Can You Really Quotstrike Goldquot Online

Writen by Jim Edwards

I guess human nature leads us to this about every 30 - 50 years.

As a history major, I studied the gold rush of 1849, the 19th century oil booms, the stock market hustles of the late 1920's, the get rich-quick mail order schemes of the 1950's and 60's and now the "Internet" gold rush of the late 1990's and early 21st century.

When people perceive someone else getting rich with little or no effort, they jump on the band wagon seeking fame and fortune.

In reality, in any "gold rush," the ones who really get rich represent the exception.

Unfortunately, people perceive those "exceptions" as the rule, rather than the special cases they actually represent.

But, if you're bound and determined that you can be one of the "chosen few" who get rich online, the following tips will save you years of frustration.

** Little Oil Wells **

Don't try to get rich online with one gold or oil "strike!"

Most people I know who do very well online operate multiple websites targeting multiple niche markets.

They sell many products and make their money by creating multiple streams of income rather than depending on a single website to stake their claim for online riches.

** Solve Problems **

People go online to solve problems.

Whether they need to improve their job interview skills or find a winter coat and hat for their Chihuahua, they want to find products or knowledge they don't currently possess.

The more pressing the problem, the easier and faster these people will buy.

The easiest way to make a fortune online involves finding the most severe problems you can and charging for the solutions.

** Sweat, Not Money **

Most people want to throw money at a problem and hope that will get them what they desire.

This fact keeps the "get-rich-quick" schemers in business.

However, the best way to make money online involves getting your hands dirty, learning a market inside and out, discovering what they want to buy and why, and then selling it to them.

Contrary to popular belief, throwing money at a problem often won't solve it.

** Don't Compete **

The fastest way to make a fortune online involves persuading other people to sell your product or service for you as an affiliate.

However, nobody sells a product or service for someone they perceive as "competition."

You must position your product or service in such a way that others will eagerly promote it for you because they see you as someone who complements what they already offer.

** Wants vs. Needs **

Circus and publicity guru, P.T. Barnum, expressed it best, "People will spend their last nickel to have fun!"

People always find a way to buy what they want, but often avoid spending on what they need.

** The Underwear Myth **

The "make money in your underwear at the kitchen table working only 1 or 2 hours a day" represents the biggest crock of !@#$% ever foisted on the public.

Anyone I know who makes a lot of money at anything, busts their buns to get their projects off the ground.

Once they get a business up and running, it might only take a couple of hours a day or week to keep it running, but they worked their fingers to the bone to get things rolling.

And the real secret to their success: they repeat the process over and over again!

Copyright 2005 Jim Edwards

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Make Money Online With Targeted Keywords

Writen by Bing Zou

A keyword is a word or concept with special significance which describes a concept used to organize webpages and objects on the Internet. In today's world, more and more people use the Internet as a tool to get or sell specific product, service or information. Compared to previous model—directory search, keywords search has specific advantage, convenient, fast and also exact.

The trend is that most of those users use keywords to search. The search engine giant Google holds the half market of keywords search. Meanwhile, PPC (pay per click) campaign has hit the web like a storm. Pay per click campaign attracts much more interest from both advertisers and webmasters.

Keywords or key phrases are terms that a possible client would use to find your product or service. It is important to have a large number of top paying targeted keywords - but it is equally important that these top paying targeted keywords be specific relevant to your website. Keywords research is a continuous never-ending process that can help increase traffic and attract targeted visitors. This is the most important for you to make money online.

Top paying targeted keywords are the best keywords among searches. They have targeted function and high ROI. You should remember that top paying keywords will change. To make money with targeted keywords, you need to know much more top paying targeted keywords.

For advertisers, it is very important to control budget and get a high ROI. Some top paying keywords have a low bid price but the function of target is same to other high paying keywords. It is better to replace these high paying keywords.

A common mistake is to target the wrong keywords or worse, even no particular keywords at all. When you optimize your website, you are optimizing your targeted keywords. It means you create a list of specific words and phrases which you know users will search for.

To make money online with targeted keywords, you should often ask yourself these questions: 1. First of all, will people actually search for the things you have at your website? 2. Second, which keywords will they use to search for? 3. Third but not the last, how competitive are your targeted keywords?

