Article Marketing is a cheap an powerful way to generate sales and traffic, it can sometimes be referred to as “Bum Marketing” because it’s a form of online advertising that does not require any outlay of cash to promote or advertise your product or website, while it does not work a effective as it once did a few years ago it still has its place in internet marketing.
Below are some points you will need to know about how to effectively generate traffic and sales to your website
Do not submit your articles to too many sites, Why? Because your article will be seen by search engines as duplicate copies, and will not be ranked well, ultimately meaning less traffic and less sales. Your will be much better off summiting to only the most popular article submitters like e-zine or article base.
Target the Right keywords. You will be at a big advantage if you carefully pick your keywords for your target market, for example say your writing about “how to make money online” using that in your heading and though your article will not get you many hits, because your competition in that subject will be high, but by changing that to say “Make $50 a day with Adsense” will get much better results.
Write Good quality content. It’s the old saying Quality over quantity. You don’t need to write a huge amount of content but you do need to write quality content. Your articles are best kept between 250-1000 words.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Writing Article’s for Extra Income
Writing Articles can be a quick and easy way to make a bit of extra cash from home, you don’t need to own a website (it can be a big advantage if you do though) or need to be internet savvy, you just need to know how to write.
How does it work? Article directories make their money through advertising, the more articles they have the more people visit their website and the more they get paid, and they are willing to pay people a percentage of the profits to those who write their articles. If you’re someone who enjoys writing the extra income from writing could turn into a large amount of cash very quickly, and there’s no better way to make money doing something you love.
The key to making large amounts of money will depend on, how fast you can type, how many articles you are willing to make each day and the quality of your articles (the old saying is quality over quantity). All you need to do then is choose subjects you enjoy and the rest will come naturally.
The best part is there are a large number of companies on the internet that are willing to pay for your information, each one varies on the ways they pay, here are some of them listed below
Ezine Articles
Helium
Bukisa
eHow
How does it work? Article directories make their money through advertising, the more articles they have the more people visit their website and the more they get paid, and they are willing to pay people a percentage of the profits to those who write their articles. If you’re someone who enjoys writing the extra income from writing could turn into a large amount of cash very quickly, and there’s no better way to make money doing something you love.
The key to making large amounts of money will depend on, how fast you can type, how many articles you are willing to make each day and the quality of your articles (the old saying is quality over quantity). All you need to do then is choose subjects you enjoy and the rest will come naturally.
The best part is there are a large number of companies on the internet that are willing to pay for your information, each one varies on the ways they pay, here are some of them listed below
Ezine Articles
Helium
Bukisa
eHow
Microstock photography
Microstock photography is a fun and great way to earn some extra income with the internet. This industry is very lucrative for anyone who has a passion for photography and has potential to become a full time income.
Let me tell you about my personal experience with microstock, two years ago myself and a friend decided to join up to 5 of the top companies, we then created and submitted our photos, I personally stopped after about 2 months because I felt that the market was already too saturated and you needed to be pro just to make a few dollars. My friend on the other hand had the same view also, but he continued to take photos, after two years of him doing this as a hobby he’s now earning on average $300-$400 each week, while I’m still earning around $100 a year.
There are some things you need to know with microstock photography. First is that you need to get yourself a DSLR camera, those point and shoot cameras will not cut it, my camera is a canon 400D DSLR its one of the cheapest of the canon range but it does the job, you generally can’t go wrong with either a Canon or a Nikon DSLR.
Secondly you need to get familiar with Photoshop this will turn good photos into great photos, when I was really into photography I studied everything I could find about Photoshop, the best site I came across was Photoshop user tv. I learnt soo much from this site from the video tutorials it turned me from amateur to pro.
Click here for Products to help with Microstock Photography
Let me tell you about my personal experience with microstock, two years ago myself and a friend decided to join up to 5 of the top companies, we then created and submitted our photos, I personally stopped after about 2 months because I felt that the market was already too saturated and you needed to be pro just to make a few dollars. My friend on the other hand had the same view also, but he continued to take photos, after two years of him doing this as a hobby he’s now earning on average $300-$400 each week, while I’m still earning around $100 a year.
There are some things you need to know with microstock photography. First is that you need to get yourself a DSLR camera, those point and shoot cameras will not cut it, my camera is a canon 400D DSLR its one of the cheapest of the canon range but it does the job, you generally can’t go wrong with either a Canon or a Nikon DSLR.
