Archive for January, 2011

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I just finished writing and publishing an article on my work from home Moncton blog. The article is about a few people who decided they wanted an online presence for their work from home small businesses and hired me as their web designer.

Those are the same people who inspired me to move beyond designing web sites for other and to start my own money making web sites based on my hobbies and interests.

Unlimited Work From Home Income Opportunities

Making money online is awesome and even a person such as myself who only has a grade 9 education can work from home part time or full time and make money. It’s all about having something to offer and taking the time to learn how to make it work.

I had been looking for something for many years that would be easier than the back breaking jobs so for me it was one MLM program after the other, always ending in heart break and less money.

Back in the mid 80s when computers became affordable to the average home owner I bought one and started learning about it. I didn’t spend my time playing games, instead I learned about the computer and business software. Before long I was hiring myself out helping others understand their new computer and the days of back breaking jobs ended.

By the time the Internet reach us I was already pretty good at building web site and added that to the list of things I do working from home.

So what started out as an interest soon became more of a hobby and also a new career. Adding the Internet was just a natural move and the rest is history.

What Hobbies or Interest Of Yours Could Make Money?

A lot of my friends are fishing nuts like myself and the conversations eventually come around to me making money working from home. When I tell them I make money sharing stories, tips and techniques about fishing I usually get one of two responses.

  1. I don’t know anything that could make me money
  2. I could never run an online business. That’s when I ask them about their hobbies and interests.

This is usually the time their eyes light up or they start giving me reasons they could never make money online.

Millions upon millions of people love fishing and spend money, lots of money on their fishing addiction. I know because I am a fishing nut and can’t get enough of itmy friends are as well and they all spend too much money on fishing, so I know money is being spent and I get my share of it online.

Learn How To Make Money Blogging About Your Hobbies

There are some things you can learn that will help you work from home and make money on the Internet without the need to spend a lot of money getting there. Take the time to learn, just like you did for your hobbies and you will earn faster than most because most don’t take the time to learn how to make money efficiently.

Check out Blogging To The Bank and get started today.

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The online promotion of products isn’t as easy as it seems because you need to be completely dedicated and work very hard. This article will be discussing a few Internet marketing tips to help you grow your online business.

Pick a product to promote like LiquidWeb and then write a LiquidWeb review. Many people are unsure of what they should promote with their internet marketing business. There are many people who say that having your own products is the way to go since you get to keep all the money you make. While there are other marketers who believe affiliate products are the best to promote because you don’t have many headaches when it comes to handling the whole background procedure.

Well, each of these has its pros and cons. When you create your own product, you may find that you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. That, and the fact that when you promote your own products you often have to go in with other marketers who will help you in your promotion efforts. But nevertheless, having your own product does give you a peace of mind. In the long term, you can make lots of money when you create and promote your own product because you’ll be able to change things up until you find what works. You will then have to take into consideration that affiliate marketing allows you to start with little work, and you can get started right away promoting other individuals’ products and get paid in the process. When you get into affiliate marketing, however, you’ll often find that there’s too much competition to get people to respond to you. What you end up promoting with your online venture is all about what you are at ease with. What you can do is – start off with affiliate marketing and then slowly move on to creating your own product once you have enough experience. Using a service like SEOLinkVine can also make link building much easier.

Remember to have your eye on the long term goals when you’re growing your Internet marketing business. There are too many internet marketers that only look at their short term goals that will make them the money they want quickly. That’s a good way to find failure because your goal should be to build a business that brings you passive income. Don’t be short-sighted, but rather put in the hard work and dedication to make huge leaps. You’ll see that there’s plenty to be had with internet marketing as the scope is very broad with this business. It might be wise to focus on short term goals so that you can earn a profit that you can invest back into it. Take calculated risks that you know will pay off and watch as your Internet marketing venture grows by leaps and bounds.  If you’re teaching people how to play guitar, you will definitely sell lots of guitar courses.

Don’t be afraid to experiment with new marketing methods. Include Web 2.0 and social networks in your online marketing strategy. Even though some marketers use Facebook to spam people, you can use it to greatly enhance your marketing efforts. Set up a simple fan page of your own and encourage interested prospects to join. Take the time to network with as many other people as you can. Work on creating a relationship first and then move onto discussing business. You have the opportunity to leverage the power of Facebook’s platform at no cost if you’re sensible about your strategy.

As you can see, internet marketing, just like everything else, takes time and effort to become proficient at it. So make sure you’re putting enough time and effort into it to see real world results.

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First, I really like SEO Link Vine, however I do feel they could do better by giving theiur members a feedback form for each article.

An article feedback form would help members and make the site just that much better.

I work from home and I work hard to come up with good content on a regular basis for my readers. I know “good content is king” and I don’t plan to use poor quality content.

A Simple Feedback Form

When I am looking for content for my sites I am looking for three things.

  1. Content relevant to my niche categories.
  2. Content that is well written and helpful.
  3. Relevant links that will take my readers to more relevant content that’s helpful.

