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Screencast O Matic Review – Video Software & What They Don’t Tell You

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If you have been involved with the affiliate marketing world any time at all, you are most likely aware that creating videos is a must for any marketing campaign. In this Screencast o matic review, I will share with you all the details of this software and what they don’t really tell you.

There are many programs and software dedicated to the creation of video. Some are simple, some are complicated, some are expensive and few are inexpensive. Some video creation product focus on screen-share capabilities, while others focus on using a webcam, or a combination of the two.

Screencast o matic is a very well-known piece of software and along with other products similar to it, I have had the opportunity to use it to its fullest extent and can share with you what I have found.

Screencast O Matic Review Summary

Name: Screencast O MaticScreencast o matic review bar chart

Website: https://screencast-o-matic.com

Price: Free , Solo Deluxe $1.50/mo,

Solo Premier $4.00/mo (both paid yearly)

Owners: Matt Champagne and AJ Gregory

Products and/or Services: 99 out of 100

Training: 99 out of 100

Support: 99 out of 100

Community: 99 out of 100

Overall Price Value: 100 out of 100

Summary: Here is where I will tell you what they don’t tell you, and who are they? The owners, the website and the rest of the affiliate marketing community. I say this because I have seen and used a lot of different software in my affiliate marketing experience, and nothing has exceeded the price value as much as Screencast O Matic has.

What They Don’t Tell You: The thing about this product is you don’t see a lot of marketing hype telling you how great it is. I wish I had been told about this product a long time ago. I would have started creating screen share videos much sooner than I did, and I would have enjoyed the traffic I am seeing now much sooner, seriously.

TheAffiliateResource.com Overall Rating: 99 out of 100:

Since Screencast o matic is a great video creator for affiliate marketers who want to promote affiliate products (affiliate marketing), then below is my #1 recommendation to learn how to make money selling affiliate products:

Screencast O Matic Product Overview

If someone was to ask me is Screencast o matic worth the money you spend, I would have to say NO. Why, because it is worth way more than what they charge. Even the free version is worth way more than FREE.

The overall value of this product is simply amazing. You get a first-rate piece of software at a ridiculously low price and I say this in all sincerity. This product performs just as well, if not better, than its higher priced competitors by far. So, let’s review the three different plans that the company has to offer.

Screencast o matic has three plans:

  • Free
  • Solo Deluxe
  • Solo Premier

Free Plan

The great thing about the free plan is that it is always free. It is not a free trial, it is simply a free version of the software. This is great for recording training s that you have or anytime you want to share your computer screen with an audience. You will see the Screencast-o-matic logo towards the bottom of the video. You can also choose between 3 different or random music tracks.

In addition to being able to screen share, you can also use a webcam to record yourself live. In either case you can always then upload your videos to YouTube.  The free version limits the length of the video to 15 minutes.

Solo Deluxe Plan

This is a great plan especially if you don’t want the watermarked Screencast-o-matic logo on the video. You get to use 20 different music tracks, overlays and a bunch of other features. Take a look at the image below for a full breakdown of all the features. There are too many of them to list here as text.

It is an intuitive program for editing text and the training is just as awesome as for all the plans.

Solo Premier Plan

This plan includes all the solo deluxe features mentioned above plus the ability to host all of your videos on a custom site. Plus, you can make your videos as long as you like. This plan also provides you a full digital workflow optimization.

I am an owner of the solo premier plan and have an example screen share video you can review below. I created this video with the built in camera on my computer. So no extra bells and whistles was use on this one. Notice there is no watermark on the video, it is clean and the audio is very clear.

Plan Features

The plans offered by Screencast-o-matic are broken down into three different features:

  • Recorder features
  • Video editing tools
  • Collaboration and sharing

Let’s take a look at each of these features in detail as they pertain to the different plans.

Recorder features

As you can see from the image below, the recorder features are indicated for each of the plans that are offered by Screencast-o-matic. You can see what is offered by each of the plans. The big thing to note here is that each plan offers a lot of value. It is simply a matter of what features you need based on your video creation needs.

Screencast o matic review features

Video Editing Tools

It is in the video editing tools where the two paid versions shine. The free version is great if you simply want to create videos and then upload them to YouTube. This is one of the main functions of video creation that many affiliate marketers are interested in.

But if you want to take it a step further and edit your videos, this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. You can mix videos. Copy and paste sections of recordings and a multitude of other video editing activities. Each of the two paid versions offer the same features for video editing as you can see in the image below.

Screencast o matic review_video editing chart

Collaboration and Sharing

Both the free version and the solo deluxe plan offers 9 great sharing features integrated the major social media sites. The solo premier plan offers ad free play back pages, the ability to use your own brand and domain on video pages, and the ability to upload videos longer than 15 minutes.

Another main difference between the two paid versions is the amount of bandwidth per month. The solo deluxe plan offers 2GB (same as the free version) and the solo premier plan offers a huge 100GB of bandwidth per month. Check out the image below for all the details.

