None of this should even have to cost you any money either. I used one tool that I paid for to do the keyword research, but of course you can look for a highly searched keyword with low/weak competition the old fashioned way. I forget exactly how myself, I've been spoiled with Market Samurai

When I say "without a website", I mean, you don't not have to have a hosting account and you don't need a blog or anything created, not even a free blog from Wordpress.com or whatever.

Here is a list of the sites/tools that I used:

• CB-Analytics.com - CB-Analytics.com offers an easy way to find "hot" Clickbank products.
• Clickbank Marketplace - Use Clickbank of course to get the hoplink for the product that you want to promote.
• Keyword Tool - Use your favourite keyword tool, like Google AdWords External Keyword Tool to find a keyword or keyphrase to target. Also grab a few synonyms or other high searched terms to use for tags.
• URL Shortening Service - I used bit.ly because I can create shortened URL's on the fly and use them for tracking. You will need an account there, it's free.
• Dapper.Net Dapp Factory - This free service (you will need an account) will be used to create a feed from a static page.
• Yahoo! Pipes - You will need a free Yahoo! account for this service. This will be used to turn your Dapper feed into something that has monetary value for you.
• Free RSS Directories - Submit your RSS feed that you created in Yahoo! Pipes to several free RSS directories slowly over time.

OK, there are lots of technologies mixed in this process. The important one is RSS.

You will be creating the initial RSS feed using Dapper based on a keyword search in the Clickbank Marketplace. Grab the URL in the form of http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm?keywords=keyword from Clickbank. "keyword" is not the keyword you are targeting, it is just a simple search query. Upon visiting that URL in Clickbank, you will be presented with a list of products that match your criteria. The resulting list will have a couple of elements that we are interested in. The product title (and it's hoplink) and the product description. You can extract that info and create an RSS feed of it using Dapper. Now anytime a new product is added to Clickbank matching that criteria, it will be automatically included in your Dapper RSS feed.

The important elements in a typical RSS feed include title, link and description. With this Clickbank data (and the resulting Dapper feed) we have all 3. Granted the description is a little sloppy, but don't be a perfectionist with this, it's not necessary. But the one problem that needs to be addressed is that the link (the Clickbank hoplink) does not include our affiliate ID. We need to include it in there, and cloak it with bit.ly (or a similar service). That's where Yahoo! Pipes comes in.

With Yahoo! Pipes we can manipulate the RSS feed on-the-fly and create a new RSS feed on the other side.. an RSS feed that has our cloaked hoplink in it. We could get fancy and sort the feed by Clickbank product popularity but that's a bit more complicated and not necessary.

With a bit of "regular expression" magic and some looping and editing we can get a search engine friendly feed that can be submitted to the free feed directories. The result will be a page on each directory containing a self-updating list of all the products on Clickbank that match your criteria, with a cloaked link with your Affiliate ID embedded that you can track stats for using bit.ly.

Some of the feed directories will allow you to enter tags. Also, some will grab the title of your feed that you submit and use that in the URL on their site so name your feed in Yahoo! Pipes appropriately (with your keyphrase). Your feed can rank for your targeted keyword in the search engines. Definitely submit your feeds to FeedAge.com and FeedAgg.com because Google is loving them right now. On the directories where you can find your feed page, make note of the URL and do some Social Bookmarking and other link building if you so desire.

Now, working the Yahoo! Pipes magic is a bit tricky so I won't be getting into it in great detail here. When I get more time I will try and put together a PDF and/or a video for the whole process (including Dapper). But here's the short story: Use Regular Expressions to replace the 'zzzzz' in the hoplink to your ID, at the same time you can append a dynamic tracking ID using a text input if you know how. That way you can track which directories are getting you sales. (Bit.ly will show you where the clicks are coming from, not the sales)

Now, loop through the feed and replace your URLs using the bit.ly API and dynamically insert the long URL (hoplink). Store the short URL in an unused element (pubDate) temporarily. For some reason the short URL is lacking http: at the beginning, so prepend it to the sub element item.pubDate.http. Rename it (CopyAs) a link element and you are done! I know this isn't very straight forward but perhaps it can steer you in the right direction until I can find more time to detail the exact steps.

