Are you Too Stats Happy With your Niche Websites?

Going Stats Crazy Does Not Equal Effective Niche Marketing Strategy

I know that when you’re trying to succeed with making money with a website, it’s extremely tempting to go a bit stats crazy. What do I mean by that? I mean spending way too much time of your day, every day, checking on your stats. How many visitors did your site see today? Which pages did they view exactly? How many clicks did your visitors make? How many items were purchased? All of this is valuable information and viewing it should be a piece of your niche marketing strategy. However, spending too much time doing this is only going to end up hurting your bottom line while preventing you from being more profitable and productive.

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The Importance Of Tracking Your Time, Revenue and Expenses

Niche Marketing Strategies To Improve Your Performance

One of the most important tips for making money with a website is to start treating it like a real business. It’s easy to get lost in the mindset of “this is a hobby” or “this is a side stream of income” or anything else. But whether you are going at it for your full-time gig or you are delving into it when you get some free time, you have to be more serious about the potential outcomes that you’ll be dealing with. One of the best ways to improve your results is to start keeping detailed records for yourself about your performance, including the time you spend, the money you earn and the expenses you pile up.

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First $1,000 Month as an Affiliate Marketer

I started off in the world of affiliate marketing in October of 2008, and after more than a year of diving in I finally broke through a major barrier and had my first $1,000 month affiliate marketing in December of 2009. That always stood out as one of the goals I was shooting for, so I was extremely pleased that it happened.

My journey towards earning 4 figures a month as an affiliate marketer took about 14 months, but in reality only 6 months of those were spent really applying myself. The first part of that time I was too occupied with my day job to spend enough time into developing and marketing my sites. Luckily that changed, and the results are certainly speaking for themselves right now. If only I spent the time developing my own sites that I do producing content for others, then I’d really be in business!

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How to Find A Niche Market in 4 Easy Steps

With the economy as it is, more people today are looking up niche marketing strategies than ever before. The first goal for most of these people is to learn how to find a niche market so they can develop their own niche websites and online businesses. This can be a time consuming and complex process, but in truth it can be narrowed down to 4 basic steps.

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To Be (Exclusive) or Not to be (Exclusive) on Associated Content

To Be (Exclusive) or Not to Be (Exclusive) on Associated Content
Freelance writers on Associated Content have to choose between using exclusive rights or non-exclusive rights when they want to receive an upfront payment. But what’s the difference, and how much more money can you make with an Exclusive article?
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Chitika Advertising: Review

What is Chitika, Can It Help Earn Money For Your Website or Blog and Is it Basically Like Adsense?

In the quest to find new ways to make money with your website or blog, there is an unlimited array of advertising programs and affiliate marketing programs to consider. One program that has been gaining some ground as of late is Chitika. What exactly is Chitika and can it help you earn more money online?

Chitika Program Review

Chitika is a program that webmasters and bloggers can use to display more advertisements on their sites. It has many similarities to the Google Adsense program, but is actually quite different in some important ways. Google Adsense displays advertisements on your site related to your content at all times. In other words, you place an advertising block someplace on your site and then that ad is always there, albeit with changing text, picture and video displays.

Chitika however is a search based advertising program. That means that the Chitika ads on your website are only displayed when somebody comes to your site via the search engines. So if you set up a Chitika advertising block on the top of your page and somebody finds your website by searching for “vintage car engine parts” then the Chitika ad unit is going to display ads for “vintage car engine parts”. Read more

6 Tips from Six Months: Becoming a Full-Time Freelance Writer Online

After six months as being a full time freelance writer, I’ve learned a great deal about what it takes and how to make it work. Take a look at these 6 tips for being a full-time freelance writer online.

6 Tips for Becoming a Full Time Freelance Writer Online

Freelance Writer Jobs on Constant Content

After getting started with Constant Content and their freelance writing gigs, I’ve found the service to be an effective way to sell articles at high prices. Learn more about their freelance writing jobs and how the system works here.

Freelance Writer Jobs on Constant Content

EBay Partner Network Announces Change in Affiliate Program

The popular eBay Partner Network affiliate program has announced a major overhaul, switching from commission based earnings to Quality Click Pricing, a Pay-Per-Click program similar to Google Adsense.

eBay Partner Network Changing Affiliate Program

Free Traffic System – Worth the Hype?

What’s the story behind the link building Free Traffic System

If you run any niche websites or blogs, or are generally interested in online marketing, you may have heard about the Free Traffic System. It seems that many webmasters have become enamored with the system, while others aren’t as satisfied. So what’s the true story with the Free Traffic System, how does it work and is it worth your time?

What is the Free Traffic System?

The Free Traffic System is a link building program that is designed to get you potentially thousands of incoming links to your websites in a short amount of time. At least that is what the website promises you to do.

The way it works is that you write an article revolving around any topic of your choice. After creating a base article, you “spin” it, which involves placing some code into the article and substituting words with a handful of different keywords or phrases.

As an example, in an article about the NFL, in one reference to “NFL” I might spin the term to look like: “[spin]National Football League|professional football|NFL[/spin]“.

The program itself then takes the article with all of the spun words and phrases you included and randomly chooses different words from each combination. The purpose is to in theory create hundreds of different unique articles from just one base article. With the article scoring as unique in the search engine algorithms, a link from that article leading back to your website then would hold legitimate value, as opposed to multiple links coming from duplicate content spread around the web.

Each of your articles includes two links back to the website pages of your choice. You also have the opportunity to spin the anchor text used in the links, and use various URL destinations, to spread out the links you receive. With incoming links carrying so much weight in Google PageRank and therefore your search engine ranking, the Free Traffic System has quickly spread around the world of online marketing as somewhat of an article marketing strategy on steroids.

After spinning the article you get to choose a handful (30 for free members, 40 for premium members) of different blogs, websites and directories to submit the article. By and large, the websites are from other Free Traffic System users, who submitted their blog to the system to in turn receive additional link back opportunities with the articles they themselves submit.

Is it Really Free?

Yes, it’s true that you don’t have to pay to use the Free Traffic System. However, there is a premium membership which offers additional features such as the capacity to add more links and article destinations for each piece of content you submit. Some people jumped on the opportunity to increase their potential with the system and therefore are premium members while others feel it’s not necessary for their online promotion efforts.

Does it Work?

Yes, the Free Traffic System works, although in my personal experience it does not work exactly as promised. To begin with, the process of spinning an article can be fairly time consuming if you want to end up with legitimately unique articles. To combat this, Free Traffic System also offers for purchase software that spins your articles for you, if you’re willing to pay the price. Additionally, some SEO content writers may take on the task of spinning the article for you as well.

Besides the arduous task of spinning articles, the links you receive may be questionable. Some of the blogs you choose to publish your article on end up not working, while others appear to be low ranking, one-size-fits-all directories that wouldn’t help your own PageRank much in any event.

Finally, another concern lies in the appearance of duplicate content around the web. While the service says that all you have to do is change around the words to have perfectly unique articles, the formulas that judge what is unique and what is copied incorporate more than just which words appear, such as article structure, purpose and similar words and terminology.

With all of this said, some webmasters really swear by the Free Traffic System. Without spending any money you can potentially build up thousands of incoming links, with a maximum of 60 possible links coming in per article for free members.

For other people, the task of spinning and the possible low quality of incoming links doesn’t make the system worthwhile. The best way of course for you to make a final determination is to try it out and gauge the results you see from your traffic and rankings.

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