that you can sell (if you haven’t read my previous posting, read Build Your Network Marketing Internet Business By Selling Physical Products).

I’ve seen a significant increase in my commissions that I earn from the tiny websites that I build to promote these physical products. And, I think one of the reasons for that is that I’m choosing to promote “HOT” products that Google says are hot. Let me share this little marketing secret with you.

Google has it’s own Product Search Tool. Go to Google.com and click on “Shopping” on the upper-left side of the screen.

Or, go to http://www.google.com/products – it will take you to the same page which is shown below:

Scroll down a bit and you’ll see more…

See all those products listed below the search input box? Do you think that Google would just list any prducts here?

Absolutely NOT!!

Google tracks everything. Google is showing you in “live time” what is HOT on the market right now.

Now, let me show you how I use this tool to find the best products to promote, get affiliate links, and use the info to help me build my webites.

Click on th Advanced Product Search tab.

You’ll get a screen that looks similar to the one below:

I entered TV and specified a price range between $300-$400 (remember, Google’s tool said TVs Under $350 were “HOT”) and I clicked Search.

I got the page shown below:

This page provides a list of TVs that are selling between $300 and $400. It provides a price and a link to their product reviews.

Looking the page over, I chose the product at the top of the page – a LG – 32LD350 – 32″ LCD TV – 720p.

This product had 79 reviews (second highest) and was closest to $350.

I read the reviews and they spoke highly of this product. If I choose to promote this product to build another internet income opportunity, I can use those reviews to provide me information that I don’t have concerning this product. That’s valuable information to have.

When I clicked on this product’s link, I got the page shown below:

This page provides 22 sellers of this LG TV, the price that they sell it for, taxes, shipping cost, and overall Total Cost.

Some of these sellers have affiliate programs and some do not. I needed to find a seller that had the lowest Total Cost possible that was also running an affiliate program.

So, I started out with the seller that had the lowest cost – Abt Electronics.

So, I clicked on their link given on that page and it took me to their website that is shown below:

I didn’t find anything about an affiliate program when I looked at the top of their website and the left sidebar, but when I went to the bottom of the website, I found it. I got lucky!

To find out what kind of affiliate program they had, I clicked on that affiliate link and it took me to a review of their affiliate program.

They pay a 7% commission on the overall Total Cost! So, for each TV that I could sell, I would receive a $26.18 commission. That’s not bad for the simple, tiny websites I build to promote these products.

I now have almost everything I need to build another website. I have an affiliate link to a “HOT” product, in a “HOT” market, and all the info to make that site with. All I need now is to find the right keywords (if you need help with that, read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity).

There you have it. If you choose to promote physical products to build your internet income opportunity, try using Google’s Product Search Tool – you’ll find all the “HOT” products on the market.

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Do you advertise on Google Adwords? If so, have you tried advertising on Facebook, yet? If not, you’re missing out on a legitimate business opportunity!

Facebook is HUGE! Since its creation from a Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook has grown to over 500 MILLION USERS and that number is SKYROCKETING. More than 50% of those users use it on a daily basis.

In January 2010, Facebook set a record by displacing Google as the top site where the most web pages are viewed.  

So, if you advertise on Adwords, don’t pass up advertising on Facebook. You can do it for far less money and you can target your customers so much better. You can target buyers who have already qualified themselves in a particular target market.  

Here, let me show you how to do it:

Go to http://www.facebook.com/advertising and you’ll get a page similar to the one below:

Once on that page, click the “Create an Ad” button located in the upper, right hand side of that page.

Now, you’ll get a page similar to the one above. Fill in your ads destination URL, give your ad a title, and provide some text for the body of the ad. And, do you see what’s next?

Yes, your ad can have an image with it! That’s one neat thing about Facbook advertising.  

When finished, click the “Continue” button and you’ll get a page similar to the one below:

On these pages is where your legitimate business opportunity really begins to take shape. These pages allow you to target your market very specifically – in ways that you can’t do on Google Adwords.

You can target buyers by age, sex, relationships, and even birthdays! But, it’s the box that appears just below the box above that I like best. See the image below:

Likes and Interests! This box is MOST IMPORTANT!

