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How to Rank For a Keyword and The 2019 On Page SEO Checklist

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In this post I will show you step by step how to rank for a keyword in 2019. Eventhough we will be using our 2019 SEO checklist, these strategies mentioned below are fairly evergreen. They will work for years to come because here at The Affiliate Resource we use a foundational approach to ranking blog posts and pages on the search engines.

The methods we use work. I own two different blogs in two completely different niches and these principles work for both niches. Plus, thousands of students within the affiliate marketing community for which I belong use these same foundational strategies and have many 5, 6 and 7 figure earners within the affiliate marketing space. So, plain and simple, the following strategies work, and they work in 2019 and beyond.

How To Rank For A Keyword

That being said, most people are interested in learning how to rank for a keyword because they are interested in driving free traffic for their website, for whatever reason. The reason does not really matter because the strategies that work are the same regardless of the reason you want to drive traffic to your website.

In our case, we drive traffic to our websites to help us provide information to help others find the information they are looking for and to recommend products and services to potential customers through affiliate marketing.

The following methods include sound SEO (search engine optimization) principles which include both on-page and off-page SEO strategies. Follow these strategies and you can easily rank for keywords that follow these guidelines.

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Find the Right Keyword to Rank For

Before we use the 2019 SEO checklist, me must start our with the right keyword phrase to try and rank for. This is the heart of the foundation to rank on t he first page of the major search engines. Keep in mind, we are attempting to rank on the three top search engines. Google, Bing and Yahoo.

To find the right keyword phrase we need to focus on three different elements, and look at the desired metrics involved with these elements. The elements include:

  • Average monthly search volumeHow To Rank For a keyword
  • Website Competition
  • SEO score

Let’s break these three elements down and discuss the desired metrics.

Average monthly search volume

This element is self-explanatory. This is the number of people who are searching the keyword phrase you are trying to rank for. A good metric to look for here is at least 100 searches per month or higher. This metric is a minimum number. It is an “at least” number. So the higher the better, but, we have to balance it with your competition, because the lower the competition the better. Of course, this also means the higher the number of monthly searches, the higher the competition, and what we want is lower competition. So, like most things in life, it’s a balance.

Website Competition

Website competition really means the number of other websites that are trying to rank for the exact keyword phrase you are trying to rank for. This is also known as QSR, which stands for “Quoted Search Results”. It specifically tells you the number of competing websites. I believe the ideal metric for this element is 50 or below, at least for a younger website. For an older, more established website, 100 or below would be a good metric. Just keep in mind, the lower this value is, the better.

SEO Score

The SEO Score is a percentage score indicating how difficult it would be to get onto the first page of Google. 100 is the highest, meaning it would be very easy to rank for that particular keyword phrase. For this particular metric I always try to stay above 90.

So to review the ideal metrics, you want the keyword phrase to be 100 or above, the competition to be at least below 100, ideally 50 or below, and an SEO score of 90 or above. Now, you may think there are not that many keywords within these parameters, but I can assure you there are millions and millions of these types of keywords available.

You just need a good keyword tool to find them. I use a tool called Jaaxy. This tools gives you all the necessary information to find excellent keyword phrases to rank for. You can check out my Jaaxy review here to get all the details. I highly recommend it.

How To Rank For A Keyword

Provide Valuable Content For the Keyword You Want To Rank For

The next step of the process on how to rank for a keyword is to create valuable content on your blog post or article. I am sure you heard it said before, content is king. This is very important, because it is content and information that people are looking for. Once you find a good keyword phrase, you then want to write the kind of content that will help people find the information they are looking for.

It is not hard to write this type of content, it just requires some research on the subject at hand in short paragraphs. The length should be at least 1000 words, ideally 1500. Most of my articles and blog posts are 1500 words or more of content mixed with relevant images. This is very important because it breaks up the content making it easier for people to read it.

It is all about the user experience here. You want to give them what they are searching for. If you do this, they will read your content and be more likely to complete the call to action you are giving them.

The next thing you want to do in addition to adding images, is to add a relevant video. These are easy to find on YouTube, and yes, if the embed code is available, then you can legally use it. Just make sure the video is relevant to the subject matter you are writing about. The other option is to create your own video and embed it onto the post.

How To Rank For A Keyword

How To Use The Following On Page SEO Checklist For 2019

As we mentioned before, content is king when it comes to ranking in the search engines. But the queen of the content is using the following On Page SEO techniques while writing your content that is relevant to the keyword phrase you chose.

But, what are the On Page SEO techniques we use to rank ? They are as follows:

  • Finding the right Keyword phrase to rank for (high search volume/low competition)How To Rank For A Keyword
    • We covered this fairly well in the above sections
  • Put the Keyword phrase in the Post Title
    • I recommend that you put your researched keyword phrase in the post title exactly how it is. In other words, in the same order. If possible and grammatically correct, put it first, followed by a catchy line of text.
  • Put the Keyword phrase in the Meta Title
    • This is actually different from your post title. This is usually done through an SEO plugin such as Yoast or All In One SEO. The plugin provides a spot for this Meta title. Use the same suggestions provided above for the post title. The Meta title should be between 55 and 60 characters in length. It should be noted that you can have a different Meta title than the one you have in your actual post. The Meta Title is the one that shows up in the SERPS. This is short for “Search Engine Results Pages”.
  • Put the Keyword phrase in the Meta Description
    • This is also from your SEO plugin and there is a spot for this one as well. You want to make sure that you add your keyword phrase within the content of this description. The description will also appear in the SERPS. You want to make this description between 150 and 160 characters. Ideally, 155.
  • 1 Internal Link within the Post

