How To Multiply Your Income Without Doing Any Work!

What if I told you that you could go out and get somebody to sell stuff for you, not have to pay them anything, and still receive profit off those sales?

Well thanks to referrals, sub-affiliates, or whatever you want to call them it is now completely possible. In fact, most affiliate programs wish you would utilize this feature even more.

Simply put, referrals are new affiliates that you referred to the network, thus, receiving a percentage of their commissions. Most affiliate programs have some type of referral system setup, and it does not take away any potential commissions from you or the person you referred.

Learn How To Run A Successful Website Through Case Studies

When I was a kid in school I always wondered what was the point of taking a history class. It is in the past, it is ancient, and it is old, so why waste our time, right? As I grew older, I didn’t necessarily find the actual stuff we learned in history useful, but rather the importace of utilizing history in business.

By looking at our past history, we can see what businesses have done to be successful and what leads to failure. With this rather invaluable information, it should jump start our own venture because we have already had people make the mistakes we can avoid.

See what successful sites are doing.

How To Form Your Own LLC

Several blogs start and die everyday. Due to the very low barrier of entry, often times people don’t treat their online entity as a real business, end up not making money, and eventually let the entity die a slow painful death.

It is one thing to treat your online work has a real business, but it is another one to actually make it a legal one. Obviously, I am talking about incorporating your business, with the most popular and probably easiest form being a Limited Liability Company (LLC).

There are many various reasons why somebody would want to incorporate their business. A few include…

• Protect your personal assets. Setting up your business as a separate entity will protect creditors, lenders, or anybody who would want to come after you (legally).
• Continuity. If you have multiple partners or state powers in your will, a corporation can continue to go on with business.
• Access to money. Everybody already knows incorporating your business will help you look more legit, but it will also help you should you decide to find investors and other type of investment into your business. You also can’t get an your Employee Identification Number (business version of social security number) banks need to open business accounts and get business loans.
• Tax benefits. There are many tax benefits and loopholes available to small businesses, and incorporating allows you to take advantage of them.

Increase Profts with Extra Incentives

Over the past couple of years “blogging for money” has really taken off, but not everybody really knows how to be successful at it. For the most part, unless your site is bringing in millions of views a month, then you probably won’t be able to live off that income alone.

Just like any market, you need diversify. This does not necessarily mean creating multiple niche sites and running them, but, rather, offer more to your readers than just a blog.

More can come to mean anything, but one of the easiest and best solutions is a newsletter. Think of it like premium content for subscribers. While you may not be requiring people to pay for the subscription, at least you are grabbing their attention to hopefully profit off them in the long run.

But how do I get people to sign up for a newsletter?

1. Content – What they see is what they get. If you are not sharing something interesting, then there is a good chance the reader won’t bother subscribing.

2. Professionalism – Although email addresses can be created for free in a matter of seconds, many people are very protective when it comes to sharing theirs. After all, who wants spam? If your site does not look organized or there is no clarification who is behind it, then how can a reader really trust you with their email address? Keeping a tidy site layout and solid about page should keep your professionalism high enough.

3. Offer new subscribers something – Out of the years I have been doing this, I don’t think I have ever seen anybody offering nothing for your sign up. Most of the time people are willing to share some free eBook or other type of download with new subscribers. Lets face it. We all love free stuff.

4. Contest - Pretty self explanatory. Offer a prize, but make the rule to enter that you must subscribe to the newsletter. If you are producing a solid email then they probably won’t unsubscribe after the contest is over.

Once you are able to build a decent list, then be sure to actively drive out quality newsletters. Throw in some special tricks or secrets that only subscribers can see. Then talk about it on your site. For example, on my financial site I could send out an email with my top stocks for March, then create a post on the site saying what I just did, but do not tell them what the stocks were. Instead entice them to sign up to find out more and keep in the loop.

If you have a good email software, then you should be able to create autoresponders especially for the people that sign up off that page. There are many options out there, but the one I use is Aweber. Basically gives you customization freedom. You can try it no risk for 30 days.

If you want, eventually you can sprinkle some ads and/or affiliate links in there, but remember how easy it is for people to unsubscribe. If they think you are just sending them spam, then they will indeed drop you.