In this box you can get very focused on particular types of buyers. For example, if you were promoting one of Clickbank’s products called World of Warcraft, you could put that into the “Likes and Interests” box. Then, only those people that have used those terms in their own profiles would view your ad. This insures that your ads are highly targeted!

Now, one thing that I need to mention is that as you are checking boxes or adding phrases to target your potential buyers, Facbook is keeping track of it. Facebook provides you an estimate of the number of potential viewers that will see your ad. That estimate appears to the right of the images above. It looks like the image below:

The reason I didn’t show it in the images up above is that the image would’ve been so big that when I downsized it to fit on this page, you wouldn’t have been able to read what is written on those pages. I apologize for that.

Moving on.

The last bit of information that you have to complete before placing your ad order is the Campaigns, Pricing and Scheduling box.

Here, you select a campaign name and can enter a daily budget. If you haven’t advertised on Facebook before, I would encourage you to keep your daily budget low. Facebook advertising takes some practice.

Schedule your ad for the days that you want your ad to show. Maybe you want your ads only to show on weekends. If so, make that selection.

Last, choose how you want to pay for your ads. Do you want to pay on a Pay for Click(CPC) or Pay for Impressions(CPM) basis? Facebook will provide you an estimate of what it thinks you should pay for both of these. But, it’s your decision. You decide and enter that into the box.

I’ve found on a CPC basis that I pay about one-third of what I have to pay on Google Adwords.

After filling out these forms, your ad can start running. You’re done. Your legitimate business opportunity has been created. Keep track of it and watch the profits roll in.

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As you know, choosing the right keywords for your websites is vitally important. You want words that you can easily get ranked high on Google for. The words need to receive a significant amount of traffic, yet, not be too competitive. That’s what the Money Word Matrix will help you do. Take a look at it:

As you can see, on the left hand side you look for the number that Google’s Keyword Tool displays for the total number of global searches for a keyword on a monthly basis. Across the top, you look for the number of competitors that Google’s Search Tool displays tor that keyword. Using those numbers, the matrix will tell you if that keyword is a good one to use.

If you don’t use the super tool called Market Samurai, you could use the Money Word Matrix along with Bing’s Detecting Online Commercial Intention Tool to find super keywords to use for your websites. Let me show you an example.

Let’s say that I wanted to create a website and promote a product that helps to stop dogs from barking.

If I go to Google’s Keyword Tool and I enter phrase “stop dog barking”, I get the following results:

“Stop dog barking” receives about 90,500 searches on a monthly basis – nearly 3,000 per day. Next, I want to find out if “stop dog barking” has any commercial value.

Why? Because if the keywords that I want to use for my website are not likely to be used by “buyers”, than it would be pointless to use those words to promote my product. I want traffic that’s willing to buy, and not just visitors.

So, I take my potential keyword to Bing’s Detecting Online Commercial Intention Tool and I enter it in there. I got the following results:

Pow!! Not very good – not at all. The phrase “stop dog barking” shows a 54% probability that it would be used by “lookers”, and not buyers. So, I better look for another keyword phrase.

Going back to Google’s Keyword Tool, I found another phrase further down the list – “dog bark control”. Here, take a look at it:

That phrase receives about 18,100 searches per month. That’s less than the first one, but it’s still about 600 searches per day. Let’s see what kind of commercial value Bing’s tool will give this potential keyword.

That’s GOOD! Bing estimates that there is a 99% chance the phrase “dog bark control” would be used by potential buyers. That’s the type of words that I want to use for my website!

Now, the last test. Let’s see how well this term fits into the Money Word Matrix.

First, I go to Google’s Search Tool and I enter the keyword into it using phrase match (be sure to use “phrase” match – much more accurate results). Here’s what I got:

Google is telling me that the term “dog bark control” has 18,400 competing pages. That’s a lot, but not terribly bad.

I take this information along with the number of Google searches done for this potential keyword and I fit them into the Money Word Matrix. I got the following results:

As you can see, the Matrix identifies this potential keyword as a Good choice. Now, this term has passed my commercial value test and the Money Matrix test. It’s a good keyword to use for creating my internet income opportunity website – I just need to find three or four more.