    • In addition to having a site map, Google really likes to see interlinking within your website. What this means is that in your post or page that you link to another post or page of your website. Plus you want to do this with an anchor text. For example, if you want to link to a page that talks about a certain product review that you wrote and you named that particular post “Product A review”, then in your current post you might say something like, “I Talk specifically about product A in my Product A review”. Then you simply link “product A Review” to that particular blog post.How To Rank For A Keyword
  • 1 External Link within the Post (to an authority source)

    • Here you want to link to an outside authority source like Wikipedia or some other definition source. This is where you might want to define a work or phrase and then link it to a definition adding value to the reader. Another source besides Wikipedia can also be YouTube. Notice how I linked it to the YouTube site.
  • Use Alt tags within Images with relevant keywords

    • The use of images are very important. They break up long lines of text so that the attention of the reader does not easily drift. You want to add images along with short paragraphs and the use of bullet points. When you do use an image you want to add your keyword phrase in the Alt Text section of the image. The rest of the checklist is fairly self-explanatory so I won’s go into detail. Should you have any questions regarding these feel free to comment below.
  • Comments within your Post along with engagement (e.g. reply to comments)
  • Make sure your site is Mobile friendly
  • Fast Loading
  • Site SSL (https)
  • Create a video and add it to your post

Conclusion

As you can see ranking for a keyword phrase is not that difficult and by utilizing the proper keyword research you can start with both feet on the groups, so to speak. Also, with the proper use of the 2019 On Page SEO checklist that you can follow for every single post, it makes it that much easier.

One thing to consider is that as you write more and more content on your website, you will generate more and more traffic to your site. The reason for this is that each article or post stands on its own. 100 potential visitor here and 200 potential visitors there (meaning different posts) add up to thousands of visitors to your website, and depending on how you are monetizing your blog, can add up to a lot of profit for you.

To learn more about how to rank for a keyword and other affiliate marketing principles designed to teach you how to generate an awesome income online, click on the banner below and receive our Free Affiliate Marketing Guide.

How to Fetch as Google and Get More Traffic to Your Blog

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As you may or may not know, Google Webmaster Tools has updated its platform to the new Google Search Console. In this post I want to discuss how to fetch as Google using the new platform as well as discuss other ways to get more traffic to your blog posts and pages.

By the way, it is no longer called Fetch As Google, but is now referred to as URL Inspection.

I will show you step by step of how to Fetch As Google in a minute. What I would like to discuss first, however, is why it is important to use the Search Console and how we can leverage this and other tactics to drive more traffic to your blog posts and increase your overall authority, regardless of what niche you may be in.

Why Use Google Search Console?

How To Fetch As Google

As many of you might know, there are on page SEO strategies as well as off page SEO strategies that we need to incorporate in order to rank our posts in the search engines. Here we will discuss some off page SEO strategies or what to do after you write you post. If you are interested in on-page SEO strategies, you can read our post on how to optimize blog posts for SEO here.

So, why use Google Search Console? Here are three main things I use it for that help me rank my posts:

  • It allows me to use the URL inspection feature to speed up the indexing process (the old fetch as Google)
  • It allows me to submit and resubmit my sitemap
  • It tells me what keyword phrases I am ranking for and what position they reside in Google overall
    • which also allows me to look for other keyword ideas

Over analyzing your Google Search Console can be a time sucker, so after each post I write, I quickly go through the above mentioned items in the order that they are written in.

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I write the post and then I immediately go to the Search console and ask Google to inspect my URL and then request them to index the page or post. This is the reason we want to “fetch as Google”. We are essentially telling Google that we created new content on our site and we want Google to “crawl” that article. Whether it is a post or page does not matter. In fact, I not only do this when I write a new post, but I also do this when I edit an old post or make any changes to a post.

This is OK to do by the way. If it wasn’t Google wouldn’t ask you if you made changes to your site.

The next thing I do is re-submit my site map. I do this immediately after the first step. And then finally, I take a look at the keywords that I am ranking for on pages other than the first page, and make improvement to my posts so that they will rank higher. This can be by getting more comments, or, if it is an old post, updating it with new information and then re-indexing it. In addition to this, I might go back and do more off-page SEO that I mention below.

In the next section below I will cover step by step how I do these three things.

How To Fetch As Google – Step by Step

In this section I will show you step by step how to not only fetch as Google, but specifically how I do the other two steps mentioned above as well.

I have created a walk through video that shows this process step by step.

As you can see the process is very easy to do. You just need to do this consistently for each and every post that you write. Whether it is a brand new post, or a modification of an old post.

Now, let’s talk about keywords for a minute. As I showed you in the video, Google Search Console shows you the keywords that you are currently ranking for and what position they are in on an average. You can use filters to find out exactly what countries you are ranking it for. By default, the Search Console gives you an average page rank.

One thing I do is if I see a keyword that I am ranking for, say on the 4th page of Google, but I don’t have an article specifically written centered on that keyword phrase, then I write one. Then that article with rank quite easily since I am already ranking for it. Odds are I will then rank that post on page one of Google. This is an awesome strategy to pick good keywords for upcoming articles.

If you do this in conjunction with using my free keyword generator, you will rank on the first page of Google more often than not. Using these two strategies together is a good tip for you to use.

Now in this next section we will discuss some other ways to promote your blog post after you complete the actions within Google Search Console.

Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts and Pages

How To Fetch As Google

As you can probably tell by now, I have a routine that I follow for every article I write. I am a fairly linear type of person, so when it comes to writing posts for SEO, for example, I follow the same routine each and every time. I do this also for the promotion of my posts. follow the following steps.

  • I create a video and link it to my post
  • I post the link on my YouTube channel under the discussion tab with some amount of content.
  • I post the link on my social media channels along with some amount of content.
  • I am a big fan of Pinterest, so I make sure I post it to a relevant board.
  • I post the link on my Flipboard Magazine
  • I comment on blog posts related to my niche (I don’t’ spend a bunch of time on this, but a few for each post ads up).

