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Blog To Make Money-It’s All The Same Only Different

October 16th, 2009 Rob Robertson 3 comments

How To Make Money Blogging

Have you bought other make money or how to make money from your blog products trying to figure out how to make this happen?

Let’s summarize what all  the products and experts say about how to make money online.

  • You either need a product or find a niche and related affiliate product(s).
  • You need a make money blog or website.
  • You need to market and drive traffic ( this is one place that the same things are said but in many differnet ways).  I am a huge advocate of article marketing.  All the ‘experts’ agree with this.
  • You need to build a list.

What steps are you taking to fulfill these steps?

Here is how I take care or plan to take care of these steps.

  • I use Blogging to the Bank 3.0 to build my blogs.  I currently have two that I created using Blogging to the Bank 3.0.  One is Blog To Make Money and the other is Money Savings Advice.  This allows me to create the blog I need with the URL that the search engines love using blueHost to host my blogs.
  • I use Clickbank and RoiRocket to find the products I want to market.
  • I use Mass Article Control for article marketing and content in my blog (also using the hundreds of articles from Mass Article Control) to drive traffic to my blog.
  • Now the next step is to build a list.   The consensus is to offer a free report or product and ask for an email address to receive it.   You will also need to use and auto responder to create the offer page and email capture.  Check out  aweber.com for an example of an auto responder.  You can also check out Master Resale Rights website for products you can offer for list building.

There are a couple other products I use to assist me with my efforts.

One is Keyword Elite which really helps me with keyword research.

The second is Maverick Money Makers Club which gives me ongoing support and ideas for new niche ideas and how to tips. 

Note:  I am having success without a list because of the article marketing and blogging I am doing but list building is my next step.

Affiliate Marketing; What It Takes

October 14th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

Blog To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

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 make money blog effectively, which  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 your make money blog, 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 that think 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.

All the tools you need to be a successful affiliate marketer can be found on this make money blog.  Check out the tools offered here and you will see it has what you need to get up and running quickly and with support added!!

Blog To Make Money-Do You Spend Time On Your Article Title

October 13th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

Make Money Blogging

How are you going to write many articles to drive traffic to your make money blog AND draw readers to them?

If you have been following along with my posts on the blog, you have not doubt figured out that article marketing is one of the keys to driving traffic to your make money blog. I am a huge advocate of article maketing and thne Mass Article Control system. More on that later?

Spend 50% of your time on the title of your article!  If the title is not full of benefits, chances are potential readers will pass it by.

1.     Ask a Question in the Title.

Do you make these 4 stupid mistakes when asking someone out on a Date?  This may be the reason you are sitting at home on weekends.

or

Are you embarrased to smile?  Try these “Secret” Home Whitening Remedies and Never Be Ashamed Again.

Either of these titles could evolve into an article about a product you found on clickbank and want to promote.

These are just random examples but you get the point.  Now back to my question.  How are you going to dominate the market by writing hundreds of articles and driving traffic to your make money blog or website?   You can accomplish the way that I do it.  I use Mass Article Control.  Why?

  1. You get hundreds and hundreds of high quality articles.
  2. You get Mass Article Submitter to submit the articles to numerous article directories.
  3. You get Mass Article Creator which allows you to take an article and modify it so that many versions are created.  ( Very cool especially since you don’t want to submit duplicates).
  4. You get hundreds of great ideas for new articles just by reading the ones included.

See Also:

How To Make Money Blogging With Article Marketing and SEO

Make Money Blog-Grow Your Business With Keyword Elite

October 12th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging Just Got Easier By Driving Traffic With Keyword Elite

Note: This tool was made to make you money and grow your business to levels you never thought were possible. So, I’ll skip the “product feature” mumbo jumbo and tell you in simple terms what this will do for you. You’ll…

Dominate Niche Marketing: Know what the “money keywords” are. The keywords that BUYERS are searching for! Use these keywords and easily quadruple your sales. Nothing else will show you these.

Dominate Google Adwords: Instantly… Yes,  instantly, AND with very little money by seeing who is already running a profitable Adwords campaign AND then “borrow” their entire Adwords marketing strategy shown by the software to guarantee you make money too!

If you don’t understand Google Adwords, it doesn’t matter. The software is Fool Proof. It had to be if we were going to use it!

Dominate The Search Engines: Virtually guarantee that YOU get 10x the amount of traffic to your site that you’re getting now, WITHOUT paying a dime.

If you really want to make mony online with your money blog, Keyword Elite WILL help jumpstart your business.   Let’s face it, writing blog posts and articles to drive targeted traffic to your money blog, it’s critical that you write keyword rich content.  You need to know what keywords can help with your niche product. 

