Blogs are a fantastic way to make money.  They perform well in search engines, they're easy to promote, and they can offer very sticky content.  If you blog often, and you're good at what you do, you can develop a pretty large following of readers who subscribe to your RSS feed and read your content on a daily basis.

One of the biggest keys to success with blogs is posting consistently.  If you don't post regularly, you probably won't get much traffic, and people won't return.  Posting frequently also keeps your content fresh, and search engines love fresh content.  

The more often you post, the more often the search engines will visit your site.  And every time you post, you can ping your site at the various ping locations.  This can also bring in more traffic.

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Another major key to blog success is creating sticky content. This means you have to write posts that people will actually be interested in reading.  

Readers probably don't care what you had for dinner, unless you're running a food blog.  They want to read about topics related to your niche.  If you're running a blog about golfing, at least 75% of your posts should be related to golf.  Preferably 100%.

You should talk about golf courses you've recently played on, tournaments you've watched, and clubs you've tried.  You might occasionally post about family matters, or your dog, or your favorite restaurant as a way to connect on a more personal level with your readers, but most of your posts should be on target with your niche.

Blogs are great for people who sell services.  If you're a graphics designer or writer, having a blog is a good way to keep in touch with your clients.  You can offer updates on your schedule and availability, current prices and special offers, and when you'll be taking some time off.  

You can also post samples of your latest work. If you have a number of clients subscribe to your RSS feed, you'll be able to keep in contact with them so they'll order from you more often.

Don't start a blog with the intention of letting it sit dormant and earn money.  It probably won't work.  If you're going to start a blog, you need to be prepared to commit yourself to growing the blog, posting often, keeping it updated, and not giving up on it.  

They offer multiple selling opportunities - from text links woven throughout the content to image ads like banners you strategically place in between blog posts.  The sidebar can also be utilized as an affiliate or direct sales revenue space.

Make sure you take the time to transfer your blog over to your own domain instead of hosting it within the blogging community. This makes it more professional to the person who lands on your website and lends credibility to your efforts as the go-to person in your niche. 

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Building an online business can make you feel isolated at times. You work from home, usually on solo projects, and except for the occasional forum and chat room participation, you don't have much opportunity to interact with others.

Some new marketers make it worse by never branding their name, or simply watching forum posts from the sidelines, perhaps because they fear exposing themselves to judgment in the marketplace. But networking will help you make big gains as an online marketer.  First and foremost, it helps you brand your name in the marketplace. You'll always want to participate in the Internet marketing niche, even if it's not the niche you're making money with. 

The reason for this is because you can find potential Joint Venture partners who are in the same (or a complementary) niche as you. These relationships and bonds you build with other marketers could serve you well in the future.

Within every money-making niche you're in, you'll want to network as well. Always put your sights on someone who's a step above you on the ladder of success.  This will help you build your own business because you're catapulting your momentum forward.

If at all possible, try to attend Internet marketing seminars and seminars within your niche. You'll meet people and gain valuable insight that isn't sold online - secrets shared between friends rather than sold to a general public.

Seminars can help you bounce ideas off of others and generate new ideas based on what you learn.  It can also help you locate products and services that will help your business.

        

You might meet graphic designers, freelance writers, or an expert who could give your product or site a mention to his or her own list.  If you attend a seminar, have some business cards ready to hand out to people that include your name, email address, and website.

Get cards from others, too and then follow up on those contacts to remind people of who you are - thanking them if they provided you with any information that helps you on your journey to becoming a successful Internet marketer.

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AdSense can be a fantastic moneymaker.  There are many people who make thousands of dollars per month through AdSense alone.  Hearing this may get you excited, and you may already have dollar signs in your eyes.  But don't get your hopes up just yet.

Although you've probably heard about people who bring in five or six figures per month with AdSense, you need to keep one very important thing in mind.  In order to make that kind of money with AdSense, you need to have a ton of traffic.  

In fact, most people who make more than $100 per month with AdSense either have a very large website with thousands of visitors per day, or they have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of smaller websites.

For most people, AdSense may not be worth the effort to create sites only for promoting it.  AdSense only pays a few cents for each click, depending on the keyword you target (some pay a lot more) and those few cents are a lot smaller than they were just a few years ago.  

