How to MMO for Beginners in the make money online niche...
As mentioned many times before this site is strictly for MMO beginners to learn basic ways to make money online without working hard. Some people work hard for little to no money at all while others work less and make more money online.
There are basically two schools of thought for making money blogging-blogging for social traffic or blogging for search traffic. I've tried the social route and come up empty handed, frustrated, and just outright pissed off about all the time I wasted and the udue stress I put on myself - all for nothing.
I'm not interested in spending 30 to 40 hours a week posting or having a second job. Making money online is about being free from the constraints of a real job. After you've learned how to do on-page search engine optimization all you need to focus on is getting well anchored backlinks.
Another thing that I don't care to do, but if it happens great, is develop a readership with this blog. This is an adsense blog. Period. It has been optimized for search traffic and not return visits. Why? Because clicks from search traffic convert better for the Advertisers which means I get a higher price per click. Now don't get me wrong here. I APPRECIATE my visitors and I want you all to learn how to MMO and find value here. But let's look at a couple of important things first: I'm in this to make money foremost. I don't try to sell you anything in the process and I don't make false promises.
I simply tell you how I make money online from search traffic and how you can make money from search traffic by using basic SEO.
You get free information here about SEO and how Adsense works. You also get to take advantage of my blunders and experience online so that you don't have to waste any of your time with make money online scams that don't work. What I get is to talk about something of great interest to me and make money while doing it.
And this is really how to MMO for beginners.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
MMO: How to Become a Make Money Online Authority
How to Become a Make Money Online Authority
What's does an authority have that the rest of us are lacking? Some would say an audience, but that's only partly true. Anybody can corner a small group and force them via social awkwardness to listen or at least remain silent whilst you are speaking but that's not real authority and that certainly doesn't work online. If someone doesn't agree with you or care to hear what you're blogging about all they've gotta do is click the close button.
No social awkwardness there at all.
Recent studies show that people aren't reading books anymore. That's not to say that people have forgotten them altogether, but for the most part if it ain't a text message forget about it. Sad as this may be, it makes becoming an authority a hell of a lot easier.
Let's take making money as an example.
If you read one book about making money you would know more than the average person about making money.
If you read two books about making money you would know more than 2/3 of the population about how to make money.
If you read three books on any topic, including making money you will qualify as an authority on making money.
There is a wealth of information in a single book. Reading at least three books about making money makes you an authority because of the in depth information you attain through reading different views on the same topic. This is how you build authority.
How do you become a make money online authority?
Read as much about making money online as you can from other MMO authorities. People who really do make money online, not just the average joe who reads John Chow articles. *It does matter who you're reading more than how much you read.*
That's not to say that learning the aspect of social blogging in the make money online niche wouldn't be useful or aid you in becoming an MMO authority. In fact at least on of your sources should teach you everything you should avoid doing in order to make money online. Ahem, social blogging.
In addition to reading books on making money, you should also read quality articles by an array of MMO bloggers who uses different methods for making money online. One great MMO resource is a post on mine called Beginners Guide to MMO. I hope this helps you on your quest to becoming an authority on making money online!
What's does an authority have that the rest of us are lacking? Some would say an audience, but that's only partly true. Anybody can corner a small group and force them via social awkwardness to listen or at least remain silent whilst you are speaking but that's not real authority and that certainly doesn't work online. If someone doesn't agree with you or care to hear what you're blogging about all they've gotta do is click the close button.
No social awkwardness there at all.
Recent studies show that people aren't reading books anymore. That's not to say that people have forgotten them altogether, but for the most part if it ain't a text message forget about it. Sad as this may be, it makes becoming an authority a hell of a lot easier.
Let's take making money as an example.
If you read one book about making money you would know more than the average person about making money.
If you read two books about making money you would know more than 2/3 of the population about how to make money.
If you read three books on any topic, including making money you will qualify as an authority on making money.
There is a wealth of information in a single book. Reading at least three books about making money makes you an authority because of the in depth information you attain through reading different views on the same topic. This is how you build authority.
How do you become a make money online authority?
Read as much about making money online as you can from other MMO authorities. People who really do make money online, not just the average joe who reads John Chow articles. *It does matter who you're reading more than how much you read.*
That's not to say that learning the aspect of social blogging in the make money online niche wouldn't be useful or aid you in becoming an MMO authority. In fact at least on of your sources should teach you everything you should avoid doing in order to make money online. Ahem, social blogging.
In addition to reading books on making money, you should also read quality articles by an array of MMO bloggers who uses different methods for making money online. One great MMO resource is a post on mine called Beginners Guide to MMO. I hope this helps you on your quest to becoming an authority on making money online!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Money Maker for Beginners
I've got a great money maker for beginners. Wanna know what it is? Of course you do. I know that I can go on and on about how to make money with adsense, and I do. But for today, I will hush about that and we'll talk about alternate ways to make money online that don't have anything to do with adsense and are as easy to make money with as adsense.
Does that sound fair?
Ok.
Easiest way to make money for beginners that I can think of besides using adsense is to do what I'm about to outline for you. To succeed in making money online you've always gotta be on guard for a new concept of making money online. If you're lucky you'll find the newest money maker and be the first to advance like Grizz did when he started targeting "Payday Loans" as an additional keyword. Targeting a keyword like that is serious business because it is considered a Red Flag keyword by Google since it pays out upwards of nine dollars per click. It's too difficult to target something like that with only beginners basic SEO. Getting off topic now we'll save that one for later.
Ok here's what I want you to do:
First a little brainstorming.
