Top 9 Ways Of Earning Money Online In 2018!

In a world such as today’s, where inflation is on the rise while salaries remain the same, every extra penny can be a blessing. Self-dependence is considered as the ideal situation to be in, especially among the younger generation. Because of the ever rising cost of living commodities and luxuries, more and more people are finding themselves working over-time for some extra salary, looking for better jobs, working part-time to cover their expenses, and so on. Hence, people want to look for alternate or parallel sources of income. And as they say, "where there’s a will, there’s a way". Indeed, there is not one, but many ways you can earn a few extra bucks. Many of these involve working online, meaning you can increase your income while working in the comfort of your living room!

Most of my blogger friends would know how they can earn money online through their blogs via monetizing them. But not everyone has a blog, even though creating a blog is as easy as creating a Facebook profile. Maintaining a blog, however, is not as easy. Hence, for such people, there are various other ways through which they could earn an income in 2018.

Freelancing

I hope you most of you know what freelancing is. It is basically working for someone else online and getting paid for it. By far, this has proven to be the most popular and most paying alternative to a regular office job. And in many ways, freelancing is better than regular jobs. Firstly, you get to do the work that you choose, so that you have some interest in it. Secondly, there's a wide range of stuff you can do. You can write articles, translate papers, do programming assignments for somebody, or take up large corporate projects as a team. The upside to this is that, you earn good bucks. The downside is, yo have to abide by deadlines.

Freelancing is great. It's your own way of saying out to the world; hey! I am independent! I don't need a job! I have a life too! Although technically, you do have a job. But at this job, you can take a nap at anytime and do whatever you want, so long as you do your work.

If you want to look into this, you can try 5 Ways To Win A Job As A Freelancer For Beginner. Or take a look at the Top 10 Freelancing Tips.

Online Surveys

There are many websites out there that are looking for people who would help them in their research and fill out surveys for them. Their aim is to get feedback and do market research on a product. There are website that are dedicated to finding out surveys available for you. One good example is SurveyScout.

Write Articles

Freelance writing is another great way of earning online. If you like writing, or if you are good at it, then you should consider this. Writing quality articles can earn you thousands of dollars per month. All you need to have is the right focus and of course, a good publishing platform where you can submit your articles.

As far as publishing is concerned, you can either self-publish, or submit your article to an article directory. You can either create a blog for self-publishing, or use Squidoo or Hubpages. Click to learn more about earning money through Squidoo.

If you don't want to self-publish, you can submit your articles to the top sites that will pay you for them. This is one of the best ways of earning online. Be sure never to plagiarize, however. Unique content is appreciated, while plagiarism might result in a ban on you. So be original, and you will be fine.

Data Entry

Data Entry is another popular money earning technique used by many people. But I must admit, it is a boring and time-intensive work. There are a lot of companies that want you to do their laborious tasks for them, without hiring a professional for the job. Usually, these tasks are simple. Entering one form of data into a form, organizing data, removing mistakes and errors, and so on.

Surfing and searching

Did you know that you can get paid to search on the internet? No kidding! Since the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc are monopolizing the industry, other smaller engines are left out. So to keep themselves going, they invite net searchers to use their engines, and offer rewards in return. One such company is Swagbucks, that gives you the chance to earn up to $5 per search! It's a neat little trick and I know some people who have started doing this to earn money. Another is InteradMedia, that pays $0.001 per minute of active search. The money isn't very substantial, but what's the harm in getting a few extra bucks every now and then?

There's another alternative way! Some website pay you to surf them! SurfBounty is a good one. All you need to do is stay on that site for a few seconds to register a "surf". Sit back as the dollars add up! Sounds great huh?

Earn Through Skype

About a month ago, I wrote a post in length about earning money through Skype. You can follow it here: Earn Money through skype. But the bottom-line is, with Skype, you can provide services such as tuitions to other people, and charge them for the call through Skype Prime.

Q&A Websites

Some Q&A websites will pay you to answer questions! Q&A websites are all about question that people ask. People ask all sorts of questions on such websites. So the websites hire people to answer those questions. So if you have a good general knowledge, why not give it a shot?

Play games to earn money!

Every app developer needs beta testers, who have nothing to do with the development of the apps. This helps them remove bugs and errors. With games, this is even harder.It requires a lot of man hours to test a game. So there are many companies that pay people to play their games, and provide feedback. That way, they can know if the project would be a fail or a success.

