When people start out, often, they try to go for the home runs, and they think they will hit it out of the ballpark in one try. What happens? Miserable failure! and then they give up.

We had a chat today with Vic, and guess what? Most of his niche attempts fail! Yes, they go no where. But, 3 out of 10 hit it, and he has enough of those to be able to make what he makes on line.

One of the thing we talked about today is that you need to go for something you have a real chance to hit.

Question: If you find a keyword that is a really good buying keyword, and you get 10 searches a month, that you can take position one with a few articles and a BMD run, would you do it?

Answer: If you said no, because there is not enough traffic, then that is why you are struggling. You are probably going for the keyword that has tons of traffic, but guess what….tons of traffic means competition, and that means you will have to work damn hard for it.

Why not throw up the site that will get you 1 sale a month? It only cost you 15 bucks. Say you make 100 a year from that site. That means that essentially you made 85 bucks for that year. It breaks down to .23 a day.

What do you think about that? Most people scoff at that. Imagine you have 100 sites doing that. Again, virtually no effort sites… 23 bucks a day, or about 8500 a year.

Now, this is worse case senario. Lets say you get to .50 a day. Now you are talking 18,250 a year.

But, in reality, you will have some bigger winners….

The point is this. Go for sites and keywords you can take over easily, leave the hard ones for the big boys, and build lots of sites. Make a dollar a day per site, and build a site a day. 365 sites making a dollar a day is $133,225.00 a year.

Is that doable? Can you make money online that way?

Anyway, she was always very engaged and enthusiastic about things and was always at the chats he used to host. She is also a member of the Affiliate Academy, which I am as well as many other good people are now members of.

In her email, she expressed to me how she is having such a hard time…she does internet marketing part time, as she spends her full time raising and home schooling her young child.  She is reading a blog from another of the greats named Grizzly.  His how to make money blog tells the ins and outs of how to make money online wtih adsense.

She says she is having a hard time with it. Now, I admit, I am no genius, and I am not raking it in yet..with adsense.  As of today,  I did have my best day with adsense. I made just over $15. Now while you may not think that is something to jump up an down over, I will tell you this.

I have been working on my new network of sites, since September. Last month, I was making $3 a day with adsense, so as you can see, as my sites are aging, and I continue to gather links to the sites, and they age, the big G is starting to give me some love. As well, I am staring to get some action from Yahoo, as it seems that Yahoo takes a bit longer to give you love.

The other thing I did was reoptimize my posts to have a better keyword density in the hopes of telling the google bot what kinds of adsense ads to put up on the site.

In my email reply back to this person, I told her that from my understanding, you want to devote an entire site, whether a wordpress blog, or a blogspot blog to one set of keywords, and work all the posts around that keyword.

Then you want to create the posts and target long tail keywords that are very related to the main keyword you are targeting.

Once you get the longtail keyword up, build links (or as Griz says, gather links) to the post to get it to rank. While doing that, make sure your post has the right keyword density to allow the google adsense bot to know which ads to place on the site.

Write enough posts targeting long tails, get them all to rank then you start to get traffic.  The other benefit, is that once you start getting all those longtail keyword phrases to rank, you start to build authority for the site and the set of keywords.

What happens next is you are building a momentum, and you start to pull your site up in the serps.

Keep building the links and posts until you feel that you have optimized all you can.  Once you are done with that, the only thing left to do is…Wash Rinse and Repeat.

Oh yeah, one other thing, Both Griz and Vic will be the first to say you need to do alot of experimenting.  Think Babe Ruth. He had the most home runs, but also the most strike outs.

In Griz’ latest post, he says he throws up alot of crap and sees what sticks. Vic says 20% of his network creates 80% of his income.  Think Paretos Principle  people.

Now…GO BUILD SOME LINKS!

I happen to be a big fan of Court and Mark, and I follow what they are talking about.  Most recently they talked about how important link building is, and how important it is to really focus on what matters…Did I say Link buidling?

Anyway.  Check out their site, because you will get some great tips, and probably a lot of the same things we talk about here.

Did I say, do keyword research, then create a blog, then write keyword focused posts and then what?????

Oh yeah, go gather links.  Key word anchored links.

That’s all for todays post. Please visit Mark and Court, leave them a message, and say hello.

You’ll be glad you did.

Matt

I had found some niches that were very profitable, and eventually dried up however. But, the thing is I know this works. One thing to remember, website traffic is good, but website traffic that converts is really what you want.

I will say one thing, for those of you looking for the quick bucks, this may not be for you. It takes time and effort. I work at this every spare minute I have. But, I can see results , and I can see how building a solid infrasturcture will pay off dividends in the future.

What I have settled on is that organic traffic is the way to go. And if you read the last post, you will and should understand that organic rankings you need to gather many links that are optimized for your intended keywords.

