Squidoo can Help You Make Money Online

Squidoo.com is getting more and more popular. Whether you are a beginner or have already started an online business, Squidoo can benefit you. Squidoo is a web 2.0 website that allows users that create their own webpages to express their though, share knowledge, promote their business and more.

For beginners, Squidoo allows them to publish their very first web page on the Internet without requiring HTML knowledge and without spending any money. For business owners and webmasters, Squidoo may help in increasing their online earning, websites traffic and perhap a little boost on their search engines rankings. So how to use your own Squidoo's len (webpage) to increase your website traffic and online revenue? Here are two effective ways:

1) Make your Squidoo len (webpage) ranks first page in Squidoo. There are many people search information in Squidoo, so your squidoo len will get traffic ranking high in Squidoo. If you promote your own website in your Squidoo len, you may expect some traffic from your len.

2) Make your Squidoo len (webpage) ranks first page in Google. I have seen some Squidoo lens ranks first pages in Google for several highly competitive keywords. This is a great way to get a lot of traffic consistently to your len and website. And there is no surprise if you make a lot of sales.

I want to tell you more about Squidoo if I can, unfortunately I still have no success in Squidoo. If you want to learn more about squidoo, I suggest you Join SquidooSecrets.com. SquidooSecrets.com is created by Bob Jenkins (Bob's len ranks no 1 in Google) to teach people about squidoo marketing strategies.

TubeTraffic - Guide to Free Traffic from Youtube.com

I just read an interesting e-book called Tubetraffic. It is an e-book that teaches people how to use videos to drive free traffic from Youtube.com. The book contains plenty of useful information and tips about Youtube marketing for your online business. Here are some of thing you can learn from TubeTraffic:

- What type of videos work, what kind of videos that get attention, generate buzz and send traffic to your website.

- What equipments you can use to create and edit your own videos.

- How to brand the video with your company name and site URL using free (and easy to use) video editing software.

- How to to add effects like titles, credits, transitions, and soundtracks to make your video an exciting multimedia experience.

- And more tips.

I have been given license to distribute this e-book and uploaded this e-book to a file sharing website. If you interested to read it, you download it here.

Free Online Store to Sell Clickbank's Stuff

1Clickaffiliate.com is currently offering free online store. Anyone can sign up with 1clickaffiliate.com to get a Clickbank store plugs in with over 10,000 Clickbank products that are ready to sell. Here are the main features of the 1clickaffiliate.com store:

* You can choose to use your own domain name or a subdomain of 1clickaffiliate.com for your store.

* Free hosting and no HTML knowledge required.

* Loaded with more than 10,000 products with weekly products update and sorted by categories and sub-categories.

* Dozens of templates to select and you can add your own articles and content to the store.

* Make money with AdSense by displaying your AdSense ads on the store. All you need to do is typing in your AdSense Publisher code.

Click here to try this free service.

Start Making Money on Craigslist - Some Tips and Ideas

Craigslist.org is a unique ad site that brings buyers and sellers together. It is a free ad site. Anyone with a valid email address can sign up as a member of Craigslist and start posting ad. The simple way to make money with Craigslist is by posting ads on the site to sell your items. Craigslist isn't similar to auction site like eBay.com. Craigslist.org is specialized in providing free classified ad services to Internet users.

There are numerous categories in Craigslist.org, you can post an ad for just about anything for sale on Craigslist. But, don't straight away post an ad to sell your item on Craigslist before doing some researches first. Check out a number of categories to see what types of ads people are posting; what items they are offering for sale on Craigslist. This gives you have an idea of what sort of items that people often like to post an ad on Craigslist to sell them.

Then, you will need to decide what to sell. Some good choices are car parts, furniture, arts, baby items, crafts items and pet items. Once you have decided what product to sell, the next thing to do is take a few good photos on each of your items and then list them in the right category. Your ad copy will have a great influence on both attracting potential buyers and generating sales. So, you may need to take some time to learn and research how to write a good ad. The ad period is 45 days and after that it will expire. You can always re-list it when it expired.

You may be getting inquiries from the viewers. Make sure you reply to all their questions as soon as possible. If you want your ad to appear near the top of the page often, you will need to cancel your ads every week and re-list them. As your ad listings getting older, they will drops down toward the bottom of the page until no one will notice them. This is why you should keep removing and re-lisiting your ad in every 7 days or less.

