How to Make Money Online How I Make Thousand's Online Every Month (and you can too) Hey there, First of all I want to say congratulations for downloading this eBook. I always admire people who take their life situation into their own hands and start to make things happen for themselves. I've been fortunate enough to come from a great background with parents that supported me, and now less than 2 years later since starting my journey, I make a full-time income online and work from home. With so many scam artists out there it can be hard to know who to trust, so I promise you one thing: I only recommend things in this guide that have worked for me. I created this guide to help people out there who really want to work on their lives to make some additional income. This guide is very detailed and should tell you everything that you need to know. I'm going to quickly state something that gets its own page at the end of the eBook, but the only reason people fail to make money online is that they don't take action. There is a lot of potential in this industry. вЂњWhat is the potential?вЂќ First of all I want to say that I'm not here to sell you anything, so I hesitated about whether I should put up some of my income stats. Then again, sometimes people need a bit of 'social proof' to believe that ideas work so here goes. At 18 years old, I was the social media manager for companies like Nissan, Land Rover, ABSA Bank and other large corporations. I moved from the UK to South Africa to get the job and didn't know one single person in the country so that should show you my dedication to this aspect of my life. I've been in this industry for almost 4 years so it's up to you whether to trust my advice or not, but I think it's safe to say I know what I'm doing. Copyright PluginID.com This is a screenshot from one of my PayPal accounts, and only half of December, note that I have 6-7 places where I collect money, and PayPal is only a small part of my income: (this is all that would fit on one page) Of course, this continues throughout the months, here are a couple of recent payments from the last few days (I'm writing this guide as of March 24th 2009). I'm also waiting of a payment for around $500 to come through in the next few days. As I said, this is just PayPal, I earn money through: вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў Google Adsense Selling Products Affiliate offers (what this course will be about) Consulting etc etc As I say, I'm not here to prove anything, however as an example, I put together a website in four hours a couple of weeks ago and so far in March it has made me $855 $888 (I literally made a sale as I was typing this). This is my first time with Motive Interactive and they've been working out well for me. Copyright PluginID.com One thing to note is that I don't pay any money for this traffic and I only worked on the site for less than four hours. Of course, I'm experienced with putting up websites quickly so this would take you a little longer, but the fact is still the same: you can make a lot of recurring income by building websites that get free traffic. That screenshot is for one website, for one product, for one keyword and for one month. And I set it up in less than four hours. Now imagine if you can do that in one day's work, what you could achieve in a month? Exactly And this is exactly what I'm going to teach you how to do in this course. Update: Just to prove that this website which I do not touch still continues to make money, here's the update as March comes to a close: Copyright PluginID.com Here's what we are going to cover in this guide: вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў Becoming an Affiliate Deciding What Product to Promote Keyword Research Testing the Competition Choosing a Domain Getting Your Site Hosted Setting Up Your First Website Tracking Your Stats Building Backlinks Why 99% of People Fail to Make Money Copyright PluginID.com Becoming an Affiliate How You'll Make Money One of the easiest ways to make money online is to become an affiliate. What this means is that you will be selling products, trials or other offers made by someone else, and earning a commission. So for example, if you sell a product that is worth $40, you will probably make around $30 in commission (75%). If you sold only one product per day, for a month, you would make 30 x 30 = $900. Not a bad side income when you see that you can literally have your site up and running in a matter of hours and there are thousands of products to promote. There are a few companies where you can sign up as an affiliate, I recommend that you use Clickbank. That is not an affiliate link, it is a genuine recommendation. I've been a member of Clickbank for over 3 years, they have over 100,000 affiliates (people like me and you) and have paid out over $1billion to their members. Sign-up is completely free, and it won't take more than 2 minutes of your time. This is not an affiliate link, so I don't get anything for you signing up, just a genuine recommendation for a service that is used by people who started out with nothing and are now making thousands of dollars per month online. This is completely legal and legitimate, you are basically helping people find products that they want to buy, and being the middle man to help them do just that. You can sign-up here: http://www.clickbank.com/accountSignup.htm Do this right away as they can take a few days to approve your account, then continue reading. So, just to recap on the current situation. The process in which we are going to make money is this: вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў Build a website Drive natural, search engine traffic to the website Send that traffic to the page of someone else with our affiliate link If they make a purchase, then we automatically make a commission Copyright PluginID.com In essence, all you have to do is put the site together and get visitors, the payment processing and tracking is all handled by Clickbank (free). They earn their money by people advertising their own products in the system who get people like you and me to promote them. So, it's a win-win situation for everybody. Step 1: Register on Clickbank Copyright PluginID.com Deciding What Product to Promote What You'll Be Selling The first step you need to decide is which product you should promote. To be honest, there are no right and wrong products. You can make money in any industry as long as you can get relevant traffic, so it's probably best to promote a product that has interest to you, as you have to build a site about it. Some products will get more conversions than others and some won't do so well. If I mentioned a product that you should promote in this eBook then you would all jump on it, therefore making it very competitive and no longer easy to make money with. As an example, I tried promoting a product in the Tattoo niche, I sent 2,500 visitors to the sales page and made only 6 sales, making me just over $100. Yet when promoting another product, I sent only 600 visitors to the sales page, and made just short of $900. Now, if I had done a quick Google search I would have discovered that the Tattoo niche is converting poorly, but this proves that you can make money in any industry with any product. Even though the Tattoo niche is very difficult to make money in, I still managed to do it. There is actually no product on Clickbank harder to promote, so I've just made things a lot clearer for you. Now, first things first, you need to browse the Marketplace. You don't need to have your Clickbank account approved before you do this so click here and start browsing. If you click on a category such as 'Health and Fitness' you will be presented with a page like this: Copyright PluginID.com The part in blue is the usually the name of whatever you are promoting. $/sale = This is how much you will make for a successful sale, so for item 1 you would make $32.02 %/sale = This is how much the product owner is paying you out of a total sale, you will generally earn around 70-75% commission The final column 'grav' is perhaps the most important. As said in Clickbanks FAQ, gravity is вЂќthe number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the publisherвЂ™s productsвЂќ. ClickBank also specifies that вЂњthis is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value addedвЂќ. Basically, the higher the grav number a product has, the better it is selling and the higher the number of people that are making money with it. However, this also means that it's likely there will be a lot of search engine competition for this product. Taking a look at the product in number 4, you may be interested to note that in 2008 alone, this simple page made $4,000,000. Yes, that's over $3,000,000 paid out to Clickbank affiliates alone in one year, as they offer 75% commission. The first rule to choosing a product is to promote something that you are interested in, especially if this is your first venture into making money online. Copyright PluginID.com Task 2: Write down 5 вЂ“ 10 products that interest you That's it, just browse around the Clickbank marketplace and write down around 5-10 products that interest you and note down their names. Some products won't have the best title, for example this listing doesn't make clear what the product is: If you get a listing like that and it isn't clear what it is about, click on 'view pitch page' and a site should open. So in the case of this listing, which I found in the health category the site that opened was this: Now you can see that the product is actually called 'Fat Loss 4 Idiots' so if this looked interesting to you then right down the name. When you are writing down the products do not worry about the stats below them, I've explained them all above but they are not hugely important. Simply note down 5-10 products that look interesting to you, and you would promote if you knew you could earn money with them. Copyright PluginID.com Keyword Research Narrowing Down Your List For this case study we are going to be driving traffic from search engines. Every day, millions of people go to the likes of Google, Yahoo and Live search and look for whatever they want to find. Luckily for us, many people are searching for products directly, or things that could make them want to buy a product. I like search engine traffic because it is completely free and highly targeted. Search engine visitors are very likely to turn into buyers, much more likely than many other sources of traffic. Consider вЂ�dog trainingвЂ™ for example. Somebody might go to Google, type in вЂ�how to train my dogвЂ™ and then click around on the top results for some decent solutions. This is what is known as a keyphase. A keyphrase is a number of words that people type as a search engine query in order to get their results. Also known as keywords, but I prefer to say keyphrase if it is in-fact, a phrase. How to train my dog is a good example of a close to buying keyword, if this person came across a really nice looking dog training product for $19 or whatever price in the top results, thereвЂ™s a good chance they will make a purchase, because it is what they are looking for. So essentially the Google Keyword tool tells us what people