Screencast o matic review_sharing chart

Again, as you can see, all three versions offer a great deal of value. I have chosen the solo premier version mainly because I do a lot of videos and like to have the ability to edit and may need the bandwidth at some point. Maybe not right now, but for the price, why not. You pay for it as a yearly fee, so it doesn’t involve needless monthly fees.

Training and Support

In this section I would like to discuss what Screencast-o-matic has in the way of training and support. Like their overall value, the training and support are excellent. As you can see in my initial overview I scored them well in this area. On the main website, they have three tabs labeled as follows:

  • Blog
  • Tutorials
  • Support

Each of these sections has loads of great information, training and support.

The blog has mountains of articles and videos about community, education, tips and tricks and is updated regularly. These include Community Updates, Product News, Tips and Tricks.

Screencast o matic review_training and support

The tutorials section includes a compilation of step by step video tutorials designed to teach you different aspects of video creation. This include 10 very details videos describing such things as recording and editing intros, recording and saving uploads, draw and zoom and a host of other great tutorials.

It also goes into real good detail on video editing. If it wasn’t for what I learned in this section, I think I would have been totally lost. I didn’t realize how easy it is to edit videos. No need to start over when you can simply edit videos with smooth and clean results.

Now the support section is what I have used the most. Not that I have had any support issues, but they house a tab there that shows you exactly how to use Screencast O Matic. In that section are a huge number of FAQs showing you step by step of how to do, well, just about anything related to creating and editing videos.

So, between these three sections, you really get all the support and training you need to create, edit and share videos.

Conclusion

As you have most likely figured about by now, I highly recommend Screencast o matic for all of your video creation needs. Choose a package that best fits what you plan on doing with video. This is a program that will not break the bank and you really have no excuses not to use video in your affiliate marketing campaigns.

Video simply works. It is easy to rank videos and get traffic. People like to search on YouTube to find out how to solve their problems or how to do something, and if you get your affiliate product in front of them when they are looking for it, you stand a better chance of being a successful in affiliate marketing.

Is Clickbank University A Scam – Should We Stay Away – or What?

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I have actually been asked this question a few times. One person asked it this way. ” Is Clickbank University a scam or what?”

I can hear the tone in his voice, even though it was from a Facebook chat box. The reason he asked me this through my Facebook chat is because I was involved in a conversation in the Facebook Group of Clickbank University itself at the time. This individual was a little upset by the answer to a question that was asked in their Facebook support group.

Yes, I was a member of the Clickbank University 2.0. So this review is from firsthand experience. Let us take a close look into what Clickbank University actually is, and address whether it is a scam or not.

The Clickbank University Review Summary

Name: Clickbank University 2.0The Clickbank University Review Summary Chart

Founders: Matt Hulett, Adam Horwitz & Justin Atlan in 2013

Website URL: http://clickbankuniversity.com

Price: $47/month + $594 Upsell

Products and/or Services: 85 out of 100

Training: 87 out of 100

Technical Support: 90 out of 100

Tools and Resources: 88 out of 100

Community Support: 75 out of 100

Summary: I believe, overall, Clickbank University 2.0 offers a good quality product. It does provide useful tools and training helping marketers create their own digital products to sell on Clickbank and earn an income doing so. They do attempt to provide training and support helping marketers to choose and market already existing Clickbank products, however, the training and support is a bit limited and outdated.

For the marketer who wants to simply market Clickbank products already in the marketplace, they not given real direction and guidance in my opinion. It seems they spend a great deal of time and energy focusing on selling their high ticket upsell which they do not reveal to you upfront. So you may want to be aware of that.

TheAffiliateResource.com Overall Rating: 85 out of 100:

Recommended: Yes

Since Clickbank University is mainly for marketers who want to create and sell their own products on the Clickbank Market place. If you are not interested in creating your own products, but are more interested in learning how to promote a multitude of already created affiliate products (affiliate marketing), then below is my #1 recommendation:

 

What Is Clickbank University 2.0 About?

Clickbank University 2.0, AKA CBU 2.0, is a revised edition of an online training platform that is designed helping both potential affiliates marketers and potential vendors make money from the Clickbank marketplace. They offer this training as an advantage since it is promoted within Clickbank itself. If you understand what affiliate marketing is, you no doubt know that Clickbank is one of the largest affiliate marketing networks for selling digital products and services.

The training platform is divided into two different training tracks:

  • Product publishing
  • Affiliate Mastery

The product publishing track:

Is an 12-week training course designed to teach people how to make money creating their own products, place them on the Clickbank marketplace and then promote them themselves in addition to having other affiliates promote them as well. This allows you to reap the benefits of having other affiliates promote them for you, creating additional potential income.

This course is taught by Justin Atlan who generated his first million dollars as a Clickbank publisher with his own products.

The affiliate mastery track:

Is an 8-week training course designed to teach people how to market other peoples products that are already placed on the Clickbank marketplace through a process known as affiliate marketing.

