“How To Become A More Effective Marketer In Just Four Steps”

You’re always in the business of marketing no matter what business you are in.

Fact is this has become so intimate that personal success is often linked to how well we are able to market ourselves to others. Similarly on the Internet, it’s often how you market that matters most.

A good product can fail without the right marketing and a bad product can soar with aggressive marketing! For small businesses and individual entrepreneurs, learning to employ effective marketing strategies has become extremely vital for success.

You need to become very good at marketing.

When I first started out, this principle was so firmly fixed in my mind I ended up spending thousands in materials monthly. These were well-spent investments for sure, but for most new marketers looking to make money online, such investments may not be a luxury.

There are other ‘guerrilla-like’ ways to acquire knowledge and marketing experiences without the regular outflow of money. Anyone can apply the following four steps to gain better marketing skills and knowledge…and become a more effective marketer at no cost:

Step One: Learning from other marketers

One of the easiest ways to learn and improve your marketing is by learning from colleagues and competitors in your market. If something’s working, use it as a model as you don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

Subscribe to newsletters, courses and ezines from established marketing experts and watch how they market. Read marketing books and guides in your library. You can surely pick up many good tips with this free method.

To search for marketing-related newsletters for example, visit ezine directories like
http://www.ezinesearch.com, http://www.bestezines.com etc.

An essential exercise is to study promotional e-mails and sales letters that catch your attention. It’s a powerful way to collect a series of swipe files for your own marketing campaigns.

Step Two: Reading articles

The ultimate no cost education you can find online is really from articles such as this. Do not under-estimate the learning potential from articles just because they are free. Most articles contain usable and valuable information gathered from the writers’ experiences. You can quickly reduce your learning curve from this one resource.

You can find articles from on many topics at article directories; here are some for your use:

http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.marketing-seek.com

Step Three: Staying Informed

Information is power so stay informed of important events and discoveries. This empowers your marketing. Do constant research using the search engines, marketing forums, discussion groups, and news site to be updated on marketing-related news.

For example one of my favourite sites is DM News focusing on direct marketing: http://www.dmnews.com

Here’s a simple method to be kept updated on changes and news regularly on autopilot. Use the free resource provided by Google called “Google News Alerts”...

You can get it here by following the instructions to create an account:

http://www.google.com/newsalerts?hl=en

Step Four: Keeping It Going

Remember, you’ve to APPLY what you learn to improve. The fastest way to learn anything is by applying the information and doing it. This is why some say information is only power when it’s applied. Something as simple as reading, writing an article or collecting swipe files can be extremely beneficial in the long-term. Practice makes perfect and action creates momentum.

Don’t worry about making mistakes. We all will one time or another, just learn from them and move on. Experience is a very valuable teacher, don’t waste it!

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“How To Crank Out Million Dollar Product Ideas From Scratch”

(C) Copyright Ewen Chia, http://www.EzineArticle.com

Are you currently stuck trying to think up ideas for that million dollar product?

I’ve got a surefire formula to get you unstuck and on the road to generating more profitable product ideas than you can handle.

First, let’s talk about the real reason people hit a blank wall when they start brainstorming. The sad fact is that our brains are a bit lazy. The human mind hates sustained concentration and always seeks the shortest, quickest and easiest path to solving any problem.

When you sit down with pen and paper in hand and ask yourself, “What product do I want to create?”, you’ve just given your brain an overwhelmingly open-ended question…

The problem is that the term ’product” is far too abstract. It includes literally thousands of possibilities. Your mind gets overwhelmed and doesn’t know where to begin. Think of your mind as a young child on a playground. You want to give him a clear set of boundaries. He can play freely and safely as long as he knows your parameters – but set him loose with the command to “do anything”, and he’s likely to run out of your control.

Fortunately, there’s a formula you can use to take control of the brainstorming process… This formula gives your mind something it absolutely loves: order and categorization.

When you use this formula, ideas will come to you automatically. The reason is that you are giving your mind a logical map to branch out from, rather than asking it to start in the middle of nowhere.

Are you ready to learn the formula for churning out million dollar product ideas at will? Here it is:

==> Consumer Class + Product Purpose = Winning Idea!

Each of the above variable represents a set of questions you must answer. Your answers do not lock you into anything. Instead, they create a series of sub categories to guide you in your brainstorming sessions. These sub categories enable you to open up new tightly defined niches the farther you go.

(1) Let’s start with the “Consumer Class” variable...

Who is your consumer? Is he/she:

- An individual?
- A small business?
- A large business?
- An end user at home or at work?
- A single product consumer?
- A bulk product consumer?

Also ask the question of what your consumer is interested in, and which market niche he/she belongs to.

(2) Now, let’s look at the “Product Purpose” variable...

What is the purpose of this product? Is it:

- Pure information and education?
- Aimed at solving a problem quickly and efficiently?
- Designed for entertainment?
- Factual or fictional?
- Text only or will it include software, audio or video?
- Complete as is or will it require updates?
- Suitable for download or better off rolled into a membership site?

You can even add additional variables to plug into the formula if you want.

Notice how each variable opens up further room for categorization? Let’s say that you chose “a single product consumer” for your consumer class variable, and “fiction” for your product purpose variable. What you really have is a fictional entertainment product. At this point, you have a new map to branch off from.

What comes to mind when you think of a single product consumer? E-books come to mind. Maybe the product should be a work of fiction in e-book format? This sounds good, so now all you have to do is figure out what types of fiction people are actually searching for online…

The next step is to go to overture.com and type in some keywords. In this case, I tried out “e-book”, “fiction” and “stories”. It appears that Harry Potter e-books are popular, but you risk copyright infringement on that topic. The number one niche for “fiction” happens to be “fan fiction”. Fan fiction usually involves new story lines (often of an explicit sexual nature) between popular science fiction characters. We’ll pass on that one as well.

However, the keyword “stories” pulls up something interesting: ghost stories! Here’s an area where you could collect a lot of content from the public domain (For tips and secrets on using public domain for profit, you can find excellent information in “Public Domain Riches” at http://tinyurl.com/5xkwn).

You could also hire a professional fiction writer from Elance.com and have him or her put together some ghost stories or old wives’ tales for you…and voila! Instant niche product.

