Perhaps this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses around – affiliate marketing.  It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around.  There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to.  One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.

Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing?  What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry?  There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward.  There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.

The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in affiliate marketing is the willingness to learn and be trained.  Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown.  Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.

The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent.  Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait.  It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.

The third quality one must possess is self-determination.  If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead.  Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.

The fourth quality one must possess is discipline.  If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.

The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism.  Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned.  Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.

The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone.  It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.

Affiliate marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands.  The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.

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Before you break ground on that big mansion on the hill, here are a few mistakes many new affiliate marketers make that you’ll want to avoid.

5.  Believing the hype

And yes, I do mean the hype promoted by your own program. Those income projections that every program makes are just that, projections. You can make that much. Will you within your first few months of the program? Probably not. Look at this as a long term investment in your future, not a way to get rich quick. Believe in yourself and your ability to make your dreams come true. But don’t believe the hype.

4.  Expecting instant results with little effort

Expect to work your business. And expect to work it daily. If you opened your own neighborhood store, you’d expect to have to go in to work daily, wouldn’t you? You’d expect to have to advertise and get people to come to your store. Well, you just opened your own brand new internet store, what are you going to do to make it work? How are you going to get people to come look at your product?

3.  Lack of a plan and specific goals

You’ve probably heard the saying, plan your work and work your plan. You need to have a specific plan and clear, measurable goals. Many people join affiliate programs with the vague goal of wanting to make a lot of money. How much money? How quickly do you want it? (Try to be realistic here, making a million dollars in one month is not realistic.) Okay, you have your clear, specific goal. Now how are you going to get there. Again, think clear, specific steps here.

2.  Advertising your affiliate link

Wait a minute, if you don’t advertise your affiliate link, how are you supposed to get sales and downline members? Create your own website that has a link to your affiliate program. Every affiliate for your program gets the same website that you do. You have to be able to make yourself different from everyone else. The way you do that is with your own website.

1.  Quitting

You’ve been working your affiliate program for 2, 3, maybe even 4 months now with very little to show for it. You’re getting discouraged and beginning to wonder if this is worth it after all. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and figure out what it is you need to be doing. Learn more. Bug your sponsor and your upline members until they help you out. Don’t quit. No one ever achieved success by quitting. Neither will you.

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Too many people peddle the idea that it is easy to make money on the internet. In theory, this may be true but in reality it is a difficult thing to do. If it is so simple then why do 95% of the people who try to find ways to make money on the internet fail. It is because it requires quite a bit of time and most people won’t put in the time. They are well intentioned but when they put in hour after hour without anything to show for it they become discouraged and give up their pursuit of making money on the internet.

If you are going to begin an online presence then you need to commit to the process. It is a long term process and not a get rich quick scheme. You can build a nice stream of passive income but it won’t happen in one month’s time. It will take a while. But if you commit yourself to making money online then and don’t quit then you will reap the rewards in time.

There are many ways to make money on the internet. You can sell products through Clickbank or PayDotCom.com. You can become an affiliate partner with some of the greatest companies on the earth through Commision Junction and similar affiliate programs. You can sell things through eBay or Amazon.com. You can provide advertising on your site through Google Adsense or Bidvertiser. You can get paid to write articles. You can create and sell your own product. I could go on and on. The opportunities to make money online exist.

But the X factor is you. Will you give yourself enough time to learn the ropes of making money online? Will you stay the course and not give up? Everything we do in life takes time. If I go on a diet tomorrow, I will not reach my goal by the following day. It will take time. I will need to be disciplined and have a plan in mind to succeed. The same is true for making money online. Although there are many ways to make money on the internet you won’t achieve it if you don’t have a plan.

So my advice to you is, before beginning to attempt to make money online, realize the commitment that it will require and dedicate yourself to the task. Do not fool yourself into believing that you can work two hours a week and be making six figures by the end of the year.

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Bidvertiser is much like Google Adsense. You get paid when readers of your blog click on an ad that is displayed on your blog or website. It is a nice passive way to make money online.

