Turn Freebies into Cash System - Final Lesson

Now that we have covered a lot of the basics on Niche marketing it is time to find and choose products you wish to promote.

It is important to understand that just because you have chosen a profitable niche to target it does not mean that every product in that niche is profitable. Even the hottest niches have dogs so you must approach this with caution and skill.

Clickbank

ClickBank is the Internet's largest digital marketplace, where thousands of the web's most popular digital products are sold through every day. For an Affiliate this means you can simply sign up for a free account, browse the marketplace to find products you wish to promote. Generate an affiliate link for those products, then start promoting. You will earn a percentage of each sale you make through your affiliate link, this will be credited to your account immediately. You then receive a check twice a month from the balance of your account.

Now how simple is that.

There are other places you can find affiliate products, which I will cover in a minute, but since Clickbank is the most popular and my wish to keep things simple I will be using Clickbank as the main example through this guide.

As I have just mentioned there are other digital marketplaces that are similar to Clickbank eg. Commission junction, pay dot com. Some vendors choose to handle there own affiliate sales and program and not use Clickbank or any of the other affiliate managing companies.

While there is an increase risk to the affiliate not getting their commissions, due to dishonest vendors or the vendor going out of business, it is still worth considering the products of vendors that are well respected and have a good track record.

Domain Name & Hosting

Before we proceed further into the subject of domain names, hosting and auto responders, I wish to point out some important aspects that you need to consider about these Internet marketing services.

I have got for you a link to a free web hosting company and auto responder but I do not recommend that you build your business using these free services. Unless you are really pushed for cash and can not afford to purchase a domain name, hosting account and a auto responder account, or you just wish to put your toe in the water and test the whole internet marketing concept before you throw any money at it, then I do recommend that you purchase these three products for the following main reasons.

• A domain name, as it will then be yours and can not be taken away from you or just disappear over night.

• A quality Hosting account, you do not want to be pushing traffic to your site either through paid advertising or spending many long hours generating free traffic only to find the server your site is hosted on has been down for the last 6 hours or quite possibly a few days.

• Auto responder, have you heard the saying “the money is in the list” this is very true and something to be very mindful of. Your list is a great source of income that can be used in many ways over and over again and therefore a very valuable asset. If you have spent a lot of time building your list and marketing to them it makes good business sense to have a reliable auto responder that will get a high percentage of your e-mails through to your list and of course you would not like to wake up one morning to find the free auto responder service you have your valuable list on has just disappeared.

Now with all that said I have the links to the best of the best free services for those who wish to give them a go. It is also fair to say that you can also create sub domains on a paid hosing account, generally with no additional costs.

I have tested a number of these free auto responders and I have chosen one that has proven to have the best deliverability of them all but it still falls far short of the paid one that I will recommend shortly. This free Auto responder, does back up your data daily and you can also do this yourself, which I recommend you do even with a paid service to protect your investment. I will mention both these services when we get to the subject.

Anyway I will give these links to you after you have done some work on how to select a domain name.

Selecting a Domain Name

There are two options

• Setting up a separate domain name and for each affiliate product you promote.

• Having one domain name and one hosing account with sub domains for each affiliate product.

Setting up a domain name is the best option as you can choose a name that is very similar to that of the domain name that you are promoting. Which can give the impression to the prospective buyer that they are dealing directly with the vendor.

The second option in not so simple but a lot cheaper. First you will need to do a bit of brainstorming to come up with the best generic name that will suit a wide range of products in the niche you have chosen. eg.

If your niche market was search engine optimization then a generic domain name would be www.seotips.com. Then you simply add sub domains for each affiliate program eg. www.affiliateprogramname/seotip.com. I sometimes use sub domains or sub directories to test an affiliate program and then move them to their own domain if they are profitable.

You now have a few options, I hope I have not confused you here but there is no hard and fast rule. Just go with the option that you feel most comfortable with, what is more important is that you progress to the next step.

It is a good time now to register your domain name and hosting account as they can take a few days to propagate for paid services, so getting this done now will allow the propagation to take place while you are working on developing your site.

Firstly I will run through the process of a free domain and hosting account then I will do the same for a paid service.

Free Hosting Service

There are not many hosting companies that offer a free service and when they do there are usually conditions attached eg. Buy a domain and get hosting free, or you have forced popup and banner ads.

The problems I have found with most Free hosting services:

• Small disk space,
• Poor support
• Run banner and pop up ads on your site for free
• Require you to buy an over priced domain name from them.

It is very important that you have a hosting company that has good customer service with minimal down time. As you probably have gathered it is very difficult to find a free hosting company that does not have all these negative factors.

If you intend to use a free hosting service then I have found a good free hosting company for you.

With this company you can either get your own free sub domain or use one of your own existing domains or both.

It has good support, it has 2000mg disk space, no popup or ads of any kind, it also had MySQL data base plus much more. Get more details and sign up for your free account here www.110mb.com/.

With this free service you can be live within an hour of you choosing a program to promote.

Something to remember is that a sub domain does not affect your search engine rankings

Tip: With this free sub domain and hosting account, be aware that the account name you use to setup the account will become your sub domain name, so be sure to use the domain name you have decided on to create your account.

Paid Hosting

As previously mentioned if you go the paid route you will secure your assets and believe me you will spend many hours generating traffic to your sites so you will want security. Along with this, having your own domain name on your server looks more professional and will help people to take you more seriously.

The hosting service I use is called Host Monster they only charge $4.95 a month and you get a free .com domain and free domain privacy (these alone can cost you $15 to $20 a year). I can not recommend them more highly. Their service is second to none, you only have to go to a few hosting web forums and read the raving reviews to see what I mean. It comes with all the other features that all good hosting companies have.

Another thing to consider is that many hosing companies that offer a free domain name with every hosting account will not allow you, or make it very difficult to take the domain name with you if you decide to switch hosting companies. This traps you into staying with them especially if you have done a lot of work getting your site up in the search engines rankings. Host monster does not do this, you can take your domain with you.

So now you have all the info you need on hosting a domain names, you can make your choice and head over to one of them with your preferred domain name and create your account

Webpage development

Tip: Before you jump into creating your web pages it would be wise to read all the following sections and the recommended freebies that are mentioned, right through to and including the On Page optimizing section.

Now that you have the product you are going to promote, as well as a domain and hosting account, you now need to create web pages to promote the product you have chosen and then upload to your website,

I am going to show you how to create an Opt-In page, also known as a squeeze page, this is a single page that is designed to entice the visitor to enter their name and email address to get information on what they are searching for. Teaching you this method will help you to build your own list that you can market to on a regular basis while making cash from the sales from your affiliate product.

The Squeeze Page and Google.

Google has recently changed their algorithms that have adversely affected many single page squeeze page sites effecting the amount they have to pay for their clicks in their Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns as well as affecting organic search rankings.

So that this does not happen to you we need to do things a little different than we would have done 6 months ago.

This is all very new, some affiliate marketers don’t even realize this and a lot that do know, don’t know what to do about it, so if you get this right you will have the jump on the competition.

HTML Editor

Now that you have your copy for your squeeze page/Opt-In page we now need to put it on a web page. You do this with the help of a HTML Editor.

A HTML editor is a software program that you use to create your webpage’s before uploading to your web server. HTML is the code that is widely used on the Internet.

A HTML Editor makes it easy for you, the simplest ones to use are WYSIWYG editors, this stands for What You See Is What You Get, this means that it is almost like using a word processor, you just create your page similar to the way you would a word document and the program creates the HTML code in the back ground for you.

You may have heard of the most popular HTML editors or you may already have one of them, Microsoft Front Page and Macromedia’s Dreamweaver.

These two programs are the most popular and they are not cheap but if you do not already have one of these there are some great free HTML software programs that will do a sufficient job for creating sales pages and squeeze pages and basic web sites.

You can always buy one of the other programs if you wish to get into building big elaborate web sites later on.

For the moment the free HTML editors I have listed here will be more than good enough to create the pages you will need to start making money online.

There are two options I have for you

The first one is

Nvu is relatively new and has been designed with the novice in mind and they also offer support.

The other is from Mozilla called Sea Monkey

I suggest downloading both and have a play around with them, then read and watch the following tutorials before you make a decision which you wish to use. Now that we have the software to create and edit web pages we now need to understand how to do this.