You can come up with other fun ideas within this one niche by continuing to play with the variables. For example, if you repackage the product purpose in the audio-visual category, you might come up with other ideas like:

- A CD or downloadable set of mp3’s containing “spooky sounds”
- A set of graphics or screensavers for Halloween
- Some novelty software like a virtual ouija board or ghost-hunting game

Now, wasn’t that easy? Four new ideas generated almost instantly and you didn’t even have to break a sweat...just fill in the blanks of this formula and the product ideas pop out like magic!

A powerful way to reap huge profits here is to act on the right ideas fast. Turn million dollar ideas into million dollar products.

If you're stuck with the actual process of product creation, look to proven blueprints like "Create Your Own Products In A Flash" (http://www.l1nk.com/urr/productsinaflash.html) or "How To Create Best Sellers Online" (http://www.l1nk.com/urr/bestselling.html).

These will help you churn out profitable products easily in no time!

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"Top 5 Secrets To Loading Your Web Site With Traffic Boosting Content!"

(C) Copyright Ewen Chia, http://www.EzineArticle.com

Successful webmasters and marketers agree: words rule the web!

Nothing beats fresh, keyword rich content for attracting search engine spiders, live visitors and repeat visitors. But there’s just ONE obstacle for the newbie web publisher though…

It takes a lot of work to write all the content on your own.

Well, the good news is that you don’t have to create all of this content yourself.

In fact, you can load up your web site with top notch articles, news, cartoons and a whole lot more when you simply outsource your content.

If you’ve ever wondered how the experts load up their web sites so quickly, then today is your lucky day…I’m about to show you their top 5 secret resources…

Act on this information now and you’ll have quality content published before dinner time, guaranteed!

==> Secret Resource #1: RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds are the hot commodity on the web right now. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and describes a technology that allows web sites to syndicate, or distribute, their content among other sites.

Maybe you’re already familiar with news syndication sources like Reuters and the Associated Press? RSS parallels this concept and brings it online.

Content syndication provides an ideal solution for the cost and time conscious internet marketer. You can load your site with relevant business and marketing articles and reap significant rewards.

Syndicated articles attract the search engines to your site in two important ways. The first and most obvious fact is that more content and more keywords = better rankings, period. Second, you boost the value of your incoming and outgoing links – a very important element in the eyes of Google’s page rank algorithm.

If you’re totally new to RSS, then visit the following two sites to brush up on your knowledge. They will educate you a bit more on how RSS works and what you need to do to implement it on your site:

MNot RSS Tutorial: http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/
Site Pro News: http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2004/feb/9.html

Here’s a starter list of marketing related feeds available for instant syndication:

Shelley Lowery’s Web Source.Net:
http://www.web-source.net/syndicator.htm
Wilson Web Syndicated Content:
http://www.wilsonweb.com/syndicate/
Search Engine Watch News Feed:
http://searchenginewatch.com/sew.xml

There are plenty of other resources out there. Spend some quality time surfing your favorite marketing sites and see if they have syndication available.

If you want to exploit RSS quickly and easily and get the most benefits out of the technology without taking forever, then you’d find these extremely useful:

RSS Equalizer: http://www.l1nk.com/urr/rrse.html
Express RSS: http://www.l1nk.com/urr/expressrss.html

==> Secret Resource #2: Static Article Syndication Sites

One of the tried and true methods for building a name online is to write and publish your own articles. Thousands of writers submit articles each day to article syndication sites.

The trade off is simple: web site and e-zine publishers are granted permission to re-print these articles as long as they remain unchanged from the original and the writer’s by-line is kept intact. The publisher wins by getting free content, and the writer wins whenever someone new
sees their by-line and clicks on their URL.

Here are some of the top sources for finding free, re-printable articles:

First in Articles: http://www.1st-in-articles.com/
Marketing Words: http://www.marketingwords.com/articles.html
Idea Marketers: http://www.ideamarketers.com/
Market Position Newsletter: http://www.bizweb2000.com/articles.htm

Those should get you off to a good start. If you need more resources, just do a search on “reprint articles” in your favorite search engine or download a copy of the Alexa toolbar and scout out the related links that pop up for each site you visit.

And if you desire to create your own articles for traffic and profit, check this amazingly good resource out: http://www.l1nk.com/urr/twt.html

==> Secret Resource #3: Paying for Premium Content

You know the saying, “You get what you pay for”. By far, the most comprehensive database of premium marketing and business content comes from this one source:

Marketing Sherpa: http://www.marketingsherpa.com/

Content is divided into two specialty libraries: the Case Studies Library and the Practical Marketing Knowledge Library. The Case Studies Library profiles both large and mid-sized businesses and dives into marketing experiments on such topics as email marketing, business-to-business marketing, branding, subscriber base conversion and a whole lot more.

The Practical Marketing Knowledge library features over 250 articles and interviews with experts sharing step-by-step marketing plans.

If you would like to license Marketing Sherpa content for re-distribution, you’ll need to contact OSKAR Consulting courtesy of Elizabeth Karolczak. She can be reached via email at info@oasker.com, or via telephone at 1.650.625.1780. If she’s unavailable, simply ask to speak with an Electronic Licensing Representative.

==> Secret Resource #4: Hire a Ghost Writer

When you hire a ghostwriter, or freelancer, you can have custom content created for your site. Your writer will pump out articles on any topic you specify and you get to put your name on the finished product!

The best way to hire a writer is to bid for his or her services. This allows you to negotiate the best deal for your budget if expense is an issue.

Here’s where to find and hire ghostwriters:

http://www.elance.com
http://www.guru.com/category.cfm?tc=23134&kw=web%20content&cid=500
http://www.freeagent.com
http://www.freelancewriting.com

To discover the real secrets to getting tons of ghostwriters begging you to take their content, go to: http://www.l1nk.com/urr/ghostniche.html

==> Secret Resource #5: Your Own Web Visitors and Ezine Subscribers

What better way to generate content and develop a sense of community among your visitors than having them contribute to your site or ezine?

One shining example of this tactic in action comes from my friend, Willie Crawford, owner of www.chitterlings.com. The site focuses on southern cooking recipes, but this tactic should work for internet marketing based sites as well.

Each week, Willie’s ezine subscribers submit dozens of recipes. He takes the best of the best and highlights them in each issue of the newsletter. You could do the same by soliciting your subscribers for articles, tips, product recommendations or even case studies on their own marketing efforts.

You simply edit the content for style, grammar and length, then toss a few of your own comments to add some flow to the presentation. This takes a minimal amount of effort and you produce a great publication that people want to read because they get to see themselves in print.

