Yahoo Answers - Secret Internet Marketing Weapon?
Have you ever used Yahoo Answers? I am sure, you at least have heard about this amazing service, which is developed by Internet giant Yahoo. It’s basically a huge community website, where people ask and answer different questions. If you want to find out something, then you simply head to Yahoo Answers, create your question in relevant category and wait for the answer. The good thing is that you can receive multiple answers, and then choose the one, which you think is the best. So you might be wondering what does this have to do with making money online, right? Well, the answer is obvious - super targeted traffic.
Yahoo Answers is a really quick way to get targeted visitors to your sites, blogs, landing pages or wherever you want them to go. Since a person is asking a particular question about something, let’s say “how to make money online”, then you obviously understand that he/she is interested in online business. Then all you have to do is offer an informative answer to their question, and they will be more than likely to visit your website. The key thing here is to act, like a guy, who seriously wants to help, but not as a person, who wants to sell something.
I will share with you a little tip. It often happens, when people ask very general questions, such as “how to lose weight” or “how to work from home”. These questions can’t be answered in one or two sentences can they? So how you can take advantage of such questions? Basically, what you do is send a person looking for the answer to a relevant article written by you. I assume, that your article resource box has a link to your landing page or a merchant. So in short, you will be getting highly targeted traffic from Yahoo Answers to your articles, which will slowly lead them to the order page ( Yahoo Answers > article > landing page > merchant’s page > order page ).
I really love Yahoo Answers, but a big drawback of them is the “nofollow” tag on all outgoing links, which means they are useless in terms of backlinks. However, as I said, you can use the above techniques to get free visitors to your sites. Plus it’s not difficult to answer a specific question, if it’s within your knowledge. Let’s say, if you are involved in blogging and internet marketing, then it wouldn’t be a problem for you to say what it Wordpress or what it SEO, would it? I think you get the idea.
So if you are still not taking advantage of Yahoo Answers, then you should start using them as soon as possible, because its potential is huge, it’s free and you get laser targeted traffic. What else do you need? I mentioned blogging here, and Blogging To The Bank 3.0 immediately came to my mind, which is an excellent guide to making money with blogs. Make sure you check it out. Click here for my review.
Affiliate Marketing - Do You Need A Website?
I often see people interested in affiliate marketing, asking on forums, whether they need to have their own website or not. While there is no right or wrong answer to this question, I would like to share with you my opinion about this. Nowadays, actually blogs are getting more popular than websites, because they are much easier to manage. However, we are talking about a necessity of a website or blog.
I personally think that you should have your own place on the Internet. Just a simple website or blog, where you could communicate with other people, who know you or just people who like what you are writing about. Before you can set up a website, you need to buy a domain, which costs about $10 and hosting, which is very cheap as well. In regards of costs, it doesn’t cost much to manage a website. The problem may be your web design knowledge and experience.
Fortunately, there is a solution to that. You can use Wordpress. Yes, it’s a blogging platform, but there are so many different themes, which you can use and customize your blog to look like a real website. In terms of managing a blog, Wordpress is really easy.
After you’ve set up a website, you can use it in many purposes. You can use it as a landing page, you can use it to interact with your visitors, or you can build it up and then sell it, in case if you need quick cash.
If you don’t want to spend a single dollar on affiliate marketing, then there are also free solutions. Beginners may want to use sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger and others for their landing pages, but I wouldn’t do that. The reason for that is because you never know, what can happen to “your” sites. For example, so far Squidoo allows affiliate links, but imagine what will happen, if they make up a new rule against affiliate promotions in lenses…That means, if you had any landing pages there, they all will go down, leaving you with nothing.
That’s why I recommend using something, which 100% belongs to you. Self-hosted Wordpress or professionally designed website is the best way to go. You will be able to put up literally anything there, without being scared of getting flagged or something similar. Your website, your business!
If you really want to find out how you can make money online using simple websites, then you should check out Michael Rasmussen’s MiniSite Profits Exposed. It’s a free membership website, where Michael explains A to Z, everything about mini sites, and how you can use them to make instant cash. Click here for more info.
Can You Really Make Million Dollars Online?
