For those of you that still don’t know what Craigslist is, try to imagine a gigantic flea market right at your finger tips.  A place where you can buy anything from a designer handbag to a vacation home.  There are people from all over the world selling their goods and services on Craigslist, with just as many people looking to purchase goods and/or services. With the tremendous success of Craigslist, it has become one of the most regularly visited websites on the Internet.

It is a traffic magnet, drawing massive amounts of visitors a day.  Craigslist is used by millions of people every day.  Tapping into this enormous market of visitors could result in more traffic to your website.  Think about it, the people browsing through Craigslist are already in a “buying” mode, they are there looking for something.  So offering your product or service can result in a higher conversion rate.

To register for an account with Craigslist, you need to supply a valid email address.  You will then receive a link to follow to activate your account and create a password.  You are then ready to submit your ads.  For your convenience, the site is divided into regions.  You can post your ad locally or by state and even by country.  Imagine someone thousands of miles away, reading your ad with just a few clicks. It is free to post your ads and they will stay active for about 45 days.  Of course you can always go back and re-post your ads over and over again to stay current. This will help you to develop a nice flow of traffic to your site.

The real traffic however, will come from Google.   Google loves Craigslist and it is not unusual for ads placed on Craigslist to achieve a top ranking.  This can occur in less than a week’s time.  Once this happens, your ad will get some serious traffic.   If you write your ad properly, you can even have that traffic directed right to your website.

To make sure your ads rank well with the search engines, use some of the same SEO tactics you used for your site. Optimize your ads for your keywords just as you did your web pages. There are many other classified sites besides Craigslist.  Of course they do not come close to the amount of traffic Craigslist achieves, but that doesn’t mean they should be over looked.  Do a search to find other classified sites and then use them to along with Craigslist to drive more traffic to your site.

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Lori Gorman is the owner/webmaster of http://www.myebizplace.com as well as a successful work at home mom and author. Visit her site for all the latest, guaranteed legitimate work at home opportunities. While there, sign up for a FREE subscription to her Work at Home Newsletter, filled with up to date opportunities as well as tips and ideas for your Home Business.

 

I’ve been hearing about all these people making a fortune with Google’s AdSense for years. But I’ve never actually met one. Have you?

The truth is, AdSense can make you a lot of money but it’s not a deluge of raining money that will make you rich overnight. It’s more of a trickle effect, but some of those drops can be pretty big!

Speaking of money, don’t waste another dime on ebooks promising you instant AdSense riches unless you know for a fact it will work. I’ve met too many people who have purchased dozens of the top books and plans out there, only to be left aggravated and poorer for their efforts.

The most important thing you need to know is that each keyword you target in AdSense has a different value. Of course you want to target those that will make you the most money but you also need to consider how much competition you will be up against. In a few minutes I’ll show you how to find keywords that offer the most profit potential with the least competition.

Now let’s get into how we make money with AdSense. It’s a lot easier than you think, if you do it the right way. I’ll show you how to use any spare parked domains you might have laying around and make money on every single one. I make about $100 per month for the domains I use and each only took me about 30 minutes to set up, just one time.

Here’s how it works… You take your unused domain names and let an inexpensive service host them and add hundreds of pages of keyword rich content that you personally select. You control the content and even write your own title, description and META tags to maintain full control of your site. You even select the template to control the site’s look and feel.

Here we go…

Step 1: Sign up for a free Adsense account at http://www.google.com/adsense. But don’t get your ad code yet. I can share some tips to triple your response rates (and income.)

Step 2: Register with http://www.WhyParkWeb.com or a like service. I picked this one because of the value ($99 for up to 100 automatically created fully optimized websites.) There might be another better for you. Just be certain you select a service that creates SEO ready, content rich sites automatically. This is how you will make your AdSense money and continue to make that money on auto pilot.

Now for the insider tips that make this system work and bring in a steady passive income you can rely on for years to come.

#1 Target the Best Keywords

Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and enter any keyword or keyword phrase.

Be specific! Here’s a new take on my favorite example… If you have a page about flower delivery, don’t just use the most general term like “flowers.” This might have worked ten years ago but now there is way too much competition. So rather than “flowers”, with its 300 Million competing pages on Google, try something more specific like “sending flowers online.” Notice it only has 1/10th the number of pages competing? Even better, use that keyword link above to find something similar but even better. In a few seconds we see that “send flowers online” (without the “ing”) is even more popular as you can tell from the blue boxes beside the word indicating popularity. And with another trip to Google, you’ll notice that “send flowers online” has only half the competition but is even more popular! This is an instant advantage over about 99% of your competitors!

