A domain is something like tennis.com or blablabla.com
Based on my experience, .com has the best result as most people trust a .com website rather than a .info website.
A domain related to your niche will even more encourage visitors to click on your blog. If your niche is about tennis, would you click on tennisthegame.com or hulaten.com?
Normally a domain would cost you around $7.99 a year. But there are some tricks - Yahoo gives promotion for the first time buyer.
All you need is to go through this link - http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL
This is the cheapest in the world, $1.99 for the first year.
We will use it for 1 year and transfer to other domain registrar.
* Every time I want to buy a new domain, I register a new Yahoo account.
* Caution – The second year cost $34.99! Extremely EXPENSIVE!
Therefore remember to write down when is the renewal date and transfer BEFORE Yahoo auto renews your domain.
(I use excel to keep track all my domains)
* TO DO NOW: Find a meaningful domain related to your niche and buy it.
* SAMPLE: Purchased thetennisequipment.com from Yahoo.
Alright, that's all for today.
Easy enough? Yes, the next few lessons are about the same.
We’ll continue with the Lesson 4 tomorrow on how to setup our blog with Professional Look so that we get accepted by Google and Affiliate Networks to earn from them.
It is important for you to continue each steps. DO NOT GIVE UP!
Another few days you will own 1 of the best money making technique in the internet world.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
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Hosting Requirement
In order to work with our plan, we need a good host that comes with below qualifications.
1. Hosted in US
Reason: Majority of our target visitors are from US. By choosing a US based host, our blog ranking in search engine will be higher and the blog loading speed will be faster as well.
2. Host Multiple Domains
Reason: Our target is to create LOTS of blogs that makes money. We need a host that allows us to add on unlimited domains.
3. cPanel with Fantastico
Reason: cPanel is 1 of the easiest and user friendly control panel. Fantastico significantly helps you in installing the script. 3 clicks and 1 blog created. It is that easy.
4. 24x7 Live Chat support
Reason: If you are new to hosting, this is an important assistant you should get. Whenever you have any problem with the server, click and chat with them.
5. Full Refund Policy
Reason: In case you are not happy with this host, just tell them and get your money back.
Not So Important Features
When searching for webhost, people usually overvalue the importance of diskspace and bandwidth.
A lot of host will highlight these unlimited diskspace, or unlimited bandwidth. These are not important to us.
Our money blog only use small amount of diskspace and bandwidth.
Recommended Host
I'm currently using this to host all my money blogs - The cheapest you can ever find with great support and FREE $100 advertising credit.
- UNLIMITED Hosting Space
- UNLIMITED Bandwidth
- Host UNLIMITED Domains (We need this!)
- UNLIMITED Email Accounts
- UNLIMITED Databases
- UNLIMITED FTP Accounts
- Data center located in Chicago, IL (We need this!)
- Free Domain Name for Life (Perfect!)
- $25 Google Adwords Credit!
- $25 Yahoo Credit!
- $50 Miva Credit!
- Free Fantastico Script Installer (We need this!)
- 24x7 Email, Chat and Phone Support (Perfect!)
- 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee (Perfect!)
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee (We need this!)
The price?
$1.99/month.
If you can find a cheaper host please email me.
But I'm sure you can't because I've done so much research for the best + cheapest hosting company to cut my cost.
This is the link - http://www.getpaidtonight.com/discount-whpad.php
I want you to signup now.
This is human nature. Based on my own experience, when I paid for something, I'm willing to work extra hard because I don't want to waste my money.
If I get everything for free, I'll leave it somewhere and wait. Delay and delay.
So, don't let this happen to you.
You can use the free domain for your niche or keep for the second blog if you already bought 1 from Yahoo.
When your blog is offline due to any hosting issue, you are losing money. If you can find a better and cheaper host with above requirement, please drop me a mail.
* TO DO NOW: Signup with my recommend host.
* There are some great automation tools which is not Free but I'll share with those who signup with my recommended host through above link.
Configure/Point Domain To Your Host
If you are using Yahoo domain, these are some steps you need to take note.
Once your account is ready, the host will send you an email about the login.
You need to point the Yahoo domain to this host and below is how to do it.
