I think most everyone around the globe has felt the pinch from this crappy recession and if you haven’t I am sure you know some who are. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise as it’s been a turning point in so many lives, for the better that is.

You maybe scratching your head about now wondering if I am on drugs but I’m not and what I am talking about is how people are starting online businesses to earn a little extra income. That’s all it takes to get started but it takes a little more to be successful, so read on.

Do As I Say, NOT As I Did

I jumped in with both feet and no budget because of problems at my day job. My bosses were married to each other and went through a divorce while we went through hell at work. I quit my day job and started working online.

My advice is to NOT do what I did. Plan things a bit and keep that job. You can do this on just a few dedicated hours a week as it’s mostly the time spent and not just money spent to make marketing online work.

FOOLS RUSH IN – DO NOT RUSH IN

I really only started making money once I started blogging and sharing the experience I have from my interests and hobbies. That triggered like minded people to visit me and start asking questions. Eventually I started adding affiliate links to sites that I make money through.

Once I realized I could make money from my hobbies, something I had always want to do, just didn’t expect it to be online, I went nuts with blogging about everything I loved to do. I’ll admit I went way overboard and had to pull back once I found I was working myself to death, literally and it wasn’t needed at all.

Start A List Of Loves And Interests

I’m not talking about guys and girls here, I am referring to hobbies and interest. They can be gold.

So start a list of what you like to do and what you know that others would like to know. Don’t sell yourself short like so many people I have talked to that think they have nothing to offer. That just leads to being broke and frustrated at the same time.

I personally drew a blank for days just because I didn’t feel I had anything anyone would want to know. I look back and just shake my head, but I do understand when others say the same things. I just smile and help them get the ball rolling with a list of questions that help to open their mind.

You May Have To Spend A Little To Make A Lot

I tried to make it with a zero budget after I quit my day job and it was a tough go, really tough. Once I invested a little here and there things started turning around. It started to make sense that you need to spend a little to make money faster.

I was penny pinching because I no longer had an income. I wasn’t broke but thought it best to keep what I had for other things. Wrong move on my part. I could have been making so much more, so much faster. So really it cost me more NOT to spend a little.

Like I said, I started my online business without spending a penny, other than to buy a domain and pay for hosting. I didn’t make much at all, just hit and miss.

Then I started a site and invested about $100 to get articles written for my niche and published them on EzineArticles.com. Once they were published there I changed them up a little and published them on a bunch of other article directories. That’s when my traffic picked up and I started getting some sales.

Instead of waiting for months to see if a site was going to work I saw things happening in just a few days, once those articles started getting indexed in the major search engines.

Using a bit of money to get started was the brightest move I had made since quitting my job.

I didn’t rely solely on the articles I had paid to be written. I also wrote content on my own and did it on a regular basis, about 3 posts a week seemed to work. It keeps the search engines coming back and I keep getting more keywords in Google which sends me even more traffic.

Now I use a few places to get articles written and start new sites based on my interests and I’m making more money every month.

Note: The articles that I have written work as a method for getting relevant backlinks to my sites. Bonus

One of the sites I use to get articles written for me is ArticlesZ. They are inexpensive and do the job in a good time frame. I have no complaints about these guys.

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Article Marketing Key Steps:

If you are interested in getting free search engine website traffic than you need to take a look at article marketing. The key is having a solid article marketing plan. Your plan must include a set number of articles to publish per month. You must follow through and stick to your guns and make sure you publish the number articles you have set in your plan for each month.

My article marketing plan calls for to write and submit 1 article per week for my fishing site, now some weeks I write more, but never less than 1 per week. You are probably thinking why only one article a week , why write and submit dozens of articles a week? Well you need to understand you are building a foundation for your business so quality of your articles is key to building a on-line respectability. Remember your goal to be recognized as a expert in your Selected niche market.

Article marketing is not a quick hit traffic generator, This process takes time and your website traffic increases will be over time. There are some ways to jump start your efforts by automation but you need to learn the basics before using these tools. But I can guarantee this traffic will be quality targeted traffic. I have been using article marketing for about two years now and my sales have doubled.

Now let’s get to the meat of my article and look at key steps that are needed to make your article marketing efforts successful.

#1 Like I said in my opening paragraphs above you need to identify your “niche” market to be successful with your efforts. The more specific you can be with your article marketing plan the more success you will have. You will build your whole plan based on what you choose in this step, that is why I have Identified it as #1.

