Making Money With Squidoo
How A SICK Internet Marketer Finally Broke Out Of Hospital
Dec 5th
Internet Marketing can really make you SICK… You don’t believe me?
People are literally going INSANE…
Check out the many piles of files on your desk top – the many unread eBooks, the half finished projects and all that other CRAP! that lingers on your computer, gathering DUST…
OH Boy, that felt GOOD.. Now, I’ve got that off my chest… What am I actually talking about here?
I’m talking about INTERNET MARKETERS Disease… “A Thousand Ways To Appear as If… but Never Really Getting Started” – If the Internet were a Hostpital, the CYBER wards would be chocked FULL of people who:
1) Collect TOO much Information and do NOTHING with it
2) NEVER finish ANY project first without starting a NEW one – Spending hours of Unproductive time FLITTING from one project to another
3) Listen to EVERYONE & everything but never focus on ANYONE or any one thing…
4) Do not have any sort of plan.
Need I go on ?
In fact, this was ME…. just a few short months ago… I was SICK, a SICK man with no real PLAN… just a whole bunch of marketing CRAP on my desktop and a thousand emails from every Internet Marketer on the PLANET…
I needed to FOCUS, and Focus FAST… it was either Sickness and a SLOW painful Internet Marketing DEATH or give myself a KICK up the ASS (this can be hard to do BALANCED on one leg, but none the less – INVIGORATING – lol )…. I needed answers, I needed RESULTS and I needed them Quick…
It was MAKE or BREAK time ….
Can you relate to this?, how many things have you STARTED in your life and simply gave up, you got tired of trying and it became too hard, you simply shifted focus on to something else – but had you continued – you would have become an absolute EXPERT by now, and your life could have been changed for the BETTER… with me, this would be several, perhaps as many as a Dozen different things….
I, WE – You, ME – simply gave up!…. now look at us – being DRIVEN to distraction by Internet Marketing Disease…
OK, now here come the POSITIVE bits.
Internet Marketing is not the COMPLICATED puzzle, some Marketers would have you believe. It helps SOME Internet Marketers to make you believe Internet Marketing is complicated, as THEY can then SELL you their products to help you to UNRAVEL this imaginary puzzle. I’m saying SOME Marketers here, as this is perhaps a small minority – as MOST marketers NOW, tend to offer GENUINE products to help and assist you in your Internet Marketing journey..
Complicated it certainly isn’t. Here are the Basics.
1) You write content
2) You put it in a Website, Blog, Squidoo Lens, Video or Article etc., etc
3) You Monetize it
4) You drive traffic to it.
5) You build a list to retain as many of these prospects & customers as possible, so you can market to them in the future.
Now, information on how to do all of the above is available out there freely on the Internet. This is why this business is such a BRILLIANT business to be in, you can actually get started literally for FREE… sure you need to buy a domain name, hosting and an autoresponder. But compared with the costs of starting other businesses, the outlay is virtually PEANUTS..
Now here is a quick story about ME, then I’ll get back to YOU – OK?
My first 5 months in Intenet Marketing amounted to NOTHING… or so I thought. You see in monetary terms, it did amount to ZERO… I worked 5 months, approx 50 hours a week for a big FAT ZERO… but at the end of Month 5, I made a sale on Clickbank…
Now, OK, it was only a few dollars – but it was worth SO much more than dollars, as it brought home to me that this business ACTUALLY WORKS! YES, it DOES…Yaaaaay!
So had my efforts in the previous 5 Months been WASTED… No – because I now had the grounding, I now had SOME Knowledge to MOVE it forward.
I had been creating the MOMENTUM I needed to make my first sale over those previous 5 Months. This led to not only my FIRST Sale, but also to the many more that followed..
My point is this – just suppose, I had GIVEN UP in Month 4. And just stopped…. like MANY people do? I would have just ADDED something else to the list of things I started but NEVER finished… I wouldn’t have made my first sale, I wouldn’t have made any more sales. The Internet Sickness would have taken hold and I would now be a VICTIM of “IF ONLY”…..
And this is why, YOU Must NEVER GIVE UP… You give up – YOU LOSE…. You carry on, you WILL find a way to make it pay – and you will WIN…
YES, it’s hard… IT SUCKS… but so does continually Kicking yourself up the ASS……
My plan for you.