Step 1: Copy down the "Nameservers", something like,
Nameserver 1: ns1.webhostingpad.com
Nameserver 2: ns2.webhostingpad.com
Step 2: Login to your yahoo account used to purchase the domain.
Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/ and click "Manage your services: Small Business"
Click on "Domain Control Panel"
Click on "Manage Advanced DNS Settings"
Scroll down and click "Change Nameservers"
Replace Yahoo default nameservers with your host's nameservers.
Job done. Your domain is pointing at your host now.
In order to work with our plan, we need a good host that comes with below qualifications.
1. Hosted in US
Reason: Majority of our target visitors are from US. By choosing a US based host, our blog ranking in search engine will be higher and the blog loading speed will be faster as well.
2. Host Multiple Domains
Reason: Our target is to create LOTS of blogs that makes money. We need a host that allows us to add on unlimited domains.
3. cPanel with Fantastico
Reason: cPanel is 1 of the easiest and user friendly control panel. Fantastico significantly helps you in installing the script. 3 clicks and 1 blog created. It is that easy.
4. 24x7 Live Chat support
Reason: If you are new to hosting, this is an important assistant you should get. Whenever you have any problem with the server, click and chat with them.
5. Full Refund Policy
Reason: In case you are not happy with this host, just tell them and get your money back.
Not So Important Features
When searching for webhost, people usually overvalue the importance of diskspace and bandwidth.
A lot of host will highlight these unlimited diskspace, or unlimited bandwidth. These are not important to us.
Our money blog only use small amount of diskspace and bandwidth.
Recommended Host
I'm currently using this to host all my money blogs - The cheapest you can ever find with great support and FREE $100 advertising credit.
- UNLIMITED Hosting Space
- UNLIMITED Bandwidth
- Host UNLIMITED Domains (We need this!)
- UNLIMITED Email Accounts
- UNLIMITED Databases
- UNLIMITED FTP Accounts
- Data center located in Chicago, IL (We need this!)
- Free Domain Name for Life (Perfect!)
- $25 Google Adwords Credit!
- $25 Yahoo Credit!
- $50 Miva Credit!
- Free Fantastico Script Installer (We need this!)
- 24x7 Email, Chat and Phone Support (Perfect!)
- 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee (Perfect!)
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee (We need this!)
The price?
$1.99/month.
If you can find a cheaper host please email me.
But I'm sure you can't because I've done so much research for the best + cheapest hosting company to cut my cost.
This is the link - http://www.getpaidtonight.com/discount-whpad.php
I want you to signup now.
This is human nature. Based on my own experience, when I paid for something, I'm willing to work extra hard because I don't want to waste my money.
If I get everything for free, I'll leave it somewhere and wait. Delay and delay.
So, don't let this happen to you.
You can use the free domain for your niche or keep for the second blog if you already bought 1 from Yahoo.
When your blog is offline due to any hosting issue, you are losing money. If you can find a better and cheaper host with above requirement, please drop me a mail.
* TO DO NOW: Signup with my recommend host.
* There are some great automation tools which is not Free but I'll share with those who signup with my recommended host through above link.
Configure/Point Domain To Your Host
If you are using Yahoo domain, these are some steps you need to take note.
Once your account is ready, the host will send you an email about the login.
You need to point the Yahoo domain to this host and below is how to do it.
Step 1: Copy down the "Nameservers", something like,
Nameserver 1: ns1.webhostingpad.com
Nameserver 2: ns2.webhostingpad.com
Step 2: Login to your yahoo account used to purchase the domain.
Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/ and click "Manage your services: Small Business"
Click on "Domain Control Panel"
Click on "Manage Advanced DNS Settings"
Scroll down and click "Change Nameservers"
Replace Yahoo default nameservers with your host's nameservers.
Job done. Your domain is pointing at your host now.
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Step By Step Blueprint For Highly Profitable Long Term Niche Blogs
Step 1 – Market Research & Keyphrase Lists
Like I said on the last page, Market Research is crucial and you need to spend
time selecting your market and building your keyphrase lists.
Rush this stage and you could end up doing lots of work for nothing so follow
along.
The first thing you need to decide is whether you are going to target an affiliate
product market or rely on adsense and advertising to generate money.
Different people prefer different ways to monetize their blogs but I’ve always had
more success with affiliate programs over Adsense.