Ebay

Ebay is an advertising website where people put up classifieds for for things they want to sell, and then buyers contact the seller to purchase that item. If you are good at bargaining, you can take a shot at this. Buy products at a reasonable price, and then sell them again for a profit! This is how real estate works, except in that case, they are dealing with lands and houses and large property.

This was an essence of some of the things that I have learned. But by no means are they all the ways there are. You can find more ways at this blog Smart Earning Methods. Thanks for reading :)

10 Popular Blog Topics that will Make you More Money

The thought of becoming an entrepreneur and building your own empire in no time was a dream few years back, but with online money making opportunities today, it is all possible. The urge to start a blog and becoming rich and popular at the same time is increasing day by day, resulting in producing thousands of Newbie Bloggers each week. However, it greatly disappoints them when soon they realize that their blog would hardly generate any revenue for them, forcing them to leave this domain to earn money.

It’s important to figure out about the most productive niches that generate maximum revenue, even before planning to start a blog. What happens for example is, a person might be a good painter and plans to share his painting techniques and his creations on his blog. The idea is appreciable if we talk in terms of talent, but such a blog would hardly attract any traffic. The reason behind this is, the global change is making lives busy where people do not have time to read about your skills, but are in search of fulfilling their own thirst.

Many of our readers have been complaining since a long time that their blogs are not paying them anything, so here is something they need to check about their blogs.

If you are looking forward to high profits in return of easy blogging, you must first know which niche to choose as your blog topic.

Let me share 10 popular blog topics that can bring you massive traffic plus more money in 2018.

10.Health

As the world going online, people are now interested to find solutions for their health related matters online. This blogging niche enjoys an open traffic where there are no barriers of culture, state or society. A person from Pakistan would be equally interested to know about the remedy for losing his weight as a person from USA. If you have a command on medicine and fitness related issues and think you have the potentials to provide people worth-reading and then worth-following tips regarding fitness and Health, then you will see a huge traffic following your blog in no time.

9.Fashion

Health and fitness blogs are mostly visited only by those who are either going through some disease or are way to curious to learn tips for their fitness. But above health blogs, comes Fashion. Knowing about health is need but learning all about fashion is addiction. If you have got that glamorous side of yours and enjoy learning and sharing about Fashion trends leading the society, you can really earn huge money with it. People all over the world find internet as the most easiest access to know about fashion and follow it.

8.Relationships

Recent statistics have shown that 90% of the people have an emotional part in their personalities that leaves an effect on the entire life per fifteen hours a day as an average. People find internet as the most secure way to improve their relationships, believing in the idea of self-aiding learning online about professional working relationships, love relationships and getting advises from people around the globe. According to the latest reveals, blogs with this domain enjoy huge traffic.

7.Finance

Man’s love for Money will last till the end of this world. This common nature of people to learn ways to double their money forces them to search about such methods. Blogs having a domain related to ways of improving their finances and helping them setting up their own business, telling ways to manage their money always appeal them, further generating good traffic for a blog.

6. Question and Answer Blogs

Let us go back to school to make the concept clear. Which teacher you preferred to visit the most in times of need, the one who always had a solution for your problems or the one who used to tell you to “come later”? We all have same views about it I hope. Similarly, starting a blog with a niche of active question and answer session will soon generate considerable revenue for you. People look forward to places where they can be listened and can get their queries been answered. Just like answer.com, you can start a question and answer blog and make real dollars with it!

5. Celebrities

The easiest- yet the most interesting niche to adopt in a blogging career is undoubtedly to start writing reviews, updates, latest photos and everything associated with them, is the celebrities. The best part about this domain is, all you need to have as your qualifications to rule is your interest in entertainment world

4. Buy and sell

Online shopping has taken up the physical market with a great pace. Now you choose all what you want to buy from your living room and get it delivered at your doorsteps. If you have the ability to work like a middle man, establishing a forum similar to olx.com, you can attract bulk of visitors each day.