1) Unclutter your Desktop – Unclutter your LIFE… Get rid of anything likely to cause Internet Sickness.
2) Focus on ONE thing at a time, don’t spread yourself too THIN! – pace yourself, it’s better to learn slowly than not at all.
3) Realise, it is a SIMPLE business, – Content – Get It out There – Monetize It, – Drive Traffic To It, – Build A List – Market to The List… It’s NOT Rocket Science..
4) Just DO IT… Do It till it works…
There is plenty out there for EVERYONE… Yes, some people are RUNNING away with it… but they had many days & months when “NOTHING WORKED”..
It won’t run out – there is PLENTY for everyone, there are MILLIONS of customers out there for US…and THOUSANDS of NEW ones coming on to the Internet EVERY Day… The GURU’s don’t have it all between them… they only have a teeny, tiny FRACTION….
The possibilities are ENDLESS…
Now is YOUR Time….
You’re A Long Time Dead…
Keith
I would love to hear your comments, how hard/easy as a beginner – are you finding Internet Marketing? – Click Here
How You Can Make A Cool $1000+ A Month As An Amazon Associate
Nov 14th
How to Make Over $1000 A Month As An Amazon Affiliate
By Erica Stone..
So, I found a niche, put up a product review site mid-April, and started writing.
I made my first sale a few weeks later.
I’m no expert, I’m always testing and learning but I’ll share what I’ve done in case it helps anyone:
For May, I had 1624 unique visitors, 311 of whom clicked over to Amazon. I had 10 sales that totaled $1366 in revenue. I was at the 6.5% payout rate (due to my other sites) so those sales earned almost $89 in commissions.
I have 41 posts on the my site (WordPress Blog) – 24 are product reviews and 17 are “informational” to the niche (what certain product terms mean and why they’re important, how to get the best deal, what to look for in “x products”, etc.).
My thought was that the informational posts would help the site stand apart from others targeting the niche who are just using Amazon product listings as their posts.
Traffic continues to climb and most of the traffic comes from “product name” searches and “product name review” searches. Here are some things that seem to be helping:
I hand write each review - no content taken verbatim from Amazon except a couple of comments from their consumer reviews.
When I mention the Amazon consumer reviews, I suggest the visitor can “read more here: (affiliate text link to Amazon review page)”.
I started by writing reviews on the bestsellers on Amazon for this group of products. There are probably a couple of hundred different versions of this product on Amazon.
Unintentionally, I chose a niche for which the products’ instruction manuals are readily available online. I started actually reading the manuals which allows the reviews to include more information than is found in the Amazon product listing or on any other site that is simply using the Amazon information.
Things like included accessories, ways to use the product, information about how it compares to competitive products. This allows for more content in general and more long-tailed keyword traffic.
I Visit the manufacturers’ sites for additional information.
I Promote the site with bookmarking, a handful of articles, a network of Squidoo lenses, and a Hubpage.
I Title each post with “Full Product Name Review”.
I Link images, text links and Amazon reviewers comments to Amazon.
I Include a “check the price” button in the post.
I also use WP-Table Reloaded to build a Comparison page of all the products for which a review has been done that can be sorted by critical product features, ratings, and price and which can also be filtered by any data in the columns.
I include the product name in the table links to my review page. The price data in the table links to Amazon.
I have created a standard format that I use for each review so they are uniform in case the visitor goes from one review to another. This way, all the same information is in the same order. (There’s probably a faster way to do this but I just copied all the necessary HTML formatting for my post layout into a draft post.
When I go to write a review, I copy the HTML from the draft into a new post and then I just have to paste in my review text, insert images, and links.)
These niches are not something I’m generally an expert in and it took me some time to research them and become familiar with the critical features of the products. At first, it took me hours to do a comprehensive review but now that I’ve done bunches of them, they’re much easier and faster to write.
My domain is a hyphenated, exact keyword match .com for a phrase that indicated people who would be shopping for these products.
The keyword has 8100 exact searches a month in Google’s Keyword tool. While I’ve optimized for that keyword phrase, it is really the specific product names that are bringing in the traffic so keyword research doesn’t take up a lot of time. Find a product, write a review.
