Add Comments and Ratings To Static Websites – Free!!!

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Content Creation, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

Just a quick post today as a follow up to the Google Mayday Update, where so many webmasters, especially e-commerce sites suffered tanked SERP rankings for their long tail keywords because of thin inner product pages, and overall thin inner content pages.

Following that Mayday update many webmasters started to look for ways to repair the damage, some of the fixes and post Mayday techniques that are worth a look are at my post at How To Create and Rank Inner Website Pages.

I found yet another gem that will really enhance any static website pages by providing user generated content on auto pilot for those website platforms, that unlike WordPress blogs, do not have the ability to leave comments and it’s FREE!!!!!

Citricle Rateback, is an incredible free tool that gives you a copy and paste script that will add comments as well as ratings functions to any static website. This is really cool because this is a very effective way to add more content and beef up those static site pages, and e-commerce product pages, just like Amazon has on each of their product pages.

By the way, there are no outlinking issues here, because the script only includes, name and email, no URL.

Truly this is a must have tool for any static site that wants to keep up in today’s highly competitive and content demanding Google search engine, as more and more thin sites are getting left behind, while those that think out of the box and consistently adding more are destined to excel.

And, even if you are not concerned with the search engines and Google rankings, then think of your users and website traffic. Comments and ratings can only help them add more interactivity, engagement and product ratings on your sites, all of which in turn can greatly increase revenue, whether from your own product sales or affiliate products. Get yours at Citricle Rateback.

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How To Create and Rank Inner Website Pages

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Blogging, Webmaster/Website Optimization

With the recent changes in Google SERPS and the Google Mayday update mayhem of thin inner pages, ecommerce and thin affiliate pages getting slammed in rankings, I thought it was important to look at how to properly create and rank inner pages of websites and blogs.

Probably one of the most overlooked and potentially powerful aspects of any website or blog are the inner pages. So many times people focus on the home page in getting links and also for the display of content and navigation that the inner pages become almost an after thought in the overall site architecture – this is a big mistake!

Inner pages offer the most potential for bringing in tons of traffic and for dominating the SERPS for various keyword terms that people are searching for and if you are not targeting and optimizing your inner page content correctly you are really missing out on a plethora of traffic, which means you are missing out on strong streams of revenue.

While some ignore inner pages others have tons of them but they are not properly optimized and so they do not reap the benefits that they potentially can for the webmaster or blogger.

More Inner Pages Ranking in SERPS = More Traffic

and

More Traffic = Bigger Potential for Revenue

How To Get High Rankings for Inner Pages

1. Proper KW research
I know, keyword research – UGH – we eat, sleep and breath it, but again, we will not succeed without it!

Many people just create blog posts or static website pages without giving any thought or research into what people are searching for related to the niche of the site.

Search out keyword terms and phrases that people are searching for

AND

make sure the competition for those is fairly low (this can depend on your site’s overall authority)AND
do this for each and every page that you post.

otherwise…
you just have pages floating out in the Web that nobody will ever find!

Learn the steps in Step By Step Keyword Research.

2. Nauseatingly Long Posts and Pages – Competing in SERPS for Affiliate Product Pages and Ecommerce Sites
It is a fact that the search engines, and especially Google loves nauseatingly long posts and written content pages, remember that the search engines are very content driven and pages that are 1000, 2000, 3000 + words long are just so attractive to them.

For many 300 - 500 words may seem like enough, but I say NO WAY! This is especially true for affiliate and money sites, because remember in order for those to be favorable in Google you need to add additional value to the user above and beyond just affiliate and product links that all ready exist on the merchant’s site.

It is more important than ever to make sure that your product pages and affiliate feed pages have some added value, whether it be product descriptions, user reviews and comments, or anything related to the page.

If you cannot conceive of writing such long pages for money sites, or you just don’t have the time, then use PLR. There are some great PLR articles out there, such as the very well written niche topic Flamillion PLR Packs and eBooks, then rewrite them yourself, or use the Best Content Spinner, to easily and quickly make them unique. A perfect combination for creating tons of great content pages for your money sites.

