ebook How to Make Money Online With a Free Blog - For Newbies
This report is for complete
newbies and it explains the various ways that you can make money with a blogger
blog.
A Blog is a short name for "Weblog" and it is basically
a website that you can get for free and use for multiple different things.
In this case you will be using it for Internet marketing purposes
– more specific to sell products as an affiliate marketer and/or to make money
from clicks, via Google Adsense revenue.
A Blogger blog is a blog that you can get for FREE from
Blogger.com. They are owned and operated by Google, so if you have a Gmail
account or a Google Account, you can use your same login name and password as
that to log in and you don't even have to create a new account!
If you do not have an account with Google
already, you can create one forfree, at http://www.Blogger.com or Gmail.com.
Once you log in to blogger.com, you can create a
blog right away! You get your own domain name that will look something like this:
www.YourDomainName.Blogspot.com
Of course, you would replace
"YourDomainName" with whatever you want your URL to be. Most of the
time, people choose keywords that are popular search terms on, so that the blog
ranks higher on the search engines.
If you are in the weight loss niche, you might want to choose a
name like "LoseWeightFast.Blogspot.com" for example, because the term
"Lose Weight Fast" is a very popular search term and brings up over a
million results.
The fastest and easiest way to make money with a blog, is with
this formula: RB + AL + AM
+ T = $$$.
You might be saying, what the heck is that?
Don't panic, I hate math too...just watch how easy this is:
RB = "Review Blog" -
This is a blog that you will create with Blogger.com and you will use it to
post product reviews, about products that you are promoting as an affiliate.
AL = "Affiliate Links" -At the end of each product review,
you would include your affiliate link to the product you reviewed. Your
"affiliate link" is the URL that you send people to, so that you can
earn a commission on the product if they purchase it.
AM = "Article
Marketing" - By writing articles (or outsourcing them) you can drive
quality, targeted traffic to your blog.
T = "Traffic" - This
is the traffic you will receive from both the articles, as well as people who
are surfing Blogger.com for blogs in your category. The more popular of a niche
market you choose, the more traffic you will likely receive.
$$$ = MONEY! - This of course represents the money you will earn when
you make an affiliate sale! Think about it...this WHOLE ENTIRE process won't
cost you a dime. The blog is free, with blogger.com. Becoming an affiliate of
Clickbank.com, Amazon.com, Ebay.com and CJ.com are ALL 100% FREE. Writing and
submitting keyword optimized articles toEzineArticles.com or GoArticles.com is
also 100% FREE and that is all it takes to make money with a blog. Many big
name marketers and Warriors use this method to make tons of money...and the
more articles they have out there, the more money they make. If you choose to
outsource articles, this would be an expense and it could cost you anywhere
from $2 - $12per article for quality articles from a freelance writer.
OK, that was just the gist of it. Let me give you more elaborate
details and instructions so that you can start doing this right away.
Step 1 would be to sign up as an affiliate with Clickbank.com. <---At this link, you can sign up as an
affiliate for FREE, right away. Then, you can browse the marketplace for niches
and products that you want to promote! All you have to do is click the small
link at the top of the page that says "Marketplace."
The products over at Clickbank.com are "digital" products. A digital product is either an eBook or
a software application. The reason why they are called digital products is
because they can be downloaded immediately after purchase and there is no need
for shipping or sending a physical product. An 'eBook' as most of you know (but
remember this report is for complete newbies), is a book that can be read right
from your computer screen and can be downloaded immediately after purchase. You
can also print it out to read it if you prefer, or use one of those new
electronic eBook reading devices.
The great thing about the products on the
Clickbank.com marketplace, is that they offer stunningly high commissions to
their affiliates (you). Most of them offer a 75% commission! If you were
promoting an eBook that is $47,in the Weight Loss niche or the Make Money
Online niche, you would earn $32.50 for every copy you sell. The best part is,
you don't even have to sell them the eBook...the sales page that the product
creator made will do that for you. All you have to do is refer people to your
'affiliate link.'
An 'affiliate
link' is the link that is
provided to you, so that you can promote a particular product (of your choice).
This link will take the customer to the same EXACT page that the product
creator uses to sell the product, but it will have YOUR affiliate ID in the
URL. Your affiliate ID will be the username that you select for your Clickbank
account. Here is an example of an affiliate link:
http://YourAffiliateID.ProductName.Hop.Clickbank.Net
Of course, "YourAffiliateID" is replaced
with your actual username and the "Product Name" is the code name
that the product owner made for that product. You won't need to be guessing any
codes though, all you have to do is click on the link that says "Create
Hoplink" located underneath the listing of the product that you wish to
promote -- on the Clickbank Marketplace. After you select the category and
subcategory you will be taken to a page full of listings of products to
promote. You can view the product price, the commission percentage, and the
gravity. The gravity is how many people (affiliates) earned a commission on
that product in the past one or two week pay period. You can also view the
sales page, which is where your affiliate link will send people.
