total newbie, day 2...

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OK, so it's day two of my introduction to internet marketing, well a to any kind of marketing at all.... my goal.... To make a website with quality content which can, in time, generate £$50 or more a week.

After my first thought was shot down as bum marketing, what about my second (be kind)?... good feed back much appreciated!!!

So I've learnt I need a quality blog with good information and content. I have a niche in mind which i'm excited about, a how to blogg.

How would the best way be to generate money? I'm thinking Google ad-sense, with traffic generated through article writing. Am i missing some thing? Or is there an alternative to adsense?
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  • Profile picture of the author tritrain
    I thought you were going to say that you've already made your first $Million.

    Many people have found that its best not to monetize (or very minimally) the site until it is established with a good following of readers. A blog is a great place to start for a beginner. Wordpress is fantastic and there are really, really nice plugins available so you can tinker with the options.

    There are alternatives and it may be worth trying a mixture and see what earns you more. Adsense is very picky, so you'd want to make sure you follow their guidelines.

    You may even decide to do something different like create an affiliate marketing store on the site, for example. Check out Fresh Store Builder as another money-maker.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by johnbythesea View Post

    So I've learnt I need a quality blog with good information and content.
    That's one way, certainly.

    Originally Posted by johnbythesea View Post

    I'm thinking Google ad-sense, with traffic generated through article writing. Am i missing some thing?
    As an article marketer myself, it instinctively seems to me that it would be hugely wasteful to be able to do article marketing successfully enough to attract targeted traffic and then monetizing it only with AdSense. I don't suggest it's impossible, though. I think it is possible eventually to develop AdSense income to the $50 per week sort of level, but not easy at all.

    My understanding of AdSense sites is that it's often necessary to start off large numbers of them, in order to discover which ones are going to be able to generate the $1/$2 per day income which can eventually grow to the $50 per week you seek. People with AdSense income seem to have enormous numbers of websites, and my impression from reading the forum is that they're perhaps more interested in discussing their successes than their failures. Well, that's understandable, I suppose.

    There's a potential conflict between "good, high-quality content" and AdSense. When you monetize a site with AdSense, you want people to lick on a link and leave your site, not to stay and read. AdSense is a business model that pays you when people leave, not when they stay.

    It's also dependent on Google, which seems to me to be a huge disadvantage. There are certainly hundreds of posts/threads here from Warriors who have lost their AdSense accounts without ever quite understanding what they did wrong, and why Google won't do business with them any more.

    Originally Posted by johnbythesea View Post

    Or is there an alternative to adsense?
    There are many. Personally, I'm an affiliate marketer. I promote a large range of products which pay me commissions of various levels. (If you can sell ClickBank products successfully, it's easy to earn individual commissions over $50 each, not just $50 in a week. But to do that successfully requires automated email marketing as well as a website).

    Perhaps I'm biased because I'm not an AdSense monetizer at all, and wouldn't want it on any of my own sites, but it's always seemed to me that for most people, most of the time, the "AdSense business model" is an awful lot of work for comparatively small rewards. I know there are people who make some money from it, but my perception is that they're rather a small proportion of the people who try to. Maybe I have it all wrong, but I think of it more as a "way of covering hosting costs" than as an actual income, myself.
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    It's a long road, my friend. Just first focus on making $100/month. If you can do that then you've surpassed 75% of people in this forum.

    Congrats on taking the first step.
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  • Profile picture of the author marcos08
    I do not focus on Adsense, I tend to set up affiliate products on my niche blogs which are relevant to the niche itself, do a quick search on clickbank or JVZoo etc and you will get some good ideas as to what is selling for your niche, also take a look at Amazon best sellers for your niche, you will then soon see what people are currently purchasing and willing to purchase
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    • Profile picture of the author sarah lee
      Originally Posted by marcos08 View Post

      I do not focus on Adsense, I tend to set up affiliate products on my niche blogs which are relevant to the niche itself, do a quick search on clickbank or JVZoo etc and you will get some good ideas as to what is selling for your niche, also take a look at Amazon best sellers for your niche, you will then soon see what people are currently purchasing and willing to purchase
      Thank you for this, good tips
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      • Profile picture of the author AlisonM
        I would spend a little bit of time checking out if my chosen niche is likely to be profitable.

        Are there already hungry buyers in the niche?

        Could I drill down and specialize in that niche?

        - e.g not just "weight loss" - but "weight loss after childbirth"

        Consider creating an opt-in form to give away a free gift such as an information report. In this way you will grow an email list of people interested in your niche.

        Then send out content-valuable emails to them through an autoresponder (do once and forget). As people grow to trust our information, send them affiliate offers.

        This is much more valuable that just having affiliate or adsense links on your page. If that's all you do, people will visit once and go away. But with an email address you have many chances to sell to the same person (after giving value)

        Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author marketingking872
    Hey there, sounds like your on the right track. Yes, you can use adsense which is the most popular way to generate revenue with a blog but there are other options such as info links which works in a similar way. However, before you generate any income, you will need to work on building up traffic to the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author romesaranto
    As a brand new person to online marketing your going to want to see some results quickly otherwise your going to get frustrated and or totally overwhelmed and lost, just saying.

    Anyway, I would have to agree with AlisonM, set up a squeeze page in the niche/sub niche that offers something of great value. Then use YouTube to get traffic to it. Either way if you are getting opt ins and building a list and or making sales you'll start seeing results and then you can build on that.

    Make sure to keep asking questions in here but be sure to be doing as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author iansinfo
    Originally Posted by johnbythesea View Post

    OK, so it's day two of my introduction to internet marketing, well a to any kind of marketing at all.... my goal.... To make a website with quality content which can, in time, generate £$50 or more a week.

    After my first thought was shot down as bum marketing, what about my second (be kind)?... good feed back much appreciated!!!

    So I've learnt I need a quality blog with good information and content. I have a niche in mind which i'm excited about, a how to blogg.

    How would the best way be to generate money? I'm thinking Google ad-sense, with traffic generated through article writing. Am i missing some thing? Or is there an alternative to adsense?
    It is best if you dont try to make money first up you need to build a relationship and trust first off. You do this by giving away good content for free this way you are able to build a list and develop a relationship so when you wish to sell them something they are ready to buy
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