I'm a newbie and here's my plan.. any input is appreciated

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Hi I am new to IM and I've been doing a lot of reading at tons of website but this is my favorite.. Real people w/ hands on experience. I found a youtube video that made me interested in IM and he is supposed to mentor anybody and everybody that needs help, from start to finsih and you pay him nothing until you start making $1K a week. So I was interested in the process and thought I'd give it a try. Anyways, so far, I've gotten a domain and web hosting company and paid for 2 years. I figured if it doesn't work out, I would only lose $80 some bucks! So while researching, I found another site that walks you through the whole process so here's what I have and plan.
1) already got a domain and web hosting company but have not done anything with it.
2) I plan to look for a couple niche that I will like and be interested in
3) I plan to go to click bank and look for a product to promote
4) I plan to create a squeeze page (hopefully soon)
5) I plan to create a thank you page
6) I plan to get a AWEBER account to create a list for targeted people for each of my products I plan to promote
7) Then create my main website for my affiliate links for my niche
**Then I'm stuck here.. I don't know where to go after here and have a few questions so any suggestions, input and greatly appreciated.

Questions
1) I know I would need different websites for each product I promote as an affiliate but is it ok to put different products in 1 website as long as the products are related and belong to the same niche?
2) Are Squeeze Page and Thank You page all from the same website, as my MAIN website the will promote the products, just a different tab/link on the site???? I'm still all confused about all this.
3) Do I put my affiliate link on my squeeze page or thank you page or is that not a good idea?
4) I'm still in the learning process of SEO and I know SEO is very important to create traffice. How about creating a fanpage on FB? I know that's free but not sure if I'm allowed to post my affiliate link on fanpage. Posting on forums related to my niche?

Anyways, that's what I have in mind for now and looking forward to start soon. I know if I read directions, I can be technical and create my website but I don't really know where to start. I've thought of going to FIVERR....
#appreciated #input #newbie #plan
  • Profile picture of the author Snow_Predator
    Hey spmarketer, nice plan, not too shabby.

    I'm no expert but I'm getting by in the world of IM.

    Personally, I started with a website (after finding a niche of course). A website is comprised of lots of articles (and/or videos) with lots of good, valuable content. If you're looking for a product to help you with this, the best one I would recommend is Affiloblueprint by Mark Ling (no affiliation, I promise!), who also has a very beautiful-sounding accomplice if I remember correctly.

    Your website should have anywhere from 10 to hundreds, thousands+ pages, each page bearing an article (and/or video). Bigger websites tend to fair better SEO-wise these days.

    As you build your website, start doing SEO, which includes onsite and offsite optimization. Read about it. Onsite is easy, offsite takes LOTS of time and dedication. Go check out Matt Cutt's blog to see the kind of backlinking recommended by Google. These methods will last in the long term but take more effort. You could also use various software (Sick Submitter, Scrapebox) to build links for you automatically, but these methods are becoming less valuable over time.

    Once you've got some regular traffic coming to your site, set up an autoresponder sequence. This is a series of emails that you will send out to people that opt in and choose to receive them. Prepare around 10 emails to begin with.

    Sign up with Aweber, or Imnica Mail (or some other autoresponder service). Load the 10 emails you wrote on the autoresponder service (instructions will be given on how to do this when you sign up with a service). Now you must get people to willingly GIVE you their emails. For this you need a 'Squeeze Page'. That's where you have a page with some info on it about what kind of emails they will receive when they sign up - it could be a full-blown salesletter if you wish. At the bottom, have a little box that says 'enter your email here!' - that's the squeeze page.

    The thank-you page is the page the comes immediately after your visitor puts their email on the squeeze page and hits submit. This is a page you set up on the same site, and your autoresponder service will tell you all about how to set it up. On the thank-you page you can simply say 'thanks for signing up, be sure to check your inbox for your first email'. OR you can have an affiliate offer. Personally, I would recommend that you do NOT have an affiliate offer here, as it is important to build a relationship with the people on your list FIRST, before you start selling them stuff. Sell them something after the 3rd, 4th, 5th or even 6th email. Provide excellent value on each email.

    If you are using email marketing, then I suggest you do all of your selling via email. The purpose of the website should be only to get your customer to give you his/her email address, and give you permission to send them emails. That way, you can sell as many products as you like to them, as long as the products are related to the same niche, and helpful to your customers.

    You have a lot of questions there, and much to learn. Don't try to tackle it all at once - take it one step at a time and you'll get there eventually. Niche research is the most important step - make sure you pick a niche that is profitable, and that you can write about. You have to either enjoy learning and writing about the niche, OR already know a lot about it. Otherwise you won't get very far.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaaa33030
    8. After building the websites and monetizing them the next step would be to build backlinks to help drive targeted search engine traffic to them
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    • Profile picture of the author JoeTavs
      I think your plan is coming together. Once you have a page to send people to you can start to develop a list. This is what I find the hardest.

      My most succeful methods so far is article marketing. It is not as hard as you might think and can be free if you are willing to write mant articles......

      You can also outsource this.....look in the WF classifieds and you should find many willing to write your articles for 3 to 5 per. I always check them in copyscape before I submit.

      One other thought......have you set up your aweber or like. You should really take you time writing your follow up emails and make sure you build a relationship with your buyers before you start sending them offers. You can find a lot of PLR to offer them for free. If you need any sources just PM me and I will do my best to help you.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeff Henshaw
        You have a decent plan - all you have to do is make sure that you stick with it!