Think of some niches that always have customers. One of the first niches that pop into my head is fitness, weight loss, etc. This one applies to the most common concept of MMO which is the law of supply and demand. Being fit and attractive is high in demand thanks to our society today where everyone has to be attractive to "advance" in the world. You better believe it makes a difference when promotion time comes around at work. Being fit and attractive are proven assets for making more money and getting better jobs according to recent psychological studies. People who are attractive and not overweight are more likely to be viewed as trustworthy and competent at their job than employees who are unattractive and overweight. So there is a great market for anything related to looking good.
The method of making money that you're going to use is called offline promotion. For MMO beginners, this one is especially easy because you don't have to rely on getting search traffic through your under developed SEO skills (don't worry we all start out that way especially yours truly). Good news is that you can make money without SEO for now, and the better news is that you can learn SEO and make money with both offline and online tactics later on. However, once you find a balance between the two you can make double the money from search traffic.
For now....
Choose your niche. I'm gonna use weight loss fitness for example. You don'teven have to have a website to make money with this method!
The first thing you do after picking a niche is keyword research. As you are doing this you're looking for phrases that contain your keyword with in the phrase and don't have much competition. Some competition is good, because you can compete with them and those key phrases are getting searched in Google. By doing this you guys are doing basic SEO that will advance your rankings in the SERPs. All SEO isn't as complicated as the experts would have you think. You can do this!
So after you've done that you wanna choose a URL with your main keyword in it if at all possible. Once again this is a very powerful and easy SEO technique for beginners. Continuing with the example let's say I chose weightloss.com and it was taken so then I chose weight-loss.com and got it. Great.
The next thing you can do is to join an affiliate program specifically for losing weight that converts well and pays you a decent commission of 25 to 50 bucks per sale. The way that you make money without a website or blog is that you redirect your URL to your affiliate link so that, in English, when a person types in your URL they are automatically sent to the site you're an affiliate of where they land on the sale page. Now this technique is considered "cloaking" and some people debate whether or not is ethical, but that's for you to decide for yourself. It's a lot easier than starting a blog and putting an affiliate link in a post and hoping that you get at least 15% of your traffic to click it.
This way you get 100% of your traffic to go through your affiliate link. That an 85% increase in possible sales conversion - which is a damn good argument in favour of this MMO tactic. Easily the best money maker for beginners aside from adsense.
Alright all that sounds pretty good and the numbers are in your favor to make killer commissions but how do you get people to find your site?
This is where "offline promotion" will make you the big money. You do it the old fashion way with leg work. Go to all your local gyms and put up flyers with you URL and a description of the product and post them on bulletin boards or put flyers on cars at the gym too. Do anything to get noticed. Consider any concept of making money online available to you. Examine all avenues that could get the word out for your affiliate site.
Next put ads in newspapers with a few words and most importantly your URL. There are lots of little papers that allow ads for free, take advantage of them. Most you gotta pay for but shouldn't cost much. You make one sale that way and you'll make a profit as cheap as some ads are. The more creative you get offline the more money you will make online. You can make money like this the free way as well, just be creative with it. I guess you can see why this is such a money maker for beginners as there is hardly any expense to you at all besides the cost of a domain name which you can get anywhere from 5 to 8 bucks. After you've done your offline promotion you don't have to work for money any more. No posts to write or website to maintain, just ocassional offline promotion.
Does that sound fair?
Ok.
Easiest way to make money for beginners that I can think of besides using adsense is to do what I'm about to outline for you. To succeed in making money online you've always gotta be on guard for a new concept of making money online. If you're lucky you'll find the newest money maker and be the first to advance like Grizz did when he started targeting "Payday Loans" as an additional keyword. Targeting a keyword like that is serious business because it is considered a Red Flag keyword by Google since it pays out upwards of nine dollars per click. It's too difficult to target something like that with only beginners basic SEO. Getting off topic now we'll save that one for later.
Ok here's what I want you to do:
First a little brainstorming.
Think of some niches that always have customers. One of the first niches that pop into my head is fitness, weight loss, etc. This one applies to the most common concept of MMO which is the law of supply and demand. Being fit and attractive is high in demand thanks to our society today where everyone has to be attractive to "advance" in the world. You better believe it makes a difference when promotion time comes around at work. Being fit and attractive are proven assets for making more money and getting better jobs according to recent psychological studies. People who are attractive and not overweight are more likely to be viewed as trustworthy and competent at their job than employees who are unattractive and overweight. So there is a great market for anything related to looking good.
The method of making money that you're going to use is called offline promotion. For MMO beginners, this one is especially easy because you don't have to rely on getting search traffic through your under developed SEO skills (don't worry we all start out that way especially yours truly). Good news is that you can make money without SEO for now, and the better news is that you can learn SEO and make money with both offline and online tactics later on. However, once you find a balance between the two you can make double the money from search traffic.
For now....
Choose your niche. I'm gonna use weight loss fitness for example. You don'teven have to have a website to make money with this method!
The first thing you do after picking a niche is keyword research. As you are doing this you're looking for phrases that contain your keyword with in the phrase and don't have much competition. Some competition is good, because you can compete with them and those key phrases are getting searched in Google. By doing this you guys are doing basic SEO that will advance your rankings in the SERPs. All SEO isn't as complicated as the experts would have you think. You can do this!
So after you've done that you wanna choose a URL with your main keyword in it if at all possible. Once again this is a very powerful and easy SEO technique for beginners. Continuing with the example let's say I chose weightloss.com and it was taken so then I chose weight-loss.com and got it. Great.