Secondly you need to get familiar with Photoshop this will turn good photos into great photos, when I was really into photography I studied everything I could find about Photoshop, the best site I came across was Photoshop user tv. I learnt soo much from this site from the video tutorials it turned me from amateur to pro.
Click here for Products to help with Microstock Photography
Money with Clickbank
Clickbank has a great affiliate program and is one of the largest affiliate marketing programs on the internet, it boast’s to have paid over 1 billion dollars to their members. There are two ways to make money with Clickbank the first, reselling one of Clickbanks thousands of products and earning commission from the sale, or the second to make your own digital product on Clickbank and having affiliates sell your product for you.
You will have the most success with Clickbank if you choose a subject you have a passion for, or have a good knowledge in, it will not only help you make money easier but it will make it more enjoyable. Again this is not a get rich quick scheme it’s something you will need to invest time into to get good results.
Below is a list of some of the best ways you can make money with Clickbank
1 By far the best way is to setup your own website and sell Clickbank product’s though your own website, it can be as easy as finding a niche you enjoy, writing a review about a particular Clickbank product (this is known as preselling) and linking your Clickbank code to your product.
2 Another effective form of selling Clickbank products is to write some information about a subject, submit it to an article directory, and then place your Clickbank code at the end of the article linking to the product.
3 Use Google Adwords to sell your product simply put your Clickbank code into the link. (Carefully monitor that you are not spending more than you are earning.)
You will have the most success with Clickbank if you choose a subject you have a passion for, or have a good knowledge in, it will not only help you make money easier but it will make it more enjoyable. Again this is not a get rich quick scheme it’s something you will need to invest time into to get good results.
Below is a list of some of the best ways you can make money with Clickbank
1 By far the best way is to setup your own website and sell Clickbank product’s though your own website, it can be as easy as finding a niche you enjoy, writing a review about a particular Clickbank product (this is known as preselling) and linking your Clickbank code to your product.
2 Another effective form of selling Clickbank products is to write some information about a subject, submit it to an article directory, and then place your Clickbank code at the end of the article linking to the product.
3 Use Google Adwords to sell your product simply put your Clickbank code into the link. (Carefully monitor that you are not spending more than you are earning.)
Earn Money with your own Website
If you really want to get serious about making money online you will eventually need to get yourself a website, while you can still make money without a website through article writing, social networking and free blogging, it’s very important that you get a website for yourself, Why?
Because you get complete control, free blogging sites like blogger can delete your site at any time, they own the site so they have the right to, and if they see something they don’t like they will delete your blog without your consent.
Starting your own website is not as hard as you might think, in the past you needed to know quite a lot to get your head around html code. Now days there are many programs that allow you make a site with ease, one of the most well know is wordpress, this site is made with wordpress, it’s very easy to use and there’s huge amount of support and tutorials on the net if you get into to trouble.
My site has been many with wordpress though Hostgator, which I cannot recommend highly enough, Hostgator comes with a program called fantastico that automatically installs wordpress for you so that you can get started within minutes of initial setup.
Here are some of the Best points of using wordpress and hostgator
1 Hostgator also has their own affiliate program they will pay you for each signup.
2 Adsense can be added to your site for FREE for another income
3 Unlimited capture pages can be created, each one can reach the top of Google.
4 Great plugins can be used with wordpress including, interspire email marketing system, livezilla, arteseer template creator, youtube/flashvideos, SEO optimizers, blogs and many more.
5 Unlimited domains with unlimited worpress sites and capture pages.
6 Because you own it nobody can delete it, free to join blogs and sites can be deleted at anytime with no warning.
Because you get complete control, free blogging sites like blogger can delete your site at any time, they own the site so they have the right to, and if they see something they don’t like they will delete your blog without your consent.
Starting your own website is not as hard as you might think, in the past you needed to know quite a lot to get your head around html code. Now days there are many programs that allow you make a site with ease, one of the most well know is wordpress, this site is made with wordpress, it’s very easy to use and there’s huge amount of support and tutorials on the net if you get into to trouble.
My site has been many with wordpress though Hostgator, which I cannot recommend highly enough, Hostgator comes with a program called fantastico that automatically installs wordpress for you so that you can get started within minutes of initial setup.