On Page Optimizing

Another aspect you must consider while creating your web pages is ‘on page’ optimization, what I mean by this is that search engines have a certain criteria it searches on which are called algorithms. These algorithms are made up of ‘on page’ and ‘off page’ factors. At this point we need to work on the ‘on page’ factors.

Copywriting

With what you have just learnt from the previous web page about squeeze pages and squeeze page copy it’s worth learning more on this subject before we start writing your copy.

This subject is very important to your success, to write some compelling copy to entice your visitors enough to eagerly enter their name and email address in order to get to your offering is a critical link in the chain.

Creating good copy will be the difference between you succeeding or failing so don’t take any short cuts here. I can not emphasize the importance of this point enough.

Copy writing is a talent that you will develop overtime with the right guidance and a bit of practice. I have a few freebies that will help this part and then combining what you learn from them and taking a few short cuts by coping other sales letters, you will be creating your own professional looking sales copy.

Now let me just clarify something here, what I mean by coping other sales pages, I don’t mean copy them directly. What I mean is this, why try and reinvent the wheel when you have heaps of templates that you can use, all you have to do is make them your own.

The best way to do this is to do a search in the Clickbank marketplace on the category you have chosen and in the field ‘sort by’ choose gravity, you can choose this from a the drop down menu in the search window.

Gravity is an indication of the amount of affiliates promoting the product and sales being made, the higher the number the better. Now go through all the top products and view their sale pages, try to put yourself in the mindset as if you where looking at buying the product.

As you go through them just take notice of your own reactions and feelings, which ones made you feel more compelled to find out more. Then print these ones out and use them as your guide.
Now before you jump right in I have some freebies for you that will teach you the art of writing great copy.

Now I hope you have read Ken’s great free e-book the Netwriting Masters Course on pre-selling and selling. It is important that you learn the difference. Being an affiliate you will be pre-selling more than you will be selling but it is worth learning both for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, it will help you recognize a good sale page when you are searching for products to promote in the future. Secondly, writing sale copy will also come in handy when you might add a giveaway bonus you have created to help increase your Opt-In rate, so in this case you will pre-sell the affiliate product but hard sale your free bonus.

Another great tip here is to sign up to Perry Marshall’s free AdWords 5 day course

In doing so you will be on Perry’s list, you will find that you will start to get some info sent to you other than the 5 day email course. This is what people do with lists and Perry is a master at persuasive email marketing.

The good thing here is not only do you get some quality info but you can study the guru of guru’s on how he works his list, it’s like a course within the course. In fact signup to all Perry’s free stuff.

Anyway I have digressed, one of the e-mails that you will receive that will appear on day 5 is about copywriting this free info pack together with Ken Evoy’s e-book, will give you all that you need to be a successful copy writer. Look I failed English at school, did not read my first book till

I was 16, which took me 6 months but with these two courses and some practice I now write my own sales letters including the one that you read to buy this product.

Tip: You don’t have to wait the whole 5 days to complete Perry’s course. After receiving your first installment just scroll to the bottom of the web page and you will find the links to the next 4 days.

If you feel you still need to develop you writing skill then the following site offers many different course that focus on different styles of writing. Developing different styles can help evolve your own creative, persuasive style when integrate with what you have learnt about copy writing.

This site will benefit those that are more challenged by the written word, like myself. Take a look and give it a go writing bliss

Affiliate Link Cloaking

Next we need to learn how to cloak our affiliate links.

As an affiliate you will be working hard researching products to promote spending time setting them up and promoting them. So when someone comes across your affiliate link and from all your hard work wishes to purchase the product you are promoting, don’t you think you deserve the commission that is rightfully yours. Yes of course you do.

Affiliate cloaking has become necessary and good business sense. Cloaking your affiliate link helps to increase your conversion rate by firstly getting rid of the long ugly looking URL that is obvious to everyone that it is an affiliate link. It is a fact that the majority of people just seem to not like paying someone a commission even though they will not pay any more for the product, having your affiliate link displayed also opens you up to a greater possibility of having your affiliate id changed to someone else’s.

Now that we have created the HTML file that contains your hidden affiliate link that should be sitting on your hard drive in a folder or your desk top, we can now create a form that will collect names and email addresses. We then will insert this form into your webpage. To create this form we need a auto responder.

Note:- The HTML File you have just created with your hidden affiliate code will need to be uploaded to your web site, this we shall do later when we upload all your files to your web server.

Auto Responders

As I have mentioned your auto responder will be holding your most valuable asset, your list. Another important point is that when you mail out to your list you may find with a free service the percentage of emails delivered can be quite low this is mainly due to all the spamming protection most people have on their computer nowadays..

Free Auto Responder

So with that said I can not recommend you to use a free auto responder service although for those of you that wish to give them a try I have found FreeAutobot to be the better one from the testing that I have done.

Paid Auto Responder

If you decided on going for a paid Auto Responder service you can not go past AWeber it is regarded the best and is used by most of the guru’s. It has over 99.9% deliverability on emails and has an excellent menu system that makes it very easy to use, this is very important point for those of you that have not had any experience with auto responders before.

At the moment I am using the auto responder at 1shopping cart but I am looking at changing to AWeber as they get a higher percentage of emails delivered and they are cheaper.

Once you have your auto responder account setup there two main tasks you will need to do to complete this next step. They are….

• Create an auto responder e-mail series
• Create and add a Opt-In form to your squeeze page

Auto Responder E-mail Series

I have explain the virtues of a list, it is the difference between making some money and making serious money from your Internet business.

The auto responder you signed up to will have easy to follow steps on how to do this.

Creating & Adding An Opt-In Form To Your Webpage

Now that you have your auto responder and your hidden affiliate link file, it is time to add the Opt-In form to your squeeze page.

Both the free and paid auto responders that I have mentioned have step by step instructions on how to create your form code. Aweber has a video tutorial on this process.

When you get to the step that asks you the page you want the visitor to be directed to after they Opt-In, some auto responders call it your thank you page (after they enter their name & email address and press the submit button) this is where you add the address to the HTML file that contains your hidden Affiliate link.

We have yet to upload this HTML file to your web server but that is ok, we can still enter the address of where it will be.

The address will be http://www.yourdomainname.com/yourfilename.html

Where the address says yourdomainname enter your new domain name.

Where it says your file name enter the name you gave your HTML file that contains the hidden affiliate code.

Tip: If you are using the free hosting service then drop the www. It will then look like this http://yourdomainname.110mb.com/yourfilename.html

With Aweber you have the option of creating many different form types eg. pop ups, pop over’s and in line forms. For the type of squeeze page we are creating the best option is an in line form meaning it sits within your web page and not on a separate pop up or pop under. So be sure to check this option when you come to it.

Once you have the form code from your auto responder the next step is to simply copy and paste the code onto your webpage.

To do this just open your squeeze page in your HTML editor, select design view or normal view from the tabs in the bottom left. Place the cursor where you wish to place the Opt-In form.

Next change the view to code or source by clicking the tag in the bottom left. Then without moving the cursor, paste in your form code.

Now go back to normal view and take a look if you need to centre it then watch video 5 in series 1 again to help you do this.

One final thing, just below your Opt-In form type in a one line privacy statement, something like, ‘Your details will not be sold, exchanged or given to any third party’. Have a look at a few other websites to get more idea’s if you wish.

Note: Finding the form code in Free Autobot can be a little difficult you will find it in the help file in the add lead window.

Congratulations, you now have a form on your page that when someone enters their name and email address it gets stored in the data base of your auto responder account, also the first of your e-mail series will be delivered to them. On top of this the person is sent to the sale page of the product that you are promoting and the best thing is that it is all on auto pilot.

Next step is to add a traffic counter to our site

Traffic Analysis

Tracking you traffic is a critical aspect of a successful online business.

Tracking tells you where your traffic is coming from what keywords are the most popular, what pages are being viewed the most. All this information helps you work out your all important conversion rates.

This is what will make the difference between you making a few dollars and making your dream income.

Now, to actually get the traffic data to analyze, you will need software that does this for you. It is quite simple, you just imbed a code into your web pages, this code is generated from a web base software program and that is it. After that you just log into your account, as you wish, to get the stats.

With these stats you are then able to track your conversion rates. The two conversion rates that are most important is your Opt-in rate and sale conversion rate.

