Many years ago I came across the idea of using PLR products to make money online. It seems easy enough. You just buy the private label rights, put a link up to your product on your facebook page and send out a couple of tweets about it and your “Golden!”

Next time I went in and said well, that didn’t work what else can I try and I found out about using Solo Ads…

I followed a course on how to use solo ads to make money and build a list at the same time. I did make some sales (that got returned) and I do have a list of over 1,000 subscribers.

I am beginning to see some responsiveness now that I have started sending my blog posts to my list. The pre-written sales emails aren’t convincing my subscribers to buy the products the course set up for me to sell.

Lately I have been trying to put all this info and experience together and turn it into something useful and profitable.

Now I know that solo ads work with a good opt-in message. I also know that sales isn’t new which means that many of the PLR products out there still have relevant information that can be re-packaged and sold.

I have experience setting up websites and using PLR as the content and I know how to edit the sites to make the products pay me. I also know how to create a squeeze page to get opt-ins to my email list. I have recently found out that my writing gets me a better response than the professionally written emails I paid to have written for me.

I am putting together an email marketing course that goes over the process of using PLR to sell to email subscribers that gives them what they are in need of for a small fee and makes me money by simply putting to use what I actually know rather than what I am believing in some guru telling me so I can sell his product and make him more money.

I am not trying to say that the gurus are only trying to swindle you or that them making money by selling you information is bad I am just saying that I can see beyond the hype and there is value in their products when you get past the psychological “tricks” they use to manipulate/persuade you into buying their products. The course I am putting together to sell using Solo Ads and an email capture squeeze page is my way to prove to myself that internet marketing is not only real but I can make money from it too!

I realized that the SEO and PPC traffic method (Adwords) are not the only way to generate traffic. I can use the work of other pros and get the traffic they are targeting and send my offer to join my email list and get my products that are in the same market as their target market’s interests. Let me explain more clearly…

Solo ads get a good opt-in rate. PLR products are already made for you. If you can put together a high quality landing page and set up a good thank you bridge page with a solid offer you should be able to not only grow your subscriber list for free but also make a good income selling in demand info to a market ready to devour it!

Of course I have to buy the PLR put it up on my website and buy a solo ad to send traffic to it. I also need to have my autoresponder set up to capture leads and send them appropriate follow up messages to encourage them to purchase my info products.

My niche is going to be using solo ads to build an email list and sell them make money online products that actually work!

I know how disappointing it is to spend way more than you want on a product that builds high expectations on the sales page and then feels like it falls apart when you actually receive the product. That’s why I am working on the stuff that works to put money in your pocket.

That brings me to the other fact that when you sell a PLR product you get to keep all the money you sell the product for, no more hoping your guru can convert all the traffic you are sending them!

For my next experiment, that I can actually see the whole process in my head and know how to set up all the moving parts to, I will do the following:

1. Buy PLR
2. Set up the web pages to collect emails and to sell the PLR product
3. Put together my email autoresponder campaign
4. Buy a 300 click Solo Ad to test my theory and procedure.

The main goal is to sell enough ebooks or video courses to pay for the solo ad. Getting the ad paid for means that I generate an email list of interested people ready to devour the info I am offering. Once I get them on my list I can also offer other helpful products and information that some will buy and I don’t have to spend more time and energy looking at keywords and paying for articles to be written about it, I can just write an email about the product and send out my own email to an audience that I already know is interested in the subject I am dealing with.

I have been struggling lately to figure out how to sell other people’s products, as in clickbank products. With PLR products I don’t have to spend all my time and brain power to put together a product. When I sell the product I put online I get to keep 100% of the sales I make. I do have to buy the PLR and I do have to do the work of setting up the webpages, squeeze pages and the other required disclosure stuff. I have to decide to get a new domain or just keep using the ones I have. Should I use the same designs? Should I edit the email autoresponder messages? I noticed that some products have affiliate offers that are no longer available so I have to update everything to make it current.

The point of this post is to say that I have something that is going to be work but I believe I finally have a clear path to generate both a marketing email list and a good amount of income. Please leave a comment below if you have any questions or comments about PLR and email list building or even internet marketing in general.

