Affiliate Marketing and Blog Monetization
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You can do affiliate marketing even without a blog. But having a blog makes it easy for you to promote products.
What is affiliate marketing?
You help others sell their products and they give you a commission. Join ClickBank.com and check out the products there. You will find thousands of products. You can choose the ones that you are interested in. You can get your special link (hop link) and send it to your friends through email to promote the products.
If you have a blog or site you can promote your blog with links to the affiliate products. This way you can promote the products that get you the most money.
In addition to this you can have an opt-in page on your blog and get people to sign up with you. Later you can contact these people through email and promote the product.
What is your budget?
Did you read this post about deciding your budget – How do I make money online?
If you have more time go for free products. If you want to spend less time pay a little and go for products that help you get fast results.
For example, you create a blogger blog and promote it in a number of ways. Free blog and free promotion.
You spend a little money, buy domain name and webspace and create a WordPress blog.
WordPress automatically pings a number of services every time you make a new post. You can add a good ping list to WordPress blog.
Again at the WordPress level you have two options:
1. You can go and find a good theme for your WordPress and install the necessary plugins.
2. You do not want to spend time in all this? Ok. You can get a well set up WordPress blog that comes to you prepackaged with all the plugins and also get videos about blog monetization. Many have earned within the first month of this Web2.0 Blog.
I have created a blog with this Web20Wealth WordPress package and you can see the sample here: Instant Healthy Food.
You can do affiliate marketing without a blog or site. You can make more sales with a blogger blog. And you can further improve your earnings through a WordPress blog.
Get a free affiliate marketing course by clicking on the link below:
Here is an opportunity to make money through affiliate promotion right away. Sign up with ClickBank and promote Affiliate Video Brander.
You can earn 50% commission by promoting Affiliate Video Brander.
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Free Internet Marketing News and Free Lesson
Mike Mograbi of IMNewswatch has an important lesson for those who want to earn through Google AdSense.
Read it here:
The Right Way to Play the Google AdSense Game
Mike Mograbi
I wanted to share with you a quick and valuable lesson that I and many others have learned from Internet Marketing Newswatch.
It is related to the right way to play the Google AdSense Game.
The Lesson is:
It is better and more profitable to work hard on creating one high-quality website that offers high-quality, in-demand information to site visitors, than to create hundreds of cheap sites, making a few bucks a day, and getting banned/dropped out of major search engines, like Google and Yahoo, in no time.
Does IMNewswatch offers high quality, in-demand information? Yes.
Will it get banned or dropped out of search engines? No, not likely.
Will it last long? Yes, as long as there is internet marketing news to be covered, which seems to be forever.
IMNewswatch is an online business. It gives people what they want and that’s how one succeeds online.
I had an SEO expert tell me that IMNewswatch could be making $1000 a day with AdSense, and that’s only the beginning. A few months down the road this figure could easily double as traffic increases.
That’s around a solid $730,000 a year. Not bad for one site.
You would need over 600 cheap sites, making $3 a day for a whole year to match this figure. That’s IF they last for a few months, let alone a whole year.
IMNewswatch Advice: You can make a lot more with Google AdSense investing time to create quality websites, rather than wasting money, time and effort creating tons of cheap perishable sites.
If you really do want to create those cheap sites, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to create a few good/high-quality ones anyway.
You know something? Ultimately, it’s all about giving people what they really want, and they want hot/quality information. Give it to them. They would be happy, search engines would be happy and ultimately, you would be really happy. win-win-win.
Consider this as the most important lesson.
Mike Mograbi
Internet Marketing News
Internet Marketing Newswatch
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Minimum and Maximum Risk in Earning Online?
Question: Please guide me step by step to earn money online. what is the minimum and maximum risk in it ?
The first thing you need to do is to decide what you want to do.
Step One: Understand what you are getting yourself into. Read
Online Business and Offline Business – Money and Skills
Step Two: Prepare Lists and Decide Your Budge. Read
How do I Make Money Online?
Continue with the step-by-step plans.
What are the maximum and minimum risks?
Risk 1: Waste Money on Scam Sites
Internet Marketing world is full of scammers and they are waiting to pounce on newbies. They will swallow you whole unless you take care to protect yourself. Read
Google Sold You a Website? Beware of Scammers!
Instead of spending money to buy ready-made sites from scammers, if you buy domain name and webspace, the site is yours and the investment is not lost.
Risk 2: Give up Day Job and Earn Nothing Online
You go through school and college education and then go and get a job. There is no need to give that up in a hurry thinking that you are going to make money online overnight.
