How to Make Money The Honest Way

Affiliate Marketing works best when you focus on just one niche and then promote it well.

That statement is quite true, but if you pick the wrong niche then all that hard work could come to nought and you’d be joining the rest of the 95% of unsuccessful internet marketers. That is far too easy to do for most people – me included!

So how to you beat the odds and create your own success from affiliate marketing?

My honest way is probably not most people’s way, because it entails a lot of work. As I’m accustomed to that, it doesn’t really faze me, so I just push on regardless. Here’s my way to show success and make money with affiliate marketing:

Take the first statement in this post and turn it on its head!

I mean don’t settle for just one niche and put all your energy and enthusiasm into it – pick a dozen niches and work at them all! True, you can’t possibly give them all 100%, because you will spread yourself too thinly. But by hedging your bets and picking a cross section of niches that you can sell affiliate products in, you stand a chance that if one niche fails the next will succeed!

But how do you do that? Doesn’t that mean buying a lot of domains and building a lot of websites?

No and yes to thos two questions. No, you don’t need a load of domains, just one. Yes, you’ll have to build a lot of websites, but don’t despair – it can be done quite easily.

Take one .com domain – make it generic. Its tough to find good .com domain names, but possible. You don’t want a long name if you can help it. Then get professional hosting that allows you to create unlimited subdomains – Hostgator are the best for that, and the host that I personally use and this site is hosted on. Then simply choose your niches, do your keyword research and then generate yoru subdomains based on the best keywords.

As for building websites, just build one simple one. I built a single page site with an external stylesheet and used basic PHP to include modules for the main page – so there’s a header file, a footer file and side-bar file (bigger sites also have a menu file for multiple pages). That’s so any changes you need to make can be done in one file only – that saves a lot of work later on.

Then create a generic template website that you’ll use for all your niche subdomain sites.

For each niche site, just change the header, links and wording and then start adding your reviews of affiliate products to each site. Once each site is ready to go, start promoting it by publishing articles to GoArticles.com and EzineArticles.com – two of the best article submission sites. That will generate high PR back-links to your site and get it indexed with the search engines fast.

Then get busy with all the other promotional methods that I’ve blogged about in past posts and get traffic to your sites. I

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Then watch as things start to happen – affiliate sales start appearing and things start to escalate from there. That’s if you’ve done all the work I just told you to do, of course!

Congratulations, you have joined the 5% of successful internet marketers!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

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Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

The debate is still being hotly disputed amongst bloggers from all directions, flavours and niches. Do you carry on writing reviews in your blog and risk losing your page rank, or do you stop and find some other way to monetize your blog?

I was commenting in Liudmila’s Diary about this earlier today after reading her post about the ethics of writing reviews about online casinos. Should a blogger who initially stated that he’d never write a review about them turn tail and then take the money instead. Would that action devalue his blog and his reputation?

Was that post aimed at me?

Maybe. I do remember writing that while I’m happy to write reviews in this blog, I wouldn’t go off topic (which is broadly internet marketing based) and write about anything not in some way related to my niche. That would include the topics of online casinos and gambling, which I have to say carry a fair few paid reviews.

But I also stated that I wouldn’t write them in THIS blog.

I have other blogs.

Two of them were created specifically with a view to making money. They are even called Make Money and Make Money Blog respectively and their niche is purely how to make money online. Their reason for existing was for me to promote them until they reached maturity (three months is the standard acceptance period for paid review sites) and hopefully attracted some page rank in that time to make them eligible to carry higher paid reviews.

Well, they achieved exactly that in the time I set out for them and now I am doing exactly what I planned to do with them, and that is to write paid reviews to make money for me.

Sort of payback for all the hard work I’ve put into all of my blogs, websites and lenses and all the free information I’ve divulged since I got all this going nearly a year ago.

So I don’t feel guilty for reviewing online casinos on those two – it’s what they were created for. I’ll review anything that pays well on those two and thank the review sites that have approved them for their business.

Here, I’ll keep things to Internet Marketing, finance and online business related reviews and over time write fewer reviews and more informative and I like to think interesting normal posts.

So I haven’t sold this blog out – that’s for the ones which it was meant for.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

Mortgage interest rates have increased yet again and as a result, a large number of home owners are finding it ever harder to pay their mortgage.

With house prices at an all-time high, banks are having to relax their lending restrictions by offering ever larger mortgages to enable people to buy their own home. Often, people will overstretch their finances to accommodate a high mortgage without taking into consideration the effects that rate rises will have on their ability to make the repayments.

So who is to blame? The banks for allowing people to borrow more than they can realistically afford. Or the house buyers who are still falling over each other to get onto the home ownership ladder pushing the house prices ever higher?

Whoever is to blame, the worrying increase in bad debt is being reported daily and shows no sign of abating.

A lot of the heartache can be avoided by house buyers opting to take out a mortgage payment protection scheme with their mortgage. This will protect their repayments should disaster strike and the principal breadwinner find themselves without an income for whatever reason.

Remortgages are another sure-fire way of reducing your monthly outgoings and making long-term savings by being able to shop around for a better value mortgage deal.

The Thrifty Scot can advise on the best mortgage solution for anyone thinking about buying a home. So visit their site and see for yourself. They’re waiting to hear from you.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way