The magic of your affiliate link is that it takes the customer to
the same destination they would go to if they hadn't been referred by you. The
only difference is that since your affiliate code is hidden within the
link...you earn the commission and the money shows up right in your Clickbank
That's where the review blog comes in. If you write product reviews of three
Books on Clickbank, post them on your blog and then include your affiliate link
at the bottom of the review. A certain percentage of people who visit your blog
and read the reviews will click on your affiliate link. Out of those people, a
certain percentage of people will actually purchase the Book once they visit
the link. A common conversion rate is 2%. So, out of every 50 visitors to your
affiliate link, you should have 1 purchase. That would net you $32.50. It is
very easy to get 50 visitors to your blog and even much more.
Step 2 would be to sign up with Blogger.com. <---At this link, you can sign up for
Blogger.com for FREE --and start creating as many blogs as you want, right
away. You can be up and running in just minutes. If you don't have a Google
Mail account already (Gmail, Adwords, Adsense) you will have to create one, but
that is 100% free. Then, you will proceed to the "Create a Blog"
section, by clicking on the "Create a Blog" link.
Here you will create a name for your blog as well as a domain
name. The domain name will be the web address that people type into their
browser to get to your blog site. Depending on the product(s) that you are
promoting.
Step 3 would be to go back to the Clickbank.com Marketplace and choose a product or products to promote. Here you can pick a category and even a sub-category.
For instance, a popular niche is "Health and Fitness" and the most
popular sub-category of the Health and Fitness market is "Diet."
Step 4 would be to write a product
review about the product you choose to market. Remember, you are marketing a
product here...the product is already made.
It is your job to find the people who want/need the information you
are offering --and then give it to them. They will buy it if/when the sales
pitch sells itself.
But, you do NOT have to give or write the sales
pitch...the sales page for the product you're promoting will have one already
-- Most likely written by a professional sales copywriter. All you need to do
is guide people there, If you can not write a product review to
save your own life, you can easily outsource it to someone on the warrior
forum. A freelance writer would not charge too much for a product review for a
Clickbank product. You can expect to pay anywhere from $3 - $20 for a custom
written product review, depending on the writer and the word count of the
review.
Step 5 would be to add your affiliate link to the bottom of the product
review. It can be a short review, something like 250-500 words or more if you
wish. At the end, you can give a strong "Call to action" so that the
reader will be compelled to click on your affiliate link. Something like,
"To check out (ProductNameHere), visit their website at (Your Affiliate
Link) and (Something positive that the product will do for them --such as lose
9pounds in 11 days!)."
So, your call to
action at the end of the product review would look like this (if we were
promoting a weight loss product) example:
"To check out Fat Loss 4 Idiots, visit their website at:
http://YourAffiliateID.4idiots.hop.clickbank.net and learn how you can lose 9
lbs. in just 11 days!"
Step 6 would be to drive traffic to
your review blog. You don't just want any traffic going to your site, you want
'targeted' traffic. Targeted traffic is visitors who are actually interested in
the product that you are reviewing. They are in the market for what you are
offering basically. That is the beauty of niche marketing...you find the people
who need what you are offering and you simply give it to them. It's easy money,
and you are helping people at the same time.
The way to drive targeted traffic to your review
blog is to write articles for it and submit them to Ezinearticles.com and
GoArticles.com. These article directories are the top, most popular ones and
rank very well on the search engines --especially Ezinearticles.com. If you
write articles in the niches that you are promoting, and you give away some
good information and of course include a link to your review blog in your
resource box at the end of each article, you will have targeted traffic to your
blog, which will convert into sales, which means you will earn affiliate
commissions!
Step 7 includes additional methods of driving quality, targeted traffic
to your blog. This includes (but is not limited to) back link building, social
networking, pinging your blog, paying for traffic via Pay-Per-Click
advertising, traffic exchanges (not so great), offline advertising such as
business cards, classified ads, yellow pages, etc. The more targeted leads you
drive to your website...the more sales
you will make. It's simple, but it does take work.
There you have it. This simple, yet effective
method of creating a review blog to market affiliate products costs nothing to
do and can earn an potentially unlimited income. Depending on how much traffic
you drive to your blog and the conversion rates, you can build a $20,000 per
month business or more using this exact model.
Good luck and I wish you the best of success with
your blogging.
Now go and make some money!
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