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How to Make Money From a Blog in 8 Easy Steps

Work At Home Malaysia — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:45:28 +0000

Make Money Blogging

This is a short guide on how to make money using a blog. Follow these simple steps one-by-one and see how easy it can be to make money online. Once you have become proficient with this process, you can easily repeat the whole thing time and time again.

The easiest way to make money using the internet is to find a simple system like this, master it and repeat. Remember, if one blog makes you $100 a month, 10 blogs could bring in a $1000, it is all about scaling up the process.

Make money with blog reviews

1. Go to Clickbank.com, sign up for a seller account then search the website and find a product you would like to promote. Try to look for a high gravity and low returns and choose a product that will earn you at least $20 a sale.

2. Next you should set up a blog. To do this you can either opt for a free service like Blogger or WordPress, or purchase a web host package and install the WordPress software – most hosting packages will have this as standard. If you want to go down this route you will also need to purchase a domain name.

3. Depending on your choice, you should name your free blog whatever the product is called and then add “review” at the end. Or if you are going to purchase a domain name, try to buy “productnamereview.com”, with ‘productname’ being the name of the actual product you have chosen.

4. Now do some keyword research and look for some long-tailed keyword phrases that are relevant to the product you selected. You can use a free service like Google External Keyword Tool for the research. Try to find at least 3 keyword phrases.

5. Visit the products sales page and use that to write a review of the product. Ensure that the product name is also the title of your post and litter the piece with your long-tailed keywords – but do not overdo it, no one keyword should account for more than 3-5% of the total word count. Having your primary keyword (product title) as the main title and an inclusion of related keyword phrases, or synonyms, in the content body is good for your blog’s on-page SEO.

6. Now add your review to your blog. You will need to grab your product affiliate link from Clickbank and add this to the end of your review. Use lines like:
• Get Product X now, while you still can. Click “HERE”
• Click the link to purchase the product – “product name here”
The link to the product must be hyperlinked using your affiliate link you received from Clickbank.

7. You will now need to get traffic to your blog. One method is to promote your blog in forums and other blogs related to the product type. For example, if you are promoting a weight loss book, search for “weight loss forums” or “diet blogs” then post on those. You can then either add a link back to your site in a forum signature, or many blogs will allow you to add a website URL to your post. Try to make constructive comments and join in with the topics discussed – if people think you know what you are talking about, they are more likely to click on your links.

Another alternative is to write some articles about the product, or the topic that the product deals with, and post them to article directories. You are allowed to add a link in the resource box when submitting your article, if people like the article they may click on your link. These links will also count as backlinks to your blog and may improve its SERP position and Pagerank.

8. Once you have completed these steps go look for another product and repeat the whole process again. The more blogs you create, the more money you can earn. If you choose related products you can even interlink the blogs and improve your blogs SEO.

The more you practice this technique the better you will become. You will learn how to search out better performing products, become more efficient at keyword research and find new ways to generate fast traffic. The most important thing is to get started – you will never earn money unless you put yourself out there.

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Starting Your Affiliate Marketing Home Business

Work At Home Malaysia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:23:49 +0000

Affiliate marketing is an excellent business model for anyone looking to start a home-based business. Since an affiliate marketing business requires little or no start-up costs, you won’t need a business loan or investors to get started. You also won’t need to maintain stock or handle customer support, so you can easily begin your business as a one person operation without the need for hiring employees.

Affiliate marketing allows you to sell a merchant’s products or services for a percentage of the profits for any sales you refer. Basically you become freelance advertiser for the merchant, working on a commission basis laid out in their affiliate agreement. Some affiliate programs pay for a percentage of each sale, some pay a fixed amount per sale, per lead, or even per visitor.

Here’s what you will need to do to begin making money as an affiliate:

1. Find and join an affiliate program.

2. Obtain your affiliate link from the merchant. This is a unique link to the product you wish to advertise, which contains your affiliate ID number in order to track any sales you refer.

3. Find a traffic source to promote the product. This can be any form of advertising from free blogging to paid advertising.

Finding an affiliate product to promote is simple. Many well known companies such as Amazon and eBay have affiliate programs which pay a relatively small percentage based commission (usually 3%-8%) for any purchases made by new customers you refer. The smaller commissions mean you’ll need to refer a large volume of buyers in order to generate a significant income, so these programs are not ideal for beginners.

More profitable affiliate programs are offered by lesser known merchants which pay their affiliates 50% or more of each sale. The Clickbank affiliate program is the most popular for first-time affiliates since it offers a one-stop market place for a wide variety of products in many different niches, all of which pay a hefty commission for every sale.

Once you have found the affiliate product you want to promote, you will need to obtain your affiliate link. This is the unique URL provided to you by the merchant in order to track any customers you send their way.