Use this method to help you identify better key words for your websites. You want to find keywords that will give you plenty of traffic, have commercial value, and not too much competition.

Or, take a look at Market Samurai. Yes, I’m an affiliate and would make a commission, but I’m not sure why everybody doesn’t use it. It automates this entire process and does much, much more. Keyword research is only a small part. Read my article Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity to learn more about it.

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although it can lead to a 6-figure salary. It does require work, especially at first, but further on in this post I’ll show you how to get around the manual tasks.

Let’s face it, we are in a recession. We have been in it for over 2-1/2 years and I don’t expect much of an improvement for several more years.

Besides those that are unemployed, who gets hurt most in a recession? Small businesses. Small businesses are screaming for more business so that they can keep their doors open. They are desperate for more customers.

That’s where you come in. You can use your knowledge in website design, creation, and SEO to provide these businesses with additional customers that they so desperately need.

Let me provide you some data:

=>Verizon statistics report that 66% of the public rarely or never uses the Yellow Pages. The Yellow Pages have been replaced by Google. Most people search online if they need to find something.

=>Google reports that 82% of all searches on the internet are for local searches. Of those 82%, 61% become actual buyers, either online or offline.

=>Nearly 46% of small businesses don’t have a website.

Unbelievable! Nearly 46% of small businesses don’t have a website and of those that do have a website, how many of those business owners either know or use proper SEO tactics? My guess if that very few of them do. Many of them have pretty websites, but very few of them are optimized.

So, use your knowledge and become a local online marketing consultant in your local area. Yes, there may be others that know more about creating websites and SEO than you do, but, if you’re still reading this posting, I would be willing to bet that you know more about these subjects than 99% of most people. And, that makes you an expert!

Watch this video about this income opportunity home based business:

That movie was made by PeakStudios.com, another local online marketing firm, but you can do the same thing. Start your own business!

If you want to make a six figure income, which would you prefer to do – sell 3,334 eBooks that provide $30 commission for each sale or get 8 small business’s paying you for your consulting work? That’s what it takes to make a $100,000 per year.

The going fee for creating a website for a small business is about $750. You can do that in 1-2 days. You can find the best keywords to use either manually or with the Market Samurai tool that I’ve previously written about (if you haven’t read it, read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity).

Create a website at any number of website platforms, but I would recommend WordPress Direct. What makes it special is that the themes that are used on that site are already optimized – it’ll be much easier to get on Page 1 of Google.

Now, once you’ve created a website for the small business, offer them a contract for your SEO expertise. Let them know that unless they already know how to get their website ranked on Page 1, that you can do it for them. That fee normally runs about $1000 per month.

Look, most businesses are already advertising and spending money on the Yellow Pages. Point out to them that these forms of advertising are dinosaurs and are now pretty much a waste of money.

You’ll be surprised at how many of them will agree with you on that point. Now, just convince them that you can get their website ranked on Page 1 and your income opportunity home based business will be off and running.

TIP#1: One of the things I do to locate potential customers is that I search the newspapers to see who is advertising and who has a website. If they don’t have a website, they’re an ideal potential client.

TIP#2: As your business develops, you can outsource almost all of the manual tasks such as keyword research, website creation, and SEO. Read my article Outsourcing Help For Your Network Marketing Internet Business. You can either continue to find new customers, manage, or spend time with your family!

TIP#3: If you would like to learn more about this type of income opportunity home based business, take a look at this consulting course.

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If you’ve done any article marketing, then you are familiar with Ezinearticles, Squidoo, Hubpages and a host of other article marketing sites. What’s great about these sites is that Google’s search engine loves them. You don’t even need a website to get your articles ranked high on Google. Just post your well-written articles to these sites (and include your affiliate links) and you’re likely to get a lot of visitors because Google will likely give your article a high ranking.  

Use this to take advantage of an internet income opportunity!  

Here’s the trick. Go to these article marketing sites and search for “HOT” articles that are promoting affiliate products. These “HOT” articles will not only show you what affiliate products they are promoting, but these articles will also show you the keywords that are “HOT”.

