DigitalPoint Forum currently has over 180,000 members. It is probably the biggest webmaster forum on the Internet. Everyday the web publishers, the Internet marketers, the bloggers and the beginners around the world meet in this forum to discuss and share information about web publishing and Internet marketing.

Because the forum has so many members and gains massive amount of traffic daily, you can use it to help you make money online. The forum created a special sub-forum called 'Buy, Sell or Trade'. This sub-forum allows you to post ads and offers about your products or services. There is no charge posting in this sub-forum and here's how you can utilize it to earn cash:

Offer Your Content Creation Services
Many webmasters need fresh and unique articles for publishing on their website and blog. The will go to this sub-forum and look for writers. By posting an ad stating that you are offering article writing services, some of those webmasters will reply to your thread or send a private message to you to place an order. You can charge $5 to $15 per article (400 - 500 words). However, if you just started out your writing business in DigitalPoint Forum, not many people will know about you. In order to get writing orders, you may need to set a low price, may be $5 - $7 per article.

Sell Templates
If you have designed a series of templates whether they are for website or blog, they can be offered for sales in DigitalPoint forum. Occasionally, there are people posting request for buying new template or template customization, you may contact them and offer your services.

Text Links and Blog Reviews Services
Text links and blog reviews have great demand as well. People who are interested to increase their inbound links will create new threads titled WTB Text Links or WTB Blog Posts. The 'WTB' simply means 'want to buy'. Click on each thread titled WTB and you should find some offers that are right for your website and blog. People often look for cheap text links and blog reviews, so it is advised that you set your price low or you will find it difficult to sell text links and blog posts in this forum.

Sell Digital Products
Do you own a lot of info products like e-books and software that come with private label rights or master resale right? A good idea is to bundle them into a package and sell it for a great low price like $10. Another idea is to create an e-book of your own and offer it to the members. As most members are webmasters so, your e-book has to be directly relevant to their interest. Like recently, a member posted an ad offering to sell his e-book titled 'How To Rank at #1 on Google for Any Search Term'. This ad catches tons of attention and I believe he has made a lot of sales.

Sell Websites and Domains
If your online business is about selling websites and domains, then DigitalPoint Forum may be a good place to increase your profit. Just post your URL there with traffic stat and revenue reports, those who are interested will place their bid.

When people have their money making website ready and launched on the Internet, they need to drive traffic to their website in order to generate income. But, in most cases, people find that it is too expensive to use the powerful website promotion and advertising methods like PPC advertising, banner advertising and paid blog review.

You actually have numerous choices when it comes to marketing a website for generating traffic. This article will provide you some of the low cost ways you can use to generate traffic for your website.

Give Away Free Content
Create a free report or e-book. Write a compelling title for your report or e-book and also you should provide some quality info and content in your report or e-book. Then distribute it on the Internet. You can post the link to download your report on the related forums, publish a free press release on several free news sites to let people know about your free report, post it on social bookmarketing sites, use article marketing and etc. All these Internet marketing efforts will drive visitors to your website and download your report. Those who have read your report and found that it is interesting and useful will share with their friends and their visitors if they own a website or blog.

Create a Blog
New and fresh content can easily attract traffic, so you may consider Blogging. Set up a blog with the purpose of building traffic for your website. You can begin by posting content that will entertain your blog readers. Any info that will entertain and draw the interest of your targeted readers should be posted on your blog. Do these often will help you build a reader based for your blog. To send your readers to visit your website, you may include your website link on the sidebar of your blog. Occasionally, blog about your website, tell them your website have good info or good offers they don’t want to miss and more of your readers will start visiting your website.

Article Marketing
Publishing articles on article directories is really a good choice for driving long term free traffic to your website. Write at least one article every day and submit it for publication on articledashboard.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and isnare.com could possibly build a consistent stream of free targeted traffic for your website. The key to effective article marketing is to write articles that are interesting but don't tell the whole story. Make the readers feel or know that, if they want more info, they will need to check out your website by clicking your website link in your author bio.

Become a Guess Blogger
There are a lot of blogs looking for guess blogger. Just take some time to visit blogs that are related to your website, and you may find that a number of guess blogging opportunities. The bloggers usually request unique and useful posts; and give one to two live links back to the writer’s website. If you publish your posts on these blogs, your posts will be displayed on the top and read by many of their readers.

Set up Your Own Forum
Start a forum on your website. Encourage your visitors to join your forum and participate in discussions. This proved to be a way to increase returned visitors. Or if you offering a product or service, a forum can set up to help your potential and existing customers. With a forum, you will be able to help your customers effectively and also build up a good image. People will keep on come back not just searching for help; they will also browse on other topics in your forum and start their discussion.

The way you list your product on eBay will have a direct impact on the success of your eBay business. Your product listing is pretty similar to your shop front, and your potential customers will decide whether to purchase your items based on the listing and description of your product.

To make your product listings effective so that you can sell your products smoothly on eBay, here are the things you must do:

1. Include the relevant keywords and search terms in your product description.

2. The titles of your product listings have to be attention-grabbing. You got to make the eBay viewers click your title link or your products will never sell. Thus, put in time and effort to learn about writing effective product listings titles. Take a look at your competitors successful auctions, see how their titles are written and take some of their good ideas.

3. The description of your product should be as detailed and accurate as possible. Let the potential buyers know precisely the condition of your product. Whether it is new or used, tell them honestly. Write about the benefits of your products; how they can help the potential buyers. Also list the features and functions of your products.

4. Never start a listing without adding photos or images of your products. If your potential buyers can’t see the items you are selling, they may leave your auction and go check out your competitors auctions which sell the similar items.

5. Make sure that you list your items in the most accurate category.

6. Give sufficient details about the shipping. Let the buyer know the cost of shipping and the estimated time needed to deliver the product. You should also provide a fast shipping option to meet the need of people who demand fast product delivery.

