Make Money With iTunes Affiliate Program: Payment Proof after 52 Weeks

Do you have a tech blog, and are you looking for a suitable affiliate program? Do you know Apple has an affiliate program for iTunes, the App Store, iBooks and the Mac App Store? If not, read on to learn about iTunes Affiliate program, and start earning handsome income from your blog.

Earlier I have talked about Viglink, which is one smart way to monetize all your existing commercial links. If you don’t know about it, you should read this review & also check out an exclusive case-study here.
If you are using Viglink to create affiliate links to Apple app store, I recommend you to directly signup for Apple Affiliate program and stop paying extra cut to Viglink or any other 3rd party affiliate network you are using. Let’s look at features of Apple affiliate program, and below I will share one trick which you can use right away to affiliate all your app store link.

Itunes Affiliate Program Details & Features:

iTunes Affiliate program is open for all, and you can sign up for free from here. Once you have applied for their affiliate program, it would take about five days to get approval.  To ensure you get approval, add your working blog link. If you don’t have a blog/website, your application will be rejected.
Once your application is approved, you can Login to Apple affiliate dashboard. Here is how the dashboard looks like:

If you are inside your affiliate dashboard for the first time, make sure to click on Settings > Payment method, and add your payment details. In most of the countries, they make payment via direct bank transfer.
In tracked currency select All countries & in paid currency select your base country currency.  Don’t forget to check the box which says “Auto Selfbill / Payment Required.”

Note: In above screenshot I forgot to add threshold limit, which you should add. Once your affiliate commission reaches that limit, they will send you payment automatically.

• Read: How to promote affiliate product on your blog

Creating Affiliate links for Apple products:

Click on Tools at the top of your dashboard, and you will find various options to create affiliate links.  Here is a screenshot for the same:

You can use any of the method listed above to monetize your tech blog. Here are my recommendations for you:

Auto link maker:

It is recommended for those blogs which are old and have few or tons of links to the app store or other Apple product on the official site. You need to add few lines of Javascript code to your blog, and it will automatically convert them into affiliate links. This saves a lot of time for editing all the links manually. If you use this, you don’t have to create affiliate links for future posts manually. You can use Google Tag manager or edit your theme to add the JS snippet on your blog.

RSS Feed Generator:

This could increase your revenue as you can create an RSS link to the list of products top music, apps, books and more. Simply place it as a Widget in your blog sidebar (Works great on a niche site) and let the money flow into you.

Link Maker:

This is useful when you need to generate an affiliate link for an individual product. You can use this to create affiliate links in bulk. If you have a popular page, you can create individual app affiliate link, and promote it on your social media property.

Widget Builder: 

I’m not a personal fan of this but could be useful for you. With Widget Builder, you can create a widget for a single app, and embed it within your blog post. Your readers can read the description, and click on get to install it.
Developers & App makers can take advantage of search API to show apps with their unique affiliate link.
Quickest way to create an affiliate link:
At the top of your Affiliate Dashboard, you can find your unique affiliate ID. In the above screenshot (Affiliate dashboard top right), note my id is 10lMjr.  Similarly, find your ID. Now, whenever you want to link to any app or product from App Store, iBooks, and the Mac App Store, suffix it with ?at=XXXX (XXX here is your unique affiliate ID).
Example:

• Normal link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/desk-write-more/id915839505
• Affiliate link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/desk-write-more/id915839505?at=10lMjr

Simple! Is int it?

Important facts about Apple Affiliate program:

• Cookie period is 24 hours. That means, if a user clicks on your affiliate link & make the purchase within 24 hours, you will get a commission.
• You get commission of 7% of iTunes products (Apps & other content).
• Payments will be available to cash out after 90 days of the sale.
• Links to the Apple Online Store products do not earn commissions on the iTunes affiliate program.
• Links to iTunes Gifts on the desktop or within iOS, however, are eligible for affiliate commission.
• Resource: Advanced affiliate linking

iTunes Shortcode WordPress Plugin:

If you are using WordPress platform, you should use iTunes Shortcode plugin. This plugin lets you add app details in an interactive way, which will get you more clicks & sales. It also supports QR code, which will increase the downloads. This plugin cost only $14 & is recommended for any tech blog, which review or talks about iOS Apps.

How to Make Money Launching an Online Course on Udemy

Remember a couple of decades back how difficult it was to find a teacher when we wanted to learn something new? Whether a curriculum course, a professional course or any hobby that we wanted to pursue, we would ask our friends or family to suggest a class in our local area, and if were unable to find such a class, we would be forced by the lack of availability to give up the pursuit of our dreams, passions or hobbies. Those of us who are from smaller towns and cities would have particularly few resources available.
The steep rise of online business aided by the growth of the Internet over the past 20 years or so has resulted in a great shift to online resources.  And why not – when we can locate and learn from excellent connoisseurs around the globe at a nominal price?

What Is Udemy?

Udemy is a platform that brings a teacher and a student together. It is one of the best online platforms for this purpose as it provides ample amounts of support and free tools to instructors to build a course and monetize it. It also offers the teacher tips to improve his skills, teaching style and the course itself.

Check out online courses on Udemy

Anyone can create a course on Udemy on any subject in which they are knowledgeable, and can offer it to millions of students on Udemy.com. Currently, Udemy has around 6 million students across 190 countries and offers courses in 100 languages. Udemy’s top 10 instructors have earned more than $17 million to date.
Could you be the next millionaire educator?  To find out, you’ll need to get started with Udemy today.

How to launch your course on Udemy:

Let’s have a quick look at the process of submitting your first course. If you don’t have your course ready, skip to next part or wait for my upcoming articles.

1. Sign Up: Go to https://www.udemy.com/ and sign up for a free account. By signing up for the account, you will have access to millions of free and paid courses available on Udemy. You can either create a course or learn anything you want based on your interests. Signing up is easy, and Udemy is simple to use.