To review…you can never say it too many times.

1. Do the keyword research and find what keywords are low competition, and high search.

2. Build a site.

3. Start gathering links like crazy (well, not too crazy…can you say sandbox?) How bout, in a natural progression.

4. Rank for your keyword.

5. Open Bank account.

Now, you have to understand that it takes 3-6 months on average to rank for a non too tough keyword.

As I move forward on this blog, I am going to work at offering affiliate marketing tips, and ways to get good rankings.

I’ll also introduce you to some of the people that I like to follow, who offer great information, and they don’t scam you.

Stop by every so often, and hey, post a comment to say hi!

The first thing you need to completely understand, is that going the organic traffic route is a method that you get paid in 4-6 months. Do not expect to see that your site ranks number one for your search term, or keyword in a few weeks.

If that were possible, then don’t you think that everyone would be doing it? Now, there are rare instances that it does happen, but remember what I am saying. they Are RARE!

You need to build your site, then you need to get links to that site. Every link has a value associated with it. Think of links as votes. Every link is a vote for your site. Some votes have more power, and some have less.

Overall, the more links you have the better you will rank. But… That doesn’t mean that you will rank if you go and get thousands of links in a day. Google will simply ignore those links, and worse off, you could get penalized for those links.

Gradually, your links get counted, and then you see your site starting to move up in the search rankings. Eventually, you hit position one, and you dominate that search term.

In time, we will discuss the different kinds of links, and what you want to do to get them.

But what is important is that you understand from this post is that links are the little guys that are going to get you paid if you work organic search traffic.

Since starting this whole thing right around December 1, I am almost up on my first year anniversary.  This is pretty exciting. As I have had winners and losers.  One of the neatest things I have done is stumbled upon a site that I have been following for now since about May. That makes 5 months, and I have radically shifted my approach to affiliate marketing.

One of the things I have gotten involved in is SEO and PPC.  One of the interesting things is that PPC is really a form of SEO…

Meaning, if your SEO sucks, then your PPC campaigns will suck too.  That’s because you will not have picked the right keywords, or optimized them for success.  You will pay higher CPC, and have less conversions.

Overall, the important things Ive learned that apply to both is this.

1. You need traffic. Not just lots…but more importantly targeted.  You need to pick keywords that are targeted to the right people. People that have a need to fill.

2. You need high rankings on the big G. That means position 1.

3. If you are going for organic traffic. Your seo skills will revolve around your ability to get links.  Anchored text back links to your site.  At the end of the day, the one with the most links wins.

Anyway, I plan on visiting and posting more about the new things Im working on and the things you need to do if you plan on making money online.

Till Then,

Matt

We have covered is to go ahead and visit different forums and see what people are talking about.

The second thing we talked about was taking a look at the magazine shelf and see what magazines are covering. If a magazine is published about a particular subject, then you can bet that there are people buying in that niche.

Here is another way you can do some quick research and see what other ideas you can come up with. Basically, there are sites you can visit to see what people are searching right now on the internet!

I’ll list 3 sites here now that you can start to do some research on.

The first is our friend…Google.

Visit this link: www.google.com/products

When you go there, Google lists recent search queries on actual products. IF you refresh your search bar, then you get a new list of the most recent. Pretty cool for ideas.

Now, go visit this link: www.dogpile.com/

When you visit Dogpile, you will get a listing of actual real…or pretty real time listing of searches. That can give you some more great ideas.

Lastly, visit : www.metaspy.com/

Here you will get the most recent searches from their data base, updated every 15 seconds.

So…what should you do now?

Get on over and start doing some research. Who knows…your next sale may be waiting to happen!

Good Fortune, and great Success!

Keoni

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What do you do when you come up to that inevitable wall that every aspiring internet marketer runs into while getting started?

You know which one I mean…it is usually paired with the little voice in your head…the voice of reason…

This is the one that is telling you that A:this is a scam B:you got duped C:it only works for a few people D: you are wasting your time…I mean you and I both know that your little voice means well right?

When I surf the different forums that I am part of, it usually comes down to this very fork in the road for everyone…and I’ve read some serious posts, and emails from people who are literally crying from frustration, panic and fear.

First, walk away…

Get your breath. Get some perspective.

Realize that anything worth doing took effort and hard work! and that most importantly, you can do it!

Your success is around the corner, and you just might be 5 feet away from that summit. If you turn around, you will never know or receive that success that was just 5 feet away from you.

You have to keep going and plowing along.

What is most important is that you talk with people…get support and ask questions!

For those of you who are WA members, you know how important that support is. Find people who are successful, or even at your level, and talk it out!

Heard the story of Colonel Sanders and how many doors he had to knock on before anyone gave him a chance at his secret recipe?