For product pages, such as those on e-commerce sites, or affiliate sites that use product data feeds smaller blurbs of about 250 – 400 words are really helpful, especially since Google is favoring such pages in SERPS, as we are seeing in the Mayday update.

If you can’t stand writing and don’t want to spin then outsource your writing, for as little as $5 you can get 500 words of original well written content that you own. Check out 99 Cent Articles, I’ve been using them and they have excellent writers at a great price.

3. Link Building for Inner Pages
Once again, many strive to rank the home page in the SERPS and so they spend all their time building and attracting links to their home page, but what about the inner pages?

Get links to your inner pages and get plenty of them, write content people will want to link to, and don’t ignore your most important inner pages.

You can use this really great Article Marketing Submission Software to get exposure and links to your inner pages, try writing some articles and link only to your inner pages in the resource box. With 2 links in the resource box and submission to several hundred sites, you can easily get hundreds of backlinks to your inner pages with one submission.

Check out Article Ranks, this is a unique system for getting within content backlinks to you inner pages.

Use Unique Article Wizard

Trusted Domains and High Ranking of Inner Pages
One of the most magical aspects of having a trusted and high ranking domain in Google is that most inner pages (with exception of highly competitive keywords) that you launch will almost instantly take the top positions in SERPS. This is basically due to the fact that Google views your site as an authority and your links base profile is already so strong that all new inner pages will piggyback off that link power.

This blog for example has many inner pages sitting on page 1 in Google SERPS and this is because the base link profile is rather strong and the Google trust rank is high and so I can write a page of content, post it and most of the time within a couple of days it goes to Page 1.

Also, if you notice many of my posts are very long, 1000 words + because I want to provide a lot of value to my readers and so this happens naturally and I truly believe that this has something to do with the ranking success of this site, not only because people have naturally wanted to link to the value here, but also because of the length of the posts.

Ranking and trusted domain = easier rank of inner pages

New and Unranked Sites and Ranking of Inner Pages
When you site is new and the trust rank isn’t there more work will be required to get those inner pages to rank, so write some articles, build some links, including some social media links in the proper niche categories and get the word out about your great piece of content to attract good links to get you inner page to rank and bring you traffic and the potential for revenue.

New and Unranked Sites = The Need for More Links to Rank Inner Pages

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Make Money Online for Free: How-To Build Money Sites Quickly With WordPress

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

If you’re goal is to make money online free, then inevitably you realize that you need more than one site, which many of us all ready have. Managing a wide array of websites is difficult and can get pretty crazy, since we are usually working alone in our online business ventures and do not have a team or marketers on hand, or even a secretary.

As I have said several times, I often wish I could clone myself

Because of this reality, it is crucial to work smarter and not harder!

WordPress and Blogging Versus Building Money Sites

WordPress is a great CMS (content management platform), referred to as blogging software, but it can be used to build any kind of sites, not just those for the traditional purpose of blogging, and that includes making multiple money sites for free. Traditional blogging is a much more personal endeavor that is mostly about connecting with readers and attending to subscribers. It is a social entity.

A blog can be about information, education, flagship for a particular niche or even just a personal life blog, whatever the topic, most bloggers “care” a lot of their audience versus the money sites where the goal is have them click on Adsense, or to perform whatever action is needed to make money.

While bloggers will make money, you don’t have to be a traditional blogger to make money online, in fact the two venues are quite different. Most traditional bloggers want to be famous in their niche, and blogging is essentially a social entity on the web, while real Internet marketers could care less, we just want cash, and in reality, if you want to make money online for free using WordPress is a great option.

And,

WordPress software is an easy and very user-friendly platform to build niche sites quickly and easily for the purpose of making money online. Using WordPress over static website software is a much better alternative, as it is easy to create, update and promote content virally in WordPress than other website software and it is a great alternative to make money online for free.

So,

Since most marketers will have a multitude of money sites, as opposed to bloggers who usually focus on one blog, it is important to be able to build and launch these money sites quickly as time is always an issue and then get on with the all important promotion of those sites.

In this post, I am referring to using WordPress as simply a platform to build numerous money sites quickly in order to make money online in an efficient and time saving manner, and NOT necessarily for the traditional blogging venue as described above, all though the two can overlap and most of these tips can be used to build traditional blogs quickly as well.