For example (and this example took me only 5 minutes to do), I went to Hubpages and I clicked on TOPICS towards the top of the page. Then, I clicked on

GAMING, TOYS, and HOBBIES, then COMPUTERS and VIDEO GAMES, and finally on VIDEO WARGAMING.

One of the “HOT” articles displayed there was an article titled Play War Of Titans Online Game. Reading this article, I could tell that the keywords for this article were “War of Titans Online Game”. These words appeared in the first and last paragraphs of the article and a number of other times throughout the article.

Next, I clicked on the links to see what was being sold. They were all war games and they were all being sold through Amazon. It’s easy to become an affiliate for Amazon!

Now, I wanted to find out how many times the keywords “War of Titans Online Game” are searched for on Google, so I went to Google’s keyword tool and I got the following results:

Those words are searched on Google about 880 times per month – not enormous, but that’s still 25-30 times per day.

Next, I wanted to know how much competition those keywords would have on Google. I got the following results:

Only 7 competing pages – that’ it! There was virtually no competition for those keywords on Google. Furthermore, because Google loves Hubpages so much, our Hubpage article was ranked #1!

What’s great about this is that most article submitters to these article marketing sites don’t build any links to the articles that they submit – they rely upon the strength their articles get in the search engines because they’re posted on Hubpages, Squidoo, or Ezinearticles.

To check this out, I used my Cherry Picker tool (if you’re not sure what this FREE tool is, read my article Cherry Picking An Internet Income Opportunity). Following are the results that I got:

Exactly what I expected – our Hubpages article has “0″ incoming links. In fact, 9 out of the top 10 sites that are ranking on the first page in Google has “0″ incoming links. Now, how easy would that be to beat?!

All you would have to do to beat any of these sites on page 1 of Google for those keywords is to do a little better SEO. Write and submit an article using those same keywords and build a few incoming links. Or, build a website using those same keywords and build a few links.

So, use this sneaky little trick to build your internet income opportunity!

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Who in their right mind would give away this free software? It’s called the Cherry Picker and it’s the perfect tool to help you find an internet income opportunity. And, I can’t believe it’s FREE, but it is!!

Well, actually I can understand why it’s being given away for free. You see, the tool was designed by the internet guru Ryan Deiss and he’s hiving it away for free to promote his new training course called the Perpetual Traffic Formula.

But, when I saw this tool and realized what it could do, I knew I had to grab that link and share it with the reader’s on my blog, even if they weren’t interested in the Perpetual Traffic Formula.

So, go ahead and GRAB THIS FREE SOFTWARE and I’ll show you what it will do for you. Click on the link below:

=>FREE CHERRY PICKER SOFTWARE<=

This software is similar to one of the tools that can be found in Market Samurai software that I’ve purchased. Now, it’s similar, but not quite as sophisticated (read Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity), but the Cherry Picker software is FREE.

Now, let me show you what this free software will do for you. Take a look at the image below:

This image shows the results that I got from the Cherry Picker software when I entered the words “STOP DOG BARKING” into its Search Box.

Cherry Picker returns to you the top 10 sites that are ranked on Google for the term “STOP DOG BARKING”. More importantly, it also returns to you the URL, the Title Tag, the # of links to the URL, the # of links to the Domain, the # of Pages Indexed by Google for that domain, and Google’s Page Rank for that domain.

Now, isn’t that cool?! It provides you all of this valuable information so that you can determine how easy it will be to get ranked for any keywords that you choose. It makes finding an internet income opportunity so much easier.

That’s cool! And, in this particular example it provided all of that information in 48 seconds. It would have taken hours to do it by hand.

So, if you haven’t done it yet, grab it now:

=>FREE CHERRY PICKER SOFTWARE<=

Yes, you do have to submit your name and email address, but after you get the software, if you don’t want to receive any future emails from them, just opt-out. The software is still yours to keep.

I want to say “Thanks” to Ryan for allowing me to share this software with my readers. And, you may want to look at his Perpetual Traffic Formula. It’s an 8-week coaching class where he teaches his students how to get loads of unpaid traffic. Also, he has a couple of other freebies at this site. All of it will help you find an internet income opportunity.

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Sure, Google still has more traffic than Facebook, by about 10%. I checked traffic estimates this morning and Google is getting 159.4 million visitors per month, but Facebook came in a close second at 145.4 million.  