I have added it to four of my blogs including this one. It appears in the sidebar of the blog in a tower format. So far I am not quite sure what to think about it. The ads appearing don’t seem optimized for the content of the particular blogs. Each blog is basically showing the same ads although their content is much different. I will give it a whirl however and see if it can help me make money online. I will keep you informed of my progress.

The nice part about Bidvertiser is that not only can you make money when someone clicks an ad but you can also make money when you refer others to the program. When a referred individual makes their first $10 you will also get $10 deposited to your account. Now I don’t expect you to get wealthy as a result of this but as my Granddad used to say it sure “beats a sharp stick in the eye.” If they are going to provide me with a little money for a referral then I will take it.

I am also a little curious to see if Google treats a newer blog with Bidvertiser the same way they treat a blog with Adsense. Often new blogs that employ Adsense will get punished and banned to the Google sandbox. If someone can speak to whether this happens with Bidvertiser I would appreciate you letting me know.

Well check it out for yourself and see if it might be just one more way to make money online.

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One of the ways to do this it to put in a search for a term that Google does not have in its index.  You should put this search in quotes.  Apparently, Google recognizes that it does not have this search term in its database.  You then will place this exact term in your article that you want to have indexed.  Your article does not specifically have to be centered around this term but it does have to have it mentioned at least once or twice.  You can make your blog on any subject that you want such as making money online, or how to make a dollar a day or do bodybuilders pick their noses.  Supposedly this works for WordPress blogs.  This blog is a WordPress blog.  I am not sure if it will work with Blogger blogs since it seems that Google may be penalizing them for some reason.  If this experiment works then I may try it with a Blogger blog to see it works just the same.

So I put in a search for the term that I just mentioned above: Do Bodybuilders pick their noses.  Obviously, the exact term did not exist in Google.  Here is a picture showing the results of the search.  In red you will see that the search term yielded no results and Google return results for the phrase without quotes.

So now I am going to continue on with this post and see if this experiment will work and try to find out if there is anything that we can learn from this that will help us to make money online. Again this is not intended to make money on the phrase “do bodybuilders pick their noses”; rather it is a test to determine if I can immediately get a page indexed and in doing so get my other terms that I want to rank for out there for Google to see.

Now this could be considered helpful if you were trying to rank for peripheral long tail phrases. Maybe I would want to rank for the phrase money money online with Google Adwords or make money online selling eBay products or how to make a dollar a day from Adsense sites. All of these would be considered long tail phrases that may help my ranking for my overall keyword of make money online or dollar a day.

So let’s see what will happen. It is now 3:10 pm on December 13th. Kansas basketball was just upset by Massachusetts and Georgetown and Memphis are currently in overtime. I am a sports junkie. I am going to save this post and then ping Google blog search and see if we can get indexed and rank for the phrase “do bodybuilders pick their noses.” See you as soon as I see something happen. If it occurs in a few minutes I will be back in a few minutes. If it doesn’t happen for a few hours I will come back then. Either way by the end of the night I will give you an update. Wish me luck.

I pinged Google at 3:16 PM. It is now 3:28 PM and I do not see any results of this page being indexed.

It is now 4:37 PM and I see no sign that the site has been indexed. I am guessing Vic’s site is normally crawled by Google much more often than this one is. I don’t know how long it will take Google to getting around to it but I will keep you posted.

Still nothing at 6:49. I went and put a coat of varnish on some chairs that I am building. I may go put a coats on the last two now.

It is now 9:00 PM the next night. I have still not been indexed. There is a result for the phrase now, however, it is the Technorati listing for my blog after it was pinged. The actual page from my website has not showed up. So from this I would assume that Google has not indexed the page. What this shows is that not all blogs are treated the same. Although I believe Vic Franqui has gives out excellent information without charge it is obvious that Google treats his site much different than it treats mine and maybe yours. Good luck if you try this strategy.

I forgot to check yesterday, but the site is indexed as of 12/16. It may have been there yesterday. So now I show up for the goofy search.

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Think of the possibilities here.  You can place your affiliate links into these products.  You can rewrite part of the ebook or article and put your name on it as the author.