This course is taught by Adam Horwitz. Adam is known for making his first 6 figure income specifically selling Clickbank products when he was just 20 years old using other people’s YouTube videos to promote.

Now, as a side note, this is one aspect that inspired me to join the Clickbank University. I was very interested in learning how to use Adam’s techniques. I will discuss this later on this the review.

Is Clickbank University A Scam or What_sign up video

 

Tools And Training Included With CBU 2.0

12 Week Vendor Training

When I first joined Clickbank University 2.0, I was mainly interested in the affiliate training, but I wanted to go through this course as well because I had heard it was excellent training, and I do have to agree, this was the most detailed training of all the available training.

Here is a snapshot of what you get access to: Is Clickbank University A Scam Or What_picture of Justin

  • Week 1: How everything works: Set up for success
  • Week 2: Fining your perfect product
  • Week 3: Creating your avatar
  • Week 4: Course content creation and outsourcing
  • Week 5: The perfect upsell to maximize sales
  • Week 6: High converting sales copy
  • Week 7: The “easy” VSL (Video sales letter)
  • Week 8: Finalizing your product using the builder
  • Week 9: Getting up on Clickbank
  • Week 10: Joint venture managing
  • Week 11: Split testing
  • Week 12: Scaling up your business
  • Bonus: Selling high ticket products on webinars

Now this training was pretty extensive and I do believe if I had followed through on the training I would have learned all I needed to know to create my own products. But, my interest was more on selling other peoples products and focusing on the marketing end of things.

In my opinion, being a Clickbank vendor requires more advanced knowledge of affiliate marketing. This is not something the “newbie” should start with. So, if you are an experienced marketer and you feel you are ready to create your own products and take advantage of the Clickbank marketplace, then I would highly recommend Clickbank University 2.0.

That being said, let’s move on to the Affiliate marketing side of things.

Here is a brief walk through video of Clickbank University 2.0

 

8 Week Affiliate Marketing Training

This was the course I was most interested in when I joined the community. This training is more geared toward learning how to sell other peoples products that are already on the Clickbank marketplace as an affiliate.

The advantages of this approach is that you don’t have to create your own products and you can pick products that you know are selling well on Clickbank.

For this course, here is a snapshot of what you get:Is Clickbank University A scam or what_picture of Adam

  • Week 1: Introduction
  • Week 2: Affiliate marketing concepts and Clickbank navigation
  • Week 3: Choosing a niche and finding products to promote
  • Week 4: How to create a sales funnel using capture pages
  • Week 5: Writing and outsourcing content for your email list
  • Week 6: Basics of email marketing
  • Week 7: More email marketing concepts
  • Week 8: Scaling up your business
  • Bonus: Affiliate promotions

So, based on my experience with this part of the training I would have to say I was a bit disappointed. I am not sure if it was because I had knowledge of a lot of this material from other sources (mostly free sources) or if my experience level was beyond the course.

Because this training was regarded as high quality training, I may have had too high of expectations. I felt that the course was a big sales gimmick for the Clickbank builder upsell. I will discuss this in more detail below.

Since affiliate marketing is all about building an email list through capturing emails, I thought this part of the training would be more detailed, but, again, it was all about selling the CB builder upsell and for the price of this training, I felt I shouldn’t have to pay to get pitched on a product.

If you are mostly interested in learning how to sell affiliate products, I would highly recommend Wealthy Affiliate. You will get everything you need to be successful with affiliate marketing and NO UPSELLS!

Live Weekly Q&A Webinar with Justin And Adam

Justin and Adam offer a Live weekly webinar that allows paid members to
ask any questions they might have. These webinars are
recorded so that any member can watch them at a later date that may be more convenient for them.

The thing is, if you are new to affiliate marketing, you may not know what questions to ask. These Webinars are not based on any specific training so there really isn’t a huge amount of value here.

One of the things I was looking forward with this training platform was a structured step by step program that would teach me what I needed to do in order to be successful in affiliate marketing. The live webinars that I went to did not give me this step by step format that I was looking for. Instead, is seemed very chaotic and unstructured.

I also got feedback from the Facebook group that I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Other marketers that were less experienced than myself were even more confused that I was.

ClickBank Builder (Here Comes The Upsell)

OK, so here is where the program starts to rub me the wrong way. Not only are you not told upfront about that fact that they really don’t support you on the affiliate side unless you purchase this builder software package. I am not saying it is not of good quality because it is. But, it is certainly not worth the $595 they are asking for it. At least as far as using it to sell affiliate products.

The builder is a great tool if you are using it specifically to create and market your own products. The thing is, that in order to really get involved with creating your own affiliate products, you really should not be at the beginners level with affiliate marketing. This is more of an advanced marketer project and not conducive to the beginning marketer.

If you want to use a builder like this (which you should) to market other peoples products, you can purchase a good WordPress plug in that will give you the same features and benefits. There are several high quality plugs ins that you can purchase for less than $100 one time purchase.