I keep hearing about Medium.com being a means to generate traffic quickly on low competition traffic. That’s great to get your content ranked quickly. I am now wondering how I am going to post something on medium and use it to drive visitors to my site.

Let’s take a closer look:

1. Find low competition keywords with high search volume
2. Write content to post on medium about those researched keywords
3. Send that traffic to my website – then to affiliate offer? Have ads on my site? Get small portion of traffic from article then get a few of them to convert to customers?

As you can see I am still a little confused as to the flow of traffic and the efforts my work takes versus the rewards from it.

I am not sure where to send visitors or how to go about sending them anywhere.

How do I write an article to send visitors to my site then from my site convert them into customers?

What exactly is the flow and how do I get it to work right for me?

It sounds basic enough when the gurus tell you to do it but implementation is a whole other ball game.

Let’s try this again, so I can try and wrap my mind around it.

Find relevant keywords and write content about it. Easy enough. What is the mission and method with this work?

A little deeper – write the content to satisfy the need of the person searching. Put together a give away, on your site, that you send the “searcher” to after they read your content. Collect the email of the visitor and send your offer to promote to them.

Again all that seems easy but what can I do to find the right give away?

How am I going to deliver it?

How am I going to say way to go on getting this information that you were looking for now buy this thing I’m selling!?

How do I make it relevant and helpful?

Also, are there better subjects or instances where this strategy should be implemented and times when it shouldn’t?

I am beginning to see that not all goods and services are able to be marketed the same. Not everything has an obvious free give away to entice future customers to give you their contact info.

Finding a good search term that is relevant to your niche and can be remedied by a simple free give away could be an easy traffic generating method that would be a natural for this Medium.com technique.

And since I am building my own list and finding my own methods AND sharing it with you here is another tip – Go Here to get on my list where I share some of my keyword research with you.

As with all methods there is more than one way to use the data and there are numerous ways to make money with it come back here for more ideas on how to profitably use keywords to drive free traffic to your affiliate offers and make money!

Getting back to Medium.com, how do you use it to drive traffic, that converts, to your website?

Here’s how I am going to use it…

I will target my keyword and get my content about it up and ready to be published on medium. In my content I will link my landing page, where I have an email capture form. I will have a description of a give away I am offering to visitors that will help with their issue that they searched for, giving them a reason to visit my site and get on my mailing list.

I think this may be the real work in affiliate marketing. Finding keywords, building mailing lists, putting together ebooks and building spreadsheets is the easy part, putting them all together to earn you a living is the hard part!

This “trigger Keyword List” from Marcus Campbell + ahrefs reveals lots of low competition keywords that get lots of searches. Some of them have no ad competition and only a few organic rankings when searched with quotes.

Quotes just means the phrase appears on the page not just that it is relevant like searching without using quotes and you get millions of results and some of them are not near what you are searching for.. It is a way to weed out the competition when doing your keyword research.

I am setting up a blogspot or blogger page tonight about one of the terms I recently found.

What I did was plug the “trigger” word – beginner – into my ahrefs keyword tool.

I then filtered for KD under 10 and search volume over 1,000.

Some of the words I searched, in quotes, and came up with under 100 results.

Next I sorted for CPC – Cost Per Click – and had the highest cost first.

Now I am going to use Blogger.com to see if putting up a blog on a free website will get ranked for the targeted keyword term.

I also found a clickbank product to promote on the site.

I made a quick ad to get clicks to the offer.

The term is “beginner in spanish” and it gets around 1000 searches per month and has only 99 competitors when I go to the last listed page in the search results. Google says they only have 99 results even though they list much more when you first type in your search – look up marcus campbell’s time out method for more details.

I put up very minimal content just to see if I can get ranked for the term “beginner in spanish” in google. If I get a ranking it will be confirmation that my keyword research is paying off. I may do a few more of these if there is any interest, even if it is just mine!

I will target a new word and create content on a free site every day. If I put it on this blog and put a link here it will give it some juice but it is not the best backlink strategy and may actually hurt me so I will think about that one for a bit.

You can see the timestamp on this post and you can search the term I mentioned and see if my blogspot post is ranking or not.

The very worse thing that can happen is I get some practice creating ads and doing keyword research. If I can get this down and find better products to promote I will be headed to a good place.