I think many of us have in mind a product that we would like to create however, we just don’t have the time to get around to it.  PLR has created it for you.  If you are not completely happy with it you can then add onto it and you are much further down the road to creating your own product.  PLR gives you a jumpstart to the process.

So how would you use PLR.  Let me give you a few suggestions.  We have all heard that we need to have some sort of give away to get the names and email addresses of individuals so that we can begin to build a list.  PLR is perfect for this.

You can give away an ebook in exchange for them subscribing to your newsletter.  You can uses some of the articles to craft a 7 day email course on a particular topic in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter.  You can even use the PLR content to create your newsletters.

So how do you find private label rights products?

Below you will find a list that should help get you started.

Easy PLR

They limit the sales of their article packs and reports to 60 – 75 sales. While you are not getting sole exclusive rights to the articles offered through EasyPLR.com you can feel confident knowing that hundreds of other website owners aren’t going to have access to the same content.

Fresh Niche Content

They limit the sales of articles to 75 per topic.  Each pack usually contains 15 articles. Offers articles on topics such as Forex Trading, eBay, web traffic, weddings, etc.

Great Niche Content

Private site offering 50 quality niche content articles every month. Membership limited to 300. You can buy article in packs or for as little as .75 per article.

InfoGoRound

Membership site with over 40 niche categories and hundreds of topics. Also provides article packages, private label products with sales letters included and a member forum. If you submit an article of your own you can get your membership free for that month (providing article is accepted).

Niche Audio Content

Audio membership site that gives you bi-weekly audios of such marketing greats as Dr Joe Vitale, Jason James, Alice Seba and more.

You can use them on your websites, newsletters, ezines and blogs to make your business stand out from the crowd.

They have a complimentary membership package.

PLR Niches

Membership site that provides monthly keyword lists, articles, ebooks, etc. There are also many free PLR ebooks and software to download.

Dream a little and I think you can begin to see the value in Private Label Rights products.

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What is KeywordSpy? KeywordSpy is a keyword research tool which tells you exactly which keywords work and which do not by gaining access to your competitors’ keywords. KeywordSpy system helps you pin point easily the keywords that are driving traffic to a particular website.  You then can take advantage of that information.

They have some fantastic reports as well showing you very clearly what your competitors are doing.  So if you are running or considering running a Pay Per Click campaign then you should at least check it out and see what you think.  They offer a free trial so you have nothing to lose.

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If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check PayDotCom out.

While I like Clickbank (and they are a great marketplace), they have many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions.  PayDotCom changes much of that.  It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

You can sell your own product or just like Clickbank you can become an affiliate for any item in their HUGE marketplace.   And, of course, it is 100% FREE to Join!
Almost every singe serious online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com.  I would recommend that you do the same.  I have included a video below for you to view that will give you a better description of the program.  Press the play button and see for yourself.

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I am a tad bit excited.  I read something in the Wealthy Affiliate forum the other night that has given a tremendous amount of hope and has helped formulate a plan of action.  I will let you know how it goes in the coming days.  Wealthy Affiliate just may be what I need to give me a kick in the butt and send me in the right direction.  Only time will tell.

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I also checked to see if my sites had been indexed by Google.  You can do this by typing in “site:”  followed by the name of your site (ex.  site:  dollaradayonline.com).   All of the sites are indexed but one.  You can view a sample search from below.

Screenshot of search for Dollar A Day Online Site

Now I am not exactly sure why the one site did not show up but I am guessing it has something to do with the life of the site and number of posts. This site has been “alive” since Nov. 2nd. The other sites have only been in existence for one week. I hope I can get the remaining site indexed in the next week or so.

I also ordered three more domains. I buy them at GoDaddy and then have to point them to my HostGator account. As of this writing, I have installed WordPress on the sites but have not done anything else. The new sites are Muscle To Die For, Build Large Muscles, and Get Big and Ripped. I wanted these to promote a few affiliate products in the bodybuilding arena. I guess tomorrow I should show you a list of all the affiliate products that I have signed up with. Until then take care.

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