Not only that, but the affiliate training provided by Clickbank University 2.0 doesn’t really show you how to build a capture page other than what you would get if you paid the $595. In other words if you wanted to learn how to do that, you have to take the upsell.

This is ridiculous in my opinion. I felt while going through the training and webinars, that I was constantly being driven to purchase this product. I was paying for a constant sales pitch!

Private CBU Facebook Support Group

For the support part, you’ll have access to the Clickbank University Forum as well as their private Facebook group. The activeness and engagement within the forum and the group are OK, but not great. Mainly because the members don’t seem to be real enthusiastic about the community itself and are constantly asking other members how they really make money online, rather that talking about the methods taught in the course.

I don’t think I saw Adam and/or Justin even one time while I was participating in the group.

Overall the community support is average at best. The Community I below to here

Pros and Cons

Pros:

  • Clickbank University was created by Clickbank.
    • Clickbank itself is a reputable affiliate network so the idea of being trained by the same platform is appealing.
  • They do offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so if you try it and don’t like it, you can get your money back.

Cons:

  • Not newbie friendly.
    • As I mentioned above, Clickbank University seems to be geared more toward the more experienced marketer who would be interested in creating their own products and then promoting them on Clickbank.
    • If you are interested in selling other peoples products as an affiliate marketer and get real valuable training, then I suggest starting the best free affiliate marketing training here.
  • Clickbank Builder (beware!)
    • Clickbank builder is a good piece of software and it does provide a good platform to create your own products, however, a good page builder does not have to cost as much as Clickbank Builder costs. The cost is highly inflated. Like I mentioned before, you can get a real good page builder plugin for less than $100 elsewhere.
  • Low quality Training
    • the affiliate marketing training is very week and not very detailed at all.
  • Only paid traffic training is covered.
    • As I mentioned above, when I first joined the program, it was advertised that Adam was using a special YouTube method that was responsible for helping him earn his first six figures online. However, this training is never offered. They only real traffic training that was covered was Facebook pay per click and Instagram Influencer advertising which also cost money.
  • I have seen many webinar hosted by both Adam and Justin, and most of them involve a big sales pitch at the end. The training I am mostly interested in is good solid training that has a specific purpose that does not involve being pitched to buy a product. These webinars all seem to build up to a big sales pitch at the end.

Conclusion

So, in conclusion, let’s answer the original question. Is Clickbank University a scam or what?

I do not believe Clickbank University 2.0 is a scam. I think overall it is a legit program. As mentioned before, if you want to be a vendor for Clickbank, then this is a program you should check out.

If you are interested in learning how to make money online as an affiliate marketer selling other peoples products, then you should check out my review of Wealthy Affiliate here.

So, my overall rating of Clickbank University 2.0 is:

 

How To Get More Web Traffic – Fast and Furious or Tried and True?

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There is a huge amount of misinformation today on the internet with regard to how to get more web traffic. I want to add some clarity and provide some sound information on this topic because not all traffic is equal. There is good traffic and there is bad traffic.

Plus, I would like you to keep in mind, that there is a huge amount of hype and scam artists that are willing to sell you their traffic programs, software, leads, and anything else that can generate income for them and not necessarily you.

One main misconception about traffic is the assumption that, if you can generate enough of it, You can sell anything. People lose a lot of money thinking this. There are countless MLM and Network Marketing companys that provide capture pages for their product or services and members get the false idea that if they can draw enough traffic to the page, they will rake it in. This just is not true.

I have seen (and experienced it myself) people get into debt thinking this way. I once purchased guaranteed paid sign ups to a company website and got totally ripped off. You do not want to experience this yourself. Trust me. So, if you want to learn how to get quality traffic to your website, then continue reading this page. It is all about traffic!

Free Website Traffic – Is It Worth It?

Of course not all free traffic is the same. There are many forms of free traffic.How To Get More Web Traffic

The different forms of free website traffic include:

  • Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google Plus)
  • YouTube Video’s (Technically this is Social Media)
  • Organic Traffic (Mainly from Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines)
  • Business Cards and other offline advertising (Don’t discount this)
  • Relevant Forums
  • Blogging (Personal blogs, or Community blogs)
  • Safelists and Viral Mailers
  • Traffic Exchanges

This is not an exhaustive list, but covers most of them.

So, that being said, I want to mention that the best free traffic is that which is directed to an authority website.

Each of these different forms of free website traffic have there place. For example, you would not typically use a traffic exchange to promote a Dog training blog or website. Nor would you promote a money making opportunity in a Facebook group dedicated to women’s clothing. They are just not relevant to the respective niches.

These differences are fairly obvious, but I have seen marketers use these free types of advertising completely wrong. For example, you should never advertise a MLM companys replicated website in a traffic exchange or safelist.

At bare minimum you would want to advertise a squeeze page offering a free gift of some type to capture an email so you can promote to the prospect later and as often as you want to. This would be a more appropriate way to use a traffic exchange, safelist or viral mailer.

Traffic exchanges, safelists and viral mailers actually work, if you use them correctly and with the right capture page and freebie give away. But, just like most free traffic sources you are trading time for results. It takes more time to use these sources and in my opinion, you would be better off doing content marketing and using free organic traffic. We will talk about those methods later on.

The rest of the free website traffic methods listed above should be primarily used for authority website and niche blogs in my opinion. Having your own web presence is the most efficient way to use these particular traffic sources. For example, posting your latest blog post in a relevant Facebook groups is far more effective than spamming a MLM or Network Marketing ad in a Facebook group.

Facebook groups used for spamming purposes is the biggest waste of time the internet has ever created!

Should We Buy So Called Quality Traffic

How To Get More Web TrafficThis is a very easy question to answer. NO!

If you saw an ad offering you thousands of visitors for $20, you are about to get ripped off. Plain and simple. Most of this type of traffic are bot traffic. That’s right robot traffic that has no human being associated with it. If it is not bot traffic, then it will probably be incentivized traffic.

Incentivized traffic is traffic that only clicks the ad because they get something for free, whether that be a few cents or coupons of some sort. Stay away from this type of traffic. It will only crowd your website and make you look very unprofessional. In fact, I knew a website owner whose system crashed because one of his affiliate purchased some “crap” traffic.

Some companys will even go as far as trying to sell you “guaranteed sign ups” for generic MLM leads. They will claim that these so called sign ups will work for any and all Network Marketing, MLM, or affiliate marketing companys. Again, stay away from these, trust me on this one. I have fallen victim to these as well.

In a nut shell, if it sounds too good to be true, it most certainly is NOT TRUE!

This leads us to the next section. Traffic training is certainly needed in this industry to protect us all from the traffic scammers. you see, scammers are not just in the business opportunity market, but in the website traffic market as well.

Traffic Training Courses

There are a huge number of traffic training courses available online these days. Just look at JVZoo, clickbank and some other affiliate network. Traffic generation is big business and there are a plethora of traffic training available. Some are good, some are bad and some are down right over-priced!

Then there are the ones that are completely out dated and you need to be super careful about those. For example, some black hat back linking training out there that promises you great traffic to your blog by purchasing manufactured backlinks to your website can take a site from a good search engine ranking to a never ranking again website.

In my opinion, you should never purchase a back link to a website, but that is another topic entirely. Back links should come to your website naturally because of your good content. That is what the search engines want, is good content.

A good traffic training course will provide:

  • Weekly live training that is current
  • A solid foundational training that teaches evergreen strategies that work every day
  • Video training
  • Online classroom training that covers all that you need to succeed
  • Tutorials
  • Coaching and mentoring

Like I said, current training as well as teaching evergreen strategies is the is what a good training course should emphasize. If you are looking for training like this I highly recommend you take a look at The Wealthy Affiliate University and try out their free 10 lesson entrepreneur certification training.

How To Get More Web Traffic

What’s The Best Website Traffic

So, the best website traffic available online is definitely organic traffic generated from an authority website. There is no better way to make a passive income producing machine than to run an authority niche website that generates daily organic FREE traffic from King Google.

There are billions of searches being done on google from people who are looking for products and services that these authority website have to offer. The way to drive this type of traffic is by practicing sound white hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on a blog or website. The exciting part is that anyone can do this.

It is not hard to learn, but does require work. But, to keep things in perspective, the work is much easier than it was to learn our current 9 to 5 jobs. Just think about when you started you current jobs. Remember the first day. Did you know what you were doing, or did you get trained somehow to do your job as efficiently as you do now (hopefully, lol)?

I can tell you one thing and that is that if I can learn this stuff so can you. It’s just a matter of learning what it takes to be successful in developing ongoing daily traffic.

This leads us to the very, very, very best traffic on the face of the earth!

Keyword Targeted Website Traffic

How To Get More Targeted Web Traffic

 

Keyword targeted website traffic really comes in two different forms. It can be organic traffic as mentioned in the section above this one, or it can come from paid search engine traffic such as Google Ad words or Bing Ads.

What makes this type of traffic unique is that it is the direct result of someone searching for a specific topic from the search engines. You most likely have conducted searches on the internet like this yourself. You type in a search phrase into Google looking for something, and you expect that you will see relevant results from the search engine.

So, if you type into the search bar, “size 10 white Nike basketball shoes” you will expect to see size 10 white Nike basketball shoes. And, the real exciting part is, if you are the one who owns the website that produces the results for the search, there is a good chance you just made a sale.

That my friend, is the way to make money on the internet. You can see why I am categorizing this as the very, very, very best traffic on the face of the earth.

Let’s take the example above for a minute. The phrase “size 10 White Nike Basketball shoes” is a keyword phrase that I am assuming gets a lot of search results. If not, let’s pretend it does, remember this is just an example. There are many other search terms like this that are searched every day on the internet.

And there are tools available to provide these keywords for you as well as training on how to use them. One tool I recommend is Jaaxy keyword tool. It is simply the best keyword SEO Keyword Research tool available online today. Check it out for free here.