But, when you consider how much better you can target your customers with Facebook advertising, you’re much better off with Facebook.

In Facebook Advertising, you can target your audience by city, state, nation, or to the whole world. You can target your audience by language, age, sex, race, education, marriage, likes, dislikes, interests, and keywords. You can even target your audience by places where they work or even their date of birth.

The best way to figure out how to target your audience is to choose a website in your niche that ranks high on Google’s search page and submit that site to Quantcast. Quantcast will return to you a host of information that will help you target the best market for that product.

For example, let’s say you’re trying to sell an ebook on learning how to play bass guitar. If you go to Google.com and enter “learn how to play bass guitar”, the #1 site returned to you is “studybass.com”. If you enter “studybass.com” into Quantcast, you get the following information returned to you:

Now, with this information you can go to Facebook Advertising and target your audience to males, 13 years old or older, Caucasian, and with an income of $30,000 or more per year. That’s a highly targeted market.

If you haven’t advertised on Facebook before, following is a short video that shows you how to set up and get started with it:

I have three more tips for you on Facebook Advertising and home work business opportunities:

1. Include UGLY or UNUSUAL ad pictures – You want your ad to jump out at people. I see so many ads that use the standard beautiful picture. These don’t jump out at you – you expect it! Use a picture that nobody would expect to see so that have to do a double-take. Or, turn the picture sideways or upside down.

2. Avoid BANNER BLINDNESS – Change the appearance of your ad at least every other day. People get use to seeing ads and after a while their mind won’t even think about looking at the ad. Every other day either change the picture, or add a border, or change print colors, or add arrows. Change something!

3. Advertise for PENNIES – You have two choices for paying for your ads – either on a Cost-Per-Click (CPC) or on a Cost-Per-Thousand (CPM) basis. Don’t be afraid to examine both rates and choose the best one.

I was recently setting up an add and for CPC advertising, Facebook had a suggested CPC rate of $.99. That means that for every time my ad was clicked, I was going to almost have to pay almost one dollar.

But, Facebook’s suggested CPM rate was only $.43. That means that for 43 cents my ad was going be shown 1000 times. Which one do you think I chose?

Even if my ad got clicked only 1% of the time, I would get 10 clicks in those 1000 impressions – that’s $.43 for those 10 clicks using the CPM basis or $9.90 using th CPC basis.

That’s right, I chose the CPM basis for my advertising!

There are many more tips and tricks that you can learn in Facebook Advertising. And, if you would like to learn more, I would suggest taking a look at the Facebook Ads Guide. It’s full of helpful information!

And, if you do get into Facebook Advertising, the Facebook Ads Manager will save you a lot of time and increase your ROI. Remember, home work business opportunities are out there and Facebook Advertising is one of them. Give it a try!

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Just in case you don’t know what I mean by “organically”, it means that you are not paying for it. It means that you are getting visitors to your website naturally.

There are two ways to get traffic to your site. One, is to pay for the traffic, such as through Google Adwords.

Secondly, is through normal search engine traffic, most importantly is Google, which accounts for 70% of the traffic.

Paid search on the internet is so expensive. I know, I’ve done it. Take out your wallet and never close it.

To be successful on the internet, you have to learn to do it organically. Don’t let anybody else tell you differently!

What this means is that if you want a lot of visitors to your website “naturally”, you have to be ranked on page  1 of Google – one of the top ten sites for your keyword.

Let me show you something. See the image below:

If you’re paying for visitors to your website, and if you are paying enough to get your ad listed at the top of Google’s search page, on average you’ll get 2-3% of the visitors to the page to click on your ad (these numbers are furnished by Google).

And, what about the ads on the right side of the page:

On average, they’ll get 1-2% of the clicks to the page. See below:

So, what does this mean?

It means that you’re so much better off to get your internet income opportunity’s website or squeeze page ranked on page 1 than you are to pay for traffic to it.

Take a look at the picture below:

According to Google, on average the #1 organic listing on their search page will receive 40-45% of all of the available clicks to that page.

