Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – What is PLR and How Can You Use it to Make Money Online?

In my previous post, I discussed how to use article marketing to make money online. I briefly talked about taking PLR articles and re-writing them until you have enough experience to write your own articles from scratch.

Now I want to cover exactly what PLR is and how it can help you to make money online using our article marketing strategy.

PLR stands for Private Label Rights. With PLR, you basically have the right to change and alter the articles however you want. You also have the right to put your name on them as the author. Some PLR have different stipulations, so when you get a hold of PLR articles, make sure you have the right to change them and put your name on them. This is important for what we’ll be doing.

Now, just follow the steps in my previous post, re-writing the PLR articles and submitting them to article directories. But, we’re going to take this a step further and look at some other uses for our PLR content. While these articles can be used to submit to article directories, we can also use this content on free blogs and help promote our website/blog.

There are many free blogs available on the internet that will allow you to post whatever type of content you want. Of course, the articles you post should be relevant to your website or whatever page you’ll be linking to from the articles. Sign up to these sites and try to post one article a day, or as often as you can.

These sites include, but are not limited to:

1. Hubpages
2. Wetpaint
3. Blogger
4. Wordpress.com
5. Gather
6. Xomba
7. Quizilla
8. Squidoo

You can do a simple Google search to find a lot more free blogs that you can post your PLR content to. You want to post as often as possible to these sites.

Within your articles create a link that links back to your website or a page within your site, like a blog post. Remember to use your keywords in the anchor text. This strategy is going to have the same affect as the article marketing strategy. So, you’ll be building more relevant backlinks from highly trusted sites, ensuring you’ll increase your search engine rankings and your online income.

Now you have two methods on how to use articles to make money online and build your affiliate marketing business.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – How to Use Article Marketing to Make Money Online

Article marketing has been a long-lasting method to promote affiliate products and websites. It has stood the test of time in aiding people to make money with affiliate marketing. No matter where you’re at with your affiliate marketing venture, articles should be one of your top resources in marketing online.

For beginners, writing on a consistent basis can be a challenge and overwhelming. If you’re not used to writing, coming up with ideas and organizing information can be challenging and time consuming. But, have no fear because your skills and knowledge will develop as you move forward with affiliate marketing.

If you’re just starting out, you may want to get a hold of some PLR content. I’ll talk more about this in my next post, but with PLR articles you’ll be able to re-write and distribute them as your own. This is very helpful for beginners as the main ideas and information is already there. What you’ll want to do is keep the main points and re-write the article so that it’s unique. You’ll also want to change the title as well.

As you gain more experience and your knowledge grows with affiliate marketing, you’ll be able to start writing your own articles from scratch. The more you write, the easier you’ll find it to be to sit down and write a decent size article in as little as 20 minutes.

Once you have a few articles under your belt, you’re going to want to submit these articles to article directory sites. I recommend submitting them to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com to start. These two sites are the most popular, and EzineArticles has a lot of authority with Google.

To take advantage of your articles, create a catchy resource box that briefly describes what you do, your business, or something else that pertains to the article. Along with that, be sure to include a link, or links, that link to your website, blog, etc. that you want the readers to check out.

When including your links in the resource box, it’s important that you don’t just type in your website URL. Be sure to use anchor text that contains your website’s keywords. This how to take full advantage of every article you submit, and here’s why.

Every link that is created from your articles acts as a vote for your website, assuming those links are pointing to it. Those “votes” tell the search engines that the URL the links are pointing to is important and worth checking out. These links are considered backlinks, or also known as backward links.

The more backlinks you generate using keywords as the anchor text, the higher your website will rank in search engines for those keywords. I don’t think I need to tell you that once you gain a high search engine position for specific keywords, your website will be flooded by a lot of targeted traffic.

Once you get a lot of traffic to your site, your online income will increase tremendously. Article marketing is a very effective method to make money with affiliate marketing and has been proven to work for years and will continue to work for as long as the internet is alive. Don’t underestimate the full potential that article marketing has. Take advantage of it today!

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Searching for Products on Clickbank that will Make You Money

Clickbank is by far one of the best sources of products to sell online for affiliate marketers. Not only do they have more than enough products available in many different niches, but they make the site so easy to use. From searching for products, looking at product stats and getting your affiliate links, Clickbank has it together.

What really makes them so nice is that they give us a glimpse of how well products are doing in the open market. Thanks to Gravity, we can see the selling trends for any product we want. If you’re interested in promoting a specific product, you’ll be able to tell if the product is selling before you ever promote it.

Of course this means that other people are making money selling the product, but this actually a good thing for you. You might not like the idea of competition, but in this case we want to know that there is a market for the product and that people are buying. Competition is healthy.

