Many of us know by now how to set up their own webpage, and if you reached this point than you want to know how to get visitors and convert them into buyers of your product.

Affiliate programs or systems will teach you only a couple of ways to drive visitors to your or their site. Will you make money? You might make money but in internet marketing there is a rule: more ways are more choices. Instead of having one method of driving traffic to your site it would simply be better to have thousands of ways to get traffic to your site.

If you use Adsense or Bidvertiser advertsing campaigns you will have more success if you have lots of pages on your site rather than an single page site. The more exposures you have, the more possibilities you have for generating revenue out of your advertsing campaigns.

If you use only one traffic exchange to generate pageviews you will have less exposure as when you use hundreds of traffic exchanges.

You see with all these examples the key is when you use more methods, the more possibilities you’ll have to sell your product. I even think that implementing more associated products will even give you more possibilities to sell one of the products you promote.

The lack of most internet marketers is that they have been taught only a couple of methods and when they are faced with a low conversion (subscribers or sales) they give up or are looking for additional ways to spice up traffic or sales.
Some internet marketers or marketing systems will supply you with paid additional information to extend the way you create your traffic or to convert your visitors into buyers or subscribers. I am glad that I still am able to give this kind of information for free by teaching you one on one the exact ways to create a good foundation for your internet marketing achievements and teach you additional things that can be beneficial to you in the long run. When establishing a business you surely don’t want to hang up your boots within a year of establishing yourself.

Below I give you some methods how to create traffic to your site.

1) Traffic exchanges: Click here for a list of the best traffic exchanges on the net.
2) Use of a signature: Many people don’t use a signature in forums, articles and emails. A signature is a must have to let people focus on your product.
3) Use of forums: Become an expert by participating in forums.
4) Use of articles: Post articles related to your niche to various article directories. You can post some articles here http://www.freegurulessons.com/articledir/
5) Use of safelists: By joining safelists you are able to sent posts to members of that safelist and they are able to post their offers to you. Below you’ll find some of the safelists I use:

Adtactics
Gotsafelists
Safersafelist
The-traffic-secret
Globalsafelist

6) Use of a blog: A blog can be used to extend the popularity of your products and can also give a meaning of people interacting with you.
7) Listbuilders: Almost the same as a safelist but a listbuilder will let you grow your members in more than one program at a time. My favourite listbuilders are:

ListJoe
Build referrals
Crocads
Freeaddepot
ListDotCom

Above you have some methods to generate traffic. If you want to be taught more ways to generate traffic or if you want to have information regarding a specific subject than you can either subscribe for FREE by clicking here or add me to your yahoo (ID is allfreelessons).

To your success,

Jan

Everyone that is building an online presence is faced with creating content for their website. Not everyone starting online has the capabilities to write an article, create a sales letter or a squeeze page simply because they don’t have the experience. There are several ways to have content for your website:

• Write it yourself
• Let someone else write your content
• Append articles in your site
• Syndicate your website with RSS

If you aren’t a writer then you can hire someone to have your website contents written. Content is very strong related to spelling and the use of, in my case the English language. Always use a spelling checker before publishing.

Another way to build a website is the use of articles of someone else that is related to your subject or Niche. You can search various article directories that matches your subject. You can also click here to find content for your website.

You can use RSS feeds from various sources to build your website, but an advice is not to build your website entirely out of RSS feeds or articles from others because your site needs to be unique from all the websites out there. I’ll explain in another lesson about articles and RSS feeds. 

It is necessary to have top content. If you have bad content in a sales letter, a website or article than people will not read and skip your content.

Top content consist of a compelling headline and contents with benefits or keywords.  The compelling headline and the benefits are most important to sell a product.

There are some tools out there that you can use for generating keywords. The one I use often is the software called Keyword Elite or you can use the keyword tool of Overture or Google to create a range of words you can use in your article. Make sure that in every paragraph you write at least 3% is covered by keywords. So if you have a paragraph consisting of 300 words make sure that you have included 9 keywords in that paragraph.

Keywords are used by searchengines to index your website or webpage so in order to achieve traffic results from a search engine you need to include keywords in your article or minisite squeeze page as well.

If you use Google Adsense or any other related advertisement tool than your keywords will generate content related ads to be displayed on your site for every page you include.

When you start writing an article, write down the keywords that you can think about it first. In the example I used in these set of Articles my first keyword is car, another keyword can be sportscar or even Ferrari or automobile is another word for car. A keyword doesn’t have to be a single word but can consist of more than one word or even a small sentence.

