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
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?
Posted by JR in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Webmaster/Website Optimization
Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! I hope you all have a great holiday and eat lots of great food!
On the make money online note, I want to remind everyone of something that is easy to forget…
If you have several sites in your Internet marketing portfolio it is easy to lose track and get too buys and therefore neglect opportunities that are all ready exist.
Take a look at all your sites and how they are monetized. I recently realized that through all the busy work I had overlooked monetizing content pages on a store site I have with any ads. I added Adsense to the site, which has lots and lots of inner content pages, and this site earned $40.50 in the last week from clicks on those ads.
Monetization is an ongoing adventure, all in all testing and experimenting with different affiliate ads, links, banners and venues is the best way to keep the site’s earning potential at it’s optimum.
Often times we focus too much on home pages and neglect all the inner pages of the site that gets traffic from search engines. And remember the more inner pages you have the more traffic potential and the more money you can make from clicks on Adsense or other monetazation venues.
So, check sites that you may have forgotten and all the inner pages on those sites that you have not looked at in some time. They could be making you money, even if it’s a dollar a day in Adsense, that’s an extra $30 per site per month
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.
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.
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.
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 BumsBum 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.
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.
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.
Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Build a Niche Store - BANS, Google, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Webmaster/Website Optimization
One thing is certain, with Internet Marketing something is always changing and the Google SERPS are unpredictable. It is important to stay on top of changes and roll with the punches.
Some of you may have heard of recent issues that thousands of affiliates have had with BANS (Build A Niche Store) sites and similar affiliate marketing websites getting de-indexed completely or massively losing SERP position. There was speculation that lack of original written content was the main reason for this. And for many I know this was true. Time and again Internet marketers do not understand the value of original website content in affiliate marketing.
Many affiliates literally just slap up affiliate sites, whether it’s BANS or Amazon, or other such sites with nothing but affiliate link pages and without any original content. As I have said before in The Importance of Quality Content, this is a really bad strategy and will kill your chances of ranking in the Google SERPS, if you even get indexed at all.
I too was hit with this issue on two BANS sites and it was important for me to correct these issues quickly as my BANS sites make money regularly and the best traffic comes from the search engines, especially Google.
These two sites rose steadily in the SERPS when first launched with regular link building and on-site SEO. A while ago, the two sites began dipping in and out of their high SERP positions on a regular basis, one day they were there, then they were gone. Then suddenly a few weeks ago the home pages were de-indexed all together and only some content pages showed up in SERPS for their keywords, an Internet marketing nightmare! So, I began to do some experimenting, which is your best friend in Internet marketing.
SERP Experiment
First, I added more content, though I knew this probably had nothing to do with the content since both sites have more content pages than auction/affiliate link pages and I add content on a regular basis, but I wanted to eliminate all possible factors.
Second, I built up more links via article marketing, some new forum postings and do-follow blog comments, to see if that would resolve the issues. Neither of those tests did anything to get my sites back in the SERPS.
I then I decided to do a test with the home page.
1. I removed the eBay auction listings (affiliate links) that I had listed below the welcome messages on the sites.
2. I added 2 more paragraphs of wording to the welcome message and a related image with the keywords in the alt tags and some internal links to relevant pages for the keywords that came up within the content of the welcome message.
Experiment Results – Exactly 4 days later:
Site #1 home page appeared on page 1 of SERPS without quotes and has been there for over 2 weeks, holding steady.
Site #2 home page appeared on page 2 of SERPS (higher than it was originally) without quotes and has been there for 2 weeks as well (Page 2 is not surprising since there are some big guns on page 1 that I am currently working to out rank).
Since I had eliminated all other factors the lesson here is obvious, affiliate links on the home page affect SERP position for affiliate sites.
While I have heard this before, it never had affected me until recently and so Google is obviously hitting hard not only on affiliate sites with little or no content but also on those sites that have affiliate links on the home page.
This just proves how important experimentation in Internet marketing really is. While many panic and follow hype instead of using common sense, checking results and testing.
A great example of this is the widespread and ongoing inaccurate hype about duplicate content and how it still manages to be a leading and misleading focus on many forum threads because people just do not check things out for themselves and therefore limit their success online.
About BANS
Contrary to what some haters in the Internet marketing world may say, BANS (Build a Niche Store) is not at fault, in fact, BANS is regularly making lots of money for many affiliates who optimize their sites correctly and bring in regular search engine traffic and now thanks to this experiment I am back on that track.
BANS is really great, because it is cheap and allows anyone without any coding knowledge to build unlimited numbers of great money making websites centered around the eBay affiliate program, as well as any affiliate programs of their choice. One of the best things about eBAy is they have over 10,000 products and so the possibilities and keywords are endless.
Many of the BANS bashers never take the time to actually do the work required for success, instead they think they can use the software to quickly put up some sites that are nothing but mirrors of eBay and start raking in big bucks overnight. Sorry, nothing is that easy in Internet marketing and making money online takes more effort than just buying software.
I highly recommend BANS and you can see my full review with screenshots at: Review of Build a Niche Store or Check out the BANS official Website.