7 Tips to Build and Launch Multiple WordPress Money Blogs Quickly

1. Quickly Adding WordPress Platform to Domains

Use cPanel in your hosting account to add WordPress to your domain. All cPanels have automatic upload either via Fantastico or just named WordPress. Takes 1 minute to upload all the necessary files to begin building your money site. This can also be done manually, but who needs that when it can be done in minutes automatically and correctly, so no files are forgotten.

2. Familiar WordPress Themes

After some experience with WordPress, most everyone has a favorite theme, at least I do. This is the theme that you know, you have played with it, maybe gone into the Editor files and know how to edit the PHP files, and CSS. If you don’t I suggest that you find one, or maybe two and learn them well.

This is the theme that is best used for the money sites and to make money online for free, as it will become a breeze to update the site and edit and style it according to specific site needs.

Also, always use professional themes and layouts that are pleasing to the eye and are not broken in some way, where for example Adsense is overlapping onto content, LOOKS REALLY LAME and will not aid you to make more money online.

3. Easy Plugin Install Option for Multiple Sites

As with themes there are standard plugins that we all use and need on all of our WordPress domains.

Some of mine are
All-In-One SEO, WordPress Automatic Database Backup, Google XML Sitemaps (sitemaps for Google), Dagon Design Sitemaps (sitemaps for visitors), Home Page Excerpts, WP-Cache, Similar Posts, Collapsing Categories and Akismet.

Yours maybe different.

To easily manage multiple site plugins, use your cPanel hosting File Manager

You don’t have to upload the plugins one by one to each of your money sites WordPress blogs.

Go to your File Manager in cPanel of your hosting and copy the files from an existing site that has the same plugins. You can just copy over the files an existing domain’s Plugins folder to another.

Takes just a few minutes. Then activate them in WordPress Admin.

By the way, you can do the same with other standard files, like Robots.txt, Disclaimers and Terms and Privacy Policies. Then just edit the site details and url’s from the cPanel file manager.

4. WordPress Admin Setting

Once the theme and plugins are uploaded, I can quickly go through the Settings in Admin Dashboard of WordPress and set it up the same way I always do, when you’ve done it several times, it’s a breeze because you know the interface so well. This includes, setting up sidebar widgets, footer links and other stuff.

5. Content Shortcuts

The content quality level for money sites is not necessarily as important as that for the “blogging” or flagship sites. It really isn’t. The focus is to make money and not rivet readers (unless you have a review type site where you really want to pursuade someone to buy a product) the focus is monetization.

And, in order to make that money online and for free you want to target the correct longtails for as many inner pages as possible to get the most possible free search engine traffic to that site, as search traffic buys. If you need to learn more about accurate keyword research, then please visit this guide Step-By-Step Keyword Research.

For websites that you build to make money online you want someone to leave your site using an available form of monetazation, Adsense click, Banner click, or any other type of adds that you have, so Ad placement is crucial.

I am not saying to write crap…but do not worry so much about it. The most crucial aspect of content pages on money niche sites is keyword research because along with WordPress, which is a free software, that search traffic is also free, and so you will be making money online for free.

Find good longtails and write posts about those, it’s the best way to get a long term stream of that previous search engine traffic. More details on that here: Higher Rankings with Proper Keyword Reasearch.

Time Saving Keyword Research

Don’t over think it.

Use Free SEO Book KW Tool, search the main niche keywords of the site and note all the long tail results.

Then, Google, allintitle:”KW” to see the competition, for those longtails.

Crunch The Numbers:

a. Search numbers can be low for inner pages, as long as some exist.

b. Competition, I go for under 20,000 and 1st page of SERPS does not have more than 3 PR3+ pages (usually longtails have fairly low competition)

It should take less than an hour to get a list of several good longtails to target for content pages.

Then you can start creating some posts that target those longtails, usually 5 pages of inner content are enough to start with as you will want to update on a regular basis.

