My experience started out a bit shaky but I eventually learned what it takes to be a work from home marketer and is so worth the time it took to learn.

My Daily Commute Is Shorter Now

For a long time I’ve dreamed of working from my home and making a living at it. Now it’s become a reality and the short commute to the office is so cool.

I get up really early, the middle of the night for most people, and never liked waiting hours before I could go to work. Now I can get up a 4am and pretty much go straight to work. It’s nice to have my day done by noon most days.

I don’t use an alarm. I just get up when I wake up and that’s always early and then it’s off to the office to turn on my computer and next the kitchen to start my first coffee of the day. Then I hit the bathroom to freshen up and I’m ready for the day.

First Let’s Dump The Email Spam

Even though I wake up without an alarm I am still a little dopey for a while so this is a good time to get rid of the spam in my email box. It gives me a little time to wake my brain up enough to really start working.

It doesn’t usually take long as my email software kicks most of the trash to the curb. Next I can get to the real email. Just this morning I received 4 guest blog posts for two different niches and 2 other requests from people wanting to guest blog on one of my other niche blogs.

Guest bloggers make my life so much easier today as I have more than a dozen blogs to provide content for.

I Review Each Guest Blog Post

Each guest post is saved in a temp folder so I can come back to them once I have finished with my email checking. Once I have them all saved I check each on to make sure it meets the rules I have set for guest bloggers.

I don’t accept all guest articles as not all follow the rules. Maybe they don’t think I am going to check them but I do and they get rejected.

Some are bad and get rejected but for those that write quality articles and yet make a mistake somewhere, well they always get a second chance with me. Just not the spammers.

It’s usually about this time I head to the kitchen for another cup of java.

I Schedule Publishing Guest Posts

What’s really great about guest articles or posts is that I don’t publish them all at once. I like to have a single post per day or every other day and schedule posts so that the show up exactly when I want them to, even when I’m off fishing with a buddy.

Publish To Article Directories With PR

EzineArticles.com is one of my favourite article directories and is where I publish first. Why, well EA has the toughest guidelines and won’t mess with any duplicate content. So I publish there first, wait for approval, which can take a few day if you’re new there but it’s quick for me.

After I get the email telling me it was accepted I take the article and spin it using The Best Spinner. This makes a few extra articles I can then use for the other article directories which are less strict.

Relevant Blog Commenting

Don’t overlook blog commenting as it can send you a lot of relevant traffic. There are a couple of commenting tips that will help you get your comment accepted.

1. I don’t just leave a generic comment like so many I reject each day. Instead take a few minutes, read the article and then add a comment that adds some extra value to their article. This will usually get the attention of the blog owner. Especially if they moderate their comments like I do.

2. Don’t know enough yet to leave a value added comment, not to worry. You can read the article and then come up with a real question that will help you learn more. People are usually eager to help as it makes them look good and you may go to their site as well.

Note: Be the first to comment. This will mean most people reading the article will see your comment. If you are commenter 27 they may not even see your comment. To make this easier I use Google Feed Reader or Bloglines to monitor the blog feeds I want to comment on. Feed readers are great time savers.

Need More Content Hire A Writer

There may be times you will not be able to come up with all the content you want. I am always looking for more content so I can publish articles all over the place with links back to my money pages. The thing is I need unique content and rewriting isn’t always an option.

Just a few months ago I learned about iwriter.com where I could request articles for the writers there.  The cost was very affordable which kind of led me to thinking maybe it sucked but my concerns quickly faded away.

An example: Just yesterday I made a request for 3 different articles at 500 words each. They were completed, checked through CopyScape for uniqueness and I was notified they were ready for approval. Today they are already scheduled to appear on my blogs.

I kept one of the articles to use as my original for spinning a bunch more in The Best Spinner software.

PageRank Building

Just two weeks ago I got an email from a blogging friend telling me about BuildMyRank.com. She told me it was a great place to publish articles to build my rankings. It wasn’t free like some of the place I’ve used that got me zero results but they do have a 15 day trial and I would have 10 links.

Of course I signed up and started using the system immediately using up my free links in no time. My articles we picked up and published quickly and indexed in a couple of days. That info is available for tracking purposes.

I wrote 4 articles and used iwriter.com for two more articles covering 5 of my niche domains.

The articles are only published once so no duplicate content floating around. My articles got published on a PR4, PR3 and PR2 sites. I don’t have any free links left but I am certainly convinced it’s a good place to be a member and made the commitment to a monthly membership.