It also lets you gauge the market and see how profitable it is incase you’d like to
sell your own product in it sometime in the future.
So if you want to set up a blog to promote mainly affiliate programs here’s the
steps to take to uncover the best markets.
The first thing you need to do is broad list your potential affiliate programs by
making a list of the ones having success. I prefer promoting Clickbank products
because of the high payout on each sale.
You can promote a range of info products and physical goods from your blog
using affiliate programs on Commission Junction and Amazon but for starting out
I’d recommend Clickbank.
So you first need to head over the Clickbank marketplace which has thousands
of info products in it. Spend a few hours browsing through all the categories and
sub categories.
There’s no need to go more than 2 or 3 pages deep in any sub-category because
most of the successful sites will be on the first page with a few smaller niche
products on the second and third.
If you want to spend some time on the research phase then it’s a good idea to
track new products on Clickbank and watch for any climbing the marketplace
from pages 4 and 5 and then snap them up to promote as soon as they hit the
third page. This has been a very successful method I’ve found to avoid
competition while still having great conversions.
Once you’ve found some affiliate programs you need to check the stats to narrow
them down.
The 2 main stats to look for are the %/sale which needs to be at least 50% but
you need to look for programs that pay 65% and above for best results. The next
most important is %refd which is the percentage of sales generated by affiliates.
You are wanting this 60+ or even 70+ with the only exception of if the product is
new and affiliates aren’t yet promoting it.
In the past I’ve only aimed at products with high gravities but from testing I’ve
seen even low gravity products sell very well… it just depends on the market you
are aiming at.
Using these guide lines you can make a list of products you’d consider promoting
on your blog.
The next step is to evaluate the amount of search engine traffic you can drive to
your blog. Now traffic will come from more places than just the search engine but
this is one of the easiest ways to evaluate the phrases your potential market
searches for.
You can do this using free software like Goodkeywords or the trial version of
Wordtracker.
www.goodkeywords.com
www.wordtracker.com
An excellent resource I like to use is MSN Ad Center. If you don’t have an
account you can set one up for just $5 and because MSN is the first search
engine your blog will appear in you can see numbers just for the MSN search
engine.
I’d suggest you use one of the first software pieces along with the MSN results.
What you need to do is now search for a few broad keywords relating to the
potential market. These can be found in the product title and in the websites of
the products.
e.g. Dog Training Secrets ebook broad keyword would be dog training
Here’s the results you’ll see…
(You can see many 3 and 4 word keyphrases getting searches from this broad keyword)
Without traffic your blog will never even get going so it is the life of your blog.
Numbers alone aren’t enough. Here’s the 3 things you need to see with the
above research.
Main 5 Keyphrases Ad Up To At Least 5k On Goodkeywords And 2k On
MSN
You Can Find More Than 10 Long Tail Keyphrases. These Are 4 Words At
Least.
Some Keyphrases Are Related To The Actual Problem The Product
Solves
You can also get an understanding of the phrases the market is searching for
which leads us on to the next part of the research to qualify affiliate products.
Now you know what the market is searching for you need to see if there is
advertisers spending money on Pay Per Click ads for those keyphrases.
The best place to do this is Google.
Simply type in your keyphrase using “ before and ” after the phrase.
e.g. “planning a beach wedding in san diego”
Now on the right hand side you’ll see all the advertisers paying money for clicks
from this keyphrase…
You MUST see some advertisers for your main keyphrases. If there aren’t
advertisers then it’s a red flag because it shows the market isn’t very profitable.
You’re also looking for the info product you’ll be promoting. The best possible
thing you can see is the is that most of the ads you see on the first page are info
products and mainly the one you’re looking to promote.
Now if you see just one or two ads for that product on the first page then it’s great
news and you can short list this market.
From the 3 methods above you can easily select a few winning markets to base
your blog on and have a few strong affiliate products to promote.
Now earlier we talked about just having Adsense or similar on your blog. If this is
the case then you don’t need to worry about the affiliate program side of things.
The main research that qualifies a good market for you is something that can get
you good traffic and that has lots of advertisers paying on Google.
Like I said on the last page, Market Research is crucial and you need to spend
time selecting your market and building your keyphrase lists.
Rush this stage and you could end up doing lots of work for nothing so follow
along.