#2 Develop a Great Title

This is easier than you would think since it is a nice short page title. You simply combine your most important targeted keyword with your most general and separate them with a “pipe” (the vertical slash key above the Enter/Return key.) We now have “send flowers online | flowers”.

Now go back and find some related keywords you’d like to do well for. These would be popular flowers or occasions for flowers being sent online for our example.

#3 Create a Winning META Description

This is important but easy with a little practice. Here are the big things to remember… First, begin the description with your targeted keyword “send flowers online.” Then take your remaining keywords and line them up in order of importance. That done, we might have “flowers”, “wedding flowers”, and “Mothers Day.” Now just use each word in order of importance like… “Send flowers online with ABC Flowers. We offer inside tips on the least expensive ways to send the freshest wedding flowers, Mothers Day arrangements or whatever else you need; wherever you need.”

This is perfect! We used each of our important keywords without spamming the text. We even broke it up with some extra detail that will help anyone who reads the description before they bother to visit the site. Just remember to keep the description to fewer than 250 characters if possible (including spaces).

Believe it or not, these last three steps were the hard part. The rest is about as automated as it gets.

#4 Bring in the Content!

If you use a service like Why Park, they do almost all the work for you. You simply enter your keywords in the “article finder” via the “Research Your Keywords” link (located beside the keywords box.)

I found 172 articles in a just ten seconds! That’s one hundred seventy two pages of keyword rich content that is extremely relevant to my site and will benefit my visitors. Here’s what I found…

a.) sending flowers online - 5

b.) flowers - 151

c.) wedding flowers - 16

Total Articles Found: 172

Want more? Just add the word “roses” and get another 59! So now we have 231 articles in 10 seconds. Think about it. You just built a full, content-rich, search engine friendly site, in just seconds! This, along with your title, description, and META data will put you over the top on Google.

That’s it for how to generate a self renewing AdSense income that will last for years to come. But before I leave you, let me give you two final tips that will take you over the top.

Insider Tip 1: Benefit from the Best-Pulling AdSense Ad

It’s not unusual for your click-through rate (CTR) to triple with this tip. Mine did within days of switching to this format.

a.) Select an ad size of 336 x 280 pixels. If that seems too big for your site, try 300 x 250.

b.) Make your ad border and background colors the same as your Website’s background color. It helps it blend in and take away some of the “advertisement” feel.

c.) Use the standard blue hyperlink color for the actual links in your ad.

Insider Tip 2: Get Fast and Free Search Engine Submission

Submit Express will submit your website to 40 search engines for free, instantly at http://www.submitexpress.com/.

That’s all there is to it. By this time next week you could be tracking your new AdSense income. Best of luck!

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Scott Jason is an SEO professional and founder of http://www.BestSEOcopywriting.com . Over the past nine years he has worked with hundreds of clients, securing thousands of top placements on Google, Yahoo, MSN and more.

The best way to avoid affiliate marketing scams is to learn about the type of scams that are possible on the Net. The saying, “Forewarned is forearmed” is perfectly applicable here. Only when you know what you should expect you would be able to avoid the pitfalls involved. Therefore, education on what types of scams have been identified until present is very important.

You Need To Play It Safe To Avoid Affiliate Marketing Scams

For best results, when you are in doubt about an affiliate program do not take the offer up. Most of us ignore the warnings that come from within us. All of us have an inner radar system that warns us loud and clear when something is just not right. However, most people learn to suppress this warning signal often with disastrous results. Therefore, the first thing is to listen your gut feeling. If you get “that feeling” drop the offer.

To be doubly sure, go for only those affiliates which have been recommended by close friends (who have already tried and tested it) or affiliates which have been around for at least five year and gained a positive reputation in the market.

Stick with the big named Marketers as besides security, these affiliate programs are likely to give you the best terms you could get, plus a free website and some tools.

The Most Popular Affiliate Marketing Scams

1. Greed is the main helper of affiliate marketing scams. Greed and need make a person blind to reason and this is how most affiliate scams operate. They paint a rosy picture where they make earning money look like child’s play. They make false claims about amazing sums of money which make you feel greedy for the income. In that moment you got that feeling, you are captured by the affiliate marketing scam. In case you do think the affiliate which promises you riches overnight is genuine, just run a search on the Internet and see whether this company is registered with BBB (Better Business Bureau); if not, do not trust it.

2. Desperation is the next helper for the fraudulent Marketer. Are you in need of cash urgently? Do you want continuous streams of income without any effort? Do you want to quit your job and work from home? These are the questions to which each one of us have positive answers. When you are down on cash or suffocated by your job, be very careful on what advertisement you believe and choose to try. It is possible you are stepping into a trap of affiliate marketing scams which instead of giving you money, would demand whatever little money you have remaining on you.

