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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Soumya Pratihari has been making money online for 6 years, with experience in blogging, products, and Internet Marketing (Email, CPC, SEO). Soumya started out his journey into blogging in 2007 and began to focus on internet marketing and SEO sometime during 2010. Apart from running his blogs network, he provides selective services to a closed group of clients, and the services include strategic SEO, affiliate marketing, virtual assistant solutions, and more. Soumya is NOT a guru. He has spent countless hours buying and reading books on various money-making ideas and experimenting with them. After years of experimenting, he found that a majority of these moneymaking books are crap. Just a very few of them are smart income methods that can actually make you money. However, even those methods don t reveal everything, you have to add your own inputs and tweak things a lot to see optimum results. Now in 2013, he decided to come up with his own book of 5 smart moneymaking ideas that actually work and can get you $$$$ per month, every month. If you know Soumya, you must know that he is very friendly and always offers help in every possible way. That s the reason why this smart moneymaking idea ebook is free. Success is in what you create. Not in what you earn. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 3
Before you start, please give up Doubting Me Doubting Yourself Fear of Failure Fear of Success Laziness Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 4
INTRODUCTION Thanks for downloading my ebook, which is a collection of 5 SIMPLE ways that you can follow to earn more than $5000 every month. This is very newbie-friendly and can be achieved by anyone. You don t require any skills, experience or much investment to meet the $5000 goal. I will mainly focus on monetizing from popular websites like ClickBank, Fiverr, YouTube, CPA offers, reselling stuff, free websites, and similar ideas. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 5
BEFORE YOU START INTERNET MARKETING, READ THIS CAREFULLY! MUST DO #1 Do you know why most people don t succeed online even after getting their hands on money-making information-based products? This is because they never take action. They fail because: They plan to start working on the information later. Sadly, that later never comes. They get distracted halfway. They look for another big money-making information-based product. They don t follow what the author has advised them to do. No one in this world has ever earned money without taking action. TAKE ACTION! NOW!! Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 6
MUST DO #2 Allow me to share this secret before moving ahead. Did you know that most bloggers and Internet Marketers fail because of a common reason web hosting? This might sound strange but it s true. The people who are earning REAL MONEY from blogging, affiliate sites, CPA sites, or similar activities always choose their web hosts very wisely. I am not here to disregard popular web hosts like Hostgator, DreamHost, etc, but to tell you the dirty game that they play behind the scenes. Over 99% of web hosts, including Hostgator and DreamHost, allow people to host sites that are adult, mature, and illegal in nature. A case study: My friend s tech blog was 1.5 years old and was getting around 1500-2000 visitors daily, even after publishing lots of self-researched articles. In spite of publishing more than 450 high quality articles, he was not able to drive more traffic. One day, he buzzes me for some advice about this. As usual, I did few a checks to ensure that he is doing it right. I was surprised to see that he was sharing his shared web host with 4 porn websites, 7 sites related to gambling and drugs, and another 1 site distributing malwares and was blocked by Google. I asked him to change his host immediately and migrate to IMH. He did that the very next day and after a couple of weeks, he started getting around 260% more traffic. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 7
This was the result of bad neighborhood. In regular shared hosting environments, all websites share a single IP address and if few websites break the rules set by Google, Google blacklists the IP and your website gets punished as well. The major issue with Hostgator and DreamHost (I am primarily targeting Hostgator and DreamHost as they are most popular and most of you might have been using them to host your websites) is that they want as much business as possible. I have seen them distribute web hosting accounts for as low as $20 / year, four or five times a year, on various occasions. Always remember the golden rule The less you pay, the less you get. Allow me to introduce IMH to you. They are one of the rare web hosts that strictly disallow porn or illegal websites to be hosted on their servers. They have a very strict policy of maintaining quality and actively remove spam websites from their servers. This is the web host where I host my money sites, and sites from where I am earning money. The only drawback is that they are a bit expensive than their competitors. And this keeps most spammers away from signing up with them! I strongly recommend you to migrate all your web properties to IMH and see the difference. It has helped many and it will help you, too. You will not only experience safe hosting, but also faster site response and a world-class support team. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 8