And that brings an end to this article, hope it helps you reach new heights. If so let me know by leaving a comment. Maybe you are even a possible guest blogger.

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What I Do To Come Up With Quality Content

1. I Write Down All My Ideas

For the longest time I would get ideas that would just come and go. If I didn’t write them down I may never think of them again. Eventually I started carrying a pad and pen with me so I could write those money making ideas down for future use.

I go for long walks for health reasons. It’s great and my mind can be free to wander. This is the time I get answers to different questions I’ve had and if I don’t write them down it’s unlikely I will still remember them when I return home. So I write them down, immediately. I carried a small recorder for a while but felt kind of weird talking into it while walking.

2. Niche Focused Magazines For Ideas

Magazines are one of my best methods for coming up with fresh ideas for my blogs. I make a list of my niches and give them to family members as suggestions for Christmas and birthdays, so when I am hurting for an article I can open one of my magazines and refresh my mind.

I am not suggesting you copy the content, that would be very wrong but there is nothing wrong with using them to trigger ideas of your own. Put things in your own words and mix it up a bit so that you have unique but keyword focused content.

3. Take Part In Niche Forums

The forums that exist within your niche can be a great help and full of ideas you can spin into your own content that’s still yours and unique. But Be Forewarned as forums can be really addictive and a lot of time gets wasted just chatting and hanging around.

Get in, get out and get publishing. You can visit the forums again when your work for the day is complete. I used to spend some late nights on forums where I worked during the day and then returned to chat and goof off all night.

The ideas listed above are great ways to come up with ideas for content and should keep your readers happy for a long time. But I have multiple blogs with the same niche focus and don’t like using duplicate content.

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Not every one has a product to sell online. I am one of those work from home online marketers who has no products of their own but I don’t mind at all because it doesn’t mean I don’t have products to promote and sell.

It’s great to have an opportunity to sell other people’s products as it means I can go into a whole lot more niches as I can join affiliate networks and promote other people’s products. All I have to do is learn about them and promote them on my blogs.

Affiliate Products To Promote

Today you’ll find affiliate marketing has limitless potential as there are so many products and services one can choose from. Selling affiliate products all day long for the rest of your life and you’d still never come close to selling all the products available.

One of my favourite niches is the home gardening niche as it’s a great way to save money and if you choose to blog about it you have a way to make money blogging. The garden niche is so big that it has many sub niches meaning you will find unlimited products to promote and sell.

Digital Affiliate Products

I use the Clickbank marketplace to find and promote gardening related digital products called ebooks, which are books in digital form so you can read them on your laptop, computer or ipad or Kindle.

You will find other affiliate programs for digital products other than just at Clickbank. You might want to look at PayDotCom.com and eJunkie.com too.

You need to learn all you can about affiliate marketing and Clickbank is the place to look. It was there that I found the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner and my online business life started making money. Rosalind Gardner is the go to person for all things affiliate marketing.

Non Digital Affiliate Products

Of course all products are not digital so I went looking for other affiliate networks that have physical products I can promote.

There are so many affiliate networks I have joined but my top sales come from just a few I have listed below:

Commission Junction, LinkShare Affiliate and ShareASale Network

Those are just a few affiliate networks I use and they carry a lot more than just garden related affiliate programs. I use a lot of the same affiliate networks for my other niches like fishing and acoustic guitar.

I really doesn’t matter what you niche is there will be an affiliate program you could make money with, unless you pick a niche that is so out there that there is little to choose from but for the normal things there are often multiple programs to choose from.

Just as a reminder, it took Rosalind’s Super Affiliate Handbook to get me on the right path to making money with affiliate marketing on my blogs.

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As a work from home blogger with a decade of online marketing behind me I have learned the importance of owning keyworded domain names and have made a few bad purchases that cost me money every day.

Today I only purchase keyword focused domain names and it’s one step you don’t want to miss out on when it comes to online businesses such as work from home blogging.

I am quite happy with GoDaddy.com for my domain purchase and for a good reason. They provide me with domains. They also show me other domain extensions such as .org and .info in case I want to purchase those as well as .com as I usually purchase.

I have been more than pleased with GoDaddy.com service, although I have only needed it a couple of times in all the years I have been doing business with them. Service is so important to me as I not only have domains that are mine I also have domains that belong to clients and I don’t need headaches.

