There’s nothing better then free traffic & when that traffic
is highly targeted towards your product or service it’s
even better because you’re guaranteed to make some big bucks.

One of the best sources of free traffic is the Search Engines &
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Mark

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No matter what type of email you send out, you’ll need a mailing list. The basic way to build a mailing list is by capturing name and email address information for everyone who buys or shows interest in your product.

An email list that YOU COLLECT YOURSELF is worth its weight in gold. This can be accomplished by using a list manager on your site such as Aweber. List managers also provide the HTML coding for the form on the Gateway pages. A list manager collects the email addresses that are gathered with the form. Thus, your email list is collected. This might take some time so there are methods to use until you get your own email list built.

One way to build a mailing list is to do ad swaps with other list owners. The way this works is, you (as company A) have an email list that you send newsletters to and another list owner (company B) has a list they send newsletters to. Company A and Company B place ads on one another’s mailing lists. Each of you is promoting the other’s list.

You can rent or buy targeted email lists. The list you develop using your own customers’ names is called your “house list.” Of course, when you’re first starting out, your house list is likely to be skimpy. To augment it, one way to go is rent or buy a mailing list. There are two ways to buy or rent a mailing list—approaching the company you want to rent from directly or using a list broker. Any company that emails information to its customers usually has a list manager, who handles inquiries and orders for the mailing list.

Another way to build an email list is to list your newsletter in all of the ezine directories such as:
http://www.ezinelisting.com/
http://www.jogena.com/ezine/ezinedata.htm

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NOTE: If not sure what rss is, then before reading this article have a quick look at http://www.whatisrss.com/

How can RSS benefit your blogging activites? RSS can benefit your blogging activites in two different ways: it can help you generate traffic and it can help you retain traffic. RSS can benefit your traffic-generation efforts by adding fresh, optimized content to your blog automatically; and it can benefit your traffic retention rate by providing better, updated content for your blog visitors.

Also, how can rss benefit your blogging activites in other ways? If you own a blog, you will have to constantly update it with fresh content, so you can ping more often and so you can get higher rankings for your targeted keyphrases. Aggregating and using RSS feeds can benefit your blogging activities significantly by allowing you to add fresh, targeted content to your blog without actually updating it yourself. Whenever a search engine visits your blog, it will record your RSS feed updates as fresh and possibly unique, targeted content.

If you own a blog, you can further enhance the amount of unique visitors you get by using RSS to syndicate your updates. In addition to netting you several backlinks on blogs and websites (which will increase your offpage search engine optimization score), it will also net you some unique visitors through direct links from other blogs and sites.

How can rss benefit your blogging activities by recycling traffic? If your site aggregates a number of important authority sites via RSS feed, you will become an authority site aggregator at the very least, which is useful for people looking to find authority sites on your given topic.

In summary, RSS can benefit your blog by generating traffic – by improving your actual search engine rankings and by increasing the amount of direct click-thrus you receive – and by helping you retain traffic – by positioning your site as an authority aggregator and by providing better, original content for blog visitors.

To start making money with blogs visit Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank

It happens all the time. A novice Internet marketer approached an established Internet marketer with a joint venture proposal only to be told, “Sorry, but I’m just too busy right now”. The novice marketer feels like he just got blown off and that the well established marketer didn’t even take the time to hear him out. That wasn’t, however, the most likely case. Successful and established Internet marketers are very VERY busy people. They probably work more hours in one day than others work in two days.

These successful men and women don’t have a starting time or a quitting time built into their days and nights. They probably dream about their projects when they do sleep. When one of them is approached with a joint venture proposal they are certainly interested….joint ventures are their bread and butter but they only have twenty four hours in a day just like everybody else and when they have eighteen of those hours spoken for they really can’t take on another project at that time. It doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t take it on at a later date.

As a new Internet marketer, it would be wise to approach an established and successful Internet marketer with a joint venture proposal that they can plainly see will make them money and not require hours and hours of their valuable time. You need to have done all of the research regarding your product or services’ marketability. You need to show that there is, in fact, a market for your product or service as it relates to their lists. Your proposal needs to be short and simple and your sales letter needs to be top drawer.

The main thing to remember is that successful Internet marketers really are busy people and ‘I don’t have time’ doesn’t mean ‘I will never have time’.

The most powerful way to get a joint venture partner is to do a successful promotion for your potential JV partners product. Imagine you made $2000 worth of sales for a potential JV partners product don’t you think he or she would find it hard even stupid to say no to you!