Your potential buyers who come to Craigslist to find products or services will find your ads. But, to get even more viewers, it is necessary to put some effort to market your Craigslist ad listing on other places. If you own a website, you can tell your visitors about your Craigslist ad listing. You can also promote it on forums by adding the link to your ad in your signature. Or you may think about using article marketing. Publish articles relevant to your items or Craigslist ads on article banks. In the author bio section of your articles, include the link to your ad so that the interested readers can find your ads.

These are some of the techniques to increase your Craigslist ad views which will give you better chance of selling the item. Another way is to list different items in many categories. The more items you offer for sale, the more likely that someone will make a purchase.

Another idea to make money with Craigslist is by visiting yard sales to purchase used items such as furniture, small appliances, and lawn mowers. Once these items are refurbishes, they can be sold on Craigslist for a profit.

All the above are just a few tips and ideas for making money on Craigslist.org. I am sure that you will think up many more when you have started in Craigslist.

Latest Update on Google AdSense: AdSense Referrals Retire

I got an email from Google AdSense team this morning informing me that Google will soon retiring their existing feature, Adsense Referrals. The AdSense Referrals allow publishers to display cost-per-action (CPA) Google ads and earn commission when a visitor click through a CPA ad to an advertiser site and completed a desired action on the advertiser's site. The desired action can be a sale, lead or a sign up.

The AdSense Referrals will end during the last week of August. I expect that the end of AdSense Referrals will not affect much the earning of most publishers since they are not many publishers relying it to generate income.

The end of AdSense Referrals is the born of Google Affiliate Network. In the email, Google also introduced their new release of Google Affiliate Network which is designed to be an alternative of AdSense Referrals. Just like AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network lets publishers to apply for advertiser programs, display ads and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions. Find out more about Google Affiliate Network here.

Make Money Online by Displaying Text Ads on Your Web Pages

I like to introduce you a new text link broker that you can use to sell text links on your site and blog. It is called BackLinks.com. The link services offered by Backlinks.com are very similar to Text-Link-Ads.com. They offer an online marketplace where links buyers can find links sellers to order text link ads.

As a blogger or webmaster, you can register for a publisher account on Backlinks.com and start making money by selling text link ads on your site. You may sell text links on any web pages and the page the can help you earn most money is your homepage. How much money you can sell for each text link will be determined by the Pagerank of your pages. Backlinks.com will place your site or blog into their database and promote it to the interested advertisers. So, there is no marketing effort needed on your part to get a text link sold.

Backlinks.com also has an affiliate program that pays you $25 for each new publisher referred by you that sells at least 1 text link through Backlinks. If you worry that selling text links could negatively affect your Google Pagerank or get penalized by Google, then you may consider joining their affiliate program.

How PLR Content can Help You Make Money Blogging

If you are making money online by blogging, you probably require to create a lot of fresh and unique content on an on-going basis. Unless you are passionate about writing and have a lot of ideas to share, or you will find it hard to produce unique content consistently for long term.

You may find a ghostwriter to write quality posts for your blog regularly. This is a good solution to your content creation problem but the cost is just too expensive for long term. So, you may use a better solution which is invite as many guess bloggers as possible to write for your blog. But, unless your blog is so popular that gained massive traffic every day, or you wouldn’t be able to invite many guest bloggers so that you can have guest posts published regularly on your blog.

So, what should you do if you want to make money blogging for long term but having the difficulty of creating quality content on a regular basis?

I would suggest you use PLR (Private Label Rights) articles and e-books. PLR articles and e-books let you claim authorship of the content and you can change the content in any way you want.

Here’s how PLR content can help you make money blogging:

1. Purchase PLR articles, then edit and customize them so that you can publish them on your blog. All you need to do is to look for PLR articles relevant to your niche or topic, rewrite them so that they become unique articles. By putting in your ideas and knowledge during the re-writing process, you can turn those PLR content into quality articles for publishing on your blog. PLR articles sites like http://www.yourownarticles.com and http://www.infogoround.com provide hundreds of PLR articles in different niches every month and they also allow you to access and use thousands of their previous PLR articles. So, they can help you create unique blog posts for long period of time.

