One Of The Best Ways To Make Extra Money

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Today, especially with what we have all been through with the economy, many people are wondering what the best ways to make extra money are.   The internet has opened up a whole range of possibilities that are open to anyone.  In this article, I would like to explore Affiliate marketing, which, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to make some extra money online.

Simply put, it is selling other people’s products and earning a commission on any sales you make.  You can sell physical or digital products, each one having its own advantages.

Digital products normally offer a much higher percentage of commission and can be pretty fast movers if you are promoting what people are interested in.

Physical products, though offering a lower rate of commission, may be higher priced, so your commission can still add up to a good amount.

You will need to search for what fits into your niche the best.   Always choose high quality products to offer as that is what will be best for your market and also remember that your name will be associated with the product.

You have heard the phrase “the jack of all trades, master of none” referring to someone who has a lot of skills in a lot of areas, but has not “mastered” any of them.  It is hard to become successful if you spread yourself too thin.  The same holds true with affiliate marketing.   To be successful, you have to get to know your market and be known in your market.  Your goal should be to become the “go to” person in that niche.  Become acquainted with your market’s needs and interests.  Write about them and offer them solutions to their challenges.  They will soon be coming to you for advice and recommendations.

Let’s drill this down to an example.  Instead of offering music CD’s, vitamins, apparel and a host of other items as an affiliate, concentrate on one niche.  Let’s say you enjoy golf.  As an affiliate, you could promote golf clubs and become an expert on which clubs are the best choice for individuals.   Or you can go the route of offering golf clothing, shoes, and visors/hats.  Even with a particular niche, it’s a good idea to narrow it down to a certain aspect.  Then people know who to come to when they are looking for something in your area of expertise.

Affiliate marketing is a low-cost business to start and you can get going in it pretty quickly as you don’t need to develop a product.  That is what  makes it one of the best ways to make extra money.

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How To Make Money Online (work from home

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Fast Money Tool, A New Site for Writers, and an Announcement

One of our longest time members Marc Meole, let me know about a new tool he’s created called The Fast Money Tool to help you achieve what the product name promises; fast money. Given Marc has been a member here for over 5 years and has a great reputation he’s already earned my trust, but I thought I’d outline some of the features here in case anyone out there was looking for some help in making money online.

According to Marc, “I’ve been working online for about 7 years now. Mainly niche/affiliate marketing. I’ve been a software developer for about 9 years…Never put the 2 of them together until the past couple years. My wife had some health issues and I needed to do a lot more around the house (we have 4 daughters and we home school). Family comes first and they needed my attention… So business started to suffer. I needed to come up with a way to research, create, promote, etc all while spending half the time online I used to, and that’s how the Fast Money Tool was born”.

The tool itself is made up of several smaller tools, which all work together to help both seasoned veterans and newbies alike:

Niche Research (7 Top Research Tools)Finding free content ( 4 Places To Find Totally Free Content)Creating a site (Track Your Free Site or Paid Hosting)Keyword Research (Keyword Analyzing Tool)Analyzing Your Competition (See What Your Competition Looks Like)Finding the top places to promote (Promotion Tool Will Guide You to Countless Places to Promote Your Product)

If that sounds good to you, you can get your copy here. There’s a 30 day money back guarantee and it costs $25.

Since I’m feeling in a promotional mood, I was also alerted about a new site for freelance writers that just launched called BagAWriter. It’s got everything you’d expect from similar freelance sites; profiles, a bidding system, and a chat option for employers to discuss projects with prospective writers. One part of the site I liked was the “Student Centre”, where students can get online tutoring at a fixed rate. There’s a few projects listed on there now so if you’re into writing, check it out.

Announcement-wise, I was just reviewing our latest job application stats, and in the last 30 day period we finally crossed an important milestone:

Over 500 job seekers applied to positions through whydowork and 52 were hired!

The more employers we can connect our site visitors with the better, and 500 in 30 days is a great milestone for us. 52/500 isn’t half bad either (over 10% of applicants were successful).
If you are interested in freelance or work at home jobs, we have a great work at home jobs search engine and offer guides and tips to help you land the job.

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How a New Feature in Google Webmaster Tools Can Make You More Money

Last week I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and noticed something different; the keyword report now showed how many impressions, clicks, and your average position in Google search results worldwide.

Cross section this information with data in Google Analytics, and it’s a goldmine. I’ll show you!

First you need to choose something on your site you’d like to improve. A key source of revenue for WhyDoWork.com are our work at home job listings. Improving traffic to this area of the site will result in more revenue (more traffic = more money).

With that in mind, I logged into Google Analytics and looked at the top referring keyword to the jobs page this week. It turns out a lot of traffic to that specific was coming from search engines for the keyword “data entry jobs”. Here’s a screenshot:

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Next, I want to see some details on how we actually rank for that, and related terms in Google. This used to be a challenging metric to pull, but it’s easy now in Google Webmaster Tools. All I did to generate the report below is search for the text “data entry”:

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Based on the screenshot above, you can see that in the last week we’ve appeared in search results 720 times for the keyword “data entry online jobs”, but only had a click through rate of 13%. It’s likely low because in the last column you can see that our average rank on Google is position 7.8 (likely most often the 8th result on page 1). If we were ranked #1, we’d still get 720 impressions, but our click through rate would be extremely high.

Look a few rows down and you can see that “captcha data entry” has generated almost as many clicks, with only about a sixth of the impressions. Since we’re ranked 3.4 on average, this might be a search term worth working on our ranking for.

Using the above tools in combination can help you find relationships between data on your own sites, and hopefully use that to understand what key terms you should be optimizing for maximum traffic; and we all know my favorite formula:

more traffic = more dollars $

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