Traffic is NOT necessarily the key to online success?

That’s right… Traffic is NOT the key to making money on the internet. You have to have the RIGHT traffic. Traffic that is full of “buyers”… I’m sure you would agree that there is a HUGE difference between a browser and a buyer.

98% of people THINK they’re getting the right kind of traffic, which leaves 2%. Of those 2%, 1% get’s only a small portion of the right kind of traffic, and … and THAT is what the Keyword Elite software program is all about!

How To Make Money Blogging-5 Ways to Create Content to Drive Traffic to Your Site

October 9th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging By Increasing Traffic

There are many ways to promote your business online. The difference between online marketing and offline marketing though is profound.

Although advertising can be very effective offline, it isn’t nearly so effective online. The reason why is that most people surf the internet looking for information. They aren’t usually interested in advertising unless the product or service in question can solve their problems.

There are five strategies that you can implement in your business that will not only create a content strategy for you but will also create a very effective marketing strategy. This strategy will only require a few hours of your time each week.

1. Articles
For those who have read my work, you know that articles not only brand you as an expert but are also a way to create quality content for your site, and search engines love content.

If you don’t like writing, or don’t write, you can find quality articles to post on your site. The larger your site, the more likely you will be found in the search engines.

Here are a few article directories you can use:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.isnare.com

http://www.goarticles.com

2. Blogs/RSS
Blogging is another way to create content for your website, and by using RSS, you can easily distribute your content.

Most don’t understand what RSS really is, or how it can most effectively be used to drive traffic to their sites.

Basically, RSS is a form of code that’s very search engine friendly. With RSS feeds, which you can add to your website or blog, you can create content that updates itself. Because of this self updating, the search engines will spider your site more often, raising your rankings.

Once you’ve built your blog and added several entries, you need to “ping” it to get it listed. Here are two tools you can use:

http://www.pingoat.com

http://www.pingomatic.com

3. Press Releases
Press releases are news about your business. Press releases are also an excellent way to get high rankings for your site because you can create content rich press releases and submit them to press release directories. Many of these directories are high traffic.

Here are several sites that accept press releases:

http://www.press-world.com

http://www.free-press-release.com

http://www.prbase.com

http://www.click2newsites.com/

http://www.prweb.com

4. Search Engine Optimization

Optimizing your site for the search engines means creating keyword rich content, exchanging links with other sites, submitting your site to directories, which create backlinks pointing to your site.

You can use tools like Web CEO, http://www.webceo.com, to help you optimize your pages.

Although submitting the search engines is often unecessary, since most search engines will spider through to your site from another site, you still need at least one link pointing back to your site so that your site gets spidered. 

Submit your site to Alexa, http://www.alexa.com. Not only will this make sure that your site gets spidered, you’ll be able to compare your site to other sites, as well as get statistics on traffic to your site.

5. Free Ebooks and Reports
By writing and giving away free ebooks and reports, you give visitors an incentive to visit your website.

You can also submit your ebooks and reports to ebook directories for free.

http://www.ebookdirectory.com

http://www.ebookpalace.com

http://www.ebookjungle.com/

http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/

If you make your ebook brandable, which means others can place their links inside your ebook, your ebook becomes viral. You give others an incentive to share your ebook and spread it across the internet.

Once you implement these content strategies on your site, add streams of revenue to your site like Adsense and Virtual Portals. These sites will allow you to monetize your site.

http://www.google.com/ads/

http://www.virtual-portals.com

Although adveritising, like pay per clicks, can be effective in promoting your website, it can quickly become expensive. By focusing on creating quality content for your make money blog, and then promoting that content, you can continue to drive traffic to your website for years to come.

What You Should Look For in a Web Hosting Service

October 8th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging – Choose Your Hosting Platform Wisely

If you are thinking up putting up your own website, the most important thing you should consider is the type of web hosting service you’d like to avail of. There are a lot of web hosting services in the internet today. Some of them are even offered free of charge.

Web hosting services vary greatly in the features that company provides. And when it comes to web hosting the following features are the things you should check first:

The image below is a partial view of the cPanel user area for blueHost, our choice for a hosting the tool most recommened by WordPress users.  This blog and Money Savings Advice are bloth hosted on one blueHost account.
Make Money Blogging Hosted by blueHost
1. Total web space provided.
Web space corresponds to the amount of files you can upload to the server. Of course, the bigger the web space provided, the more sites and sub-domains you can host. You can also install many applications, as space is not going to be a problem.