Now, stay tuned, for I will write another post that will detail exactly how I do the above mentioned items in detail. But for now, I believe you get the idea. These items are not that difficult to figure out, but if you are consistent with them they are quite effective.

Now I am not a big proponent of purchasing backlinks nor do I spend a lot of time trying to gather them with any kind of strategy other than what I am mentioning above. Backlinks are best when they are naturally occurring and social media seems to work just fine to spread the word.

I rank on page one of Google for many keywords and I do not have a lot of backlinks to my site. They are just not as important as they used to be. And, they can be dangerous to acquire. They can actually hurt your rankings considerably. Do not fall for the hype. I never outsource for website promotion. I will outsource content before I outsource website promotions.

Conclusion

So, there you have it. A step by step method on how to fetch as Google using the new Google Search Console. When change happens we have to adapt. Two main changes happened lately with Google, this is one of them. The other one is that Google Plus is no longer with us. I used to promote every post onto Google Plus, but I substituted it with the YouTube discussion feature. I really believe that YouTube is moving closer and closer to becoming a bigger social media platform rather than just a place to place video onto.

And, of course, YouTube is owned by Google, so I believe placing your link into YouTube certainly help with your rankings. For Google Loves Google and always will.

If you have any question related to this article, simply post them in the comments below and I will answer you within 24 hours or fewer.

Also, if you have any questions at all relating to affiliate marketing or how to promote your website feel free to leave a comment as well or contact me through the contact page. I will be glad to get back to you to answer any of your affiliate marketing related questions.

Prosperity Marketing System Review

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In this Prosperity Marketing System Review, I will attempt to give you as much information as I can so that I can help you do your due diligence to make a decision about whether this affiliate program is worth the time, effort and cost to join.

This program has been around a while so you may have seen it advertised on one of the many internet marketing mailers, safelists or traffic exchanges since that is a main platform for this program. I will discuss this in more detail later.

Quick Report:

Name: Prosperity Marketing System (AKA, The 12 Dollar Funnel)

Website: www.prosperitymarketingsystem.com

Price: 3 memberships available: tour taker, student membership $12/mo., Owner $97 one time

Owner: Darren Olander

Products and/or Services: 98 out of 100

Training: 95 out of 100

Support: 90 out of 100

Overall Rank: 4.2 out of 5.0

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Prosperity Marketing System, Product Overview

The Prosperity Marketing System, PMS for short, is really a downline building program that allows the owner to promote whatever primary business they want to, in addition to earning a 100 percent front end commission for the system itself.

There are three levels of membership:

  • The Tour taker – is free and allows you to check out the system and use a splash page builder to create landing pages. The tour taker has very limited access and has no access to any actual training.
  • Student – A student can start with a 7-day trial and while in the trial can try to earn 100 percent commissions on new sign ups. They have complete access to the training, can integrate any autoresponder, integrate a tracker, customize (add or remove) 15 affiliate programs, and use the same primary business as their sponsor. Once the 7-day trial is over, it is then $12 a month.
  • Owner – This is a unique membership level. It is very similar to owning your own script. An owner has full control over editing any training page within the system and can totally add their own content. They can change the primary business page from their sponsors page to their own primary business (any company they want). This option is a one time fee of $97.

Pros and Cons

Even at the student level, there is a lot of customization options available within the Prosperity Marketing System. It is the heart of the benefits in my opinion. Having owned my own lead generation website and understanding how a website script works and how expensive they are, I am amazed how flexible this system really is. Especially at the owner level.

For under $100 you can get a fully customizable business. You can add or delete any of the programs within the script itself. You can even customize your capture pages and call it what ever business name you want. Plus, you can customize your own training program withing the system. Create your own training videos and use any autoresponder system you want.

Pros:

Pro 1: As an owner, you have a fully customizable business system. At the student level, you can customize up to 15 programs.

Pro 2: The Training in the system is pretty good. Especially if you are into using mailers and traffic exchanges.

Pro 3: The owner is very knowledgeable and available for questions and always seems to respond.

Cons

Con 1: Beginners usually do not see the advantages of a customizable system. This is really more of an advanced feature and benefit.

Con 2: There are a lot of programs to sign up for. This can be confusing for someone just starting out with internet marketing.

Con 3: There is a big learning curve to successfully use mailers and traffic exchanges. The only other marketing option is solo ads and they can be quite expensive. But, overall the training is a bit weak.

The Prosperity Marketing System, Products and Services

There are 5 main sections within the back office of PMS:

  • Training Courses
  • Income Builders
  • Personal Branding
  • Affiliate Center
  • Customize

We will cover Training Courses in the training section below.

Income Builders

This section covers the primary business, which, unless you are an owner, you will be directed to join your sponsors primary business. Of course, you don’t have to, if one of your prospects joins within the system and you don’t sign up for it, the referral commission will then go to your sponsor instead of you.

If you are an owner, then you can add your current primary business or any other affiliate program for that matter.

This section also covers the autoresponder. This, by default is GetResponse, which you can also be an affiliate for. If you choose not to use GetResponse as the autoresponder (you can choose another one in another section), you can still be an affiliate for GetResponse since it is free to be an affiliate. You can earn additional affiliate commissions when your prospects join under you.
GetResponse starts at $15 per month if you use the responder to build your own list, otherwise you will not be able to build an email list of your own. This is an added cost.

The Ad Tracker is covered in this section as well, and by default you are directed to an ad tracking company known as Trck.me with is a tracking service that tracks your capture page clicks as well as your op tins. You can track where all of your traffic is coming from and which one are generating op tins for you. This service also has a fee associated with it and it is $9.95 a month. You also can earn commissions from this service as well if your prospects join under you.

Another income builder in this section is known as the Advertising Coop. The advertising coop that is used is called Viral Traffic Coop, which is “an advertising cooperative that pools together member’s advertising funds in order to buy bulk traffic at huge discounts. This is a big win-win for everyone, in your case you can get great traffic at a dirt cheap price without lifting your finger”!