7. Some customers don’t want to pay with Paypal, so you should provide more payment options so that the customers can choose the payment option that best suits them

8. You definitely want as many people as possible to bid on your auctions. To do that, you’ll need to list your product at a low starting price.

Applying these tips to your eBay product listings, I’m sure they will help increase the amount of bids on your products and generate more eBay sales for you.

This week Michael Cheney from Michaelcheney.com is going to help you out on making money online using the pay-per-click (PPC) advertising service, Google AdWords. Getting traffic through Google AdWords is pretty easy. You just need to choose your keywords, pay for the cost and the targeted traffic will come. But if the PPC traffic don't convert to sales, sign up or lead, you will lose money.

Michael already posted the first video on his site today to teach you how to make money (not lose it) with pay per click. Below is the link to watch the video:

http://www.michaelcheney.com/secretsexposed

And after finished watching the video, you will be directed to Michael's blog where you can ask your biggest question about pay per click.

Another type of ad program is pay per click advertising program. Pay per click advertising programs doesn’t pay you based on page views. You ad revenue will depend on the users clicks on the ads. The more people clicking the ads, the more money will be credited to your account. Some good pay per click advertising programs are:

Google AdSense
Yahoo Publisher Network
Kontera
There are many video bloggers claiming that they have a click-trough rate more than 10% on AdSense PPC ads. So, it is possible to make a decent amount of ad revenue using pay per click programs.

Pay Per Play Video Content
There are companies allow you to post their videos on your blog and earn money each time your visitors watch the videos on your blog. This may be a great option to Vlog owners who cannot create videos for posting on their blog on a regular basis. By joining these companies, you can use and post their videos on your blog often. You can post one video daily or in every day to keep you video blog updated and attract new and returned visitors.

One great company offering these services is TheNewsRoom.com. TheNewsRoom.com has video content related to financial news, entertainment information, celebrity gossip, and more. You are allowed to post any video content of TheNewsRoom on your blog and make money for each video play.

Post Your Video on Other Sites
Some video bloggers make thousands of dollars by posting the videos in their blog to video sharing sites like Metacafe.com and Break.com. You too can do the same to increase your income and traffic. As long as you are uploading original and entertaining videos to these video sharing sites, there will be people wanting to view them and you will earn money for each view.

Market Affiliate Products Using Videos
Web video is proven to be effective when it comes to increasing online sale. So, your video blog is a great tool for promoting affiliate products. Some affiliate products you can choose to promote on your vlog are clothing, DVDs, CDs and books. A few companies that sell these products and own an affiliate program you can join are:

Road Kill Tshirts
Netflix
BMG Music
Book Wise
Once you joined an affiliate program, create video posts that show you using and benefiting from the service product. People often need supporting information before buying an item and your video posts will encourage them to purchase the item. When choosing affiliate products to promote on your blog, make sure you pick those products that you personally enjoy since that will make it easier for you to create energetic, enthusiastic, video blog posts which will entice your visitors to click on your affiliate link to purchase the product.

Video blogs also known as Vlogs. Video blogs aren't much different than the traditional blogs except Vlogs present content and information to the visitors in the form of video instead of text.

Video blogs are interesting and interactive. With a video blog, you can communicate and reach visitors more effectively than words. There are things that simply hard to express well in writing.

You can truly express your comments and feels on some hot issues or breaking news. Your visitors will hear your tones and see your facial expression. Words and writing sometimes just cannot truly illustrate your feelings to readers.

Setting up a video blog is similar to setting up a traditional blog. You need to first choose a blogging platform. There are several choices but Wordpress platform is highly recommended. Then register for a domain name and select a web hosting package.

Once you have your domain name and hosting account set up, you may proceed to install your Wordpress blog into your hosting account. After the installation process completed, your Wordpress blog is up and running but you'll need to change the Wordpress theme. Look for a theme that best suit the topic of your video blogging. Here are some of sites that provide free Wordpress themes:

Wpthemesfree.com
Freewpthemes.net
Fresheezy.com
WpSkins.org

As you will be posting video consistently on your blog, you will need some extra tools. You must have the following equipments to run a video blog:

A camera for creating videos
A video editing software
A microphone
A tripod for creating your video posts
Once your Wordpress blog is 100% up and running and you became familiar to the process of creating and posting videos to your video blog, then you are set to start making money online. Just like the traditional blogs, video blogs also provide multiple streams of income sources to the blog owners. Below are some of the ways to make money online with a video blog:

Advertising Revenue
Since video blogs are more entertaining than traditional blogs, they can attract a lot more traffic. So, using pay per impression advertisement programs to generate income may be a good option. These programs pay you based on the number of times their ads are displayed on your video blog. e.g. $1.50 per 1,000 page views. The popular pay per impression programs are:

TribalFusion
FastClick
CasaleMedi
ValueClick

I have been working hard to build and grow this blog. My hard effort do pay off. This blog is currently getting a steady stream of traffic and earn me a nice income. However, there is a one big mistake I have made, which is not hosting this blog on my own domain name. The domain name ‘MoneyMakerInfo.Blogspot.com’ is actually a free domain name provided by Blogger.com and it is belong to Blogger.com.

What this mean is that I will not allow to sell this blog. With the traffic and income I get now, I should be able to sell this blog for more than USD30,000 if I no longer want to blog anymore.

If you are serious to start a blog for making money online, you should register a custom domain name and host your blog on the custom domain. There are several benefits you can enjoy from hosting your own blog on your own domain name:

You Get Total Control
You will have full control over everything about your blog. You can transfer the domain name to any other hosting company if you find that your existing web host service isn’t what you want. Once your blog have built in consistent traffic and bring in good profit, people may start contacting you asking you whether you want to sell your blog. If the deal is good, you can immediate sell the blog.

