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.
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.
High Authority Backlinks To Boost Your Internet Income Opportunity
Backlinks are vital if your trying to build free traffic to your internet income opportunity. To get a lot of free traffic, you have to rank high on page one of the search engines for your keywords. And, the only way to do that is to either have more backlinks to your website than your competitors or to have more high authority backlinks. Between the two, high authority is most important. One high authority backlink can be worth 100 other backlinks.
What is a high authority backlink? It’s a backlink from a site that the search engines already consider important. It’s a backlink from a site that is probably already ranked high by the search engines. For example, if your wbsite is selling jewelry, a backlink from a site like www.Zales.com would be considered a high authority backlink (Zales.com is a jewelry outlet that has been in business since 1924 and its website is ranked #1 out of 130,000,000 sites by Google).
In your search for these type of high authority backlinks, type your keywords into Google Search (or, Yahoo and MSN) and start looking from the top of page one. Going down the search results, look for sites that you might be able to leave a backlink to your site. You may have to visit many of these sites. Look to see if they have a link exchange program, a comment area, or even a “signature” page. Finding several of these high ranking sites and posting backlinks will help increase your internet income opportunity.
Another source of high authority sites are those websites related to educational and government agencies. These websites end with the terms .edu and .gov. The search engines consider these sites important. One reason that they do is that all comments and backlinks posted to these sites are human reviewed before they are posted. So, if you are going to leave a comment and backlink on one of these sites, make sure that your comment and backlink is relevant to the site. These sites do not allow spamming.
To find .edu and .gov sites that you can leave backlinks on, you have to find blogs and forums related to these sites. To find these, go to the search engines and type in each of the following, one at a time: “inurl:.gov+inurl:blog”, “inurl:.gov+inurl:forum”, “inurl:.edu+inurl:blog”, and “inurl:.edu+inurl:forum”. Type these in without the parenthesis that I have attached.
The search engines will return all the .gov or .edu websites that are either blog or forum related. You will have to look through these listings to find those that might be related to your website. If you can find one, make sure you leave a good comment that adds substance to the subject they are talking about. Getting a backlink from one of these sights will certainly boost the ranking of your internet income opportunity.
Is Bum Marketing A Legitimate Business Opportunity?
You bet it is! Bum marketing is a legitimate business opportunity and it’s how I made my first dollar on the internet.
Many of you are probably asking, “So, what’s bum marketing?” Bum marketing is a simple way that almost anyone can get free traffic and sell a product on the internet. No, it’s not a get rich quick scheme, but it is a way to build income from your home computer and have that income continuously coming in over a long period of time. Month-after-month.
Bum marketing has its roots in article marketing. But, its done in a special way. First, you have to submit those articles to sites that Google loves – such as Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Squidoo, or Searchwarp. And, secondly, you have to target key phrases that will almost guarantee you a first page ranking on the major search engines.
And, how do you do that? Listen, I could go into all that, but the best way for you to learn the Bum Marketing Method is from the guy who created it. His name is Travis Sago and he was the original Bum Marketer. He’s a master affiliate and he has created a FREE affiliate course on the Bum Marketing Method. Click on this link, the Free Bum Marketing Method Course, to gain access to this legitimate business opportunity.
To get the course, you do have to give Travis access to your email address. And, you will get follow-up emails from Travis. But, many of his emails contain great tips on affiliate marketing. For that reason, I have stayed on his email list. But, if you don’t want his emails, you can get his free course and opt-out of his email list.
Do me one favor, though. Travis is an affiliate and one thing that he does promote is membership to an online affiliate training course called the Wealthy Affiliate (read my article Use Wealthy Affiliate to Build an Internet Income Opportunity for more info). Travis works for the Wealthy Affiliate and it’s a great course. I am also a member of the Wealthy Affiliate and I am also an affiliate. So, if you get Travis’s Bum Marketing Method Course and at some point you want to consider becoming a member of the Wealthy Affiliate, please use my link to get to the Wealthy Affiliate. You can find that link here, the Wealthy Affiliate, or you can click on the banner on the right side of this blog. Travis sells a lot of things and since you are now on his mailing list (thanks to me), he will get his chance to sell you other products.
The Bum Marketing Method is a great course and it doesn’t take too long to study. I encourage you to get that free course. If you follow what the course teaches you, you’ll soon be making money – just like I did. Bum Marketing is a legitimate business opportunity!
Try Fishing On Adbrite To Catch Your Internet Income Opportunity
Pay-per-click advertising on Google is like fishing on a big river that is full of anglers. It’s crowded. Everybody is trying to catch an internet income opportunity. The problem is that it’s hard to find a spot in the river where you can throw your hook and not get tangled up with someone else’s line. And, once you do get your hook in the water, you find there are only small fish to catch because the bigger ones have been caught further up the river.
This is similar to the kind of problems I had with pay-per-click advertising on Google Adwords. Google is certainly a big stream with a lot of fish in it, but there are thousands-upon-thousands of advertisers fishing in it. The cost for your keywords that you want to use are high. It is very competitive. You also have to battle with your ad’s quality score on Google Adwords. It’s a struggle.
These are the reasons why I have chosen to fish in smaller streams where there are fewer anglers, but there are still a lot of fish to catch. It’s easier to snag an internet income opportunity. One of those streams that I fish in is called Adbrite. It’s an excellent platform to use for affiliate marketing.
