It is worth cataloging the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
• Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
• Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
• Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
• Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
• Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
• Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
• Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
• When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
• When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
• Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

Anyways I thought I like to share with guys some of the major mistakes I have done in the past and hopefully after you have read this blog post you would avoid these mistakes and leverage on the things  have done to push my business from zero to 5 figures

Do Not Think As A Cheapo Marketer

When I first started 3 years ago, I was just like many people in the world who wanted to start a business online but to be frank I was a real cheapo marketer. I did not want to spend a single cent on hosting or domain name and started finding all the free tools and resources to make money online.

Did I succeed in the end? Well the answer was a big NO No. Well here’s what actually happen, I open up a blogspot account to setup my blog online and within the 1st 2 weeks it was suspended! Fortunately it came back after 4 weeks of begging to blogspot but hell no will I want to go through all that again

On top of using free blog spot, I also tried using free auto-responders to collect leads as it cost a whopping US$150+ per year just to get an account and I thought it was expensive to own one. So I did try using free ones and collected my first 100 leads and you know what happen after 2 weeks? My account was suspended again! I guess I am really unlucky when it comes to using free services. That even my YouTube account “GatherSuccess” was suspended for some strange reason

So overall, you can say I started out in a really bad shape as you can see So what I can say from all this is DO NOT use free tools or resources for your own business as you will never know one day your account will be suspended just like me

I Never Imagine I Could Do It

To be real frank, 3 years ago I was not as confident as I am today in making money online as back then I knew no body online and I was a total newbie with no list and no products of my own. Just like everyone, I started out selling people’s products but I did not succeed real far as I did not collect leads back then.

To make things worst, I was constantly telling myself I was wasting my time with this blogging thing as I was barely making even $10 on my first month of blogging online. I was constantly demoralized and never imagine I could even make US$1,000 a month.

It was then one day I realized I was pulling myself down, I decided to set some goals of my own and found some buddies offline to work together to constantly challenger each other on getting results for each other’s business.

How I wish I have done that earlier in the past to find a buddy to constantly challenge each other to perform well online because it really have helped me push my business up to another level

The reason, I highly recommend everyone to get a buddy to do the business with you is because many times when you are blogging online and see no $$$ on your blog you WILL BE disappointed and that’s normal So with a buddy, you can set goals & challenges like “See Who Hits 1,000 Hits This Month, Winner Wins A Buffet Lunch”. I did this with my buddy offline and most times we out do each other and unknowingly $$$ start rolling in

I Hate Networking And Hate To Make Friends

Like most people who got started in business, I really hated to network online and hated to drink coffee with people offline just to network with others to grow my business. Basically in short, I was doing my blogging business alone and I did not bother to find out who are the top gurus in the market.

Then I realized one of the weeks when I was reading other people’s blog why do these successful blogger make hell a lot of traffic and money from their blogs and the secret was they had connections to people who were capable of marketing their blog

I realized how important having a strong network can be and that is why today, I have more then hundreds of internet marketing friends with mailing list in my contact list and these contacts are the real key to the success of any business online.

Just imagine if you have 10 internet marketing friends. Each having a list size of about 50,000 and all of them promote your blog or product that’s a whopping 500,000 people promoted to your products and that the secret actually how people make 5 figures online ( it’s actually not some secret Google magic or thingy, it just pure good email marketing ).

So What Does All This Got To Do With Me And Making Money Online?

Some of you guys may agree or disagree what I say but based on my experience what I am sharing here are real facts of life in online business and do trust me on this if you actually done all the things above you will immediately see your business start to grow in the next 2 weeks

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Do you know why most people fail to make money online? Is it because they don’t have money to start off with, is it because they look to get rich quick or is it because they don’t have a good mentor? Actually, that was a bad question, because it is none of those things.

The reason 99.9% of people fail to make money online is simply because they don’t take action. Seriously, action is all it takes.

There are literally thousands of guides out there to help you make money, even Caroline offers a completely free niche Wordpress guide that can help you get started. I think it’s safe to say there are 2 types of people that fail to make money online:

1) Those that don’t believe they can do it or don’t believe they have the skills so they don’t even try

and

2) Those that know exactly what to do, they just never do anything about it

Making money online really isn’t that difficult, it just requires some knowledge, a bit of effort and a lot of perseverance. Even last month I set up a brand new website in 4 hours, and in the same month it made over $1,000. This is not my best website by any stretch, but it just goes to show that once you have a solid grasp of this business, the dollars are not hard to find.

Just in case you fall into category one above, or even if you’re in category 2 and need a new direction, I’ve decided to outline a simple formula to help you make your first dollars online.

1. Find a Niche You are Passionate About - I know everybody says this, but there’s a good reason for that, it works. Unless you plan on doing PPC to Landing page work for specific network offers, then it’s a good idea to work out what you love. What do you do already that you would love to get paid for?

What clubs do you take part in outside of work? What are your favourite topics in school or college? If you rack your brain for a few minutes, you should be able to think of a few industries that interest you. It’s a great feeling when you start making some money online, but it’s even better when you know you actually enjoy the topic that your website is about.