2. How to create your course: Once you have signed up, click on “Browse Courses” and “Go to My Courses”. There you will find a page that looks like the screen shot below. Simply click on “Teaching”, and then “Create a course”. You are now ready to become an instructor!

Course roadmap

Once you have decided the topic of your course, you will find thousands of courses similar to yours’ available on Udemy. For this reason, it is essential for you to stand out and differentiate yourself from the other available instructors and courses on the subject matter you wish to teach. In order to do this, it is crucial that you plan a distinct strategy to approach your target audience with course material that will interest them in your course in particular.
The four significant steps in launching your content in the marketplace are as follows:

1. Planning
2. Preparing
3. Polishing
4. Publishing

I will be discussing these steps in greater detail in my upcoming articles, so for now let’s stick with the basics.
Once you have followed the above steps, you are ready to step out into the Udemy ring and earn your fair market share as an instructor.

How the Udemy revenue model works:

There is no fee involved for creating a course in Udemy.
For selling, Udemy offers different revenue models based on whether the lead is through Udemy’s organic traffic, advertising campaign, affiliate marketing or entirely through the instructor.

1. Instructor promotion: 100% of the revenue from sales is given to the instructor if he has generated the lead. For this purpose, the instructor can create a coupon code and share it in his circle, and anyone using his code to buy his course will be counted as his lead.
2. Udemy organic traffic: A 50%-50% revenue sharing model will apply if the lead comes to Udemy through organic traffic.
3. Others: The revenue sharing model will vary between 25% to 97% based on whether the lead to Udemy is through affiliates, ads, deals, etc.

Note: Effective April 4, 2016, all Udemy courses will be priced from $20-$50 each. In addition, they will still run promotions for students, but discounts will be capped at 50% off.
Resources for Udemy:
Udemy will help you from the very first step of creating your course to the promotion of it. There are many free resources available on Udemy, which will guide you through all the steps in making your course successful. In my opinion, this is one of the best advantages that Udemy provides.

• You can learn more about Udemy support here.
• You can also join the Udemy Studio on Facebook where you can get feedback and help on your course from thousands of other Udemy instructors.

This is the first in a series of articles which ShoutMeLoud plans to publish about Udemy. Be sure to subscribe to our email list to stay updated about our upcoming articles.

12 Great Ways to Use Your Business Blog’s RSS Feed

f you have a blog on your website, then you probably have an RSS feed which gives you lots of options when it comes to distributing your content with your audience and beyond. Let’s look at the various ways you should be using your RSS feed.

What is an RSS Feed

A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a XML-based format for your content. Most blogging platforms, for example, will have an RSS feed built in. Whenever you start publishing posts, your latest posts will be updated in the RSS feed. Visitors to your website can subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed in an RSS reader such as Google Reader.

Ways to Use RSS on Your Blog

First of all, let’s look at the various ways you could (and should) be using your blog’s RSS feed on your blog itself.
Burn it to FeedBurner
Feedburner is a service that allows you to track analytics about your RSS feed’s subscribers and activity. It was once a standalone service, but was later acquired by Google so you can now set up Feedburner for your RSS feeds within your Google Account. Once configured, you will get statistics such as these and more.

To set up your RSS feed with Feedburner, simply copy the URL of your RSS feed and paste it into the “Burn a feed right this instant” box.

On the next screen, you will enter the Feed Title and address (URL) you would like your feed to have.

On the next screen you will be given your RSS feed’s new URL on Feedburner. You will want to use this URL anywhere you reference your RSS feed on your blog. If your theme has an administration panel, look for a field where you can enter your Feedburner URL. The following is how it looks when using the Thesis theme for WordPress.

When you click on Next, you will be given the options to setup tracking features for your RSS feed.

One option is for Feedburner to track clickthroughs. This is completely up to you and your need to know the clickthrough rate, but I leave this setting unchecked. Whenever you are tracking clickthroughs, it will make the URL for your RSS feed items redirect through http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FeedName/~3/… instead of your content’s direct URL. For RSS feed subscribers, that isn’t such a bad thing. But whenever you use things like CommentLuv (the benefits of which will be discussed later on in the post), you will want your URL to be directed to your blog instead of redirected through Feedproxy. Once you are done setting up stats tracking, click next to finish set up.
After you have set up your feed, you will want to consider giving visitors the option to subscribe to your content via email. If so, you will want to go to the Publicize tab and click on Email Subscriptions. Click on the Activate button to start email subscription service for your RSS feed.

You will then want to click on Communication Preferences in the left sidebar menu. This will allow you to customize the activation email subscribers receive to confirm their subscription.

Once customized, click Save. The next options you will want to configure are under Email Branding in the left sidebar menu. This is where you can upload a logo, customize the Email Subject line, and change the font styles, colors, and sizes to format the email subscribers will receive. Click Save when finished.
The last (and most important) setting for your email subscription is the Delivery Options. This is where you will tell Feedburner what time to deliver new RSS feed updates to subscribers.

Once saved, click on the Email Subscriptions link again. Here, you can get the code to add a subscription form on your blog or you can get a link to your take visitors to the opt-in form for subscribing via email.

Now that you have Feedburner setup, let’s look at what you should do with your new subscription option.
Encourage Visitors to Subscribe
Of course, you will want to encourage visitors to subscribe. I always suggest putting a link to your RSS feed and email subscription option in several places including the following.

• The Sidebar – The sidebar is a great place to put your subscription options, including RSS, email, newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. While you might want people to only subscribe via RSS or email, you should give them a few popular options so they can follow you in the way they choose.
• At the End of Posts – Once a visitor has read a satisfying post, they will be more likely to subscribe to you. Be sure that you offer a link to your RSS feed and other subscription options at the ends of posts.
• In the Footer – If you’re not comfortable adding subscription options in the sidebar or after your blog content, at least add it to the footer. This way, you can direct people to the options you want them to choose in the sidebar and post footer, but still give those who want RSS a link at the bottom of the page.