Create an extra service that makes readers come back for more

There are really several other ways to create extra incentives, such as: creating a membership program, produce an online workshop, draft up weekly niche market reports. You can learn it a little bit more about different incentives and about a program I am in the process of creating by signing up to Online Business Mastermind newsletter (Use the subscription box in the right sidebar).

Remember there is no right way to make money online. Be creative yet resourceful, and remember to think of each reader has a potential customer.

7 Effective Ways to Increase Search Engine Ranking

We have already talked about quality traffic vs quantity traffic, but the number one way to dominate your niche is to own the search engine result. Easier said than done, but if you can manage to rank on the first page of Google search for a few key phrases in your niche, then your average traffic will easily sore higher.

While I was always trying to get high Google search ranking, I never really comprehended the importance of it until a few weeks back. On my financial site, The Wild investor, I had published an article about 4 stocks to buy in 2009. Since than, that article has ranked in the top 3 for all the different ways to say the phrase “stocks to buy in 2009.” This alone has added hundreds of people to my daily traffic. So I did it, but now how do we see these same results for other articles?

By the way, TWI was recently hit to a level 0, so does page rank even really matter?

The following is a list of things that I feel should be done to rank high in Google searches:

1. Formatted Titles
2. Targeted Theme
3. Creating an Enticing Description
4. Tag Your Images
5. Cross Link
6. Quality Content
7. Get Linked

(To better demonstrate how to increase your search engine ranking we will pretend we are making an article on how to better your golf swing)

Formatted Titles – Be direct. Don’t use inside jokes, slang, or comparisons. Say exactly what you are doing in the article. Also make sure in Wordpress that your permalinks are set to display the post name in the url rather than the string of numbers you may have.

To do that simply go into your Wordpress Admin > Settings  > Permalinks > Select custom structure and fill in /%postname%/

Example: 4 Ways to Improve Your Golf Swing, How to Improve Your Golf Swing

Targeted Theme – Constantly reiterate what you are talking about in your article. If you are talking about ways to improve your golf swing, then make sure you remind the Google bots that is what you are talking about. Also throw in many related keywords. A good way to measure this is to throw an Adsense ad into your article and then see what ads come up. It might not be directly connected, but it also should not be horribly off.

Example: Use a keyword tool like Adwords and see what recommendations they give you. Once I get the results I like to order them by traffic volume and then use some of the keywords with good relevance, a longer phrase, but not the ones with too high of traffic. Try to go after the best words with the least competition.

Create an Enticing Description - If you are not already using the ALL in One SEO plugin, then make sure to check the 7 plugins I use on every site to make sure you are not missing any others. The plugin allows you to write a customized description for your article, so that people know what they are clicking on from the search page. Obviously the better the description; the higher conversion rate. The description should not be longer than 160 characters.

Example: 4 easy ways to increase your golf swing and lower your handicap.

Tag Your Images – Your images are not in there just to make your article pretty, they should also boost your search traffic. How do you think images are found when you do an image search? Either they are found through the file name or alt tag. If you are using Wordpress, then you can easily add it through the media manager or just directly add it in the html. Simply add alt=”Your tag here” within the “img” code.

Your keyword should be related to the image. Usually people are not searching for the same thing between images and actual article.

Example: alt=”correct golf swing”

Cross Link – Link from within the site and outside the site. If you have related or helpful articles within your site, then link them within the article. Searches also see if you link to popular third party sites. Another good plugin for this is SEO Smart Links.

Example – You may link to a previous article about picking custom made clubs because they can help your game as well. At the same time you may link to golfchannel.com.

Quality Content – Lastly, just write good stuff. While you should not necessarily bother yourself with each and every method, odds are if you write a good article then you should perform well in the searches.

When I wrote my article on 4 stocks to buy in 2009, my first goal was not to rank high in the searches. I was in a stock picking competition, and I was just trying to put out the best article.

Get Linked – The great part about my stocks to buy in 2009 article was that all the members in the contest linked to each others work. So right away that was about 8 links. These links also managed their way onto several different social networks and even front page of a popular finance portal. Obviously the more prominent your article; the better results. Learn a simple method to get quality back links.