Traffic Is Key To An Internet Income Opportunity
You cannot take advantage of any internet income opportunity unless you have traffic going to your site. And, I mean loads of traffic! At best, most internet marketers can expect a 1-3% conversion rate. So, that means for every 100 visitors to your website, you can expect only 1 to 3 sales.
How do you get traffic to your website? Well, one way is to pay for it. You can advertise your website on the search engines and drive traffic to your site. If you have tried this, you know how expensive this can be. Even after you have made a sale, you have probably lost money. Or, you can get free traffic to your website.
Getting free traffic to your website is what nearly every internet marketer wants. But, nearly 99% of those that try fail to get sufficient traffic to their website. They waste hours-upon-hours of time creating their websites and writing articles only to see that they are getting 15-20 visitors per day. They have wasted their time.
Why do 99% of those that try, fail? Because they have broken at least one of the three Golden Rules of internet marketing. These 3 Golden Rules are:
- Target ONLY keywords that can drive significant traffic to your website.
- Target ONLY keywords that have significant profit potential.
- Target ONLY keywords that have acceptable levels of competition.
That’s it! These three Golden Rules are the key to success for any website. Break any one of these and your website WILL FAIL!
What’s most important about these 3 Golden Rules is that these keywords have to be determined and selected before you even begin making your website. Don’t waste time on trying to take advantage of an internet income opportunity unless you have the right keywords selected.
Finding the right keywords that fit the Golden Rules criteria is not easy, particularly if your not an internet guru. But, there is a “darn good” tool on the market that can help you do it. It’s called Market Samurai.
Don’t try building a successful website unless you have this tool! This tool will help you find those keywords that can make your website a success.
I have been using parts of Market Samurai for the last 1-1/2 years. I say parts, because the team building Market Samurai is still building and adding on to Market Samurai. As a paid member, the new parts (they call them “modules”) cost me nothing when they add them on.
Presently, there are seven modules to Market Samurai. They are:
Module 1 – Keyword Research: This module helps you find those keywords in the niche that you have selected that fit the three Golden Rules.
Module 2 – SEO Competition: Identifies the top 10 websites on Google’s search engine for the keywords that you have selected. This module provides a lot of info about these top 10 sites (including addresses to their backlinks) and identifies how difficult it’ll be to compete against them.
Module 3 – Find Content: This module identifies other articles published on the internet related to your niche and identifies their ranking authority. You can use information from these high ranking articles to easily make your own high ranking articles.
Module 4 – Promotion: Hunts down relevant, high quality sites for sourcing backlinks including .gov and .edu sites.
Module 5 – Publish Content: Takes the headache out of publishing articles and makes management of your website much easier.
Module 6 – Monetization: Helps you to identify products in your niche that you can make a profit from marketing. This module will also help you make top selling ads.
Module 7 – Rank Tracking: Monitors multiple sites and webpages and tracks and graphs their performance by keywords across all of the major search engines.
These are the modules that currently exist and there are more to come. One that’s expected to be released soon is on Google Adwords and it’ll make Adwords so much easier to use.
Take a look at Market Samurai. It has a limited-time free trial and you should at least try that. As I’ve already said, don’t be part of that 99% that fail.
Now, I know Market Samurai does cost money. I don’t like to spend money, either. But, before I bought Market Samurai, my first two websites failed because I had broken one or more of the Golden Rules. Not this one. And, never again!
Market Samurai is a one-time fee. It’s now a permanent tool in my tool box. Every successful business has some sort of tool box. I can now use it to further build my internet income opportunity.
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.
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.
Online Home Work Business Opportunities
Home work business opportunities do exist online. Perhaps you are unemployed and can’t find another job. Or, perhaps you just want to earn some extra cash. Well, you can make some extra money or even a full-time income from home and all you need is a home computer and access to the internet. This is a legitimate business opportunity!
LegitOnlineJobs.com will teach you how to be successful at online advertising. No prior skills or experience is needed. They provide all the training you will need with video guides and image tutorials. You can start earning the money you are looking for today with this internet income opportunity.
Why can you be successful at online advertising? Because there are thousands of companies that need you. They are looking for people like you and me who will hype up their products and name. In return, they will pay us nicely. And, Legit Online Jobs will provide us a list of thousands of companies that are looking for advertisers. Signing up to advertise for them is free.
Where do you place these ads? Google Adwords, Yahoo, MSN, AdBrite, and 7Search are just a few of the places (read here about my article on 7Search or here to read my article on Adbrite). There are literally hundreds of places on the internet to advertise and you will learn about them in your lessons.
How will you get paid? Many of these companies provide you options. You can get paid by a direct check to you or to your PayPal account. Some will pay weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. These companies are reliable and they will make their payments to you on time, every time.
So, if you have been looking for a way to earn income from home, check LegitOnlineJobs.com out. Home work business opportunities do exist for those who take advantage of it.
Choose The Right Search Engine for Your Internet Income Opportunity
If you are an affiliate and doing pay-per-click advertising, choose the right search engine to make your internet income opportunity a success. Most affiliates advertise on Google, Yahoo, or Bing!. After all, these are the big boys. But, did you know that there are many other search engines you can advertise on and that these search engines also have significant traffic. Well, there are and lots of them. The one I like best is called 7Search.
7Search.com helped to turn my efforts at PPC advertising into a legitimate business opportunity. While I still advertise on Google Adwords using the Google Cash Detective (see the article titled PPC Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity), I expanded my advertising business by using 7Search. It’s another search engine that is generating me lots of profits on a daily basis. It’s easy to use and you can get started using it with an initial advertising fee of only $25.
Unlike Google, 7Search makes you pay your adverting fee up front, before you start advertising. I like that! That way I don’t have to worry about the number of clicks my ad is getting and how much money I may have spent. When my advertising fee runs out, my ads stop. And, similar to Google, 7Search allows you to place a daily cap on how much you want to spend on an ad.
There are five other reasons why I like 7Search to promote my internet income opportunity:
1. Traffic – While not near the traffic that Google Adwords gets, the 7Search engine still gets over 1 billion searches per month. That’s a lot of searches. And, since many advertisers are unfamiliar with 7Search, I am competing against a lot fewer ads. So, my ads get plenty of clicks.
2. Cost – I decide how much the clicks will cost me. I can place an add for as low as 1 cent per click. Many of my high quality keywords are costing me penny’s to use. For example, one of the keywords on one of my ads is “art”. On 7Search, to get the numer one position I pay $.03/click. On Google Adwords, that word would cost me at least $.52/click to get the number 1 position. Need I say more? If you have a word you would like to check out, click here.
3. Quality Score – 7Search ads have no quality score! Gone are the days when Google would tell me my ad would not place on page 1 of their search engine due to a low quality score.
4.Title and Body Length – You can have a much longer title and ad length with 7Search. On Google Adwords, your title must be no longer than 25 characters and your ads body can be no longer than 70 characters – two lines of no more than 35 characters each. On 7Search, your title can have up to 40 characters and the ad’s text up to 190 characters. I don’t always use all of these characters, but it certainly enables me to be a bit more descriptive with the product or service that I am trying to sell.
5. Customer Service – 7Search’s cutomer support is known for being fast, responsive, and friendly. I normally get a response the same day I email them. Or, if I can’t wait a few hours, they have provided me with a phone number where I can call them. Google won’t do that!
7Search has allowed me to increase my pay-per-click advertising with an excellent ROI. Google is still the “Giant” and attracts most of the advertisers, but I will use this “slingshot” to build my internet income opportunity.