Here are some of the Best points of using wordpress and hostgator
1 Hostgator also has their own affiliate program they will pay you for each signup.
2 Adsense can be added to your site for FREE for another income
3 Unlimited capture pages can be created, each one can reach the top of Google.
4 Great plugins can be used with wordpress including, interspire email marketing system, livezilla, arteseer template creator, youtube/flashvideos, SEO optimizers, blogs and many more.
5 Unlimited domains with unlimited worpress sites and capture pages.
6 Because you own it nobody can delete it, free to join blogs and sites can be deleted at anytime with no warning.
Email Marketing Software
Email Marketing has been around for many years now since the early days of the internet, and it’s still a very successful means of reaching potential customers, the pro’s of email marketing are that it can be very cheap to purchase leads for your business, but at the same time the successful conversion rates are low. You will need to purchase a lot of leads and send a lot of mail and the free email sender’s that are all over the web won’t be able to handle the massive amount of emails.
If you plan to focus on email marketing then you will need good management software, the best I’ve come across is GetResponse, it has all the features of other email marketing software plus more. Those extra features are Video Email Marketing, Social Media Integration (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs.), Iphone applications and Surveys.
The catch is it will cost you $18+ per mth, so I would only recommend it if you plan to focus heavily on Email campaigns. (I personally use GetResponse, and for me it’s well worth it.)
GetResponse has a great affiliate program, that everyone should sign up to and recommend to their downline for an additional income, it pays 30% Commission (Per Month) for a direct referral and 10% on the 2nd tier referral.
Sign up is FREE and it gives you 4 ways to earn as an affiliate of their other products. They are EbookGold, HyperTracker and WebsiteWizard. (These other sites are not worth the money personally and I don’t recommend them.)
If you plan to focus on email marketing then you will need good management software, the best I’ve come across is GetResponse, it has all the features of other email marketing software plus more. Those extra features are Video Email Marketing, Social Media Integration (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs.), Iphone applications and Surveys.
The catch is it will cost you $18+ per mth, so I would only recommend it if you plan to focus heavily on Email campaigns. (I personally use GetResponse, and for me it’s well worth it.)
GetResponse has a great affiliate program, that everyone should sign up to and recommend to their downline for an additional income, it pays 30% Commission (Per Month) for a direct referral and 10% on the 2nd tier referral.
Sign up is FREE and it gives you 4 ways to earn as an affiliate of their other products. They are EbookGold, HyperTracker and WebsiteWizard. (These other sites are not worth the money personally and I don’t recommend them.)
Email Marketing Tips
Email marketing for your website promotion would have to be one of the cheapest ways to promote your site, in earlier years it was one of the only ways to promote your site, but nowadays there are so many other marketing strategies like pay per click, youtube, facebook, twitter and article writing. But even with all those marketing techniques there’s still a place for email marketing.
Using Email marketing is cheap and easy, all that’s needed is a catchy email to the interests of your prospects. Create an accurate and interesting email with honest information to redirect to you site or product, your goal will be to get them to your site so you need to make sure that it stands out and doesn’t look like the usual spam email.
Some helpful tips to get the most from your emails
- Find the right email leads, there are many email companies selling leads some are good some are bad make sure to do your research.
- Create a catchy title, you want your prospect to read your email, use something appealing
- Be as personal as possible, this can be as simple as using the name of the prospect in your email.
- Make sure you add an unsubscribe link, this separates you from the usual spam emails out there.
- Check for Spam, there are services out there to make sure you email will get through, spam filters can block emails that use words like “FREE or CASH”.
Using Email marketing is cheap and easy, all that’s needed is a catchy email to the interests of your prospects. Create an accurate and interesting email with honest information to redirect to you site or product, your goal will be to get them to your site so you need to make sure that it stands out and doesn’t look like the usual spam email.
Some helpful tips to get the most from your emails
- Find the right email leads, there are many email companies selling leads some are good some are bad make sure to do your research.
- Create a catchy title, you want your prospect to read your email, use something appealing
- Be as personal as possible, this can be as simple as using the name of the prospect in your email.
- Make sure you add an unsubscribe link, this separates you from the usual spam emails out there.
- Check for Spam, there are services out there to make sure you email will get through, spam filters can block emails that use words like “FREE or CASH”.
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