Well, to be honest I have been in Internet business since last 10 years, I know many of you have been from the very early days of internet when spamming was quite easy and tricking search engines was like a child play, so you became rich quickly and now playing in billions. But at the moment, tricking search engines and generating traffic and then generating more revenue form your websites has become difficult as compared to early days to internet, for the people who have just started and they want to make a living out of internet or they are just fed up with their day job, and looking for alternative. Let me tell you that you can make money form internet if you are dedicated and you think you can spend 2-3 hours of work daily on your business. If you cannot spend 1-2 hours only a day, then close the window and search google for “money making magic formula”.

What’s the plan ?

I sold one of my website for $65K about 2 month ago (I will not disclose my deals’ information so please dont ask) , now you can see that people sell websites at Sitepoint or other forums like Digitalpoint for these prices and sometimes even more highly priced, I was interested in a website for purchasing and was planning to spend about $80K on that, but that was sold for $145K at Sitepoint, here is the auction if you want to check. Yeah, that’s an image hosting website. So what I am going to tell you is how you can do the same and sell websites for a good profit, in the beginning you can easily make $600-$1000 per month, but if you keep working 2-3 hours a day on a single site, you will sell it for higher price for sure, but don’t expect that you will do nothing and become a millionaire one day. There is no magic formula. Anyways, we have 2 options here

1. Make 1 website, work hard on it, generate traffic, and then sell it.
2. Make many similar websites, and then sell them all.

What kind of websites sell ?

My answer will be ‘any kind of‘ ‘ . Yes, you can make any kind of website and sell it for high profits, the general rule for developing a successful website is that develop a website in which you have personal interest, like if you love hunting, go and build a website for hunting, if you love dogs, build a website about dogs. Now, sometimes it is difficult to sell niche websites (depending on the niche), so I will advice you to pick a general niche that is used by all the internet users. So, lets get start, if you follow m advice I can guarantee you will certainly make $600-$1000 in a month, and even more if you spend more time. The only investment will be getting a domain name and a hosting, so I think it may only take $15-$20 for you to get started with my plan.

We are going to develop an image hosting website, because if you check the sitepoint’s Marketplace, and the “Buy, Sell, Trade” section of Digitalpoint.com, WickedFire.com and other internet marketing forums, you will notice that these are the top selling websites and only 1-2 month old websites are sold for $1000-$3000 depending on their Alexa rank and traffic.

How long will it take to develop an image hosting website ?

I would say 10 minutes even if you are inexperienced. I know if you hire a freelancer to develop a custom script for you, he will take minimum of 10 days and charge you something around $600-$800 for such script, but hey we are not spending any money on that, lets go for the freely available scripts. This is not a perfect script, I know it can be bulky for large image hosting website, but we are only developing a website to sell, so its not bad for that, download the script here. Installation process only takes 3-5 minutes. Once you have installed this script, you are ready to move on the next step.

How to generate traffic for an image hosting site ?

Now, it all depends on YOU, how much work you put in it, however I will write a few steps that are extremely effective in generating quick traffic to an image hosting website. We all know the about 70% of the traffic is always looking for fun on internet, joining social networking website like MySpace, Orkut, Facebook etc, sharing pictures, looking for celebrity images etc. Now, the nature of our website is to target such people, so what we will do is find the website (specifically forums) where people are sharing pictures of celebrities, trust me the traffic suddenly goes up once you post 4-5 threads on such forums. 

You already agreed to spend 1-2 hours daily on this, so what you will do is visit a forum e.g. X1 forum, then find a specific thread where people are chatting and has too many views / replies, upload those pictures to your website, and then post those pictures on another forum e.g X2 with your own image hosting website link, that’s it. Just concentrate on 3-4 forums at a time, it will hardly take 1-2 hour per day but you will see a lot of traffic to your website, repeat the process for 20 days then you have some good stats to show and sell that site and move on to next website.

There are many forums that are specifically for celebrity images and are under 15K Alexa, receiving tons of traffic, we will just grab some traffic from them and sell our website.  If you manage to get 400-500 unique visitors per day you can sell it for $800-$1000. Good luck and do share your views and results. I love hearing from you :)..

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I have been out for a couple of holidays with my family and couldn’t write much as I forgot to pick my laptop as result my last minute mistake. Anyways, it was a good trip and all had a lot of fun, I went with my family after about 2 years, couldn’t get time for that and my family had to wait for 2 years : lol, I wish it would never happen again.

Most of the times am busy dealing with different nature of clients, it can be SEO, Programming, Designing and sometimes with my one-to-one training student. But for the last couple of days, I could only access my email through my PDA Phone.

While I was away, I have received a couple of emails from YOU about the site availability, the site was down for long periouds of time, I can only apologize and do nothing, my website is currently hosted with one of my friend (Ali) at Clixint Technologies, I have just made a phone call to their support and asked for details, they said they have had some problems in their servers and the problem is resolved (hopefully that’s right). I don’t know since as I am writing it means the site is up :).. I will get back to you guys with some good tips tommorow.

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As we already know that eBay is no more affiliated with commission junction. Well, I can tell you by my personal experience that with CJ, it was a lot easy to make money with eBay, but now at EPN it look a lot more easy to trick them. But you should know that when you mess with big companies you have to face big problems, anyways that’s not much related to the topic, I am writing about.

eBay affiliates’ commission with Commision Junction was higher !

