To answer this question, you must first ask yourself what is your objective? Are you trying to: – sell your own product? – make money as an affiliate? – make money from advertising such as Adsense? – Or you simply want to share your knowledge with the world (and make some money in the process)? Sell your own product…. If you are trying to sell your own product, the answer is obvious. You should first have your product website. You should focus your initial effort in getting traffic from joint venture and advertising, and building a list. You should not waste your time blogging to thin air (assuming you are totally new and has no traffic sources). BUT as soon as you have a substantial list, say 1000 subscribers, you can start blogging, with 2 intentions in mind: 1) to build relationship and sales, and 2) to build search engine traffic “for the future”. Make money as an affiliate…. With so many ways to make money as an affiliate, it’s impossible for me to cover the details here. But whichever way you use, starting with a blog is definitely not the fast way and certainly not the way I would recommend. You can start with a presell website, advertise to get targeted traffic and sales. Or you can start with a squeeze page to build a targeted list. You should start a blog ONLY when you have a list, and you should blog with 2 intentions in mind: 1) to build relationship with your list and make more sales, and 2) to build more traffic from the search engine. Make money from advertising such as Adsense…. How about building many blogs on different niches, optimizing them for search engine traffic and monetizing them through Adsense? Compared to static HTML websites, blog indeed offers a better alternative because you can easily make changes to your blog through templates. But as your empire gets bigger, you may realize that it becomes troublesome to manage so many blogs, with so many different logins, databases and templates. I believe there are software that you can use to mass manage blogs, especially Wordpress self-hosted blogs. (I don’t use such software. If you have any recommendation, feel free to share it below.) Note: If you want to use blog for this purpose, remember to remove posting date from the template and DO NOT show any post history by date. The reason is obvious. Since you are not going to update the blog very often, disclosing the posting dates will not do you any good. Besides static HTML website and blog, another alternative is to start with .php websites. (Note: Wordpress blog is also a PHP website, but here I’m talking about simple PHP website without the need to install or create databases.) The advantage of creating website in .php instead of .html is that you can use the PHP INCLUDE function to build simple templates for your website. If you were to make some changes, you just have to change the templates instead of altering every file. If you understand HTML, you can easily pick up simple PHP language and learn to do it. Share your knowledge…. Lastly, if you simply want to get online and share your knowledge, I advise you to start with a content website instead of a blog. Before you think I am anti-blogging, read my explanation below: If you are good at scrapbooking, you probably have some fundamental skills that you want to share. It will be better if you create something like an online learning center for scrapbooking fans, with organized scrapbooking tutorials that your visitors can study. You can still have a blog, but it’s more for current issues, latest promotions, etc. Yet again, you should always build a list if you want to start a blog. -Kenneth Koh http://www.leadsleap.com/blog/should-i-start-a-blog-or-website-first/?r=linear1

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Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online, even if you don’t have a

list of customers, subscribers and prospects who buy things every time you email

them, you can still make money with affiliate marketing with these cool tactics

that I am using.
 I actually have taught my sister to do this in several niches and she uses it to

bring in a couple hundred dollars a month. Now she wants to start her own online

business and works it as a full time job, that’s why I knew I had to come up with

something she could do fairly easy.
 First, you’ll need to pick a pretty broad niche, like from the health and fashion

area, or from your hobbies etc. You can even use Internet marketing, that’s

actually the niche I use this tactic for.
 Once you have your niche, you need to make sure there are plenty of digital

products for your niche, such marketplace like Clickbank, PayDotCom, and Commission

Junction are the affiliate sites where you can find tons of digital products to

sell as an affiliate.
 To start out with, you need to pick one digital product first. You’re either going

to have to buy it or ask the owner for a review copy, because you’ll need to write

a review for the product, this is really important because you’re not writing an ad

for the product, you’re writing a product review.
 If you never write one, my suggestion is to go to a place like IdeaMarketers and

read articles about how to write a review before writing your first one. It’s

really not that hard, so don’t let that discourage you. Once you get your first one

done, all other ones you write will be super easy.
 After you have your product reviewed and the review written for it, it’s time for

you to create a blog and post the review to your blog. When you do this, don’t

forget to make sure you create product links within the post because it will be

easier for the visitors – when they read your product review, they know where to

buy the product.
 The product links that you created in your post will be your affiliate links. To

get more sales, I highly recommend getting your own domain name and installing a

blog on it.
 Now, you’ve got a blog with your product review, there’s only one problem left -

how to get people come to your blog? Well, here’s where the secrets come in. The

secret is there are no secrets. Just tactics you have to learn and use.
 Here are the things that I did.
 The first thing I did is to use an RSS submitter tool, and submit my blog RSS feed

to the directories to gain some instant traffic.
 The second thing I did is to do the keyword research, I need to find out the

keywords that related to the products that I am promoting, and those keywords have

to be the ones that don’t have lots of competition (long tail keywords).
 After I got this part done, I started to write articles on the topic of the

products I have reviewed with the keywords focus.
 Once I got those entire works done, I will write a short ‘about me’ section at the

end of the article, which is called ‘resources box’, together with my website URL

address in it. This is a great way to get more back links, which means when readers

 click on the links that in your resources box; it will directly bring them back to

your website, and you gain free instant traffic.
 In case you don’t have time or if you don’t like to write, you can pay an article

writer to write an article for you.
 The final thing I did was to use article distribution service, such as Article