2. Purchase PLR e-books, put your name on the e-books and then let your readers download them at no cost. Just add an opt-in form on your homepage, those interested readers will sign up with their name and email address to get your e-books. This will make your blog helpful to the readers and also you will gather the readers email address where you can later send them more valuable information and promote them your affiliate products.

3. PLR content not just helping you solve the blog posts creation difficulty but also useful for attracting traffic to your blog. As you have bought PLR content, you can compile your articles into a special report. Take some time and work to edit the content; if possible add in your own knowledge to make the report unique, include related links to your blog posts and then distribute it on the Internet. You can submit the report to e-books directories, post it on the forums and send it to your opt-in subscribers to attract people download your report. When people read your report, they will see the links to your blog posts and click them to visit your blog pages.

PLR products are fairly cheap. They are very useful resources for creating unique and targeted content. If you're frequently out of content ideas, think about using PLR content for your blog marketing business.

Traffic Secrets 2.0 Videos Guide You to Building More Online Wealth

The Internet marketing leading expert, John Reese will be launching his new info product, Traffic Secrets 2.0. To promote his new info product, he has created two training videos.

In the videos, John shared one of his powerful strategies of generating traffic that will help you earn more website revenue. He calls the strategy 'Results Detection'.

The strategy is about using the free websites and tools on the Internet to analyze and find out what works and work don't. Let says you want to drive a lot of free traffic from social bookmarking sites by getting your blog posts featured on the front page, the results detection method will identify for you what sort of posts are attracting a lot of bookmarks and reaching front page on social bookmarking sites.

The results detection method can be applied in multiple ways. You can use it to find what items are selling well in a particular niche, improve your search engine rankings, lower your AdWords cost and many more.

I just watched the first video and still haven't able to pick up everything, so I can't explain much about this strategy. If you are interested to learn it, I suggest you watch the video now at http://www.trafficsecrets.com.

Make Money with a Website - Traffic and Conversion are The Keys to Success

Is your website making as much money as you expected? If the answer is no, you probably lack of one or both of the following things: traffic and conversion.

In order to generate income through your website, both the traffic and conversion are necessary. Your website may be getting a lot of targeted traffic, but if most of the traffic don't convert into sales, AdSense revenue, affiliate commission or opt-in leads; you wouldn't make much money. The result is similar if your website have great conversion rate but lack of traffic.

These are the difficulties that many web publishers will encounter. The experienced affiliate marketer, Matthew Glanfield realized these and he set up a training site, BBO Traffic Club to help you.

The BBO Traffic Club will provide you a series of video tutorial, articles and other training material about generating traffic and improving conversion. You can get all these useful resources and training material absolutely free by becoming a member of BBO Traffic Club.

Define Success Before You Start

Do we cheer on the underdog when we watch a movie? Of course we do. Something inside of us wants to see that individual succeed against whatever odds they face? Why? Because in every underdog we see a bit of ourselves.

If they can succeed then maybe we can, too. If they can take on the world and win maybe there is personal hope after all.

Of course no one wants to admit that, but I think it’s true.

For most the definition of success is finding a sense of financial freedom. That doesn’t have to be thought of in terms of being ‘filthy rich’. Many would simply be happy to have fewer debts and a greater potential to enjoy the time and wealth they have acquired with individuals that mean something to them.

These are the people I want to talk to. These are the individuals that may be prime candidates for a change in direction.

The struggle many face when it comes to achieving success financially is knowing when you have reached enough finances. I know there are some that argue you can never have enough, which is why it makes sense to try to understand up front what your concept of financial success will be.

For instance a person with a desire to own a 25 room mansion, boats and expensive cars will have a different definition of success than another who is more interested in making sure the house is paid off and the kids can go to college.

Find your comfort zone and adjust your goals accordingly. Find a balance for business and personal goals.

You also need to know what you will be trading away for success. For instance if your idea of success requires eighteen hour work days to achieve then there will likely be failures in terms of relationships and long-term health.

You either need to work smarter or adjust what you will accept in terms of success.

