One of the most popular pastimes in many countries is
solving crossword puzzles. Whether people are at home, at school or at work
during coffee breaks, answering these puzzles is an entertaining and yet a
challenging activity for those who want to kill their idle time.
But did you know that we can make money at home through
creating and selling crossword puzzles?
In this article, I will discuss the fundamentals of creating
and selling crossword puzzles and where to sell them.
Ana Hoffman of trafficgenerationcafe.com is one of the best traffic generation guides that is. I am a regular reader of her blog and I just could not help posting her infographic here. Here she provides the best ways to promote your blog step by step. If you want more traffic and hence more money at the end of the day - follow these steps.
If you want to please Google to either rank well in the search engines or to make more money online with Google Adsense, then you must please Google at all costs. Listen to the Adsense people, straight from the horse's mouth.
This video from Google tells you how to improve user experience.
This is an interesting article on SEOMOZ posted by Randfish. He describes that SEO link building is dead and hence those trying to acquire links as a means to build ranking will no longer be counted and even be penalised. So what does this mean as far as building links are concerned. It means that, try not to build links but try to earn your links. What this means is that, earning links that will bring you relevant traffic. This means, no more anchor texts, no more directory submissions, link exchanges reciprocal links, buying links but instead you need good links that you have earned.
So what constitutes of earning links? They mean social sharing. For instance if a visitor is on your site and likes your content, they will share and if its that good then it will get more shares and eventually magnified. So you have earned links.
Earn links directly by content, this means that the content is so good that people want to link to you, embed your story, write about it, blog about it and refer you to others. Again you have earned links. A link from a powerful site from your own industry is worth hundreds of article directory submissions.
Watch this video to understand to understand more about link earning means.
Once you’ve decided you’re ready to start building your list, it’s time to sign up for an autoresponder service. I highly recommend using Aweber and there are a couple of good reasons for that. Let me give you a quick overview of why I highly recommend this particular list building service.
Aweber is easy to use
Aweber has been around for quite some time and they are constantly making improvements to their system. What does that mean for you? They continue to make it easier for you to grow your list and to then turn around and email them.
One of the things you’re going to want to do is to set up your first list. Aweber has a step-by-step wizard that will walk you through the entire process. And if you’re not sure what to do along the way, there are video tutorials to help you. By the way, since so many people are using Aweber, there are lots of helpful tutorials on YouTube as well.
How To Put a Aweber Form on Your WordPress Blog:
Next, you’ll want to include a signup form on your blog. Aweber makes it easy with an entire library of templates to choose from. No matter what niche or industry you are in, you’re bound to find one that’s a good fit for your blog. Once you’re done editing your form, you can just copy and paste the code. Or… if you’re using WordPress to run your blog, you can use the handy Aweber plugin to include the form in your blog’s sidebar.
Deliverability of Aweber
Another big reason why so many marketers use Aweber is because they have one of the best email deliverability rates in the industry. In other words, they make sure that your emails get into your subscribers’ inboxes instead of their spam folder. I don’t have to tell you that that’s a big advantage.
You Can Get Started for $1
Yes, you read that right … you can get started for just a dollar for your first month. After that you’ll pay $19 per month. This gives you 30 days to start growing your list - and more importantly - start profiting from it. Getting to the point where you’re making at least $20 per month as a direct result of your list, isn’t very hard. Let’s run through a simple little example.
Let’s say you build a list of 100 subscribers (I’ll show you how to do that in the next section). You also find a product you can promote to that list that pays a $20 commission per sale. You email your list, recommending the product and get just one person to buy and your Aweber bill for next month is taken care of.
The following month, you get better at this list building stuff and add 150 new subscribers to your list. This is in addition to the 100 you already have, so you are now the proud owner of a list of 250 subscribers. You send a few more emails to them, including one promoting the affiliate product again. This time, 3 people end up buying, netting you an extra $60.
From there you just rinse and repeat. Keep growing your list and keep emailing them. As your list grows, so will the cost of Aweber, but that’s ok because as your list grows, so will the online income that you’re making from it.
One of my favorite strategies of making money online is by article marketing. The basic idea is to write an article, include a resource box with a link to your blog or affiliate link and opt-in page and then submit it to some of the popular article directories.
You’ll get some traffic directly from those sites, but the real purpose behind this strategy is to allow other webmasters and bloggers to find your article and publish it on their sites. Whenever that happens, you’ll see a nice increase in traffic to your blog and a boost in subscribers.
What Should I Write About?
That’s a question I hear quite a bit. You want to write articles that are closely related to your blog. You also want to be very specific in each article. Think about some of the problems and issues your readers are facing… those are the types of topics you want to write about. As your site becomes more popular, this will get easier because your readers will tell you what they want to learn more about. For now, think back to some of the questions you had when just starting out.
Another option is to visit popular forums and look for questions that are asked. You can also browse some of the article directories and look what other people have written about in the category that best relates to your blog.
Once you have your topic, write a helpful article of about 400 to 500 words. Answer the question you started out with or simply share 5 to 7 tips on a topic. Most forums will allow you to place a signature in our profile; you always place a link here.
Don’t forget to spend some time crafting your author resource box. This is where you’ll lead readers from the article page back to your blog. I like to include two links. The first goes directly to the home page of my blog, the second to my opt-in page to get readers on my list.
Where Should I Submit My Articles?
Now that you’ve written your article, it’s time to submit it to some of the popular article directories. Below you’ll find a short list of directories I like to use. This is by no means a complete list. As you get more comfortable with article marketing, you’ll find other directories, but this is a good starting point.
If you’re just starting out, a good goal may be to write and submit one article per week. That’s enough to get a small trickle of traffic to your site. Of course more is always better (provided the quality of your articles doesn’t suffer). If you can manage three articles per week, great! If you’re really ambitious you may even write one per day. I don’t recommend aiming for more than that or you’ll quickly get burned out.
Article marketing is all about consistent effort. Find a number you’re comfortable with and then make sure that come hell or high water you’re getting those articles written and submitted.