The next thing you can do is to join an affiliate program specifically for losing weight that converts well and pays you a decent commission of 25 to 50 bucks per sale. The way that you make money without a website or blog is that you redirect your URL to your affiliate link so that, in English, when a person types in your URL they are automatically sent to the site you're an affiliate of where they land on the sale page. Now this technique is considered "cloaking" and some people debate whether or not is ethical, but that's for you to decide for yourself. It's a lot easier than starting a blog and putting an affiliate link in a post and hoping that you get at least 15% of your traffic to click it.
This way you get 100% of your traffic to go through your affiliate link. That an 85% increase in possible sales conversion - which is a damn good argument in favour of this MMO tactic. Easily the best money maker for beginners aside from adsense.
Alright all that sounds pretty good and the numbers are in your favor to make killer commissions but how do you get people to find your site?
This is where "offline promotion" will make you the big money. You do it the old fashion way with leg work. Go to all your local gyms and put up flyers with you URL and a description of the product and post them on bulletin boards or put flyers on cars at the gym too. Do anything to get noticed. Consider any concept of making money online available to you. Examine all avenues that could get the word out for your affiliate site.
Next put ads in newspapers with a few words and most importantly your URL. There are lots of little papers that allow ads for free, take advantage of them. Most you gotta pay for but shouldn't cost much. You make one sale that way and you'll make a profit as cheap as some ads are. The more creative you get offline the more money you will make online. You can make money like this the free way as well, just be creative with it. I guess you can see why this is such a money maker for beginners as there is hardly any expense to you at all besides the cost of a domain name which you can get anywhere from 5 to 8 bucks. After you've done your offline promotion you don't have to work for money any more. No posts to write or website to maintain, just ocassional offline promotion.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Basic Concepts of Making Money Online
Basic Concepts of Making Money Online for Beginners
I can tell by the general consensus of the emails I'm getting that you guys are still feeling overwhelmed by the whole make money online deal. You probably don't know where to begin and it's like grabbing at straws to get anyone who really knows how to MMO to share their secrets with you. This comes out of fear that once they reveal what works in MMO that everyone will be doing it and it will no longer work anymore.
That is true to a certain extent for technical issues and formulas but doesn't apply to what I'm going to tell you about later. Sharing the basic concepts of MMO with you will not hurt me or my profits in any way simply because the way that I make money online isn't affected by anything other than rankings in Google's SERPs. Rank higher than me, make more money than me.
It's that simple.
You may have noticed that this is a relatively new MMO blog and you may also notice that there are no affiliate links or any other form of monetization for that matter anywhere on this MMO blog currently (as of today's date). Why? It's all part of a strategy that I use to make money from my blog and rank high in the SERPs. I know that it seems contradictory, but you will understand later on how I will make more money and rank higher in Google by delaying monetization.
Which brings me back to my reason for writing this, if you're an MMO beginner you probably don't know how to get started with setting up an internet business. I'm sure you've got tons of questions (I know because I check my email!):
How do I make a blog?
What is MMO?
What are some basic money making concepts?
How do you make money online?
Do I have to sell anything?
What's the best niche to work in?
Which niche makes the most money?
What's adsense?
Should I use adwords?
How do I set up an adsense account?
How do I get traffic?
How does adsense work?
And the list goes on and on understably. You will always have new questions about making money online as long as you do this thing. It's an environment that you must be willing to continually learn in order to be successful. My point is that you clearly want to make money online and your are willing to learn if you're here reading this. I mentioned earlier that this blog is not monetized in any way and I don't have any affiliate links or products anywhere on this blog. I'm not trying to make any money off of you by recommending this product or that. Most MMO bloggers will tell you that you can make money fast if you just buy this software or that book.
No Sir, none of that here.
I'm only talking about the basics of making money online that don't cost you a thing. Forget about using Adwords or buying Aaron Wall's SEO book. You don't need them. You can make money without spending money. If you use Adwords you will make money but you will also end up paying that much or more right back for the cost of advertisement.
How Adsense Works
What I do recommend is that you use Adsense because it is 100% free and it is also a dream money maker for beginners because you can be completely computer illiterate and still make money using free traffic on your free blogger blog (more on free blogs later). It doesn't get any more basic than that folks. With Adsense, Google provides the advertisements for you and even matches them to your content so that all of the ads showing up on your blog are relevant to what you're writing about making those ads more appealing to your visitors.
You make money from search traffic.
A visitor googles a term that they want to know more about or maybe they google something that they want to buy and they end up on your blog reading your content. Then that visitor sees an ad by Google that is relevant to what they were looking for when they found your site and then they click the ad to continue looking for whatever it is that they were looking for and you make money.
How?
Google pays you per click for those adsense ads. You aren't selling anything so your visitors don't have to buy anything for you to make money. It's a beautiful, basic system for making money online. Advertisers pay Google then Google pays you. This is how you make money with adsense. There are a few things I'd like to talk more about in the next section of this article because they didn't get all the air time that they need in this one. So let's call it a day and we will pick up next time on basic concepts of making money online for beginners.
I can tell by the general consensus of the emails I'm getting that you guys are still feeling overwhelmed by the whole make money online deal. You probably don't know where to begin and it's like grabbing at straws to get anyone who really knows how to MMO to share their secrets with you. This comes out of fear that once they reveal what works in MMO that everyone will be doing it and it will no longer work anymore.
That is true to a certain extent for technical issues and formulas but doesn't apply to what I'm going to tell you about later. Sharing the basic concepts of MMO with you will not hurt me or my profits in any way simply because the way that I make money online isn't affected by anything other than rankings in Google's SERPs. Rank higher than me, make more money than me.
It's that simple.