The Viral Traffic Coop is owned by Darren Olander as well as many of the viral mailers and safelists. He owns 10 different websites I believe.

The rest of the income builders in this section consist of list builders (safelists) and traffic exchanges, most of which are owned by Darren Olander. This whole system is built around the use of mailers and traffic exchanges.

Who is The Prosperity Marketing System For?

In my opinion the Prosperity Marketing System is for the marketer who likes and is very familiar with using mailers, safelists and traffic exchanges as their primary source of traffic. It has been my experience that there is whole network of internet marketers that are into these types of traffic generating programs.

They mostly consist of owners of these types of programs and their followers.

I honestly do not think this is the system for the beginning internet marketer who is primarily interested in simply making money on the internet. There are better ways of making money on the internet then spending hours a day reading emails and surfing traffic exchanges.

Prosperity Marketing System Training

Training Courses

The training courses consist of the essentials, Prosperity Marketing, Traffic Generation and Solo Ads.

The essentials consist of computer basics and internet marketing basics.

The computer basics include the following:

  • How to Cut, Copy, and Paste
  • Easy file management
  • How to download files from the internet
  • How to change your browser homepage
  • How to use favorites and bookmarks

The internet marketing basics are simply a brief explanation of “what is internet marketing and why is it so awesome”.

Very brief training in this section.

Prosperity Marketing

This section of the training is a description of the fact that PMS is an affiliate program and a marketing system. It provides you with a few capture pages to promote what is known as the “$12 funnel” and how you can earn $12 per month for each affiliate member you bring into the business. In addition to this, you can earn commission by promoting a variety of other programs known as downline builders. It then goes on to explain how PMS is the ultimate downline builder itself.

This seguays into a video training on an introduction to downline builders. You can watch the video below for details:

The training then goes into traffic generation which is a fairly extensive training on how to dominate viral list builders and safelists.

You can get an idea of how this training works by watching the video below:

Once you are familiar with viral mailers and safelists, the training goes into how to effectively use traffic exchanges, and lists 6 traffic exchanges that the owner suggests using. He also suggests spending about 20 to 30 minutes a day surfing these traffic exchanges.

The training then goes on to say you should try solo ads. There is no real formal training here, just a link to a solo ad exchange known as Udimi solo ads.

My Final Thoughts The Prosperity Marketing System

This system would be ideal for…

I do believe if you are an experienced top Network marketer and you have a primary business and you are interested in having your team use a good system, then I would highly recommend the Prosperity Marketing System for that purpose.

The reason I say that is that, you can upgrade as an owner, fully customize the system to use any traffic method, training program or even customize your capture page under the name of your particular team. This would be an ideal program for that purpose.

Many top Network Marketers use customized systems for a large team and spend a lot of many for those types of programs. PMS would essentially do the same thing. It is fully customizable and, in my opinion, should primarily be used for that purpose.

VERDICT: LEGIT/NOT LEGIT

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What Is Leased Ad Space – Is it worth Your Time, Effort and Money?

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What Is Leased Ad Space

What is Leased Ad Space and is it worth your time, effort and money?

We will answer this question in the following review. I actually came across Leased Ad Space years ago when I was promoting a Network Marketing Company online. Yes, It has been around for a while now. I joined the program mainly for the advertising and was not necessarily interested in the affiliate program.

I will focus on answering these questions and do my best to explain what this advertising platform is really all about. Back in the day, I was familiar with Richard Weberg, the owner of Leased Ad Space, because I managed a site that was focused on driving traffic to individual business owner’s websites as well.

After reading this review, please comment below and share with me your experiences with this program.

Leased Ad Space Review Summary

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Website: https://Leasedadspace.com

Price: Free, various ad packages ranging from $9.97 to $147 (details below)

Owner: Richard Weberg

Advertising Platform: 98 out of 100

Affiliate Platform: 85 out of 100

Support: 90 out of 100

Community: 80 out of 100

Training: 80 out of 100

Summary: Overall Leased Ad Space is an above average advertising platform. It is unique and can drive a lot of traffic to your website if used properly. Using Leased Ad Space specifically to earn affiliate commissions, is average at best. There are other programs available that do a better job as an affiliate platform. It is not a bad affiliate platform, but there are easier ways to earn a good income online. This would be more of a recommended advertising source to other marketers.

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How To Sell Products From Amazon – Here Is A Step By Step Process

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How To Sell Products From Amazon

In this post I would like to discuss how to sell products from Amazon and to provide a step by step process by which you can really utilize. I do not want to get into the “fluff” and talk about how you can make millions of dollars by next Thursday or anything like that. But, I can say this. You can make a full or part-time income selling products from Amazon and It’s much easier that you might think. Plus, this is something you can do while holding a full time job.

As most people are aware, Amazon in a huge company and it doesn’t look like they are slowing down any time soon. Recently they purchased Whole Foods and are constantly buying up real estate and expanding every day. But, unlike the older larger company’s who were known to shut down the “mom-and-pop” type of industry, Amazon is actually helping people start their own business and profit from their awesome resources.

We live in a unique time when there really are opportunities available that allow an entrepreneurial spirited individual to start their own business selling Amazon products with very little start up capital. Gone are the days, where it is necessary to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars to start your own franchise to make a living owning your own business.

You can now, simply purchase a domain name for less than $20 a year, and host a website for less than your monthly Starbucks visit. So, what are the steps needed to sell products from Amazon? First of all, you need to become an Amazon Affiliate.

Become An Amazon Affiliate

The Amazon Affiliate program is called Amazon Associates. It is very easy to sign up for the Amazon Associates program. What you do is visit Amazon.com.