The first thing you need to decide is whether you are going to target an affiliate
product market or rely on adsense and advertising to generate money.
Different people prefer different ways to monetize their blogs but I’ve always had
more success with affiliate programs over Adsense.
It also lets you gauge the market and see how profitable it is incase you’d like to
sell your own product in it sometime in the future.
So if you want to set up a blog to promote mainly affiliate programs here’s the
steps to take to uncover the best markets.
The first thing you need to do is broad list your potential affiliate programs by
making a list of the ones having success. I prefer promoting Clickbank products
because of the high payout on each sale.
You can promote a range of info products and physical goods from your blog
using affiliate programs on Commission Junction and Amazon but for starting out
I’d recommend Clickbank.
So you first need to head over the Clickbank marketplace which has thousands
of info products in it. Spend a few hours browsing through all the categories and
sub categories.
There’s no need to go more than 2 or 3 pages deep in any sub-category because
most of the successful sites will be on the first page with a few smaller niche
products on the second and third.
If you want to spend some time on the research phase then it’s a good idea to
track new products on Clickbank and watch for any climbing the marketplace
from pages 4 and 5 and then snap them up to promote as soon as they hit the
third page. This has been a very successful method I’ve found to avoid
competition while still having great conversions.
Once you’ve found some affiliate programs you need to check the stats to narrow
them down.
The 2 main stats to look for are the %/sale which needs to be at least 50% but
you need to look for programs that pay 65% and above for best results. The next
most important is %refd which is the percentage of sales generated by affiliates.
You are wanting this 60+ or even 70+ with the only exception of if the product is
new and affiliates aren’t yet promoting it.
In the past I’ve only aimed at products with high gravities but from testing I’ve
seen even low gravity products sell very well… it just depends on the market you
are aiming at.
Using these guide lines you can make a list of products you’d consider promoting
on your blog.
The next step is to evaluate the amount of search engine traffic you can drive to
your blog. Now traffic will come from more places than just the search engine but
this is one of the easiest ways to evaluate the phrases your potential market
searches for.
You can do this using free software like Goodkeywords or the trial version of
Wordtracker.
www.goodkeywords.com
www.wordtracker.com
An excellent resource I like to use is MSN Ad Center. If you don’t have an
account you can set one up for just $5 and because MSN is the first search
engine your blog will appear in you can see numbers just for the MSN search
engine.
I’d suggest you use one of the first software pieces along with the MSN results.
What you need to do is now search for a few broad keywords relating to the
potential market. These can be found in the product title and in the websites of
the products.
e.g. Dog Training Secrets ebook broad keyword would be dog training
Here’s the results you’ll see…
(You can see many 3 and 4 word keyphrases getting searches from this broad keyword)
Without traffic your blog will never even get going so it is the life of your blog.
Numbers alone aren’t enough. Here’s the 3 things you need to see with the
above research.
Main 5 Keyphrases Ad Up To At Least 5k On Goodkeywords And 2k On
MSN
You Can Find More Than 10 Long Tail Keyphrases. These Are 4 Words At
Least.
Some Keyphrases Are Related To The Actual Problem The Product
Solves
You can also get an understanding of the phrases the market is searching for
which leads us on to the next part of the research to qualify affiliate products.
Now you know what the market is searching for you need to see if there is
advertisers spending money on Pay Per Click ads for those keyphrases.
The best place to do this is Google.
Simply type in your keyphrase using “ before and ” after the phrase.
e.g. “planning a beach wedding in san diego”
Now on the right hand side you’ll see all the advertisers paying money for clicks
from this keyphrase…
You MUST see some advertisers for your main keyphrases. If there aren’t
advertisers then it’s a red flag because it shows the market isn’t very profitable.
You’re also looking for the info product you’ll be promoting. The best possible
thing you can see is the is that most of the ads you see on the first page are info
products and mainly the one you’re looking to promote.
Now if you see just one or two ads for that product on the first page then it’s great
news and you can short list this market.
From the 3 methods above you can easily select a few winning markets to base
your blog on and have a few strong affiliate products to promote.
Now earlier we talked about just having Adsense or similar on your blog. If this is
the case then you don’t need to worry about the affiliate program side of things.
The main research that qualifies a good market for you is something that can get
you good traffic and that has lots of advertisers paying on Google.
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