Posts Tagged ‘traffic’

Financial stress is hitting a lot of people these days, me and mine included.  And to try to ease the pain of not having enough money to do what you want to do, a lot of people have started to try to earn a living online in a hope of staking their claim in the Online Gold Rush. 

But most of them will fail.  Harsh though that may sound, it’s the reality.  In fact, it has been estimated that fewer than 5% of all people trying to make money online, actually succeed.  So how do you make sure you are one of the 5% who is successful?

Well you could look in online forums (fora?) for advice.  After all, there are plenty of them, like the Warrior Forum, a fantastic forum for all things internet marketing and I highly recommend it to anyone who is marketing anything online…  But sadly even there, you can often see posts simply rehashing the “old faithfuls” of how to make money online. 

Take yesterday for example.  I was in the Warrior Forum, when I saw a post about what it takes to be successful online.  The gist was that the difference between the success and failure online is simply “taking action”.  In essence, if you would only “take action”, you would be successful.

Ouch!

Far be it from me to disagree with the formidable WF, but, in this case, I have to.  I agree that you will be unsuccessful if you don’t take action but the reverse is simply not a “given”. 

It really is not that simple.  Having tried a lot of things online, I know that it is perfectly possible for any newbie to be extremely busy taking all sorts of actions and STILL be getting nowhere!  I think every single newbie who ever comes online is VERY busy taking action because they are so full of enthusiasm. 

No.  Simply taking action will not guarantee you online success.

And it isn’t even focus.  Newbies can be very focused – tweaking and prettying their websites or using Google Adwords to drive traffic to other people’s squeeze pages for pennies.

The key to success is simple.

You need to follow a tried and tested method for success without deviation.  Do NOT try to reinvent the wheel. Do NOT miss out steps and do NOT “improve it”.  Find someone who speaks your language; someone who is successful (and can prove it) and COPY them.

The key to success online is following a successful blueprint to the letter.

Trick is to find the genuine article with so many wolves out there… 

Affiliate marketing with eBooks is one of the best ways to create a strong stream of income through Internet marketing.  Whether you promote your own eBook, or one that someone else has written, this can work well as a facet of your online business venture.

You can sell your own eBook, inviting affiliate marketers to promote it on their website or blog for you and giving them a percentage of each sale.  Or you can promote eBooks that others have written by joining an affiliate program such as ClickBank or PayDotCom and choosing a good product to feature on your own site.

When you choose to promote someone else’s eBook, it’s important to look for eBooks that will sell well and that offer a good commission.  Choose a good quality product that’s relevant to your niche.  Take a look at the sales page for that eBook.  Does it make you want to buy the product? If not, it probably won’t excite your website or blog visitors to buy either.

And don’t forget commission.  You get a percent of each sale that is generated by you.  The bigger the percentage, the larger the commission assuming the price of the product is the same!

You’re doing a lot of work to sell this eBook, so go for one with a good-sized commission.  Affiliate marketing with eBooks also requires that you do some work of your own – for instance – you have to make sure your website is search engine optimized for the most possible traffic.  Affiliate marketing with eBooks can be a lucrative business.  Follow these guidelines, and see what selling eBooks can do for you!

Carving your own spot within a niche is an involved process.  You can’t just start a website, write an article or two and deem yourself the new expert of your niche!  Unless you are a celebrity, you’ll likely still be invisible – and if you want to be successful in Internet marketing, you can’t afford to be invisible!

One excellent way to bring your online business to life is to tap into a niche with video marketing.  Video marketing is the newest and possibly best way to get the attention and respect of customers, prospects and your peers as well.  This is because it brings together all of the best elements of marketing – words, voice, and visual to create a vehicle for sharing information in a way that everyone appreciates.  And if you video yourself talking your prospects can see and identify YOU and your body language is there for all to read too!

When you tap into a niche with video marketing, you have a great chance to show what you know to possibly millions of people!  How?  Well, if you post your video on YouTube and promote the video link to it, you literally have the chance of millions seeing that video (it worked for Susan Boyle and it could work for you!)

So here are the “do’s”.

• Create a video that’s packed with interesting and helpful information;
• If you can, make it entertaining, as that increases hits as people embed it on their sites;
• Optimise your video for search engines (tag it with keywords) – and you’ll improve your chances of traffic – after all search engines LOVE videos!

The reason video marketing is so important for staking a claim on a niche is that most Internet marketers still don’t use video, but it’s one of the most popular ways for people to view information on the Internet.  Video marketing has a greater impact because it’s visual.  It helps you create your brand as an expert on multiple levels and helps you gain standing in your niche because it’s so powerful.