Content Tips To Manage Multiple Sites

Golden rule for content – Nauseatingly long posts work best!
If you want to make money online for free then you need that search traffic and 800+ word content pages on money sites attract search engines, and allow for appropriate keyword targeting, NOT stuffing, but targeting, as a 800 + word page will naturally mention them without needing to over do it. Also, because these are money sites, you want to have more content than affiliate pages or links, especially with a new site, so those very long posts really boost favoritism from Google because they add value.

In reality, if you have several money sites writing these kinds of long pages by hand will be extremely time consuming and draining.

Save Time with Quality PLR

Using quality PLR (public label rights articles) that is written well and in good English will save you loads of time. But make sure that you do not just copy them into your sites. Because so many people use PLR, you have to rewrite them to make them unique and original, this is very important, as you do not want build a scraper looking site. You can buy PLR articles and you can also get them for free, just make sure they are quality articles and not a load of crap.

You can rewrite the PLR by hand, or use The Best Spinner, which I highly recommend you all check out because it is an excellent tool, and it now features the ability to post spun articles directly to your WordPress blogs from the tool’s dashboard.

Good PLR Resources

Tons of PLR Downloads for All Niches – Excellent resource put together by George at Serradinho Blog.

Free PLR Articles – Excellent resource from Jonathan Scott, lots of niches, and well written content

5000 + Free PLR Packs

All Private Label Content – Some nice free packs

There are tons more sites with good PLR content online, you can also Google your niche + PLR and you will find relevant articles.

6. Quick Google Indexing for Finished Money Sites

Once your site is ready it is crucial to attract the search engines as quickly as possible and get the website indexed, especially by Google. Submit a content page (not home page) or two to Mixx, Jumptags and Stumble. Digg works great too, as long as there is an appropriate category for the niche. Google will always notice your site via those venues.

Every time I do this, my site is indexed within 2 days, all other on-site issues being equal, like proper on-site SEO, clean design and no tech issues.

7. Ongoing Promotion Methods

Then I submit the XML sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, write a couple of articles for it to submit to article directories, especially Ezine Articles, add some more social bookmarks, a few directory links, and let it rest and age for a couple of months before building any more links or doing heavy promotion. In the meantime I keep adding more content regularly.

Using the above methods I can create, design, and launch a new site in about a day or at most two and have unlimited possibilities to make money online for free! The more practice the easier it gets.

Anyone have any additional tips to save time when building their money sites?

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Greatest Content Spinner Tool – Last Chance to Try for Free

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization, Website Tools

I recently let you guys know about a great new tool for webmasters and MMO from Johnathan Ledger in my post at: The Best Content Spinner

I wanted to remind everyone that the The Best Content Spinner will leave Beta this Sunday night at midnight so you still have the weekend to try it for free: Try Best Content Spinner

As of Monday, February 1 it will go on sale at half off till February 5, which at $47 a year is still a great deal. Other spinners cost more and give a lot less.

Truly The Best Ever Spinning Tool Created

Unlike other spinner tools, this one has a fantastic and very comprehensive Thesaurus with both words and phrases.

It is really amazing, for doing multiple spins, as well as single rewrites of PLR articles or any content to make dozens of completely unique versions, this is the ultimate must have tool for money sites.

The other main attraction that unlike other tools, where you have to think up your own synonyms and add them in manually, this provides a neat drop down menu and 1 click insert or replacement of words and phrases.

Automatically goes to next word or phrase in content once finished with previous ones which make spinning a breeze.

and tons more.

And, this week Johnathan announced that the Spinner now supports German, Spanish and French language rewrites as well.

I really like that Jonathan, the developer is actively in the forum, personally addressing any issues us beta users are having with the product, and fixing all bugs. His customer service skills is another reason this product ROCKS!!!

Learn More and Try Best Content Spinner

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The Ultimate and Best Content Spinner Ever

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Blogging, Bum Marketing, Content Spinner, Internet Marketing, Website Tools

We have talked previously in other posts about there being a lack of a really useful and easy to use content spinner. Well those days are gone because John Leger, has created the ultimate and best content spinner ever made.

I am not going to go into the particulars of having this kind of tool in your Internet marketing arsenal, as those of us who have been around know quite well how useful and how much of a time saver this can be to properly utilize PLR articles and for other various uses, such as article marketing. In the big picture, this certainly will have multiple benefits.

