Use Mobile Phones To Build A List

If you have been around the internet money scene for any length of time you will have heard the expression, “The money is in the list.”

Why do you keep reading this oft repeated motto? Basically because it is true. Now you can leverage the incredible market that is available on mobile phones using Admob

I am going to come clean here and admit that I really never saw the potential of building a list but after having spent the last couple of months investigating it I have really changed my tune.

You need to think of a list as a little goldmine, everyone on it is a little nugget of gold and with a well run list you will always have a group of buyers to hand.

Now, your list is precious and f you nurture it with good information and real advice the folks on your list will come to trust you and your advice. Imagine if your best friend comes round and says, “Hey, I’ve found a great program to improve my golf you should try it!”

Isn’t it quite likely that you would try it. OK so you may not buy it but you would check it out.

Now imagine if a used car dealer knocked on your door, even if he said the exact same words as your friend what are the chances that you would bother.

You need to be a best friend to your list and they will listen. So next time you send them an email saying “Check this out,” they will probably do it.

Ok, so you don’t have a list, easy, build one. Yeah I know, it’s not quite as easy as that but then again it is if you are willing to invest a little cash up front.

Here is a fool proof way to build your own little goldmine in literally days.

This method will cost you around $75 but think of it as an investment in your future.Your list will last for ever, well almost!

You will need to set up a simple squeeze page in a mobile format, this is not too difficult and there is lots of information about it on the web, just Google ‘mobile web pages.’

You will need this squeeze page to take advantage of the massive consumer base out there with mobile phones, cell phones as the Americans say.

Consider this, 1.5 billion people have internet access on their computer but nearly 5 billion people access the web on their phone. Read that again, 5 billion!

Ok, you have your mobile web page so all you need on it is a sign up form. You can get this from Aweber, (free trial for a dollar). This is where you will build your list, or lists.

I suggest starting with just one for the time being and making it targeted. By that I mean go for a niche like golf, weight loss, fitness etc.

Don’t worry about the market being saturated, this is not SEO, this is list building.

OK, so now you head on over to Admob. This is a Google site that sells advertising on mobile phones and this is where you will be getting your customers.

I won’t go into all the details about setting up an account because it is really easy and once you have set it up there are some great training videos on how to set up campaigns.

All you have to do is run a campaign with a simple text advert which will send the user to your squeeze page. Offer a free report in exchange for their email and bang! you have a prospect for ever.

Set up an ad which says something like:

Grab Your Free Fitness Guide Now!

Make the destination URL your squeeze page and Aweber does the rest.

Each ad. will cost you around $0.03 a click yes thats 3 cents per click and the take up rate is massive.

I am going to expand on this subject over the next few posts because it is so exciting and even better it is simple and it works.

If you think this system will work for you, I know it will, and you want a method that can take a lot of the stress out of it head on over to MobileMonopoly.com and check out their offer.

In the meantime here are some free reports that you can use as bait.

Fitness Reports

Keep at it till the magic works!

Make Easy Money Online Slowly

It is entirely possible to make easy money online if you go about it in the right way. No doubt you have all seen the adverts, “Make Money Fast” and “Get Rich in 7 Days” and so on, don’t believe it!

When I look at any sales page I read the first paragraph and if it says either one of those things I just hit the back button on the browser. I know it’s a con.

To make a good second income online, or indeed a great first income you will have to exercise some patience. There is no way to beat the system and maintain it.

The basis of any online earnings is to have a website that ranks on page one of Google and if you can crack that you are on your way. Many affiliate sites fail because they go too fast, they throw up a page and then hit the social book marks and article directories.

This is a basic error. Google will index your page without any backlinks at all within a few days. Why? Because it is new and hopefully fresh.

I think of it like a library, which it basically is, a new book comes in and it goes on to the nw book shelf at the front of the library.

After a while, this new book is replaced by newer books and so it goes into the library section with all the other books. After some time if that book is not checked out it will be taken out and replaced, but if it is asked for by visitors to the library it can go onto the “Popular Books” shelf at the front.

Google does the exact same thing. A new webpage may pop up on the first couple of pages (The new book shelf), as time goes on it gets replaced by newer web pages and so sinks down in the listings, but if it is requested by visitors (backlinks) it will again rise to the top.

In the case of Google, the algorythm by which it sorts all its pages will know when these requests are coming in. If it suddenly finds that there are hundreds of backlinks to a new page it becomes suspicious that someone is trying to game the system, poof! the page is de-indexed.