are searching for and how often they are doing it. It is not perfectly accurate, obviously, but it is usually pretty damn close. Running Your List Through the Tool You should have a list of a products that looked interesting to you after you browsed around Clickbank, and now it is time to run them through the Google Keyword research tool. Copyright PluginID.com You can find the Google Keyword tool here. When you open the tool you should see a box that looks like this... What you need to do first is make sure that you change the country option on the left hand side to be all countries and territories, like so: What you want to do now is to enter keywords that are related to the products that you have written down. For example, if I picked 'truth about abs' as my product, then I would type truth about abs into the search box, and this is the result I get: Make sure that you change the drop down box on the right from 'broad' to 'exact'. What you can see then from the results above is that the key phrase 'the truth about six pack abs' is likely to be searched around 12,100 times in February. The other keyphrases are used a lot less and don't have enough data to show. For each of your products, you should write down all related keywords that get at least 1,500 exact searches. Now, if you scroll down the listing, you will see a segment which looks at related keywords which you can see below: Copyright PluginID.com Now, looking at the suggested keywords, see which ones you think would convert a searcher into a buyer. Would someone looking for 'abs exercises' be interested in a program that helps them get six pack abs? I certainly think they would. If a key phrase is getting more than 20,000 searches per month, it's very likely that they are going to be very competitive to rank for in search engine results. Try to pick keywords that are relevant to what you are looking to promote and have between 1,500 and 20,000 searches. To give another example, let's say you are promoting a product about six pack abs that gives $40 per sale. You rank highly for an abs related keyword that gets you 100 visitors per day from the major search engines. 5% of your visitors convert into buyers, so that is 5 people every day. 5 x $40 = $200 per day, if you can keep this up for 22 days in the month (excluding weekends when traffic tends to be lower) you would make a nice $4,400 in that month. Of course, these stats will vary, but don't be surprised, there are people making this amount of money on a daily basis with companies like Clickbank. The best thing is that once you are ranking highly in the search results (we'll cover how to do this later in the guide) it's likely that you will keep your position for quite a while without any additional work, leaving you time to set up more sites or just enjoy your profits. As an example IвЂ™ve just ran the product 'Panic Away' through the Google Copyright PluginID.com Keyword tool and here are some of the relevant results that came up along with their search volumes in brackets: вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў Panic Away (5,400) Anxiety Relief (6,600) Anxiety and Panic Attacks (3,600) Panic Attacks Treatment (3,600) Stop Panic Attacks (3,600) Treatment for Panic Attacks (2,400) Note that these results will vary depending how recently you are reading this eBook to when I wrote it. Don't worry though, all the information is still relevant ;) I think that most of the people searching for things like this would be interested in buying a product that could help cure their panic attacks. Do this for all items in your list, and make a note of the keyphrases and their search volume. Step 4: Run all your product names through the keyword research tool. Look at suggested keywords from Google and ask yourself whether someone searching for that term might be interested in buying a product that you are promoting. Now, make a separate list of all relevant keyphrases that the tool returned that get more than 1,500 searches per month. For some products it may not be clear which keywords will be relevant. For example there is a product on Clickbank called 'laws for success' and if you entered that into the Google Keyword Tool then you wouldn't know which keywords would be relevant. What I advise you to do in this situation is to look at the full product page (click 'view pitch page' on the Clickbank listing) and see what they offer. For the laws of Success program you can see that they plan to help you increase your energy and they use the law of attraction. Therefore you could enter keywords like increase energy, improve energy and law of attraction into the Google keyword tool. Remember: You are looking for buying keywords. Ask yourself, would something looking for [whatever keyphrase] be interested in my [clickbank product]. If so, and it gets over 1,500 searches, write it down. Copyright PluginID.com If you have any questions about this step, just send me an email to [email protected] and I'll get right back to you! Copyright PluginID.com Testing the Competition Making Sure Your Keyphrase Isn't Too Difficult Before we get right into testing the keyphrases that you should have by now, I want to give you a quick guide on how search engines work. SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimisation, is the вЂ�artвЂ™ of getting a website to rank highly in the search engines. I could write a 400 page eBook on this topic but IвЂ™m going to try and keep this as simple as possible. Every single day, millions of people go to one of their favourite search engines (Google, Yahoo, Live) and type in what they are looking for. Some