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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Ways To Make Money Online And Earn Your First $1000

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Ways To Make Money Online And Earn Your First $1000
- by Mark Abrahams

(c) Mark Abrahams - All Rights Reserved
http://www.internetaffiliatemarketingsecrets.com
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When I first started my online business I purchased several internet marketing courses from the so called gurus and attempted three or four ideas at the same time. I wanted to spread my risk with three or four good ideas so that at least one would work out. I experienced information overload and could not get any of my ideas to work. Usually only experienced internet marketers can cope with working on two or more ideas at the same time. You can compare a person new to internet marketing to that of a baby where they first need to learn how to crawl before they can walk. For this reason they need to focus on one idea for at least 6 months where they can learn the fundamentals which never change. The skills that you learn for example how to register a domain and setup your website, keyword research, write good preselling content, write high converting sales pages and how to capture leads and market to them forms part of the core internet marketing skills. You need to learn how to master these basic skills before you can move on to another idea.

I would recommend a person new to internet marketing to get started with affiliate marketing. You do not need to create or stock a product, you do not need to deal with complicated payment processors, you do not need to spend extra time on support or processing refunds and you still get to learn the fundamentals of internet marketing.

You get two kinds of affiliate marketing Pay-Per-Lead offers and Pay-Per-Sale Affiliate. When someone takes a specific action you earn a commission for Pay-Per-Lead marketing. You earn commission for sending someone to signup for a trial offer e.g. tea sample or they could request free information like a quote for car insurance from a freebies website. The lead gets free information or a sample of a product and you get paid for generating the lead. Pay-Per-Sale affiliate marketing where you presell before your visitor goes to a sales page takes more work than getting a lead to take a specific action.

Pay-Per-Sale affiliate marketing happens when a visitor that you refer purchases a product and you receive commission for that sale. You need to focus on a niche. For example if you promote weight loss products only offer affiliate programs related to that. Also choose a well established merchant that will not go out of business and choose high quality products that you would use sold at a competitive price. You also need to ensure that in your sales funnel you send your visitors to your own lead generating pages before you refer your visitor to the merchant. This allows you to presell your prospect and sell to them over and over again with different products.

If you enjoy writing then start a blog. Signup with a free service like Blogger that takes care of all the technology side of things like updating pages, ftp, html, sitemaps etc... Write quality original content. However, I recommend registering your own domain and signup for your own web hosting to publish your blog to. If you decide to choose the free Blogger hosted blog and you migrate to your own domain once you become well established this will cause you to lose your search engine rankings and force you to start from scratch again. Choose a niche topic like product reviews of digital cameras, add some good quality affiliate programs and contextual advertising like Google Adsense to monetize your blog.

Choose only one idea and focus on this for at least six months and set the foundations of a stable business. Consistency will allow you to build up your name and as your competitors come and go people will trust you even more. This takes focus and patience.

Rich Jerk



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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

How To Make Money With Google Adsense And Flood Your Bank Account With Instant Cash

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How To Make Money With Google Adsense And Flood
Your Bank Account With Instant Cash

- by Mark Abrahams

(c) Mark Abrahams - All Rights Reserved
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When I first started out on Google Adsense I could barely
make a few dollars a day. My website received a lot of
traffic and believed that I needed to build hundreds or
thousands of websites to earn a significant income. The
following tips are tried and tested. Use these wisely and
you will see your Adsense income significantly increase.

I found the layout the most important consideration to make
when designing your website. Get this wrong and leave
thousands of dollars on the table. The 336X220 unit
performed the best for me because it resembles content on a
website. I also found the best area to place your adverts
below your top menu bar. This blends in with the website
and having this near the top of the page increases the
click through rate without making the advertising too
obtrusive. If you place your advert near the bottom less
people will see it and this will reduce your click through
rate.

I found the color scheme the second most important aspect
of Google Adsense. You need to make your adverts look like
content. Use a white background on your website and let
your adverts also use a white back ground and blue as the
color representing the text link. This works well as it
makes the advert look like content and does not look like
an advert. Blue works very well to represent a link because
internet users are used to seeing blue as the default
color of a link in a html page. Also remember to make the
url at the bottom black as well so as not to detract your
user's attention from clicking the link text.

