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Make Money Online – Article Marketing, Blogging And Web Traffic

There are many article marketing experts online. If you visit any internet marketing forums, you’ll find many who are considered experts in this field. But these experts are not perfect – they make mistakes in their articles too. Article marketing is an art which requires practice and experience, knowing what works and what doesn’t work. In this article I’ll talk about the critical mistakes that even expert article marketers make. Take this advice and improve your own articles.

5 Critical Article Marketing Mistakes

1. No research

A lot of the times, an article is not researched enough to be published. Well known article marketers make the mistake of not researching their articles thoroughly before submitting to article directories.

It’s probably because they are trying to enter a new niche which they are generating traffic to using articles. People who have knowledge in the niche, will know when the content is wrong. It’s embarrassing to have your articles published with the wrong information.

If you’re not too familiar with a niche that you’re entering, do the research first. Your objective is to show you’re an expert in the field.

2. Ego

This mistake is made by a lot of experienced article marketers. Since they’re successful within their market and well-known. they tend to forget about writing good articles.

They may skip the introduction, write in huge paragraphs, not focus on keywords and promote themselves with the content.

The reason they’re making these mistakes is because of their ego. They think that because they have a good name in the market, they can get away with writing any type of article. They are relying too much on their reputation to make the article effective.

When you write articles, you are marketing to new readers as well as readers who have heard about you. So treat every article like you’re writing to impress and attract new readers.

3. Break-through information

Some experts slow down with the number of articles they write because they are thinking about what break-through information to write about.

What is being said about a particular topic has already been said. With article marketing, you don’t need to focus on writing new information. Explaining old, but useful information is a good approach.

Not everyone who reads your articles are knowledgeable. You need to target new readers as well.

4. Poor resource box

Again, this is related to the expert’s ego. They seem to use the same resource box for all their articles as they have been effective in the past.

Your resource box should not be the same for all your articles. They should be related to what your article is about. You still need to spend some time writing a good, effective resource box. It’s what matters at the end.

5. Adding more fuel

After you distribute your article, the work doesn’t end there. You need to spend time promoting the articles and make the most from them.

Try to generate as much traffic as you can to the articles that are online. Social bookmark them, tweet about them, put them on your blog and tell your list.

This extra effort will add more clicks to your article which will attract more readers. If your article is one of the most read during the past 90 days, it will get displayed in a premium location which will get you many visitors.

Article marketing is an art that you need to continuously approve. What works today, may not work tomorrow. We didn’t have Facebook and Twitter a few years ago but now we should use them to promote our articles. Make a checklist of things to do when writing and you’ll get more mileage from your article marketing.

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For videos and articles on marketing your business online, visit http://www.eliteghostwriters.com/blog – Alan Cheng, CEO of Elite Ghostwriters.

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Forgot to make this announcement on Traffic Beast, so apologize for being late.

Traffic Beast and BestInstantSites will be moved.

The blog  is moved to http://www.eliteghostwriters.com/blog and the ghostwriting services will be moved to Elite Ghostwriters at www.eliteghostwriters.com

Hope you enjoy the new website.

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In the online world, a lot of people want PLR articles because they can put their name on it, slap it on a website or ebook and get targeted traffic or sales.

The problem is find PLR articles that don’t contain waffle, good writing, no spelling or grammar mistakes and has good information.

Coming across PLR articles like these are very hard to find.

People normally purchase PLR content which they would never use because of the poor quality.

Well the secret to finding good PLR articles is getting them from people who are respectable and has a reputation for only producing quality stuff.

One such person is Doug Champigny. I’ve spoken to Doug quite a few times on the phone and the guy’s awesome.

Very friendly and professional.

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Participating in giveaway events is one of the easiest and fastest ways to build your list in the internet marketing industry.

However, with a lot of giveaways there are just too many gifts for you to download. Also a lot of the gifts are re-hashed and don’t have much value in them.

When there are too many gifts to download with the majority having poor quality, the visitor sort of freezes in his attempt to download any more gifts.

