When it comes to making money from home, you will find that affiliate marketing is both the easiest way. You will also find it to be the most difficult and stressful way as well! How is that possible? It’s very easy to sell to your target market, however getting in front of them on the search engines can be super tough!
Many people charge a foolish price and will offer to do it for you. How about if I tell you how to increase your chances for SEO and ranking success for you? Awesome, let’s go!
What does a bookstore have to do with SEO? Let’s pretend you are the shopper browsing books for a moment. When you go into the book store, you are going to look for the titles, before a books description, right? Google acts very much the same way as you in the example, and if they do not understand your title they could very well keep looking. Wouldn’t you do the same thing in the bookstore?
So how can we make the title easier for Google to read? That’s a very easy task actually. When =oogle is crawling the web and webpages looking for new information they look for a title tag. If you title tag is giving a confusing name, you will probably get passed by, atleast initially.
If you do not want to get passed by, go and check your title tag! The easiest way I find to do this is through your webpages’s source code. The way you do this is by right clicking somewhere on your site. After right clicking you are going to click on the option that says “View Source Code”. That (surprise!) Is your source code!
Inside your pages source code you will find a whole bunch of odd looking information. What you are looking for is something that looks like this . The periods inside the title tags is how Google sees the name of your website.
Now that we see your title tags, we need to see what it says. If your title is your site name say than you are on track to bettering your SERP positioning. However, if your tags are your site address , there’s room for improvement!
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Google is, unfortunately, going with a stronger push toward social media. The reason I say unfortunately is because it is going to be similar to all of Alaska or Maine being industrialized. The final frontier where SPAM is an occasional thing will be catapulted in terms of a horror movie-esque killer virus outbreak.
How will this effect us as ethical marketers, I think in the grand scheme of things we are going to benefit dramatically. As soon as I said to Hell with advanced seo and really honed in on driving legit traffic myself, I noticed changes. Not small changes either, pretty noticeable changes like the kind where you put your Rockstar down and rub your eyes (Rockstar the energy drink, not a huge coffee fan here). What on God’s green Earth happened? I was getting traffic!
I started asking myself where all of this traffic came from. I decided to take a peak, it was eZine, Twitter, Facebook, and the majority from forums. What did I do to get this traffic, I know I set goals for myself but to see results this soon? I was a seriously happy guy! Want to know how I did it? Keep reading, then maybe shoot a Tweet out about me 
Kidding, but sharing me is very appreciated (besides, where else do you get unbiased, honest content now a day?)!
Twitter for traffic was a dream for me as little as 2 weeks ago. Analytics told me that one of my sites had a page Tweeted 5 times and that I had gotten 104 visitors. 104!?!?!? Pardon the suprise, however this is coming from someone who does this stuff by hand and takes pride in his work, so 104 was my “WTF” (pardon the quotes, the abbrev thing isn’t high on my list yet) moment for the week. Where did that traffic come from on Twitter though? I went into my messages and noticed it could have been via DM’s as I solve problems and may have done a search. I have no idea to be brutally honest.
EZine articles was a lot easier for me to figure out. I made a goal to submit 2-5 articles daily. I am hitting no where near that on most days, however I have been averaging 5 a week. After 3 months those numbers will equate to roughly 60 published articles with links going to my main site page as well as deep linking to inner pages and posts. What does that do for us? 2 articles with a link to the post had a POST ranking number 6 out of 6 million+ other competing results after 2 days.
Now to the wonderful world of forum marketing. I have heard everything from “Yahoo Answers booted me” to “it takes WAY too much work” to “my virtual assistant doesn’t speak good enough English”. My response is good, stay away, let me pull in the money! I am, was, and will be a mega forum fan. Hard work has always paid off for me to the tune of multi 5 figure months from forum traffic alone!
When I worried about seo tricks, I took the focus away from my main strong point in life. That strong point is making people’s lives better through solid, entertaining, implementable information. The end lesson I beg you to take away from this is to do the hardwork, the right way, and expect solid results!
Anyone have a Twitter tip for me? I’ve bought 8ish courses and have yet to learn a think aside from @ gets people’s attention.
Working for yourself is a dream shared by millions of Americans and setting up your home office is almost as exciting as your first sale! However, aside from not knowing how to get your first sale, setting up your home office incorrectly is equally as detrimental to your success. If you work full time as well as start working for yourself, you have a budget (if not you need one) and need to allocate your funds wisely. This is where so many go wrong and doom themselves before they start!
Creating your home office on a budget is much easier said than done. The leading factor for this I have found is because most Americans will look at what they want instead of what they need. With that being said, what do you need in your home office to aid in remaining focused and productive? I can tell you what you do not need, that would be distractions – especially if you are considering purchasing them! You need a desk, a computer, pens and paper. You will also need internet connection and a phone. How about a chair to sit on?
Another want that is unnecessary is decorating your office space. Where I am most productive is in a dark and dreary, plain walled basement. My decorations include a weight bench with about 200a pounds of weight plates, a picture of my children, and a drawing by my oldest. I use my weight bench when I have writers block, and the pictures of my children remind me when I am pulling my hair out, why I am pulling my hair out. The office is a bit dated, and has been the same structure through a few moves. I created an office to work, and I suffer from a very short attention span so it remains ugly, dark, and boring.
