Money making Websites focus on “earning money online” and are based on the Affiliate Website or Relay Website type. A previous article explained how different they are compared to the other two website types — Corporate Websites and Commercial Websites (often called e-Commerce Websites)
Let’s first remind ourselves what a “Website” is: a “resource” file accessible on the World Wide Web, converted in html — hypertext mark-up language — and with a unique web address or an URL (Uniform Resource Locator). A Relay Website type is to register prospects and promote other websites.
Earning money online or any “Making Money on Internet” project is today within the reach of anybody who has a PC, an access to Internet and knows the basics of keyword research and file management. You can do this by creating your own website, thereby giving yourself a unique identity on the World Wide Web and control your destiny, compared to tens of different ways to make money on Internet (see a next article).
Since 1 April 2010 more than 1,7 Billion! Web users, who are called “internauts”, can access your website as long as you have an URL that they know about. No distinction can be made between “info getters” and “prospective buyers”, but it is estimated that $ 400 billion a year is sold direct over the Internet.
“Permission Marketing” was generated by the use of Internet and the enormous success of Web Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN (Bing), etc. Today, hundreds of search engines are operational, sometimes concentrating on a specific region or focussing on very specific topics.
Let us focus on Affiliate Websites as opposed to other Relay Website type such as Blogs and Forums and Social Websites, as these are not used for selling anything direct, yet they play an important role in the moneymaking process because of the word-of-mouth viral promotion and advertisement capabilities.
You can easily realise the confusion when so called gurus tell you “The money is… in the list” (your prospect list) or…in the content or…in the traffic or… in eager buyers or… in SEO (Search Engine Optimization, which is in fact a handful of tips that ensure that your prospect finds you by typing in the keywords that you have selected and attached to your website- more on this in a next article)
The Affiliate Website has three objectives in mind: get prospects, promote other websites and sell.
The 6 keys to success for making money on Internet are:
- Address a hungry “Niche” (a specific target market) dedicated to your Website.
- Provide valuable information on a product or service that your target visitor wants to buy.
- Get known from pertinent keywords attached to your URL or as advertised or promoted.
- Motivate any visitor to “opt-in” to give his name and email address for more info.
- Sell him or link him to the site where he can buy to get value for money.
- Feed him regularly with more valuable information that interests him.
Each key instruction contains highlighted and underlined words that are key themselves and they are the subjects of separate books and articles. They are all very important to the success of the project.
One single webpage (which can be several printed pages long) is sufficient to start the ball rolling. The trick is to effectively convince your web visitor that he can buy the product or service that you are selling or promoting, and this would generate revenue for you when he decides to purchase.
You either directly sell the product (the electronic book or report or course or training material or videos) that can be downloaded against payment, or you link your customer to a site that provides it.
Obviously, you will first have established an “Affiliate link” with the website owner to get your commission. Such commission can reach 80% of the net sales price. To this end, you sign on to ClickBank.com or PayDotCom.com or CJ.com of Linkshare.com, select a website in “Marketplace” and follow the instructions and tutorials to register as an Affiliate. Then go the sites and get their sales aids, banners, email and Ad templates etc.