        Questions
        1) I know I would need different websites for each product I promote as an affiliate but is it ok to put different products in 1 website as long as the products are related and belong to the same niche?
        2) Are Squeeze Page and Thank You page all from the same website, as my MAIN website the will promote the products, just a different tab/link on the site???? I'm still all confused about all this.
        3) Do I put my affiliate link on my squeeze page or thank you page or is that not a good idea?
        4) I'm still in the learning process of SEO and I know SEO is very important to create traffice. How about creating a fanpage on FB? I know that's free but not sure if I'm allowed to post my affiliate link on fanpage. Posting on forums related to my niche?
        As you are starting out; buy webhosting from a company such as HostGator and purchase a plan that allows several or unlimited add-on domains. That way you can do everything from the one host.

        Buy your domains from a separate company, such as NameCheap and point them to your HostGator hosting (both your web and domain hosts will explain how to do this).

        Forget about SEO for the time being. Just set up your squeeze pages and Thank you pages and drive traffic to them. If you are offering multiple products, purchase a domain name that contains the product name (but don't use a name of a registered company) for each product and set up your squeeze page and thank you page under each domain name on your web host.

        If you like, you can set up everything on your main domain, by using sub-domains.

        You will need a good AR account straight away, in order to set up an opt-in form, capture leads and contact your subscribers. Aweber or GetResponse are the two best IMHO.

        I can't help on the issue of fanpages, as I have not set up my own yet

        I hope that this and the other replies on the thread help. Read them all a few times to gain the most benefit.

        Search this forum too, as there will be much more information in the forum than contained in this thread.

        Best of luck,
        Jeff.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
    Originally Posted by spmarketer View Post



    1) I know I would need different websites for each product I promote as an affiliate but is it ok to put different products in 1 website as long as the products are related and belong to the same niche?
    One thing I am starting to do and teach is do both.

    Create a review site for each individual product and one review site with ALL of the products, by putting a backlink on the smaller review sites - leading up to the major one, it will help boost your ranking and PR.

    2) Are Squeeze Page and Thank You page all from the same website, as my MAIN website the will promote the products, just a different tab/link on the site???? I'm still all confused about all this.
    When doing this, I typically have one seperate page/site dedicated to strictly collecting emails. I will also include a web form on the site somewhere, usually in the sidebar widget section.

    3) Do I put my affiliate link on my squeeze page or thank you page or is that not a good idea?
    NO, you shouldn't have ANY external links on your squeeze page. The only option they should have is opt-in or close the tab/browser.

    The thank you page is another story, feel free to put affiliate links on them.

    4) I'm still in the learning process of SEO and I know SEO is very important to create traffice. How about creating a fanpage on FB? I know that's free but not sure if I'm allowed to post my affiliate link on fanpage. Posting on forums related to my niche?
    You would have to check FB TOS for this to be sure, but I THINK that posting your affiliate links are perfectly fine. What I would suggest doing though is creating a review post and posting that link into facebook to your blog.

    As for the SEO portion. Invest in "Easy WP SEO". It's a plugin for sale here on the WF. Combine that with All In One SEO and you have the perfect SEO set up for on page optimization. Easy WP SEO will help you set up your blog post/pages and optimizing them correctly.

    When it comes to backlinks, start out slow and work your way up. Don't blast hundreds/thousands of links at it from the start. What I like to do is create Web 2.0 sites and blast links at them, sort of a buffer for your review sites.

    If you're able to find .edu and .gov links, those are the best type of backlinks.

    Anyways, that's what I have in mind for now and looking forward to start soon. I know if I read directions, I can be technical and create my website but I don't really know where to start. I've thought of going to FIVERR....
    I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean "where to start". Are you talking about for your backlinking campaigns?
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  • Profile picture of the author spmarketer
    Thanks everyone for the tips and input. I really appreciate it. I will read your response over and over again while going through the process to make sure I am on track. Any tips on what niche/product is good to promote for newbies? I see a lot of people promoting HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE.... Is this a good thing and everybody just seem to picking this niche or what?
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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
      Originally Posted by spmarketer View Post

      Thanks everyone for the tips and input. I really appreciate it. I will read your response over and over again while going through the process to make sure I am on track. Any tips on what niche/product is good to promote for newbies? I see a lot of people promoting HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE.... Is this a good thing and everybody just seem to picking this niche or what?

      That's fully dependent on your capabilities. If you haven't actually made any money online, I would not suggest going into that actual niche.

      BUT, there are things that can be done. If that's what you want to do, you can create a "journal blog" and use that as a means of recording your work. When you try a new product, review it, tell them what it did and how it worked, did it do what it said it did? When you try a new traffic generation method, write a post on how you set it up, tell them what your percieved goals were and finally how much traffic ACTUALLY got sent to the site.

      You're in the process of building a blog, as you build it use jing to record what you're doing and post the video to youtube with a link back to your site.

      If you want to go into the MMO niche, think about the thousands of sub niches there is and focus on one of them. When you finally make money, you can then teach about how you did that, until then, focus on what you're doing and list the products that have helped you (using your affiliate link of course).
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      • Profile picture of the author djleon1
        The "make money online" niche is popular because there are so many products to promote. If this is your interest then try to find an established product with a decent gravity and payout. Check the refund rate. Check the products own landing pages and do some research on the keywords that their pages are focused on. Do not just throw up a review.

        You can have a site promote more than one product by setting up different pages for each review. Then when you get to backlinking you can keyword link to the appropiate review.
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  • Profile picture of the author RutledgeGroup
    Looks like for a newbie you've got a lot figured out. Just get a plan together and put a schedule down.

    Work at creating a list and make sure that you send good value added content to that list and don't just blast buy... buy ... buy. If you give good things for people to read, that are interesting and useful to them, then they will buy from you when you have something to offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author spmarketer
    Thanks everyone! I'll start on the site this weekend (hopefully) and will keep posting my status and questions on here... This forum has been really helpful and with lots of informatiion.
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