So now you know I am please with GoDaddy and I also highly recommend them for your domain purchases. Now let’s get into how I make a domain purchase.

Go To GoDaddy.com

I guess the first step would be to head on over to GoDaddy.com where we can get started. Of course this is after you have done your research and found just the right keyworded domain name.

No need to be a GoDaddy client right this minute however once you have found the domain name that you desire you will need to signup to make a purchase.

You can see the search box for a Domain Search. This is where you will enter your keyword phrase, without spaces though. Directly to the right of the search box is where you can specify the extension such as .com, .net, .info and others.

Note: What comes to mind for most people today, when thinking about domains is .com. It’s just an automatic things to put .com on the end, even if someone tells you it’s .net or .info.

So try to get your keyword phrase as a DOT com first.

Okay let’s give it a try then.

I am looking for a new domain for my home garden site and would like to rank for. I used Keyword Elite to find keywords and to evaluate if I should go for them or not based on data gathered by KE.

Exact Match Keyworded Domain

When I use keywords to find my domains I like to get the domain for the exact match. So let’s say I wanted the phrase ‘raised bed vegetable gardening’ then I would be looking for the exact domain which would look like: www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

The thing is there are likely to be others before you with the desire for that specific and exact match keyword phrase, so what does one do.

1. You could purchase something other than .com. Just remember that .com has been burned into people’s minds for more than a decade meaning they might forget you extension and just use .com and landing on your competitor’s site.
2. Using hyphens. The downside to using hyphens is they are a pain and people easily forget them if typing in your domain and again land on your competitor’s site.
3. Add a suffix to your keyword phrase. If I can’t get the domain as a perfect match and didn’t want to go for option 1 or 2 I would add the word tips and if that doesn’t work I may use my city name: www.raisedbedvegetablegardeningtips.com.
4. Add a prefix to your phrase. I always go with a suffix first as it leaves my keyword phrase at the beginning which makes it more keyworded than if I add a word to the beginning something like, www.monctonraisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

After I did my research and found that I wanted www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com as my domain name GoDaddy told me it was taken. I didn’t want anything but a .com. I didn’t want to go the hyphenating route so I tried a suffix. I used ‘tips’ as my suffix and found it was available, as a DOT com without hyphens. Perfect.

So before I ever went looking to GoDaddy.com to find my domain I did my keyword research so I could get a keyworded domain. This is the first step toward your blogging success. Again I use Keyword Elite or Micro Niche Finder for my keyword research but a few years ago I was using Google’s Free Keyword Tool.

Of course Internet access will only get you online, you are still going to have to do some learning before the money starts rolling in or before you start writing anything.

So it’s important I point out the fact that blogging for profit does take work but also that it is so worth investing the time it takes to learn. how to start a work from home blog that’s profitable.

Step One – Learn How To First

My biggest blunder when it comes to my online business was taking so long to decide to learn how to make money online. Don’t try to wing it hoping it will work for you as it will most likely just frustrate you. So the biggest mistake in marketing is NOT LEARNING FIRST.

Learning how to start your work from home blog for profit has to start with more than just a desire to make money. It will take some niche research so you can be sure you’re going to be blogging for profit in a niche you can rank for without working for years to do it.

Know right up front that the vast majority of those who try to make a profitable blog never actually make any money. This in my mind makes it vital that you learn how to succeed with a blog before ever writing a word.

First steps first …

How To Find A ‘Profitable’ Niche

Finding a profitable niche is important if your goal is to make money blogging but no this that most niches are profitable. The trick is to find a niche you can profit in which means a niche you can stick with long enough to make money.

It’s really not the niche that’s not making money, it’s the blogger who isn’t making the money, yet so many other are able to make money in that niche. Why is that?

Your Niche Has To Keep YOU Interested…

… long enough to get traffic that you can keep interested long enough for you to profit. Get that right and you may just have a winner.

Take the time to match a niche with your interests and you can go far. On the other hand pick a niche you think the money but don’t have a strong interest or experience in and you could be spinning your wheels for a really long time and never make any head way or income.

Where To Look For Profitable Niches

One of my favourite places to look for niches I can profit with is to head over to Amazon.com where I can find best sellers in every category. I just start going through the categories that I have hobbies and interests in.

Amazon makes it so easy to find products in niches I like and from there it’s all about finding the keywords and phrases that I can create a profitable blog with.

