Blogging Can Be Made Into An Internet Income Opportunity
Do you have a blog, yet? Many people start blogs as an avenue to express themselves or to share ideas with family members and friends. But, blogging can also be an internet income opportunity. And, if done properly, it can be a huge source of income.
Many products are sold on the internet through blogs. In most cases, the people selling these products don’t even own the products. They are selling other people’s or organization’s products and when they sell the product they receive a commission. This is called affiliate marketing.
Commission percentages can run anywhere from 3% to as high as 75%. You have to check with each vendor to determine what commission percentage they are willing to pay.
Finding products to sell on your blog is easy. For example, if you have a blog centered around cooking, you can go to Google search and type in “recipe cookbooks +affiliates”, hit “enter”, and Google will return to you a huge list of publishers who are looking for affiliates to sell their cookbooks. You can do this for any search term.
There are also some huge markets that deal only with products that are intended to be sold by affiliate marketers. Three of the biggest are Clickbank, Commission Junction, and PayDotCom. These are all free to join.
Google even has their own market similar to these. It’s called the Google Affiliate Network. Check it out.
If you don’t have a blog, but you would like to take advantage of an internet income opportunity, you should consider making your own blog. You can make your own blog for free. Blogger.com and WordPress.com are two websites where you can create your own blogging website and it will cost you nothing to do it. They provide you the templates to get started, and the information and directions on how to create your own blog. Google’s search engines love these two websites.
The downside to Blogger.com and WordPress.com is that they have a limited number of templates to choose from so you are limited on how your blog will look. They also do not allow any custom plugins so you are limited on how much your blog can do for you.
An alternate website that many affiliate marketers use is WordPress.org. Google’s search engines love this website, also. On the plus side, you can upload your own custom templates and plugins. You can also change codes. This means that there is no limit to how your website can look and no limits to what it can do.
On the downside, you must have more technical knowledge. Also, while creating a website on WordPress.org is free, you do have to provide your own domain name and hosting. Hosting on sites like Hostgator, Namecheap, or GoDaddy will cost between $7-$15 per month and domain names can be purchased from $3-$12 per year.
There is one last website I would like to discuss. If you are going to create a blog with the intent to make money, you need to be aware that you need to get your blog ranked on the first page of Google’s search engines in order to get much free traffic (read Boost Your Internet Income Opportunity for more info on how to get ranked). That means you will have to make two or more postings per week to your blog. This is where a blogging website called WordPress Direct comes in handy.
WordPress Direct is similar to WordPress.org. They provide hundreds of templates to choose from or you can upload your own custom templates. You can choose any plugins that you want and you can change codes. But, the most unique feature that WordPress Direct has to offer is that it has some unique, custom plugins that can generate articles and videos automatically and post them to your site. This relieves you from doing much of the work – particularly, if you don’t like to write.
Once again, the downside to WordPress Direct is that you have to buy your own domain name and hosting. Also, WordPress Direct has a monthly fee. But, if you are making money with your blogs, the small fee is easy to handle. Especially, for the time and service that WordPress Direct saves you (for more info on WordPress Direct, read my short article Home Work Business Opportunities).
If you are new to blogging and would like to learn more about it, I would suggest that you should study the free ThirtyDayChallenge home study course. It will help you make your first dollar on the internet.
Blogging, use it to create an internet income opportunity.
Home Work Business Opportunities | Affiliate Marketing
I make my living in affiliate marketing. It was my way of taking advantage of home work business opportunities. I am asked all the time by people I know and meet on what exactly does affiliate marketing mean.
The easiest way to explain it is to give you an example. Amazon.com is the biggest affiliate marketing network. Amazon has hundreds of thousands of products that that can be purchased through their website. If you join Amazon.com and become an affiliate for them, all you have to do to make a commission with them is to drive traffic to their website and if a purchase is made, you earn a commission.
That’s it! To be an affiliate marketer all you need is a computer and internet access.
It doesn’t cost you anything to be an affiliate for Amazon.com – joining is free. And, their are hundreds of other affiliate marketing networks that you can join and they are also free to join. Among the largest and busiest are Clickbank, Commission Junction, and PayDotCom.
