When starting to learn all about how you can earn online passive income you really need to choose a few good blogs to start reading often and just dissect everything that they talk about in relation to the subject. The great thing about this method is there are just so many good quality blogs on the internet these days that deal with building up passive income streams, investing, real estate, and much more. The hard part is just choosing which ones to read.
I must admit that on the Internet, information overload is one of the most difficult things to deal with. There are just so many websites or blogs out there. Some are great and many are also filled with information that is not too good. So what do you do to deal with this? I recommend finding a few blogs or newsletters that you are really learning from and just stick to those. You really need to block out the rest.
Below are a few of my personal favorite websites or blogs that focus mostly on learning about how to make residual income online:
If you visit and study from this list alone you will learn tons about making online passive income. What I would do is make up your mind to read 1 hour per day from each of these sites and ignore the rest. Or make your own list of about 3 or 4 blogs max and just read them for a maximum of 1 hour per day. Spend the rest of your time applying what you are learning and keep working on trying to set up you income business opportunities!
We all want to make online income and get excited about it when we start out. One common mistake that many beginners in this exciting game start to do is they build way too many websites to handle. Now don’t get me wrong here, having a bunch of websites is recommended and a great business model to follow. If you do that it means you’re setting up more and more internet residual income business opportunities. What I’m trying to say here is if you are building multiple websites to make sure that you at least set up a basic checklist for each website that you try out to see what kind of results you get before you move on to developing your next passive income yielding website!
So what exactly do I mean by doing them properly and how do you actually go about setting up a website that can produce passive income for you? Well you need to cover the bases with each of your sites that you actually want to do well with.
Some steps I like to follow for new websites are the following:
• Spend time on each site selecting your keywords that you will go after.
• Choose a good domain name preferably with your keywords in it and if possible, buy yourself an aged domain name.
• Write some keyword related articles/posts (at least 10 or more pages). These posts should be SEO optimized.
• Install the free Stat Counter Software
• Start building those links! Article marketing, blog roll exchanges, commenting, etc.
At the beginning stage there is no need to focus too heavily on the design. If your site starts to get a bunch of traffic at that time you can put more time and energy in to the graphic design side of things. If your site really doesn’t work out for you then at least you won’t have wasted tons of time on doing up a design that doesn’t help produce the income you are going after.
There is no doubt that not all your sites will turn out to be income producing machines but some of them will definitely have potential. What I usually like to do is spend some time on the above list for each website and then start up my next. After about 2 or 3 months if you did your keyword research right, did proper SEO optimization and followed the above tips you should start to see some traffic. If not at that point you can continue to try and work on developing your website or you can leave it for the time being and work on more promising websites. From personal experience some sites will start getting traffic quicker then others.
So if you are actually serious about making an income online and turning this into a true business opportunity then you really need to perform the above to each website you build to see if it has potential. There is no problem in having a bunch of sites that you are working on but make sure that if you want to see the true potential at least follow the basic steps outlined above!
We all know that to make a good income online we need good traffic coming to our websites and blogs. If you play the game correctly this internet web traffic will turn into residual income streams that will continue to grow as long as you maintain what you have built and keep working those keywords!
So how do you know what keywords people are using to find your current website? Well I recommend using a free tool called Stat Counter. I really love it and use it to track statistics of any and all of my websites. It has a bunch of cool features like how many visitors you’ve received, detailed visitor information, browser statistics, what page they exited on and more. But when it comes to building up my SEO I really like to use their keyword features.
In Stat Counter they have what is called the “keyword analysis” and “recent keyword activity”. This is where things get really interesting in terms of SEO and earning income online. You will be able to see what words people are using to find your website as well as a list of how many times each term has been used to find your website.
So let me give you an example. Say your website is about “making money on the Internet”. You might start to notice that many of the people coming to your site through search engines are finding you through the term “make cash on the web”. What often happens is you aren’t even going after that term but the search engines are ranking you high for that.
Here is the juicy part. What I then do is make a small list of the words people are using to find my site and then start using them in my site. Ways that you can use them is write some posts with the keywords in the title, add the keywords as tags if you’re using word press, and also inside posts that you write make that new keyword an anchored link back to your homepage or better yet the post that relates to it. You can also start using these new found keywords in your article marketing efforts.
So if you’re taking your online residual income business seriously then you really need to start learning more about how your users are interacting with your website or blog and also how they are finding you. Once you start to use the above technique you will really start to notice your current online income grow as well as your site traffic!
If you’re really serious and actually want to get into making residual income online and setting up related business opportunities then you’re really going to need to invest some time in learning all about SEO and how to actually go about doing it.
I can tell you right now that any website out there on the Internet that is getting good targeted web traffic and making passive income off affiliate marketing, web advertising, or whatever model they chose has a good understanding of SEO and the basics.