The downside to this method I am implementing now is that I do not own the blogger platform. If they decide to change something that affects my rankings there is nothing I can do to adjust for it.

The experiment is to see how difficult it is to rank for these low competition search terms and to see if I can actually get traffic. Once I get traffic I can work on conversions.

Please check out my new site and let me know what you think!

Many people have gone to the internet and started making money selling different products and services. Many others have started selling that dream to others! There are legitimate ways to make a great living online, just ask Jeff Bezos!

Many folks get all caught up in the fantasy that you can just get an affiliate link and put it on your facebook page and you’ll get rich by tomorrow morning, unless you did it wrong then it will take til tomorrow afternoon.

Then you get the idea in your head that there are sites to pay you hordes of easy cash just for visiting and telling them how you feel. There are survey sites that will make you rich if you just spend all your time plus a little more giving your opinion of the products or services they are promoting.

You could also get paid to build an email customer list that will “Print Cash On Demand” when you send out an email to that list, on autopilot, whenever you want!

While there may be some legitimacy to these claims they are certainly exaggerated. You can post a link to an affiliate product, or at least a link to your website, and have those people see an offer you are promoting and potentially make some money. It has to be done in a helpful way and it will most likely take many links added in many places consistently that all strategically promote your offer.

It is also possible to “guest blog” and have a link to your site or affiliate product that, also if applied strategically, deliberately and consistently, may generate traffic and sales to your offers allowing you to get paid for your opinion on someone else’s website. They don’t always pay you but the traffic might.

The idea of building a mailing list of hungry customers excitedly awaiting your offers is also viable if done properly. It takes lots of preparation, study, consistency and applied knowledge. There are more tasks to accomplish aside from “copy and paste” email swipes into your autoresponder and spam your list multiple times each day.

There are courses for each of these tasks and all of them can be implemented to make money online. The hard part is to cut through all the hype and find out what it really takes to be successful with these methods.

When you are just starting out and your are either desperate to make some fast cash or you are young and buy in to the easy street methods that these marketers use against you to suck you in to buying their incomplete systems.

The scam isn’t that their methods are invalid its that they lead you to believe that their course is the be all end all system that requires almost no work or maintenance to generate a large income stream for you, some will even do it all for you!

You have to ask yourself why would someone set up a whole income stream for me and let me sit back and profit indefinitely from it while they must continue to toil away all the days selling the same plan to others and doing all the work over and over again. It doesn’t make sense that they have the answer to generate easy money and they are compelled to do the work for you because they love to teach and help others succeed.

The moral is don’t be fooled by false promises that are too good to be true but look for the benefit they are really offering and see how you can use it to your benefit.

I recently got this idea that the reason a business owner or a successful CEO, Company President or the person who comes up with the plan to make money makes so much money is because it is a difficult task to coordinate all the parts of the system to make it run smoothly and get everyone their piece of the pie. It is a headache!

There are many scams because it seems easy to cut corners but when you start going the down scam path you find it is even harder because you still have to make sure all the pieces are working but you also have to hide yourself so you don’t get caught. It is difficult enough to do business online in a helpful, honest and profitable way so avoid falling for the scams and don’t be the scammer!

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

I found some highly searched keywords that have a low competition in the Forex Market. The word I found is “unruggable” and it gets over 500k searches per month and has an Ahrefs keyword difficulty score of 0 making appear to be easy to rank for.

The keyword research I did showed that both broad and phrase match google search results brought back only a few sites targeting this search term. I made a post about it on my ForexWizard.org website with very minimal content, as an experiment to see if I get any traffic.

If I am correct, I should be able to at least rank in the top 100 sites targeting this keyword phrase. I am going to continue to do keyword research to find other niches that have easy keywords that I can rank for. The easy words with search volume will get content written about them or a video made about it to see if the target keywords will actually bring traffic to my websites.

My sites I already have are getting the first of the content and as I find more easy traffic I will also experiment in free websites and social media to get the traffic and then I will focus on selling to the market.

I know the gurus say to know how you’re going to get paid before you waste your efforts on activities that don’t put money in your bank account but driving traffic to a website without having to spend money is a good skill to have. I can make money with that skill!

I searched up some of the keyword terms, on Google.com,  I had content made for on one of my niche sites and didn’t find my site in the first 100 results. I don’t know if google has something blocking my own stuff from showing up for me or not but I checked Bing and Duckduckgo and did find my site ranking below 100 for the same terms.

