A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Setup a Money Making Website
Posted by Alan Mater on Mar 4, 2010
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Learn how to build a website and make money by monetizing and marketing it. This no-cost, step-by-step guide will show you from start to finish how to build a money making website.
From preparation, finding affiliate programs, getting a domain name and hosting, building your website, adding content and marketing your website, this guide will help you every step of the way.
At only 13 pages long, it provides simple and easy to understand instructions that you can put into practice immediately.
Experienced webmasters and marketers won’t find anything new here. Complete beginners who are looking to start their own website and start making money online will find this guide very useful.
There are two main components to building a website: A domain name and web hosting. This guide will explain the process of registering a domain name and getting web hosting. From there, you’ll learn about affiliate marketing and how to earn commissions promoting other people’s products and services.
The key ingredient to making a website profitable is building traffic to your website. This guide will explain some proven techniques to market your website and generate targeted traffic to your site.
Again, this guide is mainly to help complete beginners. So, if that’s you, I highly recommend you grab your FREE copy now. You’ll be well on your way to building a money making website within a week or less.
There is absolutely zero cost. You don’t even have to give up your e-mail address. Free meaning really free.
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You can simply right-click on the link and choose “Save Target” to download directly to your computer.
If you read this post where I stated I’ll pay you $10 for signing up for a new website and hosting, that offer still stands if you build a website through my links in this guide. I’ll also be available to answer any questions you have about building and marketing your new website.
I’m in the business of helping people, and this one way I can do just that. Let me help you make money online starting today.
February 2010 Blog Post Roundup
Posted by Alan Mater on Mar 1, 2010
Another month has gone by. Seriously… is it going as fast as I think it is? I seem to keep losing more and more time each day and getting further behind on stuff. I apologize for the minimal amount of posts. I’m doing my best to keep up and provide quality content to you all.
Alas, another time for a blog post roundup of last month’s posts. I have some awesome posts included in this, as well as some awesome ones to come. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them so far and have benefited from them.
I don’t take my blogging lightly. I put a lot of thought into what I’m writing and always have you, my readers, in mind. As always, your feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
Okay, without further delay let’s get started. Be sure to check out any posts you may have missed.
Affiliate Marketing is the New Job on the Market
30 Ways to Get Free Website Traffic In Minutes
Are You a Struggling Internet Marketer?
Proven Strategies to Increase Website Traffic and Generate Sales
Legitimate Worldwide Work From Home Opportunities
Are You Targeting ‘Paying’ Keywords?
How I Get Backlinks to My Blog Posts Resulting in Sales
Google Celebrates Valentine’s Day – They Gave Me $100!
The Official Alibaba.com Success Guide
I was very pleased to see the first post on this list had gotten Re-Tweeted 27 times so far. Thank you to all who spread the word to your Twitter followers.
The Twitter Tweetmeme plugin has proven to work well and makes it easy for Twitter users to Re-Tweet posts. If you’re not yet utilizing it on your own blog, you should be.
Again, thank you to all my readers!
Proven Strategies to Increase Website Traffic and Generate Sales
Posted by Alan Mater on Feb 20, 2010
Okay, here it is. This post is going to contain the simple yet effective techniques I have learned during my time online to generate targeted traffic and generate sales. These are strategies I’m using for my own online business and have found to be working well and improving over time.
If you’ve been following along with us, my last post was about a struggling internet marketer who is reaching out in a desperate attempt to generate sales with his affiliate marketing website.
One of the questions asked was, “How do I drive traffic to my site that can generate sales?”
This is going to be the topic of this post, and I’ll be going very in-depth, starting with the basics and moving towards the more advanced strategies.
I apologize in advance if this turns into a very lengthy post, but please bare with me as it will be well worth your time to read through everything.
So let’s begin, shall we?
The very first thing you must understand is that everything revolves around keywords. Keywords are the life-blood of websites and how they become seen by internet users using search engines.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the foundation of using keywords effectively, and this is how you’re going to target specific internet users to generate sales online.