These 5 secret sources represent just the tip of the iceberg.

Content is plentiful if you know where to look. The best part is that it takes about half the time and effort to track down quality sources as it does to produce the content all on your own, meaning….

…Be a smart marketer and outsource.

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"5 Secret Strategies For Massive Affiliate Success"

Would you want a simple way to make money like crazy, using other people's time, expertise and effort?

If you do, tap onto an online income strategy commonly known as affiliate marketing. It’s where you can reap constant profits without your own product, and without even being an expert in the market you’re promoting to.

However as ideal as affiliate marketing is as a money generating strategy, most affiliates are doing it all wrong. This leads to most of them not making a good enough income to justify belief and motivation.

As a top affiliate marketer, I’ve gone through these same mistakes when I first started out. Here’re some of the RIGHT things to do if you want to sell more affiliate products and become a power (or super) affiliate!

Apply these 5 secret strategies to power-charge your affiliate marketing business and put it on the right track to success. These are especially crucial if you’ve wandered off track unknowingly…

(1) Zoom Right Into The "Hot Zones"

You can’t sell to everybody. Success comes when you’re able to identify and pinpoint the correct market with the purchasing power. Seek a targeted group of people who already wants to buy, and align this to your interest and passion.

Spot these ‘hot zones’ out and sell to them. Simply put, the solution is to zoom into mini markets within the general main market. This is an idea similar to niche marketing except what you want are - sub-niches.

Use a tool like goodkeywords.com to fire in on the ‘hot zones’ or sub-niches in the market. Look for people who are already looking for products to solve their problems by using qualifiers like ‘learn’, ‘buy’ and ‘find’.

For example, wouldn’t a big market like golfers has ‘hot zones’ like people who are specifically looking for used golf clubs? Do they have the money to buy? Another excellent resource I can think of is AdWord Analyzer which really drills into the heart of these ‘hot zones’. You can find it at http://www.l1nk.com/urr/awa.html

(2) Create Multiple Small Lists To Serve Your "Hot Zones"

All super or power affiliate has his/her own opt-in lists. Marketing to your own lists is like having the power to print money on demand anytime you want.

What I’m saying is: you need to have your own lists.

The trick here again is to build super-segmented lists serving different groups of people who are willing to spend. The more targeted the lists, the more affiliate sales you’ll make.

Here’s a site of mine using this principle in action: http://www.MarketingEbookReview.com

(3) Promote Key-Focused Programs

Similarly you can't promote every program. Power affiliates know how to seek out the best programs, and focused on promoting these key programs.

Create a portfolio of affiliate programs you can depend on. Base your selection process on their product quality, conversion rate, commission structure and reputation (to name a few). Promote these same products repetitively and you’ll get results.

Why? Both you and your prospects will get to know the products better.

One word of advice is to promote only quality products you’ve reviewed or used yourself as nothing’s worth a quick buck if you lose your credibility.

(4) Understanding The Sales Psychology

This is where most affiliates totally miss out on. Have you asked yourself why people buy things? This is crucial, even if you’re marketing to your own lists.

You need to understand the sales psychology behind human behaviours, you need to know your ‘hot zones’ and how to wow your customers. People buy because they need to solve specific problems, fill their wants or experience a emotional ride.

What problems or needs does your market has you can fulfill? Why is this important? Know which hot buttons to press and you can create killer copy to effortlessly sell tons of products, whether by webpage or e-mail.

If you’re a ‘bad’ copywriter and need a system to create winning copy, here’s one tool that can make it much quicker and easier for you http://tinyurl.com/2lp2t

(5) Go for recurring commissions

Effectively leverage your promotions by earning multiple streams of recurring commissions from one-time efforts. Meaning choose to get paid every month even if you stop promoting a particular program. These recurring profits can then be re-invested back into your business for further growth.

Your focus should be on residual affiliate products and services such as:

Hosting: http://tinyurl.com/24qq7

Internet marketing solutions: http://tinyurl.com/2hpel

Lead generation : http://tinyurl.com/ypj6s

It’s easy to earn massive affiliate income if you know what to do. Use these 5 secret strategies to kick start your affiliate marketing business into success immediately!

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"Ten Killer Copywriting Mistakes That Suck Money Out Of Your Sites!"

Are you sick, tired and downright angry at the lousy profits you’re making online from your websites?

Listen, if you’re in need of quick and easy ways to blast your sales sky high, then this may be the most important article you'll ever read…

Fact is, the absence of powerful cash-churning copy is the single most critical attribute to poor sales. It is the master culprit that is leaking profits from your sites faster than an uncontrollable dam bursting at the seams…

…meaning, you need to fix these leaks immediately!

I’ve narrowed down 10 common copywriting mistakes to avoid like the plague, mistakes sucking money out of your websites right now. So my advise is to fix them before they fix you…

Mistake #1: Not Talking To Your Market

Customers want to know one thing - what they can get from buying and using your products. The “what’s in it for me?” mentality rules.

In all seriousness, they don’t give a hoot about you nor your products, only the benefits they will receive. So use more ‘you’ to address your prospects directly in your copy while reducing ‘I’ words…you’re selling to your market, not to yourself here.

Similarly, research your target market to understand it’s buying psychology, what you want to find are the hot buttons that make them pull out their credit cards fast.

Mistake #2: Not Grabbing Immediate Attention

I still see direct response websites without an obvious opening headline that hits home fast. Big big mistake. You’ve just a few crucial seconds to grab attention and interest in what you offer, so make use of this opportunity to qualify and capture your prospects immediately.

State your ultimate benefits in the headline upfront, and make it short, sweet and direct. Ted Nicholas once said that a headline should contain only 17 words or less before it becomes ineffective.

Mistake #3: Missing Sub-Headlines

Use sub-headlines liberally, it’s a very powerful method for adding more fire into your sales copy. At the same time, it breaks down long sales letters for easier reading and strengthens benefits.

Sub-headlines can be applied after every 3-4 paragraphs as a tool to reinforce major points and to summarize your ideas.

Mistake #4: Draggy Sentence And Paragraph Formats

It’s advisable to write in shorter sentences and to divide copy into many different paragraphs.

As a guideline a paragraph should have only 4-5 sentences focusing on one central point. This enhances absorption rate and similarly enables easier reading and understanding.