I don’t know that this side of moneymaking is mentioned a lot, but it is important especially if you have family involved. There will always be a learning curve in the development of any moneymaking idea and it will take time to manage once it is developed. Do you honestly have the time to commit to the upkeep of the idea?

We all need to make money to live and improve the lives of our families. We all need a little extra to find ways to enjoy life. We all have debts we would like to retire.

This is why a site like this is needed. Money is not evil and it’s not the enemy. It is simply a tool that allows us to accomplish goals and realize dreams. It can be used to help others and it can be used to provide a better future for our families.

Ingenuity in moneymaking is seen most prominently online in the 21st century. This is the perfect environment to explore ideas and craft a plan for success. You won’t get anywhere without a plan and you will never find ultimate success until you learn to define it before you chase it.

Free Turnkey Website to Get Your Started in Affiliat Marketing

Are you interested to make money online with affiliate marketing? Yourbizwebsites.com is giving away free website that you can use immediately to promote Clickbank affiliate products and generate commission.

The website will promote three Clickbank affiliate products with a review written for each product to encourage the visitors to click on your affiliate link to visit the seller's site. Any visitor purchase a product through your affiliate link will earn you a share of commission.

The website setting up process is pretty simple. All you have to do is sign up with your name and email address, login to the member area with the password sent to you, type in your Clickbank ID and your affiliate marketing website is ready to go.

9 Basic Tips to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

You should have heard about affiliate marketing, it is one of the low cost ways to make money on the Internet. Anyone can earn income through affiliate marketing regardless of their experience in internet marketing, as long as they have the passion and patience to learn and work on affiliate marketing.

This article will provide you 9 important basic tips for succeeding in affiliate marketing.

1. Select a specific niche. Make sure that there are affiliates already making money in the niche as this indicate that the niche is profitable. Then join affiliate programs that are offering products or services appeal to the niche market. It is suggested not to join too many affiliate programs at the beginning to avoid losing focus.

2. Do research and investigation on the affiliate programs before joining them. You should only join rewarding and reliable affiliate programs. The products must be targeted to your niche market and in good quality so that you are able to promote and sell them with less refund rate.

3. You can promote affiliate products without a website. But, it is highly recommended that you build a niche website with interesting content focuses on promoting your affiliate products.

4. Create a budget for your marketing campaigns. Know clearly how much you want to spend on promoting your website and affiliate programs.

5. Traffic and conversion are the keys to generate affiliate commission. You will need to spend most of your time to learn and work on these two aspects. So, be prepared to work hard.

6. Your potential buyers often need supporting information before buying an item. You may write reviews about your affiliate products and 'how to' articles with your affiliate links included in the content. This is one of the effective ways to direct your visitors to your merchant's site and make a purchase.

7. For long-term profit in affiliate marketing, you have to build a list. Some of the methods you can apply to grow a list are offer free gift, free newsletters, free e-courses and participating in a give away event. When you have a opt-in email list, you can regularly contact your target prospects and recommend your affiliate products to them.

8. Your credibility is important. You should often send helpful and interesting information to your opt-in list subscribers. Provide your real name and an email address on your website so that the potential prospects know there is a real person behind the website and contact you anytime when they have question.

9. Most affiliate programs allow you to recruit affiliates under you (sub-affiliates). You will earn more commission if you grow your own network of sub-affiliates. If you have found a few hard working sub-affiliates, you can expect to share a steady commission from the affiliate sales generated by them.

How DigitalPoint Forum can Help You Make Money Online

DigitalPoint Forum currently has over 180,000 members. It is probably the biggest webmaster forum on the Internet. Everyday the web publishers, the Internet marketers, the bloggers and the beginners around the world meet in this forum to discuss and share information about web publishing and Internet marketing.

Because the forum has so many members and gains massive amount of traffic daily, you can use it to help you make money online. The forum created a special sub-forum called 'Buy, Sell or Trade'. This sub-forum allows you to post ads and offers about your products or services. There is no charge posting in this sub-forum and here's how you can utilize it to earn cash:

Offer Your Content Creation Services
Many webmasters need fresh and unique articles for publishing on their website and blog. The will go to this sub-forum and look for writers. By posting an ad stating that you are offering article writing services, some of those webmasters will reply to your thread or send a private message to you to place an order. You can charge $5 to $15 per article (400 - 500 words). However, if you just started out your writing business in DigitalPoint Forum, not many people will know about you. In order to get writing orders, you may need to set a low price, may be $5 - $7 per article.