Rather than going in-depth on the subject of SEO on this post, I have a few previous posts that should cover this subject thoroughly enough for you to understand. Please check them out, and if you have questions use the comment section:
Optimizing your web page for specific keywords is critical and is the foundation for which you’ll build the rest of your marketing efforts upon. Seriously, nothing else matters until you’ve done this. Don’t ignore it!
One thing I’ve learned is that backlinks are KING. Okay, so content is still KING, but backlinks are a very close second, and here’s why. Backlinks to your website or web pages are what helps to drive your site or pages higher in search engine results pages when someone searches for a specific keyword phrase. See how this is coming together?
Without building backlinks to your site, you won’t generate enough traffic to your site to generate sales. Now I know what you’re thinking here. There are other ways to generate traffic without building backlinks, and that’s true. However, the best traffic is free search engine traffic, and the only way to get it is to rank on the first page in Google, or Yahoo and Bing. I’d focus on Google as it produces over 70% of search traffic across the entire web.
Now that you understand the importance of building backlinks and getting your site or web pages to the top of search engines, you now need to start the backlink building process. There are numerous ways to go about this, and luckily for you, I’ve written many posts on the subject. Here they are:
- Improve Search Engine Rankings the Easy Way
- 80 High PR One Way Backlinks Each Month
- Build Long-Term Traffic to Your Work From Home Site with Article Marketing
- Build Your Online Business with Article Marketing
- Forum Signatures
- Free Traffic System
Remember when building backlinks that you want to use your keywords for the web page you’re linking to. This is the only way that your backlinks are going to be effective in boosting your search engine rankings.
Okay, so you now have a great start in getting backlinks; however, I’m not done just yet. 
Well… sorta. I have a post planned that will discuss another very effect backlink building strategy and will be posted soon, so stay tuned for that.
Hopefully right now you have a solid understanding of doing keyword research and web page optimization, and how it all ties in to building backlinks. This is all part of building targeted website traffic that will result in sales.
As always, if you have any questions about anything discussed here, post them in the comments section.
My next post will discuss the second question asked by a struggling internet marketer, but in the meantime, start applying the tips I mentioned today to your website, and you’ll soon see an increase in traffic and internet income.
5 Things You MUST Do To Make Money Online
Posted by Alan Mater on Jan 30, 2010
Going off from what I wrote yesterday about why you will never make money online, I thought I’d provide some advice on what you can do to ensure that you DO make money online. This may have something to do with a reader unsubscribing from my RSS feed. I don’t know. Perhaps I struck a chord or was too harsh. Either way, the truth is the truth, and there’s no point in sugar-coating it.
So anyway, I want to give you some tips that will help you make money online, especially if you fall into any of the 3 areas that I posted about yesterday.
1. Learn the Skills – No this isn’t high school or college all over again, although it can feel like it at times (I didn’t go to college, BTW). There are skills that you will have to learn and obtain. This can be done through reading blogs or visiting forums. Find a few people that you trust and who are providing valuable information that you can apply to your online business. Yes, this will take time and actual work. Consider it homework, if you will. If you have to, get a mentor to ensure you’re going in the right direction.
2. Make Time! – This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Too many people complain about not having enough time to do things. Well that can be true to a degree, but there’s always ways in which you can better manage your time in order to make time for the things you say you don’t have time for. You’ll need all the time you can get building and marketing your online business, so you better learn to manage your time wisely.
3. Set Goals – I used to have a problem of not setting goals for my business. Now that I set goals, it encourages me to do what I have to do in order to reach those goals. Learn to set goals for yourself. They don’t have to be big ones, but set little baby goals that will act as stepping stones towards your big, ultimate goal.
4. Re-invest Your Money – Thanks to the internet you no longer need a lot of money to start your own business. In fact, depending on what you decide to do, you can get started for free. However, at some point, you’re going to want to re-invest the money you’re making back into your business. Use it to start a website, do some marketing, buy advertising, etc. Hire freelancers to do most of the leg work if you want. In simple terms, use your money to grow your business, otherwise it may stay stagnant.
