The Making Money Zone

Make Money On Line - Where To Start?

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:06:19 +0000

Now, you’ve made the decision to start to Make Money On Line, You want to earn a living on the Internet.

Usually the most common issue is, you’ve never done this before, you really don’t know nothing about the various ways that you CAN make a living, and you’re quite honestly, LOST.

For the most part, you are on your own. Or was.. until now.

Because I start this website with this matters in my mind, because I had exactly the same feelings a few years ago, when I was on your position.

I already read several, if not hundreds of eBooks and reports, and there exist two different oppinions:

Some people say: Make a list of all your hobbies, expertise and stuff you really enjoy doing in your spare time and start your business around this.

Some people say: Forget the “things you love to do” and go directly where the money is.

However, in my opinion the first one it’s the best for me, I really think it’s easiest for me all the business process if I love what I do.

I mean, in this business we need to research, write, breathe our business, how can I do this if I really hate, or even I’m completely indifferent towards the subject?

I really feel the excitement to run to my computer and write several articles, or research for new products, for new methods… in order to grow my business, I really enjoy the process.

So, now you need to make your own decision: Do you want to go where the money is (even if you hate the niche) or do you want to start doing something you really love to do?

It’s your very own choice.

If you decide to take my advice, then you must make a list of all the thing you love to do, or at least you enjoy to do, include personal hobbies, camp of expertise, etc.

This list must be the first step to build a solid business on line.

Google Slap 2 - Google Vs Landing Pages?

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:27:52 +0000

Google attacks again: the Affiliate Marketers woke up last Wednesday morning to discover that hundreds or thousands of 5 and 10 cent keywords were inactivated and now Google’s system is asking for $5.00 or $10.00!

The new new “Google Slap” at Adwords that particularly targeted affiliate review sites and the affiliate marketing world is awash with panic.

So, if you use PPC or organic traffic, this is something you need to be aware of.

But before to run in panic, we need to wait in order to receive more information about this issue, but Perry Marshall, one of the most respected specialist on Google Adwords write about this problem on his blog, and he check with other specialist about it before publish this article.

The fact are: a big number of affiliate marketers that use Adwords found their landing pages that includes affiliate links, usually with a quality score of 10 (a good score) goes to 1 (a really bad score), this is the typical result for a Google Slap in general.

So, the cost per click pass from a few cents to several dollars!

What was interesting about this slap, was:

“these were NOT skinny sites, rather well build out, consistently updated blogs with good navigation above the fold, xml site maps, high click through, hyper-relevant keyword mapping, low bounce rates, long average time on page … everything else Google loves.

When we analyzed which pages survived, and we take it in combination with other information, it seems pretty clear they’ve added code which screens for affiliate links on the landing pages.”

So, affiliates must to take care of others ways to promote their links as blogs or content rich websites in order to pay a better rate per click.

Apparently Google want good quality content in every single page you advertise on Adwords.

So affiliate marketers must to work in create more rich content and value for their customers, list building and build a personal relationship if really want to make serious money on line.

The good news are:

1) The Content Network is not affected by the Google Slap 2
2) The Organic Traffic is not affected neither, because you don’t pay for Organic Traffic.

3 Must Have Tools for Affiliate Marketing

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:09:11 +0000

If you want to become a successful affiliate marketer, then you must know that affiliate marketing is touted as one of the most effective and easiest way to make money online , but it’s not as easy as some people tell you.

The real affiliate marketers plans every single action to take and executes it very carefully, they also maximize the potential earnings using some tools, in order to improve their results on the affiliate marketing business.

So, I will tell 3 of the most used tools by the Top Affiliate Marketers in order to make money:

Tool #1: Your Own Website

This is a must have on affiliate marketing, you must build a website with the next characteristics: Must look good, credible and professional, in order any visitor feels confidence on the advice you will provide to them. Of course your website must be user friendly, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase.

When you start on your building process, you must have in mind the most important fact: all the web users go online searching for information, not necessarily to go and buy something.

For this reason, your website must be full with original, relevant and useful content.