You may have noticed that this is a relatively new MMO blog and you may also notice that there are no affiliate links or any other form of monetization for that matter anywhere on this MMO blog currently (as of today's date). Why? It's all part of a strategy that I use to make money from my blog and rank high in the SERPs. I know that it seems contradictory, but you will understand later on how I will make more money and rank higher in Google by delaying monetization.
Which brings me back to my reason for writing this, if you're an MMO beginner you probably don't know how to get started with setting up an internet business. I'm sure you've got tons of questions (I know because I check my email!):
How do I make a blog?
What is MMO?
What are some basic money making concepts?
How do you make money online?
Do I have to sell anything?
What's the best niche to work in?
Which niche makes the most money?
What's adsense?
Should I use adwords?
How do I set up an adsense account?
How do I get traffic?
How does adsense work?
And the list goes on and on understably. You will always have new questions about making money online as long as you do this thing. It's an environment that you must be willing to continually learn in order to be successful. My point is that you clearly want to make money online and your are willing to learn if you're here reading this. I mentioned earlier that this blog is not monetized in any way and I don't have any affiliate links or products anywhere on this blog. I'm not trying to make any money off of you by recommending this product or that. Most MMO bloggers will tell you that you can make money fast if you just buy this software or that book.
No Sir, none of that here.
I'm only talking about the basics of making money online that don't cost you a thing. Forget about using Adwords or buying Aaron Wall's SEO book. You don't need them. You can make money without spending money. If you use Adwords you will make money but you will also end up paying that much or more right back for the cost of advertisement.
How Adsense Works
What I do recommend is that you use Adsense because it is 100% free and it is also a dream money maker for beginners because you can be completely computer illiterate and still make money using free traffic on your free blogger blog (more on free blogs later). It doesn't get any more basic than that folks. With Adsense, Google provides the advertisements for you and even matches them to your content so that all of the ads showing up on your blog are relevant to what you're writing about making those ads more appealing to your visitors.
You make money from search traffic.
A visitor googles a term that they want to know more about or maybe they google something that they want to buy and they end up on your blog reading your content. Then that visitor sees an ad by Google that is relevant to what they were looking for when they found your site and then they click the ad to continue looking for whatever it is that they were looking for and you make money.
How?
Google pays you per click for those adsense ads. You aren't selling anything so your visitors don't have to buy anything for you to make money. It's a beautiful, basic system for making money online. Advertisers pay Google then Google pays you. This is how you make money with adsense. There are a few things I'd like to talk more about in the next section of this article because they didn't get all the air time that they need in this one. So let's call it a day and we will pick up next time on basic concepts of making money online for beginners.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Beginners Guide to MMO
Beginners Guide to MMO
I can assume that by now you've read some of my posts on MMO and you've already got your own MMO blog or you have plans on getting a blog for MMO purposes. Starting from this point I want to make a guide of sorts for you, a guide for beginners about making money online in other words.
There are specific things you've gotta do if you are serious about making money online. It does take time and you will not get rich quick, so don't even bother if that's all that interests you. I'll skip the preamble on this, but it's best if you know what you're getting into before you actually get into it.
You can make "money online without spending money".
So don't. At least not for a while. Later on you can increase your MMO success with programs that make it easier for you to get backlinks and such but all that stuff in unnecessary for now. All you need in the meantime is some good white hat SEO tips to arm yourself with for increasing your visibility in the SERPs.
Beginners Guide to SEO
One way that I do that is write long posts. As an MMO beginner, you've no doubt heard different takes on post length. Some people prefer to write a new little post every day or other day. Whatever works best for you. If you know how to optimize your short posts for the keywords you want then go for it.
I, on the other hand, feel that I get more out of a longer post because it gives me the opportunity to put in multiple keywords. The more MMO keywords that I can put into a post the better my chances of getting ranked for those words.
HOWEVER....
There is a great deal of talent and precision involved in this. You cannot over stuff your posts with keywords or else it will appear to G that you're writing a spam post. Not to mention that whatever visitors you get will take one look at your post and know it's not going to be helpful to them in no way whatsoever because it's just a bunch of keywords crammed into a shitty post. Ideally, you should use your keyword 6% of the total number of words that you write.
Backlinks
Your MMO success can be summed up in one word-backlinks. They greatly determine your success in the make money online niche.
What are backlinks?
Links pointing to your site from someone else's site. They're important because of the weight they carry with Google which determines a site's authority. Generally the higher your authority the higher that you rank in the SERPs and the greater your chances of ranking number 1 in Google.
The best kinds of backlinks are correctly anchored links. By that I simply mean that if you have an MMO blog where you talk about money or making money (which would be your main keyword, not to mention what you want to get highly indexed for in the SERPs) then getting a backlink using the word "money" would serve as an anchored backlink, or string of words linked to you as "make money online" would be even better.
What I'm trying to say here my beloved MMO newbies is that anchored backlinks increase your authority and are worth much more than if someone just linked to you by your site name or your personal name. You don't always have control over how someone links to you, but in cases where you do, use the proper anchor in accordance with your niche.
Ok, moving on.
Beginners Guide to MMO
We've laid the ground work for having an optimized site using white hat SEO (Google approved SEO that you won't get penalized for). Now the only thing left to do is decide how you want to monetize your MMO blog and go from just blogging about making money online to actually making money online blogging about making money online.
What kind of traffic are you getting? Is it social or primarily search traffic? If you aren't sure which kind of traffic you're getting you either don't know what the difference is or you just haven't successfully optimized for one or the other. I wrote a post a few weeks ago on targeting the right kind of traffic for making money, the title is actually called Easy Ways to Make Money because it is easy once you've got the kind of traffic that fits the way you've monetized your site.
After you've gotten some original content (content written by you, not copied content) that is highly optimized for your targeted keywords the work is done, all but one little bit-deciding how to monetize your site.
