How to Make Money The Honest Way

This is something of an experiment for me and I always enjoy putting a new website together because I just like to make things! So when I picked up this idea from Grizzly’s blog How to Make Money Online for Beginners, I decided to spin it a bit and see what happens!

Grizzly’s idea was firmly focused on creating a free blog to do this, which I have followed, but I wanted to add to the idea by creating a complimentary website, which I have now done. It’s still young and in need of a lot more content, which I’ll be adding to over time, but it’s ready to hit the airwaves and now is a good time to start promoting it.

The idea uses the taboo keywords “payday loans”.

Why are they taboo?

The search engines associate them with spammers who once created a ton of crappy sites with the sole purpose of trying to generate clicks with adsense ads using these high paying keywords. Now this practice has been stamped on, but any new sites starting up targeting payday loans are scrutinized closely. So it’s playing with fire, but that just adds to the excitement and makes it more of a challenge to get a site up high in the serps for these keywords.

There is a lot of competition in this particular niche and I’m going up against a lot of other sites. Google shows up over two million of them – but I happen to know that there are really around eight hundred, of which there are probably around a hundred serious contenders.

So the challenge is to creatively SEO the site and see if I can’t push my way up through those hundred and get into the top twenty, at least. The higher, the better of course, but that will take a little time because the site is brand new and is unlikely to attract any page rank for a couple of months at least. So in the meantime, I’ll be adding to it’s content and procuring some back-links, mainly from article marketing, forums and blogs.

The first article, entitled How Much Do You Know About PayDay Loans? is already up there at GoArticles and has caused Google to spider the site and index it within a couple of days. Good first promotional push.

Next is to blog about it in my three PR3 blogs, the first of which is this one and the other two will be shorter posts with a link to the site to give it some link juice.

Here is the url: PayDay Loans

Then we’ll see what happens…

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

I’ve hit upon a rather neat idea for putting together a sales page for a product or ebook that I want to sell myself (as opposed to an affiliate product). Don’t know how successful it will be yet, but it might be a useful aid to anyone wanting to create their own sales page without much HTML knowledge.

It all depends on whether you host your own website or blog in the first place – blog being the operative word in this case. The reason I mention this is that it’s relatively easy to set up a blog template for just about any kind of blog. With Wordpress there are hundreds of templates to choose from to get the look and feel that you want.

So I thought to myself, why not use a Wordpress template to make your sales page? It’s easy to set up as a subdomain or sub folder if you prefer on your main site. So I thought I’d give it a go.

For my proposed sales page, I only needed a simple, single column blog template. I quickly found one that I liked. I already had my own graphic header, so it was fairly easy to add that to the stylesheet.css file, replacing the template’s own header graphic. All I have to do now is finish writing all my sales copy, add the paypal button and publish it as a post.

And viola, instant sales page!

Ok, a little HTML and CSS knowledge is useful to customise the template to make it more unique and fit the type of product you’re going to sell, like changing the colour scheme maybe, or getting rid of unnecessary icons and links, but I think it’ll work!

The one I’m in the process of putting together right at this moment is at:

Free Traffic Explosion

See what you think – could you use this information to build one for yourself?

Maybe.

Am I going to annoy a few professional website builders by giving this little secret away?

Probably not as there is really no substitute for a professionally made sales page, but when you’re just starting out and on a tight budget, going the DIY route is often the only option.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY