So if you want to make money, what is the best way to sell online? Well I am not an expert yet but I am following an in-depth training at
Wealthy Affiliate, which is a website where you can learn how to do niche website marketing. This involves being trained to set up your very own niche website and learning how to optimize it, get traffic and get affiliate programs which you can join so you can sell their products. And that can be anything from physical products (such as
TripleClicks) to services (such as
SFI) and training. Once you have your niche website you just post regularly with interesting and true content (product reviews work really well, click HERE for an example) and populate the post with text links, banners and ads. You can advertise to get the website under people's attention, you can use the social media to promote your website, and you can actually buy traffic to your website (I know you can do this at SFI, you have to become a free member though.
Learn more...) Numerous possibilities and at most affiliate sites there is some kind of forum or community which will help you with any technical question you may have.
You do not necessarily have to invest money. As a matter of fact many affiliate programs have a free starter program so you can test the waters, so to say. Both
Wealthy Affiliate and
SFI have a free joining program and you are never required to invest money, contrary to a lot of programs where you need to pay an upfront investment.
One of the most important tools
Wealthy Affiliate offers is a program called
Jaaxy. When you join as a free member, you get access to JaaxyLite, which allows you a limited number of searches. As a premium member you have unlimited searches and I use it constantly to find good keywords, not only for new posts but also to update the titles and headings and tags for my old posts to make them more attractive. So how does this work? You simply enter a keyword to a subject you are interested in writing about (example: how to optimize SEO for my blog) and
Jaaxy will tell you how much traffic there is to this keyword, how often people type it in in browsers (not only Google) and finally, how much competition you have.
There is a training available on
Wealthy Affiliate just for Jaaxy, although it is not at all difficult. It will give you the skinny on your keyword and will give you a number of suggested alternatives. You try out some varieties of your keyword and will come up with one or more variants which have good traffic and not too much competition, and you make sure you incorporate these in your posts and blogs. I keep a list of researched keywords with their figures and highlight them when I have used them. I find this one of the most useful things about
WA, together with the step-by-step training on how to set up your website. Just keep posting regularly and start another one if you feel you have the time.