Remember, after doing this once... it is super easy to "clone" your Yahoo! Pipe and duplicate the process. The 1st time took me 2.5 hours. The second time took 15 minutes.

Until next time...

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They are giving away $1000 ($250 to 4 different people) during the month of July... just for becoming a customer.

So, if you were sitting on the fence, hop off, signup, drop in $25 to start things off (full rules here), setup a campaign (only takes a few minutes with the easy interface)... then you will be automatically given a chance to win a VISA gift card worth 10x your initial deposit! Use promo code: CASHCOW.

Tags: extra-income, quick-money, make-money-from-home, how-to-make-money, how-to-make-money-online

You understand that having links back to your site can improve your rankings in search engines right? You also understand that using varied related keywords as the anchor text surrounded by related information helps a great deal right? You probably have heard of and may even use article marketing techniques to help with your SEO efforts. It has been said that submitting UNIQUE content to niche related web sites with links back to your site will help your rankings climb in the SERPS. Well, let me tell you about a way that has been helping me rank for some high traffic keywords. I pay a lot less than I used to for content and it's also less manual effort saving me a ton of time.

The Process In A Nutshell...

I basically have 2 articles written from a ghost writer, merge them with some special formatting, submit them to a content syndication network and then rinse and repeat for other sites, pages, hubs, lenses etc. that I want to rank for my chosen keywords.

There are several ways that you can prepare your articles for submission but here I will describe the method that I have been using and that has been working well for me. I have someone write a 100% unique article for me on a particular topic. How many links it can contain depends on the number of words it is. 300 words or more will allow 2 links. You can go as high as 3 links. I usually pay a writer from the DigitalPoint forum around $1.50 to $2.00 per 100 words.

Then I have someone "spin" the article. Spinning the article involves rewriting each sentence and heading of the original article. The sentences should be around the same length and mean EXACTLY the same thing as the original, just using different words. Then I create a text file merging the 2 articles with special formatting. It's simple, you wrap the original and rewritten sentence in [spin] tags and separate them with the pipe "|" symbol like this: [spin]Original 1st sentence.|Rewritten 1st sentence.[/spin] [spin]Original 2nd sentence.|Rewritten 2nd sentence.[/spin]

I then submit the specially formatted file to the content syndication network and it does the rest. You will have to provide the list of keywords that you want to be linked and where they are to be linked to and then replace the keyword in your article with a special code. The system will replace that special code with a random keyword and make it a link. The system will also randomly grab a sentence, either the original or a rewrite, for each sentence, generating several unique versions of the article. You are left with 90+ unique versions of your original article ready to be gradually and automatically submitted to niche related blogs, with dofollow links back to your content! It's a gradual process making it more natural.

This is just a simple example, and really it is all I often ever do. But you could write several alternate sentences if you wish, it doesn't have to be just 1. Just separate them all with pipes. You can also show a random YouTube video and random lists in your articles among other things. There are clear instructions on how to do accomplish all of this in the support files of the network.

Picture it...you could have a 250 word article written and "spun" for around 5 or 6 dollars. Spend about 1/2 hour setting up the submission and you can have over 90 backlinks to your blog on auto-pilot over the next few months. Do that once a week and you have a crap load of backlinks coming in.. including deeplinks if you choose! With your paid subscription to Syndicate Kahuna you can submit as many articles as you want! No limits. Promote all of your sites and content pages. Some say it's ALL you need for SEO.

Stay tuned because I will be introducing a tool that I had written that makes the "spinning" process extremely simple and less prone to formatting errors (because it's done by the program rather than a human). It works like a charm.

Keep your receipt if you subscribe through my Syndicate Kahuna link, because I have a special offer coming up! Also, make sure you subscribe to get my posts by email so you don't miss it.