Think about it, why would I accept poor quality articles, non-relevant links or article with synonyms out of context.

Even though author privacy is important support would be able to see the authors abusing the system and deal with them. We would only need to use the feedback form to help support.

I do spend a lot more time on SEO Link Vine rejecting articles than I do on the other two networks I belong to which are My Artilce Network and Article Marketing Automation.

Why, well I feel the feedback that we can give on each article does make the difference. People are told what they are doing wrong and either correct the problem or they don’t get their articles published.

Here are some issues I think would be solved by having a feedback form with each article.

  1. Non-Niche Related Articles
  2. Category Spamming
  3. Out of Control Article Spinning
  4. Grammar and spell checking

I understand that with hundreds and thousands of members it’s hard to monitor all the articles and authors so why not use your members to help you in that area by giving us a feedback form for each article.

If you have an opinion please take a minute and leave a comment.

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A lot of people today are either thinking about or have already started a website of their own. The #1 reason is to try and make a little extra money to help make ends meet as there always seems to be more month that money these days. It was that exact reason I started my first work at home website way back in 2001.

At that time I didn’t put a lot of thought into the name of my domain. I was brand spanking new to Internet marketing and didn’t have a clue what I was doing.

I was about to make a poor choice for a domain name but was fortunate because I started my online business 10 years ago when it wasn’t nearly as important to have a keyworded domain name.

My advice to those desiring to make money online is to buy a domain and have it hosted. Don’t bother going with a free domain at Blogger.com or Wordpress.org, just because you can do it for free.

I tried that route and had my main blog shut down because someone complete about inappropriate content. Blogger shut me down immediately.  I didn’t even get a courtesy email so it wasn’t until a friend contacted me asking what happened to my site. I had to contact support  to find out what happened. Then they asked me if I wanted a human to check the site. DUH!!

They emailed me back, saying my site was fine and that they had turned it back on. Meanwhile it was down for a week just because someone lied about my site. Blogger didn’t even check it to see if the claim was true or not. Since then I have always purchased my own domains and paid for hosting. BTW: I have never had a site closed down since I host my own.

Don’t put your success in the hands of people that don’t care whether you succeed or not.

Personally I believe that I do much better with my own domain names and hosting account. GoDaddy.com is where I go to find keyworded domain names to purchase. HostGator.com is where my domains are hosted. I have never had any negative issues with either and have been using them for years now.

Choosing Domain Names

It’s important to think about what the name of your domain will have so take the time and do some research on your topic or niche. Use keywords that will help you in the search engines. Even a small amount of research here can make the difference because so many just don’t bother to research at all.

Keyworded Domain Names

A keyworded domain name can be the difference between being on the first page of Google’s search results and not being there. That little edge could also be the difference between making money and wishing you did.

So like I said it’s definitely a smart move to choose a keyword phrase that matches your topic or niche market and use that for your domain name if it’s available.

Note: If you find a keyword phrase you would like but it’s not available as a domain name try using a dash or hyphen between words. Just don’t make your domain name too long if using hyphens. It can be a pain to explain to people. I have a couple that I wish I had put more thought into. This domain you are on is a good example.

Back in 2003 I purchased this domain. I had wanted www.ebookswithresellerrights.com but it wasn’t available so instead I used three hyphens and bought ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com. Then in 2008 ebookswithresellerrights.com became available and now I own both.

Keyworded Plus Localized Domain Names

I love fishing, especially fly fishing, so I wanted to start a website about fly fishing here where I live here in Canada. By that time I had learned a little more so I looked for a domain that said ‘fly fishing in new brunswick‘ and it was available, now it’s mine.

Today people searching Google or other major search engines looking for information about fly fishing in New Brunswick usually find my website in the #1 position or at the least on the first page of results.

Investing Time Researching Domain Names

Taking the time to research your niche to find the best keywords for your domain can easily make the difference between earning something and earning zip. Take the time, look at it as an investment in your financial future.

Hosting Your Domain

For most marketers today hosting is cheap. You can even get hosting accounts that will allow you to host multiple domains on the same account for one low monthly fee. That’s the type of account I use as I have over 20 domains to host a this time. The number just keeps growing but it’s not costing me a fortune with my HostGator account.

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The Best Spinner is the bestI’m sure you’ve heard the phrase ‘content is king’, even if you’ve only been online for short time. I most certainly agree with that statement, however I think it should be taken further and have the word QUALITY added to it.

Just ask MSN they will explain in-depth why “Quality Content is King”.

Quality Control In Your Article Spinning

Sadly over the past couple of years, as article spinning software has become more and more popular, I’ve noticed the quality of articles dropping drastically. Once I started using a few different article spinners myself I began to understand why there are so many low quality articles being offered today.

Before we continue you need to know that it’s not the article spinning software that’s the problem, it’s the users clicking the auto replace synonyms button. Then to make the problem even worse most are not even bothering to check their grammar or spelling.