Then you simply scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and look for a link entitled “Become an Affiliate”. Take a look at the two screenshots below for details. This first one is the Amazon home page at Amazon.com. You simply scroll down to toward the bottom of the page and you come to what looks like the second screenshot below.

How To Sell Products From Amazon

How To Sell Products From Amazon

After you click on the “Become an Affiliate” link you will come to a page that looks like the screenshot below:

How To Sell Products From Amazon

Then you simply click on the “Join Now for Free” button from the upper right-hand corner and fill out a basic form. You will definitely get approved and there are no real requirements or hoops you have to go through like some other affiliate networks require you to do. Amazon likes to make things easier for you and I to sell their products. The associates program even provides tips of the trade as well to help.

Once you have become an Amazon Associate, you want to head back over to the Amazon home page from Amazon.com and select a niche from the Best seller list that Amazon provides. The steps for this are outlined in the next section below.

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Pick Your Amazon Niche

This step of the process is the one in which you want to spend some time and effort. You want to take this step seriously because it can determine your success. Fortunately Amazon themselves offer you an easy solution by providing you a best-sellers list. The real cool think about Amazon is that they have a proven formula for success. .

We all trust Amazon as buyers and this is verified by the number of sales Amazon generates on a daily basis. This fact in itself should give us a lot of confidence when choosing a niche from the best-sellers list and the groups of products that are available there. So, before going into choosing a niche, we need to define exactly what a niche is as it pertains to selling Amazon products.

I like to keep things simple so I will give you the simple definition of a niche. A niche is a particular group of people, or better put, a particular audience. This is the audience you want to attach to your products and services from Amazon.

You want this audience to be specific and interested in the products and services that you are recommending. This eliminates you from having to do the selling. What you will be doing is providing valuable content to your potential prospects and then let Amazon do the selling because they are much better at it that you are.

I am going to introduce you to a training video from an affiliate community I belong to which provides free training on how to succeed with affiliate marketing. This training video will cover the idea of how to choose a good profitable niche so that you can sell the appropriate products from Amazon.

Check this video training out by clicking on the video image below:

How To Sell Products From Amazon

As you can see from the video, choosing a niche from Amazon and a few other sources is not difficult and we do not need to over complicate the process. There are many successful affiliate marketers who have more than one niche that they earn an income from and that is definitely OK to do. In fact, you can look at it like owning farm land and harvesting different products from your farm. What you grow on your farm represents individual niches and you can certainly make multiple streams of income by selling a variety of “fruits and vegetables” from your farm.

I believe the internet is today’s opportunity like homesteading was back in the wild west days. The opportunities are endless!

Now that you have chosen your niche, it is time to build your website. I know this sounds scary, but it really isn’t and no matter what quick rich guru tells you. Yes, you do need a website and it is not hard to create one. In fact, below I am going to demonstrate how you can build one in under a minute. Yes, a fully functional hosted website that is capable of earning you a six or even seven figure monthly income.

Build A Website (In under a minute)

So, we have chosen our niche and we have a good idea of the products we want to sell from Amazon. Now what we need to do is create a website based on this Niche idea so that we can create valuable content on for our audience (future customers).

The best platform to build a website upon is the WordPress platform. It is what most successful affiliate marketers use and is the easiest to navigate and manipulate.

There are two main components to this website besides WordPress and that is:

  • A domain name
  • hosting

I have created a walk through video to show you step by step how to build a website to make money that will include a sub-domain and hosting for free. I am not talking about a free trial, I am talking about just plain free. Stick with me here and we will show you exactly how this is done.

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As you can see the process of creating a website is very easy and does not take long at all. The example in the video was for a niche audience of people who would be interested in playing guitar. There are a lot of different products that a person with this interest would be interested in. They are obviously interested in learning how to play guitar. So, any instructional book, guide or video training would be of interest to them.

The end product from the video was a pretty empty website with no bells and whistles, but with some effort and creativity, one can make a beautiful website that would attract visitors. I used the exact process to create a website that I sell Amazon products on, specifically Fit Watches For Women, that you can take a look at as an example. You can also learn how to do this spruce up your website as well. I recommend the free training series mentioned in the image below. No worries, put away your credit card, it is 100% free.

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Now that your website is up and running it is time to create great content. The kind of content that your audience will be interested in. You have a basic understanding of their interests because you have spent some time researching your niche to discover what types of Amazon products you want to sell. So, now let’s learn how to create good content for our target audience.

Create Great Content And Drive Traffic To Your Website

In order to create great content we have to learn about keywords and keyword research. The reason for this is that the content we will be creating will be based on these keywords. In fact, each individual article that you write on your website will be based on ONE keyword phrase. Many people get confused by this. You are not trying to write articles based on many keywords, you are writing each individual article base on one keyword phrase per article.

So, before I get ahead of myself too much, let’s define what a keyword actually is and how we find the good ones.

A keyword is basically any term or phrase that someone from our niche audience types into one of the search engines, which most of the time is Google. They type this keyword phrase when they are looking for something. Something like “how to play guitar”. Wouldn’t it be great if we wrote an article about how to play guitar with a recommendation to a good guitar lesson video that we could earn a commission on and our page came up on page one of Google when someone typed that phrase in?

Of course, it would. The likelihood of us earning a commission becomes pretty good. This is exactly why affiliate marketing is so profitable. This is the foundation for all SEO campaigns, paid ad campaigns, and when you ultimately understand this process, you will become VERY successful online as an Amazon Associate. You are now able to generate a full time income online.

So, there are two components we need to use in order to begin our search for a good keyword for each of our articles that you write, or YouTube videos that you might want to create.

  1. The Alphabet Soup techniques;
  2. A good keyword search tool

Don’t be alarmed, these two components are easy and both free to use.

The alphabet soup techniques if pretty simple and you do this first before using a keyword tool. Keeping to the theme of our “how to learn guitar” example, I’ll illustrate using the image below.