Enter A Niche You’re Knowledgeable About

I suggest one niche per blog so you can stay focused on one topic to help you gain ranking for your pages easier. Get too many topics in one blog and it’s hard for the search engines to narrow down what your site is about.

There is a number of methods used today to get content on ones blog but if you have a niche you have know-how in you will find creating your own content the best way to go at the start.

As I started to gain momentum and ranking with my blogs I began receiving request by guest bloggers. They wanted to write content for me, at no charge, how cool is that. Today I have blogs I seldom need to create content for as guest bloggers are giving me all the content I need to gain in the rankings and make money with my blogs.

Although I have some how to make money working from home blogs most of my blogs are hobby related like my fishing, gardening, acoustic guitar, and puppy potty training blogs.

Researching Your Niche Choices

Okay, you’ve found a few niches you’re interested so now it’s time to learn more about the competition in these niches. You don’t want to go for a niche that’s going to take way too long to rank for. However that doesn’t mean you want to avoid that niche.

Every niche I work through my blogs was hard to rank for when I wanted the top keywords but I didn’t go with the top keywords as my main focus. That would be blog suicide really as the competition for the niches I have are strong.

Instead I use tools to help me find the best keyword for me to use NOW, TODAY.

I started by using Google’s Free Keyword Tool, easily found with a quick Google search but once I had the money to invest I purchased two keyword tools that make my research a breeze. The two keyword research tools I purchased are Keyword Elite and Micro Niche Finder, you can check them out for more info.

Next Step Is A Keyworded Domain Name

Now if you are here and haven’t purchased a domain yet I’m proud of you as your domain name is an important step in having an optimized niche website. Example: which domain name do you thing I would get better ranking for as a home gardening blog, www.hbb2obm.com or www.backyardgardeningtips.com.

Well both those are my blogs and both are about gardening but the keyworded domain, which was started a year after the non keyworded domain is getting more than a thousand unique visitors per day over the non keyworded domain and is making considerably more income for me.

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The fact is traffic doesn’t just happen because you started a blog. You are required to work to make your success happen.

It’s important to know that you are not alone in starting a blog as there are huge numbers that start new blogs every single day. The thing is most don’t know how to create a successful blog yet so you can definitely take the lead if you apply a few tips.

While those other bloggers are burning out spinning their wheels to the point they just give up on blogging your work at home blog can actually excel.

How Can You Improve Your Blog

I make most of my money blogging and sharing affiliate programs that make me more money. I started experiencing success after purchasing, reading and apply what I learned reading the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner.

You need to have a handle on affiliate marketing so that while you’re blogging you can plan how to use your affiliate links in your content in the most effective way. Rosalind will help you get there just like he ebook did for me.

Don’t Clutter It’s Distracting

The more things you stick on your blog, like animated banners and pop-ups that try hard to draw the attention of the visitor. Keep your blog clear of distracting clutter so your visitor will be able to stay focused on the content that will lead them to making you more money.

Focus your visitors attention on your quality content. The less clutter the more focus your content will have.

Target The Best Visitor

Using The Right Keywords: Optimization for search engine traffic that’s free otherwise known as target traffic through search engine optimization or SEO. Using the wrong keywords can take an otherwise useful article, that should make you some money, into a non targeted article because of poor keyword choices.

I see so many work from home marketers who use article spinners like The Best Spinner which could really do awesome things for them but they spin the power out of the article. It may still get attention from the search engines but not for words and phrases most humans type in search engines.

This means your content had potential, until their spinner change the focus of the article in a NEGATIVE MANNER.

Affiliate Marketing Focus

When you write quality articles using a specific keyword focus you can easily share affiliate links and product information that will be exactly what you TARGETED VISTORS are looking for. This means your visitor will stay on your page longer and be likely to return.

The more quality and niche focus the more visitors that return and purchase, the bigger your blog will grow as will your bank account.

Making your work from home blog profitable isn’t brain surgery although when I first started my brain did hurt a bit. The key is to work a niche you know about so that you don’t have to outsource all your content. You need deep pockets if you are going to start a work from home business of blogging in a profitable niche you know nothing about, just because there is money in the niche.

I started my work at home online business in the make money niche which of course I knew nothing about other than that’s where the money is. Well the money wasn’t there for me until I took a step back and learned what I should be doing.

Next I started a home gardening blog, because I know something about gardening and I love gardening, so I wouldn’t be scraping for content after the first month or two.