Create Category Feeds
If you have multiple categories on your blog, each of which has a considerable amount of regular content, consider offering RSS feeds for them individually. This way, visitors can subscribe to the content they are most interested in. To find out if you can do this on your blog, you will want to go to a category page (such as http://domain.com/blog/category/social-media). If you use Firefox or Chrome’s RSS Subscription Extension, you should have an RSS icon in your address bar. Click on this to see if the category has an individual feed.

Click on the link to the blog category feed, then burn it to Feedburner using the steps outlined above. Then offer it on a subscription options page or at the end of posts within that category. One site that uses this approach well is Mashable because they have so much content in a variety of topics. They offer RSS feeds, Twitter, and Facebook subscription options for their top topics.

Other sites that do this include TechCrunch, CNN, and Apple (although mostly for news, knowledge base, and iTunes items).
Subscribe to It
The next most important thing you can do with your RSS feed is subscribe to it, both in an RSS feed reader and by email. This way, you will know if there are any issues if the feed doesn’t update in the reader or you don’t receive an email.
Add Custom RSS Footers
If you’re a WordPress users (self-hosted only), you have the option of adding an extra line of content to your RSS feed using the RSS Footer plugin.

This plugin is great for two reasons. One, you can promote your social links, main website, or anything else at the end of your RSS feed content for subscribers. Two, you can make sure that anyone who auto-steals your content (otherwise known as content scrapers, thieves, etc.) end up with a link and accreditation to your post no matter where they use it. What you see in the preview will be added to the end (or beginning) of your RSS content.

Ways to Use RSS on Social Media

Now that we’ve looked at some crafty ways to use your blog’s RSS feed on your blog, let’s look at some ways to incorporate it into your social media.
Send it to Twitter via Twitterfeed
If you don’t want to miss sharing your blog’s latest content on Twitter, you can use a free service like Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed will update your Twitter account with the latest post from any RSS feed, including your own. To use it, simply sign up for an account, and click the Create New Feed to set up your feed. Start with the Feed Name and RSS Feed URL.

Click on the Advanced Settings link and be sure to change the following.

• Post Content – Be sure to use the dropdown for title only. This way it will just give your post title and shortened URL without the cutoff first sentence of the post included in the tweet.
• Bitly Settings – If you track analytics using the Bit.ly shortener and have your own account, click on the bitly settings to enter your API information so tweets sent through Twitterfeed will be tracked there.
• Facebook Options – Although you can use Twitterfeed to update Facebook, I would suggest not doing this. Third party updates to Facebook usually don’t hold as much weight as direct updates to Facebook.
• Post Prefix & Suffix – Use these to enter something before or after your tweet. If you are tweeting you company blog, you could enter RT @companytwitter for the prefix and a common hashtag like #business (if each blog post is on the same topic) in the suffix.

Click Continue to Step 2 once you are finished with your Advanced Settings. Select Twitter as the Publishing Service. You will then have the option to authenticate the Twitter account you want to use to publish updates to this RSS feed.

You can also set custom UTM parameters so you can track your Twitterfeed related clicks in Google Analytics. For example, if you are setting up multiple accounts to share your blog post via Twitterfeed, you could always include the Twitter username as the medium instead of just Twitter, or make the medium twitter-username. This way you can see which Twitter accounts drives the most traffic to your latest content. Click the Create Service button when you’re finished.
The neat part is that you can use your Twitterfeed dashboard to determine the popularity of your posts if you use Bit.ly as the URL shortener. Just click on the feed in your dashboard to see the number of bit.ly clicks for the latest feed items you have shared.

Note that this is not just clicks from the tweets you send via Twitterfeed, but the total clicks for the bit.ly URL for each feed item.
Feed it to Your Facebook Page Using NetworkedBlogs
I always suggest that you update your Facebook page directly without the use of any apps, but if you absolutely must use an app, try out Networked Blogs to update your latest blog content to your Facebook page. You will first need to sign into Facebook and register your blog with Networked Blogs. If you have previously done this, skip the next few steps and go straight to Syndication.

On the next screen, fill in any missing information that isn’t pulled automatically from your blog, especially the blog link, name, RSS feed link, language, and your email.

On the next screen, you will be asked if you are the author of the blog. You will need to either ask your friends to confirm you are the author or (for a faster process), install a widget to your blog.

You can add them anywhere on your blog. I prefer using a Text sidebar widget in WordPress for quick addition and removal.

Once installed, click the Verify Now button. Once it is confirmed, you can remove the widget. This means it is up on your site for maybe five minutes.
Now that your blog is confirmed, you will see your latest posts and thumbnail in the Networked Blogs screen. Above your latest post, you should see a line that says This blog syndicates to 0 targets. Click the manage link to setup automatic feeds to your Facebook page.

When you click on the Add Facebook Target button, you will get the chance to select up to 20 pages and your personal profile. You will also get a preview of what your update will look like using your latest post. Be sure to click on the Customize Post button for a few more options.

Here you can confirm the image options and also remove the NetworkedBlogs Toolbar from displaying above your post when a visitor clicks the update on your Facebook profile or page.
Put it in the WordPress Application on LinkedIn
Want to have fresh content on your LinkedIn profile? Now you can using the WordPress application. To add this to your LinkedIn profile, sign in to your LinkedIn profile and go to the Application Directory. Then scroll down and click on the WordPress application. Click on Add Application to begin.

On the next screen, enter your blog’s URL. You can have it pull any recent posts or any posts tagged with the keyword LinkedIn.

Click Save to finish, and you will see your latest posts added to your profile.