The #2 listing will receive somewhere between 11-18% of the clicks; the #3 listing will receive 7-15%; the 4th through #9 listings will average about 2% each of the clicks and, surprisingly, the #10 listing will get slightly more at about 3% of all of the available clicks.

So, even if you’re on the bottom of page 1, you’ll get more clicks than if you were paying for the clicks.

Now, the key is to get your website highly ranked in the search engines. To do that, you need to thoroughly understand search engine optimization. You can get a FREE REPORT that clearly teaches you everything you need to know about this by reading my posting called Internet Income Opportunity SEO Training.

Go ahead and grab that report and download it for free. Search engine optimization are three big words, but this report will downsize them for you.

Learn to master SEO and your internet income opportunity will explode!

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Probably the best types of physical products to sell are those that stay “evergreen” – products that sell all year long. For example, cosmetics. I’ve found cosmetics to be a good market and the products sell all year long. So, much of my work lately has been focused on building mini-websites in these types of markets.

But, there is also a huge market in seasonal products that I don’t want to ignore. Take for example, Christmas lights. Let me show you what that market looks like.

I went to Google Trends (this is one of my favorite tools!) and I typed in “buy Christmas lights”. Below are the results that were returned to me:

Note that there is almost no activity in this market until the last 2-1/2 months of the year – and then, the market explodes! And, what’s even better, the long-term trim shows an increasing market. This is certainly a market that I want to be in by October.

Google Trends also provides much more data that will help me set up my mini-website when I get to it. See below for a full page view of what Google Trends sent back to me:

Surprisingly, the largest region for buying Xmas lights online is Australia, and Ireland is second. The United States comes in third. I certainly want to take this into consideration when I set up my mini-websites to take advantage of this internet income opportunity.

Christmas lights are only one seasonal product – there are many others. For example, enter “buy Halloween costumes” into Google Trends and you get:

Once again, Halloween costumes are a huge seasonal product with a market that lasts only 2-3 months.

Let’s try “buy Valentines flowers” in Google Trends:

Valentines flowers are another good seasonal product that I will need to be in.

You could go on-and-on and find many seasonal products – and I’ve only looked at American holidays as a source for these products. There are hundreds of others in different countries and religions. There is the Chinese New Year and the Islamic Muharram – like I said, many others.

And, what’s ideal about these types of seasonal products is that they are perfect for building mini-websites around – the type that I recently discussed in a posting (if you haven’t read it, read Network Marketing Internet Business). Small websites that are tightly focused and should only take 1-2 days to build and promote.

Build enough of these mini-websites for these types of seasonal products and you’ll have an internet income opportunity that lasts all year long.

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First thing, take a look at this website: Gable Attic Fan  

Pretty simple website, right? It promotes one product (Gable attic fans), and has Google Adsense on it.

Well, this website was created less than 12 weeks ago, receives only 234 unique visitors per month, and has no backlinks pointing to it. No social bookmarking has been done with it. No directory submissions. Nothing! What’s amazing about this is this – This Website Sold At Auction Almost 4 Weeks Ago For $620 In Less Than 2 Days!!

Take a look here: http://flippa.com/auctions/97619  

Now, take a look at this website. It has almost no traffic or income, but it sold for $2200 – WebHostingReview.org  

And, now this one. No sales, but it does have some traffic – Belly Fat Site Sold for $1500  

What I’m trying to point out is that you can beat your head against the wall and keep trying to sell products through affiliate marketing or you can start making sizable chunks of money by making, selling, and reselling of websites.

This is called “flipping websites”. These examples that I’ve shown you shows that there is a huge market for existing websites – even websites that are new, have little traffic, and almost no income.  

So, you don’t have to build a website that will make you $10,000 per day. All you have to do is get a website rolling and then cash it in for some big money.

There are two avenues you can take down this road. One is to research and buy an existing website and resell it, or, two is to start a mini-niche site, promote it, and sell it to the highest bidder. Let’s look at the first avenue to begin with – buying an existing website and reselling it.

The best auction house that I’ve found for websites is Flippa. Go there and take a look around. It costs nothing to join.

Watch these auctions on a regular basis and after 1-2 weeks, you’ll have a pretty good feel for what a website should sell for.