Remember that you have to learn how to earn online and you need to develop your skills. Keep your job, devote time to get knowledge and develop skills, start earning online as a part time player. Once you start earning a consistent income month after month, you can give up your day job.
Risk 3: Not Assessing Your Gains and Loss
You have to carefully calculate what you have gained and what you have lost at every step of ‘make money online’ process.
You may spend money to gain knowledge and skills. But whatever you invest in should help you go to the next level of earning. Whether this is happening or not can be found out only if you constantly track and assess your results.
Minimum Risk is starting with $0 with a blogger blog and developing your skills of getting traffic to it and earning through Google AdSense and affiliate programs.
Medium Risk is spending under $100 per year to buy webspace and domain name. Most probably you will be able to earn back $100 + within that year. Even if you are not able to earn much you can develop your blog or site to a good status and sell it for a good price.
Maximum Risk is borrowing money and investing in online projects that you know nothing about. If someone promise you thousands of dollars overnight, you should ask the person to allow you to pay the morning after that night. Tell him I will pay you from my profits.
The first level of education is to develop the discerning ability to separate the standard internet marketers from the scammers. Start by reading all the free tips and resources available on sites and blogs. Understand what you are letting yourself into. Find out whether you are interested enough to commit yourself to putting in the necessary time and effort to learn the skills to make money online.
No effort goes waste. And the effort put in the right direction with a specific goal in mind always bears fruit. Have a vision. Visualize yourself ten years from now and take the first step today.
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How do I Make Money Online?
How to earn money online is the question that gets repeated over and over again.
Here is the most simplified answer:
1. You make money online by working for others.
2. You make money online by working for yourself.
Even to work for others, you need to develop the skills that will get you the best online jobs.
So first start working for yourself and keep looking out for better and better opportunities to work for others or develop your own business.
How do you work for yourself?
1. Make Lists
Skills: First make a list of the skills you already have.
Then start a list of the skills you will need to acquire. Keep adding to that list.
As you acquire some of the skills add them to the first list and delete them from the second list.
Interests: Make a list of things you love to do, you love to learn, you love to spend time on.
Make another list of things you don’t love but you are ready to do, if there is a necessity.
Contacts: Make a list of people you can contact through email, Orkut, Yahoo Group or any such online means.
Make a list of common interests you share with them.
2. Decide Your Budget
Time: Decide how much time you will be able to spend on this online venture. Do NOT give up your job. Once your online business is established you can give up your job and take this full time. But wait for three to five monthly earnings of your desired income to be sure, you can earn money on a regular basis through online ventures.
Effort: Decide how much effort you will be able to put in to learn the required skills. Be honest with yourself and set a realistic goal.
Money: How much money are you ready to invest in online ventures? Remember if you do not want to spend time and effort, you may need to invest more money to get started. On the contrary if you want to start from scratch at $0, you may need to put in more time and effort to do a number of things that are necessary to get you started.
3. Choose One Thing to Start With
Once you start earning you should diversify your efforts and earn through multiple online ventures. But when you are starting it is better to start with one thing, learn it thoroughly and then go on to the next thing.
Based on what you have noted down for the three main points listed above choose a topic for creating a blogger blog or a WordPress blog.
Blogger blog is free. For WordPress blog you need webspace and domain name.
To build your own website without the knowledge of html or java scripts you need an easy to use website builder. Watch this website builder video.
If you do not want to spend money right now, start with a blogger blog, learn the skills, earn through Google AdSense and affiliate program and then invest what you earn to make more money.
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Google Sold You a Website? Can't Believe That! Beware of Scammers!!
I usually hear unbelievable statements from absolute newbies who are just starting online. This is the most dangerous period of one’s online venture.
My tips is: Beware of scammers.
Subscribers who are in constant touch with me tell me things that leave me speechless!
One of the things I repeatedly hear is:
“I bought this website from Google. Google sold me this site to keep their ads on it. And they will pay me money”.
Google does NOT sell websites.
Beware of scammers and the way they twist facts to make you pay them money.
Be very careful when you pay money to someone to buy a product or service.
Do not believe in anything unless you have done a Google search on the product and you have contacted people who have used such products.
You should also contact the help desk of companies selling such sites, ask them qustions to thoroughly satisfy yourself that their offer is a genuine one.
Scammers are everywhere on the internet. They take your money, leave you frustrated and crush your desire to set up a good business for yourself.
Google never sells sites to anyone.
Scammers sell you sites in Google’s name.
Someone sold you a site to place Google AdSense on the site. You may or may not earn from the site.
Whether you earn or not depends on a number of things.