A few years ago, some people were getting several dollars per click for many keywords.  These days, $1 clicks are relatively rare in most niches.  Most clicks seem to bring you under $0.50 now, and smaller niches may experience clicks of only around $0.10 (or even less.)

In order to make $10 per day, at $0.10 per click you would need 100 clicks.  If your click through ratio were 5%, you would need 2,000 visitors to your site every single day just to earn $10 per day. 

For sites with very little traffic, you would have to have a really fantastic click through ratio in order to earn decent money with AdSense - or, choose highly competitive keywords that pay a lot, but are harder to rank high for in the search engines. 

Some sites just naturally have traffic that doesn't buy much as far as paid information, but the visitors like to click through links to access free information.  Webmasters who have sites that target the freebie-seeking demographic should test AdSense links to see which type performs best.

If you're running a site that has an extremely general audience, AdSense might also be a good alternative.  AdSense is usually pretty good at delivering targeted ads.  You can create thousands of content pages with AdSense links, place the code in your blogs, and watch your monthly earnings rise as you create more content for your readers.

If your only goal is to make money without becoming a product owner, then consider creating a content-laden site that weaves affiliate links into the text and provides ample opportunities for clicks to AdSense links so that you can profit from the information you're delivering.

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Every good marketer knows how important it is to increase the lifetime value of the customer.  It's much cheaper to make a sale to a previous customer than it is to get a new one on board.  The cost of acquiring new customers can be high, but getting more money out of existing customers won't cost you a penny.

Building a backend to your business isn't hard... but without one, you're limiting your financial potential.  A backend is how you continue selling to an existing customer. Let's say you sell an eBook on how to make money blogging, for example.

Your eBook could discuss what a blog is, how to set one up, and how to make money from it.  Your backend sales could come from affiliate items (if you don't feel like taking the product creation route again) or a new eBook, membership site, or video/audio package you sell.

Whenever you first start selling online, always think of complementary topics you can tack on as a backend. For our example, your backend sales could be about social networking on other web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Facebook, or bookmarking sites.

After you've begun seeing success with those, your back-end sales could continue by focusing on more paid methods of marketing, such as AdWords.  You set up your offers with your audience like stepping stones, moving from the first logical starting point to a more advanced stage.

Insert your offers right into your autoresponder system and it will automatically serve the needs of your subscribers the longer they stay on your list.

Another common way to add a back end onto a product is to offer personal coaching. 

Personal coaching can be expensive, sometimes even costing up to thousands of dollars per month.  A lot of marketers offer this as a backend strategy, giving them the potential to significantly increase the return on their investment(ROI) of acquiring the prospect.

If you take care to create top quality backend offers that add value to their needs, they'll continue buying from you. If you promote anything and everything just for the sake of cashing in, they'll eventually lose trust in you.

Your backend sales strategy isn't limited to just your autoresponder. You can put links to backend products on your "thank you" pages as well.  And don't forget that each product can act as a backend item for another one. So you might start with an ebook about social marketing and then use a blogging ebook as your back-end item for the customer.

Just make sure you don't set yourself up for limited profits by using a single product without implementing a backend strategy that will work to increase your ROI over and over again. You're building a business, not dabbling in a few hit or miss sales.

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For many, success in the Internet marketing industry is a trial and error process. You have to learn as you go - on your own - soaking up information along the way.  The first thing you need to know is what it means to be an Internet marketer, because it isn't always clear to everyone.

Internet marketers can actually pick and choose from a whole host of options available to help them make money.  Your opportunities are virtually endless, and can include one or more of the following:

• Selling digital downloads (information products like eBooks)
• Promoting other people's products for a commission (affiliate marketing)
• Selling on eBay or other auction sites
• Running a membership site
• Selling your online services (writing, graphics, etc.)
• Owning a website that sells drop shipped or wholesale items

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Being a newcomer to Internet marketing, you might be worried that you don't have anything to sell.  That's okay - most people don't start out with anything, and you never have to stock a tangible inventory if you don't want to.

