Making money on the Internet need not be difficult. The problem is that most people start of completely overwhelmed and buy things that are completely unnecessary. They get caught up by hundreds of tantalizing offers promising to help them save time or money – not all of them live up to their promise. The best advice is to keep your hand in your pocket and resist buying gadgets when you are starting out. You should however invest in quality training.
The simplest and cheapest way to gear yourself up to make money online when you start out comes down to three key things:
- Sign up for an account with ClickBank.com. Clickbank literally has thousands of different digital products from software to ebooks. Selling digital products means that you don’t have to go out are pre-purchase any inventory or hold any stock in warehouses. Once, you have signed up to Clickbank look for a product that has a gravity between 30 and 100. Anything lower than that might mean the sales letter is not great at converting and anything higher could mean that there is too much competition for you to compete with when you are learning the ropes. Once you found a product you like sign up for the affiliate program so you can obtain a unique link that identifies you as a seller of that product. Be sure to copy, paste and save your link so you can use it later on your website.
- Do keyword research using Google’s free keyword tool to uncover any keywords that relate to the product you have selected. This is the most important step you will ever do. The trick here is to look for keywords that have a large number of searches but not many competing pages in Google. Pick keywords that are buying terms. It is also ideal if you choose keywords are two or three words long. Avoid one word keywords as they are often too generic and are not specific enough. These days most people who search online often type in 3 word keyphrases so it is worth while trying to find effective longtail keywords.
- Set up a blog on Blogger.com. Blogger is a free platform owned by Google. When picking your site name be sure to give it a name using some of the keywords you’ve found. Be careful not to put too many products on your site. Keep it focused on the one market. Your next step is to start writing content to put on your site. Use the keywords that you uncovered when you did your research for your articles focusing on one keyword per article.
It is worth pointing out that later on when you have a bit of cash, you can easily import your Blogger website to a self hosted WordPress site. In this instance, your only cash outlay is to purchase your domain name and to purchase a hosting account. You can easily buy a domain name for $10-$20 and hosting accounts can be picked up for around $100-$120 per year depending on what plan you choose. Often you will find that once you have a hosting account, you will be able to have multiple websites on it with no extra outlay of cash.
The steps above outline the starting point to making money online. No website would be complete without visitors coming to your site. There are lots of things that can be done to drive traffic to your website for free and I will be covering this in another article.
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