How To Make Money Online and Retire Young
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How To Make Money Online Fast, Free and Easy
Objective: To teach you how to make money online by ranking in the top 10 in the major search engines within a few days (fast), without spending a single cent (free) by creating simple content that solves searchers problems. (easy).
1. Identify Opportunities
Objective: Initial research to identify common problems people are facing
How to Identify Opportunities to Make Money Online
Content is what makes the web - whether its an article, a blog post, a you tube video or a pod cast - content is king - so if you want to make money online you have to start with researching the type of content you will need to re-create.
The purpose of content reseach is to find people who have a urgent problem and desperately need a solution or who are searching to buy something - you must avoid people that are randomly surfing the net.
Once you have created problem solving content and this content ranks in the top 10 at the major search engines its very easy to make money either with google adsense or with affiliate programs.
Step by step strategies
Forum strategy
1. Sign up to popular forums in a niche that you're interested in
2. Browse through popular topics to identify problems forum members are facing
3. Note down urls and topics of interest
Article directory strategy
1. Browse through article titles at Ezine Articles
2. Note down the urls of titles that appear to solve a problem
Blog Strategy
1. Search Technorati for popular blogs in your niche
2. Note the blog posts that appear to solve a problem and have lots of comments from other members
Content is what makes the web - whether its an article, a blog post, a you tube video or a pod cast - content is king - so if you want to make money online you have to start with researching the type of content you will need to re-create.
The purpose of content reseach is to find people who have a urgent problem and desperately need a solution or who are searching to buy something - you must avoid people that are randomly surfing the net.
Once you have created problem solving content and this content ranks in the top 10 at the major search engines its very easy to make money either with google adsense or with affiliate programs.
Step by step strategies
Forum strategy
1. Sign up to popular forums in a niche that you're interested in
2. Browse through popular topics to identify problems forum members are facing
3. Note down urls and topics of interest
Article directory strategy
1. Browse through article titles at Ezine Articles
2. Note down the urls of titles that appear to solve a problem
Blog Strategy
1. Search Technorati for popular blogs in your niche
2. Note the blog posts that appear to solve a problem and have lots of comments from other members
2. Keyword/ Ranking Research
Objective: Keyword and ranking research to identify the keywords people are using at the search engines and how difficult it will be to outrank the top websites ranking for these keywords
How to Choose Keywords that You Can Easily Dominate in the Search Engines
The key to this entire strategy is to get top 10 rankings in the search engines. Once you have mastered the skill of getting top 10 rankings the world is your oyster.
So when doing keyword OR ranking research you're trying to find the keywords that will be easy to rank for.
You want to make money as quickly as you can with as little capital outlay as possible. Therefore you'll have to choose the keywords that other search engine optimisers are not paying attention too.
If you want to go for a tougher niche you'll have to spend some money and it will take a lot longer to start ranking in the top 10 at the major search engines. Some web pages have thousands of backlinks and it would take years of effort and lots of money to out rank them.
The purpose of choosing keywords with less than 300,000 competing sites and seeing that the top ranked website has less than 50 backlinks is to find keywords that you can easily dominate.
Once you have mastered the skill of ranking in the top 10 for less competitive keywords you can easily scale your operation to compete for more competitive keywords that have more traffic and will generate much more income.
Step by step strategies
Keyword Research Strategy
1. Use Google's Free External Keyword Research Tool.
2. Use exact match.
3. Sort by seasonal searches.
4. Make sure there are some advertisers. The more the better.
5. Pick out the keywords searchers are using to try and solve their problems.
Ranking Research Strategy
1. Type the keywords with quotes in at Google and note the # of competing websites
2. If the number is less than than 300,000 proceed to step 3
3. Research the # of backlinks pointing to the exact page at online-utility.org - use the single page option (i.e not the # of backlinks to the homepage).
4. Proceed if the # is less than 50
The key to this entire strategy is to get top 10 rankings in the search engines. Once you have mastered the skill of getting top 10 rankings the world is your oyster.
So when doing keyword OR ranking research you're trying to find the keywords that will be easy to rank for.
You want to make money as quickly as you can with as little capital outlay as possible. Therefore you'll have to choose the keywords that other search engine optimisers are not paying attention too.
If you want to go for a tougher niche you'll have to spend some money and it will take a lot longer to start ranking in the top 10 at the major search engines. Some web pages have thousands of backlinks and it would take years of effort and lots of money to out rank them.
The purpose of choosing keywords with less than 300,000 competing sites and seeing that the top ranked website has less than 50 backlinks is to find keywords that you can easily dominate.
Once you have mastered the skill of ranking in the top 10 for less competitive keywords you can easily scale your operation to compete for more competitive keywords that have more traffic and will generate much more income.