If you don t see a hike in traffic or experience much better service than your current host, you can always ask them to refund your money. They have an industry-leading 90-day refund policy. P.S. - I have tried similar sites on 3 hosts to compare the results (Hostgator, Bluehost, IMH), and IMH outranked them all. Always invest in the best available resources. It will pay you back eventually! I have worked with IMH management to get special discount for a limited number of people. Use the below link to try their service. FLAT 30% OFF + FREE DOMAIN (For a Limited Time) NOTE - The discount will be applied only when you go through the above special link. IMH does not support any discounts other than the above at this moment. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 9
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1. Ask Questions to Earn Money Overview Details Investment $0 Time to Set Up Hours of Work Per Week 1-2 hours 7 hours Expected Monthly Profit $1000+ Difficulty Level In this method, we will use forums, spam websites, Q&A sites to promote CPA offers and earn money. We will not post answers to user s queries with our affiliate links; that s so outdated. Here, we will ask questions and earn money ;) You will have to sign up with a number of CPA networks. I recommend PeerFly, Adscend, and NeverBlue. What you need to get started 1. PeerFly Account 2. Adscend Account 3. NeverBlue Account 4. Accounts with Q&A sites (Will talk about this a bit later) Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 11
Time for Action Step 1: Register with CPA networks It s not that easy to get approved to join most CPA networks. During signup, they will want to know more about you and if you are truly capable of driving traffic to their offers or not. Remember to mention that you have a decent budget to spend on PPC and media buys (even if this is not true). This will help you to get your account approved fast. Step 2: Find a Converting Offer This is the most important part of the whole process. It will decide your success or failure in this money-making method. Never go after high-paying offers, just offers that convert well. These lesspaying offers can add up to the total revenue really fast. For this method, we will use email submit/zip submit offers that offer prizes such as free iphone, free ipad, etc. Email/ZIP submits work very well because you get paid every single time someone submits their email or ZIP! Always make sure to go for offers that are available to people worldwide as we really don t know the nationality of our target audience. Select an offer and get the link to promote. Cloak the link using services like bit.ly or TinyURL. You can also select multiple similar offers and note the cloaked URLs in a notepad file. We will use them shortly. Step 3: Sign up with FormSpring.me Formspring.me is a high-traffic website that allows users to share their point of view, either by asking or answering questions. We will use this social platform as our main traffic source for this method. The traffic here is targeted and highly converting. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 12
Sign up with FormSpring. It will be a wise idea to fill up each and every detail that they ask for during signup process, such as age, sex, interests, hobbies, etc. Remember to upload a profile picture. You can upload almost anything: backgrounds, people, animals, etc. I suggest you search for royalty-free images and upload a smiling person s photo (either man or woman) and use that. I have noticed that most people interact with profiles that have human photos. This will help you in attract more interactions and end up with more conversions. Step 4: Ask Questions Now that you have CPA codes and a FormSpring account ready, you are all set to implement the method and wait for conversions. Ask questions and earn money. You have to be really smart in using the free traffic of FormSpring for conversions. No one will even look at your message if you post something like Hey, great things here. Will you check this out?! Posting messages is not rocket science, but you have to post messages in such a way that it will get people to actually click on your links and visit your offers. Keep in mind that you are not here to entertain people but rather, to make money. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 13
Let me show you some tricks that will help. I don t use any specific format, but check out how a normal question should be: Guys, are they really going to offer me a free ipad on email submit? This sounds too good to be true! Should I stay away from this? [INSERT CPA LINK HERE]. Any response is appreciated :-) The above question seems to be a very under-the-radar approach. This won t make people designate you as a spammer, but rather a genuine user that is asking a simple question. These types of messages work every time. Another important thing to remember is that you must add appropriate tags to your questions so that people can find that easily. You may add up to 10 tags that are related to the message you are posting. Don t add unnecessary tags, otherwise, it will look like spam. You can also add photographs (static or gif) to complement your message. Adding an animated gif helps in attracting more eye balls. You can use different niches to promote in this way, such as choosing the health niche to promote free trial products for weight loss, acne treatment, muscle building, or the fashion niche to promote free magazine subscriptions, beauty product trials, etc. Just remember that your messages should not sound commercial at all. Your approach should not be too obvious or else they will not pay attention to you. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 14
Summary You can use many other forums, trafficked websites to apply this method and see conversions. You can also use other Q&A sites such as Wiki Answers, Yahoo Answers, etc., and ask similar questions. If you dedicate at least 1 hour a day, you can make anywhere between $10 - $100 a day using this method. You can also create different accounts to post more messages and increase the conversion rate. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 15