So, to make money online tread cautiously, by all means create a couple of backlinks, say, a press release or an article or two, but then hold off.

I normally leave a site to simmer for about 3 months before doing anything else and this gives the page time to settle into its place,  then I will start to build backlinks. This will look entirely natural and the page will not get penalised for gaming the system.

So, make money online slowly and it should last a long time.

Keyword Tools I Use Part 1

Anybody trying to make money online or just get their web pages seen needs a couple of keyword tools. Here are some I use and one I don’t.

There are numerous keyword research tools available some free, some very expensive but the cost or otherwise is not neccesarily an indicator of how good they are. I use several different things to help me decide which keywords to target.

The Google Keyword Tool

This is a good first choice if you are starting out. Although free it will give you a headstart in the search for keywords that you may not of thought of yourself. The drawback is that you then have to flip backwards and forwards between the keyword tool and the search pages to get the competition numbers. The Google Keyword Tool is here

Mozilla Firefox and SEO Extension.

If you use the  Google Keyword Tool the Firefox browser with the SEO extension is a must. It allows you to get so much information at one place it is priceless. Firefox and SEO

Those are the free tools and they have their place on your computer however if you intend to get serious there are some paid tools which are worth considering. The best thing about them is not the information that they get you, you can get that for free as I have said, the best reason for buying them is the enormous amount of time that they can save.

Wordtracker

Wordtracker is a subscription tool that charges a monthly fee for access. It is a very popular keyword research tool for affiliate marketing and avoids the pitfalls of many desktop based tools in that you are using their bandwidth and proxy servers. You have a variety of tools in one and it is quite quick, the drawback for me was the monthly fee. If you are researching keywords a lot then this is a great tool and worth the money. Personally I look for a bunch of keywords in one go and then concentrate on content so I wasn’t using it to the full, however if you are into bum marketing or article writing this is heartily recommended. Find out about the free trial here

Microniche Finder

This is my favourite keyword tool at the moment. There, I said it, for the price this research tool is incredible. I am an affiliate niche marketer at heart and MNF allows you to get to keywords and search terms so quickly it is worth twice the price in my opinion. This is a one off payment keyword research tool that sits on your computer,I will be putting some posts up about how to get the most out of it but in the meantime check it out here.

Keyword Elite

In my opinion-Don’t bother! Sometimes hype and advertising overcome actual product. Think Windows v Mac, if your’e old enough think VHS v. Betamax. I did use this keyword tool for some time and occasionally it worked very well, but, most of the time it locked up, required captcha codes to be entered every 30 seconds and frequently got me banned by Google. This very expensive tool in my opinion is a waste of time.

Keyword Research & Page Rank

I would like to expand on the previous post regarding keyword research and the methods of determining the quality of a search term or keyword.

As I said Page Rank is a factor in deciding on whether you want to target a particular keyword.  Now perhaps this is not as clear to you as it is to me, but I have been doing this for quite a while and sometimes forget that other people have not got to the same stage .

When you perform any keyword research part of the equation is the competition and how strong is that competition. If you find a search term that has a lot of searches and few results pages, is that a good keyword?

On the face of it, yes, high search/low results= Good! But there is another factor and that is the PR (page rank) of the sites that are listed in the return. Lets research the term ‘fuzzy red widget’ Hey there are 120,000 searches a month, thats a lot of searches, lots of people want fuzzy red widgets!

Lets say there are only 5000 results for the term ‘fuzzy red widget’, this looks promising but if the PR of each page is between 7 and 10 you will have a lot of trouble getting your page anywhere near them. Remember PR is a measure of importance determined by Google and so a high PR is harder to beat than a low one. It may have 120,000 searches but you will never get any of them.

Lets try again, ‘red hairy widgets’ has 50,000 searches each month and there are 50,000 results. This does not look brilliant, fewer searches and more results. But, hang on, the PR of the sites on the first page never gets above 2, this means that you have a very good chance of beating any one of them. This would get you on the first page with a term that is searched for 50,000 times a month. Excellent!

Before you go checking up on me, the figures above are imaginery.

There is a tool that can speed this whole process up and it is free. The best browser around is Firefox, if you haven’t got it go get it now. You can download it for free here. Once you have that head on over here to get the seo Firefox extension. This allows you to view PR, back links, page links and much more. Once again it is free!