3. Social Media

This post will be too less to describe the power of social media at this time of life where one might not have a bank account but must be having three or four accounts on different social networking websites. Due to the huge number of Social media users, the sites that write about every single happening on Social media get the most of the benefit. Take an example of Mashable.com. What do you think is the reason for the success of this site? It can’t be uniqueness, there are much better unique sites available than it, it can’t also be a good grammar, as even I have been noticing grammatical mistakes in the posts plenty of times. Then what makes it a hit? It’s the domain of the blog! People want to know each and everything about their social media. Therefore, picking this niche to start a blog is one of the best choices available among the most productive niches.

2. Technology

Techcrunch.com has been making Millions of Dollars each year by simply cashing its niche. In this Hi-tech world, staying up to date with the latest technology been revealed in the market is mandatory. Moreover, the biggest benefit of choosing this niche as your blogging topic is , when a new gadget/device is launched in to the market, it automatically creates a hype, big enough to bring visitors to your blog to know more about it. This happens every time-little too often, ensuring a continuous inflow of money.

1. Blogging Tips

Blogging has recently become too popular even in the developing countries. The best sources to learn for the new bloggers are the blogs themselves. Just like MBT, blogs having a domain of sharing tips and tricks, making blogging easy with tutorials and everything related to blogging world are earning considerably large at this time. However, such domains require you to have the capability and knowledge about web designing and web development so that whatever content you share, it gains reliability for you from your readers.

The decisions you take on initial stages while starting a business, decides the future of it, therefore always play it safe and think about your potentials and pick the domain that goes most smooth with it.

All the best

How Can Students Make Money Online In 2018?

I was teaching students after university, but that only made me few bucks and caused more stress! Fed up of your part-time jobs after school, college or university? Want to do something exciting plus productive while you study?

If yes, then you have come to the right place!

I built this site when I was a student and so can you. Today you won't just learn basic earning ways but will find platforms to join and tools to use in order to kick start your online dream within a week!

So you have probably started looking into this part of the internet which holds a treasure trove of never-ending wealth. Well, maybe not never-ending, but some tools that can be used in any way you want and anywhere you want to generate money.

With the advent of the internet and the subsequent emergence of the digital era, earning online is not as hard as it may seem. Rather, it has become quite mainstream today.

Furthermore, with large corporations realizing the potential of going digital, it is only natural that today one can find a digital resource for almost anything!

Those who are really keen on earning online, can find a plethora of useful resources and mentors who can guide them in the right track. So let us see how you can earn while you study and not worry about going broke!

We wont talk nonsense! Before we may start please note that we wont be sharing useless ways of making money online. Methods such as filling online surveys, writing reviews, and clicking ads or watching videos, only wastes your time and makes no serious income online. Therefore we will talk only the sensible methods that are proven and recommended by professionals online.

Whether you are a student living in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh or Nigeria. These tips apply to all. Many Pakistani, Indians and Nigerians visit this blog on daily basis and I have crafted the points carfeully so that the payment options could apply to all.

Note: You won't be able to make a sustainable income online without following point number#5.

Following are Five Popular Ways Students Can Make Money Online in 2018 and ahead.

1. Creating Your Own Blog

Most of you might already be familiar with what a blog is. In any case, a blog is simply a dynamic website that contains content related to a certain topic. Such content can include anything from how-to articles to the latest news on tech.

Read: Difference between a Blog and Website

A simple search on any topic will probably show you dozens of blogs that talk about what you are looking for. In fact, large corporations have their own blogs to engage with their customers and get valuable insights regarding the likes and dislikes of their target market.

Further research into blogging will reveal how rewarding running a blog can be. A number of examples exist where simple websites turned into multi-million blogs earning their creators fortunes that are beyond our wildest dreams.

Such blogs include CNET, Techradar, Entrepreneur, BuzzFeed and many more. We may have come across them a number of times but we may have never realized how much these are worth. Just to give you a teaser, BuzzFeed’s revenue in 2015 was around USD 167 million.

So coming down to the point. How can you earn with a blog? Well, there are plenty of ways in which you can do so.

However, one thing that is worth mentioning here is that there is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme. Making money online requires a great deal of patience and determination to provide the highest amount of value to your target audience.

CPC ads

Back to what we were discussing, a blog earns you money according to the amount of traffic that you get. That is, the more the people read your blog, the more you get paid.

In order to understand this, you will need to get a grasp of something called CPC or PPC ads. CPC and PPC stand for cost per click and pay per click respectively. In order to earn from a blog, you may place CPC ads on your website.