people want free information, some people want a quick link to their favourite websites and some want to buy products. Have you ever wondered why some sites rank above another? Why when I search for вЂ�dog trainingвЂ™ in Google, does one site get to rank 1st and one not even show on the first page, even if they both have excellent content? The answer is simple: backlinks. Backlinks are links from one website to another, and help search engines to understand what is a quality site and what isnвЂ™t. A link is basically a вЂ�voteвЂ™ saying вЂњHey I trust this site, it has good contentвЂќ. Google constantly вЂ™spidersвЂ™ the web and finds these links, and then ranks sites accordingly, a lot of results pages fluctuate on a daily basis because of this. Thankfully, good sites do tend to rise to the top of search results, because people link to them. If I wanted PluginID.com to rank on the top of Google for вЂ�Personal DevelopmentвЂ™ then I would try and get as many links as possible to my site that look like this: Personal Development. This is why, time and time again, you will see sites like Wikipedia, Amazon and other trusted sites rank highly in the search results, because they have millions of links. The reason IвЂ™m telling you this is because this method of making money online is going to require you to get traffic from search engines. Don't worry, it is a lot Copyright PluginID.com easier than it sounds. Your aim will be to get relevant links to your finished website (IвЂ™ll show you how to do this) and trust that it will rank for the keywords you want it rank for. As long as you understand the basic concept that links from websites are the main factor that help a page rank in search engines then that is enough to understand for now. The benefit of search engine traffic is that it is completely free and once youвЂ™re ranking (showing in the top Google results for that term) for a keyphrase then you could be receiving that traffic for a long time with no extra effort. This is how I earn thousands of dollars on auto-pilot, because IвЂ™m constantly getting search engine traffic that wants to buy products, and IвЂ™m ranking highly for relevant keywords. I could die tomorrow and I would still make money for months to come. By now, you should have a list of keyphrases that are related to products that are found on Clickbank. So if you wanted to sell a forex product on Clickbank, it would be good for you to rank in Google for вЂ�forex softwareвЂ™ because that searcher is looking for what you have to offer, and is likely to buy. However, some keyphrases are very competitive. Think about this: it is said that the number 1 spot in Google for Credit cards is worth $10,000 per day (because they can promote tons of credit cards)! Now you are obviously going to need a lot of links about credit cards just to rank on the first few pages. There are companies that do nothing but spend all day building links for competitive keywords and making money that way. This is not what we are going to do, itвЂ™s simply not possible to compete, or at least not in a short time frame. Therefore, what we are going to do now is take your keyword phrases and see how competitive they are, if they are too competitive then they are not worth trying to rank for. To give you a good understanding of how to do this, I'm going to use the phrase вЂ�stop panic attacksвЂ� and test the competition. Step 1. Enter your phrase into the Google Search box Copyright PluginID.com Step 2. Note how many homepages there are in the results Homepages are basically the first page of a website, so when you look at the URL in Google, a homepage will have nothing after the .com or .net or whatever the extension is. Ideally you donвЂ™t want there to be more than 4-5 homepages in the search results. This is because it is a lot easier to get a homepage to rank than an individual page. Step 3. Check the backlinks of one of the top pages It doesnвЂ™t matter exactly which page you pick, but when you enter your keyphrase into Google, choose a page that is ranking in the top 5 results. 3, 4 or 5 are usually the best. This is because we need to see around how many backlinks it is going to take to вЂ�outrankвЂ™ these pages and jump above them in the results. To do this, get the URL for the page, so for my example it might be: www.nlppati.com/articles/end-panic-attacks.shtml This page ranks 4th in Google for вЂ�Stop panic attacksвЂ™ which is my keyphrase. So now what you need to do is go over to Yahoo and type in the following: link:http://www.nlppati.com/articles/end-panic-attacks.shtml -site:nlppati.com So after link you put the URL of the page, even if it is a domain and then after -site: you put the domain name, in this case it is nlppati.com The part IвЂ™ve circle is what you need to check. If a site in the top 5 results has less than a few hundred links to the specific page, then assume that you can probably rank for this easily, especially with the help of Bookmarking Demon. Based on these three tests, it is safe to assume that I could make some very easy money online by ranking for вЂ™stop panic attacksвЂ™. Copyright PluginID.com The reason we use Yahoo for the test is that Google are known to only show a small portion of the backlinks they know about. Yahoo results for backlinks show most, if not all links to a site and is updated much more regularly. I can assure you that Google will know about the same links, they just would not show it if you ran the link: query in their search engine. Step 5: run all the keyphrases from your list through this three point test, and note which ones вЂ�workвЂ™ successfully. These are keyphrases that you can probably rank in Google for with minimal experience of doing this before and keywords that will make you money. There are some other factors that apply, as this test is rather basic but does look at some of the most important points you need to observe. 