Internet marketing is great because it has gender or age boundaries in the way of your success.  There are teenagers and even grandmothers who have launched successful online ventures who started out as budding Internet marketers just like you.

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Social bookmarking is extremely popular with marketers in many niches.  Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati allow users to add links to sites they like, and then other visitors can grab those links and add them to their own lists, making your URLs go viral.

Social bookmarking sites can be great for getting traffic to your own domains.  You can bookmark your sites yourself and then hope others will share the links, and in some cases vote your entries up, like Digg users often do. 

If enough people vote for a particular story, it might make it to the front page of that bookmarking site.  A front-page listing can mean thousands of visitors a day.  But because of the very nature of social bookmarking sites, if you want to get a lot of traffic from the bookmarking sites themselves, then you have to make sure that the links you submit are newsworthy - not just your sales pitch page. 

Use the news to work your site into the bookmarking bevy of links. For instance - let's say you're in the gardening niche and you have a site on growing tulips. A simple how-to site may not get shared a lot.

But let's say you read an article about a the discovery by a group of scientists that says people who grow tulips in their yards are 60% less likely to develop lung cancer, for example. Then you'd have a pretty decent shot at having a lot of users in both the gardening and health demographic share your links with others. 

If your sites tend to be less newsworthy and more general, then you shouldn't worry about how many people vote for a story or share your links.  Just concentrate on using the social bookmarking sites to gain backlinks to your sites.

Concentrate on bookmarking the index page of each of your sites first.  Be careful not to bookmark too many of your own sites at first, since that can appear "spammy" - remember to bookmark other interesting sites you see that you don't necessarily own yourself. 

The key to social bookmarking is to become part of the community who shares interesting information. Create a good profile that tells a little about you. Add a picture, and if the site offers it, start building a "friends" list.

Be careful about how many links you add per day.  You shouldn't go crazy and add 100 links the day you sign up to a social bookmarking site.  It's often helpful to keep it to ten or less per day, but check the individual site's tutorial to be sure. 

After you've been a user for several weeks, you might be able to add more per day.  Just make sure to keep bookmarking stories on other websites.  Vote for a few of the stories that made it onto the first page.  Bookmark a story at a news site every once in a while, or a funny YouTube video.  This helps make your profile a lot more legitimate in the eyes of the community.

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Your keyword choices are critical to your success in nearly any online business model.  Whether you're pursuing PPC, blogging, VRE and AdSense, or any number of Internet marketing opportunities, the keywords you choose can make or break your success.

Keywords are important for several reasons.  First of all, there's traffic.  If you choose the wrong keywords to target, you're probably not going to get nearly as much traffic as you'd like.  Whether you're using PPC or search engines to get your traffic, your keywords are going to affect your ranking and link performance.

Another reason why keywords are so vital is the fact that you need targeted traffic.  Ten thousand visitors coming to your domain via the keyword "books" is probably going to be worthless compared to 500 visitors who come via the keyword phrase, "Harry Potter books," if that's what you're selling.

Someone who is searching for "books" is probably just browsing.  They may not even be interested in buying anything - they could be interested in selling books, book history, book publishers, and more.  

But someone who is searching for "Harry Potter books" is probably ready to buy something right then and there.  So it's not enough to just get a lot of traffic - you need a lot of traffic that's willing to take the action you want them to take.

  

Whether you're looking to sell ebooks, promote Affiliate products, get leads for a CPA offer, or just get sign-ups to your list, you want targeted visitors who are likely to be buyers now or in the future.

Once you've chosen a niche you'd like to pursue, you need to research the keywords you'll use.  If you're writing articles, you'll need to choose keywords to use in the titles and text.  If

you're building niche websites, you'll need to use keywords in the domain name.  If you're buying PPC traffic, the keywords you choose will likely be one of the biggest factors determining whether or not your campaign is profitable.

WordTracker is a very good tool for researching keywords.  If you can't afford to get a paid membership there (even for a day), they have a very good free keyword tool at 

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com.  

Google has their own keyword tool, but they don't show you numbers. They only give you a general idea of the searches a keyword gets, as indicated by a colored bar:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

To start, you'll first want to enter a base keyword for your niche. Let's say you're targeting the golf niche.  You might enter "golf" into the keyword tool of your choice.  Then the keyword tool will show you a number of related keywords.