To get your Opt-In percentage rate (Percentage of people that have entered their name & email address on your squeeze page compared with those that didn’t) is simply the amount of people on your list, over a specified period of time, divided by the amount of unique visitors to your squeeze page over the same period of time, multiplied by 100.

The mathematical way to put this is: people on your list ÷ Unique Visitors x 100. The average for a squeeze page is 17%

Now to get your Sale page rate (Percentage of people that have bought compared with those in your Opt-In list that didn’t) is simply the amount of Sales you have made, over a specified period of time, divided by the amount of people on your list, over the same period of time, multiplied by 100.

The mathematical way to put this is: Sales ÷ people on your list x 100.

The average for a sale page is about 2% to 3% a good sale page will convert around 5%

You should check your stats weekly and if your squeeze page is not getting at least the average conversion then you should tweak it a little at a time and watch for any increase or decrees in the conversion rate.

If the conversion at the sale page is not good then you need to look at the keywords you are using and your presale. If you believe that this is generating the right targeted traffic to the sales page then you will have to seriously consider whether you should continuing promoting the product. Especially if you are spending a lot of time getting traffic to your site or spending money on paid advertising. It would be better spent on a better converting product. This is why tracking your traffic is critical. It makes it easy to find the dogs and dump them and ramp up the winners.

Another stat that is important to monitor is the keywords that people are using to come to your site. This will help you know which are the best keywords and keyword phrases to focus on in your advertising.

There are a few Free Traffic counter tools available but I have found these two to be the best:

Stat counter

Stat counter is very easy to use and setup but the problem is that they only show the last 100 logs, if you want to see more, then yes, you guessed it, you have to pay, but I have found that it is quite satisfactory to begin with and at this stage is the one I use, you can check it out here. www.statcounter.com It has a very simple to follow step by step setup that will create your code. Once you have your code just follow the same steps to as you did with the form code in the previous section to paste it into your web pages.

Google analytics

Google analytics has a great free traffic analysis tool and has no log restrictions, it is a little more complicated to set this up than stat counter but if you spend the time going through the very comprehensive tutorials you will be rewarded with great statistics.

I tend to use stat counter as I find it the simplest to use.

Add a Privay Statement

Upload Your New Website To Your Server

The next few steps are important to be carried out in the order that I have presented them.
Now is the time to upload your pages to your web server. We do this with the help of a FTP software program. There are a few free FTP programs around, I use Filezilla.

You will need your FTP details and your user name and password for your hosting account.

These details would have been sent to you by e-mail just after you created your hosting account.
Make sure you upload all your pages including the blank Link Page and Site Map page. These 2 pages should just have a title at the top stating what they are. Don’t forget to also upload any graphics or audio you have created or used on your pages.

Now the exciting part going on the web to check if your site is working.

Once on your new site go through all your links and make sure they all work. If they do not go back to your HTML editor and bring up the page that the link is on and check that you have the address properly entered to the address where the page is located. Then check that the page is actually where it should be on the server.

Broken Link Checking

Broken links on your site effects the search engines ability to search your site properly and therefore will effect your search engine rankings. Sometimes you will not pickup some of the broken links by just clicking around so it is wise before you generate your site map to do a broken link check by using a free software called Xenu. I have used this for all my sites and is invaluable especially when you start creating pages with 50 to 100 pages with 100’s and even thousands of links.

Site Map

Site maps are very important as search engines love them plus Google offers a free tool that checks your site map for errors which is great to know so that you can fix any problems if Google does not like it. This tool also has many other statistics that are very helpful.

It is a good video that gives you the basics but the Site Map generator that he uses only produces the site map in xml format, which is fine for Google but many other search engine use different formats to search your site.

The one I use produces your site map not only in xml format but also in ror and text formats as well as in HTML which you can insert on you site map page for your visitors to see. The others you just upload to your root directory (which in most cases is the public.html folder)

Once you have upload the xml, ror and text files to your server then open your HTML editor. Next, open your site map page you created earlier and then open the HTML file that the site map generator created. Then in the code view on both of these files, paste the code from the site map generated file to your site map page.

Once you have done this you can upload it using your FTP software and over write the old page.
Congratulations!!! You now have a fully operational affiliate site that has been optimized for search engines, live on the web just waiting for visitors.

Now Lets start work on generating traffic

Traffic Generation

I know I have said this on a number occasions about other parts of the process but I have to say it again here, Traffic generation is one of the most critical parts of the whole internet marketing process, you could have a fantastic product with a well designed and written squeeze page but if you don’t know how to generate traffic to your site then all your previous work will have been for nothing.

There are many ways to get traffic to your site, this can be done by posting in forums, blogs, bulletin boards, social bookmark sites, you can even use normal advertising in newspapers or magazines. This is all great but the best way to get serious traffic is through the search engines and this is done by either paying for it or through organic search engine traffic (free traffic).

I will be covering both paid and free search engine traffic.

Firstly I will focus on Organic traffic which will take in some of the tactics I have just mentioned eg. posting in forums, blogs, bulletin boards, social bookmark sites, as these activities help your search engine rankings when done a certain way..

Search Engine Optimization

On page optimizing is only a small percentage of what you need to do to rank high in the search engines, this we have already done. Off page optimizing is a much bigger task and takes many hours of consistent work.

There are many tricks and little known secrets that I have found from different guru’s, so lets get started.

This is a big subject so this will take some time to learn and the quickest and best way for you to progress through this is for me to pass on the best relevant information by giving you the links to all the information to read and watch on this subject.

I will not try to bombard you to much but if you go through it all at your own pace you will come out the other end with the necessary knowledge for you to implement the off page tactics.
I know you will be wanting to get into it but you must understand the basics so that when I give you links to certain strategies and software, you will understand why you need to do it and how to carry it out. This will lead to a more efficiently and effectively outcome.

Since Google is the major search engine and is the hardest to get top rankings it is what the following tactics will be targeted at. Doing this you will find your rankings will look after themselves in the other search engines anyway.

Another aspect with off page optimizing is what I call the Google dance. Let me explain, the most affective way to carry out most of the off page optimizing tactics is to do the processes manually because some of the software that automates these processes can be detected by the search engines and rendering all your work useless or a waste of time and money.

This creates a dilemma, that is best seen as a challenge, there is just not enough hours in a day to do a quarter of the processes required to get you to the first page on popular search terms, making automation necessary.

The trick is to automate the process that will not lose to much relevance with Google once it has been automated. This is a process that needs evaluating consistently. Using automation, if you push it to hard, can risk the search engines picking it up and your site being penalized and your work going to waste.

When an new automated process is put out in the market and the increase of people use and abuse that particular process Google changes their algorithms and then the effectiveness of that automation disappears, this is the Google dance.

What I present here when applied in the manner I and the free reports and lessons describe and not abused, will help you win the Google dance resulting in truck loads of traffic.

Now that you have read all this info on off page optimization you will know now that you have to get many links that point to your pages, you would have also learnt that search engines put different importance or weighting on links, making some links more valuable to your search engine rankings than others. You have also learnt that there are many different ways of getting these links and not to go over board with one particular strategy otherwise you risk being penalized.

So now I will step you through strategies that will get these different links. This is a huge subject that is constantly evolving as the search engines change their algorithms. Some of these strategies I have found free software that will help you build your links quicker and easier.

A trap for young players is that they can get impatient and push to hard with one or a couple of link generating strategies causing their links to build abnormally fast in the eyes of the search engines. You must always remember when using automated processes to build links that link building should be built gradually day by day.

A good overall strategy to build your links is to use all of the following strategies in a systematic way. Allocate and commit a certain amount of time each day to carry out each link building strategy. This will prevent you standing out like a beacon to the search engines and help keep you under the radar.

I will run through each strategy giving you links to advice and software that will help the process where it is applicable. .

Reciprocal links

Reciprocal Linking is a very common way to get links pointing to your site but there are some things you must be aware of..

When you find link partners they will require you to have a link back to their site in return for a link back to your site from theirs. Remember how we created a links page and uploaded it to your server, this is what we have done this for.

To do this is simple, they will provide you with the details of their site plus the URL of the page they want the link pointing to, the anchor text, and a short description. These detail are then put on your links page and uploaded to your server. Your link partner will do the same with your details.
Sounds simple doesn’t it.

