What is Article Marketing And Why You Should Be Doing It?

What is Article Marketing?

Article Marketing is the art of the writing and distributing articles in an attempt to get people to read and click on the link to your website, blog, or affiliate page at the end of your article.

So why is article marketing so important?

1) It is 100% free to do. They only thing you would have to invest is the time to write the article(s).

2) You can distribute your articles to 100's of sites

3) You can get tons of backlinks to your sites/blogs

4) Your rankings in search engines will rise

5) It's instantly gives you authority status in your niche - very important!!!


You see there are a ton of reasons to do article marketing. Not only is it the best way to get free traffic and start to see sales and money coming into your paypal account but it can help establish you as an expert in your field.

Our next post will be on how to write an effective article. We will give you tips on how to write the perfect article and how to close it with a strong resource box and call to action.

**** We will also post reports and products that you can be an affiliate for that will pay you 100% commission straight into your paypal account. So this way you don't have to wait for your check to arrive. You money will already be in your paypal account and ready for you to withdraw it to your bank!!! - I will update you when we post this very important article!!! ****

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Finding A Niche Market - How To Pick A Niche?

Finding A Niche

So you have decided to give affiliate marketing a shot. Well then, you now need to choose your market, also called niche, that you want to promote. You can chose an evergreen niche. Now you may be asking, What is an evergreen niche? Well an evergreen niche is niche/market that will also be hot/profitable, a real good money maker.

Here are some evergreen niches:

Internet Marketing
Make Money Online
Weight Loss
Health
Finance

Now you can narrow these down even further such as sub-niches. For example lets say you pick Internet Marketing as your main niche. You can try to promote within this market but there is a ton of competition so you can narrow down your targeting market and choose something that you can actually focus on and make money rather quickly such as newbie internet marketers.

You can set up a blog such as this one and start posting good tips and advice to newbie internet marketers on how and what to do. You can now start looking for affiliate products you can promote on your blog to these newbies that will help them as well as give you a commission off of each sale.

Picking a niche should not be hard. It should be something you know, something you love ro are passionate about as well as something your can write about fairly easily.

If you need anymore help in picking a niche please feel free to leave comments on here. We will help you and answer your questions as soon as we can.

Step By Step Instructions For Creating Your First Blog At Blogger.com

People have asked me this before: "I want to make money online, but I don't have money to invest in it right now. I know I can use blogs to sell , but I don't even know how to start a blog. Can you please help me?"

Not to worry. I will explain on how to set up your first blog here on blogger.com. But before you can get a blog you would need to create a free Google account. You can create your own gmail email address by registering here: http://www.gmail.com

Now that you have created your Google account we can start the process of setting up and creating your first free blogger blog.

1) Go to Blogger.com, login in with your new Google gmail account and choose "Create Your Blog Now" to create your blog.

2) Enter the name or title of your blog here. For example, if your blog is on "Weigh Loss", you may want to put "Weight Loss Tips For Losing and Maintaining Your Weight" here. Choose a "keyword-rich title" domain preferably or an easy to remember domain name to reflect your personality or brand. i.e. weightlosstips101.blogspot.com

** if your domain that you want it taken then try other variations of your original one to find one that is available***

3) Next, choose your template. There are various blogger templates available, so pick your favorite template here. Click "Preview Template" so you can see what your blog will look like. If you don't like your template, you can always change it later.

4) Congratulations you just created your first blog at blogger.com!

5) Now, it's time to write your first blog post... You can starting writing your content. If you have nothing to write, leave it, you can always come back again. Remember to "Preview" your post first before you "Publish" your blog".

Now that you have your own blog you can start posting to it with relevant information and add product reviews for affiliate offers you think your readers would like and put to use.

Remember when you create your blog post try to make it around 500 words. That way you can rewrite your own blog post and use that rewrite to submit to the top article directories with links pointing back to your blog. This way you can get traffic from the directories themselves as well as ranking in the search engines because of the backlinks your are getting from these articles.