Be realistic about targeting highly competitive keywords - you may be better off targeting less popular ones. The more popular, the more cost. So it is not always right to focus on popular keywords. It is important to focus on targeted keywords which will bring sales to you.

For webmasters, your content is always the king but if you can design your website based on top paying keywords, then the targeted Ads have the high value, your website will make more money with these high paying targeted keywords.

Top paying keywords will increase your Google AdSense's revenue. With the top paying targeted keywords for maximizing GoogleAdsense, you can exactly target your site's content with the top paying or high paying keywords. It means you use top paying keywords to express your meaning on your website to attract high paying AdWords Ads.

However, keywords are the same important to users. Whenever users want to search something, the first thing is entering keywords which are relevant to search item. The more the keywords relevant, the easier the item found.

Top paying targeted keywords are the backbone to every successful pay per click campaign. The opportunities of PPC are endless, but you need the right tools to be successful. Keywords success doesn't just happen, it's created. Top paying targeted keywords is the key for your success.

Bing Zou is the owner of website http://www.haveatry.com and http://www.onlyworkonline.com. Haveatry.com is designed for making money at home with a new lifestyle. Onlyworkonline.com recommends opportunities to make money online fast. You can contact him at email: infofreetoyou@yahoo.ca

Your 3 Best Options For Quickly Multiplying Your Websites Income

Writen by Rockford Tapscott

Have you ever wondered why it takes so many visitors for your website to make any real money for you?

My coaching students email me all the time and ask questions along the lines of -

"I've got 60/100/200 website visitors a day but I'm not making any money yet, what's wrong with my site?"

Of course, you need a lot more traffic than that to make a decent income from your site...in fact you need a lot more traffic than you think.

Let's go through the numbers.

We'll assume you have a site that promotes either affiliate products or you use your content website to generate leads for another website (like a mini or sales site) or an offline business you have.

We'll also leave Adsense revenue out for now, because every click on an Adsense ad takes away one chance you have for selling your 'real' product or service.

On average, for every 100 visitors who arrive at your site, only one or two will click on an affiliate link or click through to your main site where you sell your product or service.

And then depending on how good your sales copy is (or how well the sales letter of the affiliate merchant converts) only 1% or 2% of the people arriving at that site will make a purchase.

So, looking at these numbers, and taking a 1% response rate as pretty normal, you have to get 10,000 visitors to your website to generate just 1 sale (100x100 visitors=1 sale)...

Now if your site is getting 60 visitors a day, and they are reading on average 3 pages before they surf off to somewhere else, it's going to take you on average 55 days to make each sale.

If the product you sell is a 30 dollar ebook and you earn 15 dollars commission every time somebody buys a copy, you've set yourself up to make 99 bucks a year from your site...

Pretty dismal isn't it.

Now obviously, the more pages your visitors read, the higher the product value they buy, and the higher your conversion rates are, the better.

You could double or triple this number, or more.

The point is, you need a LOT of traffic and/or big ticket items to sell to make the average site earn you a respectable living.

So, here are my top 3 tips for increasing your website's potential revenue and breaking into the big league of online entrepreneurs...

1) Do some research and find several big ticket items you can promote

It doesn't matter what niche you're in, you can find things like seminars, big box home study courses, membership sites and the like to promote to your visitors.

Sure you can promote $20 ebooks, but the big money is in making $200, $400 or a grand each time somebody buys something through your site.

It's a lot easier to earn a hundred grand a year online by making a few large ticket sales than by selling 6,000+ ebooks that make you 15 bucks each.

2) Work on creating keyword specific landing pages for all of the affiliate products (or your own products and services) so that when people arrive at your site they find the exact solution they are looking for right there.

Don't make your visitors click around your site while they try to find what they are looking for.

Give them the exact solution they want immediately or they will hit the back button and leave without finding what they are after.

3) Build a list and build long term relationships with your readers

If you have your visitors' names and email addresses, you can send the same people back to your site (where they are exposed to your affiliate, Joint Venture and product links) again and again instead of just once.

This gives you a multiplier effect and can exponentially increase every visitors' value to you.

Use a service such as Aweber to send out your autoresponder messages and they will go out in the exact order you want your readers to receive them reliably, on time and automatically.

The main thing is that you get to work on building your list as soon as you can...

So there you have it - 3 simple things you can do straight away to get started on increasing your traffic and maximizing the income you receive from every website that you own.

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