I just lost my job, I am eligible to receive unemployment, but while I am home until i can find employment I was wondering if anybody might know of any good ways to make money online? I am not looking for any of those scams or surveys that make you buy something. Thanks
Hi, Kim.
Sorry you lost your job. Most of the suggestions I see so far seem reasonable, but I want to emphasize a point made earlier – never pay for a money making opportunity. I’ve never tried those gambling affiliate programs, but I do make a nice income online. I will share with you a basic strategy. It’s not going to make you rich overnight. In fact, it’s going to take quite a bit of work. However, it’s a sound method that has worked for me and a great many others.
The first thing you need to do is research a product you want to promote. Look at the competition, determine the demand online, and see if you can find a unique selling point.
Next you want to do keyword research. You want to find keywords that are searched for thousands of times per month, yet have very little competition in terms of advertisers and other websites that cover the niche. The best free tool right now is google itself.
https://adwords.google.com/select/Keywor…
There are complete courses on how to do this, but in a nutshell, look for keywords that have at least 5000 phrase match searches and less that 50,000 competing websites. To determine the number of competing websites, simply type the keyword in quotes in the google search bar. Like this "dog training books". Look in the upper right corner and you’ll see the number of results. In this case 80,700. This means there are 80,700 web pages that refer to that keyword.
There are plenty of automated tools that will do this in bulk and range in prices from $10 – $????. For now, just do it manually until you get the hang of it. That way you will make a better decision when you decide to purchase such a tool.
Once you’ve determined a keyword phrase that you feel you can compete in, buy the domain name with those keywords in the domain. This is very important initially, as google seems to give new sites a little boost in the rankings. So in this example you would buy dogtrainingbooks.com (taken of course). Another key point in buying a domain name is only buy .com, .org, .net (in that order). Don’t use dashes and totally avoid .info and other extensions. Again, there is a ton of research behind this rule of thumb that I can’t get into.
Now that you have your domain name, you will need to host it. I personally use hostgator.com. Once that’s setup, I recommend setting up a wordpress blog. This is easily done in the cpanel of hostgator through a menu called fantastico.
Now you need to learn about seo, plugins, and marketing. A good starting point is visiting forums dedicated to internet marketers. I regularly visit
http://warriorforum.com and http://forums.digitalpoint.com
my username is rob6188 if you’d like to shoot me a pm. I have to warn you though, these forums are frequently visited by spammers and crooks looking for newbies to steal money from. So be very careful, don’t believe everything you read. Look for posts that are rated highly and posts by members who’ve been there a long time to start with. Once you get a feel for quality posts, you’ll be able to spot the junk.
Each topic – seo, plugins, article marketing, – will have volumes of books written. The free ones I recommend can be found at
http://seobook.com and http://freebusinesskit.com
If you’re really new to affiliate marketing, I hope I’ve given a few stepping stones. I’ve been doing this for 9 years, and I still learn something new almost daily.
The single most important thing I can tell you as a newbie is don’t spend any money beyond your domain name registration and hosting. Get as much free stuff and advice as you can. Like asking questions here and in the forums. I can’t tell you how many people fall victim to purchasing ebooks and tools and never really learn to use them properly and give up. You need to build a foundation of knowledge so you can make an informed decision when purchasing the latest and greatest ebooks and tools.
I hope that helps. Feel free to email me if you have any other question.
Source(s):
http://articlemarketingguru.com
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