I am not getting tons of traffic or any sales from the traffic but I am getting ranked in some search engines and I am not paying to get ranked.

I have been trying to do the whole process of putting up a new site, on an expired domain that already has keywords ranking, and targeting low competition words with high number of searches and having them get ranked and sending me traffic that is hungry for my offers. It isn’t easy and it isn’t going as planned.

I have decided to focus on getting my content ranked for keywords that get lots of searches and have low competition. Once I can get traffic regularly coming to my site, without relying on PPC that I have had no luck with either, then I can start phase 2 which is to start offering affiliate products to the visitors.

Since no one is reading my stuff or downloading my keyword reports that I release I will continue to show my research and tell you what I am targeting, how I am targeting it and what results I am getting.

This post is inspired by my research for profitable keywords regarding the Forex market that I have a niche site being worked on to target that market. I had it before I started following a plan so I have content on the site. It is an expired domain I picked up and it has backlinks but no ranking keywords. The backlinks are not even good. They are mostly spam or stuff trying to sell the domain from before it was mine.

Now I am tasked with finding profitable niche terms to drive targeted traffic to my site and convert them into customers of products that I get a commission for selling. There is also the option of putting Adsense on the site in which case my strategy of just driving traffic should be enough since many of the terms are competitive or will be triggering the competitive ads from forex advertisers.

I have a word document open now and I’m taking notes from a course I have that details how to do keyword research to find the right keywords to promote affiliate products for profit. I am trying to rank and profit and I don’t even know how to write very well yet. I have lots of work to do and I have lots to learn before I can be the guy to go to for info. I will be able to put content up that generates traffic though. I will find out what it takes to get visitors to my site and then I will figure out how to make money from them.

I have to document what I’m doing and even that turns into an ordeal for me. I have to research how to make a pdf an dthen figure out if I upload it to this site as content that may even get ranked or if I find a way to put it in an unlisted, private spot and release it to subscribers to an email list, or BOTH!

Like I stated earlier, I will report to my readership what I am having success with and what I am failing in.

I have some realizations from old stuff I was doing and I have a better understanding of how to do what I want which is to rank on the first page of google for a keyword search term.

Be on the look out for my progress.

I finally realized a crucial difference in the way to go about selling different products and services online. There are certain things that sell better when approached a certain way. It goes along the same lines as finding a market and providing them with what they want or need.

You have to find a way to let people know about a product or service that solves a problem they are having or will have if they are going down a certain path. You find them by researching what they are searching for online. When you find the market you have to find a way to tell them about the product or service you’ve found, how it has helped you and how it will benefit them and get them to buy it from your referral so you get paid.

It sounds and is simple but it is DEFINITELY not easy for me. I have mentioned that I found a youtuber that does a good job explaining the how to make money online market to me. Marcus Campbell. He does a good job of explaining how to find and how to market to specific niches. He also talks about marketing ethically.

He talks about how we’ve all been marketed to by less than ethical salesmen. He talks about how that perception we have of “seedy” salesmen make us feel like sales is a subject for sleezy scum bucket sales people and makes us want to not be salesmen.

We do feel inclined to let folks know when we find something helpful and useful though and we feel no guilt or shame but feel useful for sharing the info about a good product and those who take our advice find it helpful too.

As I learn how to be the kind of salesman who helps people find what they are looking for and continue to find ways to bring the products to those searching for them in a way that brings me profit I will share the mentors I find who are helping me. That’s why I mention Marcus Campbell.

Marcus does have a few different products that he offers to the public and they are in the make money online niche. He even has an offer that we can promote through Clickbank. I am a customer of his and I believe he is the real deal. I am not selling or promoting his products yet because he says that’s his job and I am not profitable from following his advice yet.

He has helped me see the different ways to go about marketing different products in a way that works for the offer. There are different types of landing pages that have different uses depending on the product, market and your own style.

Some markets require you to set up a landing page that collects names and emails for a list of leads that you can market to over and over. Other markets require a more one and done type of approach. They are both viable and both have a specific time and place for their use.

