Make Money Selling What You Have to Say
The simple answer to this one is 'build a website' and 'monetize' it with advertising, affiliate links and associated products. Write articles about your topic and add them to your website on a regular basis.
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Steps
- Go to Yahoo Keyword Selector tool and enter your main topic, this will give you a list of searches related to your keyword - how many people searched for that term. It will also give you an idea of the profitability of your topic.
- Write articles using the search terms returned from Yahoo - making sure that you use the keyword searched for in the body of your writing.
- Use these articles for the basis of your website.
- Go to Google and join their Adsense programme - add the html codes to your webpages - as your traffic builds, your Adsense income will increase.
- Find related products to your topic, eBooks (Clickbank) hard goods (CJ.com)etc and promote them on your website.
- Continue to search for related keyword terms and build your website to be a content rich site which people will find naturally in the search engines.
- Consider a pay per click programme if you have your own product to sell.
- Create an info product on your topic and promote on your website.
- Promote yourself and your website by answering forum questions, wiki questions etc.
- Drive more traffic to your web site using Craigslist and other free techniques
- Advertise other companies that are related to what you have to say.
Tips
- Write your articles for the benefit of the searcher - they are looking for information, not you personally.
- Look for the unique angle of your topic - research what other people are doing and try to do it better or differently to make yourself stand out in what might be a competitive market.
- Search for related products by putting your topic + affiliate + programme - follow the links.
- Give more than you take - it will pay off in the long run.
- If you find a site you like the looks of, try to find out how they built it - there's often a clue at the bottom of the pages - follow the links and see if you could do the same.
Warnings
- Don't be impatient - it takes 3 months to see any results worth having. Remember, the tortoise won the race.