I hope you enjoyed this post and if you have any questions or comments, or if you have any website traffic ideas to share, feel free to comment below.

 

How To Get More Targeted Web Traffic

 

 

 

 

 

How To Make Money Online Fast and For Free

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This is the exact phrase I put into Google back in 2009: How to Make Money Online Fast and For Free.

 

I will not go into all the details as to why I did this in 2009, but let’s just say, I was a victim of the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

You may be someone who can relate to this. I lost a career job of 18 years only because the company I worked for at the time was purchased by a bigger company and had a whole department doing what I was doing.

They said, “don’t take it personally, we just don’t need you anymore”.

Another thing I did, was I emailed to my sponsor of a network marketing company I was with at the time and explained to him that I really needed to “learn this stuff quick so I can start making money online fast. And, oh by the way, I need it to be free”. I got a long email back from him, that hurt my pride a bit.

Over time, I got back on my feet, but this perspective cost me more than just my pride.

You see, the longer I spent looking for a fast and free way to earn money online the longer it took me to go, well, no-where where fast.

Can you relate to this?

 

Have you found yourself looking for the same thing?

 

Looking for the Fast and Free Way to Make Money Online Was Costing Me Time and Money

How To Make Money Online Fast and For Free_perspectiveOne of the reasons this perspective cost me more than my pride was the fact that I continued to look for the easy and fast way to earn an income online and didn’t even realize the damage it was doing.

You see, every time I received good advice from people who were actually making money, I didn’t listen because I didn’t want to hear what the had to say. Things like:

  • List building
  • Content marketing
  • SEO
  • Building websites
  • Building authority in a niche

You see I ignored all the techniques and avenues that you need to take to make this dream a reality. Perhaps you know what I mean.

I heard things like,

  • you can reach financial freedom,
  • spend time with your friends and family,
  • Work with your pajama’s on
  • Have a 12 second commute

If you have spent any time at all researching these types of programs on the internet you know what I mean. Let’s face it, these things are very appealing. Right?

But the thing is, I wasted a huge amount of time and money chasing the easy and free ways. I ultimately learned that if I had just listened to the REAL experts and not the scammers, I would have already been financially free and traveling the world with my family and not worrying about whether I got laid off or not.

Seriously folks, I can tell you from experience, there is only one way to really earn money online.

 

And that is these two main things:

  1. Learn the skills necessary
  2. WORK on these skills until your successful

Before you know it, you are on the road to success.

Going No-where Where Fast

How To Make Money Online Fast and For Free

 

 

The reason I was going no-where where fast was because I was approaching the whole thing in desperation. Even after I got back on my feet and wasn’t quite as desperate as I was, I still chased the next “shiny object”.

You know what I mean, the next advertisement that said, I can make money online without a website, or without spending any monthly expenses and you can learn all about how to do this by just paying such-and-such an amount. Go ahead and put in on your credit card. Don’t’t worry, you will be making way more than you will spend.

Have you heard this before?

Have you been there.

Oh and just recently with the crypto currency world. Just sign up hear and you will get massive amounts of “passive income”. No-where recruiting and no-where work involved.

Yes, I have heard it all my friends.

 

But the thing is, while wasting my time purchasing course after course and one promise after another, I kind of knew what it actually took to be successful at this online stuff. Hard work, dedication, consistency and having a community point you in the right direction.

You see, I was learning just enough to realize I wasn’t going to find the quick way to success. I joined an awesome community of online marketers, started doing what was necessary, but then again it happened. Yep, you guessed it, I was swept away with the next “shiny object”. Again, I was a victim of the “shiny object syndrome”.

The internet is so full of hype and making money at home scams that it is a crying shame to an industry that has so much potential. We are living in an age where we can make our own successful business without any special education or high investment and the scammers are making it more difficult by luring us into the wrong direction with distraction. And, the only ones who really make money with these shiny objects are the scammers who own them.

Finally, I Started To Put This Online Marketing Thing Into Perspective

How To Make Money Online Fast and For Free

So, after many wasted years of trying to do online marketing the quick and easy way, I decided to think about an article I read from a top earner in the industry.

He was well respected and the co-owner of a great online university where many other real people (like you and me) were ACTUALLY making full time incomes on the internet.

You can read the full article hear.

My perspective really changed after I decided to really digest what he was saying. For example,

We spend 40 hours a week at our jobs and, if we do a great job, we expect we will get recognized with a pay raise, or even a promotion of some sort.

If we are really lucky, the company will reward its employees with a yearly bonus or a retirement investment option or something like that.

These are standard expectations for the offline world. But when it comes to the online world, we have different expectations. We expect that we can make money online fast and free. Not only that, but then we expect it to not require a lot of work.

Can we make money online fast and free?

Well, depending on your definition of fast, the short answer is YES we can. However, it does require work. I am not saying it requires difficult to learn or do work, but work and dedication at bare minimum. To expect otherwise would be foolish. So, in a nut shell, I was being foolish.