So where do you go to learn SEO so you can start to make income online? Well first off at this blog. I have written a few articles already and will continue to post more tips and tricks on SEO as I learn them myself. For now I’ll just give you a little clue – it’s all about building up links from other websites with the keywords you want to rank for as the anchor text. More details on that too come.
You can also visit a few blogs that I really enjoy going to learn about making residual money online through SEO tactics like www.seozombie.com and www.seomoz.org. If you make it a habit to absorb as much as you can about SEO and how people get top rankings in search engines it will soon pay off as you start to see heavy traffic come in from the search engines.
Today I want to speak a bit about a little hidden (not so hidden to some) online residual income builder. Well, let me backtrack for a second this method won’t directly build you a passive income online but it definitely can help you get ahead.
As I’ve mentioned before in some of my SEO tips and tricks articles if you want to make money you need targeted web traffic, and in order to get that traffic you’ll need your site ranked high in search engines. If you want to rank high then you need to build up a solid foundation of anchored links. Well, with article marketing you can do just that.
For those of you who don’t know article marketing is I’ll explain it to you a bit now. It’s great for those of you looking to build up links for your passive income websites. What you do is you write an article related to the website you want to promote and then you submit this article to hundreds of free article directories around the Internet.
You see the beauty of this is, at the bottom of your article is what we call a resource box. In this little box you write some information about the website you are promoting and you can also usually put in 1 or 2 anchored links in the description. If you read any of my SEO articles you’ll know exactly why anchored links are important and how to do them. There are also article submission services like ArticleMarketer.com which will submit your articles for you which saves you literally hours and hours of work.
So if you are seriously about setting up a residual income business online then you really need to learn about and get in a good habit of regularly doing article marketing in order to promote you money making websites. You will not see instant results but it will definitely help your SEO efforts and you’ll rank better in the search engines.
Making residual income online is what everybody talks about on the Internet these days. I don’t blame them, if you can actually set the lifestyle up, it’s a great way to make income online and be a bit freer to live your life on the schedule that works for you. Now the problem with this is that there are so many new people trying to teach the next person about how to get into the game of making some cash online. So I’m sure like me you want to know who to listen to, and what kind of courses to buy.
Well first of all when you’re beginning to study about all the different residual income business opportunities out there it’s great to just read everything and anything out there but take it with a grain of salt. Don’t listen to everybody out there but read it all, watch videos, sign up for newsletters, get books, do a few courses and just absorb as much information as you can about the different business models out there.
By doing this what will start to happen is you will begin to notice some common ideas or concepts that people talk about that has helped them start making a passive money online. Many of these ideas will actually have some truth to them so star to investigate them further, start trying them out for yourself and see how they work.
As you continue to read blogs, watch videos, read books, etc you will also notice that common names pop up. These names could be book authors, people that run successful blogs, or even people that do coaching or have developed courses. Make sure to take careful notes of these names. What I like to do is have a list of “books I want” where I’ll add and author name and book title to the list each time I start hearing good things about it. I do the same thing with websites and online courses that I hear about.
So when starting out trying to learn all about making passive income on the internet try to learn as much as possible. This means listening to everyone with an open mind, taking notes of good books and people you start hearing about, and trying some of the methods out that you learn. I guarantee you that after a few months you will start to find a few resources that really work for you. Once you do find these resources stick with them and keep going at whatever is working out!
Welcome back to another post about making residual income online through having knowledge of SEO techniques. In the first post we spoke about how important traffic is to make a passive income on the Internet. I also spoke to you about some of the basic techniques you can apply to your pages in order to bring in some of this valuable traffic that everyone wants.
The great thing about learning some of the basic SEO optimization techniques is that once you start to master them you’ll be ahead of 99% of the people out there online trying to earn an income each month. Today in part two of this series I wanted to discuss the power of what we call anchored links.
So as we all know in order to actually build a website that gets steady traffic and earns passive income off a variety of sources like affiliate marketing, advertising, and more, we need to rank highly on Google, meaning on the first page if not in the top 3 results. What you’ll need to do is go and get anchored links.
Now anchored links are the words that you see on websites that you can click on and will take you to another website. So what you want to be doing is going out and getting hundreds if not thousands of anchored links on other websites that point towards your income generating website.
So let me give you a little example now. On this site I want to rank for the terms “residual income” and also “passive income” in the major search engines. When I go out and get links on other people’s websites, blogs, and in article marketing, I’m going to try to have those keywords as the anchor text as much as possible.
What will happen is that search engines like Google and Yahoo will see these keywords in the links and place greater importance on your websites search engine results when people search for those terms. I won’t get into detail today on how to go about getting these links but just remember at this point that the more targeted anchor links you have all around the web (especially from famous, respected website) the better you will rank in search engines. What does that mean for you? More residual income coming in online to your business!
When it comes to a residual income source there are so many different kinds that you can go after these days. You can try real estate, running a company on auto pilot, investing in bonds or stocks, and more. These days it seems that more and more people are trying to build passive income online through the use of the internet. Why not, the opportunities are abundant, and the internet is growing more and more on a daily basis.