1. Are you able to get good traffic to the site? (You have to work to get traffic)
2. Do you have good content on the site the makes your visitors want to come back again?
3. How are you going to keep the site fresh? (The site you buy should allow you to add content to keep it fresh)
4. What is the topic of the site? What keywords does it focus on? Do you have good Google AdSense Ads for those keywords? (Advertisers pay Google to keep their ads on sites and Google pays us a part of that money to keep the ads on our site)
5. Are you sure about the company or person you are buying the site from? If that company or person has been banned from Google AdSense program, you will get banned too.
Before you buy a site from someone who says you can earn through Google AdSense and affiliate program ask these questions:
1. Where is my site hosted? How much will I have to spend on domain name and webspace per year?
2. What type of content is added to keep this site fresh?
3. What should I do to get traffic to the site?
4. Is there anyone who has earned through your program that I can contact?
5. Are you running Google AdSense program on your own sites? If not, why not? (This will give you an indication whether the company or person has been banned from Google AdSense – Run as far as possible from such people)
Let me repeat:
Google NEVER sells any sites to anyone.
Google Blogger Blog is a free program. Anyone can use it to create their own blog.
You can earn through Google AdSense and affiliate program through blogger blog.
Instead of paying for a site and buying it readymade from someone, you can buy domain name and webspace and create your own site.
If you do not want to create your own site, buy it from someone who teaches you the steps to earn money online through your site.
Beware of scammers! Beware of Scam Sites!!
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Make Money with Pay Per Play Ads
You can make money out of every visitor to your blog.
All you need to do is to sign up with Pay Per Play and let them play a 5 second audio on your blog.
You need not do any work. But you can get paid for every visitor who comes to your website. What can be better than this?
You have to sign up with Pay Per Play once and you can earn for a long, long time.
What is Pay Per Play?
You have heard ads on radio and TV. Similarly a 5 second ad will be played on your blog. And you get paid for playing that ad.
How do you play that ad?
You just sign up with Pay Per Play and they play the ad for you. You need not select the ad, you need not find a place for the ad on your site. All you need to do is to get the ad code and add it to your blog. Everything else will be taken care of.
Just click here and sign up with Pay Per Play. If you have any questions, Ask Rangoo.
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Online Business and Offline Business – Money and Skills
What are the differences between an online business and an offline business?
Suppose you are interested in starting a magazine offline, or a sports shop or a grocery store what are the steps you take?
The first thing you will decide is what kind of shop you should start.
What are the things that will help you decide this?
1. The interest of the people in the locality where you want to start the shop. What are they likely to buy?
2. Your own previous knowledge as well as interest. What kind of shop will you be able to run well?
3. The investment you would require to set up the shop and fill it with goods. How big or how small should the shop be?
Once you set up the shop what do you do? How do you make others know you have got a shop?
More or less the same kind of procedure you will have to go through to set up an online business.
A significant difference between the online and offline shop is:
You can start with $0 online.
You can get resources and help for free.
Can you ever think of setting up a business offline without previous investment?
Earn Online
Ok what are the ways to earn online? How do people earn online?
People sell products and services online to make money. If you want to make money online this is what should be your final goal, to sell products and services to others.
Keeping this vision in mind you have to start from scratch.
Today you do not have a product. You do not know what kind of service you can sell. You do not think anyone will buy from you.
So how do you start?
You work for people who have products and services to sell. You start earning as well as learn the skills of marketing.
You work with someone directly or indirectly.
Your blog or site provides an opporunity for others to sell their products through you.
For example, advertisers pay Google to display their ads on sites and blogs.
You have a blog that is indexed by Google. You have permission from Google to place Google Ads on your site.
When someone visits your site, they also find the information in the ad relevant to what they are looking for, they click on it and go to the advertisers site.
The advertiser pays Google and Google shares this money with you.
So indirectly you are working for these advertisers and helping them sell their products. In return you make money.
If you are clever, you would increase the sale for these advertisers by drawing people who are interested in that product to come to your site.
How do you do that?
By having relevant content that people with such interest are looking for.
For example, the advertisement is for golf clubs. This particular advertiser is selling golf clubs. They place an ad with Google through Google AdWords Program.
You have a site about golf. The content is very good to attract all golf lovers to your site.
Google places golf ads on your site.
Your readers come to your site, read your content and go directly to buy the golf clubs.
Because they clicked on the ad on your site, Google pays you.
Develop Skills
If you understand the whole thing properly, you will use this period of working for others in such a way that you develop your skills. In future these skills are going to help you sell your own products. May be you will start selling golf clubs later in your life.