Sell Templates
If you have designed a series of templates whether they are for website or blog, they can be offered for sales in DigitalPoint forum. Occasionally, there are people posting request for buying new template or template customization, you may contact them and offer your services.

Text Links and Blog Reviews Services
Text links and blog reviews have great demand as well. People who are interested to increase their inbound links will create new threads titled WTB Text Links or WTB Blog Posts. The 'WTB' simply means 'want to buy'. Click on each thread titled WTB and you should find some offers that are right for your website and blog. People often look for cheap text links and blog reviews, so it is advised that you set your price low or you will find it difficult to sell text links and blog posts in this forum.

Sell Digital Products
Do you own a lot of info products like e-books and software that come with private label rights or master resale right? A good idea is to bundle them into a package and sell it for a great low price like $10. Another idea is to create an e-book of your own and offer it to the members. As most members are webmasters so, your e-book has to be directly relevant to their interest. Like recently, a member posted an ad offering to sell his e-book titled 'How To Rank at #1 on Google for Any Search Term'. This ad catches tons of attention and I believe he has made a lot of sales.

Sell Websites and Domains
If your online business is about selling websites and domains, then DigitalPoint Forum may be a good place to increase your profit. Just post your URL there with traffic stat and revenue reports, those who are interested will place their bid.

How to Drive Traffic to Your Website on a Low Budget

When people have their money making website ready and launched on the Internet, they need to drive traffic to their website in order to generate income. But, in most cases, people find that it is too expensive to use the powerful website promotion and advertising methods like PPC advertising, banner advertising and paid blog review.

You actually have numerous choices when it comes to marketing a website for generating traffic. This article will provide you some of the low cost ways you can use to generate traffic for your website.

Give Away Free Content
Create a free report or e-book. Write a compelling title for your report or e-book and also you should provide some quality info and content in your report or e-book. Then distribute it on the Internet. You can post the link to download your report on the related forums, publish a free press release on several free news sites to let people know about your free report, post it on social bookmarketing sites, use article marketing and etc. All these Internet marketing efforts will drive visitors to your website and download your report. Those who have read your report and found that it is interesting and useful will share with their friends and their visitors if they own a website or blog.

Create a Blog
New and fresh content can easily attract traffic, so you may consider Blogging. Set up a blog with the purpose of building traffic for your website. You can begin by posting content that will entertain your blog readers. Any info that will entertain and draw the interest of your targeted readers should be posted on your blog. Do these often will help you build a reader based for your blog. To send your readers to visit your website, you may include your website link on the sidebar of your blog. Occasionally, blog about your website, tell them your website have good info or good offers they don’t want to miss and more of your readers will start visiting your website.

Article Marketing
Publishing articles on article directories is really a good choice for driving long term free traffic to your website. Write at least one article every day and submit it for publication on articledashboard.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and isnare.com could possibly build a consistent stream of free targeted traffic for your website. The key to effective article marketing is to write articles that are interesting but don't tell the whole story. Make the readers feel or know that, if they want more info, they will need to check out your website by clicking your website link in your author bio.

Become a Guess Blogger
There are a lot of blogs looking for guess blogger. Just take some time to visit blogs that are related to your website, and you may find that a number of guess blogging opportunities. The bloggers usually request unique and useful posts; and give one to two live links back to the writer’s website. If you publish your posts on these blogs, your posts will be displayed on the top and read by many of their readers.

Set up Your Own Forum
Start a forum on your website. Encourage your visitors to join your forum and participate in discussions. This proved to be a way to increase returned visitors. Or if you offering a product or service, a forum can set up to help your potential and existing customers. With a forum, you will be able to help your customers effectively and also build up a good image. People will keep on come back not just searching for help; they will also browse on other topics in your forum and start their discussion.

8 Important Things You must Do When Listing Your Product On eBay

The way you list your product on eBay will have a direct impact on the success of your eBay business. Your product listing is pretty similar to your shop front, and your potential customers will decide whether to purchase your items based on the listing and description of your product.