Is it possible to make a million online? How can I become a millionaire on the Internet? Oh my god, I hear these type of questions so often, that I am really starting to hate them. It’s such a stupid question, but for some reason, people are still looking for an answer. Honestly, I don’t reply to these kind of stuff, because I think the person have no idea about any kind of business, if he’s asking such things.
The reason why I don’t like such questions is because I personally think, if you want to achieve something and are really working hard towards your goal, then a month later, a year later, or after 5 years, but you will success. Everything depends entirely on you. People often like to say: “It’s not my fault”, but I believe, if you haven’t got something, that you want to have, then it’s only your fault and no one’s else. If you want to make $1000 everyday, then find some resources, then learn and try.
Another problem, which I think most of the “wanna be” millionaires have is that they set unrealistic goals. Actually, “unrealistic” is not the right word, but I would say they aim for non easy targets. Answer my question. Don’t you feel better, when you achieve something little everyday or week, rather than just once in a month? What I am trying to say here is that you should certainly aim high, but before getting to your main goal, let’s say “make a million”, you should have some little tasks. For example, make $100 every day, Then, when you got that, aim for $200, etc. That’s how you must work.
I always like to say that Rome wasn’t built in one day, and the same applies to Internet wealth. Do you think those “rich jerks” have made their millions in few days or a month? Of course not. They have been working hard, probably they still are, to earn their money. It’s all about setting realistic targets and working towards them. There is no way how you can fail, if you follow this plan. The key to wealth is to be organized. Know what you need to do, when you need to do it and how.
The last thing, which I would like to say regarding making millions online is that, if you really want to become a millionaire, then you must understand, that using only one method of generating income won’t be enough. In order to achieve such profits, you need to have many streams of income.
The ebook, which I personally think is one of the best ones about how to make a million online is called Internet Million Dollars, written by James Bradley. You should seriously consider reading it, because it has very useful stuff about making money online in general, and lots of different methods of generating cash on the Internet. If you want to read my review of this guide, then click here.
It Takes Money To Make More Money - Myth Or Fact?
I don’t know, who was the idiot guy that said it takes money to make money online, but I can definitely say, it’s wrong. The truth is that you can actually make tons of money online being a complete broke with no cash to start off with. All you need is your computer with Internet connection. Yes, you’ve heard it right.
It’s a stupid excuse to not to start Internet marketing saying that you haven’t got money to spend. You see, I know so many people who are making thousands of dollars online every month, without spending a single dollar on advertising or something else. Some of them have websites, so they have to pay for their hosting, but come on, even a beggar on the streets can afford to spend $3 a month. (That’s how much usually hosting costs) Also you don’t need to have a website, because you can register a free blog on Wordpress or Blogger. So again, another free solution.
Of course, if you have some cash to spend, that would be an advantage and it may increase the process of how fast you will be making money, but also it’s a risk that you will lose everything. Before you develope a consistent income, you will have to spend quite a lot of money on testing different products and promotion methods. However, when you are using free techniques, there is no risk, and you won’t lose anything. Plus there is a huge chance, that you will make money. Sounds good, doesn’t? And it’s true, no BS or scam.
You need to realize that you don’t need money to make money online. Apart from basic things, that you need, which is a computer and Internet connection, there are two things you will require - knowledge and action.
Both of them are quite easy to achieve and implement. You get knowledge by reading different ebooks (preferably free), watching videos and spending your time on forums, such as Digital Point by learning different aspects of making money online. Don’t rush to Clickbank or other affiliate network and start buying crappy, overpriced ebooks. There is always free stuff that you can learn from, so use it.
Action is the problem, which many people are having. After acquiring some knowledge of Internet marketing, they don’t know where to start and which method to use. The truth is that there are hundreds of methods how you can make money online. Some are free, some are not. You have to try everything what is possible to see, which one works for you, and which one makes you money. If you are new to online business, then I would suggest to go for only free techniques, without spending any cash.
It’s much easier to make money on the Internet. Think about what you would have to do, if you were about to start offline business. Let’s say you want to open a café. Imagine the costs of rent, the furniture, all the machines and other stuff. Doing things online is simple, but effective and making money online is not a problem, when you have knowledge and are ready for action.
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