2. Earn Money from Facebook & Twitter Overview Details Investment $0 - $5 Time to Set Up Hours of Work Per Week 30 minutes 14 hours Expected Monthly Profit $2000+ Difficulty Level Most people fail in affiliate marketing because they fail to target the people who are actually looking for the products that they are trying to sell. In this method, we will use the largest social platforms Facebook & Twitter to reach to our laser-targeted audience, promote CPA offers directly, and bag the sales. We will use the ClickBank CPA network here. What you need to get started 1. ClickBank Account 2. Facebook Account 3. Twitter Account 4. YouTube Account Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 16
Time for Action Step 1: Select the Products to Promote After signing up with Clickbank, head to their marketplace, and search for a product that you want to promote. You can literally select any product you want. Let s say you want to sell a product that teaches people how to gain weight quickly. Just type weight gain in the search box, hit Enter. You will get a list of products. Select the products that get sold more easily. Sort the search result by gravity. Gravity means the conversion rate in Clickbank s language. You can select any of the first three products. Click on the Promote button and it will give you a link that you can use to promote this product. Check out the screenshot on the next page for a better understanding). Now, go to bit.ly and cloak that link. Keep that shortened link handy; we will use that shortly. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 17
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Step 2: Video Review of the Product If a picture speaks a thousand words, trust me, a video speaks a million words. Make a review video of the product that you will promote on Facebook and Twitter. This video will not only help you drive more traffic to the product (Promotion > Review Video > Product Page) but will also increase the chances of a sale. The video should not be less than 1 minute or more than 2 minutes. You can t express a lot within 1 minute, and people often get bored after 1.5 minutes (stats claim so). You really don t have to be a techie to shoot a video or a script writer to talk about stuff. Just plug in your webcam (you may also use your smartphone or handycam), point it at yourself, and start the shooting. The basic motto of the video is to talk nice things about the product and say how this helped you or someone you know. You can go through the product page, take notes, memorize them, and speak. That s it. Remember to smile while talking; this helps to gain the trust of people. Try to fumble a few times; it will make the video look natural. Once you have shot the video, upload it to YouTube.com, add proper title, description, and tags. One thing you have to remember here is to add the cloaked bit.ly link at the top and bottom sections of the description with a strong call to action. Check out the following screenshot: Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 19
Here, the person has added a strong call to action text saying Click here followed by the cloaked bit.ly URL. You should paste the link at the top and bottom of the description. The next step is to make the video private. Yes, you don t want others to see it ;) Now copy the URL of the YouTube video and proceed to the next step. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 20
Step 3: Promote on Facebook and Twitter Once the review video is ready, you are all set to start promoting the weight gain product. Remember that you are going to laser-target only those people who are looking for solutions to gain weight. Doing this will bring you more conversion, more sales, and more money. Focus on real-time search, meaning, people who are looking for weight gain products right now. You will use two separate tools to do this. Step 3A: Facebook Go to http://willmoffat.github.com/facebooksearch/ Type Weight Gain and hit the search button (with quotations to get more accurate results). You will get a list of Facebook users that are talking about weight gain at this very moment. Since these people are interested in your product right now, they are the BEST leads you can get to sell your product. Now it s time to sell the product and pocket the commissions. Check out the following image: Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 21
You will never ever get a more targeted traffic elsewhere, at least for free! Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 22
Since these people are the leads who can t wait to gain weight, you have to communicate with them to sell your product. You will send them 2 separate messages. Make them sound extremely natural, not like a desperate salesman. Your first message should look like this: Hey, are you still looking to gain weight? Lemme know... I am sure you would love to know about this. Cheers, <Your-Name> Keep the first message this short. Experiments have proven that most of them will reply out of curiosity. After all, you have pretended to know the solution to their problem. Once you get their reply, it s time to send the second message. Hi. Guess what? I have just shot a video for you and uploaded on YouTube. LOL.. I have made it private as I don't want my friends to see this :D Btw, here is the link: <Link-to-Youtube-Video> It actually helped me gain weight. This should work for you, too. Be in touch. That s it. Now, the chances are very high that he/she will land on your YouTube video, get impressed, go to the affiliate link and get you a sale. Wasn t that very simple, yet effective? Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 23
