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Making Money with Articles: Picking Articles for Your Niche Site

Gary Knox — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:26 +0000

Choose the articles for your niche sites very carefully to ensure that you are capable of successfully gaining traffic and attaining profit from these sites.

If you are going to try and utilise free website content articles, then it might be difficult for you to discover ones that have your exact keywords, so you may have to either make revisions to the articles (which may not be allowed on some free articles) or base your keywords on the articles that you find (which could leave you with very competitive keywords that would take a lot of time or money in order to attain a high ranking for).

If you are going to buy content, make certain that you let the writer know what your niche keywords are and what your preferred keyword density and placement are. Remember, the wrong articles can leave you with little or no traffic and very low search engine rankings if they do not fit in properly with either your niche or with keywords that are easy to achieve high rankings for.

Making Money From Content Rich Sites

Gary Knox — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:25:57 +0000

Making money from a content rich niche marketing website can either be very easy, very difficult or damn near impossible. So first let’s define and describe what a content rich niche market website is and how it works. You will not find a list for “Niche Markets” anywhere. There isn’t one.

An individual will discover niche marketers when they type words into their favourite search engine and hit search. Let’s say they type in “Improving my golf score”. They will get several hits that will provide links that take them to niche marketing sites. On these sites, they will be asked to enter their email address and opt-in to receiving a newsletter. Since they are wishing to learning how to improve their golf score, they willing to do that. On the content rich site they will find articles and other information about improving their golf score and adverts for products and services designed to help them improve their golf score. In the future they will receive a newsletter and they will have become a niche market customer.

If you are the niche marketer, the opt-in email address furnished is pure gold because you will have a customer or a potential customer. When they purchase the products and/or services that you are advertising on your site, you will earn income. Having a content rich site enhances the possibility of sales.

The trick to earning money from a content rich niche marketing website is to have a topic that helps people solve their problems, makes them feel better or look better, or provides them with information that they need. You will need to have related products and services advertised on your site since that is where the income in reality comes from. The website content is what makes people visit your site over and over again. The more content rich it is will determine how frequently they visit and how long they stay. The longer they stay the more opportunities you have to sell to them.

Making Money with Articles: What Kind of Experience Do I Need?

Gary Knox — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:15:28 +0000

If you are trying to earn money with articles, the beauty of it is that you do not really require previous career related experience and that you are able to learn the ropes as you go. That being said, there are a few skills that you will need to learn or pick up along the way to make your sites successful. You can not go in not knowing anything, not learning anything, and still anticipate making a good income (or any income at all).

First of all, you will need to know how to select the correct articles to make your sites successful. There are several types of content, from free content to high-priced content, and each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages (although high-priced content is more likely to give you a successful site in the long run).

Second, you will want to know how to choose keywords that can assist you getting a good amount of traffic, without being too competitive in order to position your site the first or second page of search engine results. If you select highly competitive keywords that are employed by large websites, you are unlikely to get on those much needed first two pages.

Thirdly, you will need to know how to optimise your websites for the various search engines. Search engine optimisation skills will allow you to get high rankings for your chosen niche keywords, which will help to get visitors and make income.

Fourth, if you opt for a large website that you will concentrate most of your internet marketing career on, there will be a requirement for you to know how to market your website to your intended audience through paid banner adverts and text links. If you favour small 2-5 page niche sites, then promoting all of them this way will not be cost effective and will eat up more profits than it is worth.

If you are able to capture some of these skills and attack them aggressively during your first few small websites or the first few months of a larger website, then you will eventually become an expert. Since you are able to learn the ropes first hand on your own, the only thing that you will need to do before you begin your new career is to read up on how to get started (maybe purchase an internet marketing e-book or two) and make certain that you have the funds available to start a small site.