For best results, always be thorough in the spin and make sure you don’t start with crap, because no matter how good the spinner, you will end up with crap. Remember that traffic and users of your sites matter, and not just the Search Engines, so you have to provide content for both.

You can always check out the results in Copyscape to be sure that the content is fresh and unique.

The Best Content Spinner, really is the best! All the other crap spinners that are out there and cost a lot more cannot compare to this useful, easy to use and fast tool!

All I can say is finally, this is the Spinner all us marketer have been waiting!!!!!!!!!

For those who are going to scream at me about their flagship blogs and main sites, this content spinning tool is not meant to spin content on those types of sites.

The Best Spinner Features

1. No need to think up synonyms, it offers a drop down menu with tons of choices to replace words and phrases.

2. No need to insert coding and spin syntax, it does it automatically.

3. There is a replace feature, so you can replace words and phrases when you only need one rewrite of content.

4. The syntax coded version offers unlimited inserts of synonym words and phrases. You can choose one word, or a whole phrase or even a sentence to spin.

5. Produces all spun variations as well as spin syntaxed (coded) copies.

6. One click quick selection of synonyms

7. Unlimited nested spinning

8. You can edit and make changes manually within the spinning console

9. Easy save and exporting to clipboard

10. Word count and uniqueness percentages

11. Support for Spanish, German and other languages

12. A newly added article directory where you can submit articles that other members can post to their sites for backlinks!

AND

13. You can now post articles directly to your WordPress blogs from the spinner, and unique versions of it to several blogs

plus a members forum where the developer is active and offers on going support

and tons more features…

Truly this is the best content spinner I have ever seen and what all marketers have been waiting for and I urge you guys to try it out.

The regular price is $87 per year, but right now you can still try it for $7 for 7 days and take it for a full test run.

Check out the Video of the Spinner in Action, and get buy it before the price goes back up. Believe me you guys will be just as amazed as I was.

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About Using Trademarks and Brand Names in the URL

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Search Engine Optimization, Webmaster/Website Optimization

Time and again I see little niche sites using trademark brand names in their url’s. This is a truly reckless and a very stupid thing to do.

Here you are spending valuable time, working hard on your site designing, promoting, link building and your site has high search engine rankings and making you money and then the brand name company notices you and it’s over. At the very least your site will have to come down and at worst the brand name will sue you for copyright infringement.

It is illegal to use any copyrighted brand name trademark within the url or as the name of a site, many people do not even think of this fact and find great keywords that include brand names and use them.

Most of the big companies have a long page of legal terms that list all their trademark names and their variations and they clearly state how they can be used.

When doing keyword research for Internet marketing we inevitably come across tons of great keywords that use trademark names and especially within the electronics and computer niches, Apple ipods, Dell laptops, Sony, Acer laptops, the list is endless and it is really tempting to use them in the url because the ranking power increases greatly when using keywords in the url, but for the long term this is way too risky.

I was reading a blog post the other day, I didn’t save it or I would link to it, but the marketer made the mistake of using Dell in his url and Dell had contacted him and demanded he take his site down. Of course, the site was ranking on page 1 for the keyword, which is how Dell noticed him, and making money and now that’s all over.

Did he have regrets? Of Course! It’s just not worth it.

Can You Rank Without Using Keywords in the URL?

Yes, but it will usually take more keyword anchor text backlinks, how many depends on the competition for those keywords.

So there are two choices:

1. Choose similar non-trademark keywords for the url and do all the on-site optimization for the trademark kw, such as h1 tags, keyword density, title tags etc… and focus your link building to get lots of anchor text links with the trademark keywords.

This is the best option when you come across really highly searched for trademark keywords that have low competition, well worth the effort.

2. Choose completely different keywords within that niche that do not have trademark names.

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Economy and Making Money Online

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Motivation & Success, Uncategorized, Website Promotion

There is no denying that the United States and many parts of the world are having major financial difficulties. The recession is affecting retail sales across the country, and Internet marketing and the online marketplace will surely feel the effects as well. Some affiliate marketers are seeing significant decreases in sales, and while so far most of my sites are staying steady, some have seen a decline in sales.

