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Monday, November 7, 2011

One Cent Links - Link Share

Here's my link for onecentlinks.com. Everyone post their one cent links link and click everyone elses link!

http://onecentlinks.com/?l=1OJ3WOPWOHRWHH
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

One Cent Links

OneCentLinks .com offers $0.01 per click. That's seems almost too good to be true, especially when something like that can be cheated. I won't go into how as I'm planning to continue using this service and I don't want anyone messing that up.

When I initially found onecentlinks.com I was skeptical, like most people would be. To often do people get scammed with these sorts of things. One Cent Links doesn't even ask you to sign up, it's so easy. So, I figured I'd try it and do it the honest way, post to friends and try to gather 50 clicks. I thought, well, if it doesn't work, one cent links is just another too good to be true make money site. I didn't put much effort into it yet b/c of this fact. It went fairly quickly, I got my 50 "onecentlinks" in a day. I requested a cash out shortly after and within a few hours this appeared in my paypal :)


Thank you one cent links! They seem to be paying out. So get on it while it lasts. I'm sure not going to stop using onecentlinks.

Here's my link if you'd be so kind as to click it
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Do this or your blog will never make money

If you don't do research, your blog will never get traffic or make money. Research is like doing your math homework - if you don't do your homework, you will fail. If you are planning to start a blog to make money, you must do your homework. Proper research will lead to your eventual successful blog.

This is the most important step in the blogging process. You can have the most well designed, developed site, but without the proper market you will not make a single cent. Finding your niche market is the most important step, which can be broken into 3 steps
  1. Use Google Keyword Tool
  2. Check Long Tail Keywords
  3. Check Competition
If you are not knowledgeable on how to do the above, this blog is for you. And you should check out the eBook I've written here: http://findmynichemarket.com/. It clearly details every step - even a beginner can do it. In it, I tell you exactly how I make $3000 a month through the use of detailed text and pictures.

So let's start
You niche should be something you enjoy. For example "gardening". Hopefully you were thinking about starting a blog about gardening because that's not gonna get you anywhere. That's way too broad to be a niche

What you should do is....
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Find My Niche Market

The most important step to starting a micro niche website is finding that micro niche. I cannot stress this enough – keyword and competition research is the MOST IMPORTANT part of this guide. Market research is an integral part of all business, not just online businesses.

Let’s use an example to illustrate my point. Let’s say you live in Bakertown and all it’s residences are bakers and all the shops are bakeries (over 100000 bakeries). You decide you want to open a bakery in this town because you are a baker. So, you go to the bank, get a loan and open a shop. In 2 months, you are forced to close because you haven’t sold a single item and your loans ran out.

I’m sure you’re saying to yourself, “Why the hell would you open a bakery in a town with so many bakeries?” EXACTLY! Why would you open a bakery in a market that’s so saturated? You wouldn’t because you would have done your research.

You would not want to enter a market that is so heavily saturated that you will be competing with everyone else because you sell the same exact thing.

The difference between a storefront and an online business is that the internet provides a cheap and easy medium to start that business. The costs to start online are a mere fraction of the costs for renting a store, having inventory, and hiring employees.

No matter how good you are at SEO (Search Engine Optimization), designing, coding, or writing, you will not make money online without doing your homework. Proper competition and keyword research will save you tons of time and resources, as it will take less effort to rank, and you will make sure there are enough searches to generate a proper income. Too many people just pick any random keyword expect to rank, and profit, this is simply not the case! Research is CRITICAL!

Keywords
Keywords are words or phrases that people search for on search engines: for example “Golf Gloves” is a keyword.

To maximize your profits and for the purpose of this guide, we will be targeting buyer keywords as opposed to information seeking keywords. Buyer keywords are used by people who are looking to buy something and not looking to browse. People searching using buyer keywords are more likely to click on advertisements and affiliate links you provide.


Examples or Buyer Keywords
Product names. Writing content for a product is easy because you can do it in the form of a review for that product. They are also better targets for you because these keywords tend to convert to sales more frequently = more money from advertisers for YOU!

A niche market is a sub-market of a greater one. But, to find a good market, you need to find a sub-sub-sub-sub-market.