1. Who is ranking in the top results? Sites like Amazon donвЂ™t always have many links to their individual pages but because they are so trusted they rank highly and will be hard to beat. If you see top results from sites like Amazon, About.com, Wikipedia or other sites that have some strong authority, then itвЂ™s probably best to stay clear, especially if this is your first time doing this. 2. How relevant are the links? Google donвЂ™t just check to see how many links a site has, they see how many links are from relevant websites. So for example if I wanted to rank PluginID for вЂ�Personal DevelopmentвЂ™ it would be a lot better to get links from self improvement blogs, rather than say, a cooking website. Relevant links will be harder for you to pick up, and you can get a quick idea of whether a sites links are relevant or not by looking at the results from the Yahoo backlink check. Once you've done this section you should know which keyphrase you want to try and rank for. Remember, it should be relevant to your product and it should be a keyword that might mean people would buy what you have to offer. Ideally it should have at least 1,500 exact searches as shown in the Google Keyword tool and it should pass the three tests above. If you have any questions about this section feel free to email me at Copyright PluginID.com [email protected]. I'm more than happy to help you all make money online. Copyright PluginID.com Choosing a Domain Where People Will Find Your Site There are two routes that you can take for domains and they usually depend on what type of site you are building. For example, if IвЂ™m building a blog on a reputable topic and IвЂ™m offering a lot of value, then you might want to pick a brandable domain that people can remember. I chose PluginID because it is short, it is based around a slogan and you can remember it. However, in all honesty, the domains that I use for campaigns like this are not as pretty. They have a lot of words in them and they often end in .net or .org instead of the more popular .com. The reason for this is that you get a вЂ�boostвЂ� in search engines if you have all the words that you are targeting in your domain and the .com isnвЂ™t always available. Google only gives you a slight boost, but having all the keywords in your URL helps you greatly in Yahoo and MSN. Yahoo and MSN do get less traffic than Google but they can still send you targeted visitors that buy what you have to offer. MSN visitors are actually much more willing to spend money than any other search engine visitor based on my testing. If the keyphrase I have chosen was 'stop panic attacks' then I would try to get stoppanicattacks.com. Some domain name options I think you should consider include: вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў keyphrase.com keyphrase.org keyphrase.net mykeyphrase.com keyphrasehq.com ikeyphrase.com вЂ¦and so on. If you can get the .com thatвЂ™s excellent, if you can get something close to that then thatвЂ™s great. Buying Your Domain There are hundreds of websites online where you can buy domain names. I use Copyright PluginID.com NameCheap (that is not an affiliate link) and a .com will usually set you back $9.69. The reason I use NameCheap is that they offer free WhoisGuard which basically protects your registration data so that people canвЂ™t search the domain database and find all your personal details, which they could if you use providers which donвЂ™t offer this option. A .com, .org or .net domain will all be the same price. However, a .info domain will only cost you $2.98. I personally donвЂ™t like using .info domains as they look spammy to me. I also believe that search engines devalue them very slightly; my reasoning behind this is that one day not long ago, all .infoвЂ™s disappeared from GoogleвЂ™s index. Do you ever think they would make such a big mistake with .comвЂ™s or .netвЂ™s? I donвЂ™t think so. Either way, there are .infoвЂ™s that rank well, I just prefer not to use them. If you do go with Namecheap there is a coupon code that IвЂ™ve found for April 2009 which is 7tulips. This will reduce the price of a .com or other extension to $8.81. If youвЂ™re reading this after April, then you can find updated coupons here. You can pay via Paypal or your Credit Card, and theyвЂ™ve been around for years so you can trust them with your money. I personally have over 30 domains with NameCheap and have used them for a number of years. Copyright PluginID.com Getting a Host A Server Where You Place Your Website Files What is a Host? A host is basically somewhere that you can put the files for your website, and people can access them from anywhere with an internet connection. As an example for this website I use Hostgator so my process was: Buy Domain (PluginID.com) >> Add domain to Hostgator Account >> Install Wordpress or Add Website Files to the Hostgator Server >> The site is now live and viewable like you see here. The host is my web-space online that allows me to host files, databases, images, videos and all that kind of thing. Without a host there is no way for people to view your website online. Before you can set-up your hosting, you need a host. As stated, I use Hostgator and they cost a measly $5 per month; thatвЂ™s the price of just one Starbucks coffee that you can leave out of your monthly expenses. What I love about