5. Choose your programs carefully – I believe this is where most people fail. With so many programs and opportunities out there, choosing which one to go with can be very difficult. It’s important that you do your research before rushing into a decision. Once you do pick the program, believe in it with all your heart. If you don’t have faith in the program you’re promoting, no one else will either.
Got anything to add? Leave your thoughts in the comments below…
6 Tips To Help You Reach Online Success
Posted by Alan Mater on Jan 27, 2010
Creating a successful online business requires work, patience and positive thinking. You may even find yourself getting help from mentors that will guide you on the right path.
However, no matter how much help you receive, and no matter how much you learn, you can still fail. I’m not trying to scare you, but the statistics don’t lie. Most people never reach success because they end up giving up too early. They either underestimated the amount of work required, just got tired of it or got too far in over their heads. And then some quit due to financial restrictions.
This doesn’t have to be you. A recent article I wrote titled, Do You Have What it Takes to Succeed? will provide you with 6 tips to help you keep on track and not give up.
In case you’re in a hurry, here are the 6 tips to take to heart:
1. Plan
2. Stay Focused
3. Dedication
4. Buy a System that Works
5. Work Smarter, Not Harder
6. Review Your Progress From Time to Time
Points 2 and 3 I feel are the most important because this is where so many fail, and ultimately fail at reaching success working from home.
Do you have any tips to add that have helped you reach success? Share them below…
What Do You Plan To Accomplish In 2010?
Posted by Alan Mater on Jan 8, 2010
2009 was a great year as I started seeing momentum with my online business. I learned a lot about what I need to do, and also about what I don’t want to do. Everything is a learning experience that I can take with me and improve upon.
Now that we’re a full week into 2010, I’m starting to plan how I’m going to build up my online business to reach even greater heights. Planning and evaluation is an important process no matter what kind business you’re in. I need to evaluate the areas where I can improve, and then plan how I’m going to do so.
Along with planning, this is the time to set goals that you want to accomplish. The goals should be realistic and achievable. Don’t set them too high, but at the same time you don’t want to set them too low as you’ll only be cheating yourself.
When it comes to making money online, many prefer building multiple niche sites to earn income from. This is a great avenue to go down and may be easier than building just one authority site.
However, I personally want to focus my time on building ReplaceYourSalary.com as an authority site and blog. That has always been my intention from the start, and right now I don’t see that changing.
Eventually, I may pan out and start diversifying my efforts into some smaller niches, but that won’t happen until I have met my goals for this site.
I’m slowly getting there, but I have a long way to go before I reach the amount of growth and income I expect to get from this site. The potential is and always has been there. 2009 was very evident of that.
My goal for 2010 is to have systems in place that are going to help me reach my desired income. Systems can be anything from having the right people for the job, to having the right processes in place.
This means I’m going to be outsourcing a good majority of work this year in regards to marketing my website. This I feel is the only way I’m going to be able to be most productive and achieve the goals I have set for myself. I’ll still be doing a good portion myself, but there are some areas I’d rather leave to someone else.
There are also new processes I have learned and will implement this year that should dramatically boost my site and earnings. I’ll mainly be focusing on Web 2.0 sites and article marketing. This combination has proven to be effective, and I need to start utilizing this marketing strategy.
Another area I need to do more with is video marketing. I hadn’t done much on YouTube last year, and I want to change that this year. Video is an incredible medium with so much potential. I want to really grow my OnlineWealth channel up and get more exposure with my current videos and also future videos.
Specific goals I have set for this year are:
- At least $1,000/month income
- Blog minimum of 4 posts a week
- Alexa Rank – 100,000 or less
These are the main areas I’ll be focusing on this year. Like most people, time is my biggest concern. This is why I’ll be outsourcing some work so that I can focus on other areas of my online business. If you look at all of the successful internet marketers and online business owners, every single one of them outsources. It’s time for me to follow that successful pattern.
What do you plan to accomplish this year? What are some goals you have for yourself personally or for your business? Share them in the comments below…
December Blog Post Roundup
Posted by Alan Mater on Jan 2, 2010
December was a very busy month for offline commitments, not to mention Christmas celebration and New Year’s.