Mistake #5: Not Having Enough Testimonials

Testimonials are proven selling tools so have more of them in support of your products. Psychologically people will be influenced positively if others, especially recognized experts in your market, endorse your products openly. This is known commonly as the "Law Of Association".

The trick is to use testimonials as another vehicle to support your major benefits. To do that testimonials should be descriptive, detailed and facts-oriented.

Mistake #6: Not Firing Your Bullets

Do use lots of bullets in your copy, and then use some more. Bullets are excellent sales converters which can often decide if you make or break the sale. People read bullets like crazy, so list down your most powerful and detailed benefit statements in them for maximum impact to your bottomline.

Mistake #7: Using Negative Words

Reduce usage of words with negative emotions as much as possible. Turn negative adjectives into positive experiences. For example don’t say 'complicated' and 'wrong', say 'easy' and 'sure-fire'.

While Gary Halbert mentioned how certain negative adjectives in your headline can produce great results, the focus should be only in using them to create outrageous or shocking statements to incite interest, curiosity, anger or fear.

An example would be something like :"Do You Make These *Fatal Mistakes* In Your Marketing?"

Mistake #8: Lack Of Irresistible Offers

An irresistible offer can contribute at least 25% to the success of your sales copy, and it’s the one thing you may be presently ignoring.

For example, create killer offers by piling up the bonuses. Increase the total perceive value of your package by adding audio recordings, video trainings or transcripts. Another technique to try is to position bonuses such that they appear more valuable than the actual product. This is because many times customers will end up buying for the bonuses alone.

Mistake #9: Not Asking For The Order!

This is so serious it’s not even funny anymore. I’ve seen sites with confusing order instructions after getting everything else right…this is outright criminal and certain profits down the drain.

You don’t want to anger or frustrate your customers into leaving your site just when the money’s on the table.

State the price clearly and INSTRUCT customers to ‘click here to order now’. Have plenty of order instructions throughout your copy, and make them obvious for goodness sake. You need to tell your customers what to do next, you need to state definite and clear calls to the action you want.

Mistake #10: Forgetting To P.S.

Have at least two P.S. (post scripts) as they’re often the next most read part of your sales copy after the headline. You wouldn’t want to lose any chance of capturing potential sales here.

As a guide, you can use P.S. (1) as a repetition and reinforcement of your headline, and P.S. (2) as a total summary of the package and time-sensitive extra bonuses if any. Just remember to use them.

That’s it, what you do now is scan through your web copy and check if you’re making any of these 10 profit-losing mistakes right now.

Make changes where you can and I guarantee your response rates will shoot through the roof.

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“7 Secrets To Top Search Engine Rankings (Yes, Even #1 Positions!) For SEO Dummies”

There's hope for the 'little guys' in the search engine ranking game, even if they can't tell the difference between the title and keyword meta tag.

You can achieve high rankings for important keywords simply by applying certain rules that stand the test of time and even technology...and the number one rule is really to......Help the search engines provide relevant search results!

How do you do this? I'll reveal the 'secrets' soon...

While I'm far from being an SEO (Search EngineOptimization) expert and am just sharing experiences here, I've achieved some phenomenal results by following these basic rules and without resorting to'tricks'.

Importantly, these are rankings that last.

- side note -

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't learn about SEO oruse genuine software that helps, in fact you should. To learn about SEO, some sites you can check out:

http://www.selfpromotion.com: shows you how toconstruct your webpages and submit them to hundredsof search engines and directories absolutely FREE.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com: everything youneed to know related to search engines.

For software to facilitate your website positioning, this one's the best:
http://www.turnkeymoney.com/te.htm

- end side note -

Recall the number one rule? It's to help the search engines provide relevant search results.

Now I honestly believe there are only two MAIN things which support this rule and in the process, reward your website with the high rankings you desire. These two things are Keyword Rich Content and Targeted Back Links which we'll talk about later...

Here then are 7 powerful secrets you can use to model your website after to explode your high search engine rankings!

Step 1: Determine Highly Searched Keywords

Determine highly searched and targeted keywords/keyword phrases related to your site and put them into a list. Here're the tools to use:

http://instantmarketingsecrets.com/keyword.htm : compares results of keyword searches from Overtureand Wordtracker and displays them side by side.

http://smtek.info/cgi-bin/keywordtool.cgi : allows you to find relevant hot keywords with a single click. Very cool and useful.

http://www.goodkeywords.com : excellent software to find targeted keywords in Overture and variousother engines.

Step 2: Register Keyword Rich Domain Names

While there've been contrasting arguments about whether having keywords in your domain helps, I strongly feel it does. The same goes for dashes between words in the domain. Use these to source for domain name ideas:

http://www.nameboy.com, http://www.deleteddomains.com

You can also register your domains for a low cost per year here:

http://www.namecheap.com, http://www.registerfly.com

Step 3: Use Your Targeted Keywords In Your Copy

Use the list of keywords in step 1 within your website copy, especially in the title, headline and first paragraph. The important thing is to make them flow smoothly within the context of the copy so prospects will not find it weird.

Step 4: Insert Keyword Rich Relevant Content

Next, build up your site's content with relevant topics containing your keywords. Don't worry, here are some ways to get instant content:

Posting suitable articles that contain your keywords.

These can either be your own or from article directories like http://www.ezinearticle.com, or http://webpronews.com

Posting newsletter issues in an archive online if you write any

Do reviews and commentaries on related products and services in your market as content

Step 5: Aggressively Acquire Targeted Back Links

This is the second most important (some say it's the first) factor to note after targeted and relevant content.Get as many good quality incoming links from other sites as you can, believe me, this will really make a huge difference to your rankings.

These links should come from sites in your market and preferably those with high PageRanks of 5 and above.

Use http://www.webmasterbrain.com/prog/ to search for sites with top rankings in Google for your specified keyword/keyword phrases. It also reveals their individual PageRanks next to their listings.

An excellent resource to check PageRank can also be found at http://rankwhere.com. as it also shows Alexa traffic ranking for any site. This is very useful for seeking high traffic link partners.

If you are looking for mind-blowing linking strategies and tricks, the best guide I've ever seen must be"Power Linking 2: Evolution" at http://www.turnkeymoney.com/powerlink.htm

Step 6: Hand Submit Your Site To The Top Directories and Search Engines

There's no point in using those 'submit to millions' services as only a few search engines really matter. Using those services may actually cause your site to be penalized by these major engines.