I had been struggling with the concept of buying traffic to send to another sales page of a product I am promoting when I could instead use a different approach where I target keywords related to the product I am promoting and solve the immediate problem on the landing page I create, with an article or free download and I get their name and email for the free gift that solves their problem.

Once I have their name and email I send them info about the market and how I am dealing with a problem and offer a product that helped me.

I hope my vagueness can be understood and stretched to a situation you’ve experienced before. Being exact in the how to make money online market is not cut and dry. It is not exact. If it were easy then everyone would be doing it!

That easy button I’ve spent years looking for instead of building continues to elude me. I haven’t used my knowledge to make me better I’ve just searched for the next best thing and it still hasn’t made anything better.

Now that I understand that part of the process is to find the right way to market each product I have a better idea on how to use my knowledge to make money online.

A few posts ago I mentioned that I do have tools and skills in certain areas of online marketing but I don’t have the knowledge, shill or time to do everything myself. I have to hire people to do certain things for me. I can focus on doing some things and outsource other things and then I have the plan to put all the work together in a profitable way.

I do have decent skill in SnagIt, Aweber, WordPress and HostGator.

When I say skills I mean technical. I do not have the skill, yet, to develop an email autoresponder that sells on autopilot or a way to get the computer to spit money at me because I know how to put a wordpress blog on a domain hosted by hostgator but I can build a blog and set up a lead capture page. I just don’t have the savvy to put it all together in a profitable way for me, yet!

I also have the ability to find low competition keywords that also have high search volume. I know that is the target to create content for traffic to your website. I have seen the videos from Marcus on how to use that info and organize the pieces in a way to lead some dollars into your bank account.

I have to find the path to use what I know and have the money too. I see where the money is I see my tools and I am being made aware of the work that nee4ds to be done to join the pieces profitably for me. Now to try stuff and see what is going to be the best way for me to share my skills and knowledge to put money in my pockets.

Having your own home based business is the dream for many of us. Get up for that 45 second commute from bed to office. Take breaks when you want. Have home made, hot and fresh lunch everyday! Work at your leisure…

Then, reality sets in. You have to make sure EVERYTHING gets done. You have to do it or it doesn’t get done. It’s all your fault and responsibility.

Steps to Uncover Your First, or Next Profitable Niche

I found a list of trigger words from a guy named Marcus Campbell that I am going to use to start my keyword research.

1. I am choosing the trigger word “Help” which I am plugging into my ahrefs keyword research tool.
2. Clicking view all I notice over 5 million keywords related to help!
3. Setting keyword difficulty to 3 or less Google sheets spreadsheet 50 words free – GET IT HERE
4. Look for Niche Ideas – mine are noted on spreadsheet above.
5. Look for related domains

For the domains:

I am using spamzilla and Godaddy auctions to find potential sites for the niche I am targeting. There is still more keyword research to do to find more terms that relate to the same niche that can drive traffic to the products I choose to promote.

For free traffic I need more research on what’s ranking in the search engines now for one of the niche keywords I chose. Part of me is feeling like there is more to this that I need to do before moving forward. But this is just a preliminary list. The report has over 16,000 keywords in total. I just took the first page of the results sorted by volume of searches per month. I found a few niches there. I am looking at the tums/antacid searches. I think there is a niche market there that I can target.

I will do more deep diving in the niche to find even more words that have intent to buy the same sort of product. I will use those words to send traffic to an offer page, preferably on my own website but for this experiment I am going to use a site like weebly.com to host my landing page. This market is probably going to need dieting tips or medical advice. There are ways to help this market by showing them ways to fix their problems. They may even be candidates for gardening products or info books.

Do you see how the choices can slow you down?

Even though all this can be done by you wouldn’t it be easier to just put together a team of people you go to for each part of this process to have it done for you?

This sort of activity is a way to help the economy. You hire people to do things for you and you pay them fairly. You use your skills to add value by placing the information in front of the people that are looking for it and offer them a related product to help them out and you get paid for solving their problem.

There are so many steps to each part of this business that one person would be overwhelmed if doing it all alone.

In my next update I will show you my weebly site and discuss how I plan to use other free sites to post more of my content for free and have that content drive traffic to my weebly site.

In order to help me give you the most relevant and helpful information about my experiments or about what I do as an affiliate marketer please ask any questions in the comments below.