Examples:
“Golf Gloves” – Starting keyword
“Golf Gloves for Women” – Niche!

“Fondant” – Starting keyword
“Vegan Fondant”- Niche!

Remember, not all keywords are created equal. This is where research comes in. Depending on the niche, payouts will be different. For example the healthcare/finance niches tend to pay the highest, and the video gaming niche the lowest. Top paying keywords are always highly competitive, and when you are starting out targeting these types of keywords make it very difficult to rank!

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How To Find A Niche

It's not hard to start an online business. You don't need to know how to code or design web materials. You can make lots of money online, you just have to know how. There are several steps and each step is giant in itself. This page and blog focuses on the first and most important step: Finding your niche. A niche is a specific product aimed at satisfying specific market needs. Laid out, on this page, are the steps you will need to take to find a niche market suitable for you and your future.

Step 1

Let me just repeat:
Finding a niche is the most important step in the process of starting an online business
Let's use an example to illustrate my point. Let's say you live in Bakertown and all it's residences are bakers and all the shops are bakeries (over 100000 bakeries). You decide you want to open a bakery in this town because you are a baker. So, you go to the bank, get a loan and open a shop. In 2 months, you are forced to close because you haven't sold a single item and your loans ran out.

I'm sure you're saying to yourself, "Why the hell would you open a bakery in a town with so many bakeries?" EXACTLY! Why would you open a bakery in a market that's so saturated? You wouldn't because you would have done your research.

The same goes for online business.
You would not want to enter a market that is so heavily saturated that you will be competing with everyone else because you sell the same exact thing.
The difference between a storefront and an online business is that the internet provides a cheap and easy medium to start that business. The costs to start online is a mere fraction of the costs for renting a store, having inventory, and hiring employees.

This ease of creation lures people in with promises of grandeur. I'm sure you've seen it: "Set up your site and make $1000 a day!" or "Make money blogging!". Those are both true but they leave out the part where you have to work hard and do TONS of research.

Let's continue with the baker example but move this one to an online business strategy. Let's say you are a baker and want to sell baking supplies. You don't have the money to have inventory so you decide to drop ship the products. With this method, you will have very little costs and it is easy to set up. After some marketing, your retail store remains on page 15 of Google and you have 0 sales.

Notice the missing step? This example does not include the research stage - finding a niche. Even though baking may be something you want to pursue, that does not mean it's a viable market. A quick Google search for "baking supplies" returns companies like Amazon, Williams-Sanoma and even Ikea. You do not want to be competing against giant companies like those, not to mention the other people who also wanted to start a baking supply store. This market is saturated and you would not want to enter it.
You need to pick a niche and refine it even more
Let's quickly regurgitate what the internet tells you about finding a niche.It's really quite simple, I can summarize it as:
  • Pick a hobby
  • Something you like
  • An activity or an object (baking is our example)
What they don't mention is the market research that goes into finding one that will make you money. And let's be honest with ourselves here:
We start online businesses for the money. Might as well pick something we like.
I call it a business rather than blog because its purpose is to make you money. Don't waste your time working on something you despise (like a website about spiders), have fun while you work.

Let's continue with our baking example and go through the process of finding a suitable niche. There are many variables and you have to plan all of them to find a niche. We know that we want to do something with baking. The term "baking" is much too broad. A simple search in Google for "baking" returns 118 million results from recipes to cookware. This market is not something you would want to focus your business on. You want to refine your hobby to a small part of it.
A niche is very specific and does not satisfy ALL of the market...just one very specific segment of that market.
A niche market is a sub-market of a greater one. But, to find a good market, you need to find a sub-sub-sub-sub-market.

Baking - That's the category
custom cakes - A sub-category
sugar free custom cake - Almost a niche
sugar free fondant - A niche!
sugar free gluten free cakes - Another niche!
sugar free gluten free vegan cakes - A super micro niche!
vegan fondant - A niche!

Think about your market - it would be bakers or regular people who want to bake cakes but have specific dietary needs. Your online business could be a blog with recipes or a retail store that sells pre-made fondant product. Your niche would be sugar-free, gluten-free, and vegan products for the custom cake baker/decorator.

What you need to do is refine your hobby down to a small niche area like I did above.

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