I will give you two ways of carrying out this process

The first is searching manually in Google for link partners.

Watching how to do reciprocal links manually will help you understand the process. I will then give you a link to a site that is free and speeds up the whole process. Understanding the process first will help pickup on how to use this software faster and more efficiently.

The second way is using service called Link Metro, this is a site that helps put reciprocal link partners together. Link Metro has a paid and free service for reciprocal link exchanging and is an excellent way to build reciprocal links quickly.

I have been using the free service for some time and have had great success with it. It is a semi automated system that takes a little bit of time but compared with finding sites manually through Google it is much faster.

The paid service at Link Metro speeds up the process even more.

Tip: When creating your sites profile on Link Metro, enter your main keywords in the site description. The site description is what becomes the active hyperlink. This creates highly targeted anchor text on other relevant sites you exchange with.

Article submitting

Article submitting is a very powerful and easy way to get back links to your site. You will also get the benefit of traffic coming directly from the article.

This is one tactic that you should not cut corners on as it is very powerful.

You should start by submitting an article a week for about six weeks. I know this may sound a lot but this is important. What will make you feel better is that you can start with using the articles that you wrote for your content pages on your website.

As you create more articles than the ones you have on your site it is worth creating another web page and add it to your site, don’t forget to link it to the other pages as you have learnt and you will also have to create another site map and over write the old and submit it to Google. This will tell Google that your site has changed and to come take a look. Google loves new content so it will help your rankings. Just follow the steps you learnt previously and don’t stress, after you do this a couple of times you will do it very quickly. I can create a new site map and upload it and submit it to Google in about 5 to 10 minutes, with my eyes closed and my hands tied behind my back. Well almost but I am sure you get the point.

When you have created your article you will need to submit it to article sites, this is a very simple process.

Press Release

Press releases are another extremely effective way to get traffic and back links.

Now you know how to write a press release you now have to find an angle that will tie into the product you are promoting and at the same time be news worthy.

One way to do this is to read the papers and watch the TV news with the purpose of finding a fresh news story that you can tie in with your product. This takes a little creativity but give it a go I think you will surprise yourself due to all the focus that you have been putting into your subject over the last few days or weeks.

One of the best known press release services is prweb

I have used this a couple of times with great results.

Blog & Ping

Blogging is an effective way to get traffic and can also help get your site indexed quickly, which I touched on earlier, although not as good as it was 18 months ago because of people spamming bloggs, it is still worth doing and when done correctly and not abused it is very effective.

The idea is to post comments and articles to your blog that has a link back to your site and then ping your blog. Pinging helps tell the search engine spiders that there is new content and since search engine love blogs you will find the spiders will come and crawl your blog very quickly resulting in them following your link back to your site.

You can get a free blog at http://blogger.com

Pinging your post

Pingoat is a great site that distributes your ping to a number of large ping sites for you including your yahoo account.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting is also another way to get back links from blogs.

Tag and ping

Tag and ping is a similar concept to blog and ping and is as affective as blog and pinging was 18 months ago.

Instead of blogs, social bookmark sites are used to create the back links.

You do this by creating accounts and book marking your site in these accounts, this creates a back link to your site.

Forums

Forums are great way to build one way back links and to also get direct traffic from.

Paid Traffic

The best form of paid traffic is pay per click (PPC) and the best place for PPC is Google AdWords. AdWords is a way to get instant access to over 100 million people in less than 10 minutes. When mastered this is a very effective way to start making money on line quickly.

If you do not have the patience and time to generate free traffic to your site or you wish to get some traffic while you wait for the organic strategies to take effect, then this is the best way to get that traffic.

Another reason to use PPC is for testing an affiliate product before you put the time and effort into getting organic traffic. I do this with every product that I promote and I suggest that you do the same.

As mentioned, Google AdWords is by far the best place for PPC advertising, it is very powerful and when used correctly the rewards are enormous but there are many traps that could cause you to lose your shirt if you are not aware of them.

Perry Marshell is regarded as the guru of guru’s when it comes to the subject of Google AdWords.

If you did not sign up for his fee lesson’s earlier then click the link below to get Perry’s 5 day course and remember that on the web page of the fist day of the course you can find a link to all 5 days.

The 5 day course is designed to encourage you to purchase a product of his called The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords, this guide is regarded as a classic and the guide to have if you are serious about using Google AdWords.

Look, as I said Perry is a guru of guru’s. I recommend that you sign up to as many free courses of his that you can find as you find many little tips that will help refine your marketing strategies.

After reading these guides you will have a pretty good grasp of advertising on Google AdWords for you to run a successful campaign. If you feel you would like to learn more about AdWords.

Google has a very comprehensive Guide at Google AdWords Learning Center

Congratulations you should now have an affiliate site up and going.

Now please be aware that each of the steps you have just completed is critical to the success of your whole affiliate promotion. If one step is not completed properly it will cause your promotion to fail. So if you feel you did not complete a section properly or did not quite understand it, then go back over that step until you know that you have got it.

When you are new at affiliate marketing it is hard to know if you have done all the steps correctly, this is why tracking your traffic and analyzing your sales process is critical, so make sure you use the free resources at Google and your stat counter to pin point where your traffic drops out of you sales process then reassess that part. A good tip is to only make small changes at a time and watch for improvements.

Your next step is to continue implementing traffic strategies daily and monitoring your conversion rates and tweaking your sales page and your Google AdWords ads (if you are using
AdWords).

Once you are into a bit of a routine, then go back to the start and do it all again. This time you will have more knowledge and experience which will help you to do it all faster and better than before. In time together with good old fashion hard work and persistence you will create your dream online income.

Remember that this will only become a reality to those own take action statistics show that only a small percentage actually to the action necessary to achieve their goals, it is up to you now to not become another statistic.

Good Luck, I will be keeping in contact when I find more valuable freebies that I believe will assist you in your internet business.

Turn Freebies into Cash System - Final Lesson

Turn Freebies into Cash System - Lesson 2

What is Affiliate Marketing

Now ... I'm sure by now you're familiar with "Affiliate Programs". If not, I'll briefly explain: An affiliate program is a program where a merchant will pay you a commission to refer folks to their website. If your referral buys ... you make a substantial cut of the profit.

You receive a "special" link that has your affiliate ID in it and that's how the merchant knows you're the person who referred the sale to them. And, it seems nowadays everywhere you turn webmasters are enticing their website visitors into clicking on a banner or a link and then you're instantly re-directed to an affiliate's website to buy – CHING! And that's a great thing!

The problem is ... most of us are becoming more and more "blinded" by all the flashy banners and links we see on every web page we visit ... and that means less and less profits for those websites who spend a significant amount of time, money, and effort into promoting these programs.

Do these webmasters make money from their referrals? Yup! Do they make a lot of money? Well. .. that would depend on the amount of traffic they get to their website and the clever strategies they use to send folks off to their affiliate partners.

But you really need to consider these factors as well:

· How much time do they spend out of their day updating, adding and editing their affiliate links (remember ... time is money).

· How many costs are involved in hosting and maintaining their website.

· And most importantly ... How much money do they spending getting all the traffic to their website.

These three big factors (amongst other things) can make or break the success of any website. Think about it...If Joe Webmaster makes $1000 a week from affiliate referrals but he spends 15 hours a day at his computer, spends $300 a week hosting and maintaining his website, and spends $700 a week on marketing, search engine optimization, and internet advertising ... Do you think Joe Webmaster is making a nice living online? Hell No!

This poor sap is spending his entire life on his business and coming out at a break even point at best. Yes ... he could brag to all of his friends about how he gets a "hefty" check every month for X amount of dollars from his affiliate partners ... but he's only kidding himself and practically wasting his life away in the process!

Plus... many of us aren't web designers so we'd need to pay to have a site designed and maintained and that could end up being a huge expense in itself – cutting into our profits from our affiliate commissions. I don't want to spend my life in front of my computer! And ... I want to be able to see a real profit from my efforts online! And I certainly don't want to have to rely on someone else to update my website for me ... NO WAY!

Wouldn't you agree? And that's why my system doesn't require a fancy website, 15 hour days in front of the computer, or a big advertising budget to see any real profit! As I mentioned previously .... all you need is a computer, an affiliate account or two ... and a keyboard... that's it!