Finding The Best Article Spinner

I currently use a few different spinners but so far my choice is The Best Spinner. The fact The Best Spinner has a 7 day trial offer for just $7 and is only $77 a year after that is what got me to try it. After the first day I was more than convinced to purchase this product.

I use The Best Spinner to write unique articles and then use it to replace words with synonyms and create dozens of new fresh articles. Notice I didn’t say hundreds from each of the originals.

Killing Articles With Just One Click

Be warned that clicking the auto replace synonyms button could be the death of your article. Rewriting articles automatically, producing dozens and dozens of articles from the same original most times will produce poor quality content.

I find I create much better quality content picking and choosing each synonym manually.

Yes, I do produce less quantity of articles but those I do end up with tend to be much higher quality articles and I feel I make more money per article because of the quality.

Bonus Tip: Taking the time to check grammar and spelling is going to make you look like a better writer also and only takes a minute or two of your time.

My Goal When Writing Articles

I’m a work at home dad with no other income that what I produce from my online business and the articles I write. It’s simple my goal is to earn as much money from the work I do as possible.

I write articles to publish on my sites as well as to article directories so I can get more traffic and one way links back to my sites to earn more income.

Today I use The Best Spinner to make my money online and you can as well. Give yourself a few minutes to check it out it’s well worth your time.

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Make Big Money With Affiliate Marketing

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There are many people across the web who are making millions of dollars with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing, for those new to it is the process of sending a referral to a website and being paid when that referral performs certain actions.

Sometimes this will consist of buying products or services and other affiliate programs such as these get paid to take surveys programs will pay you when you send someone and they take a survey. Affiliate marketing has become a popular way for people across the net to earn money online because they do not need a product. The only thing that you will need to succeed with affiliate marketing is a web presence and traffic coming to that presence. To earn really good money with affiliate marketing you will need to be getting thousands of people to your presence every day. This is not a quick process, but if you work hard and are in the online business game for long enough you will begin seeing the traffic you work for.

There are a couple different ways to create a presence for affiliate marketing. You can either create a general website which has quality information on a topic or pick an affiliate product or program and market it directly. If you want to create a general presence such as an Internet marketing blog or some other resource you will need to find affiliate programs which are related. Personally with my online business blog I decided to use affiliate programs that were in the make money niche such as get paid to take surveys, get paid to write, and get paid to read email programs. One of the biggest reasons I used these affiliate programs was my traffic could join for free and start earning money. I would get paid a commission for everyone I sent usually a couple dollars. Now this works with my online business blog, but I found out quickly that it would not work on my Internet marketing blog.

If you are looking for quality affiliate programs and have no idea where to start I recommend using clickbank.com or amazon.com. Both of these have thousands of free products in every single niche. Personally with click bank when I want to make money I take one of the ebooks I think will do really well and create a simple page on hubpages.com or squidoo.com. The whole page is filled with information on the book and a few links that point towards the link which clickbank.com gives me. As the page rises in the serps and I get targeted traffic who are looking for the specific style of ebook they buy it and I am paid a commission on every sale. One important aspect when you want to make money with affiliate programs is making sure you know Internet marketing. The best resource I have found when trying to learn affiliate marketing is v7n.com/forums/.

If you would like to read more posts like this visit online business ideas.

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best PLR articles graphicIf you are using private label rights content out of the box with no intent on modifying the content yet still expect good results, well I think you should be afraid, very afraid.

Not too long ago I would have stated there was no need to be afraid to work with PLR content without modifying it. Then in 2010 I said it was imperative you modify your PLR content by 30%, then 50%. It’s now 2011 and we say you should customize a lot more. Your odds of becoming successful with duplicate private label rights content is about nil.

Is There A Time I Can Utilize Private Label Rights As Is

Alright, although It’s my opinion you will be totally wasting your time using private label rights content as is there are times you just might be able to get away doing it. If you’re the first to purchase the private label rights and use them then there is no duplicate content yet.

Of course with tons of work from home marketers trying to find these articles you’re not gonna uncover unused PLR free of charge. You can however locate brand new PLR content on paid PLR content sites.

The key here’s to keep informed. Know whenever new PLR become accessible and be the first one to buy and use the content.

Two sites I joined, to get instant notice through e-mail, are EasyPLR and YummyPLR.

Tell Me What Happens For Utilizing Duplicate Content

Allow me to give you what Google is able to do when they find too many duplicate articles.

Person #1 locates  free PLR articles and believes it is a great way to expand their website content without doing work for it. Naturally this person still thinks they will make lots of money.

Unfortunately after many weeks of posting duplicate content there is still no traffic or money.

Person #2 discovers the same articles, however isn’t going to use them prior to researching Google to see how many times the articles are  listed.

How to Make Duplicate Content Unique

I focus on the title. I put quotes around the title then search google to find out how often it has been utilized. I continue checking phrases within the article and spinning them to make sure they are unique. This process gets quicker the longer a person practices.

Think about it Google has been actively playing the search engine game for quite a while and they’re king of the hill. If you want to use unchanged private label rights you ought to be very afraid.

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