More Ways to Use RSS Feeds

There are so many ways other ways to use your blog’s RSS feed. The following are just a few more ideas to try out.
Syndicate Your Content
Some sites allow you to add your blog feed to their network, and they will publish your latest content to their site. Alternatively, they may moderate your content first to determine if it meets specific criteria, then publish your content to their site. The advantage of this is exposing your content to a new and possibly larger audience. The downside is that people won’t have to go to your site to read it.
My suggestion when it comes to syndicating your content is to make sure you do it with a network with a larger audience. This way you benefit by hopefully drawing some of that audience to your own site.
Some sites that allow this include the following sites listed below. They are all part of the same network. To participate, simply create an account and add your blog’s RSS feed to your profile. They will moderate the content and post anything their audience might enjoy.

• Social Media Today – The world’s best thinkers on social media covering Twitter, strategy, search, ROI, policy, metrics, marketing, influence, Google+, Facebook, and more.
• The Engery Collective – The world’s best thinkers on energy & climate covering wind, transportation, smartgrid, oil, nuclear, climate, cleantech, and more.
• The Social Customer – The world’s best thinkers on CRM & customer service covering Twitter, social CRM, reputation management, Facebook, customer service, and more.
• Sustainable Cities Collective – The world’s best thinkers on urban future covering transportation, sustainability, placemaking, health & food, design & architecture, community planning, bicycling, and more.
• SmartData Collective – The world’s best thinkers on business intelligence & data analytics covering warehousing, visualization, marketing automation, market research, governance, data mining, cloud, analytics, and more.
• Sustainable Business Forum – The future of healthy enterprise covering workplace safety, environmental stewardship, culture & leadership, corporate social responsibility, and more.
• HealthWorks Collective – The world’s best thinkers on healthcare covering social media, public health, medical technology, medical ethics, policy, business, global healthcare, and more.
• The Customer Collective – The world’s best thinkers on sales & marketing covering social selling, sales process, sales, online community, marketing, lead generation, customer service, CRM, branding, and more.
• MyVenturePad – The world’s best thinkers on venture funding & growth covering women entrepreneurs, technology, startups, leadership, business transformation, and more.
• Governing People – The world’s best thinkers on e-government and open democracy.

CommentLuv Links
If you want to gain more exposure for your blog posts, be sure to comment on blogs enabled with the CommentLuv plugin. Simply search Google for “commentluv enabled” keyword to find blogs in your niche / industry. Once you find them, you will enter your comment like usual with your name, email, and URL of your blog. Below the comment’s Submit button, you will see a drop down that allows you to select from one or ten of your latest blog posts.

The post that you select will be hyperlinked beneath your comment.

This is a great way to drive traffic to your latest post and, on some blogs, get a dofollow backlink to that post.
Send Your Latest Post via Email with WiseStamp
The WiseStamp browser add on that allows you to send a beautifully formatted signature with your emails on Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail also allows you to enter your RSS feed to add your latest blog posts to your signature as well.

You can do it with the RSS app that will add the latest update to any RSS feed or with the WordPress app (settings shown above) that adds a more robust snippet of your latest post.

Make Money Blogging

In 2002 I began to blog one day on impulse after seeing another blog and being fascinated by the medium. I had no idea at the time that what I was doing would ultimately lead to a complete change in my career path and end up being something I’d make a full time income from in several years later.
I had no experience or profile in the online space, no technical ability and while I had done some public speaking had done very little in the way of communicating through the written word.
I did not make any money from my first blogs for almost 18 months (I didn’t even know you could so did not try) and when I did start to try to make money from them the first income was just a few dollars a week – but gradually in time my income grew from a part time income to a full time income and then beyond.

How to make money blogging?

I’m often asked how to make money blogging so want in this article to lay out some basic steps that I see most bloggers who make a living from blogging go through.

1. Set up your blog
2. Start creating useful content
3. Get off your blog and start finding readers
4. Build engagement with the readers that come
5. Start making money from the readership you have through one or more of a variety of income streams

Sounds easy doesn’t it! On some levels the process is simple – but you need to know up front that there’s a lot to each step and below I’m going to give you some pointers on each including some further reading.

1. Set Up Your Blog

In order to make money blogging you’re going to need to have a blog. While this is pretty obvious it
is also a stumbling block for many PreBloggers who come to the idea of blogging with little or no technical background.
If that’s you – don’t worry! It was my story too and most bloggers start out feeling a little overwhelmed by the process of starting their blog.
If you need a little help I would highly recommend you check out my article How to Start a Blog in which I run through the steps you need to take to get up and running. It’s really not as hard as you might think!
Further Reading on starting a blog:
How to Start a Blog

2. Start Creating Useful Content

A blog is not a blog without content so once you’ve set your blog up you need to focus your attention upon creating useful content. What you choose to create will depend a little on the topic that you choose to write about (on that note, most successful bloggers have some focus to their blogging whether that be a niche or a demographic that they write for).
The key with creating content is to make it as useful as possible. Focus upon creating content that changes people’s lives in some way will be the type of content that people will value the most and it will help people to feel like they know, like and trust you – which is really important if you later want to make money from your blog.
Further Reading on creating content:
There are thousands of articles and podcast episodes on ProBlogger about how to create content. See our latest stuff in the content category on our blog and on the podcast. Also check out some of these popular articles on different aspects of creating content.

