From Nothing to Something in 30 Days
If you’re like me, you have a million ideas bouncing around in your head and on Post-It notes everywhere you go. For people like us, it takes a lot of motivation to stick with anything for an extended period of time. I’m going to show you how I’ve taken websites making no money and with no traffic to something sustainable in 30 days.
First of all I should let you know that I’ve never sold anything online, not a get-rick-quick eBook nor a training course. Since I don’t have anything to sell, you have no reason to see if these steps might be able to help you make some money online. Without further ado, make money online using these 7 steps in 30 days.
I’ll be skipping the basics like buying a domain and finding a niche. You should be able to register a domain, get, or have, hosting and write at least as good as a high school student.
1. Content. Content is the bread and butter on my strategy. Good content always beats any form of scam and/or spam. Good content is lasting and creates defensible traffic. Great content on the other hand does everything for you. Marketing, sales, everything. If you can write a great piece of content that other people like and want to link to, the job is 80% done. This great content is commonly referred to as linkbait.
Before you write that great linkbait article, you want to make sure that the foundation of your website is created. To do that, you need to have articles on your website. I would suggest 10-20 general articles about your niche. My current project is related to the call center industry. My first articles that were just filler pieces included, “Why Outsource to a Call Center, “Call Center Supervisor, and “Call Center Basics. As you can see, those aren’t exaclty interesting articles, but they provide filler and content for the website and give Google and the other bots something to look at while you working on your linkbait.
When talking about content, it’s important to consider your method of delivery. Working the way I suggest includes a lot of writing. If you plan to do a lot of writing, nobody wants to copy and paste code into a text editor and upload HTML pages. Not to mention if you want to change something on your website, it means spending a day making manual changes. Wordpress can change that. Download and install Wordpress, that’s the end of the boring basics.
Throughout the entire month you’ll continue adding content. If you can get 30-50 posts up in 30 days, you’re doing good. For the current project I’m working on, my partner and I are going for 150 posts total. It’s not an unreasonable goal at all, it just depends on who you are and how quickly you can write.
2. Design. Depending on the niche you’ve chosen, a free Wordpress template will probably work fine for the first year, depending on your growth and income. As income rises, you should invest in Read more
Adwords Is A Very Evil Place
This guest post is from Clint Dixon:
Do No Evil - Google’s mantra as we all know, however they do not practice such a concept and here is why;
I am a internet advertising professional. Over the years I have always said that advertising with Google Adwords using their content network was a sure and painful way to drain your bank account quickly and make Sergy Larry & Jack much much richer.
Now while many think (keyword) Google is a great company, I have problems with any organization trying to pass it’s self off as an advertising auction retailer, that cannot make the most simplistic decisions and choices that are in the best interest of the Advertiser.
In this case the Advertiser is me. I have several domains I have parked and earning cash and as such decided I wanted to see if I could drive incremental traffic to one of my parked domains with Google Adwords Content Network of websites.
Now one would think Google being as large as they are would have some websites in the Content Network that would be related to Real Estate.
So I started a new campaign recently for a domain in the Real Estate category and under the niche of ‘flipping houses’. This is where someone buys an old house renovates it and sells at a nice profit. Currently a growing category within the Read more
Advertising: Does it have to cost a lot?
This guest post is by HungryWolf:
Advertising, they say, is the lifeblood of any major business. On the Internet though, advertising is the norm rather than the exception, no matter what the nature of your business is.
You may be the owner of only a small informational web site or even a tutorial site, your effort is worthless without any visitors.
Promotional avenues like Google AdWords and other pay-per-click advertising ventures cost a lot of money unless you are an expert at deriving the maximum output (visitors) from a minimal input ($$$).
Your best bet if you are starting out is to quickly recognize the importance of social bookmarking sites like digg.com and stumbleupon.com. Although digg is now pretty ruthless in burying unwanted content, it still remains an important source of traffic. Stumbleupon is really a miracle. One stumble can go a long way in getting the initial recognition that a new web site always craves for.
These days targeted advertising is the “in” thing. Marketing gurus swear by it and us common folk can only scratch our heads in wonder.
Of course the best advertising you can ever do is let your web site speak for itself. Fill it with relevant content and ensure return value for new visitors.
That more than anything will get you more traffic than any costly promotional venture. Advertising per se need not cost the roof. Remember simple business acumen (otherwise known as common sense!) always wins the day.