Adbrite serve ads on more than 650,000,000 page views per day. They serve ads on eBay, AOL, Photobucket, MyLifeIsAverage, Facebook, and thousands of other sites. If you want to, you can even select the sites you want your ads to appear on for niche targeting. You can target your ads by location (US, UK, Japan, etc), by category (business, health and wellness, parenting, etc.), by by demographic info (gender and age), and by keywords. Adbrite has their own conversion tracking system that you can use and you can run text ads, banner ads, or full page ads.
The cost to run ads on Adbrite is much lower than Google Adwords. You specify what’s the maximum amount you want to pay and it can be as low as $.05/click. I have used keywords on Adbrite that I paid $.05 for that I use to pay $1.17 for on Google Adwords. You can also tell Adbrite what’s the maximum amount of money you want to spend per day.
Adbrite does not provide a quality score for your ad. So, you don’t get penalized like you do on Google Adwords. I never found the quality score that I got at Google Adwords to be of help. It only lowered my ads position or increased my cost.
So, if you have been fishing in that big river crowded with other anglers, you may want to try this smaller stream. There are still a lot of fish, and big ones too, that are waiting to be caught. Take a look at Adbrite and give it a try! I bet you’ll catch an internet income opportunity.
Try Traffic-Bug While Creating Your Internet Income Opportunity
If you are creating an internet income opportunity, use Traffic-Bug to quickly move your site to page one on Google. Traffic-Bug is an automated system that will boost your rankings while you are on auto-pilot.
As you probably already know, the key to rankings depends upon the number and quality of backlinks that you have to your site. Traffic-Bug is a bit of recently developed software that helps you build those quality backlinks. As your backlinks increase, your websites ranking increases and the number of visitors to your site mushrooms. Traffic-Bug will save you hundreds of hours promoting your internet income opportunity.
During a recent three week test, I used Traffic-Bug to promote three of my websites. In that three weeks, Traffic Bug created 663 backlinks to my three sites and saved me 3156 minutes of tedious work. That was time that I used to be more creative at my network marketing internet business.
What does Traffic-Bug do for you? Traffic-Bug will automatically submit your website and articles to over 43 of the top social bookmarking sites. You don’t even have to open an account at these sites – Traffic-Bug will do it for you! Traffic-Bug will also submit your site to over 138 different search engines, it will submit your Blog Feed or RSS Feed to all of the major RSS directories, and it will submit your site to 1000+ directories while building backlinks as it does so. What other software that you know of can do all of this? And what is even better, Traffic-Bug is recently developed software and with time, the number of submissions to social bookmarking, search engines, and directories will only increase. This is a real boost to your internet income opportunity!
All of the submissions made by Traffic-Bug are programmed to be done over a period of time. Typically, 3-4 weeks. Search engines don’t like automated submissions, so by spreading these submissions over a period of time, the search engines are not aware that these are being auotomatically submitted.
Right now, for a limited time, you can try Traffic-Bug for 7 days, completely FREE. You don’t even have to submit your credit card! After seven days, your account will be locked out unless you want to continue with Traffic-Bug by submitting your credit card. After trying Traffic-Bug, I am convinced that you will stay with it. It is the quickest and easiest way to get to page 1 on Google. It’s a lifeline for creating your internet income opportunity. Try it now for FREE!
Use Hostgator to Host Your Internet Income Opportunity
Home Work Business Opportunities
If you are going to work out of your own home and start an internet business, you are going to need a blogging platform to take advantage of those home work business opportunities. There are free ones out there such as Blogger.com and Wordpress.com, but if you are going to have multiple websites in your home business, you need to consider Wordpress Direct.
Wordpress Direct is the ideal platform for professionals whom have multiple websites and needs help adding unique content to those sites. As you know, it takes a lot of time and effort to research, write, and create new and original content for your websites. If you have more than one site, it becomes a full time job. Wordpress Direct takes a load of that work off your shoulder. WPD has created some unique plugins that will automatically find content rich sites such as YouTube, Yahoo Answers, and popular news platforms and it will populate your website with this information. Once posted, you can review this information and either approve it or eliminate it. Maintaining a website or blog becomes easy. This is a big help for those looking for an internet income opportunity.
Let me tell you how I use this benefit while I am building my home work business opportunities. I do a lot of pay-per-click advertising on Google. My cost-per-click that I have to pay on this search engine depends a lot upon the quality score that Google gives to my landing page. So, I create a landing page on a Wordpress Direct website and then I populate it with additional articles that are automatically posted. I do this over a 1-2 week period and it boosts my quality score. Google loves my landing pages and all I have to do is create one posting!
Another reason to consider Wordpress Direct is page ranking. Wordpress Direct was built with special plugins and filters that allow websites to get higher rankings. In 2008, out of 2000 individuals that were taking the Thirty Day Challenge and were using Wordpress Direct, 57% of them achieved first page ranking in under 30 days. And, 2/3 of them were in the top 5 spots. That’s remarkable!
Wordpress Direct is not for everyone. If you have one website or blog and ranking quickly is not a concern, Wordpress Direct would not be for you. But, if you are serious about making money on the internet, Wordpress Direct should be a serious consideration. They have a 15 day FREE trial. Try it and if you don’t like it, you can get out of it. But, if you are like me, you’ll like it and use it in your home work business opportunities.