Noobs-The easiest way to make some money this Christmas

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Noobs, now is your chance!

If you’re looking to make some extra money for Christmas or just trying/struggling to make your first few dollars online then you’re about to hit the easiest time of the year to make money with physical products…October, November and December (Amazon). Let me show you my strategy below.

I started my “online career” last fall and had some small successes with a couple Christmas toys, made $930 last November (from toy sites and others) and since then I’ve worked my butt off and I ended up quitting my full time job last March. I’m now working for myself full time and netted just over $5,000 in July (before taxes). You can read about my last November post here.

My strategy on how you can make money this season

I already have my Christmas toy 2011 picked out, my squidoo page ranking #2, my hub page ranking #12 and my site I made on 7/28 ranking on the first page for several keywords and buying keywords. This is all with 0 backlinks and about 5 hours of my time. I’ll of course start lightly adding a few backlinks over the next few weeks/months…articles, social bookmarks, youtube videos, a few blog comments…quality over quantity.

I realize it’s just August, but that’s when you need to start looking around for some product to promote. You need to find some new toys that you feel are going to be a big hit this year.

New keywords have very little competition and if you get your sites up early enough you can be at the top of the search engines before anyone starts searching for the terms and also before the other internet marketers pinch out their crappy sites. You’ll already have some great content, quality backlinks and be too far ahead for anyone to touch you.

Yes, you could pick a toy and waste your time. That’s why you pick a few, maybe 3-6 that you like and put up a squidoo page and hubpage for each one. You might give them a few days/weeks and see if any start ranking for your keywords. Throw a few social bookmarks at them and maybe a few other links for your other sites. If one starts ranking and you start seeing a little bit of buzz about the toys/products then you might buy a domain and put up a site.

Here is a great example of what to do. A guy made a Amazon affiliate site about Monster High Dolls last September. He got his site ranking well and then bam…Christmas season hit…look at his sales below…

• Sept 2010: $200
• Oct 2010: $946
• Nov 2010: $4963 << Hello, would this be a sweet Christmas or what?
• Dec 2010: $5595
• Jan 2011: $537
• Feb 2011: $354
• Mar 2011: $202
• April 2011: $285

He just sold the site for $8,000 on flippa (https://flippa.com/2621972-new-calif...hs-amazon-site)
Sure, he got a little lucky, but so can you. He picked a good product, domain name and theme.

My tips:

Setup google alerts

Browse the Christmas blogs

Promote Amazon products (Christmas buyers buy tons of stuff unrelated to your products)

Checkout the toy stores top Christmas list for 2011

Don’t pick a single product name, pick product that has several products.
Example: Don’t build your sites around the “NERF Longstrike Sniper Rifle”. Build it around “Nerf Guns”

Don’t over use the anchor text in your links for your keyword. I made the mistake of using mainly one keyword in all of my anchor texts last year and my site got to #3 and then google kicked it out of the top 10 pages. Vary your anchor text! Maybe use 60% your main keyword and then use others for the rest.

Do quality link building: Write or have text broker write a few articles for you so you can submit them to the top 15 or so article directories.

Shoot a few social bookmarks to your sites over the next few months

Create a few web 2.0 sites

Submit to a few directories, they might accept your site.

Look at last years top Christmas sellers…some will probably be similar this year too.

Leave some quality blog comments on some big blogs related to your toy/product.

Make a squidoo page and a hubpage, cross link and link to your website if you build one. One will end up ranking better than the other one. And if your site gets booted out, you might have one of these support sites left in the top 10 search results.

If you end up buying a domain name don’t worry about getting an exact match. Get it if you can but otherwise just get a buykeyword.com, keywordhq.com, keyworddeals.com, keywordpro, keywords.com. You can use .net or a .org also.

Make sure you have your keywords in your title tags and other basic on site seo practices.


GET STARTED LADIES


Some quick resources:

A few toys from the toy fair 2011
100 Pictures from Toy Fair 2011

Target’s hot toy list
Toys: Hot Toys 2011, Hottest Toys of 2011: Target
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  • Profile picture of the author Regal Content
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    • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
      Originally Posted by Regal Content View Post

      Seasonal sites/marketing online are a great way to "even out" your online portfolio. A lot of normal online affiliate sites stop doing as well in these off seasons and having some niche holiday/seasonal sites is a great way to make up for the lost income (or reduced income).
      I agree with this. I wouldn't ever make it my sole focus, but it's a good way to keep things consistent or catch a nice bonus for the holidays.
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  • Profile picture of the author EugeneA
    Nice, good start for those who are new.
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