not even worth the cost of the bandwidth you used to open their web site. They are merely ways to separate you from your hard earned cash, and you will learn little or nothing of value.
Trust me on this one. I was taken more times than I care to remember when I was starting out. It is hard not to fall for them, or at least be lulled by them. They make it all seem so easy and fool-proof. Unfortunately, the information is usually useless, outdated or leaves out the important stuff needed to be successful - the secrets that the "Gurus" keep to themselves.
It kind of makes sense when you think about it. The gurus selling these programs have no vested interest in your success. Once they have your money for their program, their goals have been met. Whether you succeed or not doesn't mean anything to them. They are not concerned if their system is the best way to make money online for you. Matter of fact, your failure works in their favor because it makes you more likely to come back to buy more products, looking for that secret that will make it all work for you.
What Type of Online Business Should I Start?
When most people think about starting an online business, they automatically think of setting up an online store and selling a line of hard products. But, this is usually not the best way to go. It is very difficult to market hard products on the Internet because of the overwhelming competition.
For proof, go to Google and do a search on any type of product you can think of. You will be shocked by the number of results that come back. Take a good look at them. They will be your direct competition. And, they already have quite a head start on you.
Sure, you can make money marketing hard goods on the Internet. There are numerous success stories out there about how people found a product niche, setup an online store and the money started rolling in. But, for every one of those success stories, there are thousands and thousands that quietly failed.
The easiest and best way to make money online is by marketing information products. Information products sell well on the Internet because it is the first place people go when looking for information. Think about it. You came here looking for information on the best way to make money online, didn't you?
The biggest obstacle to marketing an information product online is actually creating the product. It can take months to research and produce a product. You will also have to write all the advertising copy, setup a delivery system and design a marketing plan. And, all the time you are slaving away at this, and spending money, you have no ideas if it will be successful or not.
Definitely not a quick way to get started making money, nor is it one recommend for a novice to the field. There are just way too many pitfalls. So, while marketing information products may be the best way to make money online, it is best not to start out creating your own products. You should wait until you get some knowledge and experience under your belt before taking this road.
How Do I Get Started Without All the Risk, Work and Expense?
The best "low-dollar" way to get your feet wet and learn the Internet Marketing game is by marketing someone else's product. There are many companies and individuals that have gone through the long and expensive process of developing a viable information product. They have setup a delivery system, written all the advertising copy and developed a complete marketing plan. It is all there waiting for you. All you have to do is market the product, and start earning hefty commissions of up to 75 percent of the product's sales price.
The best part is that the companies that you are marketing for want you to succeed! If you are successful that means they are selling their products, and that is exactly what they want to happen. So, these companies are usually very willing to do anything they can to help you succeed. This is because the more successful you are, the more of their product you sell. They have a vested interest in your success.
However, there are some companies that are more supportive than others. One of the best I have found does absolutely everything for you. They provide you with a web site that is ready to go, complete marketing materials, easy step-by-step instructions and personalized support is only an e-mail or phone call away. You don't have to worry about programming a web site, dealing with customers or delivering product. All you have to do is follow the easy marketing plan to drive traffic to the site.
A program like this helps you avoid all the mistakes a new marketer is likely to make, and is an excellent choice for a novice Internet Marketer. Not only does their guidance help you start making money online right away, it also helps you build a solid foundation so you can expand your horizons and make even more money online.
It is sort of like getting paid to attend an Internet Marketing University. While you are quietly making a good side income, you will also be learning all the marketing tricks of the masters. When you are ready, you will be able to take all the knowledge you were paid to acquire, and use it to develop and market your very own products. Now, that is when the money will really start to roll in!
If you would like more information on the program, click on this link to the Ultimate Wealth Package. Mark Warren seems to have put a lot of effort into setting this system up, and his support staff is excellent. You are not going to become an overnight millionaire following the program, but you will make a pretty decent income while you are learning the Internet Marketing field. In my opinion, it is the best way to make money online if you are just starting out, or haven't been very successful in your previous attempts.
Whatever path you take in Internet Marketing, my best wishes to you for success!
Affiliate Programs
Affiliate Programs Can Help You!