These ads are such that each time a reader comes to your blog and clicks on the ad, you get paid.

You may use Google Adsense which provides you the necessary tools and information on creating such ads. Google automatically chooses the ads that are related to your content and as such, you are saved from going through the trouble of contacting advertisers directly.

Making advertisers come to you

As mentioned earlier, almost every organization today knows the significance of digital marketing. Blogs are one of the most important tools that can allow organizations to reach a vast amount of target audience at the lowest of cost.

It therefore goes without saying that with time, you are most likely to get requests from advertisers who would want to place their ad on your blog. This can be in the form of a link to their website or simply a banner ad.

You may charge them a one-time fee or take monthly payments if running a banner ad. You may also charge for sponsoring an ad.

Using the blog for your own business

A blog does not necessarily have to be only a content delivering medium. Rather, it can serve as a great tool for promoting your own business if you already have one.

Furthermore, if you are selling physical products, a blog can go a long way in marketing your product effectively to a large audience.

Example

In order to get a better grasp of how blogs make money, here is a pretty good example of a blog targeted toward the photography niche.

Digital Photography School is a successful blog created by Darren Rowse, widely known as Problogger. The blog has more than 800,000 subscribers and its main sources of income include banner ads, affiliate programs, and e-books.

As an example, you can see the banner ad promoting Segment. Clicking on the ad will earn the creator a certain amount of money accordingly.

The important thing to be noted here is that the blog is operating in a very profitable niche which is photography. As a student, if you have an interest in photography, this blog is a perfect example of how you can also create something as big as this.

Important Tips:

So here are some tips that you need to consider before starting your own blog.

• Firstly, do as much research as you can. Make yourself aware of the different types of blogs that can be created. Make sure that you know the ins and outs of creating google ads and understand other technical jargon. The best way to learn is nothing but experience.
• Therefore, if you are serious about earning online through a blog, now is the time to start experimenting and getting as much information as you can.
• Secondly, like any other product or service, a blog is something that provides value to a certain target audience. The value can be in terms of entertainment, news, politics and much more. In our example above, digital photography provides useful tips and resources to interested photographers.
• It is always best to start a blog on something that you are most interested in. This makes sure that you are motivated and that you keep improving your blog.
• Thirdly and most importantly, identify your target audience. Based on your interest, do a bit of research on what do people with similar tastes like to read about. The more you understand your target audience, the better the content you can offer.
• Lastly, it is crucial that you build your network. Starting a blog is not an easy task. As such, it is never a bad idea to get valuable advice from the experts. There are a number of events and online communities that you can join and get some vital pieces of information and support.

Most importantly, while I was browsing my Facebook timeline, I found a great resource for you if you want to start a blog step by step at wordpress. Although I have always given examples of Bloggers to start with, but I found something great and step by step information to quickly let you understand the process to begin with Wordpress.

2. Freelancing

Freelancing as you know is the biggest buzzword for all things online. It is one of the most promising industries of the future. Rather, freelancing is what is shaping the workplace of today.

As you may already know, freelancing involves working for on-demand projects online anywhere at any time. There is simply no limit to the amount of work you can take and earn.

Essentially, freelancing is a vast term that involves any sort of work that can be done online or offline without being associated with any sort of official organization. In simple terms, when you are a freelancer, you are your own boss!

How does freelancing work?

Understanding how to freelance is not something difficult. All you need to do is to choose what kind of work you want to do and then sign up on a freelancing platformto get various types of projects related to your profession.

• So for instance, you can be a freelance writer, writing for web content, scripts, articles, stories etc. There is simply an innumerable amount of niches that you can target for delivering your writing services.
• You may choose to become a freelance designer in which case you would be selling your services in terms of designing logos, banners and user interfaces for various clients. This can be quite rewarding as good designers are always in high demand.
• Another way to earn is to become a freelance web developer. This is perhaps the most lucrative way of earning online as the market for web developers seems to be growing exponentially. There are simply millions of people who want compelling websites to be built for their businesses.

In fact, there are entire organizations that offer web development services to clients through the web by working online.

How to get started?

In order to get started, you will firstly need to set up an account on any number of freelancing platforms that you would like to work on. Such platforms allow you to connect to the relevant clients who may be looking for your services.

