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Why You Should Start a Membership Website

Why You Should Start a Membership Website

Membership websites have been around since the internet began and they’ve always been very popular forms of revenue for webmasters. There are many reasons why you would benefit from starting your own membership website and we’re going to look at some of those reasons today. Membership websites are now more popular then ever due to software programs coming out that makes setting up a membership website a breeze. There are also over a dozen payment processors to choose from to process your member’s payments which help make things easy.

Basically you’ll be required to set-up your website and then from there you’ll only need to promote it and add updates. There are many choices you need to make when you’re setting up the website in the early stages. You’ll need to decide what you want to offer in the member’s area, and you should be using more then one type of content in your member’s area. For instance if you have a webmaster membership website you should have articles, reports, eBook, software, templates and anything else you can think of. People like seeing lots of options in the member’s area, even though they won’t use most of it they like knowing that you offer enough value for the money. Once you’ve chosen what’s going to be in your member’s area you need to get it done and add it in. You also need to set-up your payment processor and decide whether it will be monthly, yearly or one-off payment. This is strictly preference and you can choose what you want, but generally you should choose monthly.

With monthly recurring payments you’ll be making a stable income from your membership website and this is the goal. There is no point marketing your membership website and then selling one-off payments because then once the crowd joins you won’t make anymore money and you’ll still need to update it. I would go with monthly recurring payments and make sure you offer enough weekly updates so that your clients want to stay a member.

Once you have a membership website with members and recurring payments rolling in you’ll only need to work on updates for the website. This could be outsourced at this point in time since you’ll be making good money and then it’s on complete auto-pilot. You won’t need to do anything except whatever promotions you want to do, and whatever communication you want to make with the members. You should play a role in the communication because people like to talk with the owner and many people will also have questions. You should just make a forum and that will make it very easy for everyone to communicate.

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How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

Have you heard about niche marketing? If yes, you are on the right track to making money online. If no, then please read on…

Niche Marketing is a super lucrative marketing method and online business system which focuses on targeting various micro lucrative niches to make money online. When I say “”micro””, it means niches that have not yet been discovered or are still pretty much untapped. By tapping into these micro niches, you will not be competing with the big guns out there. Instead, you will be catering to a targeted group of audiences and hungry customers that are waiting to buy your digital information and products.

Doing niche marketing is a very interesting business as you get to venture into numerous different niches and markets. You will not only earn great money from niche marketing but you will also get to learn new things from niche marketing. I particularly enjoy doing niche marketing by creating multiple niche sites or niche blogs to promote affiliate products on various lucrative niches. I usually come out and build 2-3 niche sites every week to target profitable micro niches. Of course, before you can even start to design and build your niche sites, you will need to do intensive research, that is, carefully-structured keyword research, to discover hot profitable niches to market on your sites/blogs.

The thing about doing niche marketing is that, it is quantity that counts as you will need to have a collections of various lucrative niche sites in order to earn great amount of money online. Basically, for my own money-making niche sites, I will carefully research and find the top 10 most lucrative niches to venture into. Now you might be asking, “”Oh didn’t you said that we should target only untapped micro niches instead of common and extremely-competitive top niches?”” Yes, I did said that but I am not targeting these common popular niches… I am identifying the top 10 most profitable niches and then I will narrow them down, i.e. going into sub-niches. Bingo! By going deeper into the top niches and coming out with micro sub-niches within the niches, you will avoid the excessive competitiveness and get straight into making money online from your niche sites.

Niche marketing has become a prevalent online business system for numerous online marketers to utilize and make great money online. It simply works and if you put your time, effort and money into creating and venturing into more niche sites every week in and week out, your online revenue income is just going to be an exponential growth for the long run. Many Internet Marketing Gurus out there will tell you how they achieve their wealth online from their “”Secret Techniques”” or “”Secret Tricks””. They will usually say that they made big bucks online from here and there using secret tricks and techniques. Yes, they do make comfortable income online. But the thing is, they did not tell you the whole truth! These Internet Marketing Gurus make lots of money not from “”secret tricks and techniques”” but from their huge amount of hard work, time and money being invested into building a chain of lucrative niche sites under their belt. Simple! They made their money online from Niche Marketing and in fact, niche marketing is changing how people make money online. And I am not talking about active income streams but PASSIVE Income streams from niche marketing. In addition, the kind of niche sites that these so-called experts built are not simple cookie-cutter websites that are built within minutes using some “”revolutionary”” software. They have instead spent large amount of time, effort and money into creating and building many quality niche sites and monetize the sites for great profit online.

What is their SECRET? There is no secret at all! They simply build more and more lucrative niche sites as time goes by, and by the end of the day… they will make the bulk of the money online! If you look at the 80/20 rule, you will find that only 20 percent of the numerous Internet Marketers out there are making the most amount of money online. Why? Because they know how to do it the correct way. They may not be intelligent but they are clever and smart. They, including me, know that 80 percent of the online marketers are doing the wrong things or are either mis-led and only the 20 percent of us are making the real money online! We know how to do keyword research to identify lucrative sub-niches to target and then start building sites revolving around these sub-niches. Next, we will begin marketing these niche sites intensively and begin earning money online. And most of these niche sites are painstakingly built and set up once, monetized and optimized, do the marketing intensively for a few months and they are off to be left around to help us collect Passive Income online for the long-term!

