With the economy in dire straights, My Update Web, and only so many hours in a day, many people are turning to the internet to make money online by building a home-based business. When starting a home-based business, it is necessary to keep processes in mind: Creation, Automation, Promotion, and Repetition. Home-based businesses are just like any other business in that they require vision, passion, discipline, resources, networking, strategies, and a daily action plan. You will not be successful in a home-based business if you approach it as a hobby.

Affiliate Marketing

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1. Determine the niche

The first step in traffic generation is determining your target niche, like making money online. If you have elected to do affiliate marketing, you must target a specific sub-niche of customers and ONLY market to them with each campaign. You cannot adequately serve every market segment.

Therefore, potential prospects will gravitate to marketers who appear to be addressing their specific needs. People interested in affiliate marketing may not be interested in other online income streams, such as CPA. Also, success in any marketing effort is dependent on momentum. If the focus is too broad or continuously shifted from one sub-niche to another, previous marketing efforts become wasted before any measurable progress can be realized.

The problem is that the learning in any business (and most success stories) comes from trial and error. It’s important to research and see what ads are working, what products are selling, and what approaches sellers use to make money. But in the end, you need to stay focused on your target market and TEST! This means to keep trying different headlines, offering other gifts, trying different sign-up page layouts, but stick to the same target customer base until you make it work! You will have less success in the affiliate marketing sub-niche if your efforts are diluted For Tricks.

2. Do keyword research

Keyword research is important as prospects for each sub-niche will use certain keywords relative to their interests for search engines. Therefore, it is prudent to discover which words generate the most searches for a particular niche or sub-niche. Keyword research can then be more narrowly focused on keyword phrases that better differentiate the target sub-niche. It isn’t easy to rank high on a search page for a broad keyword or keyword phrase. It is a much more constructive and effective use of time to look for longer keyword phrases that have much less competition.

But still a sufficient amount of searches. Such keywords are referred to as “long-tailed  and facilitate the burrowing into a sub-niche. For example, the keyword phrase “baby furniture” is broad and not as specific as “baby crib bedding.” As more definitive or descriptive words are added to a search phrase, more targeted traffic can be directed to your site or web page. Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool is a free tool to help determine appropriate keywords for niches and sub-niches.

3. Determine Affiliate Product

Once you have determined your target sub-niche in affiliate marketing and the best keywords for that sub-niche, you must determine your affiliate product to market to this niche. There is a reason that this step comes after determining the niche and developing the keyword phrases to be targeted. It would make no sense to try to choose or create a product before verifying the market’s viability and the outcome would be intended. Ideally, you will have various products for your targeted sub-niche to facilitate engagement with different levels of your sales funnel.

Free products, such as e-books, e-reports, and videos, often entice prospects to respond initially. Once the prospect responds to free (or low-priced) offers, this prospect can reasonably assume a member of the target sub-niche with appropriate communication to follow (including offers for affiliate products or other products). Ultimately, the long-term goal in product development should be for a continuity affiliate product (one requiring ongoing payments at regular intervals, such as membership).

4. Setup WP Blog Website

Setting up a website is also a step that must follow niche, keyword, and product determination. You must select your keywords and product to populate your web pages with content properly. This step is crucial in online search engine optimization. The search engines use technology to evaluate your site to determine its relevancy. The search engines will ideally assign greater relevancy to your target sub-niche by properly selecting and placing keyword phrases throughout your content pages.

As a suggestion, you will want to set up a WordPress blog website because it is straightforward, and WordPress blog websites are versatile. If you are marketing affiliate programs, you will want to send prospects to a landing page on your site rather than directly to the affiliate program website. Setting up a WordPress blog website involves two basic tasks. To do this, you must obtain a domain name (www.YourSite.com) of your choice.

And you will need to secure a Web Hosting Service to host your domain. Often, these two items can be guaranteed in the same place, like GoDaddy.com or HostGator.com. Once you have confirmed your domain name and hosting service for that domain, you can upload the free WordPress website script to the hosting service account under your domain name. Many online WordPress video tutorials will walk you through this process. Once the WordPress website is online, each content page should have automation in mind.

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