3. Get off your blog and start finding readers

As you create the most useful content that you possibly can it is easy to get very insular with your focus and spend most of your time looking at building your blog. Many bloggers have a ‘build it and they will come mentality’ with their blogging but this is a bit of a trap.
If you want to make money from your blog you need to not only focus upon building a great blog but it is also necessary to get off your blog and to start promoting it.
There are many ways to experiment with growing your blog’s audience that I’ve written in previous blog posts and talked about in podcasts (I’ll share some further reading and listening below) but it is important to enter into all these strategies remembering that you should not just be looking for ‘traffic’ but ‘readers’.
Start by thinking carefully about the type of reader you’d like to have read your blog. You might like to create an avatar of that reader (sometimes called a reader persona or profile) to help you work out who you’re trying to attract.
Once you know who you’re hoping to have read your blog ask yourself where that type of person might already be gathering online. Begin to list where they might be gathering:

• Are they reading certain blogs? List the top 3
• Are they participating in certain forums? List the top 3
• Are they listening to podcasts? List the top 3
• Are they engaging on certain social networks? List the top 3
• Which accounts are they following on each of these social networks? List the top 3

Each of these places that you reader might already be gathering has opportunities to develop a presence whether that be by leaving good comments, offering to create guest posts or simply by being helpful and answering questions.
With this list of blogs, focus, podcasts, social media accounts in hand you will have some good spots to begin to hang out and create value.
The key is to build a presence, to add value, to foster relationships – not to engage in spammy practices.

4. Build engagement with the readers that come

With sustained focus upon creating great content and finding readers for your blog you’ll begin to notice people visiting your blog and engaging with your content.
At this point you need to switch your focus to engaging with those readers and building community.
Respond to comments, reach out to those readers personally and do everything that you can to keep them coming back again and again
Look after the readers you already have well and you’ll find they spread the word of your blog for you and help make your blog even more widely read.
Having an engaged reader is also much easier to make money from.

5. Start making money from the readership you have through one or more of a variety of income streams

OK – the first four steps of starting a blog, creating content, finding readers and building engagement with those readers are important foundations that you really do need to get in place before you’ll be able to build long term income for your blog.
There’s no avoiding that what we’ve covered is a lot of work but if you do it well you’ll be setting yourself up well and giving yourself every chance of being able to make money from your blog.
With these foundations in place you’re now ready to start attempting to make money from your blog but you do need to be aware that just because you have set up your blog, have content and have engaged readers that the money won’t just automatically flow.
It takes continued work and experimentation to make money from your blog.
I’ve written many articles here on ProBlogger on the topic of making money blogging and will link to some suggested further reading on the topic below but let me share a few introductory words on the topic first.

There are Many Ways to Make Money Blogging

One of the biggest misconceptions that I see bloggers having about monetising blogs is that they have to do it in one of a handful of ways. The reality is that there are many ways to make money from blogs.
A few years ago I decided to sit down and list all the ways that I saw bloggers making money from their blogs and created this ‘money map’ (click to enlarge).

As you’ll see there are quite a few options that bloggers have to derive income from their blogs.
Don’t worry though – while this map is quite overwhelming at a first glance there are a few main ‘clusters’ of income streams that you might want to focus upon rather than all the specific ones.

1. Advertising Income

This is where many bloggers start. In many ways this model of making money from blogs is not dissimilar to how a magazine or newspaper sells ads. As your traffic and brand grows you’ll find advertisers will be willing to pay to get exposure to your audience.
While you need decent traffic to do a direct deal with an advertisers there are ad networks (like Google AdSense) that act as a middleman and enable smaller publishers to run ads on their blogs. This is where many bloggers start (I did too).

2. Affiliate Income

A recent survey of ProBlogger readers found that affiliate promotions was the most common type of income that our readers have.
To put it most simply – affiliate income is when you link to a product that is for sale on another site (take Amazon for example) and if someone follows your link and ends up buying that product you earn a commission on that sale.
There’s more to it than that but this is another great place to start with monetising your blog as affiliate programs are easy to sign up for and if you have an engaged audience you will find they follow the recommendations that you make on products.

3. Products

While I started out making money from my blogs through advertising and affiliate promotions today my #1 source of income is through selling eBooks and courses on my blogs. These ‘virtual products’ take work to create but have been lucrative for me and many other bloggers.
Products can of course take many forms and income virtual information products like eBooks or courses but also other virtual products like software, reports etc.
The other type of product some bloggers sell is physical products. This is most common when the blogger has a business but sometimes bloggers also create merchandise (T-shirts etc) or other physical products to sell.

4. Continuity Programs

A continuity program is when you set up some kind of subscription for readers to buy that gets them access to something exclusive. A reader pays you a monthly or annual fee for access to some combination of:

• exclusive content
• community area/forum
• coaching/mentoring/mastermind group
• other benefits like access to products, services, software

5. Services

The last main way that I see bloggers making money from their blogs today is through selling their own services in some way.
The first time this happened to me was here on ProBlogger where many years ago a reader asked if I would do a coaching call with them. While I no longer offer this service it opened my eyes to new ways of making money from my blog.
I know of many bloggers who offer coaching, consulting and mentoring services but others who offer a wide variety of freelance services from web design, to social media management, to book keeping, to speaking, to event management etc.
The key is to use your blog to highlight your expertise to the point that people want to hire you as a result of what they see that you know and can do.

Multiple Income Streams

Most full time bloggers make money more than one way and end up with multiple income streams.
Diversifying your income in this way not only is smart and helps you spread the risk from having all your eggs in one basket but it also speeds up the journey to going full time.
I learned this lesson the hard way after having most of my income coming from one source in the early days but after a bit of a bad experience began to diversify my income streams  – it was one of the best things I ever did!
Today I make money from around 12 different streams.

This didn’t just happen overnight though –

Direct or Indirect Income?

