Posts tagged Blogs
Is your BLOG Dead or just SNOOZING? – No Comment!
Aug 19th
Is your BLOG asleep, or has it PASSED on to that great Blogspot in the sky?
A dead blog is one that doesn’t receive much traffic or comments… So are you actively promoting it by getting traffic to it and encouraging comments?
Comments (as of course, is traffic) are extremely important, to give your blog a “looked at” look. Blogs without comments tend to look like no one visits them.
It’s a bit like when you visit the shopping mall and you see a shop that doesn’t have any customers. Human nature is such, that people tend to avoid the store as no one else seems interested, whereby for all we know, it could be a brilliant store.
Social proof drives traffic to our Blogs, Websites & Videos – if other people appear to “like” them, then more people are drawn towards them as they appear to register as “OK” .
We do this in all walks of life and your BLOG is no exception.
So how do we get comments by the bucket load ?
Firstly, I would suggest you actively comment on other blogs in your niche. The higher up in the google rankings, the blogs you choose to comment on are – the higher quality the backlink is to your site. But this post is not about backlinks, its about getting comments, however backlinks are a valuable by-product of getting comments.
1) Organise a comment group, through Facebook – create a special page for FANS with blogs in your niche who all want comments on their blogs.. SWAP Comments on each others blogs.
2) Simply – ask for comments. Use your wall in Facebook or your Twitter account to post – What do you think of this? I would love your opinion, please post your comment on my Blog
3) Go on to DIGG look for a front page story in your niche and be the first to post a comment linking back to you. If you are at or near the top in the comments list, more people will bother to read your comment – what you do is first comment on the story, then sign off with a question relating to your blog post – and ask for a comment, it’s as simple as that, ask for comments and some people will.
Here’s an example: This Digg front page story today is about eBay, from the Huffington Post – it is currently being DUGG on DIGG with 261 DIGGS and 67 comments, hence it’s front page position today. I have simply added a comment and linked back to this site. Now they don’t allow HTML but they do allow a website URL, which is click-able if you include the http://www.
4) You can BUY comments on Fiverr. I make no secret what I think about this site – to be able to outsource things for $5 is absolutely brilliant – to get comments for $5 is a great idea, once people see OTHER people commenting on your blog, this will draw comments from other people.
There you have it – get the comments coming, make your blog look like it’s alive, even give it a makeover if it’s looking a bit STALE… use the tecniques we have spoken about in previous posts to start getting targeted traffic to your blog. Your blog is your own piece of Internet Real Estate, look after it – Monetise it properly, keep the content FRESH & Interesting and your Blog will be your online friend and Money Machine for years to come….
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Have a great day… don’t forget to leave a comment below this post
Keith
NO Product – NO Website ? – Make Money with AFFILIATE Marketing
Aug 11th
Affiliate Marketing is a way of selling an Arsenal of products you never have to own – with little or no cost.
How do we enter this potentially lucrative market… and what exactly is it?
Affiliate marketing is a way of selling products we don’t actually own on a commission basis, so when a sale has been registered from our “affiliate link” to us, we receive the appropriate commission.
Mainly, it is digital products that are sold this way, i.e eBooks & online memberships, however it is possible to also sell physical products this way but this is known as dropshipping, whereby the product maker or wholesaler ships the physical products out to your customer.
For the purposes of this Affiliate marketing article, we are referring to Digital products.
First you will need to register with an Affiliate product platform such as Clickbank
As you register you will be asked to choose a “nickname”, this is very important as this is how Clickbank will recognise that is is you who made the sale, therefore make your “nickname” an appropriate one – if you are going to be selling money making products, don’t make your “nickname” Sheilas Shoes (lol)- if you see what I mean
This nickname is embedded in your referral link, otherwise known as a hoplink, I will explain more about this in a moment.
Clickbank is where product vendors list their products in the “Marketplace” – this allows affiliates to choose appropriate products to sell and to create their own personal links (called hoplinks) to the vendors websites, so when a customer who was referred through your link, clicks to buy the product, you will receive the appropriate commission in your clickbank account.
Clickbank will pay you by cheque when your commission balance has reached at least $100.
Before you qualify to receive commission checks from Clickbank, you would have needed to have made sales from at least five different customers with 5 different credit cards. This is to try to stop affiliates circumventings the sytem by buying products after registering as an affiliate for the very same product, in effect to get the product cheaper for themselves.
Once you have found a product, check out the vendor’s website – this is very important as you will be sending YOUR customers there.
Does the vendors website contain a video explaination of the product ? – is the site well designed and easy to navigate? is it inviting and easy to understand?, and last but most importantly, does the site make it EASY for the person to BUY?… if YOU would buy from this vendor, then your customer that you are referring probably would too.
If any or most of the above points are missing, it may be best to move on to another product and another vendor whose website DOES have most of the above points.
Their are thousands of products on Clickbank to choose from, in many different catagories
How about price ? – as a new affiliate, I wouldn’t start with a high priced product – make it easier for yourself and go for a product preferably priced under $50 to start with – it should also have at LEAST a 50% commission payment, preferably 60%+ if you can get it.