#2 Based on what you have chosen as your “niche market” you will now need to create a list of keywords that are associated with your selection. This list should be no less than 50 keyword phrases. These words need to be associated with the “niche” market you have chosen. {I do not recommend you start out targeting single keywords, select keyword phrases about your niche that are two and three words in length. Concentrate on using keyword phrases that are two and three words in length.} To be honest with you I have never done very well with single keywords in my articles. It has been my experience that single keywords do not score high for me on the search engines. If you have a low advertising budget, like most of us, I would like to suggest an excellent free keyword phrase generator that is offered by Google adwords. This service is free and you do not need to deposit any money. Just enter a single keyword that is specific to your niche and the Adwords system will generate a keyword phrase list of two, three and more words. Concentrate on using the two and three word phrases for your article marketing efforts.

#3 Now you are ready to start writing articles! What I do in my writing is just start writing what comes to mind that is pertinent to the niche I have selected. If you have to do any research do it before you start writing. This is also an excellent way to help with your articles structure. Start out writing by inserting your two and three word phrases as you go. One thing about keywords or phrases is that you do not want to repeat the same targeted word or phrase more than once every 100 hundred words. Take for example, if I were writing a article about article marketing and targeting the phrase “ Article Automation” and the length of my article was say 700 words, I would need to make sure this key word phrase was not used more than once every 100 words and no more then 7 times total. There are some twists you could use like mixing it up and instead of using “crappie fishing you could use “crappie angling” Its up to you. Just don’t repeat the same phrase in a 100 word count, the search engines penalize you for doing so and your article will not score well. Remember concentrate on the quality of your article when inserting keyword phrase. It’s important that you get the attention of the reader.

#4 Create a list of article directories to submit your article too. All article directories are not created equal so I suggest you use the following simple steps list the sites you want to submit to in a priority by Google ranking sequence. First thing you need to do is go to Google and type in “article directory” in the search box. The results will give you 1000’nds of sites to use in your list development. I Do suggest two very important article sites that are worth mentioning that you should put at the top of your list, and they are ezinearticles.com and Searchwarp.com. I use a free Google ranking tool that is simple to use to locate each sites ranking. Type in the following keyword phrase “website ranking tools for Google” at Google’s search box to find a free ranking tool suitable for you, or just e-mail me and I send the link I use. Just a note when developing a list use sites with rankings of 6,5,4,3 first, these sites will get you some traffic over time.

Well folks that should do it! Good luck with your article marketing efforts may success come your way!

Mark Fleagle owner of the article-miracle.com is an expert author at Ezinearticles.com and a silver member at Searchwarp.com Learn how to increase your website traffic using article marketing the right way! Learn why the most successful website owners have migrated to Article Marketing Automation Details Here: http://www.oldfishinghole.com/article-marketing-strategy.html

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How to make money ebooks, in my humble opinion, are the perfect way to learn how to make money online in just about any niche you pick because for the most part the methods for earning are the same.

I have been selling ebooks since about mid 2001 and by far the most have been how to make money ebooks. People need to learn how to make money so it makes good sense that these would be the ebooks that sell the most.

How do you make money with how to make money ebooks? Purchase a few, making sure that there is a refund possible as I have found many ebooks that just plain suck and have asked for a lot of refunds.

Now you can learn all you can from these ebooks and then write an ebooks that blends them all together making the info yours and unique. Remember that you don’t want people asking for refunds so do a great job.

It’s time consuming to write good ebooks but can be quite rewarding financially. You can also build your own work force by having others sell your ebooks for you. You make less on each ebook but remember they are the ones selling it for you.

You can also buy private lable rights products and rework them until they are uniquely yours. This method takes far less time to create and you can be selling sooner.

The Power of Resell Rights

My personal preference is to resell ebooks created by others. They did the work and because you purchased the product you know it’s worth selling or you would have requested a refund and moved on to the next ebook.

Where do I get ebooks with resell rights? I use Clickbank.

I couldn’t tell you how many ebooks I have purchased over the years but most of them came from Clickbank.

Note: I have never really enjoyed trying to find things on Clickbank but I do enjoy earning from Clickbank. Instead of using the Clickbank Marketplace to find the how to ebooks I use another tool that works great. It’s called CB Engine.

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