How To Sell Products From Amazon

Google has a feature built into it that finishes a phrase that you start typing into it. You have most likely experienced this at some point in your lifetime. So, if I start typing in learn how to p….Google finishes the process for me. The results underneath tells us that people are searching for these terms. This let’s us know what our potential customer is searching for. We can go a step further and use the alphabet to help us out. For example, if we are looking to sell a “how to” product and want to know what people are search for, then we can type in “how to a” and then “how to b” and then “how to c” and so on.

You can also do the process of the alphabet in front of the search term such as “a how to …” or b how to…” and so on.

This, in a nut shell is the alphabet soup technique.

Now once you find out what people are searching for you can then take the selected term, such as “learn how to play piano” from the Google results and plug that into a good keyword search tool to see how many searches a month that phrase is getting and you can also see how competitive the search term is to determine how easy it would be to get on the first page of Google.

I have provided a walk through video for this complete process. Please click on the image below to get the complete keyword research process. Master this and you will certainly make a lot of money online selling Amazon products.

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As mentioned in the video above we use a free keyword tool known as Jaaxy. I have provided a free search for you to play around with if you would like to see how this tool works for a particular niche that you might already be interested in pursuing. It is easy and fun to use by visiting this Free Keyword Generator.

Conclusion

So now that you know the basics of how to sell products from Amazon you are now going to need training in how to succeed with affiliate marketing. I have provided a free guide that will, for the lack of a better word, guide you through this process and teach you the skills needed to successfully sell products from Amazon. The course is free and comes with 10 lessons and two free hosted websites with sub domains.

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Best Affiliate Program To Make Money Online

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Best Affiliate program To Make Money Online

Within my network I am often times asked what is the best affiliate program to make money online. Since there are so many to choose from I decided to take the “best of” approach and list and describe what I believe to be the top 3 affiliate programs, outside of an affiliate network,  ranked in order with the first one as being the best.

Before we just jump in I think it may be a good idea to define what the criteria should be for the rating of these programs. The nice thing about a list like this is that, if you are not satisfied with the top chosen one, you have two others to choose from and you can be rest assured they are not scams, otherwise they would not be on this list. Each of these three programs are good programs with a proven track record and consistently pay their affiliates.

So before we reveal the number one affiliate program, let’s define our criteria to make it to the top 3.

The criteria for a program to be included in this top through list are as follows:

  • Owner Transparency and availablilty
  • An active community
  • Affiliate program consistently pays their affiliates
  • Training meets all the needs of the affiliate
  • Proper resources needed to succeed all in one place
  • High enough of a commission to justify cost of advertising

Best Affiliate Program #1- Wealthy Affiliate

Best Affiliate Program To Make Money Online

Considering our criteria from above, Wealthy Affiliate has:

  • two very transparent owners
    • Kyle Loudon and Carson Lim.
  • An active community
    • There are over 800,000 active members inside the WA community
  • Affiliates are paid via PayPal on the first of every money
    • They have been consistently paying their affiliate for over 10 years now (maybe more)
  • Simply the best affiliate marketing training available anywhere!
    • Online Entrepreneur Certification – 5 courses, 50 lessons
    • Affiliate Bootcamp – 7 courses, 70 lessons
    • Weekly Live Training
  • All the resources you need in one place, keyword tools, training, coaching, writing platforms and more
    • Starter members get 2 free hosted websites included with the Online Entrepreneur Certification – 1 course, 10 lessons
    • Premium members get 50 free hosted websites included with full access to all the training offers (TONS)
  • A premium affiliate can make $23.50 per month per referral.
    • Paid on the first of every month
  • Starter Membership
    • FREE
  • Premium Membership
    • $49.95 per month

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What is Wealthy Affiliate?

In a nut shell Wealthy Affiliate (WA) is an online affiliate marketing university (training/academy) that was launched in 2005 with more than 100,000 active members who share their experiences and help each other succeed. In addition to the help of the owners and a Live Coach who conduct the best live training available weekly.

One of the reasons I picked Wealthy Affiliate as the number one Best affiliate program to make money online is because it trains you to build your affiliate marketing foundation. It is upon this foundation that everything else can be built upon. That being said, many affiliate marketers promote more than one affiliate program, but it is necessary to have a solid foundation to be able to do that. Multiple streams of income is a great thing, but it can only really work with a good foundation. Wealthy Affiliate provides and awesome foundation to build upon.

The quality of this live training supersedes training I have paid thousands for, and it is included in the premium membership. Wealthy Affiliate specializes in the affiliate marketing model of passive income. To get more real detail of the program you can read a wealthy affiliate review 2019 here.

To become a free member of Wealthy Affiliate, click the banner below.

Best Affiliate Program #2 – The Conversion Pros

The Conversion Pros is way more than just an affiliate program. The reason I have it listed as the number 2 Best Affiliate Program To Make Money Online is because of the overall value of the product. In addition to being a good affiliate program it houses an awesome autoresponser and the ability to build all kinds of pages. Best Affiliate Program To Make Money Online

You can build capture page, landing pages and a host of others with a great built in editor that stands up to more expensive counter parts like Clickfunnels. In fact, I really do not see why someone would pay $100 a month for Clickfunnels, when The Conversion Pros is just as good at half the price. And Yes, you can build funnels with The Conversion Pros.

So, going back to our criteria mentioned above:

  • Owner Transparency and availablilty
    • David Dubbs is very transparent and available
  • An active community
    • They have a great Facebook community often times visited by David Dubbs for fast service
  • Affiliate program consistently pays their affiliates
    • David Dubbs pays their affiliates every friday for the past 5 years.
  • Training meets all the needs of the affiliate
    • They have a great training program for how to use the tools as well as how to promote your business
  • Proper resources needed to succeed all in one place
    • fully functional autoresponder and the most awesome page builders are available along with a host of other tools.
  • High enough of a commission to justify cost of advertising
    • 25 per month per referral. This can add up to quite a bit of recurring income.