The key to being successful at affiliate marketing is driving hungry traffic to your affiliate sites. The three usual ways of doing this are by:
1. Blogging – You can create your own free website at WordPress.com or Blogger.com. Once you have these set up, you can write postings in your blog and link them to your affiliate sites. Or, you can post banners on your blog and if clicked, it will take your visitors to your affiliate links. All of this, including the banners, are free.
2. Article Writing – You can write articles that have links to your affiliate networks and post these articles on article directories. Your article should be written around a subject related to what you are trying to sell so that the traffic you drive to your links are focused and targeted. Some of the more popular article directories are Ezinearticles, Squidoo, Hubpages, and GoArticles. All of these are free to use.
3. PPC Advertising – PPC advertising is known as pay per click advertising. Now, this is not free, but it is a very effective way to drive targeted customers directly to the products you are trying to sell. This method involves placing ads on Google Adwords, Yahoo, or MSN. Joining these advertising sites is free, but one you place an ad, you will have to pay a predetermined amount each time someone clicks on your ad. It doesn’t cost anything for your ad to show, but it does when someone clicks on it (for some tips on PPC advertising, read my article on this internet income opportunity).
Affiliate marketing is a terrific internet income opportunity. It is not a get rich quick scheme. It does take some time to learn the ropes, but there is income to be made and the longer you are in it, the more you will make. Remember, all those links you put out there to products you are selling, will stay on the internet for years to come.
Here is another tip. If you have interest in affiliate marketing, but would like to learn more about it, go to the Google Cash 4 Home Study Course. It will cost you one cent for a processing fee, but you can get this Home Study Course for free. Not only that, you will also get another free course called the No Money System (30 video lessons on how to market at no cost). A third thing that you will get for that 1 cent processing fee is a 7 Day Free Trial to the Google Cash Detective – an extremely valuable tool to use if your doing PPC advertising.
Don’t hesitate to get these free courses and don’t hesitate to drop the Google Cash Detective after 7 days if you don’t like it. The free courses are still yours to keep.
Home work business opportunities are out there. I hope this article on affiliate marketing has helped you find one.
FOR SALE – An Internet Income Opportunity
Avoid all the problems and headaches in creating a website to build an internet income opportunity – BUY IT! Yes, you can buy websites that already exist and it’s a huge market. And, sometimes you can buy these websites at insanely low prices!
The largest marketplace to buy or sell a website is called Flippa. It’s a highly respectable and huge marketplace. As I am writing this article there are 1,612 websites that are for sale. Some for as little as $60 and others for many thousands of dollars.
Watch this video to get a better idea about the Flippa marketplace:
Now, isn’t that cool! Imagine, you could have your own website without going through all that trouble of having to make one.
If you do want to consider buying a website, there are a number of things to think about:
1. Choose one in an area of interest that you are interested in. No matter how much money it generates or how much traffic it gets, if your not truly interested, the money and traffic will not last.
2. Age is important, but it’s not everything. If the website is relatively new, it should sell for less. But, that depends upon #3.
3. How much income is the website generating? Even new websites can generate a lot of income. The higher the amount of income that a website generates, the value of that website goes up. Not always, but typically a website will sell somewhere around three times the value of what its normal monthly income is.
4. Traffic is important. The lower the traffic, the lower the value. You have to have traffic to generate an internet income opportunity.
All of the above information and much more is presented to you on Flippa.
I now watch Flippa on a daily basis. I am looking for three things in particular:
1. Websites in my area of interest that have high income and are selling at unusually low prices, or
2. Websites in my area of interest that have low income, but high traffic that I think I can monetize on, or
3. Websites in my area of interest that are very low priced that I think I can drive traffic to and that I think I can create an effective money making program for.
Finding websites with high income revenues that are selling at low prices are hard to find, but they can be found. In fact, if you watched the video posted above, it shows a website with an income revenue stream of $900/month that had a current bid of $160 with only two days remaining. That could be a great buy! I, myself, have purchased two like this.
Websites that have a lot of traffic, but have a low income stream, are somewhat easier to find. A lot of people don’t know how to monetize their websites and just get tired of messing with them. A lot of work and no income. That’s a shame for them, but a goldmine for someone else.
