19 Feb 2008 05:09:32 | Daegan Smith
I bet you already knew this.
The two largest problems that online home businesses face in
2005 is creating traffic and creating a profit. It seems like
everyone has great “ideas” about how to help you increase both
your website’s traffic and profitability, but when you try these
“ideas” yourself they don’t seem to work as well as “they” said
they would. Well, finally…. You’re going to learn some simple
tactics using free website content to create either traffic or
profit (your choice) that are GUARANTEED to work as long as the
internet exists.
The reason that these simple tactics will work is because
they’re based on an even simpler formula. If you remember
nothing else in this report remember this:
GOOD FREE CONTENT + LINKS = TRAFFIC or PROFIT
All too often the elegance of the above formula is devalued, but
the truth is… the above formula IS the internet. When you search
the internet for information you’re using the above formula to
find the information that you seek.
Here’s what I mean, when you put a search query into one of the
major search engine and press search you get a list of content
and links. Here’s how the above formula applies to the major
search engines. You ONLY use the major search engines to find
whatever it is that you are searching for because you TRUST the
websites that the major search engines bring you are the most
relevant to what you're searching for (or in other words high
quality free content). Because you view the content of the major
search engines as valuable you click thru on the links. The
reason major search engines are credible and seen as valuable by
you is because you value the quality of the free content that
they provide. Google and Yahoo make billions of dollars a year
ONLY because they are able to give you the quality content that
you seek. I don’t mean to belabor the point, but I just want you
to see the value of relevant free content.
The major search engine use complex mathematics to bring you
relevant information to get your clicks - you, on the other
hand, have to take the other route. You must provide the high
quality content FIRST then give your links in order to get the
clicks. The simplest way for you to do this is by picking a
topic that you know a great deal about then find out if that
information is something that will be of interest to others. If
that content does hold some universal interest then you simply
create an article or report based on that topic plus add a link
to whatever you want at the bottom in your “resource box” and
then distribute that content to those that would be interested
in the information that you provide. At this point your content
hungry audience will take care of the rest for you.
Let’s break down the steps just so they’re simple for you to
implement…
Finding a Topic and Determining its Value:
Think about something that you know a great deal about and then
brainstorm around that idea. After you have a few good ideas
based on your brainstorming you'll want to determine whether or
not there’s an audience hungry for information based on your
ideas. You do that by going to
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ and checking a few
keywords based on your topic for traffic. If your topic seems to
produce a good deal of traffic then you’ve found a hungry
audience that’s ready and waiting for your article or free
report.
Creating the Article or Report:
Now for what you probably think is the hard part, but honestly
writing an article or report based on something that you know a
great deal about will not be much work at all. The hardest part
will be organizing your ideas and getting yourself to actually
sit down and start writing. After that the thoughts will just
flow onto the page for you.
Here are some article writing guidelines and tips…
First: Determine what type of quality content you want to
create.
•Tips: The simplest strategy is simply to write a report by
simple gathering a few tips and then writing a few sentences
about each of your proposed tips based on your topic. I’m sure
you’ve seen these articles all over the internet. They generally
follow the format “7 Tips to….” •Tutorial: Another Strategy is
to write a tutorial to help your audience do something that you
may know more about then they do. •Resources: The last strategy
that I will provide to you here to help you get started is to
create a report full of valuable resources that your audience
may like to know about. This strategy is generally not one that
I would recommend because it less personal than the other two
described and will be less effective.
Second: Organize your content.
Now that you know what type of content you want to create take a
few minutes to write out an outline. You want to have an opening
paragraph that will describe what you plan to achieve with your
article or report, and then a few body paragraphs to elaborate
your major points of discussion.
Third: Create a strong headline.
In an effort to keep things simple, a title that is structured
as a question or begins with “how to” generally pulls a better
response than headlines that don’t. If you’re stuck on this
point here is a great article to help you along
http://www.perfect-home-based-business-opportunities.com/20050126
091533.html.
Fourth: Flesh out your outline.
Now that you know what you’re going to write about, all you have
left to do is flesh out each point in your outline with a few
sentences. Honestly, you can cheat at this point if you want by
hiring a ghostwriter to flesh out your content at
www.elance.com, but I would advice you to go ahead and write
your article yourself. The truth is you’ll probably enjoy doing
it. So, don’t be scared give it a try!
Last: Add Your All important link.
At the end of your article you get to add a link to whatever you
want. If you want that link to refer your audience to your web
site for personal site traffic then use it for that. If you want
your link to refer your audience to an affiliate program then
use your resource box link for that purpose. Immediate cash or
site traffic it’s all up to you!
How to Distribute your Content to Your Hungry Audience:
Now that you have your quality content ready for your audience
you need multiple ways to distribute it to them. I contend that
there is only one online method that is worth your effort so I
will discuss it here.