Think about it. After you've done everything I've mentioned thus far what else is there to do besides the up keep-writing more content and getting more backlinks?
You're either selling or promoting something to make money and that's something you should have on your mind from the start. You can sell anything from products to your own expertise and adivse others or even make classes. Bottom line is that you don't over monetize your MMO blog. You should keep it nice clean and professional.
Having a dozen affiliate banners in your sidebar and adsense mixed in with it looks like shit and you won't make money that way. Either make you MMO blog into an affiliate blog or an adsense blog. Clearly define the way you make money with your MMO blog or you will not see the kind of profit you want. And there you have it folks the beginners guide to MMO.
I can assume that by now you've read some of my posts on MMO and you've already got your own MMO blog or you have plans on getting a blog for MMO purposes. Starting from this point I want to make a guide of sorts for you, a guide for beginners about making money online in other words.
There are specific things you've gotta do if you are serious about making money online. It does take time and you will not get rich quick, so don't even bother if that's all that interests you. I'll skip the preamble on this, but it's best if you know what you're getting into before you actually get into it.
You can make "money online without spending money".
So don't. At least not for a while. Later on you can increase your MMO success with programs that make it easier for you to get backlinks and such but all that stuff in unnecessary for now. All you need in the meantime is some good white hat SEO tips to arm yourself with for increasing your visibility in the SERPs.
Beginners Guide to SEO
One way that I do that is write long posts. As an MMO beginner, you've no doubt heard different takes on post length. Some people prefer to write a new little post every day or other day. Whatever works best for you. If you know how to optimize your short posts for the keywords you want then go for it.
I, on the other hand, feel that I get more out of a longer post because it gives me the opportunity to put in multiple keywords. The more MMO keywords that I can put into a post the better my chances of getting ranked for those words.
HOWEVER....
There is a great deal of talent and precision involved in this. You cannot over stuff your posts with keywords or else it will appear to G that you're writing a spam post. Not to mention that whatever visitors you get will take one look at your post and know it's not going to be helpful to them in no way whatsoever because it's just a bunch of keywords crammed into a shitty post. Ideally, you should use your keyword 6% of the total number of words that you write.
Backlinks
Your MMO success can be summed up in one word-backlinks. They greatly determine your success in the make money online niche.
What are backlinks?
Links pointing to your site from someone else's site. They're important because of the weight they carry with Google which determines a site's authority. Generally the higher your authority the higher that you rank in the SERPs and the greater your chances of ranking number 1 in Google.
The best kinds of backlinks are correctly anchored links. By that I simply mean that if you have an MMO blog where you talk about money or making money (which would be your main keyword, not to mention what you want to get highly indexed for in the SERPs) then getting a backlink using the word "money" would serve as an anchored backlink, or string of words linked to you as "make money online" would be even better.
What I'm trying to say here my beloved MMO newbies is that anchored backlinks increase your authority and are worth much more than if someone just linked to you by your site name or your personal name. You don't always have control over how someone links to you, but in cases where you do, use the proper anchor in accordance with your niche.
Ok, moving on.
Beginners Guide to MMO
We've laid the ground work for having an optimized site using white hat SEO (Google approved SEO that you won't get penalized for). Now the only thing left to do is decide how you want to monetize your MMO blog and go from just blogging about making money online to actually making money online blogging about making money online.
What kind of traffic are you getting? Is it social or primarily search traffic? If you aren't sure which kind of traffic you're getting you either don't know what the difference is or you just haven't successfully optimized for one or the other. I wrote a post a few weeks ago on targeting the right kind of traffic for making money, the title is actually called Easy Ways to Make Money because it is easy once you've got the kind of traffic that fits the way you've monetized your site.
After you've gotten some original content (content written by you, not copied content) that is highly optimized for your targeted keywords the work is done, all but one little bit-deciding how to monetize your site.
Think about it. After you've done everything I've mentioned thus far what else is there to do besides the up keep-writing more content and getting more backlinks?
You're either selling or promoting something to make money and that's something you should have on your mind from the start. You can sell anything from products to your own expertise and adivse others or even make classes. Bottom line is that you don't over monetize your MMO blog. You should keep it nice clean and professional.
Having a dozen affiliate banners in your sidebar and adsense mixed in with it looks like shit and you won't make money that way. Either make you MMO blog into an affiliate blog or an adsense blog. Clearly define the way you make money with your MMO blog or you will not see the kind of profit you want. And there you have it folks the beginners guide to MMO.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Basic Ways for Beginners to Make Money Online
Basic Ways for Beginners to Make Money Online
There are two basic ways to make money online: selling something or promoting something. You've got to have something of value before you can make any money. That's just simple economics.
Selling or promoting something of value...
Let's step aside from selling, and focus on the aspect of "online promotion" to make money since it is what the vast majority of bloggers are doing to make money online.
Online promotion often refers to affiliate marketing/internet marketing where one promotes a product or service in the form of a banner/ad of some sort or just a simple text link in the writer's content.
Using your content as online promotion is a basic way to make money online for beginners to advanced. Everybody does it who wants to make a living online.
Now that the boring little intro is done let's talk about how beginners like yourselves can start making money with the basics.
First off, you should get a blog or two, maybe even more and start writing original content about A topic. Do not stray from your topic. Choose your keywords well. Do not, I repeat DO NOT monetize your blog until you have a few really good articles written and posted and you are seeing search traffic coming in. The longer you wait to monetize, the better.
Then, according to your niche either monetize with affiliate marketing or make your money with adsense. I think affiliate marketing is great, but it has it's ups and downs. I prefer making money with adsense because it is a much steadier income once you're getting regular traffic.