2. Total amount of traffic allowed.
Some web hosting services measures the traffic a certain website get. When it comes to this aspect, unlimited traffic is best. If there’s a limit to the monthly traffic delegated to your site, chances are, your website won’t display on the browsers of the visitors who are above the limit. This won’t make your site look good.

3. Server uptime.
You want your website up 100% of the time, if possible. This feature is usually dependent on the servers of your web-hosting provider. You have to make sure that you go with the company that is totally reliable.

4. Software, applications and bundles included.
This is where the freebies come in. There are a lot of web hosting services that offer application installation support. The most common web hosting scripts and programs today are Java, Php, and Frontpage. Try to find out which of these are supported by your web hosting provider to determine if your web page will work for them or not.

The performance of your website relies on your web hosting service. Make sure you trust your website only to the experts. Go with the company that understands the needs of their clients when it comes to uptime and functionality.

How To Make Money Blogging-10 Ways To Increase Your Blog’s Pageviews

October 7th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

How To Make Money Blogging With More Traffic

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.

2. Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any topic for free by visiting one of the many article directories like http://www.articlecontentprovider.com/articlesubmit/ Then refer people to read the articles that relate to the post you are making. You could even add one article as a new page every time you make a post.  Submit articles using Mass Article Control.

3. Refer to other posts you have made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to previous posts. You can even decide your posts by browsing previous posts and deciding which one to follow up on. Those archives are not to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, (you wrote it right?), so use it.

Make Money Blogging

4. Create a page that links to your favorite posts that are timeless. You browse your old posts, find posts that you want readers to find easily, then build a links page with those posts directly linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favorite posts or whatever and you will benefit by those that click through and follow those links.

5. I’ve posted here before about the “more” tag. You write your post as normal, then decide where you want to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the rest of the story.

6. Write once per week special projects. These are a series of articles on a particular topic. You will be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Each time add links to previous posts in that series.

7. Using your content from your other websites or blogs is also a great way to get more pageviews for all of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and websites. It will open a new window leaving the current blog open while they visit your other website or blog. You can quickly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other websites and blogs.

8. Make a list of 10 previous posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you want your readers to know and read in case they have not done so before. At your suggestion they will at least go see if they have read those posts before, increasing your pageviews once again plus bringing old material to new readers. That also lets them know they should browse the archives for things they have missed.

9. Using that same list of 10 posts or a new one, visit other blogs on your topic. Find posts that talk about something similar to one of those 10 posts, then instead of adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that is similar and that contains helpful information to that blogger and their readers. You will also be increasing your link popularity while doing this. Do not spam the link. Make sure it actually contains useful information. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will end up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10. Do not stop being creative. Use the tips in this article, plus invent some of your own ways to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don’t just post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Do not make people search your blog. They are lazy and busy. Bring it to them. That is just good customer service.

I hope this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or even daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I guarantee you will increase your pageviews which in turn will increase your revenue if using an ad program in your blog.

5 Lousy Words You Should Never Say In Your Blog Posts Or Articles

October 5th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

How To Make Money Blogging

Do you know exactly why people don’t seem excited to buy your product? Have you ever wonder why your competitors make more sales even though they have a terrible product to offer? Even worse, why people couldn’t even be bothered to live their email address in your opt-in form and subscribe to your free newsletter?

You may wonder people just don’t feel interested to buy your product or maybe your price is too high. Or you’ve finally realized that your product is a pile of junk and decided to find another product to sell.

You’ve got to stop whatever you’re doing and think for a moment. It is not your product to be blame. Sometimes your own salesletter which is the one that kill your business. You’ve written some words that people don’t even want to hear and scare the hell out of them. Studied has shown using these words will decrease your sales up to 75%.

So, what are exactly the bad words you should never say in your newsletter?

1) Buy – This specifically asking people to take out their wallet and spend some money. Bare in mind, most people surf the Internet searching certain information for free and sometimes they need more time before considering buying your product. Whatever business you’re doing, using this word alone can destroy your business in split second. Instead of using the word ‘buy’, change it to ‘claim’ or ‘invest’. Ask yourself, which one sound better, “Buy this amazing product” or “Claim this amazing product.”

2) Learn – This will remind people back in the old days where they have to study and learn in 1st or 2nd Grade. Nobody wants to squeeze their brain out and learn something new on the Internet. Information on the Internet is just too huge. Nowadays, people want fast information and have no time to learn. Instead of using the word ‘learn’, it is better to use the word ‘discover’. Now we are giving somewhere. Does this word sounds a lot better, “Discover 10 Easy Tips To Improve Your Make Money Blog.”