Some of the platforms include, freelance.com, fiverr, upwork, ODesk, and many more. Freelance.com is quite a popular website where you can get a number of clients for various types of projects.

Nevertheless, being popular, it should not come as a surprise that freelance.com will give you a tough competition as there are millions of other freelancers who are competing for jobs.

The problem is, that many platforms work by you setting up an account and putting in your details such as your skills, your payment methods etc. Once that is done, you will then have to bid for projects that you want.

For instance, if you want projects related to writing, you will need to post bids for the various projects that are listed. As such, the best bids are the ones that get selected.

In order to stand out, you will need to start off by charging only a little. This may be quite demotivating; however, with time, as your ratings grow and reviews are built, your profile will become more visible to the clients on whose projects you have placed a bid for.

Example

According to a survey done by The Freelancer, the median amount of income earned by freelancers was between $10,000 - $20,000 annually. The chart below shows the results for all the freelancers surveyed.

As mentioned earlier, freelancing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Rather, it takes a considerable amount of time to reach to a level where one can do freelancing as a career.

Nevertheless, for a student, freelancing is a great way to earn some extra cash. As an example, one may earn through Fiverr – a well-known freelancing platform where you can offer your services, called gigs, starting from $5.

This is a Fiverr Revenues dashboard showing earnings in terms of revenues. As you can see, earnings are quite impressive with $10,340 earned in revenues. This is definitely not a bad gig for a student.

You can check out 20 Fiverr gigs ideas to sell in 2018 and can select the best possible gigs for yourself to get started with Fiverr.

Important tips:

• Earning from freelance work takes time. There area great deal of freelancers on various platforms who are competing ever more vigorously for projects. However, this does not mean that you cannot make it to the top.
• Freelancing is the same as running a business. The only difference is that you yourself are the entire company. As such, like any other business, you will need to build your credibility among the freelance community.
• One thing that needs to be noted here is that most of the work given on freelance is based on a high amount of trust. This is quite obvious since clients from all over the world are hiring freelancers who are in completely different locations.
• As such, building trust should be your main priority when choosing to freelance. In order to do so, you will need to make sure that you deliver the work on time and with the highest quality. Good quality work never goes underappreciated.
• Furthermore, no business can survive without a reasonable amount of investment. Therefore, if you choose to freelance, be prepared to make some amount of investment in order to build your repute.
• Such investments can be in the form of paying for certain aptitude tests available for a certain price. For instance, if you are a freelance web developer, having passed a series of tests related to HTML, CSS and other programming languages will add greatly to your profile.
• Clients are more willing to give projects to freelancers who have such certifications as it shows that you are credible and can be relied upon.
• In addition, you need to make sure that you have set up a proper online payment system. Freelance platforms require you to choose a payment method through which you can send and receive payments.

Payment Solutions

Payment methods may include PayPal, Payoneer, Skrill etc. Setting up a verified payment method is the most essential factor in winning the trust of the clients.

Lastly, keep yourself connected with other fellow freelancers. Just like blogging communities, freelance communities can give you some much needed advice and support in your freelancing endeavors.

You may join communities that are related to your own profession. For instance, a number of online forums exist which are solely dedicated to freelance writers. This way you can keep yourself updated with the latest trends going on the industry as well.

Freelancing can be a great career choice. It all depends on how much willing you are to keep on working as a freelancer and continue developing your profile.

Just like a blog, earning from freelance work is time-consuming and can be quite frustrating; however, it is all worth it in the end.

3. Writing EBooks

This option can pay off very well if you have a serious knack for writing. Whether it is a how-to guide, a fictional novel or anything else, the possibilities are endless. However, in order to be successful, you will need to expend a great amount of effort.

Read: Make an eBook: Beginners Guide To PDF eBook Building

For a student, writing an EBook may prove to be a bit difficult since it is hard to spare so much of time while studying. Nevertheless, it is something worth trying while on holidays when students have plenty of time to do whatever they like.

With so many online resources available, publishing EBooks have become incredibly easy. You can sell your EBooks through Amazon’s Kindle Program or through Apple’s iTunes Connect. All you need to do is sign up and publish your book at almost negligible cost.

So how does it work?

Essentially, Amazon has a system through which you earn a specific percentage of the price. That is, if you price your book between US $1.83 and US $8.60, you will get 70% of the price as royalty and 35% for $0.92.