Here’s a giveaway event which is different
Home Business Gifts

It’s only has one page where you can download gifts. There are less than 40 participants.

Due to the fact that this giveaway event doesn’t accept any Tom, Dick or Harry, the quality of the internet marketing gifts are better than normal.

For a contributor to this giveaway, he should get more sign ups from this event. This is because the visitors are more likely going to download every single gift on the page.

Overall a win-win opportunity for both visitor and contributors.

Future organisers of giveaways should learn and take this approach.

Check out this giveaway and take a look at the quality of the gifts
Home Business Gifts

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One of the best ways to drive traffic easily is by commenting on other people’s blogs. It doesn’t cost you anything to do this and it makes the owner of the blog notice you.

However, I’ve seen so many rubbish blog comments from people that are obviously commenting just to get a link to their website. They’re actually wasting their time.

They might as well not comment at all and start spamming people with emails.

The proper way to comment is to read or scan through the person’s post and give a comment which is related.  There are only 3 ways you can comment:

1. Agree with the poster

2. Disagree with the poster

3. Add more valuable information to the blog post

Crap comments such as the following will always be deleted.

“Great post. I totally agree”

“Interesting post. Do you mind if I link to your blog?”

“I don’t understand. Can you explain a bit more?”

“Great post. Check out my link for more information on this”

The best strategy if you have the time, is to visit a blog which is known to have a lot of traffic, and create a long comment giving valuable information.

This technique works but you need to give before you can receive.

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Every internet marketer dreams to make money online while having plenty of time to enjoy life with family and friends. There are many products released which teaches one how to achieve this kind of financial freedom.

However, the brutal truth disappoints the buyer – it’s not as easy as it seems. There’s a lot of work to be done – you need to master a lot of skills. Basically, the person with the sales pitch was talking out his backside when he sold you the information product. There is no quick and easy magic pill to succeed online.

Here are 10 skills you need to master to make money online. If you can achieve these, there’s no way you can fail.

1. Get A Business Planned

Instead of trying every trick in the book to try and make money such as creating a Squidoo lens to drive traffic to your affiliate program and creating a niche website to sell advertisement, get a business plan.

Decide what online business you want, what market it targets and then go all out to make this plan work. Don’t get distracted by other opportunities such as the latest software, the latest social marketing technique, a new business model or the hot looking neighbor who just moved next door (hmmm…maybe that’s asking too much).

Planning is essential for success. You need to plan your daily tasks as well as your overall business.

2. Create Your Offers

With your online business, create a main offer to sell to your prospects. Make this offer something that appeals to the majority of people and is affordable.

Then continuously create new offers which you can sell to your customers in the backend. If you have an offer which is better than your main offer, then try testing it.

By regularly coming up with new offers, you might hit one which sells like a Transformers 2 movie.

Learn how to be creative and continuously develop new offers which appeal to your market. This is what business owners do.

3. Writing

You definitely need this skill if you want to run a business online. You need to write with every opportunity you have. In forums, your own blog, other people’s blogs, your report, your ebook etc…

If you can write and write well, you’re halfway there to succeeding online.

By writing well, I mean content which is grammatically right and is interesting to read with good information. As the saying goes… “The keyboard is mightier than a billboard”.

4. Outsourcing

There are many tasks in running an online business. You can’t do everything by yourself. You need to find good freelancers who you can outsource the work to.

Tasks like, updating your website, hiring a superb ghostwriter like me, monitoring your sales conversion and generating traffic.

The more you outsource tasks and free up your time, the more time you can spend on coming up with new offers, improvements and annoying your parents.

5. Building your list of subscribers

The majority of your business’ task should be focused on collecting email addresses from prospects. You need to master the skill  of creating squeeze pages, pop-ups, slide in pop ups and any other annoying way to capture the visitor’s email.

The bigger the list you have, the more chances of people buying from you via the emails you send them.