3) Tell – You don’t have to use this word to explain the benefit of your product. People will not listen to you if they don’t recognize you. Study this two words carefully, “Let me tell you the secrets of a make money blog” or “Let me reveal to you the secrets of a make money blog.” Which one do you think that will make people keep on reading your newsletter?

4) Things – Using this word will not make your salesletter sound astonishing. It makes the salesletter very boring to read. This will make people lost their confidence in whatever you’ve offered to them. Instead of using the word ‘things’, consider to revise it to ‘tips’, ‘tricks’ or ‘techniques’. “Get these 5 great techniques right away” is far better than “Get these 5 great things right away.”

5) Stuff – This word is what most marketers used to describe how great the product is. If you change it to ‘Insider Secrets’, definitely this will give people an urge to act right away. Consider this two words, “Click here to download your 7 stuffs” or “Click here to download your 7 amazing insider secrets.” Which one would you like to click?

If you can avoid this 5 bad words, your sales will definitely boost up to the roof. Don’t neglect the power of these words. Now, it’s time for you to check all your salesletter and change it (if any) right away. You will be surprise of the outcome.

A Proven System For Making Money Online

October 3rd, 2009 Rob Robertson 3 comments

Make Money Blogging-Follow This Advice

Why do most people fail online? Why do they never make any money? It’s because they think about money first and about their customers last. They create a few pages, stuff them with affiliate links and ads and then they wait for the money to roll in — usually they wait forever.
Here is a simple formula to build a successful money-making online business:

* Carefully research several niches before choosing a theme for your site. You should be passionate about the subject and there must be a hungry market for it.

* Start building valuable content for both, your site visitors and the search engines.

* Build more content, distribute articles, participate in targeted forums… this allows you to establish yourself as the expert in your field, to win the trust of your audience and to attract free, targeted traffic from the search engines.

* Add new marketing strategies. Publish an e-zine to build your customer base, to establishes yourself as the expert in your niche, to gain trust…

* Once you have a site of at least 40 content pages with at least 50 unique visitors per day, start monetizing: Add affiliate links, Google AdSense, sell your products or services…
It just doesn’t make any sense trying to monetize your site, as long as you have only a few visitors. Who do you want to sell to? Instead, focus on building more content, driving traffic, building your list…
Follow the “Content – Traffic – Trust – Monetize Traffic” formula and you can’t fail:

* Build valuable content for your visitors and optimize it for the search engines.

* After some time, the search engines will start sending you free, targeted traffic — traffic that will steadily increase.

* Provide valuable, problem-solving information. This allows you to build a relationship of trust with your audience and they will be more than happy to buy your products, follow your recommendations…

* Ok, now and only now it’s time to monetize traffic: Place your affiliate links and Google ads, sell your own products…
Monetization comes last in the process of building your online business.. First, you should create valuable content, you generate traffic, you gain the trust of your visitors and only then it makes sense to monetize your site traffic.

See Also:

How This Blog Can Help You Get Started or Take Your Online Business to the next level.

How To Blog For Money, Article Marketing and SEO

How To Blog For Money – Article Marketing and SEO

October 2nd, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

Increase Traffic To Your Blog with Mass Article Blueprint and Article Marketing

Here is a secret website about Article Marketing that is a must read if you are serious about making money with your blog.

Google loves Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, & Searchwarp.com…which are all article directory sites.

Google also loves some classified ad sites: UsFreeAds is their favorite and has been for over 2 years.

Using articles to promote products is not only free but very powerful and effective. Simply writing a 400-600 word article reviewing one of these products and submitting it to hundreds of online article directories can bring you sales daily for months and years to come. Now I know you are saying to yourself “I hate writing” or “I’m not a very good writer”. Leave all the excuses at the door because
I can solve both of those problems. You don’t need to be a good writer and there are thousands of people out there ready and willing to write articles for you.

Now that you understand the importance of article marketing, the big question is how do you overcome writers block and where do you get ideas.  One way is to research the products you want to promote and pick out certain features you can highlight.  I highly recommend that you make this an ongoing practice. 

I also believe that you should very seriously consider investing ( a minor amount) for Mass Article Control.  See the image below.  This is my personal laptop and the explorer directory of all the folders that come with Mass Article Control. Each folder has hundreds of articles pre-written for you.  On top of that you get tools to submit the articles and tools to modify them so you are not posting duplicates!  Also, these articles make great blog posts.  All of this comes with Mass Article Control and is a VERY worthwhile investment if you are serious about making money blogging.
How To Blog For Money with Article Marketing