What about the amount of failures that Abe Lincoln had before becoming President of the US?

And Thomas Edison on inventing the light bulb?

All these gentlemen kept going, and they looked forward and did not fester on temporary failure.

Remember, every failure takes you one step closer to success!

Whenever things get nuts for you, take a minute, take a deep breath, then move on. Never give up!

Keoni

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This is for all the Internet Marketers out there!

It’s Called: Bookmarking Demon!

How would you like to automate your social bookmarking and drive floods of traffic to your sites and promotions!?

Sound like an impossible task?

It can be if you are manually trying to do all your bookmarks by hand one at a time…

This new software however takes this to the next level completely. In fact, probably about 10 levels up..

But can it really be that easy? Yeah it can…

I’ve seen and experience first hand the power of Social Bookmarking, and I have tried sites like socialposter, and addthis bookmarking tools. Dont get me wrong, they work, and they work well, the only thing is, it takes forever!You can kill hours bookmarking instead of creating content.

So I started looking for a faster, more automated way..

Enter Bookmarking Demon:

Bookmarking Demon will create accounts for you, post them and you can do it for over 100 sites….

The other important thing is that you can minimize your foot print on the net, because Bookmarking Demon will mix up your posts so they

don’t look spammy. The other thing you can do is post to scuttle sites…Not sure what a scuttle site is, thats okay,

you can find out as well as watch a video of the Bookmarking Demon Here.

With hundreds of users and all the testimonials of happy customers, you gotta see the value

in the product…see what they are saying here.

..and the software package comes with unlimited updates when you sign up. It will take you a little while to get used to the interface, and the

way to set it up to run and post for you, but once you do, it is set and forget…meaning you can schedule a post, let it run and do something

else. I personally like to do mine at the end of my day while I wrap things up.

This type of software is going to do incredible things for you.

How difficult was it the last time you tried to post to multple bookmarking sites?

Now I personally don’t worry! I have this software!

Here’s the link: Bookmarking Demon!

Take it easy-

K

PS-While I know you’ll love Bookmarking Demon, when you watch the video, the voice may sound a little creepy…

sounds like Stephen Hawkins is doing the presentation, but the software will increase your bookmarking!

Get Bookmarking Demon Dirt Cheap Here!

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So why is it that I am so in love with Wealthy Affiliate University, and more importantly, why should you care?

Here it is straight up.

The reason I am a firm believer in Wealthy Affiliate is because I was just like you and
I wanted to find out a way to improve my income, and hopefully
have the option to quit my job one day….or at least have control to do so if I wanted to!

You know what I mean…Imagine being able to tell your boss “bye-bye”

So I went looking…on the internet, probably in the same way that you are doing, and
I saw alot of places…make money online, make a million dollars…blah, blah, blah…

I was pretty much ready to throw in the towel, and I really, can’t remember how, but I stumbled upon the site…

Enter Wealthy Affiliate

What initially attracted me was that they called it a University…and they had it set up with
a curriculum. I like structure, and wanted a place that would guide me in a structred way…
know what I mean?

Then I read more and really looked around the site…It DIDN’T have all the real heavy
salesy pitch that so many sites have…

And…they had tons of testimonials, and there were tons of meaningful tools available.
When I added up all the value of the tools, and what I felt like real people who really wanted to teach, I signed up.

So How Has My Experience Been with Wealthy Affiliate?

I am totally glad that I signed up. And, I have learned how to make money. Now, I do have to say that it is work..meaning, I have to put in effort, and not all of my efforts are profitable. But overall- I am making good money now…I am not able to quit my job, but I feel like I can start to build on this and scale is up and get better and better.

Why Should you join Wealthy Affiliate?

New Faces at WA! Updated every hour!

If you are starting and want to take the plunge and are ready to give it effort, Wealthy Affiliate
is a place you should join. The courses are well written and designed in a way that you can follow and take action.

You have access to one of the most informative and relevant forums with hundreds if not thousands of people that will answer your questions, and help guide you when you need it most…

And when you need a boost…we can get in there and get you back on track.

All you need is this membership, and you don’t need anymore tools, books, or bells
or whistles…They provide website templates, web hosting, keyword tools, product
research…and again, help! Take a look at the site…if you were to buy all the stuff individually, you would spend about $851 a month, and with private mentoring…$5881 a month!

Take a look at all you get…and they keep adding on more and more tools.

Here’s the Link : Wealthy Affiliate University

Whenever I need something, I pop on over to Wealthy Affiliate!

Thanks for Listening…

Matt

PS-One of the biggest helps is going to be Travis (he’s the one smiling with his wife) …You’ll see his testimonial on the web page. He is really responsible, in addition to Kyle and Carson for all the learning and success I have had. When you join…read every post that Travis has on the Forum…That alone is worth Thousands!

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