Step by step strategies
Keyword Research Strategy
1. Use Google's Free External Keyword Research Tool.
2. Use exact match.
3. Sort by seasonal searches.
4. Make sure there are some advertisers. The more the better.
5. Pick out the keywords searchers are using to try and solve their problems.
Ranking Research Strategy
1. Type the keywords with quotes in at Google and note the # of competing websites
2. If the number is less than than 300,000 proceed to step 3
3. Research the # of backlinks pointing to the exact page at online-utility.org - use the single page option (i.e not the # of backlinks to the homepage).
4. Proceed if the # is less than 50
3. Create Content
Objective: Create content with a title that clearly shows that you know the solution to the searchers problem
How to Create Awesome Content...
Creating great content should be easy. You have already done content research and therefore you know the forum posts, blogs, videos, articles, podcasts etc that are creating a lot of interest.
The most important part of your content creation process is the headline. This is what will get people to read or listen to what you have to say.
Great titles can simple be How to's and 5 Tips to. For example How to Make Money Online OR 5 Simple Ways to Make Money Online.
Seeing as you're attempting to make money online with very little capital, I'd suggest that you start off writing your content yourself. Pick something that you know a lot about.
However, once you start making some money using this strategy I recommend that you either buy Private Label Rights (PLR) articles OR outsource the content creation process.
Step by step strategies
Write your own content
1. Use the keyword you researched as the title of your content
2. Appealing Titles start with How to or X Ways, Tips, Strategies etc
3. Use your keyword throughout your content
4. Bullet points for each point work great
Hire a writer
1. Sign up for an account at Guru.com
2. Be careful to describe exactly what you want.
3. Review the authors portfolio of articles and the feedback they've received from other customers.
4. Check the articles are original at Copyscape.com
Private Label Rights Content
1. Research private label rights article services like The Make Money Shop and Simply PLR
2. Re-write articles or put them through article spinning software.
Creating great content should be easy. You have already done content research and therefore you know the forum posts, blogs, videos, articles, podcasts etc that are creating a lot of interest.
The most important part of your content creation process is the headline. This is what will get people to read or listen to what you have to say.
Great titles can simple be How to's and 5 Tips to. For example How to Make Money Online OR 5 Simple Ways to Make Money Online.
Seeing as you're attempting to make money online with very little capital, I'd suggest that you start off writing your content yourself. Pick something that you know a lot about.
However, once you start making some money using this strategy I recommend that you either buy Private Label Rights (PLR) articles OR outsource the content creation process.
Step by step strategies
Write your own content
1. Use the keyword you researched as the title of your content
2. Appealing Titles start with How to or X Ways, Tips, Strategies etc
3. Use your keyword throughout your content
4. Bullet points for each point work great
Hire a writer
1. Sign up for an account at Guru.com
2. Be careful to describe exactly what you want.
3. Review the authors portfolio of articles and the feedback they've received from other customers.
4. Check the articles are original at Copyscape.com
Private Label Rights Content
1. Research private label rights article services like The Make Money Shop and Simply PLR
2. Re-write articles or put them through article spinning software.
4. Post Content
Objective: Post your content on high Page Rank (PR) web 2.0 properties that get indexed much faster than a new website.
How to Make Money With Web 2.0 Sites...
There is a great debate whether its better to create your own blog or website OR to use web 2.0 sites, like squidoo, hub pages or blogger.
If you want to make money online as fast as possible and you don't want to spend any money then there is no doubt which is better to use - web 2.0 sites win the argument hands down.
This is because many web 2.0 sites have high page rank, which means Google pays much more attention to them and they get indexed and ranked in the search engines much faster than a new site would. Web 2.0 sites are also free to use so you don't have to pay monthly web hosting.
The key to succeeding with web 2.0 sites is to move up in there internal listings. By moving up in there internal listings you get closer to the home page which has the highest page rank - in other words the closer you move to the home page the faster your site will be indexed and ranked by the major search engines.
For example, if you use squidoo, your lens will move up in their internal listings if you post to the lens regularly, get back links to the lens, comment on other lens and the squidoo community rates and favourites your lens.
Step by step strategies
Squidoo Strategy
1. Sign up to Squidoo
2. Create a lens
3. Use your keyword in your lens title and url
4. Add complimentary keywords/ tags
5. Add content to the introductory and text modules
6. Comment on similar lenses
There is a great debate whether its better to create your own blog or website OR to use web 2.0 sites, like squidoo, hub pages or blogger.
If you want to make money online as fast as possible and you don't want to spend any money then there is no doubt which is better to use - web 2.0 sites win the argument hands down.
This is because many web 2.0 sites have high page rank, which means Google pays much more attention to them and they get indexed and ranked in the search engines much faster than a new site would. Web 2.0 sites are also free to use so you don't have to pay monthly web hosting.
The key to succeeding with web 2.0 sites is to move up in there internal listings. By moving up in there internal listings you get closer to the home page which has the highest page rank - in other words the closer you move to the home page the faster your site will be indexed and ranked by the major search engines.
