The first strategy
to make money online is building a list.
This strategy is
the most important step to continue to make money long-term. If you do not
already have some type of autoresponder system you need to get one. Don't be cheap
here either because your entire business will hinge on this one piece of
software.
You can build your
list in many different ways. You can buy leads from reputable list-building
companies and get them into your autoresponder. Most good list-building
companies will have the option to send an email to your autoresponder so you don't
have to manually input the lead information.
Another effective
way of building your list is from the traffic that visits your website. This
step, which is probably the most effective, does require you to have a website
to implement an opt-in list form. Of course, if your Affiliate program
does offer a list management service then you can send traffic to the affiliate
URL, but I don't recommend it as you will usually not be able to email the entire
list with special offers.
To make the most of
your opt-in form and get the most signups, you should place it in your sales
page text. It should be strategically located in the sales text after you
present a problem. The title of your autoresponder email series should address
the problem by offering a solution. In the example below we will assume that I
am selling a hosting package and I want opt-in subscribers to my email course
for back-end sales.
Example: You can
use the pre-built websites or build your own. Many people think that building a
website is hard, but I can show you how easy it really is. Take my 10-day email
course Build a Website with Ease[signup form here].
The second strategy
to make money online is driving traffic to your website.
When I say traffic,
I don't just mean any old traffic, I mean targeted traffic, people who are
motivated and ready to buy can and will make you money. You can use programs and
techniques such as Google Adwords, blogging, article writing and linking to drive
targeted traffic to your website. GoogleAdwords is a resource offered by Google
in which you can pay for your site to be shown when certain keywords are queried
in their search engine.
The secret to using
Adwords is not to bid high on popular keywords. Instead, what you do is find
similar keywords that still describe your website, but are used much less
frequently. These keywords will cost much less to bid on and will allow you to
spread your money out over many different keywords, getting the most bang for your buck.
Blogging is another great way to drive targeted traffic to your website. To get the most out of this technique the blog should be hosted on the same website as the sales page which
links to your affiliate program. Once it's set up all you have to do is fill your blog with good-quality content.
I recommend writing
your own content which specifically relates to your affiliate program and or
products. Once you have some content you will need to submit your RSS feed to as many blog search engines as you can. This will put your blog out there
for other webmasters to use as content feeds on their websites.
This win-win
situation allows webmasters to have quality content on their website, which
increases the value of that website while driving targeted traffic directly to
you.
This is done by the
URL link that you conveniently placed under your name after the blog was
written. That means that your link is on a blog feed that is on thousands of
websites. Not only do people click those links but Google sees these links
pointing back to you and thinks that you're popular and you are rewarded with a
higher page rank.
Article writing is
basically the same as blogging except for the information in an article will need to
have more useful content and be peppered with keywords that the webmasters are
looking for. After completing your article you will submit (syndicate) it to
content sites as opposed to blog search engines.
Content sites are
places where webmasters go to find specific content to offer their readers. If
you are a good writer you may at some point build up a name for yourself and finagle
a deal with a webmaster to write exclusives for his site. His readers get great
exclusive content and you get highly motivated targeted traffic.
Linking is perhaps the most widely used form of increasing traffic and page rank. However, if done incorrectly you could end up hurting your Google page rank and ultimately losing potential buyers. You will need your own website for this
technique as you will need a links page to place your reciprocal links on.
Many people go and
submit their URL links to link farms in an attempt to trick Google into giving
them a better page rank. This does not work; in fact, Google has been known to
penalize websites for engaging in these activities.
The secret to
linking is to find websites in your niche market which have a Google page rank
of 4 or above and entice the webmaster to list your link on their website. You
may think that you would be helping your competition, well you would be. But
your competition would be helping you as well. It's better to send leaving
traffic to a partner than just having them close their browser window, and
remember that works both ways.
The strategies
listed in this article do work and they will increase your sales and residuals it is done correctly. Reciprocal linking, Blogging and Article writing are great ways
to bring massive amounts of high-quality targeted traffic to your website. Those
strategies combined with an effective sales page with an integrated opt-in email
list can make your business soar to new heights. You can and will make money
with this system, Guaranteed!