Anyone Can Create A Quality Blog Post

I could have created a profitable blog on my first try, but I didn’t. Not because I didn’t want to but because I didn’t know how to yet and thought it had to be easy as so many others were blogging and I assumed they were making money.

I only did a few things wrong but the biggest mistake I made was to chose the wrong market and even when I failed I continued spinning my wheels instead of seeking answers to why I wasn’t making money yet.

Think about this, as it’s something I see pretty much daily.

You have an idea for a good article so you sit down and write a quality article and pop in your links and then you wait. The thing is it’s an article that may have seemed interesting to you but wasn’t to your readers.

That’s not really a quality article if it’s not in the right niche. Ask your visitor and they will tell you but otherwise they just leave the site and you’re left wondering where the income is. For a quality article to work it needs to be in the right place to been seen by the right target market.

Put Only Relevant Things On Your Blog

I visit a lot of blogs in the course a day and I don’t like wasting my time as time is money, especially for a work from home part time marketer. I like to learn new things so that I have more to write about but that’s not the only reason I visit so many blogs. I also need lots of backlinks to help my sites ranking and get more target traffic so I do a fair bit of value added blog commenting.

So while I’m visiting all these sites, relevant to my own niches of course, I see a ton of things on blogs that shouldn’t be there. It’s not just poor quality content that turns me away. I also get turned away by a blog that’s not focused on keeping me on their site.

What I Look For In Blogs I Comment On

I find or locate the blogs I comment on using Google to search out keyword phrases I use on my own sites and wish to rank better for. I put the quality blogs in my blog feed reader so I can return when there are new blog posts I can comment on.

I invest a lot of my time getting backlinks and commenting but I don’t like to waste my time so I look for specific things that will help me grow my work from home business.

• blog must be relevant to my own

I don’t want to be leaving comments on non relevant sites as I see it as a complete waste of time when there are relevant blogs to comment on.

• blog must be optimized for search engine traffic

I like to see a blog where the owner has taken the time to optimize their blog for search engine traffic. One thing I look at here is the filename structure. If I am seeing P123 instead of a keyworded filename I know they aren’t going to get me the attention they could.

• content must be quality and not over spun crap

Poorly spun articles is a huge problem today, in my humble opinion anyways. If I land on a page and start to read it and find it doesn’t make sense because of poor quality writing or over spinning I leave. If the blogger can’t be bothered to create quality articles I can read I won’t stay or comment.

Give me quality content in my niche and I can give you back a quality value added comment that will benefit both myself, the blog owner and their visitors.

So, really making money through a work from home blogging business is easy if you are willing to learn how to before you continue. Don’t clutter your blog with too many ways for your visitor to leave or be distracted.

Write content that’s focused on your niche and don’t stray off topic and be sure to optimize your blog for search engine traffic. Use The Best Spinner to spin articles but proofread every article before publishing. Be sure you link to relevant things as well so your readers are redirected to a place they didn’t want to be.

It’s all about focusing on the niche at hand and providing a quality experience for your targeted visitors.

Learn about affiliate marketing from the one who knows, Rosalind Gardner. Checkout her excellent ebooks, Super Affiliate Handbook.

Once blogging became available I thought I would give it a try but wasn’t sure about it so I went with free hosting and blog services. Unfortunately it didn’t turn out like I had hoped and I almost just gave up on free blogging.

Before I just dropped blogging all together I was talking with a friend who said I should try hosting my own blog and that started something wonderful.

Hosting My Own Blogs Today

Now I am not saying to spend a bunch of money and by your own servers. I am talking about buying your domains like I get from GoDaddy.com and then getting it hosted on a services like HostGator.com. Both are affordable and have top notch service 24/7/365.

True Blogging Success Takes Targeted Traffic

Learn quickly that without traffic to your blog it’s going to be a little tough to earn a living. This should tell you just how important, better yet, vital, to your blogging success. Learn early how to get web traffic that’s targeted to your niche.

There was a movie that came out years ago called ‘Field of Dreams’ and as I understand is where the phrase ‘If you build it they will come’ came from. This doesn’t really work in the blogging world so don’t be fooled into thinking you don’t need to do any more than build your blog site.

I learned this lesson with my first gardening related blog. After a year it was still only earning pennies a day. This was about the time I started learning how to work a blog and how to get traffic that converts to income. So I decided to try and fix my initial gardening related blog and also starting a new garden blog to see what would happen.