3. Money begets money. Most of us believe in this adage and we feel that if the investment has good prospects, you should make a payment. However, some scams imply that if you want a large payout you need to invest a lot. The problem is that the moment you make an investment, they disappear. Do not pay any large sum of money on the Internet in the hope you will get more. In fact, qualitative affiliate programs would enroll you without any payment, while they would host your website for free and also provide you the latest tools to market the product.

If you are careful and do your research you will be able to choose only the good affiliate programs that are out there and sidestep the affiliate marketing scams of which there are plenty.

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Suzanne Morrison is the webmaster of the Internet Business Ideas Website She tests each of the programs mentioned on her website personally before recommending them. For a full list of her tried and tested scam free home businesses have a look at her list of legitimate home businesses

This post is a response to an article written by Balkhis.It is about a cause on his attempt to cut down unemployment rate around the world and show the people a new Vision for success. He is encouraging parents to stop forcing their children towards certain career paths which they might not eventually take after wasting some years in college and their parents’ hard earned income.He encouraged the youths to look at making money online as a career choice.

“Take a look at a corner book store. Do you have it in your country aside from U.S. Come on my Indian and Asian audience. Well I am only referring to these countries because the $ converting to these currency is alot. So now if all of these owners instead of going out of business can sell their books both online on eBay, and in store. They will make good profit. I say eBay because they can get good shipping because Amazon has standard shipping cost, and shipping internationally cost more.”

I want to point out that it is not easy for someone to just dive into online business without having a proper mentor ship. You can only tell someone about what you are sure of or that has worked for you. Making money online is not as easy as people make it sound. I have the money to buy ebooks and people guiding me at every step yet I find it a bit daunting then imagine someone without money or mentors, how frustrating will that person’s life be?

Are people really making good money online? Yes! But how many of these online gurus are ready to share their strategy for free to a poor young online guru wannabe? I support your good cause, having experienced first hand your willingness to share your knowledge at no cost. I know that if every successful online guru should speak to people in the areas or locality to create awareness about making money online as a career choice,it will go a long way in curbing unemployment.

The siren call of starting a business on the Internet is hard to resist. Work when you want, do it from home, make lots of money (even when you’re asleep) - what’s not to like, right? You’d be a fool not to jump in and start building that website or writing a blog!

Not so fast. There are more Internet millionaire “wanna-bes” than you might think. And many have spent more than a few years and more than a few thousand dollars in a vain effort to start a profitable Internet business.

It may seem that “everybody” is making money online, but that’s simply not the case. And not many people will admit their frustration, partly because no one hates admitting failure but also because perception is everything online. If you are perceived as a failure, no one will buy from you, which makes you fail even faster.

So what are the disadvantages and roadblocks that potential Internet entrepreneurs encounter?

The first is the learning curve - it’s steeper than you might think, and there’s no single “how-to” process to follow.

Succeeding at an online business requires mastery of several key abilities, not all of which directly correlate to doing business offline. For example, you not only have to build a user-friendly and relevant website or blog, you have to drive traffic to it, all without making any mistakes that cause you to lose credibility in your prospect’s mind and cause them to click away from your site.

Not easy!

And though there are countless experts, books, and how-to courses on how to start a business online, it’s hard for a beginner to know who to believe, and there are multiple online business models to choose from as well.

The second issue, which was mentioned above but which warrants more attention, is the problem of driving traffic to your website. Novice Internet marketers know they want their site to be found in the search engines, but often vastly underestimate the amount of competition they have for the keywords and search phrases they desire.

The Internet reality is that top-ten rankings for most popular keywords is extraordinarily difficult to achieve - which means that the novice “Interpreneur” will need to master the art of advertising online, which can become quite costly.

The third and final obstacle mentioned here is that it’s very easy to become distracted when building an Internet business.

If you subscribe to Internet ezines or visit Internet discussion forums, which are recommended methods to build knowledge and connect with potential customers or partners, you’re bombarded almost daily with new ways to make money. New advertising strategies to try. New top-secret, never-before-revealed-to-the-public ways to get more targeted website visitors than you’ve ever imagined. And so on.

And while some of these strategies may be an excellent fit for a particular online business, many will not. Since inexperienced Internet marketers find it difficult to make that distinction, they waste time and money delving into new income models before mastering the income method they’re using now.

Hopefully, if you’re considering starting an Internet business, this article will serve as a “reality check” for you. It’s certainly possible to make a substantial secondary or primary income online - but it’s much more likely if you have a good grasp of the obstacles you’ll probably encounter along the way.

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Marketing Prophets  provides a step by step guide to make money on the internet, a guided learning curve that is emailed every 4 days piece by piece until the puzzle is complete.