Affiliate programs. Sounds like heavy stuff.
What are affiliate programs really?
These days, it's so easy to set up your own webpage. If you have a computer and internet access, you can simply go to a site such as GeoCities or Yahoo and use ready-made templates to construct a simple personal page. These sites will give you a URL, store the content of your page and slap on some advertisements. In an hour or two, Voila! Your page is on the Web!
But what if you have a content-driven website and want to make money off your traffic? If you are an online merchant, how can you get people to your site to buy your products? This is where affiliate programs come in.
Simply put, affiliate programs, or associate programs, are arrangements in which an online merchant pays an affiliate website a commission to send them traffic. These affiliate websites post links to the merchant site and are paid according to a particular agreement. This agreement is usually based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant's site, or the number of people they send who buys something or perform some other action. Some arrangements pay according to the number of people who visit the page containing their merchant site's banner advertisement. Basically, if a link on an affiliate site brings the merchant site traffic or money, the merchant site pays the affiliate site according to their agreement. Affiliate programs work great when selling products online, but it can also be a cheap and effective marketing strategy. It's a good way to get the word out about your site.
Here's a good example of affiliate programs in action. In 1996, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, popularized affiliate programs as an internet marketing strategy. Amazon.com attracts affiliates to post links to individual books for sale on Amazon.com, or for Amazon.com in general, by promising them a percentage of the profits if someone clicks on the link and then purchases books or other items. The affiliate helps make the sale, but Amazon.com does everything else: They take the order, collect the money and ship the book to the customer. With over 500,000 affiliate Web sites in participation, Amazon.com's program is a resounding success.
Over the past few years, affiliate programs have grown enormously in popularity, taking many interesting forms. For many Web sites that don't deal much in e-commerce, functioning as an affiliate is a good way to jump into e-commerce.
There are three basic types of affiliate programs payment arrangements:
Pay-per-sale - Amazon's affiliate programs mentioned above is an example of a pay-per-sale arrangement. In this arrangement, the merchant site pays an affiliate when the affiliate sends them a customer who purchases something.
Some merchant websites, like Amazon.com, pay the affiliate a percentage of the sale and others pay a fixed amount per sale.
Pay-per-click - In these affiliate programs, the merchant site pays the affiliate based on the number of visitors who click on the link to come to the merchant's site. They don't have to buy anything, and it doesn't matter to the affiliate what a visitor does once he gets to the merchant's site.
Pay-per-lead - Companies with these affiliate programs pay their affiliates based on the number of visitors they refer who sign up as leads. This simply means the visitor fills out some requested information at the merchant site, which the merchant site may use as a sales lead or sell to another company as a sales lead.
There are a number of other arrangements as well. But basically, a company could set up affiliate programs based on any action that would benefit them, and then pay their affiliates based on the number of customers the affiliates send them who perform that action.
Most affiliate programs also prohibit offensive content, but generally speaking, any website could be involved in an affiliate program. Although they are commonly called merchants, websites don't even need to sell anything to benefit from having affiliates. A lot of content-based Web sites get most of their money from advertisers, which are attracted by high traffic numbers. Because of this, traffic translates directly into profit
for these sites.
There are all sorts of affiliate programs, from top Web sites to small personal pages. Basically any website can join affiliate programs, and if they choose well, they could just make some money off of it. Some sites, such as Memolink and MyPoints, are just big collections of affiliate programs. These sites join a variety of pay-per-click or pay-per-lead programs and then pay their visitors a fraction of the commission on each click or reward them with prizes.
Affiliate Marketer
Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Affiliate Marketer?
Each of us has its own interest or has a hobby. Some love all kinds of books, music, and movies while others are into sports and traveling. There are also people who love to grow flowers and loves pets. These things help us to relax and forget our everyday problems and troubles and these things are common to people. But not everyone has a hobby that makes money for him/her except if you love your job.
Money making hobby could let you treat your family and friends with the extra cash or you can even quit your current job that you almost certainly hate. That is why many of us today go online to start a business; their reasons are either to supplement their income or to gradually replace their offline income from their job. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start in making money online.
Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing partnership between a web merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate is paid a commission for referring clicks, leads or most often sales to the merchant. An affiliate’s advantage is that he can make money in a business where he doesn’t have the upfront costs of creating his own product, and he doesn’t have to worry about e-commerce, bookkeeping, or even customer support for it is the merchant’s responsibility.
Now, for sure you want to be an affiliate marketer with all that benefits an affiliate could get. But, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer? Before you begin your venture into affiliate marketing, you need to decide first which area interest you. What products do you know the most and which products you could do the best job of selling? Once you discover your specialty, perseverance, patience, determination comes next. These are the qualities you should possessed to be a good affiliate marketer.
Too many online business prospectors lose out because they become impatient. You also have to know what your strengths are, the things in which you are good at and your capabilities and abilities related to your chosen streak. And the most important thing is you have to have a strong desire to succeed in affiliate marketing.
To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service. You shouldn’t be looking at every chance because marketing is all about attracting you to look at this or that particular opportunity. To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by.
For an affiliate marketer, you should know how to market your site effectively, in will enable you to get thousands of visitors coming to your site which transforms into more sales. This only means that the faster you set up a website, the bigger your chances of making money online faster. You should avoid the same mistakes some affiliates make everyday, they are only building a short-term business where they just make a small sale. Make sure you do understand that you should be building a long-term affiliate business and not just something that makes you a few dollars on one sale.
It is also better to have knowledge on how to upsell your visitors for expensive services. This will in turn make you become recognized as an expert in your field and making money will be easier. There are some people thinks that just by having affiliate links on their website will bring them good profits. This can have some truth to it, but then most successful affiliates still believe that making use of strong marketing campaigns for their affiliate programs is still important. But affiliate marketers become much more successful when they treat their customers or online visitors as friends. Make a commitment to establish relationships with your customers and especially with visitors to your site. It is very important for an affiliate marketer to have a good business relationship with customers or visitors.
You should also be creative. The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate links into all your content. You have to provide your prospects with good, quality content to keep them coming back to your site. So, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer?
Online Business Tips
Work At Home Online Business Tips by Cynthia Minnaar
Sometimes it can be a bit of a juggle finding enough hours in the day around your day job to successfully start and build a work at home online business, so herewith some tips to make your online home business building process smoother.
When starting a work at home online business and going through the training there always appears to be so much to do and of course we want to get everything set up as quickly as possible in order to start making money online.
However, you may find that a lot of the information that you are provided with is totally new to you and so before being able to implement the tasks you may need to learn some additional skills and so you need to try and avoid suffering from information overload.
By trying to get as much done as possible in the few hours available without having a total understanding of what you are doing will only lead to confusion and frustration. It can become overwhelming, so you need to focus on one task at a time and try and stay organized and work as efficiently as possible. Making use of To-Do Lists helps - you could have an urgent list, important list, daily, weekly and monthly lists.
It is highly likely that you will want to implement some changes to your website but at this stage your knowledge of html is really minimal, so you first may need to spend some time learning html before you move on to the stage of being able to successfully make changes to your website.
You will also be eager to start driving traffic to your work at home online business website and may want to implement a pay-per-click advertising campaign but your experience in this area of advertising is also lacking. Again you would need to spend time learning the ins and outs of pay-per-click before starting a campaign otherwise it could end up costing you dearly.
There are many internet marketing methods that you would no doubt be introduced to during your work at home online business training, such as article marketing, email marketing, forum marketing, blogging, traffic exchanges, safelists, pay per click, classified ads, ezine advertising, social bookmarking, etc. Avoid trying to implement them all at once. Choose one and focus on it until you are having success then move on until you have 2 or 3 methods that you are skilled at.
You may like to initially focus on building your list by getting subscribers to sign up for your work at home online business ideas newsletter. You can do this by buying leads, placing classified ads with your autoresponder email address in it rather than your website address, put an exit pop up on your home page, put a newsletter sign up form on all of your web pages, etc. Each new subscriber you get to your newsletter means that you are making progress.
You could for example then move on to learning how to write and distribute articles which is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your website as you will be building back links to your website which will result in higher positions in the search engine results.