One last little distinction in terms of income streams…. Some bloggers make money directly ‘from’ their blog while others make money indirectly ‘because’ of their blog.
Direct Income – when I started making money from my blogs it was through ‘direct’ income streams. I put AdSense ads on my blog and promoted some products on Amazon as an affiliate and the more readers I had the more income began to trickle in (it really was a trickle at first). In time as my traffic grew this income grew and I was also able to experiment with other direct forms of income such as selling advertising directly to advertisers.
Indirect Income – later on in my blogging journey opportunity has come for ‘indirect’ income streams. As my blogs and profile grew as a result of my blogging I was able to sell my services as a speaker and consultant and was offered the opportunity to author a book with the publisher Wiley. Later I was able to start an event for bloggers which also made money. None of this income came directly from the blog – but rather it came ‘because’ of my blog.
While the way that I make money blogging is a combination of direct and indirect income many bloggers focus upon one or the other.

10 Effective Ways To Popularize Your Website

A website becomes popular when it starts generating more and more traffic. However, generating traffic is not an overnight task. It takes steady efforts to keep the traffic flow going high with time and thus, it is essential for any webmaster to learn all ways of traffic generation. Here are 10 most effective ways to boost the popularity of your website:

1. Site Engine Optimization for free flow of traffic

Search engines enable you to get free traffic in an easiest way. Thus it becomes important for you to optimize website in a manner that you appear first on the search engine when particular keywords are being searched. SEO is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to generate traffic in a short span with less effort.

2. Update Content

One of the most important things for making your readers come back is frequently updating the contents of your website. Keeping your contents updated will not only helps a Webmaster to attract the constant flow of traffic but also brings him up on the search engines. Good content is a necessity to keep the targeted traffic flow coming on your website.

3. Capitalize on Social Bookmarking Websites

One should take advantage of social bookmarking sites to generate free traffic. The famous social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Reddit etc can help a webmaster to divert the heavy flow of traffic to his website.All one needs to do is simply learn through Internet how to get maximum traffic from social bookmarking websites.

4. Take Advantage of Social Networking Websites

Social networking websites are a big hit in today’s time and can be easily used to attract additional traffic to your website. At times, advertising on Facebook kind of social networks can get traffic that can even beat the traffic coming via Google or other search engines.

5. Try to create Back Links

Getting links through others sites in your niche can attract a lot of free traffic. Placing your link on popular sites of the same niche, especially without the no-follow attribute can do wonders for you. The nofollow attribute provides the link which is useless for SEO but can still generate plenty of traffic via back links, if the placement is correct. Meanwhile, one should note that linking to bad sites might hamper your popularity and ranking in the search engine. So, it is important to make a smart choice while getting a list of sites within your niche where you can place your website links. I will recommend to try guest blogging which will give you quality and authority backlinks for long term.

6. Grab chances of free promotion

Free promotion of your website can be of great help, if done in a proper manner. Promotion through free classified ads, submission in directories and listings etc. are some of the methods of promoting your website for free. Mostly free methods of promotion do not work well but if they are done in a smart manner, they can be of great advantage.

7. Offer free product or service

Anything that is provided for free is bound to attract a lot of people. If you try to create quality content adhering to the niche of your site and alongside offer a product or service for free, it will increase the chances of your traffic flow improving. In the long run, when the product or service becomes popular, the traffic will increase on its own. This will raise the probability of other sections of your website being visited.

8. Use Viral content for free traffic

Viral content is similar to a virus that spreads as users promote it for free. Thus a webmaster can use free products and services in the form of viral content to attract free traffic. The only work is to create quality content and post it on few popular sites. Thereby the users do the work. Hot Videos or presentations and images are the most popular forms of viral content. Try wpsubscribers plugin if you are on wordpress platform to offer such type of content in more attractive way to your readers.

9. Make use of Offline Promotion

Offline promotions are often neglected but they can be an important tool to make your brand popular and can attract a lot of free traffic. This method is rarely used to promote websites but if one knows how to use it, they can work. Some of the common offline promotions include printing of URL on your business card, distribution of pamphlets or advertisements, using souvenirs or sticking the URL on company vehicles.

10. Mentioning in your Signature

You should simply use your website URL in your signature and generate traffic. This might be very useful if you are a popular member in a forum related to your niche. There is always ample traffic flow on popular forums and whenever someone reads one of your posts and like it, there are great chances that they click on the link in your signature to know more about you and read more about the topics on the same niche.
I’m hoping the above mentioned methods will help you make your website really popular among search engines and your website readers. And in case, you feel, there are some other methods, that can make our website or blog popular, please share it in the comments section below.

Earn Your First $500 From ClickBank Using 3 Simple Steps

Earning money from internet is not so difficult but the only thing you need is to follow a technique until you get the result. Not only technique but the right one that can really make you money. No doubt that internet is full of techniques about money making, but a few will attract your attention. Blogging and specially affiliate marketing are the best methods that can make you a lot of money. Let me help you in earning your first $100 from internet, but follow the technique till the end and you will surly get the result.

Watch the video to register a free account with clickbank and pick your first product to sell online. After watching the video, go to the Promotional ways to start promoting your products to make commissions.

1. Find a Product to Promote it

Register a account with Click Bank (One of the largest affiliate program were you can buy, sell and promote digital products) and find a product that you can promote to earn your first $100. It is recommended to choose a product in the range of $20 to $50. This is a average product and you need at least 8 sales to earn approximately $100. It depends on the product that you are going to promote. If the price of the product is greater, then you can earn more commission. Normal commission at clickbank is 50% to 75%. However it should be noted that the greater the price the lesser the chances of making commission. User tend to buy products that have less price.



Ok now you have registered account and you can start promoting clickbank products to earn money. The username is your clickbank ID and you will be needing that ID to promote products. The next step is to visit Clickbank MarketPlace and search for a product that you want to promote. In the search box type the name of any product, e.g Windows 7.
A list of products will appear, you will see its price and commission. Choose the product and click on the green button which says “Promote “.
A popup window will appear, where you will have to enter your Account Nick Name Or Username. Enter on “Create” button and on the next page you will get your affiliate code. You need to promote that code in order to earn commission. This code is only for the specific product and whenever someone use this code to buy the product, you get your commission.

