Internet marketing for dummies

Gurus come out with new launches because it allows them to make more money than keeping the old product for sale. Although, things change pretty darn fast in the internet so some new things might be found, or just improving on old things.

Anyway, here is a simple (but not necessarily easy) way to make some money online:

1) Go to clickbank and sign up there, or you can sign up with any cpa network.
2)choose a niche you want to go in (w/e you are passionate or knowledgeable in)
3)choose a product for that niche
4)make your own site or if you don't know how/don't have the money for it (10$/months) you can use something free, like a squidoo lens (squidoo.com)
5)on your site write a review/article that is generally informative and explains to people why they want to buy the product you are promoting.
6)drive traffic to your lens/site and wait for sales to happen.

That's a blueprint that you can use to get started, though obviously each of those points can be expanded and the last point is enormously big.
Don't like that method? Here is another one:

1)make your own site or use blogger blog (blogger.com) or squidoo lens (your own site is best though)
2)Write about anything you want
3)if it's your own site or blogger blog, sign up for google adsense and place google adsense ads on your site (squidoo lens puts google adsense ads by default, but they take a portion of the money)
4)drive traffic to your site/lens
5)people come to your site, read your content, click on the adsense ads - you get paid when they click.

adsense is a google's advertising program that allows you to put ads provided by google on your site and make money when people click on them. PPC is just a method of advertising where you pay when people click on your ads (that is, ads that you've created to promote w/e) really ppc is just a way of driving traffic to where you want. SEO is search engine optimization - a way to improve your sites position in search results, the idea here is that if your site is on page one for a popular key word, you'd get traffic from it.

You can make money by blogging by putting adsense ads on your site (you get paid when people click on them) by putting affiliate or cpa offers on your site (you get paid when people buy the product or take a specific action for cpa) You have to sign up with the affiliate program and get a special link though, can't just refer people to blahblah.com since it wouldn't register as a sale coming from you.

Yes, if you put adsense ads on your site, then when people click on them you get paid (the person on the other side of the add is hoping that the people who clicked on the ad on your site and went to theirs will buy or take w/e action is desired, which is why they are willing to pay google for those ads, and google pays you) but you aren't exactly making 10$ per click, in fact your earnings per click can vary from something like 1 cent to several dollars, depending on several factors.

However, let's do some math here, let's say you have a 10% click through rate (10% of site's visitors click on adsense ads) and you get paid 0.50$ per click (pretty good) if you wanted to make 50$/day you'd need 1,000 visitors a day. That's not easy to get at all, and for many people, building a list and promoting cpa/affiliate / your own product would likely give you better income.

So don't look at adsense as free easy money. It can be a nice income (ie. you have 5 sites each making 30$/day - you are making 150$/day without doing much) but it's not the way to untold riches like it seems at first.

As for clickbank, I haven't yet promoted anything from it 9I went with other cpa networks) but you should find a product that you like and preferably something that is of decent quality. Then just promote it, review, article sites, w/e makes sense to you.

In the end though, you can/should combine it all. If you make a blog about sportsbetting, you can put affiliate links/ads there (perhaps to betting sites or w/e affiliates are there for sports betting) you should build a list and offer your list some extra content. Add some cpa/affiliate offers (perhaps an ebook from click bank on this topic) and eventually make your own product and promote it to your list.

Anyway, making your own site is fairly easy with so many free software programs/platforms out there, but yes, it can seem hard the first time you do it. Imo, look at wordpress's self hosted sites (not wordpress.com wordpress blogs) you can actually find some videos on youtube that will show you how to set it up and everything.

The name will cost you around 10$ for a year if it's .com, different extensions have different prices (.info is 0.99$ but supposedly google doesn't like .info domains as much) you will also need hosting, I use hostgator.com with thier 10$ plan (but unlimited add on domains, so you can add a bunch more web sites to it with no extra hosting fees )

PS: PPC is the only one that costs money (you pay when people click, this is basicaly the other side of adsense) obviously adsense is free t sign up and you are the one getting paid by google, seo is free if you do it yourself, you can outsource specific tasks, and obviously that would cost you.

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