This does not mean that this business is over, in fact, I truly believe that the Internet marketplace will become even more significant in these hard financial times because:

1. Its unique ability to provide below retail prices and major savings on products, just look at sites like eBay, Amazon and Overstock.

2. People seeking information on how to get through tough times and make extra or full time income while unemployed.

As always, the key to online success is to look for trends and the opportunities to exploit them and in hard times like these, the opportunities will focus around consumables and information.

Consumables:
Clothes
Pet supplies
Household items
Coupons
Baby items
Toys
Cheap home entertainment
Deal sites
Cheap anything sites
Health
Weight Loss
Free anything
…thousands more.

Valuable Information:
Making money
Work at home opportunities
Jobs and work
Schools and training for new careers
Career guides
Recession news
Saving money
Budgeting
How-to get cheap anything
Decreasing utility bills
Saving on car insurance
Health Care issues
Free anything
…and lots more.

Some of those make money, work at home niches and money blog sites are pretty competitive, but there are still long tail keywords that are viable and you can build a great website and make money. As always, make sure to research keywords for any subject matter you want to get into.

One of the most solid money making venues is still Google Adsense, and in hard financial times, Adsense is on top of the list, because you don’t need to make a sale, you get paid for the click, so information sites sprinkled with Adsense is a sure winner anytime and especially now!

Another solid money making opportunity is flipping websites, still one of the best ways to make money online with a wide open marketplace, here is the best how-to guide for doing this from Jason Pereira, a very successful blogger and website flipper at Flip Noobs.

Problogger wrote a good post about 13 Tips to Recession Proof Your Blog definitely worth a read.

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Blog or Website? A Timeless Question

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization

You can peruse any Internet Marketing forum and you will surely find a thread titled Blog or Website? This is a very common question asked by those starting an online business and especially for those looking to get into the business blogging.

Many times in the forums, you get lame answers, such as “a blog is a website” DUH!

But, that does not answer the question as it is intended, and even the newest of newbies know that there is an inherent difference between blogs, blogging and websites beyond the technological.

While there are very sophisticated techie definitions, for the purpose of this discussion I will limit the definitions to the basics of Blogs vs. Static Websites and the unique characteristics of blogging that also apply to business blogging for making money.

Blog is short for weblog, which, simply put is a dynamic website that is constantly updated and provides interactivity between it and its users.

vs.

Static Websites usually display the same information, thus it is static. The content is not updated regularly and while the webmaster may always add pages of content, it is not expected. These sites can also be described as passive.

Blog Charateristics:

1. A blog needs to be updated with fresh content regularly, it is expected and required, or else it will die out.

2. One of the blog’s main purposes is to engage readers and gain subscribers, in fact for many bloggers it is an end goal.

3. A blog is never truly passive, it cannot be slapped up and then left alone, it requires ongoing attention and therefore a lot of interest in and motivation for the subject from the blogger.

4. Blogs have messy navigation, since there is new content added regularly it is more difficult to present it all neatly and visibly, and much if it gets buried as more is added.

5. Blogs are more personal and represent a human behind the site.

Static Website Characteristics:

1. They are built, launched and then marketed. They can be a source of passive income without the expectation of new content. They are safe to leave alone to do “their thing.”

2. The navigation is neat and all pages and content can be displayed prominently to visitors, this includes all your affiliate link pages, store pages and anything else that you want visitors to not miss, therefore static sites allow you to have more control over what is presented to visitors, while blog content easily gets buried over with the new incoming content.

3. The static website is not usually personal, it is detached from a “human behind the site.”

Blog vs. Website

The decision to go with a Blog or Website is really a personal one. However, the problem for newbies is that they lack the experience to make an informed choice and often it is just trial and error.

I for one, do not think blogging is for everyone. Blogging is a bigger time investment and blogs are not the greatest passive income tools. In fact, many Internet marketers say that blog readers and subscribers do not click on Adsense and they do not take you up on your add offers very much. Usually they are there to read your content. The true money comes from search engine traffic, that will not subscribe but will exit with a click on Adsense or by buying an affiliate product.

