Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Keyword Research:

I know preciously I have already touch base on this topic, Hence I want to cover a bit more ground, because this is the essence to drive traffic to your webpage, think about it, traffic is the life blood of any success webpage.

One tool which I am going through is Google keyword tool (Google Adwords). Why used Google Adwords? Well it’s simple… IT’S FREE. Now if you don’t have an account yet, please create an account at: www.google.com/adwords

When performing the keywords research, you need to identify the long tail keywords (keyword which are three words or more) e.g.: “Make Money” this keyword for example will be much too great and competitive and generic, Now if you try something like “make money from home” This will be specific and that’s what we want to focus on. The idea behind this is if we are going for a generic keyword e.g.: 1 or 2 words it’s too generics and too competition, chance is your site will never be seen. Now with long tail keyword, this will narrow down to e.g.: sub niche which is less competition meaning your site will have a much better chance to rank highly in Search Engines like Google.

The good thing about Google Keyword tools allow you to see is the monthly performance search on local and global, average CPC, advertiser Competition and a few other information. What we are looking here is to select for any keyword that return 500 – 1000 result per month; hence anything more then it’s no good as it’s too competitive.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Creating a Website:

Back in the early day of internet, created a website was very intimidating. Now a day getting your site up is easy as 123, that’s because there’s many free content management which pretty much do all the hard and nerdy stuff for us already e.g.: blogger or Wordpress.

On this particular exercise, Wordpress would be the prefer option and you will find out why as it come. Wordpress it’s so easy to install and setup that you will have your website up and running in minutes. But also Wordpress have many benefits apart from it user friendly, Google seem to love Wordpress, which is really an advantage. Google tend to index a new site within hours where compare to other it make take weeks or month. Another point why Wordpress is so popular, it had many amazing plugging and themes which are mostly free that you can make site after site and it’s all unique. Now a day most of the hosting provider will have Wordpress freely available as part of their platform. And it‘s very easy to install and setup in your hosting. Therefore I am not going to into the details to explain how you can install this platform, it’s that simple.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Domain Names and Hosting:

This is the most important step, the 1st step toward launching your niche, is to sign up for a web hosting package and having your own domain name. Of cause there are many free hosting and domain provider out there to name a few e.g.: Wordpress.com or blogger.com which seems to be the most popular choice. But do have some restriction pending on what you want or expect e.g.: video streaming.

So in this path I recommended to have your own domain name (name that is relating to your niche / products) e.g.: www.myniche.com, funny enough people perception plays a very strong role, what I mean is if your niche is on present like: www.myniche.com compare to myniche.blogspot.com or myniche.Wordpress.com, people tend to trust more to buy your products on your domain name. And that is just our human perception.

But hey having your own domain name and wed hosting package is inexpensive now a day, the cost of hosting per month is anything between $2 - $5 will provided some excellent hosting size and bandwidth; Plus your domain registration for somewhere between $6 - $12 per year. There are many Domain registrar and Web Hosting providers out there. For me these seem to be best for values: HOSTGATOR.com and GODADDY.com both have well prices and offers excellent support.

Now choosing your domain name, that can be very time consuming as some of the name you think may already been taken / registered. So make sure you take your time to have a domain that fit for your niche or products, for example if you are promoting diets products then your domain will be something like topdietpills.com. You may try many different words before you can find a free vacant domain name for your products. But make sure it’s relate to your niche also another point when selecting your domain try to incorporate keywords in your domains when possible.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Google Trends:

Though there’s many niche research tool available free and paid. But one that you shouldn’t over look is the good old GOOGLE (google.com/trends) so what is this google.com/trends?
This is a section of Google where you can find of all the top and current search term on Google. This tool is so easy and straight forward that I am only to briefly skim through. As an example go to your google.com/trends now and somewhere at the bottom right of the page click on “More Hot Searches” this will take you to the top 20 hot search trends in Google at that moment (the result is life).
Please note the majority of the search terms are useless to you, but on the occasion pending on your niche or interest to your surprise a gem or 2 will pop up.
Look for hot topic (like “prvcy jeans”) or current events (like rent the runway) then just cross check the pick with Clickbank to see if products are available as a niche. As I say Google.com/trends don’t spend to much time on it but sometime it’s a good way to stumble onto your gem.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Product / niche Review