You might come up with "golf clubs," golf tips," "golf swing," "golf bags," "golf carts," and "golf courses."  

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One of the great things about marketing online is that you can sell digital products. Instead of having to physically create, store and ship tangible goods, you can eliminate all those costs and deal strictly in information products and other virtual items, which can significantly increase your profits.

As a product owner, obviously you set the price for your digital downloads. As an affiliate, you seek out products that have a good commission to promote. Both options are great for making money on the internet, without needing to maintain a warehouse full of stuff.

Overall, digital downloads usually have a much better payout than tangible goods.  Of course, if you're promoting a high-ticket tangible item, you might make more - but it could be harder to sell, too.

A digital download is a text, audio, or video file that buyers can download instantly onto their hard drive and access immediately. Instead of waiting until tomorrow afternoon to run to the local bookstore, they can conveniently log in at 3 o'clock in the morning when they can't sleep and download an ebook on the topic they want.

A tangible book that costs $14.95 in a local bookstore can sell for $27 and up on the Internet as a digital download.  As an affiliate, your commission will probably be at least half of that, but even though you might make less, you also don't have to do any of the creation, selling, delivery or customer support, either. 

If you promote a tangible book on Amazon that costs $14.95, and you get 7% of that, you're only earning a little over a dollar.  But a $47 digital download, for example - for an eBook about the same topic - can easily offer you 50% commission, giving you more than $20.00 per sale!

It's not hard to see which one pays better.  As a product owner, you can create eBooks to compete with tangibles. You'll charge a lot more, but you'll be able to pay your affiliates a lot for their efforts, too.

If you're not a writer and prefer a different type of product creation for your digital download, you can choose to create a series of MP3 files - audio tutorials that teach your topic to a paying audience.  The public loves information they can digest on the go using their portable audio player, smart phone or other electronic gadget.

You can also use a screen-capture tool like Camtasia and create videos as your main products.  Many people actually prefer to watch a lesson rather than read it.  With both audio and video digital downloads, your price point can be much higher than what text-based info-products can bring in.

Combine all three media elements and you can be poised to market a high-ticket digital download that takes in hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a single sale - something affiliate marketers will jump all over.  

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Finding profitable niches can be difficult.  Discovering one that isn't extremely saturated can be intimidating when you're just starting out as an Internet marketer.  The key to finding niches that are profitable without a lot of competition is to drill down through a top-level niche to find profitable sub-niches with fewer competitors.

For example, let's say you're interested in creating a site that in the beauty category.  You can drill down into several different sub-categories.  You could choose hair care, skin care, fitness, organic beauty, cosmetics, or any number of niches related to beauty.

But these categories are still too broad to be profitable with small numbers of visitors.  You need to drill down further. Let's say you decide to tackle the skin care demographic. Sub-categories of skin care might include eczema, acne, blackheads, wrinkles, age spots, psoriasis, and dry skin.

Now you have a list of smaller niches that you can begin to narrow down.  Acne might still be too broad. You can drill down even more by targeting teenage acne, infant acne, and adult acne.

While you want to find niches that are narrow enough for you to dominate, you don't want to choose niches that have too little traffic available.  To figure this out, it may be helpful to spy on your competitors.

Go to your favorite search engine, like Google, and search for things like "how to get rid of acne."  Try to really get inside the mindset of your target prospect.  However, if you drill down too much, like targeting "blackheads," it may not turn out to be profitable.

You should verify that your possible niche gets a decent level of search volume by using a keyword tool like WordTracker. When you search within the niche using Google, see if there are plenty of AdWords ads on the right sidebar of the screen.

If so, this means people are almost surely making money in this niche.  The key is to take something that's already working and make it better. Any time you can come up with an original slant on an idea that's already churning profits online, you're in a good position to achieve success.

For example, if you want to 
get into the online auctions niche, don't go after a broad subject area like "eBay for beginners." Instead, target something more focused and unique such as "eBay Success for Baby Boomers." Pick a specific target audience and then cater to their needs instead of approaching the masses with too broad an idea.

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