• To upload your book on Amazon, you will need to write a short description of what the book is about. This is the first thing that your readers will see when looking at your book. As such, make sure your description is compelling enough to make the potential reader buy your book.
• After uploading your book and publishing it, you will need to wait for 24 hours before your book gets available on the online store for people to buy.

Marketing

Writing and publishing an EBook may be time-consuming and require a lot of effort. However, it is nothing compared to the time and effort you need to spend on marketing your work. After all, getting your book noticed in a crowd of billions of others is far from easy.

One way to get started with your marketing is to use your social media contacts to spread awareness. You can create a Facebook page to attract the relevant type of target audience. You may use Goodreads.com as well which is a website specially dedicated to readers of all kinds.

As with other marketing efforts, knowing your target audience is of utmost importance. You cannot sell a fictional novel to those who like reading about technical topics. As such, you need to strategize your marketing efforts accordingly.

You may do so by having someone create a landing page for your book or you may create one yourself. You can easily create a blog using WordPress for only a little amount of money and use it to provide relevant content to your target audience.

Examples

Earnings from e-books can vary significantly. However, below is a real earnings chart for books published on Amazon.

On average, the E-books have made USD 224 just in the month of February. As you can see, this is plenty for a student.

Important Tips:

• One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that no matter how cheap the book is or how well you market it, it is not going to earn you enough if the content of the book itself is not up to the standards of your target audience.
• As such, make sure you clearly understand what you write. A good way to start is writing a draft outline of the entire book. You may then split the book into chapters accordingly and build upon your outline.
• This will make sure that you have a clear idea of what you are going to write. Furthermore, it is essential that you do your research thoroughly. In particular, if you are writing on a technical topic, a good amount of research is necessary in order to build credibility.

4. Affiliate Marketing

If nothing else works, then affiliate marketing is the way to go. Essentially, as an affiliate marketer, you act as a middleman between the provider of the product and the target audience for that product.

In simple terms, if you sign up as an affiliate for a certain product, you will be selling the product through the web using various marketing techniques. Each time the product is sold, you will get paid a certain amount of commission.

Need Motivation from a developing country like Pakistan?

This talented guy plus student from Lahore, called "Luqman Khan" sitting on my office chair makes on average $40,000 a month in Amazon affiliate sales from his website 10beasts.com mashAllah! If he can do that, then why can't you?

People love copying others without putting their own efforts. Yes some succeed in copying copyrights of others but neither do they succeed in their long term goals nor receives respect in the eyes of internet community.

Be unique and creative always. No one has equal thinking abilities. Everyone is unique and creative based on his God gifted potentials. So utilize your God gifted skills, polish them and present to the world something that you could solely own at the end of the day. Become the first You!

How does it work?

Affiliate marketing works by online sellers allowing you to sell their products through their affiliate program.

For instance, Amazon has its own affiliate program that allows people to register as affiliate marketers to sell any type of product they like.

• When you sign up for an affiliate program, you are given an affiliate code that can be used to bring traffic to your website that you are using to sell the product.
• Usually, the provider will give you the necessary banners, sales copies and other marketing materials which you can simply place on your website.
• The providers can monitor the progress of the website through the affiliate ID that they provided. You too can check your commissions and other relevant statistics.

Example

Amazon.com runs one of the most well-known affiliate programs in the market.

All you need to do is join through the link and choose a product you want to advertise. You can then earn up to 10% advertising fee.

The best part is that you do not have to sell the product. Rather, you earn based on whether a customer has clicked on an ad linking to Amazon’s website. That is, the more clicks you get, the more you earn.

In the start, earnings can be quite low. However, with time, you can earn up $1000 per month. This can grow with experience and contacts.

The picture shows the amount of fees earned through Amazon’s affiliate program.

As you can see the conversion rate is 11.14%. This is the part that needs to grow in order to increase earnings through the program.

Amazon provides a number of useful tools and resources to increase your conversion rates effectively.