2. Decide Which Way You Want Make Money – I’m probably underestimating when I say there are hundreds of ways to make money online, there are far too many to list here anyways. Once you know what it is you are passionate about, it’s good to decide how you want to make money.

Some options from the top of my head include:

* Creating an eBook relating to your passions that helps solve a need

* Starting a blog on the subject and writing unique, quality articles

* Building forums so that other people can discuss the topic

* Creating an information site that attempts to earn money with contextual ads

There are many more, but these are some of the most common options online. Once you know what type of site / product you want to build, it won’t take much searching for you to find out how.

3. Set out a Plan of Action

If you want to create an eBook then there are various elements that you need to put together. For a start, you need to study the market to find out what people are missing in your niche. It may be possible that people are just not interested in an eBook about your topic, or it may be that there is a huge gap in the market. Either way, it’s your job to find out.

If you did find out there was interest, then you would need to get an eBook cover sorted, register a domain, build your landing page and set-up some form of payment processing. Some of this may sound difficult, but it’s all easily achievable. Set out a plan of action of exactly what you need to do, and then…

4. Take Action – That’s it. This is why most people fail to make money online, they simply don’t do anything with their knowledge. Don’t think that you need to have everything perfectly in place just to start making a go of things. You’ll actually find that most of your learning comes from doing.

Good luck!

About The Author

Glen is the author of ViperChill, a blog on Viral Marketing. He makes his living online and wants to help other people do the same.

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Here’s What I Got In The Month October 2009

Earning Stats:

Ad Net Profits And Private Programs – US$15,896.42
Affiliate Net Profits From Affiliate Products – US$5,193.81
Google Adsense – US$42.88

Total :US$22,133.11 (SG$30,986.35)

To be frank, I have been lazy lately, got 2 projects like to do but still pending as lack of response from my team on the development of it. Anyway I will be launching a few new things and decided to not do the Gather Success newsletter as it will take up quite a lot of my time

What Your Profits This Month?

I always believe in showing real results to people not for the sack of showing off but it’s a great chance for anyone to increase their creditability online. So this is what I am going to do. Take some time off and compile your total commission you have earned this month and post them below by commenting in this format:

1. Your Name
2. Your Website or Blog
3. The Amount You Earn So Far This Month
4. What’s Your Target Goal For Next Month

E.g : Alvin Phang, GatherSuccess.com, US$7,641.08 , Target: US$15,000 In Next Month

Do note it doesn’t matter if it’s only $10 or 10 cents, it’s still an achievement and you should congrats yourself by being able to make some income from online! Just think about it, you are far off better then 90% of the population of the entire world who did not know about the benefits of making money
online

Looking forward to see your replies and congratulating you

1. Write and submit articles and press releases to the article directories.

2. Leave comments on other people blogs with a backlink to your site.

3. Answer people questions on http://www.answers.yahoo.com.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.

5. Submit your sites and products to wikki sites.

6. Advertise your site on free pixel sites.

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. Its a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Submit to picture posts and hot or not sites with your URLs on the pictures.

14. Add a Bookmark this site link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.

17. Make a stamp with your domain, and stamp it on everything

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.

21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.

22. Create a software program and give it away for free.

23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.

24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site. (expired domains)

25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.

26. Print your domain on your shirt.

27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as http://www.MySpace.com.

28. Submit a viral video to http://www.YouTube.com

29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.

30. Find similar sites who want to trade reciprical links. use http://www.linkpagecreator.com to manage your recip links page

31. Start your own double optin newsletter or ezine.

32. Use a autoresponder to let everyone who emails you know what your site is.

33. Post comments in guest books, and putt your site in the homepage box.

34. Submit porn galleries to tgps.

35. Sell or place classified ads on http://www.eBay.com with a link to your site.

36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site.

37. Offer a free service, like a free dating site, where you have your advertising banners displayed.

38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events.

39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.

40. Join google groups, where you can submit your urls in messages

41. Create a free ebook and list in on the Free ebook sites.

42. Answer forum questions related to products you can sell.

43. Do something controversial, so you make the news.

44. Create profiles on dating sites/ bebo / facebook etc with links to your products.

45. Add your site to http://www.cbtoplist.com and other similer sites

46. Use a traffic / homepage exchange. http://www.trafficswarm.com

47. Submit videos to tube sites with your urls embedded on them

48. Create and giveaway a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.

49. Create phamplets advertising your products and leave them in bars.

50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.

One of my wife’s secondary school friend was working for a retail shop for 7 years and was only paid SG$1,300 a month ( that’s about US$900). Then I started to released I was really fortunate to be able to generate huge amounts of money online for my business and start to be more carefully in my spending.

I recommended her to start a 2nd income stream as from experience I known lots of people who have worked for people for years and suddenly got sacked by the company which is really sad. Unfortunately what happen later, you will released you have lots of bills to pay will start to worry. Which I believe she was not the only one in this world facing this problem.

So What Can You Do?