Your visitors will love articles that are appealing and helpful in their information research, so good quality content will not only build credibility as well as achieve a higher search engine ranking and visibility.

You must establish yourself as a credible expert on your field or niche making you trustworthy endorser of the product or service you endorse on your site, and the best way to create this rapport it’s providing them with good quality content and resources to your readers.

Establishing a good reputation is a good step in building up a loyal consumer base.

Tool #2: Incentives

Every single day the competition on the internet it’s growing, so you must be always one step ahead of your competitors in order to ensure a significant share if your targeted niche.

Therefore, you must use every possible means to encourage people not only to visit your site but also to click and proceed to the websites of the products and services you are promoting.

Building an opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather loyal prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free softwares, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Tool #3: Link Popularity

One of the mos important issues to make money on affiliate marketing it’s drive highly targeted traffic to your website.

So, attract people to your website should be the first step you will take. You must do everything to achieve a high ranking position for the search engines, and link popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to determine your search engine ranking.

Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive incoming link campaign.

One of the best ways to do this – for free – is submitting articles on the different Article Directories as EzineArticles.com with your website’s link at the resource box.

You will not only gain exposure, but also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and use it on their websites with a brand new link directly to your website.

These are but three of the many tools that an affiliate marketer can use to maximize earning potential.

The possibilities are endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination.

You can always explore other ideas and adapt other strategies, which you think might help you become a high rolling affiliate marketer.

Virus Attacks Bloggers Using FTP Be Carefull

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:59:43 +0000

Some bloggers and marketers are reporting a very harmful virus attacks to their blogs, causing nasty results.

This virus it’s attacking hostgator and other hosting services too, so need to take some measures if you want to be protected.

This malware start attacking your own computer, once there start searching for your username and passwords filed in password storage programs as RoboForm, password banks and FTP programs.

The second stage its to attack your server using your own FTP program to install malicious codes in your index page, so this code make Firefox display the horrible screen “REPORTED ATTACK SITE” and prevent the access to your website, of course you will lost traffic, and maybe some people never back again.

Then, in order to fix it, you will invest a lot of time and effort searching the code on all your pages to delete and restore your original content. Of course this is almost like a nightmare.

In order to avoid this problem you must take some simple steps:

1.- Delete all you passwords from password banks, roboform and FTP program.

2.- Change your FTP passwords

3.- Run a malware scan on your computer in order to ensure your computer it’s clean:

Maleware.org

Norman Malware Cleaner

4.- Exist some suspicion about Acrobat Reader have some vulnerablilty, so if you don’t have the last version, update it now.

This virus don’t delete your site or cause any other problem on you computer, but it’s a headache if attaks your website, so just take some precausions in order to avoid it.

Good luck!

PS. According with this security issue, I think appropriate to let you know about this great report, I read it some time ago and I take several measures in order to prevent many security vulnerabilities on my own blogs and protect it against hacking attempts. Some times we regret when bad thing happens as lose: time, traffic, content even money on things we can prevent in advance.

ClickBank Add a New Cloaker Function

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:26:08 +0000

If you are working or you want to work with clickbank, you must notice recently this website add a new function: A link cloaker.
For beginners this can be a good and practical function, because they don’t need to buy any extra software in order to cloak their links and prevent lose commissions.

But, I really think that any people who really are serious about make money with affiliate marketing need to buy their own tools, in this case a link cloaker.

Link cloakers will help you not just to hide and protect your links, but also track your sales, track your campaigns, etc.

Other important issue here, its almost all affiliates work with several affiliate programs, not just clickbank, so you really need your own software.

Now, you know some clickbank sales letters are poor quality, and maybe you can create your own copy, or you are using landing pages, the important matter here, it’s maybe you don’t want to send your traffic to the seller sales letter, just send it directly to the payment page.

So, how do you do this if your link appears cloaked? You need to know the product ID in order to do this, so how can you find the product ID?

Since, this month you can’t see the decoder on clickbank any more, so you must access the affiliate resource page for each product, usually this page can be found on the description area of the product on marketplace.

So, you must access to the affiliate resource page of that vendor and find the product it in order to create a redirect from your landing page or your own copy to the payment page.