For example, if you use squidoo, your lens will move up in their internal listings if you post to the lens regularly, get back links to the lens, comment on other lens and the squidoo community rates and favourites your lens.
Step by step strategies
Squidoo Strategy
1. Sign up to Squidoo
2. Create a lens
3. Use your keyword in your lens title and url
4. Add complimentary keywords/ tags
5. Add content to the introductory and text modules
6. Comment on similar lenses
5. Article Marketing
Objective: Initial promotion to get back links to your web 2.0 page
How to get one way backlinks to your web 2.0 page by submitting articles to article directories
For a number of years article marketing has been one of the best ways to get one way backlinks to your web pages.
If you followed the advice in module 2 you will need to get 50 or less backlinks to your web 2.0 page to have the best chance of ranking in the top 10 at the major search engines.
The beauty of using article directories is many of them have high page ranks and are indexed by the major search engines regularly - this means you can get high page rank one way backlinks which are important for ranking well in the search engines.
One potential issue is if you submit your article to multiple article directories then the search engines may penalise these articles for duplicate content.
Therefore I recommend that you at least change the titles and descriptions for each article you post to article directories.
Step by step strategy
Article Marketing
1. Write your own articles, use PLR articles or outsource
2. Spin your articles
3. Make sure you use the keywords you're trying to rank for as the anchor text in the authors resource box
4. Use article submission software
5. Choose article directories with high page rank that accept HTML within the article
For a number of years article marketing has been one of the best ways to get one way backlinks to your web pages.
If you followed the advice in module 2 you will need to get 50 or less backlinks to your web 2.0 page to have the best chance of ranking in the top 10 at the major search engines.
The beauty of using article directories is many of them have high page ranks and are indexed by the major search engines regularly - this means you can get high page rank one way backlinks which are important for ranking well in the search engines.
One potential issue is if you submit your article to multiple article directories then the search engines may penalise these articles for duplicate content.
Therefore I recommend that you at least change the titles and descriptions for each article you post to article directories.
Step by step strategy
Article Marketing
1. Write your own articles, use PLR articles or outsource
2. Spin your articles
3. Make sure you use the keywords you're trying to rank for as the anchor text in the authors resource box
4. Use article submission software
5. Choose article directories with high page rank that accept HTML within the article
6. Blog Comments
Objective: To get more one way backlinks to your web 2.0 page
How to get one way backlinks from blogs
Another great way to get one way back links to your web 2.0 page is to make comments on blogs that pass page rank.
If you're using Mozilla Firefox and you've got the seo add-on installed you'll be able to see which blogs pass on page rank. Links in red are no-follow and don't pass on page rank - i.e. the link is useless for search engine ranking purposes.
However, I recommened that you download Comment Kahuna which is software that finds blogs that pass on page rank.
Furthermore you'll want to set-up book marking accounts with the top book marking services and bookmark the blog pages with a link to your site - mention in the comment that you have book marked the page.
You should also ping the page to alert the search engines that there's new content on the blog.
Step by step strategies
1) Download Comment Kahuna and look for blogs that pass on page rank
2) Install Mozilla Firefox and the SEO add on and only post on blogs that use do follow links
3) Use social bookmarker and book mark the pages you get links from
4) Ping the page with Pingomatic OR Pingoat
Another great way to get one way back links to your web 2.0 page is to make comments on blogs that pass page rank.
If you're using Mozilla Firefox and you've got the seo add-on installed you'll be able to see which blogs pass on page rank. Links in red are no-follow and don't pass on page rank - i.e. the link is useless for search engine ranking purposes.
However, I recommened that you download Comment Kahuna which is software that finds blogs that pass on page rank.
Furthermore you'll want to set-up book marking accounts with the top book marking services and bookmark the blog pages with a link to your site - mention in the comment that you have book marked the page.
You should also ping the page to alert the search engines that there's new content on the blog.
Step by step strategies
1) Download Comment Kahuna and look for blogs that pass on page rank
2) Install Mozilla Firefox and the SEO add on and only post on blogs that use do follow links
3) Use social bookmarker and book mark the pages you get links from
4) Ping the page with Pingomatic OR Pingoat
7. Monetarise
Objective: To maximise the amount of money you make from your content
How to maximise the amount of money you make online
Now that you're getting some traffic its time to turn that traffic into cash.
If you haven't already sign up at clickbank and paydotcom and search for digital products/ software that relates to your content.
If you've created your content on a squidoo or hubpages you should already be making some money through adsense ads.
Now that you're getting some traffic its time to turn that traffic into cash.
If you haven't already sign up at clickbank and paydotcom and search for digital products/ software that relates to your content.
If you've created your content on a squidoo or hubpages you should already be making some money through adsense ads.
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