Hostgator is that you can host unlimited domains so that means if things start working well for you and you want to set-up more websites, you can do so with no added cost. Additionally, their live support is just brilliant. If you go over to their website now and click on вЂ�live chatвЂ™ you can see that they always have 10-20 technicians online that you can talk to at anytime. They guarantee 99% uptime so if your website is ever down for more than 1% of the month (a few hours), they will completely refund you your monthly spend for that month. They host over 1,800,000 domains, yes thatвЂ™s over 1.8million so they can be trusted and they are a very well known company. You do not need anything more than the option that costs more than $5 per month. So what you need to do is go over to the site, and you will see the following page: Copyright PluginID.com If you click вЂ�Learn moreвЂ™ you basically get the information that IвЂ™ve just shared. Note that while it says вЂ�LinuxвЂ™ on the learn more page, this is simply the operating system that the server runs on, it does not mean you need to have a Linux PC (somebody sent me an email about that). Once you are on the Order page, simply click вЂ�I will use my existing domainвЂ™ and then fill in the domain that you have purchased like so: Click on next and then you will be asked to select your hosting plan. Note that hatchling offers unlimited bandwidth and webspace, but you can only host one domain. I use baby to host my sites and that means you can host unlimited domains. It is completely up to you how long you want to host for, but note that the longer you set-up your plan for the cheaper the monthly price becomes. Copyright PluginID.com Once youвЂ™ve done this, just continue with the following steps and youвЂ™ll be the proud owner of a new hosting account. What we need to do now is link your domain to your hosting account. You can use the coupon code 'Wordpress' and your first month will only be $0.01. Copyright PluginID.com Getting Your Site Live How to Get Your Website Online What we need to do is tell the company where we purchased the domain (NameCheap) where it can find our host (Hostgator). In the domain section I recommended that you use NameCheap, if you used a different domain registrar you will have to find out for yourself how you can change your nameservers. First of all, when you sign-up to Hostgator you will receive an email that looks like this: The email will contain two nameservers. Make sure you do not delete the email, we will use these 2 URLвЂ™s in NameCheap (or wherever you purchased your domain) to tell the domain registrar about your Hostgator hosting. Now what you need to do is go over to NameCheap, log into your account and go to the Manage Domains section. Click on your domain and a new page will open. On the left hand side of the page there will be a link that says вЂ�Transfer DNS to WebhostвЂ™. Once that page loads simply enter the URLвЂ™s from your hostgator confirmation email from before, like so: Once youвЂ™ve done this, hit вЂ�Save ChangesвЂ™ and youвЂ™re all done. Congratulations, Copyright PluginID.com within an hour or so your site should be ready to go! Copyright PluginID.com Free Landing Page Setting Up Your First Site I've decided to create a completely free website design for you all that you can use to set-up your first website. Here is how the design looks: Design Features You should know by now that I go above and beyond any normal offerings. I spent quite a few hours putting this together, and even integrated the following features. вЂў Integrated Google Analytics code for stats tracking вЂў Change one file for the footer and it will change on every page вЂў Optimised for Search Engine rankings with unique titles, descriptions and keywords вЂў A Cloak script which will help you hide your affiliate links вЂў Optimised Images and placement вЂў A 9 page eBook how to tweak all aspects of the design вЂў The eBook also contains recommendations for what content should be on your page How to Install the Template Copyright PluginID.com Instead of taking up this whole guide with how to do it, instead what I've done is created a zip file for you to download. This zip file contains all the files you need, and a 9 page eBook of how to tweak everything. Do not worry if you have never setup a website before or even looked at HTML, the eBook will show you everything (there's even a video). Download the zip folder here and read it when you are up to this part. Copyright PluginID.com Site Contents What Should Be On Your Site My recommendations here are going to be based on the free theme that I released. If you do not want to use the theme or have some other solution, please feel free to just incorporate some of the ideas into your own design. Here is the screenshot of the design with different sections numbered, I've gone into detail about each below: 1. Here you should simply put the name of your site. This is small, but website visitors will still see it, and itвЂ™s right at the top of the page so search engines will relate it as being relevant to your site, therefore, you should put relevant text here. If I was building PluginID with this landing page then I would change the text to вЂ�PluginIDвЂ™ If I was marketing a cure acne website and my domain was вЂ�How to Cure AcneвЂ™ then that is exactly what I would write there. 2. This heading really grabs peopleвЂ™s attention, so you have to make the text count! If I was writing a site for an acne cure I might write вЂњI Finally Discovered the Truth About Removing Acne That YouвЂ™re Doctor WonвЂ™t Tell You!