For now, forget the fancy website or big advertising budget! We don't need it! We're going to capitalize on an ingenious method where we simply write one article a day (approximately 700-1000 words) and in that article we offer a detailed, unbiased review of someone else's product. That's it!

Then, we're simply going to submit our article (product review) to some of the most popular article directories online – directories where folks browsing the web frequently visit to read on specific information they're searching for.

The good news ... many of these article directories get tens of thousands of hits per day. They're all well ranked in the search engines already so they've done the marketing for us. Talk about exposure for our articles! YEEE HAWW! No big fancy website ... No big advertising budget ... Just an hour or so of our time each day to write a quality product review (in the form of an article) about someone else's terrific product or service!

What an ingenious concept ... no? So ... let me ask you ... "DEAL OR NO DEAL?" (hehe ... I love that show)! Alright... sorry I got off track there. Anyway ... rest assured, I'm also going to provide you with a system to submit your articles to hundreds (even thousands) of these directories with just a click of your mouse.

Plus, I'm going to share with you some of the most popular directories out there so that you can check them out for yourself (Hey! I told you you'd have to do some homework on your own!)

So.. just to recap a bit.... · We've setup a few affiliate accounts with Clickbank, etc· We're going to find some products we're interested in reviewing and write a short product review about that product. We'll then submit these article to some popular article directories.

And here's the kicker...Once we've written our article, we are afforded the opportunity to place a small "About The Author" byline at the bottom of each of our articles. Many article publishers use this "ad space" to tell folks a little about themselves and then also place a link back to their website.

Well ... guess what! We don't have a website. We don't want a website! So ... we're going to use this small ad space to place a brief note about our affiliates website and also use our special "affiliate link" in the process. This way, when someone reads our rave review about a particular product, they just might want to learn a little more about it. So, they simply click on the link at the bottom of our article and VIOLA! We get credit for the referral and more importantly a commission if this person decides to buy the product.

Dang! I love the Internet!

And think about this ... Once you start writing these articles on a daily basis and submitting them to the various article directories ... they remain on that directory's website indefinitely! So, the more articles you have written, the more money you'll begin to see coming in from all those affiliate referrals. Cool huh?

And, by using affiliate accounts through Clickbank and PayDotCom, they handle all the tracking and also issue your commissions on a set schedule so you don't have to worry about whether or not you're accurately getting credit for your referrals or getting paid on time.

They handle EVERYTHING and they do a great job in the process! Well ... that about sums things up for this lesson... But in the next lesson we're going to go over some of the most popular article directories and I'm going to show you a few tools you could use to submit your articles to these directories with ease! It's gonna be a real eye-opener for sure! Just you wait and
see....

So, for your homework tonight ... why not jump on over to Google and do some searches for "article directories". Then, take a look at some of the articles you see there and also check out the various topics that you can browse. There's a plethora of information awaiting you.

Also, pay special attention to the "about the author" sections and also the style and formatting most article publishers use for their articles. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the wealth of information available that you probably didn't even know existed.

It's a golden opportunity.

Now that you have the basics of what Affiliate marketing is we can now move onto the very important part of choosing a profitable product.

To do this you must understand Niche marketing and Keyword research.

Niche Marketing - What Is It And How To Choose One

Deciding on the niche market you will target is critical to your success so this is a subject that you should not cut any corners on. One of the critical aspects of you achieving success online is that you understand niches and the impact they have on your internet business including the most important task on how to find a profitable one.

A tip on checking if a niche is hot or not that I use is by going to Clickback. Do a search in the Clickbank marketplace on the category the niche you are researching is in.

In the field ‘sort by’ choose gravity, you can choose this from a the drop down menu in the search window.

Gravity gives you an indication of how popular a product is, generally if you find at least 6 to 10 products in the category that you have searched with a gravity above 10 it will mean that the category is very profitable, if you find categories with a number of products in the 100’s then you may find the competition to be very tough and maybe not the best to start out in if you are a complete newbie.

Now don’t forget to keep in mind that it will help you if you have a genuine interest in the niche that you choose.

From what you have learnt alone with the techniques on how to find a profitable niche you should have picked the niche that best suits you.

Turn Freebies into Cash System - Lesson 2

Turn Freebies into Cash System - Lesson 1

As internet marketing is still relatively new, it is developing very quickly and consistently and with more and more people coming into the market it has become more and more necessary to do many different tasks in a professional manner to be successful online.

The days are gone when you could just throw together a few web sites with some affiliate links or a web page with Google AdSense and watch the money roll in. Today you need to do more than slap a few sites together based on a little bit of niche research and keyword analysis.

To be successful on line you need to have a deep understanding of the many different aspects that make up an internet business.

You need to truly understand niche and Keyword research so that you can drill down and pick the right niche that suits you, together with effective keywords to match, without this understanding you will fail before you start.

You also need your web pages looking like they are professionally designed with good graphics, the need for audio and video is also increasing.

The copywriting on your squeeze pages, sales pages and presale pages must be spot on.

You must follow up your list consistently with professionally written persuasive e-mails.

You must have skills in Search engine optimization and other traffic generation techniques and the list goes on.

This has created the need for more and more specialized information and of course when there is a hole in any market it is quickly filled.

This void attracted the attention of the Guru’s and self proclaimed Guru’s in each of these fields to produce courses and information products to satisfy the need and as more experts have come into each of the specialized markets the competition has increased.

This has lead to the marketing strategy of giving away enough quality information or product to build their prospects confidence and trust in them before they hit them with the hard sell.
It has now resulted in the guru’s giving more and more away just to compete with each other.

Now because of this, I have found with all these freebie’s that the information now overlaps, and in some cases a Guru will be giving something away that another is selling. So when it is put together you end up with all the information, software and tools that you need to succeed in making money online.

As I mentioned earlier I was initially going to just list the freebies on a few pages but with the sheer number of freebies I have gathered and the information contained within, it would lead any person to total confusion.

So in the interests of getting you the quality information and tools that will get your internet business up and running as quickly as possible, I decided to compile this guide with only the best information from well known and highly regarded guru’s that have a proven track record. I have then listed certain pieces of information from each freebie for you to read in a precise manner.

This has created a step by step guide for you to follow that will help you to make money through affiliate marketing in the quickest possible time.

I know some of you maybe saying that you could hire people to do most of the work for you, in fact it is a very smart business decision to do so and this is one of the aims of this guide to get you to that point.

Although reality is, that the majority of people starting an internet business or working hard to ramp one up, do not have many thousands of dollars to put into their business upfront.

They have to do the hard yards themselves till they have the experience, confidence and cash flow to explore outsourcing. Some of you may wish and be in a position to outsource some aspects that they just do not like doing or can not get their heads around but this will be different for everyone and a decision and choice they can make for themselves.

Before we get stuck into it there are a few points I must cover that will help you to get the best from this guide.

1. You will find as I have found, that the free information and tools on most subjects do overlap, causing me at times to repeat myself, for example, niche marketing aligns and overlaps with Keyword research and tools as well as Search engine optimization (SEO), research and tools.

You will notice that I mention SEO in the niche section and vis versa, it will seem that I will be repeating myself and at times I will be, as this is the nature of the freebie beast.

Now, the important point about all this is that it also presents an excellent opportunity, as re-reading this information more than once will help you make finer distinctions.

This is a critical point as a deep understanding in the concepts and tools of the internet marketing game is critical for you to be able to implement the strategies that you learn effectively.

I have also found that learning this business through freebies, dramatically helps to efficiently turn your learning curve into profit because you get more than one perspective on most subjects, for example, one guru may explain something one way but it is not until you read it again from another guru’s perspective that has explained it in a slightly different manner using different examples, that the penny truly drops.

I cannot press on this point enough if you want to truly maximize your online business success.

2. You will find, if you have not already found, Internet marketing covers a large number of varied topics that require certain knowledge and disciplines that you may struggle with for example, You maybe a natural with the written word but not very tech savvy.

Everyone is different, where one will devour a subject and breeze through, others will not. So because of this fact and that I care about your success, I want you to be consistently aware of your attitude and your state of mind. Don’t let yourself get bogged down on subjects that do not interest you or you just can’t get your head around as this will lead to a loss of motivation and will be immensely destructive to your online business goals.