Important Tips:

• Affiliate marketing is far from a get-rich-quick scheme. Since affiliate marketing requires minimal investment and resources, the barriers to entry are extremely low. As much as this is a benefit, it is also a cause of intense competition and hence standing out of the crowd can take some time.
• In order to get a head start in the affiliate marketing industry, the first thing you need to consider is the type of products you want to sell. It is recommended to select a couple of good products that have a high demand in the market.
• There is no point in taking on more than you can handle. Consequently, in order to determine what products sell well, you will need to do a lot of research on different markets.
• Secondly, make use of different channels to promote the product. Simply using your website for promotion may not take you very far in terms of selling the product. Google and Facebook ads can be a great source for attracting the relevant type of traffic.
• Golden Tip: Even if you don't own a website or youtube channel, you can send your affiliate link via email or social media to friends and family members who often ask you "Hey Mike! Do you know where can I buy a good laptop?" Just send him an email by adding your affiliate link! ;)

5. Build a Skill Set First!

This point is added by the editorial board of MBT.

No one values your time online unless you have acquired a skill set. Please note down the following important points to ensure a successful career online, with both inflow of a handsome income as well as respect in the eye of the internet community.

Ready? Let's discuss it on fingertips:

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From £0 to £11,000+ Per Month E-Commerce Link Building Case Study

This case study outlines the exact link building steps we took in order to increase traffic and subsequently take our clients e-commerce site from £0 to over £11,000+ per month in revenue.

The site is in the food niche and the profit margins are high.

You’ve probably read a lot about SEO and link building.

Whitehat, Blackhat, Greyhat, anchor text distribution yada yada.

Much of what you have read has most likely been conflicting, which may have left you a little confused as to the best way to get backlinks to your website.

The truth is there is no one size fits all strategy. Every industry and campaign is different and the way you go about obtaining backlinks should reflect this.

How Do I Find Out The Best Backlinking Strategy For My Industry?

The simple answer is to find out what your top ranked competitors are doing.

If you aren’t sure who your main competitors are, it’s probably a good time to find out.

A simple search for your main keywords in Google will provide you with the answer and from there you can start analysing the sites and find out exactly what they are up to.

Let’s take two examples in two very different niches, to confirm the point there really is no one size fits all link building strategy.

Niche Example 1

The games niche is huge, tens of thousands of terms, many  huge search figures.

If we take the game Happy Wheels and do a quick search for some keywords we can see some decent search figures:

If we search “happy wheels unblocked” in Google we can see the search results dominated by Google, Weebly and Wix sub domain sites, which is interesting if you were looking for good niches to do some parasite SEO.

If we take the first standalone domain we can see US organic search figures at 11.8k (mobile) and 6.7k (desktop) – which is only a conservative monthly estimation of the traffic.

Although not that relevant to this case study, SEMRUSH also provides data on the top organic keywords bringing in the traffic to the site, which is useful information for the keyword research phase:

Either way, the data reflects there is money to be made here.

The next step is to put the domain through Majestic or Ahrefs. I use Majestic, it’s just a matter of choice.

The overview reflects happy wheels related keywords would not be easy to rank for with a brand new domain:

The anchor text distribution is interesting:

31% for “happy wheels”, which probably contradicts a lot of what you have read and reiterates the point that every industry is different, including the amount of times you should use your main keyword as your anchor text in order to rank highly without getting penalised.

The backlinks to the site also contradict what could be described as “quality” “relevant” and within “Google’s guidelines”.

Spam blog comments from a Muslim related domain?!:

Sitewide links from several cloned websites, most likely some kind of PBN:

Analysis tells us blackhat techniques are most definitely working in this niche.

Niche Example 2

Let’s take our second example a food sub-niche and similar to our clients.

“organic food delivery” receives over 6,000 searches per month and will be highly lucrative:

If we run the site ranking number 1 in the UK for that term through Majestic the overview indicates a very strong domain:

The anchor text distribution looks a lot different from the happy wheels URL, indicating a far cleaner, more natural link building campaign:

Analysis of the links indicates relationship building, free giveaways and high-end directory submission.

As you can see two very different methods to reaching the top in two very different niches.

If you are going to use any blackhat techniques on a client site, the only rule is they know exactly what you are doing, agree to it, are fully aware of the risks and you have a strategy in place in case things go wrong (which thankfully doesn’t happen often).

SEO Strategy Used That Helped Generate £11,000+ In Monthly Revenue

Organisation Discounts

Offering discounts to organisations is a great way to build links and also to generate some direct sales.