Here’s a video I put together that briefly explains Gravity and where to find it for each product. I’ll also tell you at what percentage you want the Gravity to be in order to ensure that you have a good chance of making money with that product.

I hope you enjoy it…

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Make More Money by Outsourcing

I know I promised another Clickbank tutorial in my previous post, but I’ve been having issues with my Camtasia software, so I haven’t been able to get that video up just yet.

In the meantime, I want to talk to you about outsourcing and how it can help you to make more money with affiliate marketing.

Outsourcing is essentially paying someone else to do the work you want to do or don’t have the time for. There are many different benefits to outsourcing, but the main benefit is that you can actually get a lot more done in the same amount of time.

Think about all of the affiliate marketing work you have to do. From writing articles to build backlinks, to blog commenting and forum posting, all of that stuff takes time. I’m sure you have other tasks to do and manage, or maybe you just want to spend that time for yourself. Whatever the case, outsourcing is a viable option for many affiliate marketers.

To make money with affiliate marketing by outsourcing your work, you’ll have to find competent freelancers that have the knowledge and capability to perform the work you need. They should have a good background in internet marketing, so that you don’t have to spend time teaching them how to do stuff.

Once you find one or a few people that can do the work, assign them tasks that you would do yourself to market your affiliate products. Start with simple tasks at the beginning, and pay close attention to the performance of each freelancer. Once they prove themselves, start increasing their tasks.

Eventually you’ll have a full-fledged marketing army helping promote your website and affiliate products. I urge you, if you can afford to outsource some of your marketing work, then you should do it to maximize your time and online income.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Promoting Clickbank Products

One of the easiest ways to get started making money online with affiliate marketing is to sell Clickbank products. Clickbank is the largest digital product site and has thousands of different products available for affiliates to promote and earn commissions.

If you’re just starting out with affiliate marketing, I highly suggest signing up for a free Clickbank account so that you’ll have access to the products and can start promoting them and making money.

I created a short a video for you that goes through the sign-up process and getting your own, unique affiliate links to start promoting products…

My next post will outline what you should be looking for when searching for potential products to promote via Clickbank.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – 3 Reasons to Start with Affiliate Marketing

You may have heard that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online, and that’s relatively true. While it does take hard work and focus, it’s quite possible to make money with affiliate marketing and is the recommended choice for beginners.

There are three reasons why I recommend affiliate marketing to make money online.

1. Zero cost – It doesn’t cost anything to start making money with affiliate marketing. You can join affiliate programs for free and start promoting other people’s products and services with zero out of pocket expense. There are plenty of free methods to get traffic to your affiliate offers, and with the use of free blogs, you can easily write reviews and recommendations for the products you want to sell. At some point you may want to invest in your own blog or website, but that’s completely optional.
2. You don’t need your own product or service – When you’re just starting out, you probably won’t have your own product or service. And that’s okay, because with affiliate marketing you make money by promoting other people’s products. Simply refer people, and if they buy, you earn a commission. It’s better than having your own product because you get to choose from thousands of already reputable products and earn a generous amount of money for your efforts. However, there may come a time when you’ll want to create your own product, and that’s fine too.
3. No training needed – The nice thing is that you don’t need any upfront training. You can literally learn as you go, which is the best way to learn anything, in my opinion. There is, however, a learning curve that you’ll have to master if you want to become successful. But, as mentioned, you can be getting your hands dirty while learning the necessary steps to make money with affiliate marketing.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Using Social Bookmarking to Make Money Online

As an affiliate marketer, it’s important to use every possible strategy to get exposure to your affiliate links. Whether you own your own blog for the purpose of promoting affiliate programs and products or run a free blog, social bookmarks can help you earn more money.

How exactly can you use social bookmarking to make money online?

If you’re not familiar with social bookmarking sites, they’re basically a social community where you can “bookmark” your favorite sites. Other users can see your bookmarks and vote, comment and share them with others. As you can see already, these types of sites can be used to promote your own sites as well.

Social bookmark sites hold a lot of authority in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. Utilizing these sites will help drive traffic to your blog, and specifically, blog posts.

To get started, you’ll want to sign up for as many bookmarking sites as possible. I recommend first signing up with Delicious and bookmarking sites, and then you can import those bookmarks into the other bookmarking sites.

Whenever you bookmark a blog post, or any web page, you include a title, description and tags/keywords. The benefit of doing this is that whenever you bookmark a page, the title you enter becomes the anchor text for the link that points back to the page. If you’ve been following my posts on backlink building, you’ll know that this has a lot of benefit for your search engine rankings.