I have searched high and low and tested many products and tools to find the best freebies and then to finally combine them to give the full picture of a profitable strategy that is very easy to follow and implement, spending a minimal amount of money or without spending any money at all. While freebies are great I do encourage you to stay conscious of your progress.

In the interests of keeping the momentum going you will find it a huge benefit to your progress by seeking further assistance on those particular subjects that slow you down mentally and physically.

Some of you may find this through outsourcing or some of you may choose to get further help from a particular Guru that specializes in the area that you are struggling with and some of you will just breeze through the whole lot on your own.

It is entirely up to you and at your discretion. As I said before everyone is different and have different needs and wants, This is one of the reasons why this guide is so good as it gives you all the alternatives you need to make the decisions that best suits your needs, while at the same time, giving you all that you need.

Remember to stay conscious of your state of mind and don’t let yourself bog down.

3. I have also taken the assumption of little or no knowledge on the part of the reader, if there are sections that you know about then that’s great as that step will be easy for you and further cement the concepts in your mind some more.

4. Please remember while reading and watching the freebies, most have a sales message in them just be aware and don’t get annoyed with this otherwise you will miss the message that the freebie holds.

Attitude, Mindset and Motivation

At this point it is a good time to mention attitude, mindset and motivation. You are probably fully motivated right now and ready to take on the internet world but how do we harness this enthusiasm and carry it through when times get tough and doubt sets in.

This aspect is very important to success on the internet as you will be on your own most of the time and it will be up to you to keep your mind in the right place everyday so that you progress efficiently and affectively toward your goals.

A couple of books I recommend that you read, if you have not done so already is “Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill and “The Science Of Getting Rich’ By Wallace D Wattles. Both these are timeless classics that explain the mindset and attitudes that are necessary to succeed they have withstood the test of time and are consistently mentioned by people with rags to riches stories as being fundamental in there journey to success.

I know you are itching to jump right into making money and this is good, I don’t want to dampen your eagerness but one of the biggest reasons why people fail in the internet marketing game is that they do not treat it like a real business, they don’t do what all good successful businesses do and that is to plan, yes create a business plan.

What This Guide Is Going To Show You And How

In this guide I will show you how to make money online through affiliate marketing.

There are many tasks and disciplines required in selecting and promoting an affiliate product successfully. Each of these tasks and disciplines have two distinct aspects to this

They are:

• Building your knowledge and understanding of each of the tasks and disciplines involved in affiliate marketing.

• How to go about implementing this knowledge, which is the hands on technical side.

My aim has been to make this guide as simple and easy to follow as possible. I will go through each task separately, guiding you through the appropriate links to the freebies that will first increase your knowledge and understanding, followed by the ‘how to’ so that you can implement the knowledge. I will also give you links to free software, when appropriate, that will help you with the implementation.

At times you will find some parts overlap, for example, some aspects that you will learn in the keyword research section you will also use in the traffic generation section, so I will just refer you back to that section when it is appropriate.

I will also give you links when appropriate to some video tutorials on parts that maybe a little more technical to help assist you in the implementation.

At first it may all seem a little confusing but stick with it as it will come clear as you progress and all of the pieces of the puzzle come together.

Lets get started.

Affiliate Marketing using the Turn Freebies Into Cash System

I have chosen affiliate marketing as it is one of the simplest and quickest way to make money online. The reason for this is that you do not have to develop or create a product, you don’t even need a website although in this guide I will be showing you how to promote products using your own website and auto responder for the very important reasons of creating your own list that you can build a relationship with and market to over and over.

This is one of the most important things to learn as a list is where you can make serious money from. Only a very small amount of affiliate’s setup to collect email addresses and these are the ones that make real money from affiliate marketing. My aim is to make you one of the minority.

Below is the steps I will take you through to setup an affiliate strategy. As we move through it I will give you instructions and links to the appropriate Freebie that will give you the necessary information and products for you complete each step.

• What is Affiliate Marketing

• Niche and keyword research & how to choose a profitable one

• Affiliate product search and select

• Webpage development

• Setup domain & Hosting account

• Setting up a auto responder

• Upload web site

• Traffic Generation

• Test and measure

Turn Freebies into Cash System

The Secret To Earning $150 A Day Every Day Like Clockwork With Bum Marketing In Under A Month - Final Lesson

How To Go From $0 A Day To $150 A Day With Bum Marketing.

Now, here is the main method I was talking about. How to earn $150 a day with bum marketing in under a month. So let's go shall we. This is what you should be doing every week. Follow this action plan every week and you will be well on your way to earning $150 a day within a month.

Step 1 - Find 5 products to promote

You will need to find 5 decent products to promote that fit the criteria I talked above in the above sections. Clickbank.com is a good start to find products to promote. There are new products being added daily.

Make sure they pay you enough for your time. Don't promote a product that pays you peanuts. It's not worth it especially if their are more products out there that pay you better.

Do you want instant cash paid via Paypal? If I want instant cash, I go to Paydotcom.com and find products to promote. I then email the product owners and tell them I am going to promote their products, ONLY if they pay me instantly as soon as I get a sale.

With Paydotcom.com the owner of the product gets paid instantly via Paypal and they can also pay their affiliates instantly.

Another great idea for the bum marketing method which not many bums are doing (apart from Travis) is promote residual income affiliate programs.

IE, affiliate programs that pay you every month, like webhosting. I love residual income affiliate programs. Promoting a product once and getting paid for as long as that customer stays a customer.

For example. If you promote a webhosting company and make a sale, you will make that same amount of money every month for as long as that customer stays with that webhosting service. Residual income affiliate programs are the wave of the future.

If you want a list of some good affiliate programs that pay this way go to....

http://www.lifetimecommissions.com

This is a website directory full of residual income affiliate programs.

Step 2 - Find at least 30 keywords for each product

If you want to find more keywords, even better, but start with 30 first to see if the product will be worth it. There is nothing worse then writing 50 to 100 articles to promote a product and then realise the product doesn't convert to sales.

This is very frustrating and it is going to happen on occasion, that's life. Some products will convert better then others.

But the very minimum articles I write for a specific product is 30. If I write 30 articles and I make very little sales, then I know not to keep going.

The great thing about bum marketing is it's a perfect way to test if products are winners for free while making money. If a product is a winner, there is nothing stopping you from advertising with Google Adwords and Ezine advertising.

I know all the top bum marketers write at least 30 articles for each product they promote. I know this because I write for them and myself and this is what works for us.

Step 3 - Write the articles for your keywords

Now is the time to write your articles. I've given you many tips above to make this easier and more profitable for you.

If you wanted to outsource the article writing you could do that as well. There are places that write articles for as little as $6.

If you go to forums.digitalpoint.com and signup to that forum, and go to the services for sale section, you will find many many people offering article writing services for as little as 2 or 3 dollars a pop.

Never pay upfront. Pay after the articles are completed.

I'm not going to go into the specifics of bum marketing here as you would have already read the free report at http://www.bummarketingmethod.com

Write the articles quickly. Give them an action plan to use, top it off with an interesting article byline and you will make sales.

Step 4 - Create your landing pages and submit your articles

Ezinearticles.com will no doubt in the future change the rules for what is acceptable as the landing page people click on in your article byline. In the future Ezinearticles.com will probably not allow you to redirect their readers straight to a signup form for an optin email list. They probably won't even let you send readers straight to a sales letter or affiliate page via redirect.

Travis explains all about landing pages in the bum marketing method, but what I've found to work even better then a simple presell page or an optin page is to incorporate content around the landing page.

For example, you would have the reader directed to a page on your website, something like....

http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/worldofwarcraft/index.html

This page would be a simple presell page like Travis suggests to do in his bum marketing course. But instead of just having one page site visitors can click on and either sign up to your free optin list or click straight over to the affiliate website, on the side of the page in the navigation area, you would put links to other articles you've written.

This makes your website more of a content/resource website. This will please your website visitors and Ezinearticles.com. As you know, Ezinearticles.com is cracking down on landing pages and they no longer allow USfreeads.com.

Also, this gives you more chances to make sales as well. When a reader can see that there is more content to read on the topic, they will read those articles as well and get even more excited about the product you are promoting.

This is preselling at it's best. A lot of people really hate giving away their email address straight away just to get more information, so give it to them for free again and again and again and again, and they will eventually WANT to give you their email address.