Marketer to submit my articles to the article directories on the web.
 Once you’ve done your first article, rinse and repeat with a new product. If you

keep writing reviews for the products and putting your affiliate links in the

reviews, sooner or later, you’ll make sales on those products by driving traffic

the ways I’ve told you.
 There are tons of ways to drive traffic, but this is the easy method for

affiliates to make money. By using the back link tactic, you are not only getting

instant traffic, you will also get long term traffic as your reviews start ranking

for the keywords that you choose.

                                About the Author
Ann Liu, a certified professional Internet marketer and author of :  http://www.onlineprofiting.com

As usual, I demand you  have a wonderful day!

 Larry
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One way backlinks is one of the best and most effective ways to get high positions in search engines and milk these positions for targeted traffic. But getting quality one way links is a big job.

Free Traffic System is a new project that helps you to get top quality one way links for free – unlimited number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, Free Traffic System has integrated a brand new concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.

Before getting to the viral part of the project, it is important to explain where exactly you are getting these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll – in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it – search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.

You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, safe and smart way to build backlinks for free. You submit one article to Free Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And – unlike traditional article marketing – no one will delete your backlinks from the article, like they do when stealing your content from article directories.

The viral part of Free Traffic System is simple – they reward people for bringing others into this free project. You are receiving a BONUS backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to Free Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all people who got into the system via the affiliate link.

As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in Free Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from Free Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside Free Traffic System yourself.

And the final perk of the viral strategy. If you add at least one WordPress blog to Free Traffic System, they instantly increase the number of bonus backlinks by 7%.

So, in Free Traffic System you get:

- free backlinks that you build yourself
- viral bonus backlinks for affiliating people into the project
- viral bonus backlinks for adding your blog(s) to Free Traffic System

With this free backlink building power targeted traffic from search engines becomes just a matter of time.

Free Traffic System vs Article Marketing
Free Traffic System is the new age of article marketing: it has its advantages and does not have its disadvantages.

The advantages of both article marketing and Free Traffic System are obvious – Google and other search engines welcome and will always welcome the creation of new, useful, non-duplicate content and that is why search engines look favorably upon the backlinks generated this way.

Due to this “benevolent attitude” from search engines towards links built via article marketing thousands of people are successfully using article marketing for years to improve their positions in search engines for the necessary keywords.

BUT, unfortunately article marketing has some serious disadvantages – let’s have a look at them:

- when others republish your article they can delete your backlinks from article

This is a real problem. After you have submitted your article to one of the major article directories – you lose control over this article. Today lots of people are using different automatic tools to “harvest” these directories for content and republish its articles on their sites.

The problem is that more and more people started to steal your content from article directories and automatically DELETE your backlinks from the resource box. OR they steal just a tiny portion of your content (1st paragraph of your article, for example) and give a backlink to the article directory. This is great for article directory, but not for you!

With Free Traffic System you are guaranteed that pages where your content is republished will remain with YOUR backlinks. Those blogs who break this rule and touch your links (modify them/make them invisible/delete them) will be deleted from the Free Traffic System and lose access to quality content.

- duplicate content problems

You see, when one and the same article is republished Google quickly “understands” this is a duplicate content and “sees” that a big portion of your backlinks is built from duplicate content pages. This is not dangerous and Google will not punish you for doing that, but it is rumored that Google seriously lowers the SEO value of backlinks built from duplicate content pages.

With Free Traffic System you have all tools necessary to make each of your articles be non-duplicate, even if the article is republished on 20, 40, 100 or even more blogs. With the help of simple procedures – that will take extra 5 minutes per article – you will create dozens or even hundreds of READABLE and CONCISE versions of article title and body. It is all in your hands: if you decide to spend 5 minutes and use the diversification tools provided by Free Traffic System, then each of the articles republished will be unique for Google and other search engines. And this will instantly increase the value of your backlinks.

Looks at the comparison table to see Free Traffic System compared vs traditional article marketing.

Free Traffic System vs Article Marketing

Feature
Free Traffic System
Traditional Article Marketing

Quick distribution of content

Yes
Yes

Tools to avoid duplicate content problem
Yes
(if you take an effort to diversify it with FTS tools)
No

Control over backlinks
Yes

(those who touch your backlinsk get out of FTS)
No

Diversification of anchor texts of your backlinks

Yes
No

Control over relevancy of sites that republish your articles

Yes
No

Explore these are other advantages of building one way links with the new level of article marketing – claim your free registration at Free Traffic System
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Larry Johnson