Zero is a number which is nothing and everything. In India we have the concept of “Poornam” – complete, full, etc.
Remember when you are starting with $0 – it is not nothing – because your efforts are going to make this 0 come at the end of 10 or 100000000000.
Is there any difference in the appearance of the 0 in 10 and in 100000000000?
If you add 0 + 0 what will you get – Zero.
But if you put one extra 0 at the end of 100,000 what do you get? – 10,000,000
Some of your efforts result in 0 while some others get you millions.
How did that extra 0 get a special meaning and emphasis?
The way you approach life and any business will make or break the whole thing for you.
I have received emails from many who start with illegal activities of clicking on ads, scamming others or hacking sites.
What is the vision for these people? What do they want to achieve? What are the skills they are practicing to achieve those goals?
Fast forward, go ahead 5 or 10 years in life and look back at whatever you are starting today. How is the step you are taking today going to help you establish a successful business which will earn you millions of dollars?
Let us start…
Fill in these blanks:
10 years ahead I want to have a successful business selling ………….
To do that I will require approximately ……. amount of money and ……… skills.
Today I will start a blog on …….. topic. (This should match with what you wrote in the first blank)
I am going to develop the skills of ……………. through ……….., ………….., …………….
Finally..
1. Whether it is a job or business you will have to work. So do not quit your day job in the hope that you will make money without working.
2. Whether it is a job or business you need skills. In a business you pay others to do what you cannot do yourself. If you do not have the money to get things ready made you will have to work harder to learn and do it yourself.
3. Whether it is a job or business you need to have a vision for your life. You decide where you want to go, how you want to reach there and take the necessary steps. Temporary actions will yield temporary results.
4. If you do not have money to start with, develop your skills, work under a person whose business is similar to what you want to start. This will help in getting paid to work, developing the skills necessary for that business and learning the pit falls that you need to avoid.
5. Creativity costs you $0. If you do not have the money, you have to be more creative to come up with new ideas that can get you work, partners and great results.
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Viewing Ads to Earn – Getting Exposed to Online Business
You can start earning by viewing ads.
If you think of the money you can make online, this is nothing. But it gives you a chance to earn without spending anything first. You also get exposed to a number of websites. You might get some ideas about the type of business you would like to start.
So far I have found ClixSense to be the best among view ads to earn money programs. They respond to help desk tickets immediately. They pay in time without any hassle. They do not send any spam mails.
Once in fifteen days I get my statistics. I get to know how much I have earned. I have converted my earnings into ad credits and my sites have got good traffic.
Now the affiliate program of ClixSense has got better.
If you become a premium member you earn
- for the ads you click
- for referring others
- for the upgrades of the people you refer
- for the upgrades five level deep
- for the advertisers you refer
ClixSense says, “If you referred three, your maximum earnings for those referrals was $15. With our new and improved affiliate program, your max earnings for those three referrals is up to $366.50!!!”
That is not a bad start, is it? You also learn the skills of how to get your affiliate link, how to promote a program and how to refer others and earn from it.
These are important skills that will help you when you start your real business online.
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Affiliate Video Brander and Affiliate Marketing Course
Affiliate Video Brander is a great software to help you earn through affiliate marketing.
The advantage is you can brand any video with your affiliate id and earn commissions when a product is sold.
So you invest in this product and earn through
- affiliate commissions
- reselling the product (only if you buy before Jan 30)
- 50% commission on promoting the package
I am sure you will be able to get back your investment and earn a lot more.
Suppose you really want to start with $0 and you do not want to invest any money in Affiliate Video Brander now, become my affiliate and help me sell this and earn 50% commissions.
Free Resources
Get the video and audio free resources to earn money. Check out the video of affiliate video brander and get a free audio course on affiliate marketing and building an opt-in page.
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Decide what you want to sell and start a blog
Many of you write to me and ask what topic you should choose for your blog.
If you are passionate about a topic and the people you are in contact with are also passionate about it, go ahead and create blog on that topic.
The immediate traffic is going to be people you know or you are in contact with. People you meet in places such as Orkut and Yahoo Group may be your first few visitors.
So think of your interest and their interest. If you are interested in parapsychology but you have no contact with anyone who is interested in it, you are going to find it difficult to get the first few visitors to your blog.
A better way of building a business will be to think of what kind of business you would like to be involved in.
Right now you may not have a product of your own. But you can sign up with ClickBank, Click2Sell, etc. and find products to sell. Just go to their market place and find products that are suited to your interests and the interests of the people you know.
Read more about signing up for programs to make money online.
Start a blog on a topic that would help you earn through Google AdSense and affiliate programs.
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