In terms of our client site we were able to obtain several links from highly authoritative sites, including some .edu domains using this method:

It’s a pretty simple tactic in which you approach organisations which offer their members discounts and pitch your own discount on the products or services you sell.

It’s always best to target organisations whose members will likely be interested in your products.

To find opportunities you could enter the following search strings in Google:

“members discount”
“membership discounts”
“members discount directory”
site: edu “student discounts”

Further opportunities can be found by analysing the backlink profiles of the organisations already listed on the members page.

For example, Warner Leisure Hotels are listed on Sagas membership discount page:

Analysing the backlink profile of their website, provides us with 398,683 backlinks from 1400 referring domains:

If we start working our way down the backlinks it doesn’t take long to find the first organisational discount link:

It’s from the English Indoor Bowling Association, an organisation which could be pitched to but also providing another list of companies we can analyse for further opportunities:

Free Giveaways In Exchange For A Review

I’ve read recently that Google is clamping down on this technique and that all backlinks provided should be no followed.

The truth is if every single link you work hard to obtain is no followed, you are going to rank for nothing.

Much like many things in life it’s about common sense and doing things in moderation.

Offering something free to influential bloggers in your niche is a great way to get some promotion and build links.

While many companies have money to burn and can afford to send out free stuff worth hundreds of dollars to bloggers I would call anything but influential, I prefer to pick and choose.

Before making a commitment, you should check:

The strength of the domain – using Majestic or ahrefs
Organic search traffic estimation – using SEMRUSH
Social account follower numbers and engagement levels

To find opportunities you could use the following search strings in Google:

ProductName + intitle:review
ProductName + intitle:ratings
ProductName + intitle:comparison
ProductName + intitle:compare
ProductName + intitle:recommnded

Once you have found some good sites that have provided reviews, reverse engineer those websites to uncover further opportunities.

Sponsored Posts

Sponsored posts are much like guest posts, except you pay for the privilege of posting your content on someone elses site.

While in an ideal world we would have titled this section “Guest Post” and published our content for free, you will often find this isn’t a viable option for commercial businesses.

While many bloggers in the food niche, were more than happy to accept guest posts from their fellow bloggers, they were a bit more reluctant to allow us to publish our content without receiving some cash first!

Much like the free giveaway tactic, be prepared to do some analysis on the site you are thinking of publishing on.

To find opportunities you could enter the following search strings in Google using either “guest” or “sponsored”:

• keyword + “guest blog”
• keyword + “guest blogger”
• keyword + “guest article”
• Keyword + “guest post”
• Keyword + “guest author”
• Keyword + “write for me”
• Keyword + “become a contributor”
• Keyword + “contribute to this site”
• Keyword + inurl:contributions
• Keyword + “become a contributor” + inanchor:contact
• keyword + “contribute to this site + inanchor:contact
• keyword + “guest blog” + inanchor:contact

We also found good opportunities on Twitter by searching for “keyword + sponsored post”

Backlinks from Directories

While many of the low quality, spammed directories got targeted by Google a few years ago and were de-indexed, directory link building is an easy and solid way to obtain quality links.

We prefer to submit to industry specific directories and also pay for the privilege, which normally costs between $20 – $100.

While a paid directory normally indicates it is going to be of a higher quality, we still check the metrics and also look for opportunities that represent a little more than a directory.

By that I mean you will see industry specific articles, information, images and videos on the site. Here is the list of manually verified 131+ directories to submit your domain.

In order to find directories to submit your site to, you could enter the following search strings in Google:

• industry keyword + submit URL
• industry keyword + submit site
• industry keyword + directory

Turning Brand Mentions Into Links

Turning non-linked mentions of your business is an easy and effective way to obtain some links.

This link building method worked for us because our client was reasonably well known for the bricks and mortar side of the business.

It’s important to note that if you are a brand new e-commerce company it’s highly unlikely you will be able to find any mentions of your business.

In order to find mentions you could use BuzzSumo or Mention, both tools will provide you with notifications of when your brand is mentioned.

After you receive notification head over to the page, if you have already been provided with a link, your work is done, if there is no link visible then reach out with an email similar to this:

Hopefully, you found this guide useful and can use some of the techniques mentioned to build links to your own website.

The full case study, which includes sections on keyword research, email marketing, on page SEO and various other things we implemented can be found here.

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