Imagine if you have more than 100 such niche sites, if each niche site earns you just US$1 per day, one day you will earn US$100 and one month you will earn a whopping US$3000 just with these 100 lucrative niche sites! And the revenue doesn’t just stop there, you can keep increasing your portfolio of lucrative niche sites (i.e. create and build more and more lucrative niche sites), monetize the sites with more affiliate products and ads and then increase your marketing and promotion effort… then you will be making even more money online! That’s how the real Internet Marketers made their fortune ONLINE! This is the TRUTH that has been finally REVEALED!

Now, the thing that most newbie Internet Marketers face is the problem of building such quality niche sites online. Even if you have some web developing and web designing skills, you will still face another problem of how to monetize and optimize your niche sites. You are not a web designer and neither are you a SEO expert. In addition, the time and effort spent on researching and building niche sites are definitely not easy and most newbie Internet Marketers and even veteran marketers struggled at doing all these!

The Good News is, I personally own a Niche Marketing Web Development platform where I help many of my clients to build lucrative Premium Niche WordPress Sites for them to get started on the Internet. If you tap on my more than 4 years of Niche Marketing experience to assist you in building these profitable niche sites, then you will not only reduce your own workload and stress but also get to quicken your process of learning how to make money online.

For a very limited period, I am offering my services to help you build your first Premium Niche WordPress Site. The niche sites that I will be building for you will be carefully-researched, gorgeously-designed, well-monetized and SEO-Optimized and superbly well-implemented with lucrative affiliate products and ads to help you start making money online with niche websites.

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5 Popular Must Have WordPress Plugins

5 Popular “Must Have” WordPress Plugins

If you have a WordPress blog, there are certain plugins you will need to install to make blogging easier. A lot of blog posts lately recommend various, “”must-have”” WordPress plugins. Most of the commonly recommended plugins include:

1. All-in-One SEO Pack: Easy fill-in-the-blanks features to optimize your blog post for first-page search engine ranking. Add a Title, Meta Description, and Meta Tags (keywords) to every post you create.

2. WP Greet Box: Shows a different greeting message to your visitors depending on which referrer url they’re coming from (ex., Google, Facebook, Digg, etc.).

3. Aweber Web Form Plugin: “”This widget allows you to quickly and easily…Drag and drop web forms that you have created in your AWeber email marketing account into your blog, without having to log into your AWeber account or copy and paste anything!””

4. Thank Me Later: Automatically sends a “”thank you”” email to anyone who comments on your blog and reminds them to engage further with your blog.

5. Askimet: This plugin comes preloaded on your blog, but you will need to activate it with a WordPress.com API. Just follow the instructions and this plugin will take care of all your blog spam.

Another popular WordPress plugin that you have to purchase and download to your WordPress blog is Popup Domination. This plugin undoubtedly helps increase your email opt-in rates and makes your blog look professional. Most importantly, it helps build your email list. It is widely used and comes highly recommended by professional bloggers. A more affordable alternative is another plugin called OptinPop.

You can find and install most of them from within your WordPress backoffice. Popup Domination can be found by doing a Google search for the product. Installation is usually quick easy with all of the plugins, but OptinPop requires additional technical know-how in order to make it work correctly. You can learn more about OptinPop on their website.

Of course there are more great plugins you can choose from and install on your WordPress blog, but these will definitely make your blogging experience much easier and smoother. This list of popular plugins was compiled from recommendations from professional bloggers and are most certainly recommended for a reason, but having the right plugins will not make you more profitable as a blogger. You have to learn the basics of blogging for success, then you must learn how to market professionally to monetize your blogging efforts.

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5 Essential WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have

5 Essential WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have

WordPress is easily the best blogging platform on the internet. Its easy to use, yet powerful enough to run huge websites. Some of the top websites in the world run on WordPress, including sites like TechCrunch, WSJ Blogs, etc.

Its very easy to customize WordPress. There are a ton of themes from free to premium ones that can make your blog look like anything you desire. But more importantly, there are a host of free and paid plugins that you can use to customize your blog and make it easier to read.

Here are five WordPress plugins your blog shouldn’t exist without:

1. All in One SEO PluginThis is an essential plugin for all WordPress blogs. It automatically takes care of generating meta tags and keywords for your blog posts. Without this plugin, you would have a hard time ranking high in search engines.

2. Advertising ManagerIf you plan on monetizing your blog, then this plugin is a must have. You can insert your ads almost anywhere in your site’s template. Moreover, this plugin supports the Open X ad marketplace, which means that you can configure it to show only the highest CPM ads.