It’s better to sell products with lower prices to begin with and generate more sales, than to have larger priced products, with less sales…
As you grow your affiliate business, you can add higher priced products to your product list later.
Once we have our Clickbank account open, and we have chosen an appropriate product, we now need to market our clickbank product.
The hoplink you create when you have chosen a product to promote can be a long and uninspiring URL (web address link), so I would suggest that you to go to one of the many free URL shorteners, online and get your affiliate link shortened for free. This makes it much easier to fit into a classified ad or a TWEET on TWITTER as it is much shorter. It also looks better as it is less cumbersome.
Also by changing the appearance of the link, unscrupilous people cannot change the link id from yours, to their own affiliate id – and receive the credit for the sale themselves.
The ultimate way to do this is to BUY a domain name similar to the Product title and point it to your affiliate link – this has a more professional look and if done properly, can be “cloaked” so no one would know that the website wasn’t yours.
Here is an affiliate link of mine for a product called Tweetadder – here is my domain, http://www.mytweetadder.com, when you click on it, although it is pointing to my affiliate link, you never actually see my clumsy link, it directs you to the Tweetadder site without you really, ever guessing that i’m an affiliate – this is very easy to do,
Check with your domain registration company, there should be a facility to “point” it to whatever web address you choose. Just point it to your affiliate link. you should also have a facility to “cloak” the link – this will disguise the link so the customer only ever sees your nice URL.
So where can you sell affiliate products ?
1) Make a free 30 second video at Animoto put your cloaked affiliate link in the video itself and in the accompanying description, use the http: format so that it will appear as a clickable link under the video when you upload it to You Tube
2) Make a FAN page on Facebook – include your affiliate link in your personal profile and also on your Fan Page wall amongst useful content.
3) Add your affiliate links with the product description on your Blog or Website
4) Include an affiliate link in your email & forum signatures
5) Tweet your product’ benefit & URL to your many Twitter followers
6) Include your affiliate links in your profile on all the other social networking sites, too numerous to mention here
7) Write related articles and include your affiliate link in the bottom half of the article (below the fold) and also in your “bio”
8) Use FREE classified ad sites such as “Craiglist” to promote your affiliate products
9) Create a free eBook giving great content, with your affiliate links discreetly placed within.
10) Mail out to your email list (if you have one).
I hope you have enjoyed today’s money making tip – If you would like to share them on your Blog or Website, all I ask is that you link it back to us here at http://www.keithsmoneymakingtips.com
I will be back tomorrow with another tip for you
Have a good day
Keith
How to make a TON of Money from writing a KILLER Blog!
Aug 1st
Do you remember when a blog was just a WEBLOG?… when it was a daily account of the life & times of, eh – YOU?
Ah,then good old Web 2.0 came along (new & advanced Internet technologies, being distributed by new & interactive ways – i.e through social networks & other content shareable methods).
NOW – all of a sudden BLOGGING just got SEXY!
People love to blog, and blogging can equal = BIG BUCKS.
Some marketers are making huge amounts of money from BLOGS…
Now we have the era of the new SUPER BLOG… a typical super blog will be, UPDATED daily with interesting & useful content ,carry interesting videos either with you in it to personalise your blog more, or just video that enhances the quality of content on your site, you can also add your FACEBOOK feeds (i.e feeds from your wall showing either your Facebook posts (or your friends posts).
You can now add plugins which will enable even your TWITTER posts to be shown, just about anything and everything can now be placed on your blog to make it an interesting & enjoyable experience for your readers.
Make your blog WORTH coming back to each day….
OK, I promised you a TON of money from your blog, so here, in short is a formula for blogging SUCCESS….
Step 1
- Make your content so IRRESISTABLE that people will be BEGGING you for MORE!
- Give people something NEW – each and every day
- Write about subjects that people actually WANT to read about
- Encourage interactivity (is that a real word ? ) i.e encourage people to RESPOND and/or SHARE your content
Step 2
- GRAB your blog visitor’s, name & email address via your opt in form – this way you can continue to build a relationship with them, and offer them your products
- Use Google Adsense ads to your blog and be paid for your visitors clicks on those ads
- Use Clickbank affiliate product ads and receive 50% commission or more on products purchased through those links
- Place links from your blog to your OWN Websites & increase traffic to them
- Create a seperate page on your blog for your BEST offer or product
- Create links within your posts directing the reader back to YOUR website.
- Organise competitions in return for your reader’s email address – offer them your very best product as a prize…
Their are hundreds of ways of making money from blogs… too many to list them all here but you get the general idea…
So what are you waiting for… I recommend you choose a blog from WordPress, with WordPress you can add plugins (functionality) and WordPress have thousands of different themes you can add, to make your blog look very professional.
Also, more importantly – if you make your blog through WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com, you can host the blog with your own hosting company and use your own domain, instead of a domain name that you will never own, with the WordPress name in it.
This is so important if you are serious about blogging..
If your blog is successful and you are able to drive to drive thousands of hungry visitors daily – you may eventually want to SELL your blog..
Check out Flippa and see the sort of money, websites and blogs can be sold for…
Most of all, Blogging is FUN… you can have great times keeping readers entertained and making money along the way
Have a good day
I will be back with another money making tip tomorrow
Keith
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