Long story short, even though I used the same but rewritten content for both sites that first site has never recovered or even come close to matching the more than one thousand unique visits my new garden blog gets.

I started the first garden blog in 2006 and the second garden blog in 2007, exactly a year apart.

Even though the first site has never caught up with the second site I am making good money with both now because I took the time to learn what I wasn’t doing right.

Go After Relevant Backlinks

Everything I do for my business is thought out in advance today. It makes that much of a difference.

When I plan an article or blog post I already have plans to write more than one article on that topic using relevant keywords in each article. I do use The Best Spinner to help me rewrite unique and readable content.

I write an article for my blog, publish it and then start an campaign to gain relevant backlinks to that page.  I don’t stop with just one article though because I need lots of links to keep a head of others trying to pass me in the search results.

What I Do To Get My Backlinks

1. It has to start with writing quality content for my blog. My content has to keep my readers reading, right.
2. I research keywords so I can have a strong keyword focus.
3. I write more relevant articles using specific keywords that I publish to top article directories.
4. Every article I publish is unique, vitally important today.
5. My keyword match the article I link to for relevance to the search engines.
6. Each link in my article is keyworded with related phrases that match the page I link to.
7. I like to be a guest blogger in a relevant niche.
8. I also do a lot of value added blog commenting and linking.

Having a strong backlinking campaign on the go for each of your blog posts is going to give you the edge you need to pass all the slackers and those NOT in the know.

Link Deep Into Internal Blog Pages

Don’t just link to your main page, like I did for so long. You need to link to your internal pages so they get some ranking going. That’s going to help your entire site.

What I do when writing an article to publish that will point to my blog is to make sure I point to a relevant page and not just to the domain or main page. This creates deep linking.

If I have just one link for an article, depending on where I publish it, I will point to an internal page. However if I am allowed more than one I will also point a link to my main page.

The key to making this work most effectively is to take care with your keywords so that they point to relevant pages, not just any pages. It makes the difference between seeing money in your Paypal account and wishing you did.

Forums Are Great For Getting Traffic, However

I have wasted a lot of time on forums but I am not saying forums are a waste of time, not at all. Forums are a powerful way to get traffic but also to establish relationships in your niche.

There is a problem with forums and it’s due to liking them too much and sticking around long after you’ve already created a link back to your pages. Don’t allow yourself to get caught up too much with forums as it can drain away the time you have to make your business more productive. It has to be a balance.

I will visit forums during my work day, but this is work time so I work while I am there. I respond to posts, write a few of my own and then get out of there. However at the end of my work day I can do what I want, so often I return to my favourite forums and hang around to chat a bit. It still has benefits for backlinking of course.

I saved this one for last because it can make such a difference to your business.

Do Invest Time And Money In Your Business

By investing time I mean you will dedicate a specific amount of time each week to the success of your blog. That can take some money to get things going but is well worth the investment.

I talked about purchasing your own domain like I do at GoDaddy.com and hosting your own blog at a good but affordable place like HostGator.com.

Also investing your time writing unique quality articles that will help you gain that traffic and ranking you need to succeed.

I will write a single article, that I wish to point back to another unique blog post on my site. I also make sure it’s keyworded like the article I wish to link to. Then I publish it, once only.

Next I rewrite the article completely so that it’s once again unique. I have a CopyScape account I use to check uniqueness so that I am not publishing any duplicate content.

Then I make sure the link text is varied a bit to cover a variety of relevant keyword phrase for that niche. Then I publish it to another site and it’s unique and relevant, plus I like to make the helpful of course.

In conclusion. Everything I do for my business is focused on specific keywords for my niche which I find using two paid tools. 1. Keyword Elite and 2. Micro Niche Finder.

Blogging can be really powerful when done properly and is so worth learning to do right.

After putting in all the work needed to get my sites listed well I monetize them. I use many methods to make money with my sites but one I really like which takes advantage of all my hard work is text link ads and blog reviews like I get at LinkVehicle.com.

With text link ads and blog reviews I earn money each month and the more keyword focused content I create and publish to my sites the more opportunity to make even more money.

And that’s what this article and review is about today.

LinkVehicle is a service I had not tried until November 01, 2011. Today is December 30, 2011 so it’s just been two months. I already received my first monthly payment of $12.00. That will pay for renewing that domain for another year.