Google link units can help you to earn extra money for
topics related to your theme. Locate these link units in
your menu scheme and blend the colors so that they look
part of your navigation system. This makes them not look
like an advert and improves the click through rate
substantially.

I suggest using Wordtracker to do your keyword research. I
started optimizing one keyword everyday for the less
competitive terms and within a few months doubled the
traffic on my website. Basically find keywords with not too
much competition and make sure that the content on your
page matches. Optimize the Title and Heading and use the
keyword 2 to 3 times in your body near the beginning and
near the end of your page.

Build fully automated websites that users can upload
content. Users' on my website created hundreds and
thousands of pages for me saving me hundreds
of hours to create content myself. Search engines spidered
and indexed these pages. The more content uploaded by users
meant more traffic and this meant more money from Google
Adsense.

Capture your visitor's email address when they visit your
website. This will give you the opportunity to send them
emails over and over redirecting to specific Adsense pages
and increase your income.

A picture directly positioned above your advert draws
attention to it. Exercise caution here and not put any
misleading pictures up due to this being against Google's
terms of service if your user clicks on an advert because
it looks related to your picture.

You can use this Adsense code for more accurate content
targeting on pages on your website getting untargeted
adverts. You need to ensure at least 20% of your content
exists in between the tags for Google to interpret the
content correctly and show matching adverts.

Place your most important content between the following tags:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->


This will help Adsense to target your adverts to the most
important content without getting confused on the unrelated
content on your web page. However, make sure you put
sufficient important content between the tags otherwise
your adverts may not match your content and it can take up
to two weeks for this to come into effect.

Build tens or hundreds of websites and apply the Google
Adsense advice here and make thousands or tens of thousands
of dollars from your Google Adsense income.

Watch thesee videos of how Michael Cheney earns over $19,000 a month from Adsense - Click Here!


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Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Secret Of Choosing A Profitable Affiliate Program

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The Secret Of Choosing A Profitable Affiliate Program

- by Mark Abrahams

(c) Mark Abrahams - All Rights Reserved
http://www.internetaffiliatemarketingsecrets.com
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Do you struggle to choose an affiliate program for your
website. This picture reminds me of myself after building a
website and driving traffic to the website only to find out
that I cannot monetize the traffic.

I learnt the steps of creating html pages, optimizing the
websites for search engines and driving tons of traffic to
the website, but I could not monetize my traffic. I tried
numerous things. I put different affiliate links tried
positioning the links in different places. I tried
different font sizes and popup windows. I thought that the
affiliate programs that I tried just did not convert and
just did not know what to do next. I could build websites
and drive traffic to them but I could not monetize my
traffic. I nearly quit and my dreams of becoming an online
entrepreneur almost completely shattered.

One day I almost gave up my internet business up when I
decided that I would find a way that works and monetize my
traffic. I sat and brainstormed ideas. Suddenly the
solution appeared in my head. I needed to ask my visitors.

An example of how to do it with the exact steps required
follows next. Use an opt in form on your website where you
offer your visitor some kind of free newsletter or course
or download. On your first or second email to your
newsletter subscriber you simply need to ask them what
products will suit them best. Send your newsletter
subscriber an email like this:

Subject: [[firstname]], Thank You

Hi [[firstname]]

I would like to introduce myself. I run the website
[[yourwebsite]].

In the interest of serving my visitor's need better I would
like to know your most important concern of affiliate
marketing? Can you please take 30 seconds to reply to this
email so that I can develop products and services that will
help to serve you better.

Kind Regards [[Yourname]]

After obtaining the necessary information from your email
you need to select the affiliate program that you will use
on your website. You can use Clickbank and Commission
Junction to look for a reputable affiliate program. You need to
ensure that a significant portion of their income must come
from their affiliates which will mean that the affiliate
program converts and it should also pay at least 50%
commission so that you can earn decent commissions. Finally
try to use a fairly well established company to ensure that
it will not easily go out of business and you will not lose
your affiliate commissions.

After making your list of top affiliate programs I suggest
testing the links on your website and choose the best
performing affiliate program.

Using these steps you can pick a highly profitable
affiliate program that will bring you profits for years to
come.

Secret Affiliate Weapon



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Why do some people know the magic formula for building
profitable sites?

Mark Abrahams has created the ultimate blog with secrets
to generate multiple streams of internet income.

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