Finding websites in my area of interest, with low traffic levels and little or no income, provide me a lot of interest. Particularly, when they have some age on them. Many people just don’t learn how to drive traffic to their websites. Getting ranked on the first page of Google and the other major search engines is the key to this. And, that’s not that hard to do depending on the keywords that you are using and the links that are pointing into your sight. Getting these links is not that hard to do when you use a tool like Traffic-Bug (for more information on this, read my article on Traffic-Bug).
If you want a website and don’t know or want to make one, take a look at the Flippa marketplace. Or, if you want to take advantage of an internet income opportunity, take a look at Flippa. You may find what you’re looking for.
While You’re Unemployed, Find A Legitimate Business Opportunity On The Internet
If you’re unemployed, use a lot of that extra time that you have to find a legitimate business opportunity on the internet. There are not many regular jobs out there. With unemployment hovering around 10% (and much higher in many states), employers are reluctant to do much hiring. Many experts are forecasting that it will be 3-4 years before we see much of a drop in unemployment. So, don’t give up, use this time to create your own internet income opportunity. Make your own business. It’s not as hard as you may think.
First thing you need to do before you decide which legitimate business opportunity it is that you want to tackle, is to determine how much money you need to make on a daily basis to sustain your way of living. If you’re working from home, it will be less than you think.
For example, if your rent or house payment is $900/month, that’s about $30/day (based on 30 days/month). Groceries about $10/day (if you spend about $70/week). Electricity $6/day, water and sewage $3/day, cable TV $2/day, telephone $2/day, high speed internet $1.50/day, automobile payment $8.50/day, auto insurance $3/day, and miscellaneous expenses $4/day. That’s a total of $70/day in total expenses. Now, you need to find a legitimate business opportunity on the internet that will provide you with an income of at least $70/day.
Keep in mind that making money on the internet is not a get rich quick scheme. Sure, there have been those that have immediately made thousands of dollars. But, that’s like winning the lottery. It can be done, but it’s not likely to happen.
The important thing about finding a legitimate business opportunity on the internet is to find an opportunity that is consistently and regularly providing you an income. You will likely have to take advantage of a number of different opportunities, with each one providing you a chunk of income that is covering different parts of your expenses.
For example, you may have a blog on weight loss that is linking to different weight loss programs that is providing you with an average income of $12/day. Well, that’s covering groceries and telephone expenses.
Start another blog, say on exercise equipment. Build it up and after a while the income from it may be covering your automobile payment and its insurance.
Cover all of your expenses by bits and pieces. Besides blogs, you may want to do some pay per click advertising (for tips, read my article PPC Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity). Perhaps this will provide you enough income to cover your house payments. And, try article marketing on Ezinearticles and Squidoo (see Bum Marketing Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity). Article marketing may provide you enough income to cover the balance of your expenses and start providing you enough cash to put in your savings account.
Providing yourself an income by bits and pieces is insurance for you. Now, I’m not saying that you don’t want to land on a big money maker – we all want that. I’m just saying that you want to diversify your income. You never know when one of your sources of income may dry up. If you have diversified your income, you may get a little “thirsty” when one of your sources dries up, but you can survive until you have found another legitimate business opportunity.
Use This New Clickbank Tool To Increase Your Internet Income Opportunity
Good News!! Clickbank has added a new tool to their site that will enable you to increase your internet income opportunity. Check this out.
If you have ever done pay per click advertising before, and, if you were trying to sell a Clickbank product, it was sometimes difficult to track your sales by keywords used. That’s because if you were advertising on Google Adwords, Yahoo, or MSN, you had to get their conversion codes and then email it to the merchant. The merchant had to DO it for you.
There were problems with doing that. Sometimes it took a lot of time to get it done. Sometimes it skewed the results for everyone. And, sometimes you could not find an email address for the merchant. Problems, problems, problems….
Now, that”s all changed thanks to Clickbank! Your conversion code can now be added right into your Clickbank account. Once you have done this, when you check your PPC accounts at Google, Yahoo, or MSN you can find the exact keyword that led to your sales! You will also be able to determine which keywords are only costing you money and are not delivering sales. This is a big advantage to you on helping you make profits with your internet income opportunity.
Here’s how to do this. If you don’t have your conversion code, go get it – you will need it.