Just a few minutes ago I was showing my wife were our money comes from but she doesn’t really care as long as it gets here. So even though she’s not net savvy she is excited.

As I was showing her some of the ways I make money online I opened my LinkVehicle.com account to show here and notice that it had triple this month. How cool is that for just one website.

I had only listed one of my domains there to see what would happen but you can be certain didn’t waste any time listing the rest of my sites on LinkVehicle.com.

The real key to making money online is to find something that you’re knowledgeable about and if you love it, even better. It works for me in a number of niches that I can’t get enough of.

The thing is you need to love some that people spend money on. Loving walks in the park may not make you much money, however loving something like home gardening has potential as millions of people today are turning to gardening to save a bit of money.

Do You Have Typing Skills

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When you put typing skills together with the Internet you have so much potential. If you also have the ability to write well you can be unstoppable.

Typing skills gives one the opportunity to make money typing for others:

• Data Entry Jobs
• Medical Transcription
• Freelance Writing
• Create PLR – Private Label Rights Articles

You may want to also check out Legit Online Jobs for a great opportunity.

Article marketing today is a great way to promote ones links and pages. It’s how I make my living actually and I’m not even a fast or accurate typist. I really have to use spell checking and grammar but I get the job done.

I Work Affiliate Marketing

So if you are like me and don’t have the best typing skill you may not want to look for ways to make money as a skilled typist however that doesn’t mean you can’t make money. My typing skills are not going to win me any awards as I use the backspace key far too much.

Instead of focusing on sites that pay for content I prefer to have my own sites and work with affiliate marketing in the areas of my hobbies and interests.

As many years as I have been typing I haven’t increased my accuracy or speed so I made a choice and learned about online marketing and affiliate marketing so I make my money today promoting other people’s products.

I have two places I make most of my income, 1) Amazon.com, and 2) Clickbank.com.

Amazon has so many categories that it would be tough to talk about something without being able to find something to promote from Amazon. Clickbank has 10s of thousands of digital products available for your visitors that you can earn money promoting.

Now I don’t have a passion for writing but I do have many passions that I write about and affiliate marketing makes it worth my while. When I am sharing fishing stories I link to books and products from Amazon as well as relevant ebooks from Clickbank.

Getting Traffic To Your Business

If you’re like me and already have a business you may want to take it online and start directing traffic to your business. I make money online directing people to my computer instruction and web design business locally.

Now you’re likely thinking you’re going to have to learn how to build a website or hire someone and maybe that’s not in the budget at this time. We all know times are tough. So…

… go with a blog. This way all you need to invest in is a keyworded domain name and a place to host your new domain. From there I would go with a WordPress blog.

I use GoDaddy.com to buy all my domains and for my hosting needs it’s HostGator.com all the way.

I stick with GoDaddy for my domains because they are affordable and I’ve had only positive experience there. The same goes for HostGator, they have only helped me and of course are affordable for the beginner marketer.

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I spend a fair bit of money on my hobbies and that’s kind of a prerequisite to blogging about your hobbies. If no money is spent it’s hard to make it. So step one in blogging is finding a market or niche that has money being spent.

Today I work from my home full time. It took a bit of practice being my own boss as it takes some dedication and determination to succeed online.

I have a passion for fly fishing and gardening but there are so many hobbies one can make money with like golfing, hunting cars, boating… the list is really endless. It’s just key that it has money being spent.

It’s Key To Learn How Make Money First

My first attempt at marketing online was NOT about my hobbies. It was about making money online and I failed miserably.

I soon learned I needed to learn what I was doing and spent some time and money finding out what would make me money.

Once I knew I needed to learn some things I headed over to Clickbank to look through the marketplace. That’s when I found  The Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner and my business started producing positive results.

It’s too embarrassing to say how much time I wasted before learning but take my advice today and invest some time and money learning how to make money. Rosalind will have you making money in no time.

Home Gardening Hobbies

We decided to start gardening to save money on produce from the grocery store and to even eat healthier as we would be organic gardeners, all we had to do was learn how.

Again it was back to Clickbank to checkout the marketplace for ebooks about gardening, specifically vegetable gardening. Now it’s one of my top websites and makes me the most money and has the highest pagerank.

In conclusion the time and money you invest at the beginning will make all the difference in the long run. Start buy purchasing and reading How To Be a Super Affiliate by Rosalind Gardner as she covers all you need to succeed online.