Easier to Memorize
By hosting your blog on your own domain name, the visitors can remember your blog easier. A free blog domain name generally is long and hard to remember.

Better Security
You will get added security. As the domain name and the blog are owned by you fully, this means that you don’t have to face the risk of getting your suspended or even deleted. When using a free domain name on your blog, the company that provides you the free domain name can delete your blog anytime when they find that your blog content is against their policies.

You Make More Money Blogging
You give a professional image by having your own custom domain name and own logo. More people will contact you to find out whether you sell banner ads or text links which will mean more advertising revenue to your blog. I do get a lot of advertising inquiries from visitors of this free blog even though I didn’t tell any of my visitors that I sell advertising space, probably because this blog ranks high in Google. But, if this blog is hosted on my own domain, I would have get even more businesses.

Google officially launched a new web authoring tool called Knol on Jul 23. Google Knol is free and opened to everyone. It is a content sharing network where you can write and publish articles in most of the topics. Each article page or content page you created is called a Knol.

Publishing a Knol is quite similar to publishing a blog post except the tone is more formal. You can insert related picture or image to your Knol and once your Knol created, readers are allowed to comment and rate your article in the Knol.

What Benefits You'll Gain from Publishing Google Knols?

AdSense Ads is Allowed in Knols
Google said that the authors can choose to include AdSense ads in all their Knols. So, each of your Knols that attract traffic may earn you some AdSense ad revenue. But, if you are actively creating Knols that share useful content, it is possible to earn a nice AdSense income every month as you will have more Knols gaining traffic.

Get Free Google Traffic
The Google knol homepage http://knol.google.com gained thousands of quality backlinks in less than a week. It is expected that it will gain decent of backlinks just like the other two content sharing networks, Hubpages and Squidoo. Because of the huge amount of backlinks Hubpages and Squidoo have gained, they are now getting million of visitors from search engines like Google and Yahoo every month (I believe most are from Google).

This will happen to Google Knol as well. Google Knol will soon gain huge amount of backlinks and many of the Knols created by different authors will start ranking high on Google search engine and enjoy free Google traffic. Those who manage to get their knols ranked on a competitive keyword will receive steady traffic. They can include links in their Knols to direct these Google traffic to their website or blog or choose to monetize their Knols with AdSense ads so that these Google traffic can be converted into AdSense revenue.

Google Knol has their own content policy and term of service. You should read and understand them before creating a Knol to publishing your content. Google doesn’t allow spamming, any Knol that against their policy will be deleted.

Banner advertising is one of the methods that you might want to use for promoting your business website or blog. It will cost you a fair amount of money to use banner ads, but if you advertise your banner ads on the right sites and blogs, they can provide you a fairly good return.

To start a banner ad campaign, you first need to design a banner ad. It is OK if you don’t know how to design a banner as there are many of graphic designers on the Internet ready to help you. For a small fee, you can ask a graphic designer to create a nice looking banner ad for you.

Even though you are not the one that will create the banner, you do need to know clearly what types of banners are excellent for generate traffic so that you know how to request the designer to create a successful banner ad for you.

There are several things to keep in mind when putting up a successful banner ad.

The main purpose of your banner ad is to draw the attention of the visitors long enough to entice them to click on the ad to look for your offer or website so that you can generate income. Thus, you must be careful about how you put together the banner.

A big mistake that people often fall into is that they are putting too much info into the very small space of their banner ad. It is not necessary to include good description, company name and logo into the ad.

The most important thing you want to do is write a short or sweet slogan that acts as the ideal teaser. You are going to need to use only a few appealing words to grab the attention of people. Using the right words is more important than correct grammar. If you find that three words will create a powerful slogan or phrase that can catch a lot of attention, then go for it.

For logo and company inclusion into your banner, they are only helpful if your company or business already have good reputation and popular.

The color and fonts also play an important role. When you banner ad show up on the publishers sites and blogs that you are advertising with, you will want your banner stand out from the other banners appearing next to yours. You have very little time to impress the visitors. So, you may consider using bright colors with a contrasting color for the fonts. This will give you a good chance of making good impression.

Once your banner ad is ready, it is time to search for the sites and blogs that you can place your banner ad on. In these couple of years, banner ads are widely sold in blogs. So, you should start advertising your banner ad on blogs that are related to your products or business. Most of the blogs will have an advertising page stating the pricing and traffic stat.

Look for those blogs that gain a good of amount of unique visitors (at least 400 daily). Then send an email to each of these bloggers to ask about the potential average visitors their blog can send to you. Choose those that can send 1% or more of their daily traffic to you.

Affiliate marketing is in booming stage, people are establishing new professional website to promote their favorite affiliate program so that they can earn affiliate commission. A professional and clean website is definitely good for promoting affiliate products, but without good and relevant content inside the website, it is very difficult to generate affiliate sales.

Your articles in your website should be in certain qualities that would utilize online resources best, and, of course, turn visitors into affiliate sales. Here are the four types of articles your affiliate marketing site should have if you want to convert your visitors into affiliate commission.

Reviews
People need supporting information when they are interested to buy a product. But they don't like to read sales pitch because they don't believe it.

What they want is the real information about the product such as the pros and cons of the product, how it can help them and the opinion of people who have really used the product. So give them what they want. Provide honest and sincere information in the form of reviews. Tell them frankly the pros and cons; and the usefulness of the product. Place your affiliate links in the review to let your visitors check out the product.

As you will be writing true reviews about your affiliate products, so you need to choose only quality affiliate products to promote on your website.