There are exceptions. Some blogs focus on shopping and product reviews and that is the focus of the posts with the focus of making money, I have no experience with this type of blog and so maybe some of my readers can add their input, like Frank from Money Saving Reviews – Money Saving Guides.

Blogging takes a lot of dedication to the written word, versus the static website that does not. Tons of blogs fail because the blogger loses interest quickly after launch.

With all that it takes to learn and apply the marketing and SEO end of the business, a static website lessens the work load and allows newbies to focus on learning the tools and skills necessary to succeed.

There are many user friendly website builders, such as WYSIWYG, that stands for “What You See is What You Get” website software that allows those without any code or even basic HTML knowledge to build beautiful sites with simple drag and drop simplicity. Once the website is launched then experience can be gained on the Internet marketing end, without the constant stress of updating. Two of the best WYSIWYG softwares are WebEasy 7 Pro and Coffee Cup HTML Editor.

Also, you can use the free WordPress platform to build niche sites, with an empahis on pages instead of posts, that allow for neater navigation and a focus on making money as opposed to getting readers, but this is not true blogging.

What do you guys think?

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Affiliate Marketing – Seize the Opportunities and Don’t Give Up

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Motivation & Success, Webmaster/Website Optimization

I have an affiliate marketing website that I built a few months ago. And the keyword is very popular and I have worked hard to get traffic and SERP rank position. As the months went by, I was getting a good amount of traffic but not one single sale!

I analyzed and performed the requisite tricks, such as landing page, colors, navigation and other reasons that result in high bounce rates and lack of sales and nothing seemed to work. I soon decided to move onto to other projects. A couple of weeks ago I was checking my commissions and noticed that that website had a couple of sales. And in the last week the sales are increasing and averaging a couple a day.

The lesson here is don’t quit till the magic happens. Affiliate marketing and making money online is hard work and can be a crap shoot with lots of testing and failing. But if you give up then you will never reap the success you seek. Many newbies give up quickly because they are looking for a fast buck, but that is not realistic for affiliate marketing and making money online and if you set your mind that way you are destined to be disappointed.

Remember, not all websites will generate income right away, if ever, any honest affiliate, especially the honest super affiliates will tell you that. They all have failures on their books, but they also have one thing in common, they never gave up. They know that this is a great business with endless potential, but it has its ups and downs, bad months and good months, successful campaigns and some that are just dead. None of that matters, we move on and push harder.

Internet marketing is a lonely business. Most of us sit at home and pluck away at the iceberg, building websites, trying to rank our sites, build links, get traffic and of course make money. It is not easy, but many of us, including myself, love it and would not want to do anything else. Yes? No?

Sometimes, there are hard times and we all need the motivation to keep going. So, I am here to tell you to keep plucking away, new sites, new keywords, trial and error, learning from past mistakes, new opportunities and DO NOT GIVE UP!

Patience, faith and not giving up is key in making money online and affiliate marketing and the reward of the freedom that it provides in working for yourself is unparallel.

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Internet Marketing for Bums – Make Money with Zero Start-Up

Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Best Website Builders, Bum Marketing, Internet Marketing

A friend asked me tonight, how much money do I need to invest in order to start an online business and make some extra income?

This is a pretty regular question, as many of us starting out do not have tons of money to invest for Internet Marketing and we are desperate to break free of the 9-5 and work at home.

In reality an online business is very unique because unlike the usual business models, you can literally start and make money whether it’s full time or extra income, without investing a ton of money or even a single dime.

Eventually, I think you will need to spend some money, at the very least on a web hosting account but you can get started right away without spending a cent. And, you can use the money you make from bum marketing to finance future online campaigns and go on to build your own sites and blogs and bum marketing will teach you a lot about how to make money with Google Adsense, or with affiliate marketing and all for free!

Internet Marketing for Bums

Bum marketing is a nickname for launching online campaigns that are completely free of start up costs, not even hosting that will allow you to make money!

While you can use paid software to create websites, such as BANS, there are venues that allow you to build your own mini-sites that are hosted by someone else, but allow you to create your own piece of Internet real estate and launch your Internet Marketing campaign.