Alright, so you don’t have any digital products to offer, you don’t have any tangible goods to sell, you don’t have any special skills you can lease out, you don’t have any useful resources you can offer…

All you have is a blog.

Yes, a blog!

An online journal which is originally meant to serve like a diary, only, it’s a diary that is published on the internet and every person in the world, from North America to Tibet, can have access to whatever you will publish on its pages.

Now the challenge: how can you earn by using your blog, and JUST your blog?

If your answer is you can’t, then you’re lacking faith, my friend.

The fact is, you can earn by using your blog, and JUST your blog. Furthermore, you are not limited to a single earning opportunity when it comes to this avenue. There are a lot of potentials that can be found in those little web logs which are actually simplified and highly efficient content management systems possessing an interconnectivity that will generate direct traffic and some features that promise prominence in search engine results.

Here are 5 earning opportunities you can consider to fully monetize your web log.

1. Sign up with www.clickbank.com . ClickBank is a well established affiliate network that boasts thousands of products you can choose from. Simply survey the selection of products appropriate for the subject of your blog, and acquire your affiliate link. Whenever you’re recommending something in your blog entries, mention the products you have chosen and hyperlink the same with your affiliate links. This will lead your readers to the affiliate programs’ sales pages. If they decide to buy, you’d earn a commission per sale you manage to refer. Pretty cool, isn’t it?

2. Now, you’re not limited to ClickBank alone. There are other affiliate programs out there which you can dig up with some searching magic. There are millions and millions of affiliate programs in the World Wide Web, and some of them even promise a commission rate of up to 80% of the selling price. Imagine that! Affiliate programs are amazing ways to earn some serious cash through your blog.

3. Want to promote books? Amazon.com likewise has an affiliate program that you can choose to enroll with. Simply select the books most appropriate for the subject of your blog, and garner the corresponding affiliate links. Or you can copy and paste a code from Amazon and implement it on your blog. This will display contextually relevant products on your blog which your readers will be able to see. Books are sure sellers. And though Amazon does offer a relatively low commission rate, you’re sure to sell a lot of books through your blog. Everyone loves books! And Amazon is the internet’s most reliable digital bookstore!

4. Enroll your blog with Google AdSense or other Pay Per Click (PPC) programs. This will allow the PPC programs to display contextually relevant ads to your blog. Every time a reader of yours would click on an ad, you’d receive a certain amount of money. Imagine how much you can earn if your blog is generating thousands of visitors per day!

5. Sell advertising space on your blog. Whether they’re banners or simple text links, you can command a hefty price for the valuable “real estate” on your blog. But first, you must strive to increase your readership, which can be measured by the volume of traffic you’d be able to receive per day. A daily traffic of 10,000 visitors will surely take you places!

For more tips on making money with your blog & driving traffic to it,
Visit Rob Benwell’s “Blogging To The Bank”

Do you know the one secret to getting non stop traffic? If you don’t, you’re probably not getting it, are you? Interestingly enough, it’s really simple – and yet so complex that most people who want to make money on the Internet miss it entirely.

The secret to getting non stop traffic is giving your visitors a compelling reason to continue to come back to your site.

Put yourself in this situation. Pretend that you have a site that receives 10,000 visitors a month from natural search engine traffic. Let’s also say that this site has no mechanism for recycling traffic. Could you make money off of that traffic? Of course, you could.

Now, let’s say you have some recycling mechanism, such as a forum or an automatic “favorites” pop-up. And let’s say that you are able to effectively recycle 70% of your traffic. Assuming your natural search engine rankings don’t improve, you will receive 10,000 unique visitors the first month. The second month, you will receive 17,000. The third, you will receive 24,000. The fourth, you will receive 31,000 – and so on.

Do you see the power of this technique? All you have to do is give visitors a reason to keep coming back; and you can do that in a number of different ways.

One way is to offer some service that they can’t get in many other places. Perhaps you could offer free image hosting. Another way is to setup a community forum, which will keep traffic returning again and again. Additionally, you could offer a free URL cloaking service or dynamic content that is updated on a daily basis.

Whatever you do, provide excellent content and tools for your visitors and they will return again and again, increasing your traffic each month, rather than leaving it stagnant, as it was in the first model.

Please leave your comments & any traffic generation tips you’d like to share below.