I was able to post a considerable amount, although not as much as I would like. I did however meet one of my goals, and that was to get my Alexa Rank down to 250,000 or less. The lowest reached was 245,449.
I was happy to reach my accomplishment, and I have my readers to thank for that. Thank you! 2009 was a great year, and I look forward to great things to come in 2010.
Let’s recap the posts for December:
Work From Home With Affiliate Marketing
How To Avoid Getting Scammed With Work From Home Jobs
Make Money With CPA Affiliate Networks
Where Can You Find Legitimate Work From Home Jobs?
Finding The Right Legitimate Work From Home Job For You
I’m giving away $10 – Limited Offer – If you’re new here, I highly recommend you check out this post.
Do Legitimate Work From Home Jobs Exist?
That wraps up December and the 2009 year.
I wish everyone a very happy and successful 2010. Let’s make it the best year yet!
Do Legitimate Work From Home Jobs Exist?
Posted by Alan Mater on Dec 31, 2009
I wrote a recent article titled Legitimate Work From Home Jobs – Are They Really Legitimate?
In the article I talk about finding an online or offline job that you can do from home. When searching for a job, be sure to do proper research before jumping into it. If you want to start your own local business, take time to plan and investigate every avenue and opportunity that exists.
If you want to work online from home, you’re going to need to learn a few things first. Since you’re reading this you already have a computer and internet connection… a must for working online. Proper training and guidance is highly recommended if you pursue this route. It’s important to have an area of interest that you can start into an online business.
If you’re interested in going the online route, check out my last post titled I’m giving away $10 – Limited Offer. I’ll help you get started in the right direction.
No matter what you decide, just be aware that legitimate work from home jobs do exist. Explore your options and do your research. Now’s the time to make it happen. 2010 could be your year.
I wish all of my readers a Happy New Year. I look forward to great new things to come in the new year. Let’s make it a great success!
Finding The Right Legitimate Work From Home Job For You
Posted by Alan Mater on Dec 24, 2009
In my previous post, Where Can You Find Legitimate Work From Home Jobs?, I talked about how to go about finding jobs, both online and offline. Jobs that you can do working from home.
This post is going to cover finding legitimate work from home jobs that are right for you. Jobs that you’re actually interested in and have a passion for. I wrote an article on the subject that provides some tips that should prove useful. Check it out here: Legitimate Work From Home Jobs – Finding the Right Job For You.
An online job, or work from home job, is a lot different than a normal 9-5 job. You’re your own boss, and you can set your own hours. It takes discipline and focus. Because of this, it’s imperative that you have an interest in a specific area. What are you passionate about? What do you have a burning desire for?
The answer to those questions will help in your overall decision on which job is right for you. Let’s face it… you don’t want a job that you hate, right? You might have one of them now, but when you’re working for yourself, you want to enjoy what you’re doing.
As I explained in my previous post, I enjoy what I do and have a passion for it. Finding a work from home job that you have a passion for will make all the difference.
Where Can You Find Legitimate Work From Home Jobs?
Posted by Alan Mater on Dec 23, 2009
This is probably a question that gets asked all too often, and for good reason, really. There’s many people looking to work from home, and finding legitimate opportunities can be a downright pain. It doesn’t have to be, though.
I just wrote a recent article: Legitimate Work From Home Jobs – Where to Find Them providing some simple steps you can take right now.
It’s going to be a time-consuming process, as you need to define your goals, needs and interests. These should all line up with the job you’re interested in. There are literally thousands of opportunities out there, both offline and online. It’s not something you want to rush into.
Here’s a short story about how I started working online (If you even care lol)…
5 years ago when I was working a full-time job, I had the desire to work for myself. I knew people were making money online, so I started searching for jobs or opportunities. I used search engines like Google and MSN (at the time) and looked at hundreds of results.
I eventually came across the Plug-In Profit Site (my affiliate link) which introduced me to affiliate marketing. I haven’t looked back since. Just a year and a half ago I decided to venture into proofreading and re-writing, as I felt I had a natural skill for those things.
Both affiliate marketing and proofreading/re-writing are something I’m highly interested in and have a passion for. This is essential when looking to work from home.
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