Some Benefits of Using Free Venues to Build Webpages

1. Great way to gain experience and learn the how-to’s of Internet marketing affiliate marketing, creating a web page and more before engaging on a grander scale.

2. These sites allow you to make money online without spending any. They are easily integrated with many affiliate programs, such as eBay, Amazon, Adsense, or you can use whichever you want and these venues share their revenue so you can make some cash directly from them.

3. These venues rank on their own, and so you will piggyback off their rank and your pages can rank in the SERPS (search engine page results) much quicker and with a lot less work than a site launched from scratch giving you that magical search engine traffic.

Free Webpage Venues for Internet Marketing:

Squidoo Lenses – Building free Squidoo lenses to promote the products you choose is one of the best places to get your feet wet in Internet Marketing and start to make money online completely free.

In fact, even those of us who have been in this biz for a while continue to use Squidoo, I have 15 lenses myself, and several of them bring in a regular monthly income.

There are some tricks to build a lens correctly that will rank high in SERPS as well as promotion and easy code resources, learn more at my guide How-To Squidoo Steps to Building the Best Lens that will show everything you need to know to build a lens the right way as well as the important promotion techniques for lens rank to make money.

By the way, for those of you with sites, building Squidoo lenses is a great way to promote those sites and you can give yourself 100% do-follow backlinks from them. Several of my lenses are PR2, 3 and 4 and those are A+ links.

Hub Pages - Hub Pages rank very high in SERPS, depending on how competitive the keywords are. Basically the same concept as Squidoo, except that Hub Pages are more strict and monitored than Squidoo by their admin for quality content and spam. There is less flexibility in placing affiliate links and having the Hub Page be too commercial.

They LOVE fresh content at Hub Pages so focus on that and use your products to support the content. Integrate your Amazon, eBay, Adsense and Kontera affiliate accounts. Just read the TOS, and make sure to follow the rules.

The key to Hub Pages is really networking with other authors. Visit, comment and become a fan of other Hubbers and they will visit you. If you keyword optimize your Hub page properly, same as a Squidoo lens, then you can rank high in SERPS for those keywords.

I recommend Squidoo over Hub Pages, much more flexibility and no one nagging you about what you add to your webpage.

Step-by-Step Internet Marketing for Bums

1. Keyword Research

Do some keyword research to find good keywords for your webpage. Aim for low competition keywords and focus on long tails. These are keyword phrases within a main keyword. Example, main keyword “laptop”, long tail keyword: “Used Cheap Laptops.” Long tails and micro niches can be found with a good amount of searchers and much less competition. Learn more and get tools at Step-by-Step Niche and Keyword Research.

2. Build a Webpage

Use one or more of the free venues to build webpages. As previously mentioned, I recommend Squidoo.

3. Article Marketing

Write a few related articles and link to those webpages from the resource box. Article marketing will bring traffic as well as backlinks.

Use different keywords so you do not outrank yourself

Submit to these top article sites:

Ezine Articles
Article Dashboard
Go Articles
Article City
Article Alley
Amazines
Articles Factory

4. Social Bookmarks

Use social sites and submit your content, see 70+ Social Bookmarks Sites.

5. Anchor Text

Make sure to use your keywords in the anchor text for any backlinks to your webpages, while Squidoo and Hub Pages rank on their own, those backlinks will just increase the ranking power. Learn more at: The Importance of Anchor Text in Link Building.

6. US Free Ads

Use US Free Ads classifieds to promote your webpages and drive traffic, traffic that is well targeted as those visitors are looking to buy! Free account gives you 2 adds with unlimited content. $10 a year gives you many more.

7. Internet Forums

You can also use Internet Forums to promote your webpages and get some links. Make sure they are relevant to your topic and then the traffic is very targeted. Use this list of 144 Do-Follow Forums by Niche to find some.

Be patient, keep at it and good luck!!!

As with any Internet Marketing campaign some testing is needed. Not all Bum Internet Marketing campaigns are big successes, as is with any online venture.

Some of my Squid lenses have never made a cent, while others are doing great. But, no matter what, you cannot beat the hands-on free Internet Marketing experience and the extra income potential with these resources.