What I like to look for are websites that have been in existence for 2 or more years and either, 1) Have traffic, but are poorly monetized, or 2) Sales, but little traffic. When I can buy these type of websites at auction for a low price, I know I’ll have money in my bank in the near future.

For the poorly monetized sites that have traffic, I’ll add new affiliate products, Google Adsense, and Text Link Ads. As soon as the website starts to make more money, I resale it at auction and put chunks of cash back into my bank.

For the sites that have sales, but little traffic, I go on a linking campaign. I write articles and submit them to Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo and Ezinearticles, linking them back to the main website. I do press releases, directory submissions, social profile links, forum submissions, and leave remarks on dofollow blogs.

Links are the key to Google rankings and as the ranking to my website increases, the traffic to the website increases and so does the income. Ka-Ching! I sell the website at auction for big profits! (One thing that I do want to point out is that I don’t do all this work myself. I outsource a lot of this work to some very professional people at a very low cost. If you want to learn more about this, read my article Outsourcing Help For Your Network Marketing Internet Business.)

Now, let’s talk about the second avenue you can take – making your own mini-niche websites, promoting them, and selling them at auction.

Here’s how to do that:

1. Build your mini-niche site using highly focused keywords. For example, in the example of the website that sold above, Gable Attic Fan, the words “Gable Attic Fan” are one of the few keywords. This keyword is used in the domain name and URL. Google will give this website extra credits for doing that. Keep the website small – not over 5-8 pages.

IMPORTANT – Keyword research is the most important step to building an income opportunity home based business. You’ve found the “Goose that laid the Golden Egg” when you find a hungry, starving crowd that wants to buy and you find the keywords to dominate that market. I use the best tool on the market to do this with – it’s called Market Samurai. I build my sites similar to what is taught in the Google Sniper method, only I sell them shortly after I build them.

2. Write articles and submit them to Squidoo, EzineArticles, and Hubpages with links back to your mini-niche website. Google loves these three sites and not only will it help your rankings, but it’ll also drive extra traffic.

Also, submit ads to USFreeAds and link them back to your mini-niche website. For more information on this, read my article Is Bum Marketing A Legitimate Business Opportunity?

3. Create links back to your mini-niche website. Social bookmark the articles you submitted above to places like Digg.com and Reddit.com. I use an automatic service to do this with and it’s called Traffic Bug. This tool will also do directory and RSS submissions for you.

Ping the search engines with the RSS of each of your social bookmarks at Pingomatic.com.

Other great ways to make links to your mini-niche site is to visit other blogs and leave comments with a link back to your site. Do press releases, social profile links, and visit related forums – leave links to your site at all of these.

IMPORTANT – Be sure that you use your keywords in the actual link that you leave at each of these sites so that the search engines will give your keyword the credit for that link!

4. Monetize, monetize, monetize – and here are some ways to do that:

=> Clickbank, PayDotCom, Commission Junction – These are the three best known affiliate marketplaces. Commissions on many products are as high as 75% and that’s good extra income.

=> Google Adsense – Google’s own advertising network. Get paid to run ads on your website. Easy to install and visitors expect to see these ads.

=> 7Search and Adbrite – Alternatives for Google Adsense. These are reputable companies.

=>TextLinkAds – In addition to Google Adsense, 7Search, and Adbrite, you can place additional text link ads on your website. TextLinkAds is the best known, but they are sometimes picky. TextLinkBrokers is an alternative.

=> CPA Networks – There are a lot of these. CPA stands for “cost per action”. That means that your website will earn a commission when the visitor performs a certain action. It may be that they have to supply their email address, a zip code, or a number of other things.

To find one of these related to your website, go to Google search and type in “YourNiche +cpa network”. You’ll find several to choose from.

Use one or all of monetization methods. If one doesn’t work, swap it out for another.

Remember, on these mini-niche websites, your website only needs to start generating only a few dollars per month before you can sell it. You want to turn these over as quickly as possible and put big bucks in the bank.

Then, start another one and keep flipping. Within a short period of time, you’ll learn that you can make and flip websites very quickly. You’ll be working on several of them all at the same time. It’ll become routine. Flipping websites will become your income opportunity home based business.

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