There are actually two different paths you can choose from when promoting The Conversion Pros. The first path is to promote the program itself as a way for affiliates to generate an imcome. This path is intended for the opportunity seeker who is simply interested in making money online and not interested in promoting another business that they are in.

Below is a video outlining how much you can actually earn with The Conversion Pros, watch the video below:

The second path to promote The Conversion Pros is to sell a way for an affiliate or network marketer who is looking for tools and training on how to promote their existing business. The premise behind this is that many network marketing company’s as well as other affiliate marketing company’s have great products, but lack in providing tools to promote the product line itself. The Conversion Pros offers training, funnel building tools and pages for this type of person to help them promote a business they are already in.

Another great aspect of The Conversion Pros is that they sell very high quality leads. These leads are specifically for either a network marketing company or for the opportunity seeker who is looking to make money on the internet. These leads are sold at cost and are of the highest quality generated online. Seriously, these leads do convert.

The program costs $50 a month and you can earn a recurring income of $25 a month for each referral you bring to the business. Whether it is someone who comes in for the opportunity or someone who comes in to help build their existing business.

To get complete details of how The Conversion Pros works and all that comes with it is available in my review entitled Is Conversion Pros a Scam?

To test drive The Conversion Pros, put away your credit card and try it out free for 14 days by clicking the image below.

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Best Affiliate Program #3 – Now Lifestyle

Now Lifestyle is also not just an affiliate program. This is a unique hybrid type of program. In other words it is a hybrid of both physical products and digital products. The physical products represent a health and fitness program and the digital products represent an Affiliate Marketing / Network Marketing training and tools center.

They too offer an autoresponder and page builder in addition to training. They also have a unique “business in a box” type of system where you can actually purchase guaranteed referrals. I have only seen this one time in all of my marketing career (over 10 years now) but it was a flop in a different program, but The Now Lifestyle Guaranteed Signups seem to work quite well. Best Affiliate Program to Make Money Online

So, going back to our criteria mentioned above:

  • Owner Transparency and availablilty
    • Joel Therien, very transparent and available in Facebook group
  • An active community
    • They have a great Facebook community often times visited by Joel, plus independent distributors
  • Affiliate program consistently pays their affiliates
    • Joel Therien pays their affiliates weekly
  • Training meets all the needs of the affiliate
    • They have a great training program for how to use the tools as well as how to promote your business
  • Proper resources needed to succeed all in one place
    • fully functional autoresponder and the most awesome page builders are available along with a host of other tools.
  • High enough of a commission to justify cost of advertising
    • This is varied based on different levels.

The health and fitness aspect of Now Lifestyle is based on two types of products as well. There is a physical supplement lline of products and a digital aspect which is based on an older program Joel owned called The Seven Minute Workout.

There is a full detailed review about Now Lifestyle that you can read and enjoy that I wrote called

What is Now Lifestyle? Is it Legit, or is it a Scam? Feel free to read it to gain all the information regarding this hybrid program.

Conclusion

There you have it. The three best affiliate marketing program to make money online. I hope this was helpful and that you got a lot out of this post. It is not easy to find a good affiliate marketing program online these days since there is so much misinformation out there. You want to make sure that you do your due diligence when search for a good affiliate program to promote and if you ever have any questions feel free to contact me and ask.

I always respond within at least 24 hours, if not sooner.

Also, if you are looking for some awesome training on how to become a successful Affiliate marketer feel free to click the image below and sign up for our online certification course for free. It will get you on the right path to success.

The Best Way To Make Money Online From Home

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The Best Way To Make Money Online From Home

So, what is the best way to make money online from home? I will be addressing this question in detail and even give you a step by step method upon which anyone can use to earn a great online income. The nice thing about this is that it doesn’t really have to be from home, it can actually be from anywhere there is an internet connection. Which means you can literally make money while drinking coffee at Starbucks, for example.

Another great thing is that you can make money online from home even while you are working a full time job to bring in extra cash. In fact, when I started my online business, I mainly used my lunch break at work as well as any extra time I could avail to myself, without jeopardizing my job. I simply focused on this as a business and not a hobby.

The Best Way To Make Money Online From Home

Making money online from home is really not as hard as it seems. The main problem is that we are constantly bombarded by the next “latest and greatest” product or service distracting us and promising us a shortcut method to earning our share of the 3.75 BILLION people online as of 2018 (this is your audience).

These people are searching for things all the time and the secret to making money online is to provide information to those people and then recommending products or services that are relevant to the information they are already searching for. With all the great technology available to us today, such as hand held devices and easy access to the internet, we have a huge amount of opportunity in front of us.

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This leads us to the answer to the original question.

The best way to make money online from home is to provide the information that people are already searching for. This allows us to not have to sell anything, but simply provide information and recommended products and services that are relevant to what people are already interested in. This can be accomplished through affiliate marketing.

You may have heard of affiliate marketing and you may be thinking that it is not a method you would be interested in pursuing because you have heard negative things about it. But, keep in mind there is a lot of misinformation out on the internet regarding affiliate marketing and I would like to clear any misconceptions you may have. I can tell you from experience that affiliate marketing is indeed the best, easiest and most efficient way to make money online from home.

What Exactly Is Affiliate Marketing?

Simply put affiliate marketing is one of the types of performance-based marketing where a business, such as Amazon or Walmart (and a host of others) rewards or pays one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.

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Affiliate marketing has for core components:

  • The merchant
  • The affiliate network
  • The Affiliate (That’s YOU!)
  • The customer

The Merchant

The merchant is also known as the retailer or the brand. For example, on one of my websites, I recommend and review products in the fitness watch industry. In this case the brand of the fitness watch, such as The Apple Watch Series 4 from Apple. In this case Apple is the merchant. The merchant is the supplier or producer of the product or service being sold.