I’m currently towards the bottom of the 1st page of Google for my keyword phrase, having passed the non-hyphenated .com and .net. Interested to see if searches for the keyword itself will bring sales or if it will continue to be the product name searches.
Erica Stone – Balloon Creation Ideas
What do you think? – Your Comments are always welcome
What’s Green & Slimey & Can Make You Money? – SQUIDOO!
Nov 5th
Most GREEN & Slimey things in this life are, WELL – just downright unpleasant, and usually reside in unthinkable places..
However – here is one hell of a Jolly, GREEN GIANT of an Opportunity to make a whole RACK of CASH from…. yes, you guessed it – Squidoo, that slimey SQUID. And whether you DO Squidoo or you Don’t… here is an opportunity for YOU… read on
With Squidoo, you are building a LENS!.. This lens is like a PAGE, but it is a work in progress. In other words you keep adding different components (modules) to your page,and it will constantly evolve into a much bigger picture. It’s more like you are creating a Book or a Story than just adding a piece of content and that’s that.
For instance, firstly, you would add a detailed bio about yourself. You find a clicky title for your new lens (page), and then you start building content. That could could be adding your latest Article or Blog post, or creating new content, and then you add more and more content and so on. Every time you add to your lens, you are adding more modules to your lens. You can start and have as many lenses as you want, you can have lenses on any theme or Niche.. Let’s say your first lens Niche is Internet Marketing.
You simply add your Internet Marketing lens, you build it up daily and keep continually building – and let’s say then that you want to start an MLM based lens, you then start a completely different lens on MLM and keep building this theme up by adding new modules, you can then you can add another and another. just Rinse & Repeat..
Squidoo gives you the opportunity to build an Online Information Empire for FREE… but wait, here is the best part.
You can monetise all of this content: Squidoo supply many ways that you can monetise your own lens. You can choose to include Amazon & eBay product links if you want. When people click on these offers and purchase something from either Amazon or eBay via your link, you will get a commission. You can be paid direct to your Paypal account, or you can choose to donate all or part of you income to charity.
The more people who interact with your lenses, the more people, will click on the strategically placed offers around your lens – and the MORE money YOU will make…
Also, the more modules (components) you add, the more products from Amazon, eBay, Cafe Press etc you can choose to appear on your lens..
It’s a WIN, WIN situation. The more you add, the more interest in your content you are going to get, the more monetization opportunities you have and the more money you will make.. some people who have many lenses are making a lot of money from doing this…
Here is my first lens, as you can see – I’ve based it around my Blog theme which is about Making Money – Squidoo Lens
You can also earn Squidoo points, the more active you are, the more Squidoo points you earn. Here is Squidoo’s own definition of points – “The more points you earn, the higher you level up, the more items you unlock. Some items are extra tools for your lenses, others are opportunities for exposure, others are monsterquests for awards, others are just for a guffaw. Maybe a chortle”
So there you have it, my take on it is that this could be a very SERIOUS Marketing tool for you and your business… plus it can earn you, not only some serious recognition, but also a nice income … Do you Squidoo? – Definitely
All the best
Keith
10 Ways To Get Free Traffic To Your Website Or Blog
Dec 13th
Posted by Keith Everett in Affiliate Marketing
2 comments
Here are 10 ways to get traffic to your Website or Blog
1) Create a SQUIDOO lens. Get FREE traffic by linking your Squidoo lens back to your Website or Blog. You can do this by adding your articles, then adding appropriate links.
You can also add your Website’s RSS feed to your Squidoo Lens. Create as many free lenses as you want and even add your affiliate banners and links to them.