When you are setting up your home office on a budget, just because you allocate $500 for a desk and chair doesn’t mean you are forced to spend that much. In fact, I bought a desk from a second hand shop for $93 which may seem high, however the retail for the same desk is $1,800. I gave myself a budget of $750 for a desk so I had a profit of $657, can you say score? I allocated that to other areas instead, I want to say forum ads? Long story short, instead of hitting the big box stores, shop around.
If you are very short on cash, be creative with what you already have. Do you have an old desk or something you can use instead of getting a new one. You can use your own notebooks or paper that you already have! In fact, when I first started out (I was a teen) I remember taking random printer paper sized paper and putting them into the printer and using them. Until it is broken, everything will eventually have a use!
How did you go about setting up your home office on a budget? Was it easy. and how were you creative? Let us know below!
If you frequent chat rooms or Skype groups as I do, you will notice a lot of marketers have some similarities when it comes to their subscribers. They all yell and cry about how tough it is to get them and they swear it’s near impossible to keep them. I beg to differ, and think I found the answer!
Previously, I touched on why you should treat your autoresponder like a girl, for optimal “pleasure”. If you haven’t read that, shame on you and go read it. Target marketing is crucial and critical for all marketers – niche especially. It is also an intelligent idea to pay attention to your list in Internet marketing. I subscribe and unsubscribe from lists daily, however I love communicating! How could those people have kept me on their list (mind you I have been known to drop some SERIOUS money regularly!)? Well, keep reading and I will tell you!
We already know that sending off or pushing/stuffing a subscribers in box with irrelevant items is promotion suicide. So what can we do to ensure we get activity and sales? This part is actually a fun idea (for me atleast)! ASK THEM! This can be easily accomplished via a simple poll which you can grab for free at polldaddy.com.
Another thing you can do, which I do very successfully, is to add other ideas in a footer. One thing I have used is right here (feel free to steal it):
“We’ve beaten blogging into the ground a few times, and there’s still a TON of fresh information coming your way, visit this post and let me know where YOU are personally stuck. On top of that you also get a backlink!
To give you some thing new to chew on, have you ever considered getting into affiliate marketing and monetizing your efforts? Click right here to see how I do it”
They are telling me they’re entering a new list of mine, and I gave them the option to do so! If you also noticed, I told them I want to know what is confusing them and they’ll leave a comment.
Why don’t you take a second and leave YOUR throughts below?
Catch you next time, stay safe, stay ethical, and go help someone and earn money in the mean time. Actually, why don’t you go ahead and steal my “topic introduction” idea?
What is harder than getting subscribers into your autoresponder campaign?
Getting subscribers to an email list is something anyone who markets online craves. If you think gettingof those subscribers was tough you have no idea what you could be in for! Keeping your subscribers is normally far more difficult. I say normally, because 0% of the emails I get in my inbox are not done the “write” ( get the play on words? ) way! Let me explain how to properly set up your autoresponder campaign for maximum effect!
Where is an easy way to learn how to set up your autoresponder campaign. Christopher Terry and Jim Boulay do something very creative. They are both into real estate transactions as realtors (you will see where this relates to your autoresponder campaign) and follow up not only with people who buy a house from them but prospects as well! Do they send them information about how to turn their house into a gym and use space already there (think junk PLR in an autoresponder campaign)? No, if someone has yet to buy from Jim Boulay, he’ll give them information that relates to first time home ownership or topics on how to know if the prospect is ready for home ownership. The snail mail they send is amazing, and they get “shared” by people mentioning how well they (prospects on the snail mail autoresponder campaign) are treated! Can you say viral marketing OFF LINE without using an autoresponder campaign?
Regardless, the methods they use work – plain and simple. How are you treating people in your autoresponder campaign? Are you helping them grow their business or fix their problem? Or is your autoresponder campaign there just for add swapping?
Here’s a story about an autoresponder campaign gone wrong
Let’s start with an example scenario I encountered the other day. I registered to get into a giveaway because there was certain things I was looking for, and you normally find what you need in a giveaway. I decided to sign up for a product on HTML and other code based topic. The person who was offering it was someone I noticed that is on the Warrior Forum so I figured I’d score good. I did, however the product only half answered my issue. About an hour or so later I received an email from this person. It was for lines of something new that happened with someone finding a new loophole of some sort. I didn’t click the link and went about my business. I went out to consult I remember, and this same individual sent me 3 other emails, one on flipping sites, one on PLR, and one on backlinking. I unsubscribed from his autoresponder campaign, not because of how many emails he sent but only the one on coding related to me. Do you make this same mistake?
What can you take away from that experience of an abusive autoresponder campaign? I take it that this guy was doing the typical ad swap junk. Where else did he go wrong? Read the last paragraph again. Nothing he sent me related to my initial signal. I subscribed to get information about HTML -and can you take a guess toward what sort of emails I was expecting? When someone signs up for your list you’ll want them to stay there and open your emails right? Go back to what caused them to lose me as a subscriber. I was in the market for information on HTML and if down the road they gave me an email on HTML I would have opened it. If the sales copy was good enough I would have purchased also.
The autoresponder campaign is your commission lifeline!
Keep your list safe and protected, as a subscriber I’ll tell you now we get more than enough junk. Remember why we signed up and give us information on that topic only. Want to know what information we want unrelated to why we signed up to your autoresponder campaign originally? You’ll have to wait for next time
Did I forget something else that he did wrong? I do not think so, however I purposely only mentioned one thing he did wrong as I want some comments with what you think he did wrong! Post it and if it’s relevant it’ll be approved! Where did that Warrior’s autoresponder campaign go wrong?