Tags: ways-to-make-money, blogger, earn-money-online, make-money-at-home, money-making-opportunities

Now there's a new service to send/receive digital payments and even sell digital goods offering auto-delivery. It uses Twitter to send payments and Amazon Payments to handle the cash. Twitpay ties it altogether and handles the delivery of your digital good if you are selling something. It's an interesting combo of services... sort if like how Payloadz and PayPal enable you to sell goods online and offer auto-delivery.

TwitPay has a few payment services available. There's the personal service for sending quick payments, RT2Buy for selling digital stuff, RT2Get for promos and RT2Give for fund raising.

At first glance though, I think I will be sticking with Payloadz for awhile longer. Twitpay keeps 15% and gives you your money on a monthly basis. With Payloadz you get your money immediately and they keep nothing unless you sell over a certain amount.

What do you think? Have you tried either service?

Tags: business-blogs, blog-software, money, business-blog, blog-advertising

I counted up the entries, added them to a spreadsheet and used Randomizer.org to pick 2 winners.

Winner #1 - Alan McDonald
Winner #2 - Peraduanku

Thanks to everyone that participated.

I also decided to add some extra blogs for the winners to choose from.

Winner #1 gets first choice of the following...

• video-promotion.org
• affiliate-wealth.org
• paidforonlinesurveys.org
• payperclicksearch.org
• webhostingpaper.com

The winners will need to verify that they own all of the sites that their entries are on before I will award the prize. Simply add some text or a link related to KeithJamesLock.com and that will be sufficient.

Tags: money-making-ideas, earn-extra-money, make-extra-money, earn-money-at-home, blogger

• Ready made sites on eBay
• My blogs for sale

Tags: blog, business-blog, money-blogs, ways-to-make-money, extra-money

Here's the guest post from Michelle...

Videos are a great marketing tool to promote and draw traffic to your website. Increased website traffic equals success. Videos are the newest method to raise your rankings on the result pages of search engines. There is lots of competition out there for website visitors. Website owners are all competing from the same general pool of Internet users. Attentions spans are short. People don’t take the time to read beyond the first paragraph.

Viral Videos

Video promotion captures people’s attention. Sometimes, having high quality content alone isn’t sufficient to draw large numbers of visitors to your site. A well made, informative and entertaining viral video with a link back to your site can do the trick. People retain information in different ways. The combination of text, images and sound ensures your message is delivered and remembered. A well made video will be shared with friends and will become self-promoting.

Use Video Sharing Sites

Once you have a marketing video, you can submit it to many video sharing sites to receive recognition and promotion for your website. You can just submit a small clip of a full-length video to draw visitors back to your website to view the entire video. There are automated video production programs available, such as Animoto that allow you to simply upload photos, music and text for quick and easy video production. Check out Animoto now, you can create unlimited shorts for free

Tags: making-money-from-home, blog-advertising, blogging, affiliate-marketing, blog-traffic

Keywords In The Domain

Of course we know it is advantageous to purchase a domain name with our keyword in it. You can get one with or without hyphens. In other words: yourkeyword.com or your-keyword.com.

Country Specific TLD

When setting out to a create a niche blog for a certain keyword you should take a step or two back. What country are you targeting? And before you say... "all of them", you should consider getting a bit more niche specific than that for better results. When doing your keyword research to find high trafficked keywords with low strength of competition, preferably using Market Samurai, you can look at country specific results.

Because people search for things in search engines differently, you will see different results for "number of searches" and "competition" when looking at the results for a particular country. Now if you buy a domain name with that particular country's TLD, and host the site on a server that resides in that country (more on that later), then you will be several steps ahead of your SEO competitors right out of the gate.

By the way, TLD stands for top level domain and is the part after the "dot" in the domain name (or maybe it even includes the dot, I'm not sure). (com, ca, edu, for example)

Check out this list of country specific TLD's from Wikipedia.

2 Years Minimum

Also, the testing has been done, and the search engines will take your site more seriously, and rank you higher than competitors as a result, if you pay for 2+ years when buying your domain name. Don't just get it for 1 year. Invest in your business and get it for 2 or more.