So, the question becomes, what is the definition of fast?

Since we know you can earn an online income for free, what is your perspective or definition of doing it fast?

Let’s say you invest 3 hours per week into your business. This is a reasonable amount of time in the online world and I know from experience that there are people putting in that amount of time, and are making a good income on the internet. The problem is the expectations of this far exceed that of those that invest 40 hours into a day job per week. So, can one make a consistent full time income at this rate say in three months?

The reality is that 3 hours per week can lead to a consistent and full time income with time, but after 3 months, that is really only 36 total hours you have invested in your business. Why would your expectations be a full time income at that point, or even any consistent income for that matter (unless it was illegal or unethical)?

Putting things into perspective, investing 36 hours into your business is just getting the basic foundation in place. That is why after 3-4 months people will typically not be generating a huge income, they have invested less than a full working week into their business.

Now imagine putting in more hours per week into your business. You will get their faster, of course, but you may have a full time job already. So, you need to average the time out to what is reasonable to you. But, your expectations should be based on a well-thought-out plan of action.

That is really the key. A well-thought-out plan of action with consistent activities to do each day based upon your schedule. So, the definition of fast is based upon the time and effort you put into it. I know people don’t like to hear that, but take it from me. You will waste your time and money if you try and take shortcuts. Most people will find that if they had the correct perspective to begin with, they would be where they want to be much, much quicker.

Conclusion and What To Expect

In my opinion, based on my personal experiences along with other 6 and 7 figure earners, one can easily start earning a decent income online after about a year of putting in the effort. You will need a good online education and the proper mentoring.

After about three years, you can be financially independent and have the time freedom to do with as you please. This is certainly possible and you can start for free.

Simply click on the image below to find out how.

How To Make Money Online Fast and For Free

 

 

 

 

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How To Find Keyword Search Volume

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In the SEO and Pay Per Click world we hear a lot about search volume and how important it is, but rarely do we hear how to find keyword search volume and specifically what to do with this metric once we have the information available to us.

In this post I would like to discuss, not only the importance of search volume, but exactly how to use the information in our marketing efforts to drive more traffic to our campaigns. That should be our primary focus. After all we are marketers as well as content writers and we need to keep in mind the importance of getting visitors to our website.

Whether you are using keywords for a PPC campaign or for optimizing an article, at the end of the day, it is crucial we understand our metrics and that they point us into the right direction. Otherwise, we are only grasping at the wind in our marketing efforts.

So, first of all we have to ask:

What Is Keyword Search Volume?

Keyword search volume is simply the number of searches for a particular keyword in a specific time frame. The time frame of interest for most marketers is a period of one month. This information provides marketers with a general idea of how popular a search phrase is in addition to its competition. Usually the more searches per month, the more competitive the search term will be.

Some time ago, you could use the Google Keyword Tool to give you a quick glance at keyword monthly search volume, but since the tool changed to the Google Keyword Planner, this information requires more steps and is a bit more confusing than it used to be. The other thing about the Google Keyword Planner is that the metrics it presents area more for Google Ad Words campaigns, than it is for optimizing a web page or practicing organic content marketing or SEO.

So, now that we have a basic understanding of what keyword search volume is, we can more effectively describe specifically how to find keyword search volume.

One way to find total search volume is to simply type our keyword phrase into Google in quotes. To illustrate this, refer to the image below:

How to find keyword search volume using Google

As you can see from the image above, if we were interested in total search volume of the keyword phrase “play guitar” we could obtain total search volume. There are about 5,120,000 search results about this specific term. We really do not get a lot of valuable information from this search.

We could find related keyword phrases by scrolling down our search as illustrated in the image below:

 

As you can see, we can obtain more useful information for we just found some related keyword phrases that Google is telling us that people do search for. But, as you can see, we still haven’t found the number of monthly search results that will help us build great content around so we can drive traffic to our website, which is what most marketers are interested in doing.

Now if we use a good Keyword search tool, we can obtain a bunch of different information and metrics to help us rank our websites, pages and look at peak at our competition.

To illustrate how to get monthly searches for the term “play guitar” as well as find more related keyword phrases, look at the image below and let’s discuss the results:

How To Find Keyword Search Volume

 

So as you can see I was able to find the average monthly search results for the term “play guitar” by simply entering the term into the “phrase” bar above and selecting the blue “find keywords” button. I then got the following results. The first column shows that there are 7594 average number of searches per month for the term “play guitar”.

That is a fairly high number of search results and I would get quite a bit of traffic if I was able to get on the first page of Google for that term.

The problem is that there are 206 other websites competing for that same term. This metric was obtained from the third column known as QSR (Quoted Search Results).

QSR represents the number of competing websites ranked in Google for this exact keyword. I can also see from the fifth column that the SEO score is 67 out of 100. 100 representing the easiest level to rank for on a scale of 1 to 100. But this term has a score of only 67 out of 100.