Benefits
The successful Internet marketers always tell people to highlight the benefits instead of features of the product when selling online. What they say is right. So, besides publishing review, you can also write articles focusing on the benefits of your affiliate product. When the prospects become interested to a product, they should have known the features of the product and probably want to know the benefits of the product. So, tell them the benefits they will gain if they buy. Also, there will be other competition in the market. The other similar products may be good, or even better, features than the one you’re marketing. But if you can provide your target buyers with more benefits than the competitors do, the more likely will they purchase from you.

Product Comparison
If you are selling quality affiliate product and confident that the product is better than many other competitors product, then you may do product comparisons. But make sure you do it in the fairest way possible. Don't highlight just all the drawbacks of the competition while highlighting your own product’s benefits. Tell the visitor the benefits of your competitors product, then compare in such a way that your product comes out on top.

News Briefs
Keep your affiliate marketing site updated with news briefs. You can include promos, developments, and previously unknown information about the product (such as “studies show that this product (benefits of the product)” or “Top Marketing groups regard this product as one of the most revolutionary products of the 21st century”). Keep your news briefs concise—don’t exaggerate it. If you are able to obtain new information about your product consistent, you may create a news highlight section on your affiliate marketing and post your updated news there.

These are the types of articles you should often publish on your website. You don’t have to focus on only a single topic every time; your article may sometimes be in combination of two to three topics such as articles that talk about both the benefits and product comparison at the same time.

Test what types of content are working well for your affiliate marketing program, or product then stick with the articles that work best and you can be on your way to earn a steady affiliate commission.

Article marketing can drive free traffic to your website or help your online business gains more exposure. The process of article marketing isn't complicated. First, you write articles related to your website or business, submit them to large article directories and sites, the directories and sites owners will then review and publish your articles. The visitors read your articles, then click your website link in the author bio and you'll get free targeted traffic.

To achieve good result with article marketing, your articles must be interesting enough to attract many visitors to read them and the content of your articles will encourage the readers to click on your website link in the author bio. This blog post will provide some effective tips that will help you achieve good result in article marketing.

Good Title
The title of your article must be attention-grabbing. The title has to be compelling and concerned to a particular interest of your targeted visitors in order to grab your targeted visitors attention. The title will make people want to know more information just by reading it.

One way that can help you in writing good article title is by studying what information your visitors want. You can also browse on the large article directories such as ezinearticles.com and articledasboard.com to find articles related to your niche. See what titles grab your attention and you will get the idea on how to write good article titles.

Helpful Content
The body of your articles is also important. You need to deliver some good information in the body of your article to make your readers happy and keep on reading the content until the end. If you have an impressive title but fail to deliver it in the body content, then most likely the readers will close the article page and look for another article that isn't written by you.

Don't Make Your Article Looks Boring
Your article needs to be organized well. Make use of bullets or numbers often to emphasis important points. Each of your paragraphs shouldn't be too long as these could possibly make your readers feel bored. Use more simple words for easier understand. And make sure there are no grammar and spelling errors.

Don't Tell the Whole Story
The ultimate goal of article marketing is to send the readers from the article pages to your website or online store so that you will get free traffic and make more money online. So, make sure your articles don’t tell everything. Yes, you need to provide some good information in your articles, but the articles shouldn't reveal everything. Make the readers feel that if they want more information, they will need to click on your website link in the author bio. Let say your article title is ‘How to Make Money Online with Google AdSense’. You can write this author bio to entice the readers to visit your website after finished reading your article.

Do you like to know how to build an AdSense website that makes money? I make a steady income with AdSense and I can show you how to build an effective AdSense site in my website at http:www.mywebsite.com.

Review Your Article
After you finish writing an article, read it over and see whether you can understand it. If there is any sentence that you think will confuse the readers, then you should re-read it. Check to see if you have missed one or two important points. If you do have omitted something, add them in. Also, you may want to add anything new into the article. In that case, you can go to relevant forums and news sites to get new information where you can add it to your article

The words 'affiliate markets saturation’ is a bad news to you if are earning online income through affiliate marketing. Nowadays, affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular ways to make money online. The people who enter into this industry are growing steadily from time to time causing affiliate markets saturation.

What is affiliate market saturation?

Affiliate market saturation occurs when too many affiliates compete in a niche market. The product demand of a niche market is always similar but if more and more affiliates want to sell the same product to that niche market, it will soon lead to market saturation.

Another reason of market saturation is due to the decrease of product demand and customer interest. When people buy less for an affiliate product, the market for that affiliate product becomes smaller and the existing affiliates will be competing in a smaller market which could lead to affiliate market saturation.

How to avoid affiliate market saturation?

There are a lot of profitable niche markets for affiliate marketing but many of them are saturated. Getting into a niche market that is seriously saturated will probably waste your time, effort and money. So, to avoid affiliate marketing opportunities that won’t offer the result you intended, you need to carefully consider a few factors.

Identify the Product Potential and Customer Interest
The first step to success in affiliate marketing is to find a lucrative affiliate marketing opportunity. What consider being a lucrative affiliate marketing opportunity? Well, first of all, the affiliate product you choose to sell must have a good demand. There should be a targeted group of people who are consistently interested to buy the product.

The Product You Choose Shouldn’t be in Extremely High Competitions
After making sure that the affiliate product you choose has a consistent amount of demand, you will then need to study the competition of the product. A high demand product can seem to be very profitable to you, but if the competition is too tough, it could block your way to success.

You may start analyzing the competition by going to Google and key in the related keywords to find out how many websites appear on the result. If the result shows more than 100 million websites, it could mean the competition is fierce and you might need to look for another product.

Promote New Affiliate Product may be a Good Choice
New products keep on launching on the Internet especially digital products. What you can do is look for a new product that potentially has a huge market. As the product is too new, there will be not many people signing up for the affiliate program to promote the product. You can take advantage of this low competition situation by working hard to market the product to potential buyers. If the product has real potential, you can expect to earn great affiliate commission.