A lot of people were using Commission Junction for promoting eBay products and were getting extremely good results, but since they moved to EPN, the revenue dropped dramatically. Personally I have seen a few of websites earning $700-$1000 from CJ were now earning $300-$400, and that’s a big drop, almost 50% drop in revenue. You can find out in the forums that a lot of people are reporting the same, because the EPN stats were not updating or there can be any problem with their tracking system as site used to earn $1000 form CJ (where CJ also cuts their commission) were now getting half of that. 

The month April was a disaster for many affiliate marketers with EPN, but in May I personally have noticed a slight increase in the revenue again but its no where near to what the sites were earning from eBay when associated with CJ.

eBay - Commission Junction (CJ) Alternative

There is one more interesting news that has made me think more about EPN is that eBaY has partnered with PepperJam Affiliate Network. wow - that’s a very good news for marketers like me and you, we can now join PepperJam, promote products and earn some more commission, I hope (as I have just started, I will post my results with pepperJam soon) it will have more advance tracking system than the current EPN solution.

pepperJam eBay Highlights: Make up to 75% of all the transactions and up to an additional $35 for every new active user you send to eBay. Pepperjam has in place a dedicated eBay affiliate management team to work with you in real-time to maximize your eBay revenue.  read more about their partnership with eBay.

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Well a lot of people talking about AdSense not working these days, including me that I earlier blogged, but I would like to tell you a few secrets that actually work all time. It doesn’t matter if these were implemented back in 2006, these are still the same buta most Gurus are diverting our attention to other things. Why ? simple, they don’t want you to make more money in the same niche.

Anyways, we can still ask good use of AdSense. The plan is to find which advertisers are placing their ads on your website, there are 2 kind of advertisers, one are those who have targeted your website for their ads and of-course if they are targeting your website, it means they are making a lot from those clicks, and other website displayed in the AdSense are those advertisers who are actually unaware about their websites are being published on your website, so here you have to think wisely which advertisers to contact and which to not.

First just browse through your website pages and write down all the URLs that are being displayed in AdSense ad spots, visit those website and try to find any authorized person’s name, well that’s optional, otherwise locate their “contact” form, and send them a message and tell them that you are about to remove AdSense from your website and that’s why you are giving them an opportunity to grab a vital spot on their website and place their text/image ad there and it will benefit them in search engine optimization as well and list a coupe of other benefits as well. You can write something like this.

Hi name (if you found from that website),

We have noticed you have been placing Adwords ads on our website www.blahname.com. We hope you have had great success from the ads displayed on our website. We are in the process of removing Adsense, and contacting business owners to avail this opportunity of placing their Ads on our website on prominent spots. This will not only help you get more targeted traffic but also help in your search engine ranking, positioning and increase in pagerank. Please do let me know if you are interested, the I will forward you our currently available spots and pricing details.

regards,
Your name

Its really effective, you will get some quick sales and also earn form adsense at the same time. I have already got some quick Ad sales on some of my website, set your own pricing but dont ask them too high price, this way you will hurt yourself, you know what I mean :)..

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When all of us are desperate about making money online with only concentrating on getting and absorbing as much information as we can and learn those things that other gurus are telling to the world, then we are exploited by so called Internet marketing Gurus.

Well, if you see it like this, you are reading this because you want to learn something or you and I have common interests, there are two options for you when you are desperate about anything, in this situation “making money” , the first option is try yourself  and the other option is to follow someone else who has already done it. Now, I agree that you polish your techniques by “trial and error”, you try something, find errors, fix it, move on and perfect your skills and then you are on a path where you can make money, but this takes a lot of time, effort and money.

The thing that annoys me is that marketers put a time limit stamp on their products (well thats a great tactic when you are selling something, and this is extremly effective, but why cheat people by selling crap for more than hundreds bucks), I mean you might have noticed that you visit an e-book site where the marketing Guru will be holding a bag of cash or sitting on a Ferrari or Sports BMW, a beautiful house, what the heck ? you get trapped, you sit back and think, wow, this man is making a lot from Internet and if I follow him, I will definitely get somewhere where I can earn 25% of what he is earning rightnow even if I dont do all teh hard work he has done, the the “time stamp” tells you that this is a limited offer and only XX number of copies are left and you have only 30 minutes to buy, you get excited, pull out your credit card and buy that crappy product. Once you read it, you are disappointed. I know you are disappointed all the time.

You are scammed by these gurus all the time, (and they will keep you scamming until you understand the truth, that there is no secret or 1 hour blue print or a magic code that will work auto-pilot and make you thousands), who were about to tell you some secret to make thousands of dollars online, well there is not secret, I have already blogged about how to make money. I would encourage you to read blogs and forums where people like me have already burnt thousands of dollars in such crap products and also learnt a lot things, if you are planning to buy any product, just don’t get impressed by their fake testimonials, ask in the forums for reviews, or you can even contact me directly, I would give you an honest review if I have already purchased that product.

So, stop wasting your money on crappy products, just write a plan, take action and get started, read my post about how to become successful online and I can guarantee you, you will see success. Good luck !

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