Affiliate marketing is greatly hit or miss. There's more involved for you to make any money because someone has to buy something whereas with Adsense all they have to do is click your ad.
It really doesn't get any more basic than that when it comes to making money online. You're either selling a product/service or promoting a product/service. The promotion side of it is much easier to most people because you're not dealing with customer satisfaction, shipping, employees, etc.
I don't know how much you guys want me to expound upon this, so if you want more specifics on the topic let me know via email or by commenting below and we will see what we can do about getting a Part 2 of this post in the works. If not I will safely assume that you guys have found "basic ways for beginners to make money online" helpful.
There are two basic ways to make money online: selling something or promoting something. You've got to have something of value before you can make any money. That's just simple economics.
Selling or promoting something of value...
Let's step aside from selling, and focus on the aspect of "online promotion" to make money since it is what the vast majority of bloggers are doing to make money online.
Online promotion often refers to affiliate marketing/internet marketing where one promotes a product or service in the form of a banner/ad of some sort or just a simple text link in the writer's content.
Using your content as online promotion is a basic way to make money online for beginners to advanced. Everybody does it who wants to make a living online.
Now that the boring little intro is done let's talk about how beginners like yourselves can start making money with the basics.
First off, you should get a blog or two, maybe even more and start writing original content about A topic. Do not stray from your topic. Choose your keywords well. Do not, I repeat DO NOT monetize your blog until you have a few really good articles written and posted and you are seeing search traffic coming in. The longer you wait to monetize, the better.
Then, according to your niche either monetize with affiliate marketing or make your money with adsense. I think affiliate marketing is great, but it has it's ups and downs. I prefer making money with adsense because it is a much steadier income once you're getting regular traffic.
Affiliate marketing is greatly hit or miss. There's more involved for you to make any money because someone has to buy something whereas with Adsense all they have to do is click your ad.
It really doesn't get any more basic than that when it comes to making money online. You're either selling a product/service or promoting a product/service. The promotion side of it is much easier to most people because you're not dealing with customer satisfaction, shipping, employees, etc.
I don't know how much you guys want me to expound upon this, so if you want more specifics on the topic let me know via email or by commenting below and we will see what we can do about getting a Part 2 of this post in the works. If not I will safely assume that you guys have found "basic ways for beginners to make money online" helpful.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Beginners: Easy Ways to Make Money
Beginners: Easy Ways to Make Money
That's what we all want to know, isn't it? Forget about working hard for money if you don't have to. When it comes to making money online, you can end up working harder for money online than you could at your day job IF you don't know what you're doing.
More specifically, I mean targeting the wrong type of traffic.
You see, when I started out trying to make money online I didn't know shit. I looked at people like John Chow and Shoe Money and thought "damn, I could make easy money from home''. I mean look at these guys. When I read about making easy money with Adsense ads, I thought of all the billions of searches done on the internet each day and how all they had to do was click an ad on a website I set up an walked away from and I'd get rich quick.
Well, it's just not that simple.
As you know by now, I'm sure. Needless to the urge to make easy money was too much for me so I decided to try it for myself and follow the advice of social bloggers like John Chow, Shoe Money, Blogging Experiment, etc.
So I set up a nice little social MMO blog and waited for the money to roll in...and waited....and waited....and waited some more....
All in all I made about $60 in six months. That's sure as hell nothing to quit your day job over. LOL. All along the way I was questioning what went wrong. What am I doing wrong? When will I start making money? Do I have all of the same affiliate programs on my MMO blog that John Chow has? Yep. Check. Well, why am I not making any freaking money?
All good questions with an obvious answer.
There are two types of traffic: social traffic and search traffic. One will make you work your ass off for next to nothing and the other will pay your bills, maybe even take the place of your day job. Social traffic is primarily comprised of other bloggers and everyone and their mother knows that other bloggers don't spend money!
The other kind of traffic is search traffic, the name says it all-regular people who do Google searches for something when they want it. This kind of traffic is willing to spend money when they find what they're looking for.
Looking for an easy ways to make money? Stop targeting the wrong type of traffic! Stop putting the same affiliate ads on your MMO blog that every other blogger in the world has on their own MMO blog because that market is tapped out and all the people who were interested in buying have already bought or seen enough of the same shit.
The easiest way to make money is to find yourself a niche that you can rank well in-I'm talking about number 1 in Google or at least somewhere on the 2nd page of G's SERPs. After you do that most of the so called work is done. Then put Adsense on you MMO blog.
Sounds easy, huh?
Yeah, it does. All you really need is enough search traffic so that you get at least a 5-6% CTR and you will start to make money without having to work for it...so to speak. Think of it this way:
That's what we all want to know, isn't it? Forget about working hard for money if you don't have to. When it comes to making money online, you can end up working harder for money online than you could at your day job IF you don't know what you're doing.
More specifically, I mean targeting the wrong type of traffic.
You see, when I started out trying to make money online I didn't know shit. I looked at people like John Chow and Shoe Money and thought "damn, I could make easy money from home''. I mean look at these guys. When I read about making easy money with Adsense ads, I thought of all the billions of searches done on the internet each day and how all they had to do was click an ad on a website I set up an walked away from and I'd get rich quick.
Well, it's just not that simple.
As you know by now, I'm sure. Needless to the urge to make easy money was too much for me so I decided to try it for myself and follow the advice of social bloggers like John Chow, Shoe Money, Blogging Experiment, etc.
So I set up a nice little social MMO blog and waited for the money to roll in...and waited....and waited....and waited some more....