In fact if you've done enough important reciprocal linkings, you don't even need to submit your sites as spiders which crawl your link partner sites (already indexed) will pick up your link easily.

However, if you must submit, do it by hand at these directories and search engines:

Ask Jeeves: http://tinyurl.com/467y, LookSmart/Zeal: http://tinyurl.com/2uzan, Mama: http://tinyurl.com/38gdb, Open Directory: http://tinyurl.com/2jk82, Google: http://tinyurl.com/hlzz, Yahoo: http://tinyurl.com/fq32, All The Web: http://tinyurl.com/2hq24, Inktomi: http://tinyurl.com/26cguStep

7: Tune Your Site For Maximum Optimization

The final step would be to constantly monitor and analyze your website traffic against rankings. This is so you can review and tweak for further improvement in your rankings.

I hope this article will prove highly useful to you. Do not be scare away by SEO, it's simple once you follow the above system. While these steps are not everything you can do, it'll be enough to get your site ranked very well for the targeted keywords you chose.

Again, remember the number one rule of giving relevant content and establishing good back links. Help the search engines provide relevant results for their customers and your rankings will automatically skyrocket to the top.

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"How To Generate Stampedes Of Instant Traffic From One Simple Technique"

Listen up if you want an almost instant solution to your traffic problems.

I'm going to show you one simple technique to increase the traffic to your websites or affiliate programs, which will make you more money immediately.

It's called expired domain names.

If you have not even been considering this area of traffic generation before, I urge you to at least look at it now.

Expired Domain Traffic:

This is a HUGE business. Have you heard of the 'legendary' Ultsearch who is quietly making 6 figures A DAY from this one method alone?

What he does is to register millions of expired domains WITH existing traffic and link popularity and point them to his sites for acquiring pay-per-click affiliate revenue.

It's all a numbers game but while you wouldn't want to register so many expired domains like Ultsearch, you can still profit from just a few core traffic-filled expired domain names.

Here's how you can check for expired traffic...

Visit http://www.DeletedDomains.com where you can both find daily expired, on-hold domains or do a 'power search' for those relating to your keywords.

With your new list, you need to perform three important checks to determine their traffic level.

First step is to visit http://www.Alexa.com

Here you can easily check these domain names for their traffic ranking level. The lower the number the better (Yahoo is currently ranked at number 1).

Next you'll want to check on the expired domains' link popularities. You should start grabbing related expired domains with huge existing link networks as it shows these domains had developed websites before they expired.

Link popularity can be derived from services such as http://www.LinkPopularityCheck.com

Another method is to perform a 'back link' check from the search engines. For example, go to http://www.Google.com and type in the phrase "link:expireddomainurl".

An expired domain with good link popularity and Alexa ranking will mean it's still catching good targeted traffic.

Now, go to http://www.Archive.org and enter your selected expired domain. You'll be able to find out whether the expired domain name had a previous website developed, as archive.org cached all websites' content and pages.

An expired domain with a developed website increases the probability that marketing was done and traffic was driven to that website.

The above steps will help you make informed decisions about registering expired domains.

You can register domains for less than $10 each at:

http://www.NameCheap.com
http://www.RegisterFly.com
http://www.NameBargain.com

With the right expired domain names, you're able to literally cash in from other people's effort.

Imagine taking over the domains of high-traffic developed websites without you having to spent months building it up.

You can profit almost immediately from your new expired domains by redirecting them to your website, affiliate programs, pay-per-click services, etc.

Or make a bundle selling them on eBay or domain auction sites like http://www.Afternic.com

Here's an example of an expired domain name I registered which is already paying off:

http://www.NicheSecrets.com

It's a no-brainer.

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"5 Killer Linking Tactics To Turbo-Charge Your Website With Free Traffic!"

Want to create a flood of free traffic to your website FAST?

Good News. You can learn the exact tactics I used to catapult my websites' Alexa rankings quickly and easily!

Follow these tactics and you will be blasting your website url everywhere, especially on other high traffic sites that matter. Commonly known as 'linking', this method can be apowerful traffic tool if utilised correctly.

Turbocharge your website traffic easily using SMART linking strategies you will discover below. Check out these 5 killer linking tactics you can use immediately for maximum impact :

1. Make Use Of The Search Engines

A neat reciprocal linking technique I use to increase my own website's search engine ranking. With this, you can effectively 'piggy back' on your competitors' ranking and traffic.

Just go to the major search engines like http://www.google.com/ and type in your own website's main keywords. With the results, contact the top 50 or so ranked websites asking for reciprocal links.

Most of them will be willing to exchange links with you as it also improve their own ranking and traffic. The beauty of this technique - you get to 'plant' your own website url on your competitors' websites. And remember, these are established, highly-ranked competitors.

Having your link on the websites of your competitors can massively improve your link popularity and bring targeted traffic to you.

The above tactic works. But note that other aspects of search engine optimization must be taken into consideration. This includes having good meta tags and content for instance.

2. Make Use Of Articles

This amazing viral tactic produces powerful results.

Write regular articles or tips and submit them to article listing directories. Get them published in other ezines. Get them posted on other websites. Get them everywhere.

Your articles always contain your website url in their 'resource box'. So with them listed on high traffic directories, they can help you ranked better in the search engines too.

Similarly, thousands of ezine publishers hungry for content will select your articles for publication in their ezines, or posting on their own sites. Your articles can spread virally this way, through your single action of posting to the directories. For example, have a look at my recent article, posted on just such a listing directory -
http://www.makingprofit.com/mp/arts/data/20030105052800.shtml

To really fly with this technique, writing enticing, good quality articles is a must. To get guaranteed free traffic from this area, Check out Jim Edwards' fool-proof guide at http://www.miniebook.com/twt.htm

Some major directories to submit your articles to:

http://www.bestezines.com
http://www.makingprofit.com
http://www.ezadsuccess.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.marketing-seek.com
http://www.connectionteam.com
http://www.homebiztools.com
http://www.addto.com
http://cerebuswebmaster.com
http://www.netterweb.com
http://www.business-dynamics.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com

3. Make Use Of The Forums

Search the engines for forums related to your business target markets. Join these forums and participate actively.

Most discussion forums allow you to include your signature file with your posting. In your signature file, you should add your url with the prefix 'http://'. Everytime you post, you get your url published in the forums.

Besides attracting fellow participants to your website, your posts can get archived AND indexed by the search engines.