2 weeks ago, I told you about a guy named Glen Hopkins who is willing to give away his book titled 'Confessions Of An Online Marketer' that normally sells $19.95 on Amazon.com for free. The book reveals how the millionaire marketers make a lot of money on the Internet. If you have downloaded the book and read it, you should find something useful for your online money making venture.

Now, Glen has put together a new package containing loads of money making information and resources that will definitely help you make more money online or become more successful in your online business. The package includes:

* 6 Audio Recordings
* 5 Video Tutorials,
* 1 Best-Selling Book
* Glen's Million Dollar Resource Rolodex,
* Access To Glen's Private Inner Circle, and
* A Truck-Load Of Money-Making Information

And the good news is the package is free to the first 253 people who sign up. The link to sign up this offer is:

http://glenhopkins.name/hrc
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Friday, August 15, 2008
How To Drive Traffic to a Newly Launched Website
After spending a great deal of time building your money making website, you finally can launch your website to the Internet. Now you will need to drive traffic to your website. Your website will generate nice income for you only if you can drive consistent volumes of traffic to your site.

As a new web marketer, getting traffic will be one of your challenges. Here, I will provide you a few tips that will help you build traffic for your new website.

Avoid Duplicate Content
Write unique content for your website. Don’t simply take those articles from article banks and re-publish them on your website. As your website is new, you want the search engines to crawl your site and subsequently get your website indexed by the search engines so that you get the chance to enjoy free search engine traffic later. A new website that contains a large portion of duplicate content could have a hard time getting indexed by the search engines.

Social Bookmarking
Bookmark your articles in large social bookmarking websites such as Digg, del.icio.us, simply and so on. This could generate some free traffic to you. If you want to get more traffic through social bookmarketing, you got to write more unique articles and book mark them.

Comment on Blogs
Post comments on the blogs related to your website. Find 5 to 10 related blogs which have gained massive amount of traffic, take the time to read the posts of these blogs and post your comments on them. You could possible get 10 to 20 daily visitors from these blogs from your comment posting effort.

Make Use of Article Marketing
Start creating 400 – 500 words articles that provide some useful info and then submit them to article banks and directories. The two main benefits you’ll get from article marketing are free targeted traffic and free relevant backlinks.

Build Backlinks for Google Traffic
Once you have used social bookmarking, blog comment posting and article marketing, your website will soon get into the index of search engines. These method should have increased your backlinks and by the time your website indexed by search engines, you might find that one or two of your webpages show up on first page in Google for long tail keywords.

These long tail keywords will send you very limited traffic, may be only 1 to 2 visitors daily, but you will be excited to see some of your web pages rank first page on Google. If you want more Google traffic, you got to work more on increasing your backlinks. To get the most backlinks for your site, you'll first need to learn all the possible ways of increase relevant backlinks for your website, then put hard effort on link building.

Conclusion
There are of course many other methods of getting traffic, but at the beginning, you might want to use the above mentioned methods as they wouldn’t cost you money to use. To get consistent traffic, you need to keep on repeating the process. i.e. If you prefer article marketing, you will write new articles for publication on article banks again and again. So, repeating the process will make sure traffic keep coming to your site.

2 weeks ago, I told you about a guy named Glen Hopkins who is willing to give away his book titled 'Confessions Of An Online Marketer' that normally sells $19.95 on Amazon.com for free. The book reveals how the millionaire marketers make a lot of money on the Internet. If you have downloaded the book and read it, you should find something useful for your online money making venture.

Now, Glen has put together a new package containing loads of money making information and resources that will definitely help you make more money online or become more successful in your online business. The package includes:

* 6 Audio Recordings
* 5 Video Tutorials,
* 1 Best-Selling Book
* Glen's Million Dollar Resource Rolodex,
* Access To Glen's Private Inner Circle, and
* A Truck-Load Of Money-Making Information

And the good news is the package is free to the first 253 people who sign up. The link to sign up this offer is:

http://glenhopkins.name/hrc

Facebook has over 124 millions of registered users. It is a great social networking platform that can help you make money on the Internet. In this blog post, I will discuss four different ways to earn income online using Facebook.

Promote Your Own Products
Through your Facebook profile, you can market your products to other Facebook users. Since Facebook is a social networking website, you should only market products that are resonate with your profile, otherwise people will quickly see you as a marketer which will make you difficult to make new friends in Facebook. You should promote something that your Facebook friends interested. The product can make a difference in their lives or help them solve a problem. Example of products that sell well on the Internet are digital products such as e-books, music downloads, photographic content and reports.

Affiliate Marketing
If you don’t own your product, you may market other people product for a share of sale commission using your Facebook profile. Here again, you should only choose those affiliate products that resonate with your profile in Facebook. The simplest way to market your affiliate products is by posting your affiliate links in your profile. But, you need to limit the number of affiliate links included into your profile because too many offer links could make your profile look like a sale page and this will turn off people who come to view your profile.

Furthermore, you can offer a free gift or free resource on your profile in exchange for your target prospects email address. This way, you will gather their contact information legally and ethically where you can later send them your affiliate offers.

Offer Your Services
Facebook not just a good place to market products, you can also use it to sell your professional service. There are many services you can sell through Facebook. But, whatever service you are offering, make sure it resonates with the persona that you have built on Facebook. Some of the services you can offer are web development, freelance writing, consulting, one-on-one mentoring service, Internet marketing and so on.

Create Your Own Application
You can develop your own application for Facebook users to download and use it for their benefits of social networking in Facebook. One existing good Facebook application is ‘Introduce Me’. This application let people you know to introduce you to people they know in Facebook. This application is placed in profile. So, you can also contribute your unique and useful application and let millions of Facebook users to use it.

