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.
There are some simple ways of making residual income a part of your life and getting ahead financially. One of the main methods for getting into this game is starting to live a bit below your means. The theory here is that even if you get a pay raise or start making more money off your passive income business or regular job it doesn’t mean you spend it on liabilities like most people tend to do as soon as they increase their monthly or yearly income.
See if you want to start earning a higher income and actually make some smart moves then you need to invest the extra cash you make into business opportunities that will produce a residual income. What do you think most people do when they get some extra cash or even a raise at their job? Well maybe you guessed it but basically they start to live a bit more lavishly. Maybe they put that money into a new car, a more expensive apartment, take a really expensive trip, and update their wardrobe and even jewelry perhaps.
What’s wrong with the above picture in terms of a sound financial strategy? You see all of the above items except maybe the house or the apartment are actually not assets but liabilities. A liability is something that just costs us money and can’t make any back. An asset on the other hand, things like stocks, mutual funds, real estate, web sites, etc can actually help you earn a residual income month after month and year after year if you set it up properly.
So what does this mean to you and what can you do in order to start making some wise financial decisions and start investing in business opportunities that will actually provide you with a passive income? It’s easy, think about how you are spending your money. Change your thinking in general to enjoying your life with a bit less and put all that extra money into assets that will do something for you.
Let me give you an example. If you get a $300 per month raise at your job don’t go out and try and find a more expensive apartment to rent out or start thinking that you can have 1 or 2 more nice dinners out at restaurants per month. Take that $300 and put it into a mutual fund that has a decent interest rate. It’s true you won’t see any instant benefits like the more expensive apartment or dinner out but after a couple years of doing this you will have already built up a nice residual income stream off the interest of this mutual fund or bond!
If you’re serious about getting into the residual income business and seeking out proper opportunities, realize now that they do not come overnight. Although we receive countless offers from people all over the web that claim they can teach us how to earn a passive income quickly, many of these offers are not all they seem to be. I want you to remember one thing now – it will take you some time so have patience.
Now depending on what kind of residual income model you decide to pursue the amount of time it takes for you to actually start seeing money come in will definitely vary but to get to the point where you start seeing income come in usually will take time. Of course if you’re starting out and you already have some money to play with then it might not take as much time to start seeing some good results if you use your income wisely.
Now let’s take an example and I’ll use Adsense since that is something I am already successfully earning money online from everyday. If you want to actually build a blog or a website that makes some cash from Adsense it will most often take time and patience unless you buy a website that’s already pulling in income.
First of all you’re going to have to do keyword research to find some terms that you’d like to target. Once you’ve found your niche you’ll need to register websites and hosting, develop or have content developed, and then start promoting your website and building up as many links as possible in order to get higher search engine rankings. This whole process will take, time, energy, and patience before you see any income coming in for your efforts if you do things right estimate 3-6 months before you start to see some results.
What I’m trying to point out in this post is that before you start making residual cash streams come in you’ll need to have a mind set of patience and give it some time. What you’ll ideally want to have going is some kind of income stream coming in from a full or part time job. This way you won’t have too much stress about when the money will start to flow in. I believe that good things come to those that work hard and have patience. If you want to succeed in this game just enjoy the learning process, work hard, and don’t expect to see instant results. Remember if it was that easy and quick to make money online don’t you think everybody would be doing it?
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!
If you are serious about this and you really want to make residual income a part of your life then you need to think of, develop, and then follow through with an action plan. In order for any residual income opportunities to come your way then you need to remember that actually taking action is going to be a key ingredient in your success in this business.
You see the problem that many people have is, they never seem to take action on the ideas or motivation that they currently possess.
A perfect example is you read a book on how to succeed and make income online or through other forms and at that time you feel all exited about how you’re going to go about putting what you read into something tangible. The problem comes the next day when you wake up and don’t do anything about what you just read. So many people have the “no action” syndrome. They love reading books, blogs, and taking courses on building residual income but they never seem to actually try out what they are learning.
I can tell you this now; you won’t make any money or income if you don’t try out what you are learning about as you go along with the process. Don’t wait until you know everything to try something out. Try things out and learn as you go.
Let’s take a little example now. If you are reading this blog and you started to learn about how to develop niche sites and earn some income off of Google’s Adsense go out and start a little website that you think might work for you to make some cash. There’s a good chance it won’t work if you’re a beginner but just trying it out and getting in the process of doing it is the key action that you want to take. If you are already in the habit of doing this when you start to learn exactly what works then you’ll have an easier time getting into action.
So the key here is to take action and learn as you go. Don’t get me confused here, I’m not saying that learning, taking courses, and reading books is wrong or a waste of your time – actually I feel the opposite and have spent literally thousands of dollars on the above. What I am saying is that in order to actually succeed and build a residual income opportunity that actually works you need to develop your plan and then follow through by taking action on things as you go along.
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!
If you want to be smart about the residual income businesses you build and want to try and keep growing your income streams then you’ll need to start investing some of the cash that you make back into your business. You see, in order to grow your organization and turn it into an actual business model that generates a successful passive income you need to spend money on tools as well as on getting work done.
Some of examples of how you will want to spend parts of your passive income in order to build your business include getting into outsourcing. Outsourcing is actually a great way to help grow the size of your residual income business and you’ll be able to watch the results multiply as it will begin to free up your time. Some examples of the type of outsourcing of work that I recommend include website coding, writing of articles and press releases, graphic design, programming, secretarial tasks, and much more.
The next area that will require the use of your income in order to build your business will be the purchase of software tools. There are lots of jobs you can try and do alone or manually but if you use specific software tools to get the job done you will save time and make more money in the end. Some examples of software that will help you build residual income streams and save you some time and money online specifically are article marketing software like www.articlemarketer.com and also www.fastblogfinder.com. I won’t get into how to use either of those tools here but I can say that they are great for what they do!
So how do you go about deciding when you start spending your hard earned dough into trying to build up a solid residual income generating business opportunity? Well the way many people work, myself included is they spend a bit up front on software and training and then as they start to earn residual income they will take chunks of that and put it towards outsourcing. In the end just remember that in order to actually build a business opportunity online or anywhere you are going to need to put some money in to build up the business properly.
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!