This site has a list of the major forums dedicated to different categories from internet marketing to general business. Check out this valuable resource here:
http://www.entrepreneur-web.com/index_1.shtml

4. Make Use Of Testimonials

Another great technique to get your url on other websites comes from giving honest feedback and testimonials.

Whenever you have a positive experience with a product or service, voice your thoughts! Write an email to the product owners and tell them how much you enjoy using their products. Tell them to publish your feedback as a testimonial on their websites.

Most will value testimonials as it adds credibility and enhance their product or service. More often than not, they would not hesitate to post your testimonial on their sites. All you've to do is request that a link back to your website be included.

5. Make Use Of The Right Tools

With many softwares and tools available to enhance your linking strategy, it's to your advantage to use them.

'Zeus - Internet Marketing Robot' comes recommended as the software to use. Once set up, 'Zeus' searches the internet for specific reciprocal linking partners relevant to your website.

How about link exchanges? Join them if you want to find huge pools of ready webmasters for link exchanges. Two great link exchanges to join :http://www.linkleads.com/ and http://www.LinkPartners.com. Or check the search engines for many other link exchanges.

As an internet marketing tool, Linking WORKS bigtime and will pay off any effort you put in exponentially. Trade as many important links as you can, to turbo-charge your website traffic.

See you at the top.

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"How To Explode Your Affiliate Commissions With Your Own Products"

Want a surefire formula you can use again and again to induce more profits as an affiliate?

It's simple, create your own unique products.

The cat's out of the bag, but it's nothing secretive. Most if not all successful internet marketers have their own products. Start developing your own products now if you have not, it's easy once you START and the benefits are tremendous.

Frankly, it doesn't matter whether you're selling or giving your products away. The important thing's to make it so desirable that people literally CRAVE for it.

Besides generating credibility and branding, having your own product is a no-brainer way to increase YOUR affiliate earnings EASILY.

Here're 3 easy methods on how you can use your own products as tools to explode your affiliate commissions!
1. Irresistible Bribe

This works wonders IF you've got a paying product thatappeals strongly to your target market.

Using this method, it's easy to convert potential customers (who have not decided) into paying customers via autoresponder follow-up or an exit pop-up. What you do is offer an "irresistible bribe" to these people.

Offer them a simple way to get your product FREE, simply by buying another related product you're promoting. This is a superb deal for your customer, and everyone wins. Notice that in effect, your product becomes the "bribe" or "bonus" for your affiliate products here.

2. Bundled Sales

Similar to the above method, except that in this instance, they get to buy your product...at a heavily discount price.

For example, let's say the customer has to fork out $97 for your product initially. On the order page, give them an ALTERNATIVE to buy it at $47 instead. Now this will really intrigue and interest the customer, and he or she will click for more information. Here's where you push your affiliate product.

Again, it's a winning solution for your customer if what you're promoting is a quality product, and he or she will recognize it as such.

3. Backend Sales

Here's why having your own free or paid product is so important. You get to promote affiliate programs on the backend very effectively. Now there are 2 ways to go about this:

"Download Page" method

Let prospects download your free product from a special 'download page' after you've captured their email addresses for follow-up.

Promote relevant affiliate products on this 'download page', and through follow-up emails. It'll be much more effective too if you can negotiate genuine discounts for them here.

"Cloaking" method

Many internet marketers are using this technique successfully. Cloaked in content and education, your product can become an affiliate marketing machine. It's where you can actively PRESELL affiliate programs.

Remember that by having downloaded your product in the first place, the prospect has already "opened" his or her mind to you. You can also enhance your results exponentially by tagging powerful viral marketing features to your products. This can be in the form of resell rights, giveaway rights or rebranding rights.

I hope you got some good ideas out of this to make some serious cash with your affiliate programs. The formula here entails creation of your own products, and if you truly want to be more successful online, you'll can't go wrong with this.

Truth is, it's what you NEED to do.

An 'instant' way of creating products without effort is by using public domain information. You'll find Yanik Silver's secrets to profiting with public domain quickly very rewarding : http://www.turnkeymoney.com/pdr.htm

Here's wishing you massive affiliate profits!

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"5 Super Easy Secrets To A Winning Domain Name"

Are you having sleepless nights thinking of the right domain name for your online business?

Everyone and everyone's grandmother knows by now why having your own domain is so important. To sum it up, here're the main advantages :

- It shows You are serious about your business

- It creates instant credibility for your business

- It creates a branding for your business

- It builds your online identity and is easily remembered

- It can be an excellent marketing tool when used correctly

- It can be an investment and intellectual property owned by YOU

Needless to say, having your own domain is an absolute NECCESSITY if you're serious about doing business online. But aren't all the good domain names gone you say?

It's true that most short or one-word or generic names are taken up, BUT you can still win at the domain name game by following these simple steps.

Here are the 5 super easy secrets to a winning domain name anytime!

1. BRANDING

Every business needs to be branded, and that does not exclude your online business. Now what's branding in simple terms?

It's an identity that you want your customers to remember you by, and the best way to do that online is by your domain name. For instance, your business branding may be "Best Quality Service", so why not use BestQualityService.com as your domain name if it's still available for registration?

This is a great way of creating a CONSISTENT branding and identity.

2. PHRASING

How about using familiar or unique phrases as your domain name? This can help differentiate your site and heighten recall factor.

You can think up many catch-phrases for domain branding, how about "CowJumpsOverTheMoon", "MakeLoveNotWar", "SaleOfTheCentury", etc?

But it's important that the phrases you use is aligned to your business, you wouldn't want to use a domain like CheapAndGood.com when you're selling high end premium products, it just doesn't gel.

3. KEYWORDING

An important and smart approach to selecting domain names used by many marketers is to create the domain based on rich keywords relating to their businesses.
The reason behind this lies in the fact that it helps enhance search engine rankings, especially pay-per-click listings which is essentially a bidding on top keywords.

As an example, if your site deals with golf improvement, you may want to identify your main keywords and come up with a domain like "improve-golf-lower-scores.com"?

My personal example is my site at http://www.instantmarketingsecrets.com/ which utilises the keywords 'Marketing' and 'Marketing Secrets'.

4. EXPIRED AND EXPIRING

A wonderful method of grabbing quality domain names is by registering domains that had expired or will be expiring. Thousands upon thousands of domains are expiring every other day and getting a good one is possible.

Try this site http://www.deleteddomains.com/ to source for such domains, I grabbed http://www.tanningguideonline.com/ from their list the last time I did a search.