I will write a post about article marketing with rewriting your blog posts soon and will add a link to that here. It will be a step by step process so it will be easy to follow and do.

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You're Gonna Need Video If You Want To Rank On Google

Video is one of the most important of a group of website elements that have become known as “engagement objects”. Video engages website visitors and keeps them on your web page or blog post for a longer period of time.

At the 2009 Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, the head of one of the world's leading SEO firms revealed that Google had started to build video into its algorithm. Websites with “engagement objects”, such as video, will be received better by Google's algorithm and have a good chance to rank better.

As your competition starts adding video to their sites, it becomes vital that you have video on yours – if you want to compete. In fact, Bruce Clay – the SEO expert – stated that soon, if you don't have video on your site, you are just not going to be ranking.

Now is the time to get going with video. Get video capable now and you won't be having to play catch up later. In fact, right now you can get ahead of your competition.

And, video really does not have to be as difficult as some make it out to be. There's no need for expensive and complex equipment or software. In a 20-minute video, Kevin Riley shows you just how easy it is to get started with video – and how inexpensive. Click here to go watch this important video now.


P.S. I will post a way to get videos for free using a free program. I wil show you how to use it as well as how to promote your videos. This post should be ready in a week or so. So please keep on coming back to see when it is posted.

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What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a internet-based marketing method.

The best way to explain this is that it is a way to make money online in which you are rewarded for promoting other peoples products, services and/or site.

You are given a unique affiliate url. That url is how you send visitors to these products, services and sites. This unique url credits you with sending the visitor and if that visitor ends up in a sale then you get a predetermined amount of money, called a commission, credited to your account. In most cases this amount will be at least if not more than 50% if the retail price.

There are many ways to advertise products, services and sites your are an affiliate of.

The best way to start, in my opinion, is setting up a few blog here on blogger.com and start reviewing products on this blog and market it through article marketing. This is the free way to do it. Which is a great way to begin!

Affiliate Marketing Is Not Easy Money

A lot of people think that just setting up a site and adding tons of links to their affiliate products will make then rich. But that is not the case. The way to go here is slow and steady. Each day do something that will increase your blogs visibility on the blog/site.

The most important thing to remember about affiliate marketing is picking a niche you like or know to start off with. You can always expand your niches as you start making more money.

Now you may be asking, What is a niche? Well a niche is a market. For example, weight loss is a very popular niche. You can go even further and dig deeper in the weight loss niche into a sub-niche of that market such as weight loss recipes or weight loss by building muscle, weight loss diets, weight loss high protein diets and so on.

Setting A Schedule

You have to have a set schedule each and everyday. Take a look at this sample schedule and set up something similar to it. But make sure you follow it. You can have something set up and ready to go but if you don't do anything than nothing will ever happen. Just taking that first step is a huge milestone.

DAILY SCHEDULE

1) Write 3 new articles and submit them to the top 10 article directories

2) Search for new products I can add to my blog.

3) Add new post/pages to my blogs/sites

4) Bookmark and ping my new posts and pages

5) Visit online forums for my niche and post a few times. - This is about getting and becoming an authority in your niche. Try to answer questions with what you know and add a signature with links back to your blog/site.

6) Last thing I do is research long tail keywords so I know what to write my articles about the next day.

If you keep this up each and everyday for either 5-7 days per week you will see result!! I guarantee it!


Please leave us your comments. Ask anything you want regrading affiliate marketing/internet marketing in the comments we will try to answer you as soon as possible.

Welcome To make Money Online Academy

Welcome to make money online academy. This site will be to provide you information on ways to make money online using affiliate marketing, article marketing, ppc marketing, info product creation and marketing and many other ways of creating revenue streams.

We hope you will join us in our journey to start making real money online.

Thank you for visiting and please leave comments about what your experience is or has been with making money online as well as a little info about yourself.

I will try to update this blog as often as I can.