There is a high anxiety bit of legislation that is working its way around the US right now, it has started in 5 states so far, but is expected to gain momentum with future states. What is happening right now is the states are trying to adopt a cross state tax to be imposed even if you don’t have a brick and mortar store in the state you sell items to someone in. It is very confusing and needless to say is going to put the hurt on some peoples businesses because they are not going to be able to compete with the internet sites that are currently not having the internet tax imposed on. Lynn Terry has done a great job summarizing what is going on and there is a great debate on ClickNewz right now discussing it… You know there is nothing like getting kicked when you are down. Way to go government leaders!  Hey go check that out and come back here and leave a comment when you are done.

So, in light of this recent internet tax, I wanted to share with you 3 ways to further monetize your blogs to help you generate more revenue to get through all of this economic mess.

1. Would be create a membership site out of your blog, have different levels of membership and a great conversion tactic to get the freebies to start paying for quality content.  You can find a great product to do this at Membernaire.com, as a matter of fact, here is what Jimmy D Brown has to say about membership sites. “The easiest way to get monthly recurring income without a lot of work struggling to come up with original content, without buying high-priced scripts and without waiting around for results.” Go Check out his site, he does a great job explaining step by step what to do. I have been going through his course for about 3 months now, and I think his explanations are concise and easy to follow. Plus he has a great assistant, her name is Nicole Dean. Look forward to an interview from her soon (This is going to be an on going thing with the interviews), so go check it out and let me know what you think!

2. The second way to monetize your blog would be to use affiliate marketing to generate a revenue. You can find many networks to find products to sell. Some of them would be azoogle ads and pepperjam network. Again, I have a product for you to use to learn how to promote the affiliate links with. It is another Jimmy D Brown program, and there is a reason I am using his products right now.. It’s because they work. He is a very trusted internet marketer out there, and he has helped my business grow over the last couple months. Here is the link to his Affiliatenaire.com program. Do yourself a favor and sign up for his programs.. You will not regret it!

3. Lastly, there is the PPC method… I would do a search in Google for how to best use Adsense to set up a campaign for your business model.  I have not mastered Adsense yet, so you are going to have to find out where to get the info that is gonna work for you. You might also want to look into Yahoo Publisher Network on how to monetize your blog. I have included the links as a starting point for your search. Be creative and come up with more terms to find the information you want to know about.

Let me know how your online efforts are coming along and if I can help you figure something out. I have a lot of resources at my disposal to aid you in your business. Just ask in the comments section.

To Your Success,

Clint Anderson

Well I finally found some research about the whole Bing vs. Google debate.  I am going to leave this one to the experts at Website Magazine to summarize the Catalyst Group Study.  I have been doing some futsing on Bing myself lately, and I do agree the results are very relavent.  It will be interesting how this big debate on search engines is gonna pan out by the end of the year. I am sure there will be more information as time goes on about the best ways to utilize SEO to get better listed on Bing for affiliate marketing purposes also… As I hear more I will keep you posted..

Go check out the review on Bing vs. Google.

As always, I would invite you to come back and leave your comments about the two search engines and your feelings about the future of SEO and the engines.

To Your Success,

Clint Anderson

Hello again, hope you all are having a good day! In continuing with my last article about keyword selection, I wanted to share with you some thoughts and resources for Affiliate Marketing Niche Selection. It is gonna be hard at first to find the right niche, but it is not impossible. As a matter of fact you may find that a niche is not really what you need.. Let me explain a little…

Back when I first started my affiliate marketing journey, I used to do the niche selection process by seeing something and saying oh that would be cool to sell online.. lol Oh my, that was indeed the wrong way to do this! We all learn right?

Today, I approach it from a couple of different perspectives. One being… “Is the product that I want to sell going to satisfy a problem for someone?”  Usually this falls under 3 general headings. I will explain general in a second. The 3 general headings are…

• Money problems
• People problems
• Health problems

These 3 general Niche Topics are going to be the basis for the niche research. So inside of the general niche of Money lets say, there are many Niche topics like ‘make money’ and ‘get out of debt’, etc… For our research we don’t want to stop there though because this is not going to totally solve the problem.

The next step is to identify the micro niche that will satisfy or in our case provide a solution to our problem. Let’s go back to my two examples of ‘make money’ and ‘get out of debt’.  The focus of these topics is still a little too broad for us to select a product to generate a profit with. So let’s narrow it down a bit to ‘make money online using google’ or ‘get out of credit card debt’

Now we have some very specific Micro Niches that we can work with and find products that will satisfy the problems people face on a daily basis.

You just have to ask yourself a question when doing this… If I had money problems specifically credit card problems. “Would the niche topic satisfy my problem?” If it does answer it, then you probably have a winner.  Again, ‘get out of debt’ does not help you get out of credit card debt because we may be talking about mortgage debt, where ‘get out of credit card debt’ does.

It’s not too confusing if you take a minute to think about what we are really trying to accomplish online as an affiliate marketer. I hope I have provided some valuable insight today also.  If you want to further investigate this topic, may I suggest Stephen Pierce or Lynn Terry as other places to get information about affiliate marketing.

To Your Success,

Clint

There are many different keyword research techniques that I could share with you, but I am going to defer to the experts for this one. I say why reinvent the wheel, and both of the people I am going to refer to here are experts at what they do… So without further ado… here is Justin and Chaunna Brooke in Tuesdays Twenty Minute Tackle. They overshot the 20 minutes a bit, but every minute is worth it with these two…

The other really great person to help us out with affiliate marketing keyword research is Lynn Terry. She is the real deal as far as the affiliate marketing business goes and she is a great energetic person to listen to. Here is her take on keyword research..

One last generic keyword research method(s) here. I don’t know where or when I found and started following this blog, but I like some of the things he says. Go check out his keyword research method…

To Your Success,

Clint