3. Add to AnySocial bookmarking is a great way to gain additonal eyeballs. With this plugin, your visitors can quickly add your blog post to the most popular social bookmarking directories in the world, or email it to friends.

4. AkismetThis is a plugin made by WordPress itself and is included in most installations automatically. It acts as a spam blocker for your blog. Akismet is highly effective at blocking and automatically deleting spam comments. An absolute essential, especially if you run a popular blog that might get a lot of spam comments.

5. Google XML SitemapsSitemaps make it easier for the Googlebot to go through your website. This plugin makes high quality sitemaps automatically that can be indexed by Google. A must have if you want to rank high in Google.

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How To Get A WordPress API Key For The Akismet WordPress Plugin

How To Get A WordPress API Key For The Akismet WordPress Plugin

With the growing popularity of blogs and the ease to obtain links through comments on blogs, it didn’t take long for programmers to come up with automated tools to blast link packed spam comments to unsuspecting blogs.

Some just turn comments off for their blog but to me that eliminates one of the great features of making your blog interactive for your visitors. Comments can open discussion between the reader and the blogger. Your blog’s visitors can even subscribe to a post’s comments, getting notified of any new comments, keeping your readers coming back.

The WordPress plugin, Akismet checks comments posted on your blog posts against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

To activate Akismet from your WordPress blog dashboard, click Plugins, scroll down and click Activate next to the WordPress Akismet plugin. After you do that you will see a box near the top of the dashboard that reads:

Akismet is not active. You must enter your WordPress.com API key for it to work.

Click the link in the message, and then the Akismet Configuration panel will open. You should then see this in the middle of the screen:

Please enter an API key. (Get your key.)

On the top of that page click the Sign Up tab, fill in your information and if you have a self-hosted blog choose the Just a username, please option.

Be sure to use a good email address in here to get your login information and WordPress API key, click the box to agree to legal junk and click next.

Check your email and click the confirmation link from WordPress to activate your account. You should then see a page that reads, “”Your account is now active!”” Click the login link within the text of that page and login.

You should now be at the WordPress.com site, if so click the dropdown box on the very top right of the page and choose “”Edit Profile””, now you are in the Global Dashboard.

Within the WordPress Global Dashboard you can now see your WordPress API key on the right side of the page. Oh, and by now you should have also got the API key in an email from WordPress also! But you should still edit your profile while you are in the Global Dashboard.

Now its time to place the API key in the Akismet WordPress plugin; go back into your WordPress blog dashboard, click the link on the Akismet WordPress plugin warning box near the top of the dashboard. Paste the WordPress API key in the box and click update options.

If the warning box is not visible check to see if Akismet is activated, click Plugins and look for the status of the plugin on the right. You will notice that all activated plugins are highlighted green. When Akismet is activated you can configure it by clicking Plugins, and look for the Akismet subpanel (white text in the dark blue bar) directly below and to the right of then main panel menu.

Keeping comment spam out while allowing your blog visitors to comment, will not only keep your blog clean but more interactive and help generate more traffic.

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What Are The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Shopping Carts

What Are The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Shopping Carts? There are questions about shopping carts that are asked by customers and there are questions that Website owners have about shopping carts when they are looking to add a shopping cart to their Website. Some of the questions are the same, but most of the questions are different. What are the questions that customers and Website owners ask about shopping carts? Customers often ask questions about a shopping cart’s navigation such as how do I add products to the cart, and how do I delete items if I chance my mind? Customers want to know if they will be able to use their preferred payment method. They also want options when it comes to shipping so they can choose the quickest way, or the cheapest way or the preferred carrier. Customers are very concerned about security when it comes to using credit cards online. They also want to know which credit cards are acceptable to use? Customers also want to know how to make choices such as color or size when ordering. While browsing for multiple items customers also want to know if they can see what is in their cart and also if they can see a tally of the total dollar amount of the items in the cart? Customers want to know if there is any sales tax charged and if the store ships to where they live? Customers want to know not only what the shipping options are but they want to be able to compare the costs of shipping. There may be some customers who need to know if you ship to APO or FPO addresses or internationally? Website owners often ask a lot of questions when they are looking for a shopping cart solution for their business. They want to know how well the shopping cart will blend in with their Website. They have questions about how much HTML knowledge they will need to know in order to install or configure the shopping cart? They are naturally going to want to know about technical support if they encounter problems while installing or configuring the shopping cart. They are also going to want to know how responsive customer support is and how helpful they are. They are going to want to know if there is a user’s manual or a help topic or FAQs section that they can find answers when customer service is closed. When in the buying phase they will have lots of questions about features, administration, installation, maintenance, and upgrades. They will also want to know about pricing and payment plans so that they can know if the shopping cart is within their budget or not. It is up to the shopping cart software company to answer the questions of the Website Owner and it is up to the Website owner to answer the questions asked by the customer about the shopping cart. The shopping cart is a very important part of the success of any Website that sells products or services so answering questions about the shopping cart are vital too.

 

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