Building a work at home online business is a step-by-step process and takes time. It is rather like building a house, you cannot put the roof on until the walls are built and you cannot build the walls until the foundations are laid and so building an online home business needs to follow a similar logical process.
Don't rush, take your time and get to grips with the information provided in order to build a solid foundation to your online home business. Choose the internet marketing methods that are most effective for you and build your work at home online business one step at a time instead of trying to implement everything all at once.
Start Your Own Business
Deciding To Start Your Own Business
What a scary thought! Who would want to make that leap of faith and start their own business? Do you really have the self confidence to do it? Take a deep breath and think about it.
If you are contemplating starting your own business, I know these thoughts are running through your head. They certainly raced through my mind when I was thinking about it. This is a decision that needs thorough thought. Don’t jump into it without thinking.
Have you thought about opening a store? The investment for an “on the street” business is great – thousands and thousands of dollars. That excludes most of us. A workable alternative is a “work at home” business. The increasing popularity of the internet has really opened up that field. The instability of so many businesses has created a need for many people to work for themselves.
It is very possible to start an “at home business” with very little investment. This allows the “little guy” (you and me) to be self-employed. If you search the web for online businesses, you will find many that do require a large initial outlay of cash. That wasn’t for me. I wanted an opportunity to start with little or no cash output and then I could determine expenditures on advertising and other things. This would allow me to control my budget. Not having a lot to spend, I was aware that it is possible to find free methods of advertising which would require more time than money.
Some people will quit their “day job” and jump into a business. I do not advise this unless you are very financially secure. I continue my full time job, devoting all the hours I can in the evenings and weekends to my new business. This takes a lot of determination! You really need a lot of self confidence to believe that this business will succeed and you will be able to do it full time in the future. You really have to want to change your lifestyle. The thought of being in control of my destiny fuels me. I am determined to succeed.
Work at home businesses are also perfect for part time work. Those of you who just want to supplement your family’s income for vacation money, Christmas money, money to pay the bills would do well with an online business. You can control how much you earn and how much time you spend.
In this day of corporations constantly downsizing, no job is secure. Wouldn’t you rather be the one in charge? Wouldn’t you rather not have a long commute each day? Make the move! Start working for yourself.
Internet Home Business for Profit
Running an Internet Home Business for Profit
Everyone has different reasons for wanting to work from home. Some would like to stay home with their kids, while others can’t work outside the home for health reasons. Whatever your reasons are, an Internet home business can provide an income.
Usually, any Internet home business is not going to make any money right away. It will take time and effort to build up your new business before it will be at all profitable. Regardless of what internet marketers may tell you, you will not be making thousands a week with any Internet home business. Usually those marketers are trying to lure you into their program, that’s why they promise so much.
A Solution to Stay at Home?
There are several options for working at home, and an Internet home business is one of them. The first step will be to decide if you are even capable of working at home on your own. Are you able to set a work schedule for yourself and more importantly, are you able to stick to that schedule? If you need someone telling you what to do and handing you projects throughout the day, working with your own Internet home business may not be the best answer for you.
Deciding what exactly you want to do with an Internet home business is your next step. Do you want to start your own business? Or would you rather sell something and be a distributor for that product? There are so many options available on the internet that it can feel overwhelming just trying to sort out the junk from the real opportunities. If you decide to work for someone else in an Internet home business, make sure you understand exactly what you are getting into.
Some will require money up front, while others will provide support and help you to get started. If you feel at all uncomfortable with anything they are asking you to provide or do, step back and slow down. If it just doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. Or better yet, check them out online. If they are trouble, someone will have posted their experiences with the company online.
If you plan on an Internet home business of your own, what do you plan to do? Transcription is one job that can easily turn into a good Internet home business. It is something that can be sent through e-mail, and when it is done, you can return it to the customer. An Internet home business of your own will require a lot of groundwork especially since you are laying out the ground floor for yourself and probably won’t have anyone helping you.
An Internet home business is a definite possibility. However, it does take quite a bit of time and effort to find one that fits with what you can and want to do. Take your time, explore all of your options, and then the real work will start. It is doable, so don’t give up if it takes a little longer than you expected!
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