So the question is if you do decide to go after making income on the Internet where in the world do you start. It’s so easy to get overwhelmed and not know which way you want to go or what you should do to make the residual income that everyone speaks about and tries to make it sound so easy to do. Let me tell you it won’t be easy but it’ll be well worth the effort once you see the monthly income start rolling in.
Well what I want to recommend to you today is to join a forum that will be able to help you learn all about internet marketing and how to make a passive income online. This community or learning center is called “The Affiliate Academy” and it’s one of a kind. I’m a member of it and I must say I’m amazed at what it has taught me. It is run by a man by the name of Vic who tells it to you like it really is and if anyone can teach you how to make income online it is him I must say!
With The Affiliate Academy, Vic doesn’t necessarily speak about one way to set up a your business but he teaches the fundamentals of how to make income online which in my mind is the most important to this game. I have learned so much through the website and continue to use it daily. There are interactive forums where you can ask questions and also heaps of recorded videos and sessions where you can listen to him chat and teach about making online income and more. If you are interested in signing up for this academy you can register here.
I’m not recommending that making residual income online is the only business model that you pursue but I think it’s a good one. I also think that if you do decide to go after making a passive income through the net you need a good website like The Affiliate Academy where you can ask questions and learn from people who make income online each and everyday and it is their main source of money!
If you want to make an online residual income and you want to start off fast without all of the waiting there is a way to get around it. Basically what you can do is buy a website that is already generating an online passive income. Yes that’s true people actually sell websites after they have built them up.
Let’s start off by explaining why buying a website that is already making a residual online income is a good idea. First of all when you start a new website on the internet in order to actually start being found by Google there is a waiting period or what is referred to as the Google “sandbox” in internet marketing circles. This is an unofficial time period of between three months to one year where new websites basically are not really found in search results by Google. It’s to protect people from spam websites that want to generate quick income online and then move on. What this means for you is even if you produce a legit website you’ll be waiting about three months at least until you see any income coming in.
Another good reason to buy a website that is already is making some money is that if you buy a proper site, the person who is running it has already done the keyword research, design, and search engine optimization for you. It couldn’t get easier then that. All you have to do is maintain the website by writing some content and keep updating the SEO of it. If you do that and you have purchased a proper site you will continue to generate passive income for a long time to come.
Now if you do want to buy a website that is already making an income online I would head over to the website sitepoint.com and then go browse around in there marketplace section. There you will be able to look through what people are offering. People usually price a website for 8-12 months of what they make monthly. So if they are earning $100 a month of residual income through Adsense then they will probably sell there site for between $800-1200 and that would be a fair price to ask. Just remember to make sure that you ask to see proof of what kind of income the site you are thinking about is actually making.
So if you really want to make an online income, then buying a website that is already generating money might be a great place to start. The good thing is you’ll already be earning residual income every month and you’ll start to understand how the whole system works and feels. As this purchased website is working away for you then you’ll just keep building your other sites in the background. If you do have a bit of income to put down I would really recommend this method of getting your feet wet in this game!
Many people talk about making residual income online like it’s something that is easy and does not take time. Well to be honest to some extent that is true. Once you learn the fundamentals of online marketing and business and have everything set up and going then making residual income on the internet is not that hard. The question is how you get to that point.
Well today I want to introduce to you some fundamental concepts of SEO. For anyone who does not understand what SEO is it stands for search engine optimization. SEO may sound tricky but after you learn some of the basics it’s not actually that hard. To do it properly it will take time and patience just like it will for you to set up your residual income business.
First off just to make things clear as to why SEO is key, you need to understand it because in order to draw traffic to your website to actually make an income you need to have visitors coming to your website. The more targeted visitors you have at your website the more chances you have to make passive income off of their time spent with your at your website.
So enough chatting let’s get into a few simple SEO techniques. Once you have selected the proper keywords for your website you are going to need to use them strategically within your website in order to get the search engines to notice your website in the first place. A few key places that you are going to want to use your keywords are in the title tag, in the H1 (header) tags, and also if you can in your links. There are tons of tutorials on the internet that will teach you all about HTML but that is a bit beyond the scope of this article.
Another SEO technique that not many people talk about but it really helps out a lot is if you have your keywords in your domain name or URL. So for example my website is all about how to build residual income into your lifestyle. Did you notice something about my domain name? Bingo take a close look and if you have been reading this article carefully you will know what I’m referring to. I can tell you that if you want to rank well in search engines then try and get domain names with your keyword in the name – it will help you a lot!
So there you have it, just a few tips to get you going on your path toward making a stream of residual income through SEO tricks and the Internet. I will be writing many other articles on this subject to get you more and more advanced but just remember to make income online you need to rank high in search engines or end up spending a lot on paid ad’s. Either way understanding basic and even advanced optimization trick will help you a lot build up your online business website.