A question for all the Newbies....Need your input!

Great input thanks.

I tend to think wordpress is better for people starting off due to its easier to get traffic to since you can easily update it constantly and there are so many programs that work with it.

Jason

I'm going to put my vote in for traffic also. Letgit traffic, not spiders and what not.

After that, QUALITY PLR stuff. I have found a lot junk and content that is frankly not worth paying for.

I know. I'm planning on doing that. I'm getting my first domain name right now and I've found some great hosting so it shouldn't be too hard.

I know once I get started it will be easy to repeat the process over and over again. I plan on getting addicted to it.

I have 4 blogs, maintain another two for a business. I have a website as well.
I also can be found at several writers groups, and on several social media sites.

My main problem is legitimate buying traffic for my services. There are place to buy traffic, but will they buy?

I want people that are willing to avail themselves of my services is the hardest part of being a newbie. I've written and ghost written over 300 articles, and over 50 book reviews that are posted on Amazon and Barnes & Noble online.

Getting decent paying work is still hard.

R.J. Medak
Freelance Writer

"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say."
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903

I've actually been having problems getting my affiliates to sell my product. I just released a product on clickbank and a bunch of affiliates (about 23) created a hop-link on the first day. But only 3 have more than 1 click.

If your just starting off here is what I would do.

I first would learn about two things on here. Go and search about article marketing and keyword research. Once you understand the concept to keyword research and using long tail keywords you can move on to the next step.

Step two you need to sign up at ezinearticles.com(article database), Clickbank(affiliate program), and you will need a blogger account.

Step 3 would be go to Clickbank and find a good product to promote. I would look for something that a lot of people are promoting already. That just means that people are buying it and it should bring good sales for you. So lets say you choose a acne niche product.

Step 4: Now with your Blogger account your going to make a blog. Your blog should be the best title you can get for the product your promoting. Basically find the best keyword you have with the most traffic and use it in the title or link. Here your basically going to make a blog post that is going to be your sales letter for the product your promoting. I use different approaches. Sometimes I create a story about how i used the product and it was a success then linking to the product using my affiliate link. Or I just give straight up facts in a review fashion. This is something you have to play with to see what you do best at. Alot of the top selling products on clickbank have good tools and graphics to help you out.


Step 5:
Now you go do your keyword research. You an using the Google Adwords keyword tool which is free and also the free wordtracker keyword tool. You can google both these up to find them.

Look for long tailed keywords in the acne niche that are tageted to your product the best you can. Lets say you find a keyword "natural cure to acne". You are going to go to google and enter it in the search as "natural cure to acne" with the quotations. This brings and exact match for that keyword and you can see its competition. You want something under 80,000 or so search results if possible and look to make sure you dont have to many high ranking sites. Example would be like WebMd or something cause you cant rank for them. Once you find 20 or so keywords that get good traffic and have low competition then go onto the next step.

Step 5: You now going to do your article marketing. Basically your going to write an article based on each of your keywords. Your going to use the keyword in the Title and I would use it about 3 more times in the body of the article. Your article should be short and sweet around 250 to 300 words. The idea is get the reader to read your review or specs on the product and click through you sig file link.

If your saying what do I write them just look at whats already on ezinearticles for acne cure etc. Just get an idea of what they are writing and start writing your article. Dont worry about being perfect just try and write about what the reader would be looking for. You want to leave the reader hanging if possible and make then click through your sig link. Your sig link can be something simple like: Check out my blog to find out more about Natural Acne Cures.

The idea is to use Natural Acne Cures as your anchor text. You can do this by entering this:

<a href="www.yoursitehere.com">Natural Acne Cures</a>


Once you have your article writing you want to link it back to your Blogger post. The goal is to capture traffic this way and route them to your site for the review hoping they will go on to buy the product bringing you anywhere from 15 to 30 dollars per sale.


This is just a basic look at what you can do but its the cheapest way and after some practice can bring in about 1 to 3 thousand a month. I average about 6 articles a day promoting two products right now through clickbank and make around 2k a month off of them. You get better as you go so dont expect to make 1 thousand your first month but its possible. Once you get this going and you have income you then outsource this and you can attack many niches at a time. Each bringing in a thousand or so a month just rinse and repeat. Now not all niches will do this for you but with practice you will pick the right ones.

Hope this gets you started some. You should be able to find enough info on this form to fill in the blanks if you have questions about stuff or if it didnt make sense.

Jason