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One of the big changes that occured last week was a change in the Google's alogorithm, which affected quite a number of sites including established article directories such as ezine and hubpages. Coming out from this is a big question that is asked by many: can you still make money with niche sites after this change?
The answer currently is yes. Who knows what may matter tomorrow but niche sites still get ranked if they are properly optimised. Links are still one of the most important factor in ranking so with sufficient backlinks and mixed in with a smaller of links from authority sites will get your niche site ranked.
The real question is whether this is what you want to do. Do you want to built countless niche sites to earn money and to worry about whether Google will deindex you or whether you want to build a couple of real authority sites that provide useful information and can stand the test of time?
For me, it is the latter. However I don't have the patience to build authority sites from scratch. So I buy them. I build sites that have aged, that have a diverse link portfolio, that have good search traffic. These are the kind of sites that I will buy.
After buying them, I will put together a small content team that produce high quality articles that addresses the need for that market. This is how I intend to grow this year.
No more niche sites. Just real sites with solid information, packaged with different revenue streams.
By knowing how to make money with amazon and adsense, I want to expand my make money ventures by looking into domain investments. Most of the people would think that this area has already been dried up since many of the good domain names have been taken. Well this is true to an extend, there are still room for smart investors to make make off this venture. Here is the 2 main reason why I think the opportunity still exist.
First, new terms are appearing constantly. Stem cell for example seem to be on the brink of breaking into the mainstream and anybody could have bought the name stemcell.com a couple of years back.
Second, you can still some money (in the five digit figure) to buy some really good one name domain such as ottomans.net, discoveries.com etc. The stakes are up but i believe these domains will go up in value. What looks like expensive now will appear to be cheap in five years time. As such, i rather save up some money to buy a couple of branded domains than comprise the quality and buy lots of 3 or 4 word domains.
However, to start this business, my approach is to look for smaller investments first to familiarize myself with the ins and outs of how domain investing works. I expect my first few numbers to be completely rubbish but that is the kind of 'tuition' fees that I need to pay.
I have not invest in any expensive domains yet. I bought a few that I thought have a chance to become brandable in the future. One such example is robot massage. Why do I pick this domain. Well, I took a look at robot vacuum which has been made popular by products such as the romba. My bet is that robot massage might take off, of which this domain will be a nice name for any stores that want to sell such products. We shall see if this investment pens out.
November was a great money as I was near to making 1k with Amazon. I started the effort in July so it was great to see results happenng so quickly. Unfortunately, my site got sandboxed in Dec, probably due to too any links being sent at once. This caused my traffic to drop in half. The lucky thing was that google images was still sending me traffic, which tells an interesting fact: google image and google search are not completely related so you can get sandboxed in one but still able to achieve traffic from another.
Anyway, here is Aamazon earnings for Nov.
My plans for 2011 in to expand on this niche until it hits around 2k. From the kind of traffic that I have received, I think it certainly is possible. I will also be starting another 2 amazon sites in competely different niches. From the test that I have another, this 2 new niches should convert well.
Before you start any amazon sites, the most important thing is to test the responsiveness of the niche. Unlike adsense where all you need is clicks, amazon requires people to buy and that is something that not all niches can achieve.
The best way to test is to ride on the authority on sites such as Hubpages who can rank low competitive keywords fairly easily without any promotional effort and backlinks on your end. Go to Amazon's best seller list for any category, use the exact product name as the article title, add in buying keywords for the rest of the articles such as "buy", "where to buy", "cheap", "for sale" etc and wait. If the article resulted in amazon sales, then you can go ahead and start building a site around it.
Hope you helps you to make money with Amazon
Sorry for the non posting as I was busy working on my new Amazon sites. And yes, making money online is a lot of work. Do not let all the 'gurus' fooled you into thinking that you can make 10,189 in 24 hours. You simply can't if you are a beginner. Sure, somebody like Griz can use niche marketing to make almost 10,000 in 8 days but that takes a lot of experience. For the rest of us, it wil make almost 6 months to a year to understand how everything comes together. How to use long tail buying keyword to target the buying crowd. Where to source for effective backlinks that can make your site rank high in the SERP. How to produce content fast if you are not oursourcing etc. All these questions will be covered in the months to come.
So, back to making money with Amazon. Last month, I was busy making all sort of niches using Amazon products because I am just learning how to make money with it. Amazon works quite different from Adsense which is where my past experience lies. For amazon, I need to figure out a number of things like layout, how to pick the right keywords for products etc. All these are new for me as well
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Making money with Amazon all boils down to keyword research and effective use of the longtails.
Keyword research is really interesting. Most of the time, we think we know it all but we don't really know until we start exploring and experimenting
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Hi everyone,
I am the new author for this make money blog. I had started a new blog on how to make money with Amazon and thought that it would be better to push the content here where there is a wider audience. If you like to follow my journey to making USD1000 with Amazon within 12 months, you can start with what I have written on the new blog
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In the past, how I build sites is fairly standard. Pick a green keyword such as breast reduction cost and starting throwing links at it using the same keywords and some variations of it. There is nothing wrong with this approach except that you will need to wait 6-9 months before seeing any traffic. To a beginner like me, it was hard to motivate yourself in this way.
So, for the new Amazon site, I decided to change my tactics. I went back to Grizzly's blog (check out Really Long Link and took a hard look at what he was saying. I suddenly realise I might be doing things wrongly. I wasn't picking longtails as he had advise. This prompt me to starting writing articles that has exact longtails in their article titles such as "where to buy XXX Amazon product", "who sells the cheapest XXX amazon product", "XXX amazon product for sale" et al. Basically keywords that had no traffic whatsoever according to Google adwords. I gather a few backlinks using these longtails and then the magic happens
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Before starting any site, you need to get your keyword research right. While there are other methods of doing so, here is mine:
-I used a service called niche refinery to do the competitive analysis i.e. the difficulty. I just focus on the traffic levels. This is one reason why amazon snipers are easier because most IM guys only look at adsense potential and therefore would not touch keywords with 0.05 CPC even though there might be lots of traffic for that KW
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I have done my keyword research and have created two amazon based blogs. Before showing them to you, I want to touch on how I select these products.
As I said in my previous post, my strategy for earning passive income with Amazon is simple. I pick niches that have regular monthly searches done by people on Google and build simple sites based on these niches. These niches must not be too competitive so that I can get my sites to rank in the first page of Google for certain number of keywords (words that people typed into search boxes). This will help me relevant traffic that will click on my Amazon links. If they buy something through these links, I make money
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If you want to learn how to make money with Amazon, join me in my journey to achieve at least USD1,000 per month in Amazon earnings within a year. There is nothing difficult about it except for the amount of hard work you need to put in. If you do the right thing and do it consistently, the results will come. However, most people dont succeed because they give up too easily. Dont believe in all the ebooks that promise to make you USD10,000 in a month. Making money online takes time and effort. If you are willing to put in those, it is guaranteed that you will be successful.
My strategy is straight forward. Find niches that people are willing to buy stuff, build sites selling them via Amazon and rank them on the first page in Google using SEO (search engine optimization) to get traffic and sales. On paper, that is it. Of course, when executing this simple strategy, there are lots of little tips here and there. This is what this blog is all about: sharing some of these tips that I find along the way about earning from Amazon as a beginner
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