There are a few ways you can make money with your application. You can sell it immediately for a one-time profit. Or market it to have as many people as possible, and then monetize it to earn income. What are your choices of monetizing your application? Well, you can sell ad space within your application to potential advertisers, use the application to help sell your virtual items like ring, tones and etc; or promote your affiliate program for commission.

Developing your own application can be very profitable to you. However, you will need a group of experts to help you and you must have enough financial resources to back your project.

Desktop publishing is about using the computer and software to create documents, flyers, newsletter, brochures, book and other publications for commercial purpose.

If you know about desktop publishing and like to be creative, think about starting an Internet business with desktop publishing. There are no expensive machines you have to buy to start making money with desktop publishing. All the documents are created using one or two software in your computer and printed out using your color printer. So, you can begin with small capital and build it up gradually.

There are demands for desktop publishing service. A lot of people want to create creative documents, brochures and other publications using computer but they don't know how to create one themselves. So, you can make money by providing them your desktop publishing service.

What skills are needed?

Since everything is done using the computer. You need to be able to use several types of software programs for desktop publishing and possess some design skills. It will be even better if you have natural talent on this area.

What equipments are needed?

You will of course need a computer and below are other tools you must possess as well:

Desktop publishing software
Photo editing program
Printer (laser or color)
Scanner
Good quality paper for printing
Once you obtain all the above necessary tools, it is time to start your desktop publishing business.

The first important thing you need to do is find a niche you want to target on. You will be putting your marketing efforts into this single niche to make money with desktop publishing.

You are going to need to build a website to market your desktop publishing service to the selected niche. Your website should look professional and include samples of your work to show your expertise in this field to your target prospects.

How to get your target prospects to visit your website and check out your service?

This will involve the use of Internet marketing methods:

Pay per click advertising - The method that can give you instant target prospects is pay per click (PPC) advertising. With PPC advertising, you will pay each time a targeted visitor is sent to your from PPC search engines such as Google and Yahoo. It is a good method for getting targeted visitors for short term. But, you shouldn’t rely on it for long run as it can be very expensive to you.

Press release - You may hire someone to write a press release about the service you are offering and then submit the press release to news sites. It may bring in some clients for your business.

Article marketing - There are large traffic article directories that will publish your articles. Keep on writing articles related to your service and publish them on the article directories. This way, more people will know about your business and click the link in the resource box of your articles to learn more about your offer.

Other than using your website to get potential clients, you may also join those freelance bidding websites (guru.com and elance.com). These freelance sites have an online marketplace for freelance projects and jobs; and new opportunities are posted everyday. So, they may be good places for you to find more desktop publishing work.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Thursday Teleclass: How to Make Good Monthly Income with Membership Programs
Matt Bacak & Joe Lavery will be holding a live teleseminar training call on Thursday, August, 28th at 9pm EST. The training is all about how to build a membership business that will make you lucrative monthly income. The call is free and you can join it from the below link:

http://www.musthavemarketing.com/mmi/weird.php

Once you have joined, you will receive the teleseminar dial-in details and access code for attending the training.

This will be an exciting teletraining because Matt will be giving you brand new information of profiting online with membership programs. Also you will get a free info product for attending the teleclass.

For those of you who own a new blog or website, it will be nice if your website or blog can make some extra money for you to cover your web hosting cost.

I have come across a fairly new text link marketplace called Linkshowoff which allows you to sell text links on your site or blog. The process of selling links through Linkshowoff is simple and requires only little effort on your part.

All that you need to do is sign up as a publisher of Linkshowoff. Your site will then be listed on the directory of Linkshowoff. The advertisers will come and visit Linkshowoff's directory. If they found that your site is fit for buying text links, they will pay you to display a text link on your site.

The advertisers’ text links that display on your site will carry the 'nofollow' attribute. So, you don't need to worry that Google will penalize your site because of selling text links.

The minimum payout is $10. Once you have earned that amount, you can request payment makes to your PayPal account.

Linkshowoff also has a referral system that rewards you for referring new webmaster and blogger to join Linkshowoff. You will be paid $3 for every referral that earns $3.

I have been blogging for more than 2 years and recently started to feel bored and tire on blogging. I have worked lesser for this blog for the past few weeks and hope that both my traffic and income can be maintained. But thing doesn't go as I wish. Because I didn't publish as much content as I usually do and put lesser effort on SEO. As a result, I experienced a quite serious drop in Google Rankings for several keywords. My traffic decreased more than 20% and makes lesser money from this blog.

And now, I didn't feel like I want to brings back my Google rankings and recover my traffic and income level. With the traffic now, I still make enough for my living. Moreover, I have found another way to make money recently. It is quite an interesting way of making money but has nothing to do with the Internet. I now feel like want to focus more on this than blogging. I have switched some of my time and effort from blogging to this new way of making money and have got some good result. If thing continues to go well, I will make far more than blogging. But, because I still in the testing stage, so I didn't want to reveal it here yet.

On the other hand, it is not easy to make money blogging on long term. Once you have built up consistent traffic for a blog, you must continue to publish new blog posts regularly. This is to ensure your traffic can grow from time to time. If you publish lesser blog posts every week, you will find your traffic keep on failing. So, you have to keep your content publication frequency in order to survive in blogging for long term. You must be willing to do research to get content ideas and write for your blog regularly. Getting content ideas and publishing blog posts on an ongoing basis will be a tough challenge to you if you want to make money blogging for long term.

For this blog, I still will publish articles that are useful for making money online. But, because I have other thing to focus on, the blog posts and articles that publish here will be slightly lesser. Occasionally, I still will do some blog marketing and SEO to recover some of my traffic. And, I finally I would hope to stop blogging in the third quarter of next year. It’s just too boring and tire to blog for long term to me.

Smorty has been in business for sometime. It is another pay-per-post blog network where any blogger can get involved and make money by publishing paid post on their blog.