Allan Gardyne does this well at

http://www.associateprograms.com

Once you have created your landing page, submit your articles MANUALLY to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com. Those are the only article directories I use.

Step 5 - Double up on your keywords

By now you should have written 150 articles and submitted them to the relevant article directories. If after a few weeks, you find a certain product is doing really well, double up. Like I explained before, create a second Ezinearticles.com account and write the same articles again under this different persons account.

Also go and look for other keywords you can write articles on. Milk it for all it's worth.

Do all of this for 4 weeks straight and if you are not seeing $150 or more a day in your Clickbank account I will eat my Russian fur hat.

Have You Thought About Buying Your Own Article Directory Site?

This is for the more technically minded bum marketer who wants to take his or her bum marketing to the next level. I don't know about you but I'm getting sick of Ezinearticles.com's rules and regulations. I'm not one to sit around and whinge tho, it's their site and they can do as they wish with it, but I'm going to find another solution.

What I am doing right now is this.

I'm at forums.digitalpoint.com and I'm looking on their forum to buy a website with a PR rating for Google of 7+. I'm looking for one to buy. I've seen a few already. They range from anywhere between $300 and $3000.

What I'm going to do is buy a PR 7 website and setup my own article directory on it. As you know, Ezinearticles.com is a PR 7 website and that is why it gets such good rankings in Google so quickly.

But there is nothing stopping anyone out there from buying a site with a genuine PR 7rating and turning it into an article directory site. Then you can submit all your articles to this site that has a PR 7 rating and not have to worry about rules and regulations as it would be your website.

This is something I will be doing and investing in and I know a few other bum marketers I told this idea to are thinking about it.

Imagine owning your own Ezinearticles.com article directory, except you play by your rules and you can submit whatever the heck you like. You don't even have to accept other people's articles you could just use your own.

Do you think this would work? You better believe it will.

The Secret To Earning $150 A Day Every Day Like Clockwork With Bum Marketing In Under A Month - Lesson 2

How To Do Really Good FREE Keyword Research

Keyword research is fun. I love it. I can spend hours researching keywords, which is a mistake as it takes away from writing articles. But it's so fun.

As I said above, the first thing to do is find a good product to promote. The next thing to do is keyword research.

I personally use https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

And I type in my main keyword there. This will give me a list of over 200 keywords related to the keyword I just typed in. All of this is free. I'm not a fan of spending money on tools that are not needed and keyword research tools can be expensive.

For every product you find that you want to promote, you should write 30 articles.

You should be able to get 30 articles out a day. So in 5 days, a working week, you would have 150 articles written and have 5 Clickbank.com products promoted and saturated.

I'm not overly fussed on the search count. If a keyword or search term gets under 500searches a month but is highly targetted to the product I want to promote, I will still write an article for that term.

That goes the same for keywords with more then 10,000 competiting pages in Google. If the term is really good, I will write articles for keywords with more then 10,000+ competiting pages in Google, especially if it has a good amount of searches per month.

Dominate Google With Multiple Personalities

Did you know that you can have multiple accounts with Ezinearticles.com? That's right. And did you know that you can have 2 articles with the exact same keyword listed in the top 10 in Google.com by writing 2 articles with the exact same title.

That's right. Instead of having 1 article in the top 10 in Google for your keyword you are targeting, you can have 2 articles listed in the top 10 in Google for that exact same keyword.

All you need to do is setup 2 free accounts with Ezinearticles.com under 2 different names. I have many different Ezinearticles.com accounts all with different pen names and this is totally acceptable as long as the articles are of good quality.

Type this phrase into Google exactly as is....

"how to save money on groceries"

See the top 2 and 3 listings? They are Ezinearticles.com articles by 2 different writers for the exact same keyword.

By using this method, you will have to create 2 totally different articles, but that is ok, this gives you even more chance to get even more people to read your article. It basically doubles your exposure.

Don't forget, there are also other article directories like Goarticles.com to submit to. I ALWAYS submit unique articles to each directory. I never ever submit the same article that I submit to Ezinearticles.com to Goarticles.com.

It really makes your articles suffer in the search engine ranking game to spread your articles over that many directories. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to knock up a quick article, so why not create a new article for each directory.

You will run out of products on Clickbank.com one day to promote so it's best to milk the real winners as much as you can. Try and get as much out of each product you are promoting as you can, if you don't you are pretty much leaving money on the table.

That's definitely not a bum marketing trait!

Give Them An Actionable Plan

Want to really sell the products you are promoting with your articles? I mean really sell. This method will set your sales on fire. I've been using this method now for over a year to write my articles and I've seen an increase in sales beyond what I thought possible for article marketing. This also works well when writing and selling your own ebooks.

Nothing makes people want to buy more then.... giving them a reason to buy right now! You have to give them a reason to buy the affiliate product you are promoting right now and you can do that by giving them a plan of action to use straight away.

Give them a way in your article to be able to use the product you are promoting straight away. For example, let's say you are promoting a product about creating content sites for Adsense income.

In your article you could give them a method of traffic generation that works so well with content sites that it practically makes them money hand over fist.

Then in your article byline, tell them you have a product that will make creating content sites so easy and all they have to do is put the two together and make money instantly.

You could write something like this....

"Want to know how to use this traffic generation method to suck in Adsense cash 24/7 with easy to make content sites? Visit my website below"

People are sick of buying products and not having any reason to use them or doing nothing with them afterwards. People are sick of wasting money on more information products.

I was promoting an ebook about selling turnkey businesses for resale on the Internet. In my article I wrote, I gave them an exact business to create and sell. I told them the domain name to purchase, where to find the website template to use, how to write the content and what content to write and even how to sell the business in a few hours.

Then in my article byline to promote the ebook I wrote this,

"To learn how to make a full time living creating and selling turnkey businesses for profit, visit my website below for more information"

Did people buy? You bet! When people used the business plan I gave them and actually made money from it and they saw it was profitable, they came back in droves to buy the product from me.

Travis, the orignator of the bum marketing method does this well in his course at

http://www.bummarketingmethod.com

He gives you the entire bum marketing method to try out, for free, no strings attached. He gives you a complete business plan to work with, and in the free course he promotes a few affiliate products that make life easier and make you more money with bum marketing. You kind of feel stupid if you don't buy the products he is recommending.

Honestly, how many of you that read his course signed up for USfreeads.com solely on his recommendation?

Exactly.

The Secret To Earning $150 A Day Every Day Like Clockwork With Bum Marketing In Under A Month! - Lesson 1

First Up - The Two Secrets To Bum Marketing

What most people don't understand is that you don't have to get everything right all the time with bum marketing. You don't have to be right all the time, you don't have to be perfect all the time, you don't have to be the greatest marketer of all time to make bum marketing work for you. That's the great thing.

You can be a complete beginner to bum marketing and Internet marketing and still make more money then many of the so called guru's. This is why I'm such a fan of bum marketing and why I have gotten my family and friends onto bum marketing.

If you have no idea what bum marketing is, go to http://www.bummarketingmethod.com - This is a free course that explains the whole bum marketing process. This is the original source of bum marketing.

The first secret to bum marketing is.... Super Fast Writing

It sounds simple I know. But how many of you sit there and take 4 hours to write one article? You can't do that. You need to churn out 5 articles an hour, at least.

Don't sit there and go "I can't do that". Because you can.

I can write 5 articles an hour and still have time to play 15 minutes of Call of Duty on WII. Speed is essential when it comes to bum marketing. Your articles don't have to be great. They can't be utter rubbish, but they don't have to be masterpieces of pulitzer prize award stature.

I've shown my mother, my sister, my father, my best friend, my girlfriend how to write articles in a matter of minutes and I'm going to show you as well.

The secret to writing articles fast is not thinking. Don't sit there and think about the article for 10 minutes before writing it. Just start writing. It doesn't matter what topic it is, just start writing.

The only source I use for research is Ezinearticles.com. What I do is get the list of keywords I want to write articles for and then go to Ezinearticles.com and search the articles for topics similar to mine.

What people don't understand is that all the research is done for you. Your job is basically an article re writer. Every article topic imaginable has been written for you at Ezinearticles.com. All you have to do is read the article and put it into your own words. It's that simple.