Think about the paragraphs being used: if in one of the articles you explain that Ferrari’s are build in Italy go and create keywords related to Italy like country in South Europe, Italian stallion or something like that.

The biggest thing of all is how to start. A headline will make and break everything you write. A headline has to draw immediate attention to what you are trying to sell or to have an impact on what information you are giving them but at least it should have an action that people are interested in reading more or whatever you want them to do.

A good Free source for how to write an article is: Email Promos exposed, Mini Sites Profits Exposed or the blog of Soren Jordansen. 

I assume that by now you have chosen for option 2, 3 or 4 out of my previous lesson. If you haven’t made a choice yet or just want to try out option 1 first be aware that with options 2 to 4 real money, to replace your current job or just as an extra income, can be made.

I can’t go into details for option 1 because I have insufficient experience in reading emails or taking surveys to teach here how to go about. I just have in depth experience, and I am still learning, in affiliate marketing and running your own sites.

I started out, after trying to do it all by myself, with an online FREE marketing team that taught me the basics of internet marketing. If you want to know about everything on marketing techniques than GRIN marketing team might be the place to go. Remember the information is FREE. Click here for GRIN marketing team.

Let’s continue with the topic of this lesson. When you start online with an online presence you need to think carefully what your site is all about. It can be a topic where you have a large experience in. It can be related to one of your hobbies or it can be that you don’t know anything to write about.

On my other blog, I have a daily top 10 of terms where people are looking for on search engines. You certainly can take a look there to find a topic you are able to write about. If you chose option 3 or 4 out of my previous lesson than it would be wise not to use a Niche on your website that is related to internet marketing. You better can write a website about dogs than how people need to learn how to earn money.
Competition is in a Niche area less than writing some website content for internet marketing issues. Yes you can go into detail about a certain subject of marketing techniques but still competition will be hard.

Another option is to get FREE information delivered in your mailbox from a recent launched service called Daily Niche Idea. These people even provide you with additional information and affiliate and earning potentials right in your mailbox. Click here for Daily Niche Idea.

By now you have chosen what kind of product you are going to use, so it will be time to choose how you want to have your online presence.

There are options:
1. Affiliate websites
Most of the affiliate websites are providing you with your own predefined webpage (sales letter, squeeze page, landing page or whatever they call them)
A predefined webpage can be used for linking to your affiliate program at your own website but mainly such a webpage is used to promote the affiliate program in traffic exchanges etc.
I’ll talk about traffic exchanges when we reach the lessons about traffic .

It is out of experience that you’ll use more than one affiliate program. It is also the best way forward since you create a multiple income stream and don’t rely on just one affiliate program to pay out.
2. Affiliate links
Affiliate links are mainly used in programs as Clickbank. Each digital product in Clickbank is associated with a so called hoplink. If you plan on promoting more than one piece of software, more than one ebook or other digital product, you need to have at least a webpage displaying all these links.
If we go further in my lessons it will become clear that displaying all of your links, at least when you try to sell products, isn’t the way forward.
With having only links, you are faced to have hosting and a domain. In my next lessons you’ll learn how to make use of that domain and hosting to provide an additional income stream. You’ll also be taught how to create a selling website.
3. Your own website
This option is the best according to me. You are always in control of the contents and design of your own website and you aren’t dependent on a website provided by your affiliate programs. You can incorporate multiple programs and have multiple income streams where as you have an affiliate website you are limited to use the predefined template each affiliate is given. Your own ideas aren’t incorporated and mostly affiliate websites are poorly designed (but great for having effect of selling).

As you see for option 2, 3 and in a lesser extend for option 1 you’ll need hosting and your own domain.

Hosting and domain

Before I recommend some hosting providers, please be aware that the domain you choose is reflecting the Niche or service you’ll provide. As you can see my domain is reflecting to my FREE lessons and therefore I chose this domain.

There are two hosting providers I recommend.
IXWeb hosting:
To me this provider is giving me excellent performance and great support. All queries are instantly or within a couple of hours resolved. Click here to get information on IXWeb hosting.
IPower: Also a good hosting provider and at this moment they run a temporary sale on their hosting. Click here to get information on IPower hosting.

Later in these lessons I teach you how to turn your hosting into income and profit.

In the next lessons I will teach you about different types of websites and what you should do in general in regards to content.

To Your Success,

Jan