It seems that Smorty is doing well; it's blog network is growing bigger and bigger and attracting more advertisers to pay bloggers in the network for writing paid post.

Recently, Smorty has introduced another income stream to bloggers. It is called Digxa mini store link advertising. The name may sound weire to you but it actually works quite simple.

When you join Smorty and opt to make money with their Digxa mini store link advertising system, you will be instructed to place a code on your blog. Then, the system will automatically find suitable keywords in the content of your blog and underline those keywords. If a visitor points the mouse over an underline keyword, a mini store banner will showcase a few products. If the visitor clicks on a product link, you will earn a share of advertising revenue.

Learn more about Smorty here.

EbookMarketing101.com
This site is offering a free course about how to make money online with e-books. The course will take you through the entire process of creating your own e-book product and market it on the Internet to make money.

Listing Building Report
You probably need to build a list if you run an online business. The report titled 'The Seven Secrets to Building a List' which can be downloaded in www.map4cash.com will provide you some good methods for building an email list that is profitable to your business.

Exposive Traffic System
Are you earning income through a website or blog? If yes, I'm sure you are interested to learn any free techniques of generating traffic to your website so that you can make the most from your site. The e-book 'Exposive Traffic System' focuses specifically on the topic of traffic-generating. So, you may want to read this e-book to get more ideas of increasing your traffic.

A coach is a person who has know-how knowledge or special skill in a particular field and sharing it other people what want to achieve success in that particular field as well. Coaches can be an expert at anything from writing to marketing to business itself.

Many people have good knowledge at something or experience in a particular field. If you are one of them who are expert at an area, you can become a coach and earn money sharing your knowledge. On the Internet, there are a lot of coaches who help others in web design, graphic design, Internet marketer, SEO and many more.

There are a few important things you must have to become a coach and make money online. Firstly, you must have the ability to be a good listener. And patience is also needed when guiding your clients. Those people that hire you to become their coach would expect you to listen to their bad experiences and help guide them out of the muck they find themselves in no matter how strange they may sound.

To establish good reputation and credibility in the coaching business, you should know your field well. If you haven't done Internet marketing before, then being an Internet marketing coach isn't a good idea, because you don't possess real experience in this field and your students will find out that quickly.

The tools required for starting a coaching business are a computer, an email program, a website that sells your service, a shopping cart for receiving payment and telephone line dedicated for this business. There will be a lot of conversations occurring between you and your students. Both the email program and the phone line are set up for this purpose.

To start your coaching business, you need to first write a plan. Decide what coaching service you want to offer. Obviously, you will want to become a coach in the field that you have excellent knowledge in.

Then, set up a sale website to market your service. Describe exactly what service you are providing. Publish some good articles and content related to your field. This can help build credibility and expert status for your business.

Your website should also tell how much you will be charging. If possible include some positive testimonials from others who have tried your services to increase your chance of getting clients. Make your site look professional and clean; and also the navigation links of your site should be as simple as possible.

Once your sale website launched, you are ready to do business. You will want as many potential clients as possible come to your website and check out your offer so that you can make sales. Starting several Internet marketing campaigns such as pay-per-click advertising, article marketing and press release are some good ideas to market your service to your potential clients.

Not every potential client who comes to your site will participate in your coaching program. In fact, you may find that the majority of your potential clients don’t sign up your coaching program on the first visit on your site. Since they are your potential clients, you should find a way to collect their contact information before they leave your site so that you can later persuade them to sign up your program.

Perhaps offering your potential clients a free mini course on your website is a good way to collect their email contact information. Those who find you mini course good may go ahead and sign up your coaching program. Others whom take no action after the finish of the mini course may one day become your clients because you have got the email address where you can communicate with them often to build up good relationship and entice them to join your coaching program.

Keith Baxter's new video series 'The Kingspoint Project' has load of content and tips that can help you generate a steady flow of search engine traffic.

Keith himself has done a good job on getting search engine traffic to his sites and earn a good income from those traffic. In his video tutorial series, he is going to show you exactly step by step how you can also generate natural search traffic to your site or blog and see these traffic convert into income.

You'll learn most of the aspects of search engine optimization that are important for getting your site ranking high in search engines and enjoying free search engine traffic.

All these video tutorials are 100% free and can be accessed here.

Host-my-post.com is basically an article management website. It offers a pretty new way for webmasters and blog owners to make extra money online.

Webmasters and blog owners can participate in Host My Post article distribution and earn some extra bucks for adding fresh content onto their website and blog.

There are hundreds of articles divided into a list of categories inside the Host-my-post.com. You are welcome to publish any of these articles that are relevant to your site or blog. Each article that you take and put it on your site will earn you points. The points can be then converted into real cash.

It takes only a few steps to get started in Host-my-post.com:

Sign up to become a publisher of Host-my-post.com
Create an article section on your site if you don't already have one
Submit your site to Host-my-post.com for approval
Once approved, you can start using any relevant content and publishing them on your site to earn point.
The points can be turned into real cash or used for advertising your websites in Host-my-post-.com network.
Visit Host-my-post.com for more info.

Remember I told you about the give away started by Andy Jenkins last week. The give away has gone crazy. 16 Internet marketing experts (some are world-class) have agreed to participate in this give away. Each of them will contribute a valuable info product. So, now if you sign up for the Andy Jenkins free offers, you will also get all the info products contributed by the other 16 Internet marketing experts.

For those of you who don't what Andy Jenkins's free offer is about, here's a short explanation:

Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon have recently put up a new DVD SEO course called 'Stomping the Search Engines 2'. This course covers most of the important aspects of search engine optimization. It will definitely help you increase your search engine traffic and make more money online.

Anyone interested can sign up here to get a copy of the DVD SEO course. Andy won't charge you anything, but because the DVD must be shipped to you home address, so there is a small shipping fee you need to pay.