All in all I made about $60 in six months. That's sure as hell nothing to quit your day job over. LOL. All along the way I was questioning what went wrong. What am I doing wrong? When will I start making money? Do I have all of the same affiliate programs on my MMO blog that John Chow has? Yep. Check. Well, why am I not making any freaking money?
All good questions with an obvious answer.
There are two types of traffic: social traffic and search traffic. One will make you work your ass off for next to nothing and the other will pay your bills, maybe even take the place of your day job. Social traffic is primarily comprised of other bloggers and everyone and their mother knows that other bloggers don't spend money!
The other kind of traffic is search traffic, the name says it all-regular people who do Google searches for something when they want it. This kind of traffic is willing to spend money when they find what they're looking for.
Looking for an easy ways to make money? Stop targeting the wrong type of traffic! Stop putting the same affiliate ads on your MMO blog that every other blogger in the world has on their own MMO blog because that market is tapped out and all the people who were interested in buying have already bought or seen enough of the same shit.
The easiest way to make money is to find yourself a niche that you can rank well in-I'm talking about number 1 in Google or at least somewhere on the 2nd page of G's SERPs. After you do that most of the so called work is done. Then put Adsense on you MMO blog.
Sounds easy, huh?
Yeah, it does. All you really need is enough search traffic so that you get at least a 5-6% CTR and you will start to make money without having to work for it...so to speak. Think of it this way:
- By targeting search traffic, you will have regular people who are willing to spend money visiting your MMO blog day in, day out.
- You don't have to post a new article every freakin day or worry about developing a readership. Don't get me wrong here, readership is great but it will not make you any money. Only unique search traffic will. (More on this later.)
- With the extra time you've got from not having such a rigorous posting schedule you will be able to enjoy being at home and not spend so much time isolated in front of your computer.
If you want to "work from home", that's great. But you gotta know what you're doing before you quit your day job or else you probably will not have a decent payday any time soon. Following social bloggers is a waste of time. Building a social MMO blog will be more work for much less than you make at your day job.
I don't want to give any of my MMO beginners here the wrong impression...you can learn things from social bloggers, but you can't make money being a social blogger. It's just not practical. John Chow can't even replicate his own success. He was challenged once to take a blog from scratch and make it into another John Chow dot com success and he couldn't do it. The truth is that he used black hat SEO to get where he is today. He got busted by G on it and it doesn't work anymore. But enough about John Chow...
My point is that unless you're an MMO authority like John Chow or Shoe Money, you will be wasting your time trying to make money as a social blogger. I honestly didn't know the difference when I started out in MMO. I wasted a lot of time and effort going in the wrong direction because I didn't know the beginners basics. It is imperative for make money online beginners (MMO beginners) to know the difference between search traffic and social traffic before you get in too deep. It sets the tone for the your entire MMO blog. Pick your niche wisely. Rank high for as many keywords as possible for your niche. Don't monetize your MMO blog until you're indexed in Google or have written at least 10 posts or more. Avoid writing for social traffic because it will not lead to a payday for you. These are for beginners easy ways to make money.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Making Money Online for Beginners
Make Money Online for Beginners.
If you want to learn how to make money online and you're a beginner, then you've found the right place. I think it's best at the start of things to take inventory and access where we're at in the "make money online"niche.
Just because you're an MMO beginner doesn't necessarily mean that you've come to the table empty handed. You may know more than you think you know already.
In case you already know what I'm talking about, please know that I am not and I will not intentionally insult any one's intelligence here. I'm just going to write my MMO blog for beginners who know nothing about making money online at all. Period.
Before you even think about starting to make money blogging online you should have a blog. There are two types of blogging platforms: self-hosted and hosted.
If you want to learn how to make money online and you're a beginner, then you've found the right place. I think it's best at the start of things to take inventory and access where we're at in the "make money online"niche.
Just because you're an MMO beginner doesn't necessarily mean that you've come to the table empty handed. You may know more than you think you know already.
In case you already know what I'm talking about, please know that I am not and I will not intentionally insult any one's intelligence here. I'm just going to write my MMO blog for beginners who know nothing about making money online at all. Period.
Before you even think about starting to make money blogging online you should have a blog. There are two types of blogging platforms: self-hosted and hosted.
- If you choose to go the self-hosted route, you will be responsible for everything: programming, paying a hosting fee every month, fixing your own problems, buying a domain, etc. Going it self-hosted as a beginner is not a good idea at all, unless you're coming to the table with a background in programming and you've got great technical skills already. Like I said earlier, not all beginners are the same.
- For those of you who aren't technical wizards or programmers, choosing a hosted platform like Blogger or Wordpress is an excellent place to make money online for free. Blogger and Wordpress will host your blog for free and you will not have to buy a domain name unless you just want to kick out the .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com part. You don't need any technical skills at all with a hosted platform. If you have any issues, you have people to help you or fix them for you.
Just a quick summary of the differences between Wordpress and Blogger for MMO purposes:
The free way to make money blogging with Blogger differs slightly from Wordpress in that Blogger allows you to use Adsense whereas you aren't permitted to put Adsense on Wordpress without buying their VIP package. You can however use affiliate links on Wordpress to make some extra money.
For me, I prefer using Blogger for MMO purposes because they allow you to put Adsense on your blog which gives you one more way to make money than Wordpress. Blogger has a huge edge with Adsense. If you're serious about making money online you should be serious about Adsense. (Will post more on Adsense latter.)
Starting an MMO blog for free is easy.
Go to blogger.com or wordpress.com and follow their step by step process and you will have your own make money online blog or whatever blog you want in less than 2 minutes. It's so easy that you can't possibly mess up. If you do have trouble...don't be embarrassed, send me an email or a post and let me know how I can help you. You will hear me say this a lot, I am all about helping beginners make money online.