5. BUYING

This option is a little more costly and risky but you'll have a better chance at finding a domain that you really want. There're three main ways to go about this :

- Email the webmaster of the existing domain about your interest and intention.

- Bidding and buying at domain auction, sale sites like http://www.Afternic.com.

- Typing in the name you need and you may land on a 'for sale' page.

Can you STILL Win the domain name game?

You bet You can!

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"Is Your Dog Selling eBooks Too?"

Just the other day, I stumbled across a website selling ebooks about pet food - it was set up by Spike, a Bull Dog...

Just kidding...but it does seem that everyone is jumping, or had jumped on the 'ebook bandwagon' these days.

No doubt, the online ebook business IS highly profitable, if done right. Selling quality info-products is somewhat the perfect hands-free business, as everything from order to delivery to follow up can be automated on the internet. Imagine making money on autopilot while you're on holiday.

But how do you survive and ensure you make a decent profit from your ebook business? Saying that the competition is HUGE is an understatement, even Spike's doing it!

Here is the "DEP formula" you can implement immediately to make more profits, and win the ebook war:

1. (D)ifferentiate

If you're selling your own ebooks which you authored, you have the best differentiation as there're no direct competition. But if you're reselling others' ebooks, you NEED to create a Differentiation Strategy.

You've got to have your own niche among the crowdedmarketplace. Some ways to do so include :

Unique website

Create your own website to resell and presell instead of using the common template, this is like a breath of fresh air for your potential customers. This technique can also be used in other areas beside ebook marketing. For example, create a special mini-site to promote your favourite affiliate programs while providing good content.

This differentiates you from the common pack. I do this successfully at http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com/nichelist.htm

Bonuses

Give extra incentives above the normal package to entice prospects away from competitors. Incentives can be in many forms, for example, extra gifts, customer support, free memberships, extended guarantee period, etc. Please however ensure that the incentives you give will not flout any copyright guidelines.

I've used this concept many times to outsell and out-compete other major affiliates. Here's a f'ree report showing how it can be very effective: http://www.StuffYourInboxWithCash.com/numberone.pdf

2. (E)ducate

People hate to be sold to, this is a universal fact. The assumption is that people are afraid of committing or making the wrong decision.

But when you educate them instead, they will be influenced into making the decision You want -BY THEMSELVES. They then KNOW WHY they need the product in question.

Truth is, this method of "preselling" is very successful, and has the added benefit of building trust and credibility. As mentioned, providing good content, ecourses and advice are good examples of this principle. The approach is to weave in your offers 'discreetly', much like charming your prospects while SOFTSELLING your products to them.

3. (P)opulate

Populate Your website or product virally. Who says youcan't create your own affiliate program out of other people's products? There are many affiliate programs on the web that are set up by resellers. They took the initiative of recruiting affiliates to help them sell other people's products, think about that. It's sort of your personal '2-tier' program.

How do you do this? 3 steps is all it take:

Set up your own website of reseller products

Sign up with http://www.clickbank.com/, they provide an automated built-in affiliate program solution.

Recruit affiliates

When they sell, ClickBank will pay them the amount of commission as decided by you.

Apply the above "DEP Formula" to your ebook business and I guarantee your profits will improve! In fact, as I pointed out earlier, this formula will work for just about any products, not only ebooks.

Got to go then, it's time to feed Spike.

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"5 Quickest Ways To Massive Windfalls Of Cash Online"

These days everyone wants to know how to make money online.

Yet, for some, this lifestyle seems out of reach. Does this describe you at all?

If you’ve been banging your head against the wall trying to figure out the quickest and easiest methods to generate cash for yourself online, then these five tactics should have you opening your eyes wide and wondering: "Why didn’t I think of this before?"

Cash Tactic #1: Affiliate Products

Affiliate products offer the small, home-based business owner the opportunity to make truckloads of cash, while investing a minimum in over head. Low overhead is the primary benefit of affiliate marketing.

You don’t need your own merchant account. You don’t need to pay a web designer and programmer to create a huge e-store for you. You don’t handle customer complaints, refunds or returns...All you do is refer the prospect to the merchant’s site, and the merchant handles the rest.

I believe the best affiliate products are information products. Your commissions on information products tend to be higher simply because the author can price an information product higher than what the average shopper spends on a tangible product sold online on a typical day.

This is because the value of information is ambiguous at best, and subjective to how the prospect sees value. People are willing to spend much, much more in order to acquire a solution to their problems.

Cash Tactic #2: Resale Rights

Resale rights are the lazy marketer’s salvation. You don’t have to create your own product. You don’t have to write a single word. You may not even have to lift a finger on sales page creation when the resale product comes with a ready-to-upload sales page.

All you do is pay the licensing fee to acquire rights to the product, perform a small amount of editing to change the payment link over to yours, and upload the sales page and product file to your web server.

The trend is taking a turn for the better in 2005 while the marketing world goes through its latest "next big thing": niche marketing.

Today, you can find products with resale rights for such things as cooking, golf, arts and crafts, self-improvement and more. Seizing on the profits promised by demand for niche products, there are dozens of new authors out there who have devoted themselves to turning out these niche products, and offering them with resale rights.

Cash Tactic #3: Special Reports

A special report is a ‘mini e-book’ of no more than about 5 to 12 pages in length. While you can certainly create a mini-ebook that sells (provided the information it contains is perceived to be valuable enough), the best use of a short report is as a lead generating tool for your affiliate campaigns.

The mini-ebook is the ideal viral tool. You create (or acquire) a mini-ebook which is branded with your affiliate links and/or your main URL. The focus of the report should be niche specific and completely focused on the pre-selling of the affiliate product.

Cash Tactic #4: Interviews

It’s a piece of cake to churn out products created from interviews.

In fact, it may be one of the laziest content generation methods available. Interview packaging is easy, too. You can present the interview as a written transcript, an audio transcript, or both. You can offer a downloadable mp3 file or you can burn the entire interview to CD, put an attractive label on it, and instantly raise your price by at least 30%.

Cash Tactic #5 Teleseminars

Do you want to know something interesting about teleseminars?

While they’re becoming a popular marketing method, the field is really wide open for you to cash in on them because very few marketers understand how to pull them off.

A teleseminar requires advance planning and a willingness to overcome a bit of stage fright. The average marketer in competition with you avoids teleseminars for these reasons. They’re intimidated by the idea of showing up on time and speaking, even via telephone, to an audience of a couple hundred people.