6. Testing

You need to know how to test everything on your website. For example, how well the new product sells, the response to your sales letter, your headlines, the images you put on your website, the location of your optin form etc…

Test the essential things in your business because they make a huge difference to your sales. You may have an image that distracts the prospect from buying. Removing this image may increase sales by 10%. You won’t know if you don’t test.

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Here’s a new article on how one can create a profitable business using ghostwriters.

How To Create a Profitable Business Using Ghostwriters

A simple business model even a newbie can follow.

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If you haven’t created a Squidoo lens yet, then I would advise you to do so as soon as possible.

People have been raving about this free online service for years and while it’s not as strong as it used to be when it first came out, Squidoo is still very effective in driving traffic to your website, as they perform well in the search engines.

You need to start creating your Squidoo lens as soon as you can because the names of the lens has to be unique. This means that if you want to create a lens on ‘mobile phones’ then you would want to call your lens with the same name so that you will rank well in the search engine for that term.

I’ve created some Squidoo lens for my ghostwriting business and it has helped in traffic. I’ve just created one today at www.squidoo.com/freelancewriterarticle

Look at how I use the keywords in the lens to rank high in the search engines. Start creating a lens now. It’s not hard.

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Creating information products is one of the best ways to make money online. A lot of affiliate marketers may not agree with this, but let me explain.

When you try to sell a product on the internet, whether it’s a physical product, software or ebook, what is the major factor that will determine how many sales you’ll get?

The answer is not the product, not the sales letter and not the pretty graphics.

The deciding factor of how many sales you will get is web traffic. You need to targeted traffic to your web page that is advertising the product to generate sales. No matter how ground breaking your product is, without traffic, it’s nothing!

So what is the best way to get traffic?

If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, you know that I’ve gone into detail with a lot of methods such as article marketing, directory submission, email marketing, solo ads, search engine optimization etc…

You can use any one of these techniques or if you have the time, you can use all of them. However, it takes time to build the traffic you need. Unless of course you have a lot of money to throw at pay per click.

The quickest way to get traffic to your website so that you can test how well your product will sell is by creating an information product.  Let me explain.

Once you create an information product of your own, get an affiliate program for it and start to market it to affiliates. You can do this by submitting your product to Clickbank or Paydotcom and then promote the hell out of it. The objective is to get as many affiliates as possible.

What I will do is to give the majority of the commissions to affiliates. Something like 70 or even 90%. What this does is motivate the affiliates. They will do their best to drive traffic to your product and earn a good commission.

With several of these affiliates promoting your product, you’ll get a shit load of traffic.

Remember that in Clickbank, if your product sells well, it will be ranked higher in their search results. This means that you will attract more affiliates.

Here’s the interesting part. Once you have a lot of customers and people who have signed onto your list as a subscriber due to the affiliate promotion which you’ve got, you can sell to them on the back end. Offer products which you’re an affiliate of and make some commissions. You now have a big enough list to make money with.

Next, you need to create another information product that is related to the first one you did. When the product is complete, you can now email all the customers and subscribers which you have collected from your previous promotion and then sell it to them. You don’t need to pay commissions anymore.

This product also needs an affiliate program. Your affiliates should be notified of your new product and then offer them high commissions again.

The cycle repeats itself. Your affiliates will send you more customers and more prospects and you will add them to your database of contacts. Release another product and sell to your list of contacts without paying commission. The more products you create, the more profits you’ll make.

To make this business work you need 3 things:

1. An excellent information product.
You can get your own information product created at http://www.bestinstantsites.com who have a business in a box package that has everything you need to sell a product online.

2. Offer marketing tools
You need to provide as many marketing tools as possible to your affiliates to help them to promote your product. Give them examples of solo ads, banner ads, tweets and articles.

Affiliates are lazy so if you provide them the material, they are more likely to promote your products.

3. Maintaining relationships
You need to maintain a good relationship  with your affiliates, customers and subscribers. Offer them valuable content for free that will help them.

Contact them regularly to know that you exist.

Once you consistently do the above, it’s very hard for you not to make money online.

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