Keep in mind that you can make as many blogs for free as you want with hosted platforms like Blogger or Wordpress.
You may already have some ideas about how you want to make money online or you may not at this point. Either way it's fine. I can give you suggestions if you're stumped. Just let me know via email or by posting a comment.
Here are some basic ways to make money online for beginners:
- selling a product that you've created or that you buy wholesale
- join an affiliate program or many affiliate programs
- use your content to make money with Adsense
- use Adsense and affiliate programs with great content
- add a donation plugin to your page
- create a membership blog
Again these are basic free ways to earn money online as a beginner trying to make money online blogging. You don't have to use all of them, but I do highly recommend that you focus on making money with Adsense and or making money with affiliate programs because they're the easiest ways for beginners to make money online. The great thing about Adsense is that nobody has to buy anything for you to make money, all they have to do is click your ad and you make money. It's called CPC or cost per click-you get money per click. If you do use Adsense, do not click your own ads because you will get banned by Google and lose the opportunity to make money with Adsense forever.
Whoa, looks like we might be getting ahead of ourselves here. I should probably dedicate a whole post on making money with Adsense later.
Back to our original topic now, making money online for beginners. I want you to think about how you want to make money online. Do you want to write content and use Adsense as your only source of income? Do you want to make money online blogging about making money? Do you want to earn extra money with affiliate programs?
I think that's long enough for today. We will pick up here next time. Until then, make a plan for earning extra income online. Also feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you have about getting started with your make money online venture.
Monday, September 1, 2008
MMO for Beginners
Welcome to MMO for beginners.
Who says all the great URLs are taken these days? It just doesn't get any better than this one. Just in case you're not sure what I mean by MMO here is a break down for you "Make Money Online".
You can take this introductory post as lesson one if you're a beginner. In this post we will cover beginners basics and other useful concepts for making money online.
The nicest piece of advice for making money online today is to choose your URL wisely. Ideally, you want to include your keywords in your URL because it is the first thing to get crawled on your site and you want to set it straight from the beginning what your site is about.
If you were going to write a blog about SEO (search engine optimization) you should try to find some way to get that in your URL. For example, I'm sure this one's already taken-seo.com would be great, but since that one's taken you will have to get creative and include another keyword with SEO to make it work for you. Putting your primary keyword in your blog's URL is easy SEO for MMO beginners.
Ok...so what else can I teach you?
You can expect to hear new ways to make money as well as learn how to make money online. And you can certainly expect to learn how not to make money online.
This niche is extremely competitive. You should know that from the start. If you're expecting to "get rich quick" you will be very disappointed. If you're going to make money online blogging you've got to be willing to put in the time and effort it takes to climb your way to the top of the SERPs (search engine ranking pages).
Sorry if I'm discouraging you or insulting your intelligence by telling you this, but I don't know what level you're at or what your expectations are for my blog about making money. Obviously this is an MMO blog for beginners and I want to address issues for beginners primarily. Now if I can help anyone else out along the way that's great.
Along with my tips for making money blogging, I will also give you some great links to other blogs about MMO or SEO. Most MMO gurus will never admit to you that someone else may know more about search engine optimization or making money online than they do, but not me. If there's something that another blog has to offer that will be beneficial to you in an area that I can't help you with, you better believe I'm going to say check out this guy's blog or that one. It's all about helping each other out.
While this niche is competitive, it boils down to how good YOU are at what you're doing and how beneficial your blog is to others. Anyways, that's probably long enough for today. Don't want to give anyone information overload on the first day here at MMO for Beginners!
Until next time,
Chao!
Who says all the great URLs are taken these days? It just doesn't get any better than this one. Just in case you're not sure what I mean by MMO here is a break down for you "Make Money Online".
You can take this introductory post as lesson one if you're a beginner. In this post we will cover beginners basics and other useful concepts for making money online.
The nicest piece of advice for making money online today is to choose your URL wisely. Ideally, you want to include your keywords in your URL because it is the first thing to get crawled on your site and you want to set it straight from the beginning what your site is about.
If you were going to write a blog about SEO (search engine optimization) you should try to find some way to get that in your URL. For example, I'm sure this one's already taken-seo.com would be great, but since that one's taken you will have to get creative and include another keyword with SEO to make it work for you. Putting your primary keyword in your blog's URL is easy SEO for MMO beginners.
Ok...so what else can I teach you?
You can expect to hear new ways to make money as well as learn how to make money online. And you can certainly expect to learn how not to make money online.
This niche is extremely competitive. You should know that from the start. If you're expecting to "get rich quick" you will be very disappointed. If you're going to make money online blogging you've got to be willing to put in the time and effort it takes to climb your way to the top of the SERPs (search engine ranking pages).
Sorry if I'm discouraging you or insulting your intelligence by telling you this, but I don't know what level you're at or what your expectations are for my blog about making money. Obviously this is an MMO blog for beginners and I want to address issues for beginners primarily. Now if I can help anyone else out along the way that's great.
Along with my tips for making money blogging, I will also give you some great links to other blogs about MMO or SEO. Most MMO gurus will never admit to you that someone else may know more about search engine optimization or making money online than they do, but not me. If there's something that another blog has to offer that will be beneficial to you in an area that I can't help you with, you better believe I'm going to say check out this guy's blog or that one. It's all about helping each other out.
While this niche is competitive, it boils down to how good YOU are at what you're doing and how beneficial your blog is to others. Anyways, that's probably long enough for today. Don't want to give anyone information overload on the first day here at MMO for Beginners!
Until next time,
Chao!
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