Submit your Article to Article Content Directories
Article directories are the internet’s free content hubs. These
are sites that many web marketers use to pull free content for
there audiences. These sites contain multiple categories - more
than likely you will be able to find a suitable category to
submit your article or report. Once you find the correct
category simply submit your article.
These sites are truly great in my opinion because once you have
submitted your content your done. Other webmaster will find your
article and post it to there site or use it in there online
newsletter. The result is this will expose your article to more
webmasters and web publishers who will in turn use take your
content. If you’ve done your homework and delivered an article
to an audience that is hungry for your information the results
can be truly amazing. Posting your article once can literally
start a chain reaction that can lead to your article being
posted on hundreds or even thousands of websites which in turn
means more free links and traffic to your desired site or
affiliate program.
There are literally thousands of content directories online and
the trend looks as if these types of site are going to be on the
rise in 2005. Where should you submit your content? I say start
with the www.goarticles.com, www.ideamarketers.com, and
www.ezinearticles.com. You’ll find more specific sub directories
for your topic by doing a few search engine searches for your
specific topic + “submit articles”. As a general rule you will
probably get the largest amount of traffic from the major
article directories, but more is always better. The more places
that display your content with your links the higher the
probability that someone will find it and use it. A quick tip…
as you find new directories keep a running list as this will
come in handy for you as you get the hang of using free content
for profit and traffic and start creating more articles and
reports to give away.
Tips to Help You Help Your Audience Distribute Your Content
FASTER:
Now your content is in front of your hungry audience and things
are going well. You’re getting traffic and or you’re making a
few affiliate sales. Here are a few tips to help you speed up
the distribution of your content so you can get more traffic and
more sales per article or report faster.
Tip 1: Let your audience know that your article or report
is available for reprint.
I know you probably think this is too simple to really matter -
your audience already knows that your content is available for
free reprint because it’s in a FREE content directory. Your
right, but we have to think ahead… what about when your article
is picked up by other webmasters and they post your content on
there site? Will the new audience know that your article is
freely available for reprint? Some will and some won’t. To make
sure that everyone knows that your content is available for free
reprint no matter where it’s posted you have to let them know.
Just add a short blurb in your resources box that say that the
article the reader is currently reading is available for free
reprint. Now no matter where your article is posted there will
be no question as to whether or not it is available for free
reprint.
Another point on this tip, many who read your articles may not
be in the mindset of seeking content to publish. By letting your
readers know that they can freely republish your content you
open an entirely new possibility to many of your reads that they
had not considered (just a subtle behavioral psychology point to
consider).
Tip 2: Show your audience how they can benefit by using
your free content.
Money talks! Show your readers how they can make money by
republishing your content and they will be much more likely to
use it. How can your audience make money using your content?
There are two simple ways to help others make money with your
content; show them how to add PPC ads to your article so that
when they post your article to there site they’ll generate
revenue from clicks-thrus or allow them to change any affiliate
links in the article or report to there own so that they are
able to profit from affiliate sales generated (if you do this I
suggest that you use 2 tier affiliate programs so that you
profit as well).
Tip 3: Make it as simple and easy as possible for others
to use your content
The easier you make it for people to use your content the more
likely it will be that they use it. Keep things simple! One
thing I like to do to keep things simple is I keep a page on my
website that displays all of my free web site content for
reprint so that my visitors can easily find ALL of my resources
available for reprint in ONE place. On that page I add a copy
and paste version of my resource box (which of course included a
link to my free web site content page) so my visitors don’t have
to worry about doing anything more than copying and pasting what
they want to use. To get e better idea of what I’m talking about
check out my free web site content page here
http://www.perfect-home-based-business-opportunities.com/free-web
-site-content.html.
Conclusion: That’s it…
If you want to profit from free content I have given you
everything that you need to make a pretty penny online using
free website content the same way the major search engines do.
Do you remember the formula I gave you before?
GOOD FREE CONTENT + LINKS = TRAFFIC or PROFIT
Remember this and you cannot fail!
However,
I have a confession to make…
What I have given you here is incomplete. There is no doubt that
you can use the above information to create a good income from
free content, but if you want to take your info publishing
skills to the next level. If you want to create a large residual
and growing income from your content publishing efforts you’re
going to need more help than I can give you here in this report.
You’re going to need proper guidance and best in industry info
content publishing tools. So, as a final recommendation and to
make this report truly complete I’ll leave you with one final
recommendation.
To make the above system complete, even easier to follow, and
exponentially more profitable my final and strongest
recommendation to you is software, tools, and instructions
available by mailing to comlev1@getresponse.com
About Author :
Daegan Smith is the Ex-NCAA Wrestler Turned Webmaster of http://www.Perfect-Home-Based-Business-Opportunit
ies.com- Wanna Work From Home? Want a successful home based
business? Then you need to check out Perfect Home Based Business
Opportunities!