вЂќ Copyright PluginID.com 3. The idea behind asking your readers a question is simply that it engages them into your website. вЂў Do You Want to Know How to Remove Acne, Naturally? вЂў Do You Get Frustrated with Forex Software? вЂў Are You Sick of All the Shady Marketers Online? Ask a question that is relevant and makes them want to read the bullet points. Remember, the key secret of copywriting is this: the job of the first sentence is to get someone to read the second, and the job of the second is to get someone to read the third. You want them to be engaged and then click on your link. 4. The bullet points that you use on your page should obviously be related to the question you asked or the statement you made. For example, if you asked вЂ�Do You Get Frustrated with Forex SoftwareвЂ™ then your bullet points should highlight points of some Forex Software you are promoting: вЂў Find Out Exactly Why People are Going Crazy for [Product Name] вЂў Learn the Crucial Tactic to Massively Increase Your Income вЂў Stay Completely Risk-Free with a 60-Day Money Back Guarantee Sometimes itвЂ™s good to be clear you are promoting a product, other times you just might want to say how you found a solution to their problems and outline the benefits. Remember this page is all about вЂ�pre-sellingвЂ™ and then hoping the visitor converts when they go over to the Clickbank product page. Look at the features that are highlighted on the page of the site you are promoting if you need additional inspiration. 5. Make sure that you change the link text to that of your Clickbank URL or the link cloaker that has been included. 6. If you are doing a PPC campaign (buying ads on search results) then you do not need to worry about having a lot of text on the homepage. However if you are doing SEO (which is what IвЂ™m doing in the case study) and trying to rank in search results naturally, then you need a decent amount of text on the homepage. Think about it, the search engines only want to provide their users with quality results. If Google results were full of spam and ads people would simply not use them. This is why itвЂ™s good to make sure that your site is around 3-4 pages and has some quality content on the site. The important thing is that part 5 is clear, that should be enough for most Copyright PluginID.com visitors to click through to your site. Then start writing more content that is related to what you are offering, or what the site is about. If your site is about Acne, tell an embarrassing acne story, if your site is about Forex then write about your struggles with Forex and how you started making money. This is exactly why from the start I recommended that you pick products that you have an interest in. I only promote the likes of Bookmarking Demon and about the product because I actually use it and it works well for me. If I didnвЂ™t use it, then I wouldnвЂ™t write great reviews, that would be unethical. I could promote it if I hadnвЂ™t used it, but I certainly wouldnвЂ™t say it had helped me make a lot of money when it hasnвЂ™tвЂ¦but it has. 7. Change the image here to something that is relevant to your niche. You may even just want to put a software box or an eBook cover here. This image helps people identify with what the site is about, and lets them make sure they are on the right page. Copyright PluginID.com Tracking Your Stats How to Know Where Your Visitors are Coming From Now that your site is online, you need to track where your visitors are coming from. For this I use Google Analytics, a free tool that gives you a snippet of code to put on your website, and then you can login and find out all sorts of stats about your visitors. You can see which sites they are coming from, which countries they are coming from, which search engine keywords they are coming from and even which search engines. You will then get a snippet of code which looks like this: <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-382292-49"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> To add it to WordPress, simply go to: Design >> Theme Editor >> Footer.php and paste the code before the end </body> tag. It will take around a day for your stats to start generating, but once they do you can start monitoring your visitors and how they find you. Note: If you are using the free template that I have released then you do not need to add this code, it is already in the theme for you! Copyright PluginID.com Building Backlinks Getting Traffic from the Search Engines What are Backlinks, and Why are They Important? Backlinks are basically hypertext links that connect the web. Backlinks, in the most simple way to describe them, are links from other websites to your website. Backlinks are important because Google and other search engines use backlinks to determine their ranking algorithms. For example, if you search for вЂ�dog trainingвЂ™ or вЂ�remove acneвЂ™ in Google, itвЂ™s likely that the site that ranks in 1st place will have a lot more links than the site that ranks in 10th place. The one in first place will obviously be getting a lot more traffic, and they are probably converting that traffic into a lot more income. Backlinks basically tell the search engines вЂњThis site looks good and deserves to rank for this termвЂќ. A good example of the power of backlinks is the Google results page for click here. You will notice that some of the sites donвЂ™t even have the text вЂ�click hereвЂ™ on their pages. They are simply ranking highly because they have a lot of links to their site with that text. Adobe rank highly because a lot of people probably link to their site saying вЂ�click here to download abode