2. Promotion Platforms

The following are the possible promotion platforms through which you can promote the products using your affiliate code and earn commission.

• Blog
• Websites
• Forums
• Social Media
• Article Submission
• Guest Blogging or Comment Posting

If you want to start a blog, then go for Blogger and create a free blog. However you will have to optimize your blog for Search Engines in order to drive free targeted search engine traffic. Similarly if you want to start a website then it will cost you money, because you will have to buy a domain and webhosting. Here is detailed free course on how to create a blog.
I will try to tell you about the free possible promotion channels. So that you can earn from clickbank quickly. Follow the steps mentioned below to earn your first $100.

3. Promotion Starts

>> Find some forums that are  related to the products. Find your product related forums and place your affiliate link in your signature. Start participating in forums and you will be able to drive tons of free traffic to your product page.
Make sure to write a effective anchor text for your affiliate link. Also try to participate in relevant categories, i mean threads. The more you participate the quicker you can make sales. And remember your target is at least 8 sales. That could be very easy.
Register in least 10 forums and try to post at least 100 comments in every forum. However, don’t spam in the forum otherwise you account can get ban. If the forum is relevant to your product, you will surely earn commission in your first few days. Test the product if it is performing good, then post more comments, otherwise change the product and start promoting that one.
>> If you are on facebook, then share the link with your friends, but in a sensible way. Do you know about RelationShip Marketing, try to use it. First build trust and then recommend the products to your friends,and you will surely get positive result.
>> Article marketing and comment posting is also very effective method to promote your product for free on the web. Write articles about the product and publish in article submission websites including your affiliate link in signature. Ezinearticles, articlesbase and hubpages are great websites to write article for the promotion of your product. On other hand posting comments on blogs including your affiliate link in the URL field can also give you free traffic. The more time you spend the more sales you can make.
These are the possible ways through which you can promote your products and earn your first $100 and even $1000. The success depends on your struggle, the more you struggle the more you earn. Try to follow the steps and I guarantee you that you can make it.

Affiliate Marketing: Fast Ways to Make Money Online

f you’re looking for ways to make money online, affiliate marketing should be at the top of your list. Affiliate programs repeatedly top income reports for high-earning bloggers. In exchange for your promotion of a third-party product, you will receive a percentage of sales every time a customer makes a purchase through your link.
Sounds easy, right? It is. Here’s how to make it work for you

1. Embrace products that make sense.

The easiest and most natural context for an affiliate product is something that most have these days, a blog – especially if you already have a following. If readers have come to trust you and your recommendations, they will consider purchasing a product you endorse. However, this is certainly not the only way to be successful. Options like social media, paid ads, and email marketing can help drive your affiliate marketing success.
So, how do you choose an affiliate program? Find a natural fit. If you sell a product that is out of line with and doesn’t have a natural appeal to your audience, your readers will be repelled by the idea that they’re being sold to.
First, look at the products you already use. And remember, by promoting a product, you’re putting your own reputation on the line. Say your site, email campaign, or social media platform caters to new entrepreneurs – it’s a given that these entrepreneurs all need websites. Products related to webhosting or theme development are both great candidates and can be big earners, especially if you communicate your positive experiences. In comparison, trying to sell a weight-loss program on your business site would probably be a real turnoff for your audience, as it would be out of context.
Ultimately, it’s all about understanding what your audience really wants. Say you’re an organic nutrition and wellness coach. For you, a natural weight-loss product you’ve used successfully could be a great fit. But be careful – a more commercial product in that same sector could be a huge turnoff for your particular audience.

2. Choose the right model.

If you can’t find a way to make a product fit into your content strategy naturally – and you feel deeply that you want to promote it – consider trying a different platform, like Pinterest or email marketing specifically devoted to people in that target market.
Suppose you love fashion or maybe you’re all about the latest and greatest kitchen gadgets. These are both great opportunities for affiliate marketing. However, if your current blog, website or social platform (if you have any of these) might not be the best fit. Try your hand at a pay-per click campaign, all you need is an account, a landing page and a small budget to get started!
Again, though, be careful – if it is easy to sense that you’ve endorsed a product you don’t actually like, you’ll lose trust. And then you’re just another Internet spammer.

3. Invest in a compelling visual brand.

Last but not least, remember that design is important. Beautiful images in your display ads or quality website design are a strong signal to potential customers that you are selling a quality product. Slapping together a shoddy design and expecting it to convert won’t work any better for you than it does for any other type of company.
If you don’t have the skills to build yourself a top-notch site or design compelling graphics, invest in a quality designer and copywriter to help you get your project off the ground. They’ll be able to help you set up your business for successful conversion. After all, if you’re going to put the time into starting a new venture, don’t you want to succeed?
Whether you want to supplement your current income or go out on your own, affiliate marketing truly can be a path to profit. Invest in a strong idea and avoid taking shortcuts, and you’ll find yourself on the way to a new line of income in no time.