By now you should already have practice in selecting your niche, this step is to review your niche and see what other people have express their opinion or acknowledge on the products / niche. Welcome to ezinearticles.com, this is the site where users can submit articles on products / niche. Please note this is more then just an article directory as it a free advertisement to drive web traffic back to your websites. And web traffic is the essence to make money online.
Now if you type the product of your niche on the ezinearticle.com and the result coming up over and over again and match the result from your Clickbank result and your criteria, this would only draw to one conclusion, you have find a good niche for yourself.
Research is the key for you to make money or to waste money, so be very diligent in your research, though there many other ways to perform this search for free, but this is just one of the ways I am doing it…

Next lesson … Google Trends which many have over seen this free tool.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Clickbank

Clickbank is world best market place for affiliates, thousands used every day. Some sellers who write a product, but majorities are affiliates.
Clickbank is a marketplace which had a database listing of every products that is available for affiliates to promotes . Like any market place this is a very good place to start your niche research.
Let’s look at the interface as recently click bank had made a face lift. 2 area we are interest in “ Category” box and “Sort by” box.

Ok what those term mean in the sort box: Popularity, % commission, Gravity, $ Earned / Sale, % Earned / Sale, Future $, Total $ Sale, % Referred. However for the purpose on this exercise, we only need to understand “popularity, Gravity and $ Earned / Sale.
- Popularity is define as the number of sales a product made over a period of time.
- Gravity is define as the numbers of affiliates that have earned a commission in selling the product in question.
- $ Earned / Sale – definition is straightforward earned per sale.
Now let select a niche for our training purple, and we going to sort out by gravity high, remember as I mention before when you as a start when selecting a niche, do select a niche that you have interest / your hobbies. First thing let’s type “mobiles phones in the “find product” box, or any other products or hobbies that may interest you, hence you will see tons of products in those area.

From the result, first step is to look at the gravity, as define before, gravity is the number of affiliates been commission from the chosen products. So what this really mean high gravity or low gravity? This really tell us the numbers whether or not there is an active market to used the products and if the market is saturated or not. If the gravity is very low, this would also mean that very few are making any money with the products. If the gravity too high mean too many other people are promoting this products therefore strong competition. So the best is selecting a niche that had gravity somewhere in the middle or average. Now that you understand niche searching, what’s next ...? I suggest you repeat this activity to search for a few more niche that truly interest you...

Next lesson... Coming soon…!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Niche Research and selection:

I can stress enough the importance of research, as good research will lead to success, if this is not done, your campaign will almost certainly lead to failure. Hence the goal of Niche research, this activity will let you know what information / niche that people are hunger for and are willing to pay for these information’s though keep in mind also when selecting a niche. DO choose one that you are also be interest, or you know something about.
Reason for these selection is really simple, it make more sense to select something either you know about or interest about. These will make it easier for you to write contents. In contrast if you select a niche that you have no idea about ... well writting a niche can be very boring put it that way. OK let start on the nich research, best place to start: Clickbank or PayDotCom...

Next lesson ... soon!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Earn Money From Your Website

What I am going to do is show you ways to generate extra income straight to your pocket. Key to remember the more you put in the more you get out. There’s no such thing get free money by doing nothing. The more effort you put in the more you get out from your work, remember time is Money $$$.
Below are the few steps you need to start in earning your residual income month after month!


Ok let start! Hate going around the bush …


1. Research and select a niche, though there’s many place to choose from.

• Clickbank best market place to get start.

• PayDotCom another market place to start your niche search as well.

• Products review forum, one I used most is ezinearticles.com the site will give you the insight products / niche you select that been post by people that had been used / bough the products.

• Then of cause Google trends.


2. Keywords that match your niche.

• Google Adwords is a very powerful tool to use.

• Yahoo Market Search another must tool to use in your campaign.

• Keyword spy (free trial) gives you best keyword matching your niche but also keywords from your competitors.


3. Your own website:

• How and where to register your domain and hosting your site.

• Application for your web site e.g.: Wordpress

• What to place in your web that attracts sales and earn commissions.


4. Way to drive traffic to your site:

• How to use forum and bulleting boards to bring target traffics e.g. ezinearticles.com

• How to use Social Networks sites to bring traffics e.g.: Twitter, youtube, myspace, facebooks to name a few.

• Then the power of Pay Per click advertising traffics.


5. Analyze niches traffics sales:

• How to use Clickbank or PayDotCom statistics to decide now which products /niche worth and earn.

6. From the winning niches you will learn how to keep:

• Momentum

• Duplication


Next lesson... Coming soon…!