Finding online traffic sources will be the remaining 95% of your business. You are, after all, a freelance marketer so the majority of your time spent will be finding an audience for the products you promote.

A traffic source is any website frequented by visitors in your target demographic. There are countless ways to reach these visitors ranging from creating your own websites to advertising on other websites or placing pay-per-click sponsored ads directly through the major search engines.

Most new affiliates begin with free advertising since the risk is low; you’re only investing your spare time, and not your life savings. Creating content such as blogs, articles and videos which your target audience is likely to find via the search engines will generate free traffic. More experienced marketers will then expand into paid advertising platforms such as pay-per-click and banner advertising where the risk and potential rewards are much higher.

Don’t let the ease of starting an affiliate marketing business fool you. The fact that the barrier to entry is so low means there will be plenty of competition. However, as long as you treat your business like a business and not a hobby, find one traffic source and master it without dabbling too much and spreading yourself too thin, you will outlast the majority of your competition who lack the focus and dedication.

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Affiliate Marketing – The Perfect Starting Point for an Internet Business

Work At Home Malaysia — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:06:53 +0000

Affiliate marketing has become one of the most effective ways to advertise online.

It has also become one of the most popular ways for entrepreneurs to make money on the Internet.

Simply put, an affiliate program is an agreement between a merchant and a third party marketer which allows the third party to promote the merchant’s product for a percentage of the profits that are the result of a sale from the third parties promotion.

Typically, promotion is done via a website, but can also take the form of an advertisement in a e-zine or even a link from a web 2.0 property, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the marketer and the merchant.

The merchant will only pay for advertising if a successful sale is made, making it one of the most, if not the most, cost effective advertising solutions available.

The merchant is also given a wider market in which to advertise his or her product or service.

Rather than just having the merchant promote the product, affiliate marketing creates the possibility of a whole team of marketers working to sell the product.

The marketer benefits by making money off of products with their website or another format.

This method of making money requires some work up front in terms of building and promoting the website or putting together a newsletter, but once the link is up and running and receiving clicks, the income stream is passive.

Unlike most types of Internet businesses, the start-up cost for promoting a product tends to be relatively low.

If you are promoting on your own website, the only initial costs will be your domain registration, which is typically under $10 for a year long registration, and hosting services, which can be under $5 per month.

Furthermore, the product is already developed by the merchant meaning you will not have to worry about creating your own digital or physical product, you will not have to worry about payment solutions, or order processing.

All of these matters are taken care of by the merchant.

You may be wondering how one finds affiliate partners.

There are many high quality reputable services which act as an intermediary between the merchant and the affiliate marketer.

If you’ve created a digital product you’d like to promote or you are interested in marketing a digital product, such as an ebook, a downloadable piece of software, or a monthly membership site, a service called Clickbank is a popular choice.

Many products on Clickbank offer relatively high commissions of fifty percent or more and because of this, they have a huge network of affiliate marketers.

Clickbank is easy to use and is known to pay its affiliate marketers on time making it one of the most popular affiliate intermediary services to use.

If you’re more interested in promoting or selling physical products, for example books, cell phones, televisions, etc. or services, such as vacation packages, banking products, there are literally dozens of choices for affiliate networks.

Some of the most popular networks include Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Azoogle.

These networks often have very popular name brands as merchants, including offline stores like WalMart and Sears.

While physical products from name brand stores tend to be an easier sale, they provide lower commissions, meaning you will need to sell a higher volume of products in order to make money.

Ultimately it is a personal choice whether to market physical or digital products and in turn, which affiliate network to join.

Both types of products and every network has the potential to make you money.

With such little risk involved and such a low barrier to entry, affiliate marketing provides the perfect introduction to Internet business.

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Make Money Online with Clickbank Affiliate Program for Malaysians

Work At Home Malaysia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:50:46 +0000

A lot of Malaysians want to make money from internet but don’t know how.

Affiliate programs are one of the method that one can use to make money online and Clickbank affiliate program are one of the top affiliate program out there.

Until middle of 2008, a lot of Malaysians were dying to make money from ClickBank.

Unfortunately, due to unknown reasons, ClickBank rejected all Malaysians applications.

However some Malaysians decided to go through the “back door” and sign-up for a ClickBank account.

I’m sure you remember this ebook by Gobala Krishnan called “Chapter-M”?

Many Malaysians bought that a few years ago and tried their best to start their ClickBank business.

Why?

Because ClickBank is the biggest affiliate opportunity, and by not using ClickBank you are losing out of many great products that you can promote to easily make money online.

There are over 10,000 products according to ClickBank, which mostly consist of e-books, software and membership sites.

ClickBank only sells digital products, and that is the best part!

Digital products, since they have no shipping cost or physical costs, have a very high profit margin.