Don't try and make your articles something amazing. Write them quickly. QUICK. Write quickly. Write like lightning. Force yourself to sit down and write and not move until you have 5 articles done every hour.

Why I say this is because the bum marketer with the most articles out there getting hits and traffic is going to win. To win, you don't need the best articles, you need the most articles. Understand this. YOU need to be the most prolific writer out there to win.

I do not use auto generated content or article spinners. Every article I write is unique. Every article adds value to the Ezinearticles.com directory and gives the readers the information they need.

They are not long articles. 350 words to 500 words. I don't use big words, I give them the information they wanted, and I give it to them quickly. No fluff.

Imagine being able to get out 50 articles a day. 50 articles every day. Let's say you do that 5 days a week. That's 250 articles a week and this is very doable, even part time. To be the best bum marketer out there, you can't expect to win by doing less then your competition. You need to work harder then your competitors.

You only have to do this for 6 months or 12 months full time and you will have a nice on going income for many many years to come. You could easily work really really hard for 6 months, get out 50 articles a day then take the next 6 months off. Imagine only having to work 6 months of the year and the rest of the year your income is taken care of.

You will be getting checks for years to come from work you did 4 years ago. I still do from articles I wrote many years ago.

Speed guys, speed is the #1 key to being the most successful bum marketer on the Internet. Work hard now and you will be the richest bum marketer on the Internet in 6or 12 months guaranteed. This is no joke.

Don't want to write articles? Fine, speak them. Get a microphone and a copy of Audacity for free and away you go. Go to Ezinearticles.com, find a keyword you want to write an article on and search Ezinearticles.com for articles on that topic. Find an article, read that article into your own words into your microphone, record it, get it transcribed and away you go.

The second secret is.... Super Product Selection.

Nothing frustrates me more then seeing and hearing bum marketers saying they are writing all these articles and not getting any sales. I then go check out their articles and what they are promoting and it's crap. Literally.

Never ever select keywords to write articles on UNTIL you have a great product to promote. I always, always look for a product to promote before I do keyword research. This is why I'm not a big fan of keyword lists you see floating around.

They are good to use for ideas and sometimes you find a few gems, but most of the keywords are rubbish because there is no decent products to promote with that keyword. Then the next thing I see bum's doing is using the keywords they found that fit the bum marketing criteria, they then write an article for that keyword and try and fit an unrelated product into their article by line and wonder why no one buys from them.

The best way to start with bum marketing is trying to dominate Clickbank first. Go to the Clickbank marketplace, see what is hot in all the categories, not just the Internet marketing category. Find a product that is selling well, has a good sales letter and offers more then $10 per sale.

Just by looking myself, I found some really good products I will want to promote.

Bum marketing is all about dominating. You have to saturate the market with your articles to become the winner.

You need to dominate each product you promote. Don't go into bum marketing half assed. This is a sure way to fail or make a few sales here and there.

So to recap. Find a product to promote before you even think about keyword research. Make sure the product is hot right now, which is easy to tell on Clickbank, which is why I recommend it, make sure it has a good sales page and the sales page is working fine, make sure it offers fair commissions and make sure also that the owner is contactable.

Then once the product fits that criteria, start doing keyword research and find at least 30 keywords to write articles on.

From The Desk Of: Dan Wiseman

If you've ever wanted to get a little sneaky peak at how someone else's online business works for once, even if it's to see if you're doing things in the right way, now's your chance. Here's what I did last week and what this means for you. Watch closely though, blink and you'll miss the point.

Bear in mind at least half of my time is spent on the more creative side of online business, who knows why, I just like that bit the best. So here I am at 2pm browsing around other marketers sites to check out what's hot and what's not (as you do) and bam, out of the blue a brand new product idea hits me. Here's the kicker..

Ok fast forward 60 minutes. From the blank piece of paper sitting in front of me, and that one single idea I had an hour ago, I've mapped out and planned four separate products ranging from free through to $900 price tags that I know for sure will sell, I'm writing two of them at the same time, recording another and my programmer has been briefed about the fourth ready to get building. There's more though...


I do this at least twice a week, out of the blue.


Just think, what could you do with four new product ideas twice a week that only take you an hour to conceive and start building? I'll assume if we're on the same wavelength here that you'd see a big fountain of cash flowing right into you lap.


This isn't something that came naturally.


This isn't something that I was born with.


This is a method that I've learned and honed over nearly seven years of product creation in the online world, whether those products are for myself, or being created for someone else, it's a great feeling to be able to pull this off. I'll show you exactly how I've been leaving my competitors in the dust with this method, and hey, best of all from my experiments on other people (ethical ones, I promise) they can learn and start using this method in 40 minutes flat.



My bet is that you can too. Let's see if you have what it takes.




• Learn how to tap into a constant flow of ideas that will never leave you wondering what you can sell next using four simple methods that each should take no longer than 7 minutes to grasp.


• Discover why your ideas are being stolen as you read this, and how to stop this from happening straight away, before everyone else gets rich from your ideas.


• Listen in as I show you exactly how I come up with no less than 5 new viable product ideas every 7 days. I'll show you how can emulate this method quickly, and easily.


• Gain the power of hindsight along with the ability to differentiate between the good and the bad of your many ideas. It's easy to know how much money there is to be made in an idea when you know where to look. No beating around the bush, no dodgy untested theories, I'll show you the top 4 proven ways to do this.


• I'll show you how to mix with your target market in such a way that you'll be receiving new ideas for products from other people without having to do any of the brainwork yourself that others struggle with on a daily basis.


• I won't be leaving you to do this on your own. Oh no, in fact, I'm going to do this with you, showing you how this idea generation method isn't just a theory, but it works in the real world and is in use, churning out scores of new products per year for many online and offline business owners.


• Originality is the key. There's too much same old same old nowadays, if you want to make sales, you have to be original. I'm going to reveal to you 4 separate techniques that allow you to create products in such a way, that your target market won't be able to resist you, simply because no one else will be doing what you are.


• Success is about evaluating your products and presentation before you even start to sell. The high earners know how to do this already, the ones failing to make sales don't even know that the very product they're trying to sell is the problem, and probably never will. Through a simple product evaluation technique to be used on your ideas, we'll make sure that you're not one of the latter.


• It's a little known fact that evaluating the potential of your product is very different to analyzing it's viability inside a specific market. Just because you have a good product, it doesn't mean it's going to make you the most money by selling to the most obvious group of people. We'll show you exactly how you can figure out for yourself where to make the most money out of your ideas.


• Avoid the number 1 downfall of online business people trying to create products of any sort. It happens in a flash, it's an unconscious product of the human brain that most don't even know that they're doing, but they are, and it's wreaking havoc on their product creation and idea generation processes. It's easily avoidable however, and with just 60 seconds of practice every day for a week using my methods, you can break out of it for a lifetime, ahead of all the other marketers out there.


• Did you know that simply by altering your presentation you can create up to five products out of a single one of your ideas, without recycling content over and over again? What's more, this process takes just a minute or two. How valuable would it be for you to wake up one morning, and by the time you go to bed at night have five products ready to be developed, launched and profited from? I'll show you how I'm doing this every single time I turn my computer on.


• I'm going to give you real life examples of how businesses flourish simply by targeting their products at different markets. While everyone is out there hammering the same people for the same products, I'm going to show you how to take a new approach, to sneak in the back door and start making sales where no one thought it possible. (There's some major information here. Profitable niche markets for products are being snapped up as we speak)


• How your friends, family and work colleagues create products for you. They do it every day, all you have to do is to be able to spot it and take action before somebody else beats you to it. I'll show you how.


• Are you committing business suicide by selecting the wrong products to create? I'll demonstrate to you through a short five step checklist that you can see how your business and your product are going to perform before you've even finished conceiving the idea. Get this wrong, and your business could be headed for disaster.


• 5 factors that will determine the success of your business. If you're creating a product and any one of these exists, you're in for big problems later down the line. A simple formula for avoiding the pitfalls is laid before you to stop you wasting your precious time and hard earned cash.

As an added bonus...

• In addition to the above, I'm going to show you how to bring your products to life through information products that people actually read. Did you know that the majority of people won't actually read your stuff? Even if they paid for it. That's a scary thought. What about all that marketing information you're putting out? We'll immediately address how to actually get people to read and take action on your words through your own products.









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