Extra SEO Tips

In an effort to rank higher for your chosen country-specific keyword in the country-specific search engine, it is beneficial to host the site on a server that is located in the country that you are targeting. Sometimes it's tricky to find because just because the homepage of a hosting provider is in Australia for example, it does not mean that the servers are there. I will be putting together a list shortly with servers and hosting providers around the world and will include it in a future post.

Additionally, entering a street address from the country that you are targeting onto your site will help you rank higher. I think it helps when on the About, Contact and Privacy Policy (and maybe Terms & Conditions) pages. I generally just include it in the footer (which is especially simple on a Wordpress blog by adding it to the footer theme file) so it appears on all pages.

Buying Domain Names

GoDaddy still continues to provide great prices for domain names. They add new TLD's to their offerings all of the time. I buy domains from several domain registrars for a specific strategy that I employ, but for the most part GoDaddy is my choice for domains.

As a bonus, domains purchased at GoDaddy will get propagated quicker, meaning your site will be viewable around the world quicker, but it does depend on the TLD. For example, a .com purchased at GoDaddy could have a site "live" for the world to see in literally minutes. I know because I've done it. Try these coupons for some discounts. (cjctld749 for .org AND MTECH330 for .com) Using these coupons will negate my referral commission unfortunately so you don't really have to use them! haha Oh, and if you are purchasing more than one domain with different TLD's and using coupons, do the transactions separately because you can only add 1 coupon at a time.

Tags: create-a-blog, extra-money, ways-to-make-money-online, business-blog, blog-sites

Prize: A WP Blog with content and domain name that I normally sell for between $175 and $250.

2 prizes are available. I will randomly pick a winner who can have a choice of which blog he/she wants. The second place winner gets the remaining blog. I will also install the blog for you if you like.

Here are the blogs that I am giving away as prizes:

• Affiliate-Wealth.org: a beautiful Wordpress blog to teach people about affiliate marketing.
• PayPerClickSearch.org: a beautiful Wordpress blog to teach people about pay per click marketing.

Both blogs contain a custom, geo-targeted, phpBay driven eBay store.

How To Enter:

It's simple to enter. Just post the following article to any (or all) of your sites/blogs (including free blog platforms) in HTML format. Send me a message from my contact page with a link to the page that the article is posted on. If you are chosen as the winner, you will need to verify that you own the site(s) your entry post is on before I will transfer the site to you.

Note: The site must be at least 1 week old and must have a minimum of 3 existing posts or articles to qualify. The article must also be able no more than 2 links from the homepage.

The intended title for the article is at the beginning of the HTML for the article. It is the text just before the first 2 break tags. You can simply cut the title out and delete the 2 break tags if posting on a blog.

Random Article:

Entries:

You will get 1 entry for each and every site that you post an article on. Please refresh the page to get a new article to post for each site.

There are bonus entries available as follows.

1. Niche related blog (my discretion): 4 additional entries per article
2. Sites where the main blog/site page has PageRank 1: +1 entry
3. Sites where the main blog/site page has PageRank 2: +2 entries
4. Sites where the main blog/site page has PageRank 3: +3 entries
5. and so on...

Contest End Date:

The contest will end at Midnight on May 7th, 2009, so please contact me with your article link prior to that. The random drawing will take place on May 14th, 2009. I will double check each entry on that day to verify the articles are still on your sites.

Tags: how-can-i-make-money, blogging, internet-marketing, extra-income, making-money

Create Some Quick Feeder Blogs

First what I did, which might change the way you look at it, is I created 2 extra blogs to add to the sale. But, truthfully, I put both of the extra blogs together in just a couple of hours. I didn't do any extras to them like I do on the main blog. They were used solely as feeder blogs to the main money blog. I dressed them up with a nice theme from WooThemes...and why not? It takes just as much time to add a premium theme as it does a free one. Actually, it's usually much quicker to configure a WooTheme using the built-in administration area, but you would only know what I mean if you ever used one.