softwareвЂ™. ItвЂ™s important that you build backlinks to your site so that you can improve your search engine rankings, and start getting traffic to your sites from sources like Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines. Some of my sites get over 500 visitors per day just from the major search engines, and this is what allows me to earn a passive income with no work involved. With the keyphrase that you have chosen, you should also look to get more links from other websites. Ideally, you want links with the name of your keyphrase in them. So for example if I wanted PluginID to rank for вЂ�Personal DevelopmentвЂ™ then I need links from other sites pointing to this one with that text, like this: Personal Development. How to Build Links In this section IвЂ™m going to share two ways that you can build links to your site. Copyright PluginID.com One of the ways requires no fees but manual work, and the other way requires you to purchase software which will greatly help with this aspect of making money online. I am including multiple options so it is clear IвЂ™m not just writing this eBook to make money, I genuinely want to help people. I would not recommend anything that I have not used myself and has helped me. 1. Manual Backlink Acquisition You can build links to your site manually in a number of ways, some are simple and donвЂ™t take long, others will require a bit more work. Some ideas for this include: вЂў Changing Your Forum Signature - If you are a member on any forums, itвЂ™s вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў usually possible to add a link in your signature that will show on the bottom of any of your posts. Write Articles - If you write articles related to your subject then you can add them to article directories and get a link on the end of the piece. You can find hundreds of article directories here. Submit to Directories - Just as there are directories for articles, there are also directories for links. These arenвЂ™t high quality links at all but they will help somewhat. You can find thousands of directories here. Leave Blog Comments - There are blogs out there which allow вЂ�dofollowвЂ™ comments which basically means that any comments you leave on their websites with a link will help towards your search engine rankings. You can find a list of do follow blogs here, just make sure you do not spam the sites. Write Guest Posts - There will be blogs in your niche that allow you write articles for their site, and in return you can put a link to it on the end of your post. Search around for top blogs that are relevant to your niche Building links by using some of these methods is free, but certainly not the only method you can use. I personally use a tool called Bookmarking Demon to build links to my site. If, after a week or 2 I notice that I need to improve my rankings (or longer if the phrase is competitive) then I will use some of the methods above. 2. Bookmarking Demon Bookmarking Demon is a social bookmarking tool which can get you links on hundreds of sites, automatically. Basically the software: Copyright PluginID.com вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў вЂў Allows you to auto-create accounts on hundreds of websites Submits your link to all of these sites at once Has an option for you to use proxies when submitting sites Is updated constantly (IвЂ™ve had it for 2 years) Allows you to save your accounts and load them whenever I only ever really use this tool on my affiliate sites, and sometimes this is all I use to get links which result in search engine traffic. For some sites that have a lot of competition then I might do blog guest posts, submit to article directories and that kind of thing, but if youвЂ™ve picked a fairly uncompetitive keyword then youвЂ™ll find that this is usually enough. There is a 60-day money back guarantee that comes with the tool so if you have any problems or it doesnвЂ™t work out for you then you can get a full refund. I recommend that you check out the free videos on their site. Copyright PluginID.com Why 99% of People Fail ...and why you might too Do you want to know why 99.9% of people fail to make money online? It's simply because they never take action. Even though I've laid out exactly what you need to do in this guide, 99% of people will not do anything about it. Despite the fact that there are over 100,000 people using Clickbank and the fact that every single person who picked a product and promoted it properly probably made a sale; some people just never get started. How do I know this? Because in the four years I've been doing this, I've watched my friends and even forum members keep planning and keep saying what they are going to do, yet they never take action. You could literally have your website up and running in 2 hours from now. That's buying a domain, getting hosting, putting some content on the page and having your website live for the world to view. I was one of those people who researched for a year, making sure I had everything 'perfect' before I started my venture into the unknown. Yet the only way I've learned to do what I can these days is by trial and error, actually taking action and then tweaking what I do depending on the results I get. You can only learn so much by reading, you won't start to understand everything and earn money until you take action. Are you going to be part of the 99% that reads a guide like this, and never opens the file again? Or are you going to be the 1% that starts to make money online and makes a huge change to their reality? For over a year I was part of the 99%, thankfully I woke up :). Copyright PluginID.com