For just paying the cost of shipping, you not only will get the top DVD SEO course but also 16 other great bonuses info products like:

Shawn Casey: Learn the Secret Affiliate Story - super-affiliate strategies of Shawn Casey and Tellman Knudson that help earn millions of dollars in affiliate marketing.

Mike Filsaime: "7 Figure Code" Launch Case Study - The Step by step blueprint used to make $1 Million in sales within 7 days.

Brad Callen: Gold membership to "Article Submitter" software. The software helps you publish your unique articles instantly to hundreds of websites with just few clicks of mouse. Usually cost $67.

The above are just 3 out of the 16 bonuses. Want to know what the other 13 bonuses are? Check out the video presentation of Andy Jenkins here.

This was the biggest free offer I have seen this year. If you are serious in Internet marketing and wanting to make big money online, you definitely need these resources.

16 Sep 2008 - Update: The bonus offers have ended today. But you still can sign up for the DVD SEO course

Are you wondering why people keep on recommending Squidoo.com? Well, it is because Squidoo.com is one of the powerful and fast growing Web 2.0 sites available free for web publishers and marketers to make money online. Squidoo allows you to create web pages called lenses which can be posted with whatever content and information you want to share with the world.

By being part of Squidoo, you will be able to use Squidoo lens as the marketing tools for your online business. You don’t have to worry about the rules and regulations of Squidoo as it is perfectly OK to promote your affiliate products, business website or anything else you like to promote on your lenses.

To make your Squidoo lense work for you, the lense has to be attention-grabbing so that it can attract traffic constantly. Those visitors come to you lense not just will read your content but also will click on your affiliate links or business website to find out what you are offering. As a result, you may end up turning these lense visitors into paying customers.

Below are a few strategies you can use to attract attention and traffic:

Create an Impressive Profile
Building a Squidoo profile that appeals others isn’t very difficult. Squidoo lets you upload Youtube videos, Flickr images and much more. These features are great help for making your profile attractive. And the bio photo of your profile, make sure you upload a quality one.

Include Your Target Keywords
Your lense have the ability to attract search engine traffic. So, the content in your lense should contain your main keywords to let the search engines better understand what your lense is about and send you the most targeted traffic. But, don’t overuse keywords in your lense as this could cause your lense blocked by Squidoo staff.

Tag Your Lense
During the process of building a new lense, Squidoo lets you add a title and suggest some keywords. Those are actually your tags. For the entire lense to be effective, you need to tag your lense appropriately which means you should add tags (keywords) that are directly relevant to your topic.

Add in Interesting Images
If you browse on Squidoo lenses, you will find that most of the lenses have the similar format and look. This is a good chance for you to make your lense look unique and interesting. You can do this by placing images and photos to your lense. The images you use must be interesting and have a relation to your content. This way you will make your lense different from others, giving you advantage of drawing more attention.

Network in SquidU
SquidU is much like a bulletin board created for members (Lensemasters) of Squidoo to learn everything about Squidoo. SquidU can be very helpful to you as you can connect with people who know more than you. They can help you optimize your lenses, create attractive profile, and guide you on the effective way to use Squidoo to market your business.

Struggle to Become Lense of the Day
Every day the chief of Squidoo editor will pick a lense that stands out from the crowd and feature as Lense of the Day. The Lense of the day probably will experience a great increase in traffic and exposure. So, you may think about getting your lense to become Lense of the Day. I know this doesn’t sound easy, but you should set a goal to make it to Lense of the Day and struggle to achieve it. One marketer shares a method which is to target topics that are of current interest, such as Olympics. Big news items or clever lenses can end up featuring on the Lens of the Day in the Squidoo blog and gain a lot of traffic overnight!

No matter what type of online money making venture you are in, there are always certain software tools that help can you.

In this blog post, I like to introduce you a popular, free ad serving software called OpenX. OpenX is basically an online ads management software which provides everything you need to manage your ad campaigns. It will help you make more money from online advertising.

If you are selling online or promoting affiliate products, you are going to start ad campaigns to make sales. Openx enables you to target your ad campaigns to the right people based on locations, keywords and more; track and compare the performance of all your campaigns so that you know what ad campaigns are best for maximizing your revenue.

If you are selling ad space on your website or blog to generate income, Openx can help you manage all your ad space effectively and also it will generate ad campaign performance report for your advertisers.

You can learn more about Openx at http://www.openx.org. Do give it a try, I'm sure it will give you better control on your online advertising.

Anyway, you might need some practical tips on how to use Openx to make more money in your online Business, here's the link to a free training by Jeff Johnson from Underground Training Lab:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/113/openx_call/

In the training, Jeff shares with you how he has actually used OpenX to increase his affiliate business revenue.

No matter what type of online money making venture you are in, there are always certain software tools that help can you.

In this blog post, I like to introduce you a popular, free ad serving software called OpenX. OpenX is basically an online ads management software which provides everything you need to manage your ad campaigns. It will help you make more money from online advertising.

If you are selling online or promoting affiliate products, you are going to start ad campaigns to make sales. Openx enables you to target your ad campaigns to the right people based on locations, keywords and more; track and compare the performance of all your campaigns so that you know what ad campaigns are best for maximizing your revenue.

If you are selling ad space on your website or blog to generate income, Openx can help you manage all your ad space effectively and also it will generate ad campaign performance report for your advertisers.

You can learn more about Openx at http://www.openx.org. Do give it a try, I'm sure it will give you better control on your online advertising.

Anyway, you might need some practical tips on how to use Openx to make more money in your online Business, here's the link to a free training by Jeff Johnson from Underground Training Lab:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/113/openx_call/

In the training, Jeff shares with you how he has actually used OpenX to increase his affiliate business revenue.