These results are telling me that it may be a bit of a challenge to rank my page or post for this particular keyword phrase, depending on the age of the site and one’s knowledge of how to optimize blog posts for SEO.

Upon further analysis of these results I see that the search term “play guitar Chords” would be a much better keyword phrase to try and rank for. There are 831 searches done a month on this term, only 130 competing websites and an SEO score of 90 out of 100.

If you are interested doing a keyword search like the one I am showing you in my examples for your own campaigns, you can check it for free HERE.

Traffic – A different Kind of Metric

Another metric that would be of interest to most marketers is the number of potential visitors (traffic) to your particular page per month. This is different from total monthly search volume because it is an estimate of how many visitors YOU would get on YOUR page if your site was on the first page of Google and it is derived from total monthly searches.

This metric is called traffic, and as mentioned, It is measured from total keyword search volume. To get a better understanding of what this looks like, take another look at our example from the keyword phrase “play guitar”.

The search results obtained for total monthly searches on the term “play guitar” shows 7594. If you take a look at the “traffic” column directly to the right of this number you will see the number 1291. This represents the total number of visitors you could receive if you ranked for the term “play guitar” on the first page of Google.

This is what I love about keyword research. You can get a very good idea of how possible and likely it is to rank for a particular keyword phrase. Take this information along with how to optimize blog posts for SEO and you can easily plan your marketing strategies and learn how to start earning money online.

How to Use Search Volume to Choose a Niche

Many marketers overlook the use of Keyword search volume for choosing a niche. We often times focus on keyword research to find a good topic to write an individual post or page on. Although this is a good use of a keyword tool, however, there are other applications as well. Yep, you guessed it, finding a good keyword rich niche to build a website on.

If you wanted to build a website upon a particular interest you have, you want to make sure that there is enough keyword rich phrases available to you that you can write pages and posts on. No sense and going through the work of building a website to find out later that you do not have enough high quality search phrases to write about. We all realize it takes a good amount of high quality content to generate a full time income with content marketing.

The process becomes a heck of a lot easier if we can build a large list of keyword rich terms associated with a good keyword rich niche.

Let us look at niche research further. Let’s say we had a general interest in the “losing weight” niche. Most of us would agree that this can be a very competitive niche. So, we figure that “how to Lose Belly fat” may be a bit easier to rank for. So, let us go to our friend Google and see what he (or she) has to say:

How to find keyword search volume

 

As you can see from Google, as we start to type in How to lose… Google finishes the phrase and this tells us that people are searching for the terms under the search bar. So, we decide to research “how to lose belly fat” to see if this is a viable niche to get into.

So, we then take this phrase and head on over to Jaaxy, the best keyword research tool, to take a look at our results. Check out the image below:

How to lose belly fat keyword research

 

As you can see from these results, the term “how to lose belly fat” is fairly competitive with a SEO rating of 78 and a QSR of 175 (not too bad really), it may be more difficult to rank for that say, “how to lose belly fat for men”. Although, there are not as many searches per month. We definitely need to look at both. But if I was building out a new site, I want to try and rank for easier terms. So, let’s take is a step further.

I like the fact that belly fat for men may be easier to rank for as a site, but is there enough keyword rich content to write other pages or posts on? Well, if we take that search term and type it into Jaaxy, let us see what we get. Check out the image below.

How to lose belly fat for men keyword search term.

 

OK, not too bad. But, before we start talking about the results I want to elaborate on the metrics and parameters that I prefer to use. I like to see the average number of monthly search to be above 50 with an ideal QSR rating of less than 150. This is especially ideal for a newer site. This is because new sites take a longer period to get indexed in the search engines.

I also like to see an SEO rating about 80. That being said, as you can see, how to lose belly fat for men would be a better niche to get into. It has quite a few searches above 50 that are above 80 for the SEO value. This would be a good niche to get into. You can play around with this tool more for free to get a bigger picture of what we can do here, but I think you get the picture.

Conclusion

As you can see from these examples of how to find keyword search volume and the other metrics a good keyword tool can provide, there is a never ending supply of easy to rank for keywords. It is just a matter of uncovering them.

Making money online is actually not as hard as people make it. It is a matter of doing the proper research, and not falling for all the hype on the internet telling you that you can get rich by next Thursday.

It does require work and research, but as you can see the research can be done quickly and easily with a good keyword research tool and good SEO training. I highly recommend that you check out my full on review of the Jaaxy keyword tool and how it works. There is a great amount of training provided and you can get 30 free searches to try it out yourself.

I highly recommend that you read my full review of Jaaxy and all of its features. I have only talked about a small fraction of what this amazing tool can really do.

To Read My Full Jaaxy Research Tool Review Click HERE

As always if you have any questions relating to keyword research or how to earn an awesome income online, leave your comments below and I will get right back to you. I would love to hear about your experiences with Keyword research, SEO or how you earn an income online. We can share information, ideas and strategies. I am always open to your thoughts and ideas. Make it an awesome day!