I use Squidoo’s revenue share system by adding their Amazon & eBay modules for a 50/50 commission split. You will also receive commission on their Google Adsense ads. You can of course add your own links to Amazon & eBay & you can add links to your PPC & CPA offers if you wish. Overall, Squidoo lenses rank quite well on Google, if you optimize them properly with lots of good quality keywords. Don’t forget to include your keyword in the title of your lens.. You can also add as many tags to each lens as you want – Score 10/10
2) Facebook Fan/Like Page -Traffic Swaps – Nowadays you can exchange just about anything, traffic is no exception. I’m not talking about untargeted traffic through dubious Ad schemes. I’m talking about contacting the owners of similar Facebook Fan/Like Pages or groups and offering to mention their Fan Pages either/or on your own personal wall or on your own Fan Page. Also you can mention their Fan page to your Facebook friends in exchange for them doing exactly the same. Always set your Fan Page Welcome tab to default view – this should contain your list opt-in details. A perfect way to get targeted traffic, all for free. Score 9/10
3) Blog Sharing – You can syndicate your Blog to automatically appear on Facebook whenever you publish a post, this is done through a free system called Networked Blogs - your post can also be syndicated to your Facebook Fan/Like page,old style Facebook Group & your twitter accounts. When Network Blogs syndicate this, this will create an instant burst of traffic to your Blog as it will appear on your wall – for all your Facebook friends to see. You will also go viral as viewers through networked Blogs are given the option to share, comment, vote or tweet it on Twitter. Score 9/10
4) YouTube – Video Marketing. Creating free videos that have useful content is a great way for creating a viral traffic share system. what I mean by this is if you create a useful video, for example – “How to Clean Up Your Desktop – people can relate to this video, as plenty of people have messy desktops. They will find the information in the video useful and pass it on if, actively encouraged to do so. How do you encourage people to do this for you?
a) Provide great, USEFUL content.
b) ASK Them to pass it on… yes, believe me this works. If you use Camtasia, put a slide in the last few frames of the video saying something like “If you found this Video useful, why not pass it on, I’m sure your friends would love to know how to ” Keep their desktops clean“, or whatever it is you make your video about. don’t forget to include a visual link to your website in the last few frames (if you have Camtasia) and a click-able link on You Tube to show underneath the video (very important).
If you don’t have Camtasia, don’t worry – I have made over 30 videos just using a cheap FLIP Camcorder just speak the words… “If you found this video useful, please share this video with your friends”, into your camcorder, in the last few seconds.
Put your videos on You Tube, Facebook, also share on other Social Networks including the many video sharing sites. Score. 8/10.
5) Guest Blogging - Find highly ranked, high traffic Blogs (Check Alexa) in your Niche, contact the owners and ask them if you can submit a Blog post, tell them how beneficial your unique content will be to their readers… By the way, we use Guest Bloggers all the time. It’s good for us as we have many varied articles by different authors, and it’s good for the person who guest Blogs as they get links back to their Website or Blog. Score 8/10
6) Forum Marketing – This is often overlooked as a viable traffic method but when used correctly can bring you almost INSTANT results.. Offering USEFUL advice in reply to a person’s post in a thread that you have some working knowledge of can, providing you have a click-able signature set up – produce another great source of free traffic, especially when used in high traffic forums such as the Warrior Forum. Don’t just post a simple “good post” in reply to a post. – actually try to solve the person’s problem, this will also attract comments to your reply, just keep replying to the replies and the thread will grow & grow and the views to your signature will follow suit. Score 7/10
7) Blog Commenting – Again, go for high traffic Blogs, post useful comments in reply to a specific post. Your replies should offer a good insight into the content of the original post. use good keywords in your reply . Leave your website address in the post & comment regularly. If your comments are useful, the blog owner may end up contacting you in the end to act as a guest Blogger.. Keep the comments coming, people love comments, if they are good – people will click your link and want to know more about you. Score 7/10
8) Create FREE Reports & Give them Away. create a free report on an in demand topic, this could be a short report of just a couple of pages or more. Convert it into a pdf file (read with adobe), and share it. By creating free reports of value and linking them back to your Web Page or Blog, you will get traffic, you can also encourage people to share your free report with friends via email. I do this with free reports containing affiliate links, it does work. Score 7/10
9) Only Wire – I use Only Wire to distribute my Articles, Videos & Blog posts. Only Wire is a down-loadable submission tool which is free and you can submit your content to up to 42 different Social Network sites in a matter of seconds (you need to join the sites you want to submit to) - Score 7/10
10) Link Exchange – Approach the owners of high traffic Blogs & Websites to exchange links with you. They can only say no. Some will, some won’t. You never know if you don’t try. Score 7/10
Keith
P.S – All comments are welcome
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