The affiliate network

The affiliate network is the component or one who provides the offers to choose from and also takes care of the payments. There are many affiliate networks to choose from. One of the largest affiliate networks is Amazon. Today Amazon US sells more than 600 million products!

Their affiliate network is known as the Amazon Associates program. They provide the payment for the affiliates and also the affiliate links for you to promote. They typically pay 4 to 10% commission when you successfully make a sale for them through your affiliate link. A few affiliate networks also include:

  • Clickbank
  • eBay
  • ShareAsell
  • AvantLink
  • CJ Affiliate.

And a host of others. This, of course, is not an all-inclusive list. These are just a small list of the more popular networks.

Many retailers themselves have affiliate programs such as Walmart, JC Penney s and many others. Since more and more consumers are purchasing online, the retailers that have affiliate programs are the ones who are more likely to survive

The Affiliate

In short, the affiliate is YOU. You join an affiliate network who provides you with an affiliate link, which you promote to earn income. I want to emphasize one important point in this space. Becoming an affiliate for an affiliate network is, in most cases FREE. It is very rare that an affiliate network would charge any type of fee. So, be careful. If someone or company wants to charge you, it is possibly a scam. I would recommend staying away from any type of affiliate network that charges money. It is simply not necessary to pay to become an affiliate.

The Customer

Last but certainly not least, is the customer. This is how we all get paid! More and more people are shopping online these days and this allows more and more opportunities for the affiliate marketer. Plain and simple.

Now the affiliate marketing industry has grown in complexity, resulting in the emergence of a secondary network of players, that include management agencies, third party vendors and super-affiliate programs that offer products and services specifically for the affiliate marketer. These networks, of course, charge money so one has to be careful of potential scams. I am not saying they are all scams, just that one has to be careful and do their due diligence when looking at these types of programs and networks.

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Why Affiliate Marketing Is The Best Way To Make Money Online From Home?

96% of Americans shop online. This is HUGE and we should all realize the importance of this figure when choosing the best way to earn make money online from home. This is why affiliate marketing rocks. Because more and more people are feeling comfortable purchasing online and when they make a purchase, they are typically purchasing from affiliate marketers. This is simply a fact!

One of the aspects of affiliate marketing that makes it so appealing
to the affiliate is the fact that when a prospect visits a site to make
a purchase, they are typically visiting a site from a vendor they
already know, like and trust.

For example, if someone is reading content on the internet (yours of
course) and they click a link for a recommended product, they get led to
the Amazon website and, at this point, are more likely to use their
credit card to make a purchase, because they trust Amazon. This totally
adds value and trust to you as an affiliate.

This is why it is so important to have your own niche website. It adds value and trust. We will get into the details in the next section on what it takes to own your own website and build a big following. No worries, this is not hard nor complicated and anyone can do it as long as you have the desire and are willing to put forth the effort.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Actually Work?

As mentioned before, there is a lot of misinformation out there about how affiliate marketing actually works. It is really not as complicated as it may seem and I would like to point you into the right direction and simplify it for you.

In fact, if you stay with me here you will totally understand the process and use this space as a catalyst to start making money online. You may have read on the internet and seen testimonials of people “killing it online”. Well, you can make this a reality for yourself as well. Just follow me along here OK

When you become an affiliate, you simply join an affiliate network that gives you a unique “affiliate link” to a product or a service which gives you the opportunity to earn a commission by sending someone to the product website and they make a purchase.

In some cases, affiliate networks will even pay you to simply get a name, email and other information without them even making a purchase. This is known as CPA or Cost Per Action. They pay you to get the prospect to complete an action like providing an email, phone number, or in some cases an address.

Different affiliate networks offer different levels of commission. You can make anywhere between 4% up to 80%.

Take a look at the screen shot below to get an idea of the process visually.

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So, basically the process in its simplest form would be a potential customer does a search on the internet or clicks a link on one of your social media accounts (#1). This leads them to an article on your website in a specific niche (#2). They read your article and in your article you recommend a product that solves a problem that they were originally searching for. They click on your affiliate link and purchase the product (#3). Then the exciting step 4 happens. YOU MAKE MONEY!

As an example, let’s say you join an affiliate program such as Amazon or Clickbank. As an Amazon affiliate alone, you can have a choice of over 500
MILLION (yes, million) products to choose from. It is truly amazing when you consider the size of the opportunity you have in front of you. Or anyone for that matter.

If you send a prospect from your website, social media account, or from
a simple email through your provided affiliate link, say a fitness watch, you can potentially earn about 5% commission for that fitness watch. If it was an Apple Watch Series 4, for example for about $600, you would get paid $30. This might not sound like a lot of money, but consider how many people are purchasing these products each and every day.

To give you an idea, 18 million Series 3 Smartwatches were shipped only a few months after its September 2017 release. That is a big piece of the pie that one has available to them through affiliate marketing.

What if you sold 10 Apple Watch Series 4 watches a day (certainly possible if your review was ranked on the first page of Google)? That would be $300 a day. Not a bad income for simply putting in the effort.

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How You Can Get Started Making Money Online From Home

So, you may be wondering how you can get started making money online from home. As I mentioned the best way to make money online from home is through affiliate marketing, and as mentioned before, there is a lot of misinformation concerning affiliate marketing on the internet. So, where do you go to learn the skills necessary to be a successful affiliate marketer?

There is an awesome training platform that has taught me how to earn a good income through affiliate marketing. They offer an awesome platform that has all the tools necessary to succeed online as well as coaching and mentoring. Imagine having a personal coach to help you every step of the way.

This training platform is known as the Wealthy Affiliate University. You can read all about this platform on my Wealthy Affiliate review here.

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