Use video and you will put yourself above so many other internet marketers out there.  So what are you waiting for?  Go grab your video camera!

I’ve talked a lot about PLR content, where to get the good PLR and things you might do with it usefully, to monetize a site. 

Another way to use your niche PLR content is to fill the pages of a purpose build AdSense site.  If you are not familiar with the term, an AdSense site is a website, blog, lens etc., which is created around a keyword (phrase) or set of related keywords, for the sole purpose of getting clicks on ads.  With AdSense, it’s all about the clicks.

So for all the naysayers who still maintain that AdSense sites are dead, I say “If you say so – less competition for the rest of us”.  And if you’re wondering if they DO still work, I say, yes, if you do it right. 

But to get an AdSense site to work, you have to have a couple things going for you – lots of traffic and interesting content (drawing the traffic).  That’s where PLR content comes in handy.  If you’re wondering if AdSense sites are a good use of niche PLR content the answer is yes – when you do it right.

The AdSense site isn’t going to get a lot of visitors that will be interested in clicking without a lot of good content.  PLR content makes this easy.  You purchase niche PLR content that is high quality, adjust it to fit your keywords, change the titles and anything else you want (within the limits of the license), to make the content more unique – and then post it on your AdSense site.

Search engines love to reward sites that are well-stocked with original, quality content with high page ranks – and that’s where your traffic is going to come from.

So if you’re using AdSense to create a stream of income, your main goals are going to get people to your site and then get them interested enough in the content to want to click on the ads.  Why not use niche PLR to give plenty of strong content, keep it fresh, update it and watch your AdSense income soar.

Everyone knows that niche marketing is the way to go these days.  I’ve blogged about what niche marketing is before on this site. 

Niches allow you to focus your efforts for maximum effect – you’re not wasting time trying to cover a huge area – rather, you’re spending your resources pinpointing a target market.  The best way to build a niche following (of targeted potential customers) is by building a blog.

People love blogs.  Blogs are great places to find an ongoing flow of information that is relevant to a certain topic or subject area.  Some people think blogs are only for the internet marketing niche or personal blogs for people wanting to talk about their holidays.  Not so – they work brilliantly with all niche markets. 

All you have to do is choose your niche and start your blog.

Yes, I’m being a bit over simplistic by saying that – but really, blogs aren’t difficult to create and maintain and a blog is a great way to publish your content – the content that marks you as an expert in your field.

To build a niche following with a blog, you’ll want to first choose your niche keywords carefully.  Once you’ve done that, you can create content – your blog posts, even podcasts and videos that you embed in your blog, that center on those keywords.

Keep your blog fresh and updated on a very regular basis, and make sure you’ve search engine optimized your blog.  You’ll find that the search engines are more than happy to give it a good page rank.  This leads to more traffic and more traffic leads to a growing following.  

Create a blog to support your niche.  You’ll brand yourself as an expert quickly and it is just one more way for people to find you.  And with lots of good quality content presented in one place, they will keep coming back.  It’s true it can take a lot of effort – but it will reap rewards for you!

PLR Monthly is it worth it?  Private Label Right products in a nut shell are yours to own, edit, sell, resell, and grant resale rights to and more. Basically you are the author of the product without writing or creating a thing.  So it does not take a genius to realise the value of these products.  You can use PLR as your own and sign your name as the creator – within the licence of the PLR of course!

When you have your own PLR products you can:

·         Sell them on their own mini site – Use the PLR material to create your own mini website and sell your products from there.

·         Bundle them into bigger packages – Take 3 or 4 related PLR products and combine them into a larger package, which you can sell for a higher price.

·         Convert them to CD or DVD and sell them on auction websites - Place your PLR on a CD with your website links and affiliate links inside and create an income from selling your created items on auction websites as well as a strong residual income from your affiliate links.

·         Create a home study course – with a variety of PLR products and sell them for a hundreds of dollars.

·         Split your private label into articles – Place them on article websites with your website links, mini site links, and auction links and generate traffic.

·         Create a mini course and distribute them to your mailing lists – this is one of the best ways to really make PLR work for you!

·         Convert your products to physical books, print and sell them - place them on auction websites such as eBay and Amazon for totally new audiences!

·         Add your affiliate links to your PLR – Create affiliate sales which will earn you a residual income for years to come.  

So PLR can be very useful to the buyer.  But, PLR can be very expensive to produce, especially the good stuff, and there is a lot of PLR out on the internet which is not top quality!  There are a lot of cheap and copy PLR websites out there.  So how can you tell which PLR is the quality great content PLR?  Well PLR Monthly are good guys.  They are all out to help you to succeed to the max.

No joke here!  PLR Monthly has so much to offer!  Check this out!