What do you guys think? Have you been affected by recent SERP changes? Do you add content regularly to your affiliate sites?
Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Webmaster/Website Optimization
What makes the best website traffic? Well, as far as I am concerned and I’m sure you’ll agree, it is website traffic that performs the action on my website that I intend it
too. Whether it is to buy something from my affiliate marketing niche sites, click on Adsense, to subscribe to a blog or whatever action the web
master intends that will lead to us making money. So, the best website traffic is traffic that converts.

Not all Website Traffic is Equal
If I have 5,000 unique visitors a day, and they do not perform any of the intended actions that I want them to then this is totally worthless website traffic, would you not agree?
Since the social, Web 2.0 revolution on the net there has been a craze with webmasters clammering to get a chunk of social traffic. Page 1 of Digg is often considered the holy grail of website traffic, but in reality Digg and other such popular social site traffic can be pretty worthless. You may get lucky occasionally but it’s nothing to rely on long term.
The reality is that social traffic hardly ever buys anything, subscribes or performs any other actions that will lead to you making money, which is why we are all here right?
Social traffic can be great as far as “numbers of website traffic” and getting more website traffic, becoming famous, but when it comes to converting website traffic it is often a big fat vacuum. Unless your goal is to become the next Tech Crunch, social traffic is not the best for making money online.
Look at your analytics and analyze what website traffic is making you money, I guarantee it won’t be social traffic. Of all my niche sites and Squidoo lenses, social website traffic has made me too little to mention! In fact, I recently launched a ringtones blog, and I got 1500 uniques from Stumble in one day, how many sales? ZERO!!!! A perfect example of how worthless that traffic is.
There are probably many reasons for this, first and foremost of which is the fact that social traffic is not well targeted, many of them are just browsing or bored, they are not performing an intentional search to solve a problem, a basic principle of any kind of marketing is that in order to get sales there must be a consumer with a problem and
someone who provides a solution and THAT will lead to the desired action. Same with Internet marketing.
Also, the same concept applies to the website traffic from article marketing and blog comments where you may get traffic and even some who take the action you desire but it’s never a consistent nor a reliable stream of well converting website traffic. While blog comments certainly are good for networking and getting known for your flagship blogs, you constantly have to comment on blogs to get even a little bit of traffic so it is not “passive” traffic.
The main purpose of article marketing, social bookmarking and blog comments is NOT website traffic but link building for BACKLINKS and those backlinks lead to higher to Page One of SERPS for your sites keywords and THAT leads to converting website traffic.
I am not including Internet forum participation here, because there you will find targeted traffic that is looking for solutions and so that traffic often converts very well.
The best source of long term, stable converting website traffic are the search engines and specifically Google, since they dominate that arena.
1. Website traffic from the search engines is the best converting traffic because it is truly targeted. When someone sits down to search for something on the net, they are purposely looking to solve a specific problem, and they are much more likely to perform an action on your website than any one else.
2. Search engine traffic is all day everyday, 24/7, unlimited possibilities. While social traffic is temporary and gets buried over with newly submitted content, sitting on Page One of SERPS is far more stable. It may take time to get to Page One, but once you are there your site will get exposure to that targeted website traffic with little maintenance.
I am not saying that you should not test every possible traffic source for your niche, and especially when your site is new and you are working on ranking high in the SERPS, you should get all the traffic you can get. What I am saying is that search engine website traffic should always be the main end goal of any online campaign and it is the best converting website traffic.
Many webmasters and bloggers work hard to get their home page on Page One of SERPS by utilizing basic Search Engine Optimization. They do all the requisite tasks such as, on-site SEO, link building, keyword research and optimization etc… But, they completely ignore the inner pages of their websites and/or blog posts. This is a complete waste of perfectly good search engine website traffic. This is especially true for bloggers.
Time and again I see blog posts that are obviously just randomly picked titles without any keyword research when there is ALWAYS a good keyword that can be found for ANY subject. So the end result is that your home page may sit high in SERPS, but all your other pages are just randomly floating somewhere around the web missing out on a ton of good targeted website traffic and all for the price of ten minutes or less of research.
Also remember that as your home PR (page rank) increases it will bleed that PR to your inner pages. This blog is a PR3, but several of the earlier blog posts are PR1 and PR2 and those post titles were carefully keyword researched and now they sit on several Page One’s in Google for their keywords and continuously bring targeted website traffic to this blog. Google will spread the authority you’ve earned from your home page to inner pages placing you higher all over the SERPS, for all your keywords and this SERP domination is what brings more and more targeted, converting website traffic. And the absolute same applies to static website’s inner pages.
Keyword Research for Inner Pages
As always you want to have the most possible searches with the least amount of competition.
3 Keyword Optimization Essentials for SERP Domination:
Here are the most important aspects of optimizing each and everyone of your website pages and blog posts for the SERPS.
1. On Page Title vs. Meta Title
On Page Title is the one the visitor sees on your page, such as the title of the blog post. The Meta Title is the title in the Meta Tags that the search engines will look to for your SERP placement. So, you can make the title the visitor sees longer and more detailed if you wish, while the Meta title can be shortened to comply with Meta Tag character standards and to zone in on keywords, but make sure it is still attractive to get the click from searchers.