1. Sign into your Clickbank account.
2. Click on “Account Settings” at the top.
3. Scroll down the page until you find the box labeled “INTEGRATED SALES REPORTING”.
4. Click “Edit”.
5. Find the green button that says “ADD TRACKING CODE” and click it.
6. Follow the furnished diagram and paste in your code.
That’s it! Your done! So easy, quick, and simple. Now, you can track sales by the exact keyword used and you can do it all by yourself.
One word of CAUTION for some of you. If you have already emailed your conversion code to the merchant, you will get double reporting if you add your conversion code to your Clickbank account. So, if you have already been tracking by keyword, you have to factor in the double reporting, or get the merchant to remove your conversion code, or start a new Clickbank account (not a problem – I have three already).
If you have any other questions about this new Clickbank tool, follow this link: Integrated Sales Reporting.
Let’s applaud Clickbank for this new tool! This sure makes it easier for me to take advantage of my internet income opportunity. I’m sure it will help you, too.
Income Opportunity Home Based Business Valentine’s Special
Right now, Site Build It! 2.0 is offering a terrific Valentine’s Special to help you and your family members to create an income opportunity home based business. For only an additional $100, you can create two home business’s instead of one. So, you can make two for yourself or give one of them to a special someone. This special will only last until midnight on February 14.
If you are not familiar with Site Build It!, you really should check them out. I did an earlier review of SBI in an article called Create An Income Opportunity Home Based Business. In this article, there is an informative video review of Site Build It! and how to use it to boost your internet income opportunity.
SBI really is an ideal sight to learn how to create a money-making website. The tutorials, videos, and tools that they provide you are better than any that you will find anywhere else. They review everything that you do to insure that the website that you create will get highly ranked by all of the major search engines. It’s the high rankings that you need to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website. And, your high rankings provides SBI further advertisement for getting future customers!
Don’t try to make a money-making website without using Site Build It! Too many others that have not used SBI have failed. If you have doubts about just how good SBI truly is, just ask the question online on any of the major forums. Those that have used SBI will tell you about their success.
If you are serious about making an internet income opportunity home based business that can provide you a substantial income, don’t pass up on this Valentine’s Special! Make two money-making websites instead of only one.
Spinning Articles To Make Your Internet Income Opportunity
One internet income opportunity that anyone can take advantage of is article marketing. Write a good article, link it to a product, publish it, and you are on your way to possibly making some extra income. You can do this on the internet at no cost. Extra cash in your pocket that costs you nothing.
I know that many of you that are reading this article are saying, “Yes, but I hate to write articles.” And, I understand that. For many of us, it is either boring, too time consuming, or outside of our skills. But, there are ways to get around this at a very low cost.
One way to take advantage of this internet income opportunity is to hire someone else to write the article. On the internet, there are many good writers in third world countries that are eagerly looking for people to write articles for. These are freelancers. It provides them a good income for where they live and provides you a unique article that you didn’t have to write. Depending upon your specified article length, the cost is generally between $5 – $15/article.
Good freelancers can be found at Elance.com, Guru.com, RentACoder.com, Scriptlance.com, and Sitepoint.com. To hire a freelancer, be sure to write a good job description. Be specific, brief, and clear. Evaluate the bids you receive and don’t be afraid to ask to see a sample of the articles they have already written. Once you have found one or two good freelancers, you can stick with them.
A second way to take advantage of this internet income opportunity is to take advantage of some of the new software on the market that will “spin” new, unique articles out of existing articles. This type of software will take articles that have already been written and completely modify them so that they are telling the same story, but with different words.
The best software of this sorts that I have seen on the market is called The Best Spinner. The Best Spinner requires you to be involved in making changes to the original article, but that’s what I like. I have seen other similar types of this software that will automatically create new articles for you, but when you read the new article, they often times don’t make much sense. Human involvement is a must.
The Best Spinner has a huge thesaurus with thousands of synonyms. It will even take word phrases and suggest changes to them. You can spin by a single word, or by full sentence, or by entire paragraph. With this software, you can generate up to 100 new articles and save them to a ZIP file or you can automatically generate one unique version and upload to your windows clipboard. The Best Spinner has made unique article creation faster than ever dreamed possible.
Article marketing has never been easier. By hiring freelancer’s or spinning articles, you can publish a lot of articles and market a lot of products. So, put some extra cash in your pockets with this internet income opportunity.
Use WordPress to Create A Network Marketing Internet Business
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