Step 3B: Twitter You will follow the above steps on Twitter as well. The only difference is that you have to contact the lead directly by tweeting with this Twitter handle. In order to find leads, you can use the following Twitter real-time search tools: http://monitter.com http://twitter.com/search http://www.kurrently.com http://tweettabs.com http://www.tweetfeel.com TIP: Never add hash tags (#) to your tweets when you are contacting a lead. Adding hashtags like #WeightGain gives a commercial look to the tweet and chances are high that leads will take it as another spam message. Summary The ability to turn leads into customers using this method and earn huge paychecks is endless. The more leads you can get in touch with, the higher the earning scopes. You may also consider hiring a virtual assistant from sites like Elance.com and Freelancer.com to outsource this job. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 24
3. Earn Money by Being the Middle Man Overview Details Investment $0 - $250 Time to Setup Hours of Work Per Week 1-2 Hours 14 hours Expected Monthly Profit $3000+ Difficulty Level You must have come across freelancer sites such as Elance.com, Freelancer.com, odesk.com, etc. These are the sites where people get real projects based on their skills and earn real money. But this ebook is all about earning easy money. In this method, I am going to tell you how you can earn money from these large marketplaces without having to work yourself. What you need to get started 1. Elance.com Account 2. Freelancer.com Account 3. odesk Account 4. Credit Card Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 25
Time for Action Step 1: Open an Account with odesk Go to www.odesk.com > Click on Sign Up button You will see two options there: I need a contractor and I need a job. Click on the signup button next to I need a contractor and proceed. Fill out the form and submit it. Once you submit the form, odesk will send you a verification email. Go to your email and verify your email address. Once you are done with the verification process, sign in to your odesk account and head to the Billing section where you will add a credit card to verify payment credentials. Once you add a card, they will charge your card for two small amounts which will be refunded to you within 2-3 days after verifying your credit card. After verifying your credit card, you now have access to most odesk sections without any limitation. Step 2: Hire Designers/Developers on odesk Here, your primary aim is to get in touch with as many designers, developers, and programmers as you can. You will use those talents and their skills to earn money. Now since your credit card is verified, head to the Recruit tab and click on the Post a Job button. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 26
You will have to post several different jobs in order to hire people from different backgrounds. For example: I need a PHP Web Developer I need a Photoshop Expert I need a JQuery Expert I need a MySQL Database Expert I need a Frontend Designer with Experience in CSS And so on.. Make sure that you are giving a proper job title, adding the category/subcategory, description, and other fields. The more detailed and accurate information you provide, the more applicants will apply to the jobs. Since odesk is one of the largest freelancer marketplace, you will get several applicants. If you have written the jobs well, you should not get less than 25 people applying for each job. That s huge, isn t it? odesk allows you to initiate chat conversations with applicants. Use that feature to ask the applicants for their instant messenger ID, such as Skype, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, etc. I have observed that almost all of them have instant messenger handles and they provide it once you ask for it. Now, talk to them over instant messengers and say that you have some projects coming and you want him/her to work on this. Maintain a record of all those applicants, preferably using MS Word, by creating different groups such as Designers, PHP Developer, JQuery Developers, etc. Ask them for their portfolio (all previous work that they have done so far). This is for your record only. Within few days, you have a team of workers who are willing to work for you as soon as you intimate them. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 27
Step 3: Get Projects on Freelancer.com and Elance.com Head to www.freelancer.com and www.elance.com and sign up as a freelancer who is looking for jobs. If you want the best returns from this method, go for a paid account as they allow paid account holders to make several profiles from same account. This means you can create 3 different profiles with 2 different skill sets. Browse through the projects posted there and shortlist the ones that your chosen applicants from odesk can deliver. TIP: Once you bid on a project, contact the project manager directly by dropping him a message. Promise the PM that you will deliver the work much faster and at a decent budget. Also, mention all the related the projects that your odesk applicant has done so far. I have seen that sending messages to the job poster with a vast portfolio often helps in getting the job. Let's assume that you come across a project on Freelancer - "Create custom WordPress Plugin for $400". You bid on it, sent a message to the vendor, and got the job awarded. Then you email one of the odesk freelancers who fits the job requirement. Offer him 50% of the actual value that you will get on Freelancer.com, which is $200. Negotiate a little bit, if required. If your Freelancer.com client requires regular updates from you, demand the same from your odesk freelancer and pass the updates across. Once the job gets done, take the delivery from the odesk freelancer and deliver it to the original client. Freelancer.com client will now pay you $400, pay the odesk freelancer his dues $200, and you keep easy $200. Imagine how much you would be able to earn if you get as many jobs as possible! SUMMARY This method can also be called outsourcing business but it can be highly scalable. Always make sure to have a group of freelancers under you who are ready to take up any development or design work. Add new freelancers to your list regularly and with the source of time you will be able to find the few ones to work with who charge reasonable rates and deliver promptly. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 28
4. Earn Money by Promoting ClickBank Offers Even Before Their Release Overview Details Investment $0 - $65 Time to Set Up Hours of Work Per Week 2-4 Hours 14 hours Expected Monthly Profit $5000+ Difficulty Level This method is plain and simple. You will promote ClickBank products on your blog and YouTube to earn money on each sale. Oh wait! You have been trying to promote ClickBank products almost everywhere, but not getting any sales! This time, you will. I promise. You will do what the TOP successful IMs are doing. You will get your affiliate pages rank on the first page of Google. It will not be a good idea to promote a product that has been in the market long since hundreds or thousands of affiliates are already busy promoting that. You will waste your time by jumping into a pond where hundreds of experienced fishermen are already busy fishing. You have to find a pond that is yet to be explored by other fishermen. Get the idea? You will promote products that are yet to be released and has next to zero competition. You will stand a good chance of ranking higher in search engines if you promote something that nobody else is promoting. It will also help you SEO-wise. If you ask any talented SEO guy, he will tell you that if you want to rank in the first page of Google for a certain product that is yet to be released and marketed, you have to start working two or three months prior. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 29
Since nobody is doing SEO for a product that is yet to be released, your review will rank #1 in Google. Do you understand the point of acquiring #1 spot for a CPA product on Google? This #1 spot has made some affiliates millionaires ;) What you need to get started 1. ClickBank Account 2. A blog (I recommend InMotionHosting for better ranking) 3. YouTube Account Time for Action Step 1: Find a yet-to-be-released product Go to the following sites. These cover upcoming affiliate products. JV Launch Calendar JV Notify Pro AffiliateX JV CB Leads Step 2: Select a Product to Promote This is probably the most crucial thing in this whole process. You have to go through the short details of all yet-to-be released products and analyze them properly. If you browse the ClickBank marketplace, you can see that thousands of products are listed in each category. But how many of them are actually Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 30
getting sold like a hot cake? If you choose the wrong product, all your hard work will be wasted. Although no one can predict the future demand of a product, you can somehow do some calculation based on the quality of content, track record of the product author/developer, time of release, price, value it will provide to its customers, and the number of similar products currently available in the market. Well, it s not that difficult. All you have to use here is your common sense and experience. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 31
TIP: Make sure that the product you are going to promote is to be released at least 30 days from now. You need this timeframe to prepare content, get backlinks, and be on the #1 spot on the day of its release. Step 3: Prepare Reviews of the Product Let s say you shortlist 2 products. Now shoot an email to the marketer of those products and request for a review copy. Most of the marketers will work with you since you are willing to promote their product and bring them sales. Always be sure to maintain a good relationship with them as they will help you to succeed. They know that your success as an affiliate will bring them success as an internet marketer. Once you get the product, use it. Use all available features, take screenshots, track results, mark consistency in output, and maintain notes. Now, you have to write a detailed review of the product. Here is the tricky part: cover your entire experience, mostly positive ones, but include a few negative ones as well. People who buy IM products are familiar with well-written sales copies and they will probably ignore your review if all you say are nice things about a product. Nothing is perfect. Mention one or two drawbacks in your review to make it look genuine and unbiased. This will help you earn the trust of your audience and get more sales. Hire a freelancer to rewrite the article (don t spin) and give you 10 different versions. It will cost you around $50 for 10 copies. (You can also do it yourself and save $50.) Step 4: Publish Reviews Online Since the product is yet to be released, chances are high that you will get keyword-focused web presence. Get a keyword-rich domain. If the product name is XYZ, just add review to it and book the domain so that your site will be www.xyzreview.com. Install WordPress. Publish your original article. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 32
To publish the rewritten copies, use the following Web 2.0 websites 1. wordpress.com 2. bloglines.com 3. weebly.com 4. typepad.com 5. blogger.com 6. livejournal.com 7. tumblr.com 8. squidoo.com 9. hubpages.com Make sure to link your original domain with all these rewritten articles as well as the link to the product with your affiliate URL. Step 5: Get Your Reviews Ranked on Google Once all your reviews are online on various domains, now it s time to do some link promotions to rank them well on Google. For this, you have to head to Fiverr and buy any social media submission gig that promises submission to 1000-2000 sites. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 33
Before ordering the gig, send a personal message to the seller and say that you will require those 1000-2000 links to be distributed among all 9 Web 2.0 sites. Most will agree to it anyway. Now your Web 2.0 articles will have some decent number of backlinks to them and considering the authority of those websites, they will tend to rank well on Google. And since all those ranking articles will be linking to your main site, your site should get higher in the ranks gradually. Step 6: Enjoy the Money Once the product goes online and people start searching for reviews, they will stumble across your reviews. That s it. Now you have enough targeted traffic on your website who actually want to buy that product! If you can negotiate with the marketer to provide some coupons for your traffic, that will be like icing on the cake. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 34
SUMMARY This method has been working for me like anything. All you have to have is a focused mindset and use it. I normally outsource this task to a VA who takes care of everything and I work on finding more new products to write reviews on. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 35
5. Earn Money by Promoting ClickBank Products on Other Blogs Overview Details Investment $1 - $10 Time to Set Up Hours of Work Per Week 3-5 Hours 25 hours Expected Monthly Profit $3000+ Difficulty Level This method is extremely simple, gets you real money, but needs your time, focus and attention. This is probably one of the rarest methods that bring a blog-targeted traffic without doing SEO or worrying about Google updates. This can be highly scalable if you can outsource this to a fulltime employee or a virtual assistant. It can get you 5-figure paychecks every month with just around 25 hours of work per week. What you need to get started 1. ClickBank Account 2. One Blog (I recommend InMotionHosting for better ranking) 3. One Gmail account Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 36
Time for Action Step 1: Find a Niche Go to ClickBank and select a niche. It can be anything from parenting to money-making, from music to software, from weight loss to weight gain, anything. Once you select a niche, find a couple of products under it to promote. Per my experience, I recommend you sort the products according to their gravity score and select the top 5 products to promote. Once you are done with the product selection, open Notepad, and save their respective landing page URLs and your affiliate links. Step 2: Publish Reviews of those Products Write the reviews yourself or hire a writer. Get the reviews of those 5 products written in around 600-800 words with your affiliate links. Always add personal touch to your reviews for maximum ROI. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 37
Now, buy a keyword-rich domain and install WordPress. Get a review theme to apply on your blog. There are a lot of free and premium reviews themes available in the market. Make sure that the review theme supports a star rating system or else you have to look for a plugin to do the ratings job. Publish all the reviews, assign your ratings (should be 4, 4 ½ or 5 stars), do some basic SEO (meta tags) and you are done. Step 3: Set up Google Alerts for the Product Google Alert is a Google service that alerts you by sending an email whenever it finds any article on the web that is closely related to your keyword. Since you are targeting 5 products here, add them all to Google Alert. To get better results, you can add the followings as search query: Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 38
Product Name (e.g. Xtreme Weight Loss Guide) Niche (e.g. Weight Loss, Lose Weight, Losing Weight, etc.) Related Products (e.g. Lose Weight Today, Perfect Weight Loss Guide, etc.) Set the email frequency to Daily. Step 4: Post Links on Other Blogs Google will now send you alerts through daily emails. The alerts will usually be new blog posts, press releases, forum posts, news articles, etc. Now the game begins. The motive behind using Google Alert is that you will be one of the first people to post a comment on those articles, attract more eye balls, and get more clicks. Click on each and every URL and land on the web pages. If it s a blog post, leave a comment with a link to your site. In case of forum topics, post a reply. Make sure that your reply makes some sense and does not appear as spam. The best practice is to write a detailed comment such as, "Loved the article. Btw, I always check out this website before buying any product in [niche name] - [website link]. My personal favorite is [product X - a random product from the review site] because [blah, blah, blah]." If you write something constructive, chances are high that blog owners, forum moderators, and news article authors will get it approved. You will be amazed to see the instant flow of traffic using this method. Step 5: Earn with Time Remember that every article tends to rank well on Google on account of time. If you keep up posting 100 replies/comments every day, that will make 3000 backlinks to your websites in a month. Even if 50% of them get approved, you will have 1500 links pointing to your money site each and every month. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 39
It's not too hard to get this past forum moderators if you are clever about it. Forums are great as they will get you instant traffic and they tend to rank really well. SUMMARY The beauty of this method is that it can be done in many niches, easy to set up and gets instant traffic. It will bring residual income and you don't have to spend months waiting for your sites to start ranking only to drop again when Google changes their algorithm! Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 40
CONCLUSION This is it. I believe you can now smell how easy it is to pocket $5000 every month! The only reason why most people fail to make money online is that they never take any action. I have shown you the way! Now it s your smart work and dedication that will get you $$$$. For more money-making tips, head to www.smartincome.org. Smart Income Guide www.smartincome.org Page 41