Well you do not want to be in that situation what I would recommend you to do is to start thinking of creating your 2nd income stream. You can consider starting a 2nd stream of income from the following:

1. Start a part time business selling your house stuff at flea markets (That’s how I started )
2. Be more business minded then a workaholic helping your boss make money
3. Start an internet business! ( You can easily start one with blogs here )
4. Do small investments ( like forex! )
5. Start learning new skills to make money on your own

I Have Been Busy

I have been real busy the past 4 days and that’s what caught me up with time and not able to update my blog. I have been secretly learning and trying two new things.

Well first off, I wanted to master PPC marketing for a very long time and to date I have not mastered it. I started a campaign about 3 days ago and so far the results is not that great with $28 spend I had 72 clicks but no sales However I am still not ready to give up yet, I just need to fine tune my keywords to get the campaign going.

The other thing, I am currently learning how to do now is forex trading! I heard so much about it so I decided to sign up for a Forex course under my mentor Kishore which the class just start on Sat and will end on Tue evening. I attended the first day and I can say it’s the best investment I ever made as the workshop was real clear cut and I understood everyone he explain even thought I was a total newbie to Forex.

During the class, we actually had a 2 pratice sessions to looks at trends and suprisinely, my partner and I made 105 PIPS (that’s US$1,050) on our first virtual trade and the next trade I just barely break even which proves his stuff really works

I know how scarely forex trading can be as you can earn a lot in one day but you can loose a lot too so I told me wife I am going to invest with Forex starting with only SG$2,000 and not more then that

Regardless How Successful You Are Always Create More Streams Of Income

So as you can see, you may already know I am doing real well online but why do I still explore other opportunies out there? Just imagine, would it be better to depend on one stream of income and earn just thousands of dollar per month or earn mutliple thousands in multiple streams of income? I think the answer is really obvious

Anyway I keep you guys updated on my progress as I go along and maybe one day I can teach you guys how to do forex even.. hehe

Here’s what he wrote:

My February results

Revenue: $14,9238.08
Cost: $8980.30
Profit: $5942.78

Firstly I was impressed by the revenue he generated so I thought why not I check out his blog, to my suprise he was making hell a lot of money from Affiliate Markeitng using Adwords. So I pop him an email did an interview with him online and here’s the audio below:

Just click on the play button to listen to it

Download audio file (InterviewWithGarga160309.mp3)

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Do remember to check out Gagan blog too @ http://niche-affiliate-marketing.com/ it’s quite interesting If you got further comments do comment below

Before I go into more details first off you need to be aware that there are two kinds of visitors online. One of them are the freebies goers and the other one are the buyers.

What Are Freebie Goers?

Well in general everyone online who visits your blog and have not purchase anything from you before are basically people who we consider as freebie goers. Regardless how you promote to them, these people will never buy anything from you.

What Are Buyers?

Basically anyone who trusts you enough online and buy any products that you recommend online. You will want to capture lots of buyers when possible on your blog to allow you to earn more income from your blog

So How Can You Convert A Freebie Goer To A Buyer?

Well the first step in getting freebies goers to buy is to give them what they want which is free stuff! So what you can do first is to give away free stuff related to offers you want to promote. For instance, if you view the top of this blog you will see I offer a free blogger’s handbook for my readers. The reason I do that because I like to educate everyone who reads my blog and tell them how profitable making money from blog really can be first.

In that way, it will program the freebie goer’s mindset that blogging is profitable and I am going to teach him for free how he can make money too!

Quality Content Is Key To Converting Them To Buyer

Once you opt-in to the box, a series of emails will be mail out to the freebie goer plus he also get a 50 page handbook for free on how to make money from blogging. Do ensure the content you give are quality stuff that really works to allow the freebie goers to try them out for themselves to see if they can make their 1st $10 online.

You Gain People’s Trust Once They See Results

If you noticed online, most gurus like to give away great valuable information for free for a motive. The reason we do that is because once the freebie goer makes money from our free advice we will instantly gain the trust of the visitor and at the end of the day he will buy what ever you offer.

Another Approach Which You Can Convert Is To Be….

Down right honest with your visitors and talk about the pros and cons of what ever you trying to pitch to them. I do notice most marketers online focus on the good sides of things and fail to mention the bad side of it. From my point of view, I would always have a combination of both and the reason I do that is because when you mention negative stuff to visitors which normally they do not aspect, you will some how gain more trust from the visitor as he will released you are kind of honest.

And honest people with integrity can earn people’s trust easily and that’s powerful stuff guys

Make Your Offer Irresistible

When you make an offer to a freebie goer, always make the offer irresistible by offering free bonus and bundles or discounts if possible to attract them to take action and buy the product you want to offer.

What If The Visitor Has No Credit Card?

Here’s another great tip for you, if your target niche are visitors who are under 18 who cannot apply for credit cards here’s what you can do to make money. Instead of getting them to purchase a product, go and promote them CPA offers

CPA offers are basically either form based and email submit based where all you need to do is ask them to sign up something or fill up a form you can earn a rate from $0.10 to $10.00. I did this once in the gaming niche which was great

I hope you find this article useful, if you have further comments or like to contribute some valuable points do comment below