If you don’t have it, you really need to get the All-In-One SEO Pack plug-in for Wordpress. This will give you the Meta Tags module for customizing meta tags for every post and it is really a must have for Wordpress. It also provides some other important features for SEO on WP blogs.
2. Keyword Density
Long posts and website pages are the best for the SERPS and getting more website traffic, they allow the most room for keyword density and they also give the edge of lots of content for Google.
3. Permalinks
The permalink must have your keywords in it. So, if my keywords are “how-to bake”, then my permalink for the blog post page or website page would be: htttp://www.recipes.com/how-to-bake-cake. That’s it, nothing else, if you add the whole title you just confuse Google as to what you want to rank for.
Some website software, and Wordpress will automatically add the entire title of your post/page into the permalink so, you must edit this. All extra words except for the keywords are UNNECESSARY and can be a detterent to ranking well in the SERPS.
Permalinks and Wordpress
With Wordpress you have to make sure to select the proper permalink structure. By default Wordpress will create permalinks for posts using the post number, like this: http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=123. This does nothing for you in the SERPS.
How to Change Permalink Structure in WP:
From your Admin Dashboard go to Settings and then Permalinks. From there either choose Month and Name OR if you do not want to date your posts you can choose Custom Structure and then enter /%postname%/ into the box. This way you will have the optimal setting of http://www.yourdomain.com/posttitle
Editing Permalinks on a Post by Post Basis:
When you are writing posts from the editor after you enter the title the permalink will be formed automatically, click edit and get rid of everything but the keywords with the dashes in between each word.

Performing these steps is really important for SERP rankings and getting website traffic from a multitude of keyword sources to get those visitors to your sites. Also, please see 6-Step Checklist for On-Site SEO for more techniques for keyword optimization for inner pages, such as Alt Tags for images.
What do you guys think? Do you research each page and post? If not, why?
Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Website Tools
Google has launched a new keyword research tool intented for Adwords research, to find more PPC keywords, BUT, this tool can be used to find relevant and longtail keywords for any website pages or blogs and blog post titles.
This keyword research tool is different BECAUSE it is based on YOUR SITE, not just on general words.
Lots of Research Options:
1. You can just enter your URL
2. Enter you URL and enter specific keywords to research
3. Set up additional filters, like monthly searches, competition amounts, like low and high and more.
The results are:
Just log in with your Google info, enter your information and get:
1. Set of keywords related to the pages of your sites/blogs
2. Actual number of monthly searches
3. Competition
4. Cost of PPC bidding for each keyword, this can tell you how valuable that keyword phrase is.
How to Use This Information:
This tool is not meant for researching new site keywords but the best way to use this tool is to get good keywords and long tail keywords when writing blog posts and adding additional pages to your websites using keywords that people are searching for.
This tool is new and still in beta, but I found some cool keywords for this blog, check it out: GOOGLE SEARCH-BASED KEYWORD TOOL
Posted by JR in Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Programs
Pepperjam affiliate network has created a new addition to their Pepperjam creatives, product feeds and traditional banners and text links and that is a store builder.
This is very cool, because generally visitors have become immune to banners and often they are completely ignored on websites. A great way to get sales is to showcase individual products with details and to make them look like they are a part of your websites and not blatant advertisement.
With Pepperjam Store Builder you can easily create color and style customized showcase pages of merchant products in 4 EASY STEPS:
1. SELECT MERCHANT/SELECT CATEGORIES
2. FILTER FOR KEYWORDS and RESULTS
3. CUSTOMIZE COLORS AND STYLES
4. COPY AND PASTE THE AUTO GENERATED CODE TO YOUR WEB PAGES and YOU GET:
Very effective for affiliate marketing! This way you can mix up relevant merchant products to your websites because you can feature different products on different pages. I recommend you check out the store builder and test it out on your sites. Store builder creatives are very effective in getting clicks and sales.
Pepperjam continues to excel in support and flexibility for their affiliates and, if you sign up with Pepperjam as an affiliate they will give you a $10 sign up bonus. Join Pepperjam Network and Receive a $10 Sign On Bonus
Useful Techniques for Store Builder Pages
1. Create separate pages for specific types of products, don’t jumble everything together. For example, page for cell phone chargers, and another for cell phone batteries, this allows for a better visitor experience and adds more pages to your sites.
2. Use colors and styles that blend well with your website design.
3. Make sure to research the keywords for each page to get the most out of search engine traffic. Often times for any main keyword like cell phone chargers, there are also low competition long tail keywords, like cheap cell phone chargers that enough people are searching for.
4. Use h1 header tags of the keywords for the title and add a snippet of content (can be even just a description of the page) above the products to optimize the on-site SEO. This way you have written content with some keyword density and not just affiliate links on the page.
Like this…
<h1>Cheap Cell phone Chargers</h1>
Browse our large selection of cheap cell phone chargers. We have all brands and models of cell phone chargers and you never have to pay retail…blah blah blah
Join Pepperjam Network and Check out Store Builder
What do you guys think?
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