Start Making Money with ClickBank in 5 Easy Steps

etting up a ClickBank account is straightforward and easy.  Within the time it takes to do a load of laundry, you could have your ClickBank affiliate id and earning commissions with these five easy steps.
Step 1:  Secure a ClickBank affiliate id.
This process is as straightforward as it seems.  No charges or hidden fees.  Once you set up your ClickBank affiliate id, keep offline records of your id and password. You may like to Click here and fill out the sign up form.
Step 2:  Go ahead and upload your preferred payment means.
When you start making money, you need to signup for which way you would like the money delivered to you.  Get this out of the way before going on to any of the other steps so you can make money quicker.
Step 3:  Select a product with a promotional page.
This is the most important step of the process. Beware!  You could spend all day browsing products.  To avoid getting lost in so many products, the best way to approach this is to choose an area or niche you know something about.  You also want to know something about the audience the product targets; such as, where they most frequent the web and what kinds of things they regularly purchase.
There is at least one area you are familiar with where you already know this information, so don’t get bogged down in trying to do complicated research on a niche you are not familiar with.  The key to make money when you first start is to keep it simple and follow the formula.
What you are looking for in a promotional page is something that compels you personally to buy.  If it is a product you would personally purchase based on the promotional page and based on the content of the product then that is a good place to start.  Many people do not do this and will sell anything.  If you ever choose to do video marketing or other public relations types of selling, you want to make sure that all of the products that you market meet your stamp of approval.  You are building a reputation and that needs to be protected with quality products and professional advertising.
Step 4:  Purchase a domain for the promotional page.
When you choose your product, your ClickBank affiliate id will be automatically embedded in the product page.  The next step is to turn the promotional page into a personalized website.  Purchasing a domain name gives off the image that you own the product and that it is a professional product.  Using the ClickBank generated link looks long and complicated and will not show up on search engines.
You can purchase domain names at a very cheap rate.  Simply take the ClickBank generated web address and attach your new domain name to it.
Step 5:  Advertise and draw traffic.
Once you have setup and secured your ClickBank affiliate id, the key to making money immediately is in your advertising.  You cannot depend on search engine traffic to generate enough sales for you.  You will also need to use article marketing, video marketing, or social media to drive traffic to your promotional page.

Earn money from Ebay - WITHOUT selling a Thing!

If you're looking for a way to earn income from eBay without having to actually sell any products, eBay’s affiliate program offers a way for online content publishers to make money by driving high-quality traffic to eBay.

Affiliate marketing is a way for content publishers to make money by promoting ecommerce merchants. Essentially, publishers can monetize existing web traffic by referring visitors to their merchant partners through the use of trackable links. When one of your referred customers makes a purchase, you can earn a commission.

eBay Partner Network (ePN) is eBay's in-house affiliate program, and offers a staggering array of options for publishers to tap into and profit from “the world’s online marketplace.” The program provides publishers with resources to monetize their websites, social pages, mobile apps and other online properties by converting visitors into eBay buyers.
 
How to Get Started
Once you’ve established a web presence and have decided that eBay Partner Network is a good fit for you, you’ll want to apply to ePN. This is a quick process, taking only minutes to complete.
Once you’re accepted, you’ll get access to tools such as banners, buttons and text links to add to your website or social page. You can simply copy and paste code to your site, so it’s easy for novices to get started. If you have more advanced development skills, eBay provides access to its API so you can build more customized solutions.
Choose the items or categories that make sense for you to promote to your audience. For example, if you have a fashion blog, you can choose to only promote items within that niche.
 
Making Money with eBay’s Affiliate Program
Okay, now onto the stuff you really want to know about – how do you start making money as an eBay affiliate?!
Whenever one of your visitors clicks over to eBay and completes a Winning Bid or Buy It Now purchase, you can earn money. You’ll get a percentage of eBay’s revenue on the sale - the more sales you drive for eBay, the more money you'll earn!
eBay Partner Network’s commission rates vary by product category, and you’ll also receive a 200% commission bonus every time you drive a new or reactivated buyer to purchase (a buyer is considered “reactivated” if they haven’t made a purchase in 12 months).
ePN handles all the tracking and reporting, and provides a portal for you to login to view your traffic and earnings details at any time.
 
Keys to eBay Affiliate Success
Just like eBay itself, where there are plenty of sellers that make good money from the site, the opportunity to make good money from eBay Partner Network also exists. Take advantage of the creative options, tools like the Promotions Portal, deals shared on ePN’s blog and analytics capabilities. Monitor, test and adjust to meet the goals you've set for yourself.
If you’re already creating a compelling experience for your visitors or followers, you’re on the right track. Your goal as an eBay affiliate will be to entice these visitors to click through and convert to sales. And by providing your visitors with a way to find desired items relevant to your site content, you’re enhancing the value of their overall experience.

Get started now!

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It was not much difficult in 2015 and previous years to make on-line money on freelancer weary including desk, freelancer, glance, fiver and other wearies because there was not so much competitor between freelancers to get jobs. usually people posted their proposal and rate of work and employers gave them projects after negotiating details of projects but in 2016 there is so much competitor that people without previous experience feel it very difficult to make money even to find out and get first successful project on freelancer because it is developed as complete industry and there are so many third party contractors that they takes projects on higher rates and give them to others on lower rates without doing nothing by just taking advantage of their experience and negotiating skills so many new people get desperate from freelancing wearies and their freelancing career comes to an end without making advancement in this field. it is not rocket science to make money on freelancing wearies because there is so much work on these subside including fake projects and fraud clients who just post projects and new freelancers do their work but they do not send them payments and then get vanish from freelancer wearies so there few tips about making online money on freelancer wearies in 2016.

1: You must have to complete your freelancing profile by giving out all the needed details and contact information. You must also have to specify your skills and expertise area in decent manner by telling employers about your freelancing skills.

2: Previous work samples are heart of your freelancing career because every employer will ask you about previous work samples so you must have written quality articles just to include in your proposal because client will look your previous work first and then your proposal so that you always proved to be best option for employers among all other bidders.

3: Writing an best freelancer proposal is always considered as most important thing in getting project on freelancer wearies because there are many people on freelancer wearies which have good skills to do all work but they do not know how to persuade clients that they are the best people whom this project must be given so always try to write an attractive and comprehensive proposal and tell client that you can do this project in best possible manner in short time. It is always important to read out the project description before writing a proposal to get job because you won’t miss anything important regarding the job. it is also advised to use new proposal for every job because nature of project is always different and if you use similar proposal for all jobs then it will run out you from contest of getting job because there are many people who know the art of writing attractive purposely for clients for getting projects on freelancer wearies in 2016 to make some online money.

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