Niche Market PLR eBooks – With the Niche Market PLR package you get 3 top quality fresh content PLR eBooks as a niche collection and provide your potential buyers with more than a single eBook, you can give them a multimedia experience.

Bonus PLR eBook every month – You can use the bonus PLR eBooks the same way as the package PLR.  All the products are ready to sell.

Audio eBook with resale rights – You can place the audio book as an auction or include it as a bonus in your eBook packages.  All audio sales letters are graphics are provided.

Mini website graphics to use with all PLR products – Use the mini websites and sell your converted PLR to the public directly from the internet using paypal or any other online payment system

25 PLR articles per month – Use your PLR articles with your affiliate links inside to generate you traffic for years to come.  Submit them to article directories, blogs, and content hungry websites to earn your affiliate commissions and a steady influx of traffic.

An eBay sales template – Simply paste the template to eBay -there is no need for a website hosting service for this one!

ü  CD graphics – Use your CD graphics on your auctions and your mini websites. Print the covers to your CD’s and sell them as physical items.

ü  DVD graphics – Why not advertise your product as a DVD and burn it to a DVD! You can charge more for a DVD than a digital delivery item.

ü  eBook graphics – Use the eBook graphics for your auctions, your mini sites, your sales letters and your physical printed Book creations.

ü  Header and Footer Graphics – we supply for you the graphics for your headers and footers for your mini sites and your auctions, which are all professionally prepared by our graphics team.

ü  PLR request service – How amazing is this?  You can eve request what PLR topics you want to see in the membership!  And this too includes mini sites, websites, graphics and PLR eBooks terms apply.

So, with PLR Monthly, you get a phenomenal amount of top quality fresh content.  And you also get full support for the products, including all the tutorials you need to move your business along, even if you’re a complete newbie!  PLR Monthly is one of the best PLR websites I have seen and definitely one I recommend if you are in the market for top quality PLR!

It’s hard to do a job or run a business well without the proper training.  Certainly, some people have a knack for specific things, but training is almost always a must.  It’s not common for anyone to be able to just start doing something and become a success without some education and knowledge.

This applies especially to Internet marketing, which is a relatively new and ever changing field.  Every time technology changes, the playing field changes, too. Many are of the opinion that Internet marketing training is well worth the investment of time and money it takes.

What types of things does someone learn when they go through Internet marketing training?  Depending on the program, they would learn the basics, which would include search engine optimization, article marketing, creating an effective website or page, social networking and marketing, and how to successfully choose a niche.

Above and beyond that, Internet marketing training may include learning about things like Google AdWords campaigns, and how to use AdSense to create a stream of income, creating your own info products such as eBooks, using podcasts and video to create more website traffic and more business and more.

Internet marketing training can cover a lot of ground and can be very helpful to both someone who is completely new to Internet marketing and to someone who has been in the business for awhile.  As with everything though, just make sure you know what you’re getting before you pay your money!

PLR content is “Private Label Content”.  This means that you buy content that was written by someone else and use it as if you had written it yourself.  And PLR content is available all over the web and one particular source is through PLR Membership sites.  These sites compile new content PLR, maybe articles, maybe whole products, on a regular basis and you pay a monthly subscription for access.

Assuming you have checked out the quality of the PLR material and it is great quality totally original stuff, membership to a PLR site can be very cost effective in developing your products online. 

You can modify the content to suit your needs so that it is more personalized to your niche and your website, and you can claim the content as your own, even put your name as the author.  You also have the right to sell or give away the material to others.

The idea is that you’re adding your own quality content to your blog or website and reinforcing your reputation and increasing your traffic by making your website more attractive to search engines.  There is a very good case for adding valuable content to your own name online.

Plus, PLR memberships are fairly inexpensive when you consider that depending on the site, you can get access to literally hundreds of articles, blurbs and reports that you can use in any way you see fit.

So these are the pros.

What is the downside to a PLR membership site?  Well, you do have to pay for it, and you do have to use it – every month.  And if you don’t use it once you’ve paid your membership fee – you’ve wasted money.  

And it is best not to use PLR “as is” – no matter how exclusive the PLR site, you will ALWAYS be up against some competition if you leave the material totally unaltered. 

Otherwise, your content will just become someone else’s duplicate content and that doesn’t look good to the search engines.  So you still have to put some time and energy into it, or money if you’re paying someone to re-write it for you.

And it can be very time consuming to alter the PLR, even if it is just re-writing and tweaking.

So, is a PLR membership site worth it?  You’re the only person who can answer that.  

If you choose to use PLR, make sure it’s of the best quality and that you’re prepared to “make it your own”.