Anyway... I added a block of AdSense to the feeder blogs although I'm thinking now it might have best to leave it out. Also, I added the RSS feed of the main blog to a widget in the sidebar of the feeder blogs. Other than that I just created some basic red, white, black and blue text banners and linked them to the main money blog. I added one to the sidebar, 1 floating to the right of each post and one below the featured post. Really, using a WooTheme can dictate the placement of the banners, I just fill in the gaps. It's very simple. Oh, and for content, I used Syndicate Kahuna (or Article Marketing Automation) to get free, unique, niche specific content. Get the max allowed articles per day until you reach 10 or 15, then change it to 1 a day and your blogs are ready to go.

Install Geo Targeting So That Your Money Blog Is Monetized For Practically Any Country

The first thing I do to maximize the monetization to as many countries as possible is add a one page eBay store to the main blog using the phpBay pro WP plugin. Almost every niche has products being sold on eBay. Typically when I build a blog using phpBay, I break things down into categories and create one "post" per category. I use posts so that when I submit my RSS feed to the RSS directories, the auctions may be included in the listings. But for the niche blogs that I intend to sell, I simply add a one page listing using one generic keyword. Sometimes I have to add some negative keywords to filter my results. For the most part, this "upgrade" takes about 10 minutes.

Geo Targeting For CPA Offer Ad Placement

Ok, this simple addition to the blog is very powerful and adds quite a bit of value.

As an example of how I used this in the past... I was promoting a certain offer on my main blog which paid $35 but was only for U.S. traffic. The same product, but on a different CPA network paid $30 but catered to both U.S. and Canadian traffic. Then I found another similar offer paying $29 which catered to U.S., Canada and the U.K.

I could have simply chose the $29 offer which allowed me to promote to all 3 countries but instead I chose all 3 offers and used a custom geo targeting script so I knew which offer to show based on the customers country.

Here's how it works in a nutshell. I added one line of code to the very top of the "header" file in my theme. This line of code triggered a script (and since it is in the header, it is triggered on ALL pages) that looked at the IP Address of the visitor, compared it to a database of IP Addresses to determine the visitors country. The script stores the 2 letter country code in a variable. Now, if I want to place an ad in the sidebar for example, I run a simple if-test to say something like... if the country is "US" show the HTML for the US ad, if it is "CA" then show the HTML for the Canadian ad...and so on. It's actually very very simple to implement. I will be giving away my custom script (with instructions) later today or tomorrow to the readers of my newsletter, but you can get everything that you need for it to create your own from the MaxMind web site, specifically this page here.

MaxMind GeoLite Country Free IP Address to Country DB

Regardless of whether you use my script or create your own, if you use the MaxMind approach, you may want to keep your IP address DB up-to-date. It gets updated monthly. Personally, I don't sweat it too much. I might update it every few months if that. There is a DB that they offer for sale, as well as a free one. The free open source database that MaxMind provides offers 99.5% accuracy which is good enough for me I guess it returns "US" for all AOL users, but for my purposes that's fine.

Customizing The Ad For Each Country

A cool easy thing to do for your ads is to customize them for each country. For example, you might put something like "Now available in Canada..." and/or display a small Canadian flag on the ad for Canadian users.

What To Do When You Don't Have An Offer For A Specific Country

Obviously with the example above I am only able to present my offer to 3 different countries. What do I do with the rest of the traffic to squeeze out the money making potential? I do one of two things. Sometimes I display an ad promoting the auctions. Since the auctions are on a page and generally there is just one small link in the navigation bar pointing to it, it doesn't hurt to display an ad promoting the auctions to all of the "extra" countries. eBay allows you to promote to several major countries and with the geo-trageting in place in your phpBay plugin it will automatically show auctions specific to the country of the visitor. Incidentally, the free geo-trageting upgrade to phpBay uses the same MaxMind database discussed above.

Now, if you don't want to promote the auctions for whatever reason or your niche doesn't have any products available on eBay you can just display AdSense ads to all of the extra countries.

There you have it...those 2 things, I believe, increased the value of the blog(s) to the point where I could command a much higher amount. Hope this post helps you and gives you a bit of interest in blog flipping. Best of luck.

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