To make your product listings effective so that you can sell your products smoothly on eBay, here are the things you must do:

1. Include the relevant keywords and search terms in your product description.

2. The titles of your product listings have to be attention-grabbing. You got to make the eBay viewers click your title link or your products will never sell. Thus, put in time and effort to learn about writing effective product listings titles. Take a look at your competitors successful auctions, see how their titles are written and take some of their good ideas.

3. The description of your product should be as detailed and accurate as possible. Let the potential buyers know precisely the condition of your product. Whether it is new or used, tell them honestly. Write about the benefits of your products; how they can help the potential buyers. Also list the features and functions of your products.

4. Never start a listing without adding photos or images of your products. If your potential buyers can’t see the items you are selling, they may leave your auction and go check out your competitors auctions which sell the similar items.

5. Make sure that you list your items in the most accurate category.

6. Give sufficient details about the shipping. Let the buyer know the cost of shipping and the estimated time needed to deliver the product. You should also provide a fast shipping option to meet the need of people who demand fast product delivery.

7. Some customers don’t want to pay with Paypal, so you should provide more payment options so that the customers can choose the payment option that best suits them

8. You definitely want as many people as possible to bid on your auctions. To do that, you’ll need to list your product at a low starting price.

Applying these tips to your eBay product listings, I’m sure they will help increase the amount of bids on your products and generate more eBay sales for you.

Guide to Making Money Online with a Video Blog - Part 2

Another type of ad program is pay per click advertising program. Pay per click advertising programs doesn’t pay you based on page views. You ad revenue will depend on the users clicks on the ads. The more people clicking the ads, the more money will be credited to your account. Some good pay per click advertising programs are:

• Google AdSense
• Yahoo Publisher Network
• Kontera

There are many video bloggers claiming that they have a click-trough rate more than 10% on AdSense PPC ads. So, it is possible to make a decent amount of ad revenue using pay per click programs.

Pay Per Play Video Content
There are companies allow you to post their videos on your blog and earn money each time your visitors watch the videos on your blog. This may be a great option to Vlog owners who cannot create videos for posting on their blog on a regular basis. By joining these companies, you can use and post their videos on your blog often. You can post one video daily or in every day to keep you video blog updated and attract new and returned visitors.

One great company offering these services is TheNewsRoom.com. TheNewsRoom.com has video content related to financial news, entertainment information, celebrity gossip, and more. You are allowed to post any video content of TheNewsRoom on your blog and make money for each video play.

Post Your Video on Other Sites
Some video bloggers make thousands of dollars by posting the videos in their blog to video sharing sites like Metacafe.com and Break.com. You too can do the same to increase your income and traffic. As long as you are uploading original and entertaining videos to these video sharing sites, there will be people wanting to view them and you will earn money for each view.

Market Affiliate Products Using Videos
Web video is proven to be effective when it comes to increasing online sale. So, your video blog is a great tool for promoting affiliate products. Some affiliate products you can choose to promote on your vlog are clothing, DVDs, CDs and books. A few companies that sell these products and own an affiliate program you can join are:

• Road Kill Tshirts
• Netflix
• BMG Music
• Book Wise

Once you joined an affiliate program, create video posts that show you using and benefiting from the service product. People often need supporting information before buying an item and your video posts will encourage them to purchase the item. When choosing affiliate products to promote on your blog, make sure you pick those products that you personally enjoy since that will make it easier for you to create energetic, enthusiastic, video blog posts which will entice your visitors to click on your affiliate link to purchase the product.

Get a Free PayDotComm Widget and Profit with It

Have you heard of PayDotComm? It is an online store selling info-products in a wide categories. And it also has an affiliate program that shares sale revenue with people who make sales for PayDotComm.

Recently, I found that PayDotComm has designed their own widget where you can place it on your blog. The widget will recommend the top info-products of PayDotComm related to your content with your affiliate links included. As the widget display top products related to your content, it will draw the attention of your blog readers and visitors.

When a reader clicks on a link to check out a recommended product and then purchase the product, you will earn a percentage of affiliate commission.

For those of you who like to monetize your blog with affiliate programs, you may like to test drive PayDotComm widget.

There is a video demonstration at http://paydotcom.com/widgetlp.php that describes how it's widget works and how you can make money with it.