That’s why the merchants can pay you up to 75% commissions to promote their products – you will never get this promoting a physical product, or promoting anything in the offline world.

Now any Malaysian can sign-up for a Clickbank account without backdoor methods, virtual offices or forwarding addresses.

I think we should start taking advantage of this situation and make as much money as possible!

To make money from ClickBank is easy, if you know the secret formula.

1) Know How to Find the Best Products to Promote

As I said, there are over 10,000 products – so which one do you promote?

Actually there is a formula to this, and almost all the information you want is already in the ClickBank website.

You just need to know where to find it, and how to analyze the statistics and data.

2) Focus on One Market and Three to Five Products

You MUST select a market that you want to promote to.

You cannot expect to promote one product related to Internet marketing and the other related to losing weight!

This will just make you less focused and in the end you make no money at all!

Find one “niche” market that you feel comfortable with, and find out which are the top 3-5 ClickBank products.

You can ignore the others as 80% of the sales will go to these top 5 items.

You can’t just promote one product because that will be a waste of your time.

You cannot promote too many either, so 3-5 is the best number.

3) Write Web Pages That Sell and Convert

Yes, this is the most important part of it all.

You can send the visitors or prospect directly to the product page with your affiliate link, and make money.

However, if you want to maximize your commissions you need to create at least one page on your own, where you write a “product review” about these top 5 items, so the visitor can compare and decided which one is the best for him.

Your product review must be written in a way that it removes all doubts from your reader, convinces him that it is a great product, and make him want to buy immediately.

The experts sometimes call these “landing pages” and they are proven to work better than blogs or any other type of website.

If you want more information on how to make money from ClickBank as a Malaysian, I strongly recommend you take a look at Rahsia ClickBank by Gobala Krishnan and Zamri Nanyan.

This is a really good package that explains everything I just told you in detail.

Plus, they do all the hard work for you and give you “ready-made” ClickBank websites that you can use right away.

All you need to do is upload it to your own web hosting, and then replace your ClickBank ID.

You can get more information on Rahsia ClickBank here.

Remember, ClickBank used to be closed to Malaysians and there is no guarantee that it will not happen again.

However, if you start now you can take advantage of the situation and make tons of money online before most Malaysians even know what ClickBank is.

Plus, if they ever close to Malaysia again, you will not be affected if you are already an affiliate who is making regular sales.

Rahsia ClickBank is a great way to get started, something I could honestly recommend to you.

Make Money Online with Clickbank Affiliate Program for Malaysians

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How Malaysians Can Make Money on Internet

Work At Home Malaysia — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:08:49 +0000

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A lot of Malaysians don’t know that they could actually work at home and make money on Internet.

Learning how to make money on Internet is a new concept for many Malaysians.

Internet marketing is a relatively young industry in Malaysia and all over the world.

It wasn’t that long ago that many families didn’t even own computers.

These days many families own computers, and do everything from reading to shopping online.

Internet marketing now provides many booming business opportunities.

It’s definitely not too late to join on this industry.

There are an incredible number of opportunities for those who begin as soon as possible and follow through with a profitable business model.

Of course, it helps to know which business models are available.

Some people choose to create their own product to sell online.

This works well if you have a specific niche market that would be receptive to downloading a book.

Ebooks are becoming more and more common, so if you have something high quality to offer you shouldn’t have any problem selling it online.

Of course, creating your own products can be intimidating at first.

It is probably much easier for you to try the affiliate marketing aspect of make money on Internet.

There are many companies that will pay you a commission for sending traffic through your links.

Every time a sale comes through using your link, you will earn a portion of the profits.

The best way to become an affiliate marketer is to create your own website.

You’ll add articles to your website and drive traffic to it in hopes that by pairing the content with relevant ads, you will earn some money.

The problem with that model is that is harder than ever to rank on popular search engines like Google.

The best way around this is to create your websites using blogging software.

One of the benefits of blogging software is that it is faster once you have it set up, and they are more search engine friendly “right out of the box.”

You have probably heard of blogs before even if you’ve never considered becoming a blogger.

The fact is that blogs aren’t just about creating online diaries.

You can provide information to people in many different niches.

They will read your content and click on your ads so you can make money.

By combining content, ads, and the ease of using a blogging tool like WordPress, you can definitely make money on Internet!

Getting started doesn’t have to be something that intimidates you.

In fact, it’s best to follow a tutorial right away so you don’t have to go through the pain of trying to figure things out on your own.

The Niche Blogger is the easiest to follow guide that I have found.

It is a membership site and the cost to join is so low that you should be able to easily make back your investment fairly quickly.

While there are many different models, you really can’t go wrong with blogging.

It’s possible to create a part or full-time income through this business model if you have the right methods to follow.

Blogging for money takes time so don’t give up.

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