You can cash in on this technique in a big way. Teleseminars, right now, are popular mainly among the internet marketing crowd and tend to focus on marketing-related subjects; but, just imagine what you could do if you held teleseminars for non-internet marketing niche audiences? The field is wide open and vastly under-exploited.

There you have it - five quick and easy methods to generate windfalls of cash online! It’s really amazingly simple, isn’t it? Every tactic is really just a vehicle of delivery for an idea.

Your profits begin in an idea which spawns market research. This spawns an analysis of the best approach for delivering your idea to buying public. While there are many more secrets and techniques to generate massive cash windfalls from the internet, as a start, you should put any one of these methods to good use.

I promise that you will finally get a taste of what it’s really like to succeed wildly online if you do so!

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Top 10 Tips For Generating Big Traffic To Your Blog Today

Let’s face it, blogs (or weblogs) are getting incredibly popular amongst people with an internet connection due to the ease and practicality of setting one up.

Despite this however, there is no value in having a blog if no one is visiting and reading it!

Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to drive traffic to your blog if you desire to increase your readership or monetize it.

To do that, here are 10 quick tips to generating more traffic to your blogs:

Tip 1: Reciprocal Linking

One of the most proven ways to gain targeted traffic is to exchange links with other bloggers or site owners. This is a task which requires a little work – by sending an email request for a link exchange with a few follow ups but the results are worth it.

Another linking method is to simply write a testimonial for a product you have purchased. If your testimonial is good, product owners will usually publish it on their sales page with your blog URL included.

If you want to skip the traditional way of exchanging links and go for the easier way, you can automate the process with various software and services found on the net. Just do a search at Google.com and you will have a list of these.

Tip 2: Blog Commentaries

Do you know that your comments also have high potential in generating targeted traffic to your blog and is an effective linking strategy?

All you have to do is find a blog related to your niche and post your comments. At the end of your comments you can include a link back to your blog, this way people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However you should never misuse this to spam other blogs.

Tip 3: Blog Directories

Blog directories are similar to search engines just that they cater only to searches for blogs. It is advisable to submit your blog to the major directories, some of which include feedster.com, technorati.com and blogstreet.com.

Similarly, there are many blog services like pingomatic.com which you can use to ping your blog. Pinging your blog notifies the service that you’ve updated your blog. These services will then publish your new posts and you get traffic from interested readers and search engines.

Tip 4: Writing Articles

This is one of the best ways of pulling targeted, steady and long-term traffic to your blog. By writing your own articles and submitting them to article directories, you can invite a lot of targeted visitors to your blog.

In order to generate traffic by writing articles, you need to include your resource box at the end of every article you have written. The resource box is where you promote and introduce your website or blog.

To truly maximize your results, you need a system to create, submit and leverage off your articles easily. One of the best available is seen at http://EzineArticle.com/aa.htm

Tip 5: Writing Press Releases

Press release is a very effective way of generating instant traffic to your blog. Although press releases only pull in short-term traffic, they can work very well if you continuously write and submit press releases regularly while monetizing the traffic received.

PRWeb.com is one of the oldest and most trusted sources for news distribution on the web. Or you can use an automated press release service like http://www.SubmitYourPressRelease.com to do the work for you quickly.

Tip 6: Start A Blog Mailing List

The phrase “the money is in the list” is true in all businesses. If you want to succeed online, you must start building your own list of targeted subscribers. You can send your subscribers to your blog anytime you have new posts.

By the same token, you can also get your blog readers to subscribe to a ‘blog update’ list which can be used to notify them when you have updated your blog. REPEAT traffic through returning visitors is a key traffic strategy and you can control that with this method.

Tip 7: Publishing Your Own Ezine

You can also provide your subscribers with useful information in several series with an autoresponder. An ezine is often called an online magazine. By publishing your own ezine, you are able to attract readership to your blog when you advertise it in your ezine.

Tip 8: Pay For Traffic

If you have a good monetization strategy for your blog through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and a mailing list, you should consider using paid advertising to drive traffic to your blog.

Recommended options include pay-per-click advertising, ezine advertising and huge banner exposures.

Tip 9: Giving Out Free Reports

Give out free viral reports to promote your blog. Providing useful information in your free reports can trigger your readers’ interest to know more about you and your websites. More information on this tactic can be found at http://www.MiniEbook.com.

Tip 10: Niche Discussion Boards

Discussions boards or forums can deliver targeted traffic to your blog. If you have a blog about gardening, try searching for a related niche forum with huge traffic to participate in.

Most forums will usually allow you to include a signature file where you can write a few sentences of words. You can invite people to visit your blog through the signature file by posting more regularly.

In conclusion, realize that getting traffic to your blog should not be viewed as a one time effort. Commit and focus on a long-term strategy in order to succeed. It is all about gaining momentum.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you will attract more visitors to it everyday as you work on it. As time goes by, you will have an amazing amount of traffic to your blog which you never thought was possible!

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7 Ways To Convert Your Traffic Into Cash

f you have a website, you can profit from even the tiniest number of visitors it receives simply by not wasting that traffic.

The KEY is in leveraging on each visitor and making sure you have a monetization strategy in place. Once you get this, you can make any website profitable with a little effort.

Here are 7 basic ways in which you can profit from your traffic today:

1. Sell a product/service

First you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually an e-book or software works the best – they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.

2. Opt-In list

It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.

With an opt-in list, there are tons of ways you can profit further into the future. You can build repeat customers and turn your list members into partners for your products. For an example of a good opt-in page, visit http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own traffic, publicity and branding without needing to spend a cent.

4. 'Pay-per-click'

In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.

5. Offer an advertising space

Targeted niche websites with high traffic can 'rent' a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example you can charge $300 per month in advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day. I use this strategy at my Online Marketing Secrets blog at http://www.EwenChia.com

Other than that, you can also generate advertising revenue using exit pop-ups. By doing this, you won't clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor's experience.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don’t need to go through any fulfillment issues after your sales.

One of the best affiliate marketing training resources can be found at http://www.SecretAffiliateWeapon.com where I provide continual education on affiliate marketing to members.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from click through, you are paid if your visitors subscribe into other people’s mailing list. Alternatively there are a lot of big companies like Coca-Cola who need surveys to be done, and by referring your visitors to complete surveys, you can also earn good profits from your website.

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