Using this strategy and bookmarking your blog posts in which you want to get a lot of exposure will help create high quality backlinks for those posts, thus driving them higher in search engine results.

So, in terms of making money with affiliate marketing, if you wrote a blog post promoting a specific affiliate product or program, you want to get as many backlinks to that specific post as possible. The more backlinks you build, the higher that post will rank for your keywords. Eventually, sales will start coming in as your traffic increases.

I hope you can see the benefit of using social bookmarking as a method to make money online. As a word of caution, don’t simply bookmark all of your posts and pages; bookmark other sites that you find interesting as well. Keep a good balance as to not make your accounts look spammy.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Marketing Your Main Blog Using Free Blogs

In my previous post about free blogs, I briefly mentioned that there’s a way to use free blogs to your advantage, other than using them as a main blog for your business.

Free blogs have a lot of power in that the search engines, especially Google, loves them. We can use sites like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com as a marketing tool to promote our affiliate offers and also our main business blog.

To get the most out of these sites, you’ll want to create unique content and post to them somewhat regularly. Within the blog posts, link back to your main blog. This will create quality backlinks to your main blog and help it rank higher in the search engines for your keyword phrases.

Online include one link to your blog in each blog post. You don’t want to overdue it as some of these sites can get picky about the kind of advertising you do as well as how much. Be sure to read each site’s Terms of Service to make sure you comply with all rules.

Other free blog sites you may want to check out include:

Blogr.com
Blogster.com
Bravenet.com
Flatpress.com
Klatcher.com
Lifetype.com
Livejournal.com
Moveabletype.com
Multiply.com
Serendipity.com
Textpattern.com
Xanga.com

After you post to these blogs, it wouldn’t hurt to social bookmark the blog home page and selective posts that you want to get exposure to. I’ll go into more detail about social bookmarking in my next post, so stay tuned.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com.

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – The Benefits of Owning Your Own Blog

In my previous post, I briefly went over the pros and cons to using free blogs to make money with affiliate marketing. This post is going to cover the benefits of owning your own blog, rather than using free blogs.

The better approach to using blogs to make money online is to actually own the blog. This means you won’t be setting up a free blog on Blogger.com or Wordpress.com. Instead, you’ll have to register your own domain and name and web hosting. This may sound complicated, but it’s not.

The benefits of having your very own domain are that you can brand yourself or your business. There are numerous additional benefits to just this one main benefit, but I won’t get into that.

Another benefit is that you completely own your blog and domain name. You have full control over every aspect of it. You control the design, content and monetization efforts. Your blog can’t be shut down because you may have violated certain terms. You won’t have to worry about that here.

If you decide to put up ads and advertise various affiliate programs, you’re free to do so. You can build your own opt-in list that you can market to later. The possibilities are truly endless when you own your blog. No one can take it from you.

Say you started out using a free blog and now want to switch to your own blog. Rather than losing all of your posts, you can simply export your posts, comments, etc. from your free blog and import everything into your new blog.

The total cost associated with owning your own blog will only be the domain registration and web hosting. At the most, it will only cost you about $100 a year. That’s it. That’s a very small price to pay when you think about the potential making money with affiliate marketing really has.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com

Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Make Money Using Free Blogs

If you’re just starting out in affiliate marketing, you probably don’t want to invest a lot of money into your new business, and you don’t have to. Essentially, affiliate marketing is free and doesn’t require any initial cost. It’s very possible to make money with affiliate marketing through the use of free blogs.

Free blogs such Blogger.com and Wordpress.com, just to name a couple, can be used to create a web presence where you can promote various products as an affiliate.

There are, however, pros and cons to this approach that I’ll discuss below.

Pros

The obvious pro to using free blogs is that they are in fact, free. They’re also very easy to setup and use. You can be up and running and blogging within minutes. At no point will it cost you anything to maintain and keep your blog going.

Cons

The cons to this approach, though, is that you don’t fully own your blog. With free blogs, you’re at the mercy of the blog provider, in this case Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. These two sites both have strict policies about advertising and promoting affiliate products, and they can shut your blog down at any time. That’s not a good thing for you when you’re trying to make money online and build a web presence.

Also, you don’t own the domain. Your blog is a subdomain and part of the Blogger.com or Wordpress.com domain. For example: http://yourblog.blogspot.com or http://yourblog.wordpress.com. For branding purposes, this doesn’t look very professional and will raise questions in the minds of potential customers.

With that being said, it’s very possible to make money online using free blogs. However, it’s not what you’re probably thinking, and I’ll get into this at a later time.

There’s a better approach if you want to setup a main blog from which you’ll brand yourself or your business, and I’ll be talking about this in my next post.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com

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