Right after I arrived from my two week vacations I checked all my different money makers. And hey, I noticed that my simple niche site that I created several months ago had made me just another two sales. In just 14 days I earned $53.90, the first time that I made two sales in a single month!

Ok, but why am I telling you that? Well it’s because I finally made a descision on a new project that I’ll start soon. Since I’ve seen that niche marketing really works (even without having much worked for it), I’ll start some new niche sites over the course of the next weeks. Basically I will create 3 niche sites where I promote different Clickbank products, fill them with some content to pre-sell potential buyers and insert my CB affiliate links. So to say a landing page if you will.

Ok, but the hardest part will be to drive traffic to those sites. I will therefore use article marketing (also known as bum marketing, see my post about it), in other words writing and publishing articles on popular article directories that contain a backlink to my landing pages/niche sites. The hard part is to write articles on a daily basis for at least a month’s time. I’ve set me the goal to write 2 articles per niche site and day, so I’ll end up with 180 articles after one month. Those articles will hopefully bring in some nice traffic and sales, I only have to make sure to target the right  (long tail) keywords with enough search volume and less competition on the search engines.

The method I’ll use to make money is proven in the affiliate business, many people are making some nice cash with it. Two days ago I read an ebook from a guy that made $3000 from only 5 niche sites! He has only worked a single month to achieve these results and he’s still making cash from his sites (without writing any new articles).

Now you know what I’m about to achieve within the next weeks. I will therefore don’t have that much time to keep my blog updated as usual since I have to write 6 articles (250 to 500 words) per day. But I’ll do my best to keep you updated on what’s going on and if my new project is making me any money!

See you,
Querblogger

Mr. Querblogger is proud to announce that he’s back in business.

After having two weeks of some nice and enjoyable vacations with my wife, I’m now back to my usual blogging and money making business. It was really worth it to do something different than sitting in front of my computer all day long. Well anyway, now I’m back and I’ll soon start writing some new posts here.

Many exciting things happened the last two weeks. Be it the new referral renting system on NeoBux, a new affiliate sale on my niches site or the fact that Bux.to hasn’t done anything big against their damn payment delays yet (I’ll write a special post on this), there’s a lot of stuff to write about.

Right now I have to check my mails (several hundred, damn…) and bring me up to date on what’s going on in the online money making niche and all the programs I’m involved with. But stay tuned, I’ll soon start over!

Ok, thanks that you all are here again. I hope you’ll enjoy my further writings and experiments in making money online.

See you soon,
Querblogger

The last weeks I thought about making money with the eBay affiliate program. After they started their very own partner network (EPN) some weeks ago and also enabled the international usage of their program, some nice ideas came into my mind. Before that, as their program was managed by Commission Junction, I never had the chance to get accepted into their program and therefore have nearly forgotten about that possible money maker.

With the eBay partner network you earn a small percentage of each winning bid on auctions hosted on your website or blog. And you’ll also earn up to $50 for each ACRU (Active Confirmed Registered User), depending on the quality of the new referred user. With enough traffic, like in most online businesses, you may earn a lot of money from eBay.

Ok, but where to start and how? I thought about that too and I’ve already found my personal best solution. Although eBay offers different tools to develope affiliate sites for free, I’d rather choose a software called PHPBayPro to create my eBay affiliate websites. The software comes in different versions and I’ll personally choose the PHPBayPro Wordpress plugin which costs only $49 and is recommended from different people that successfully use it. Basically the plugin version let’s you create a complete eBay affiliate site right within Wordpress, easy and fast.

But the software alone isn’t all, what’s way more important is to find a niche where you actually can create sales. I already have some ideas and also managed to create a keyword list for it, meaning I’ve found some nice long tail keywords that’ll bring in traffic with less competition from other sites in the same niche. I picked a hot niche will searching on eBay’s Pulse, a page showing what’s currently hot on eBay. After that I’ve done my keyword research with help of only freely available tools like the Adwords keyword tool (which now shows search count in numbers) and Gtrends for example.

All I need to do now is registering the right domain name, writing some content and integrating PHPBayPro into a new Wordpress install. That shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Generating traffic to this site will be far more difficult in my opinion and I doubt I’ll see any early results from that site, although I hope to make some good bucks later on. Let’s see how it will perform, right now I only have my keyword list but I think I’ll start the new site this autumn.

I’m sure that I won’t earn enough to quit my day job from only one eBay site, but there’s nothing holding me back from creating more and more of them once they become profitable for me. Sure, right now everything is just plain theory, but I’ll do my best to accomplish this new goal.

Best Regards,
Querblogger

This post is about the benefits of using Squidoo as a great tool to make money, drive traffic and to show other people that you’re an expert in a certain niche. Because I’ve already written some of those so called lenses by myself, I want to share my thoughts about it.

Squidoo is a web project launched and founded by Seth Godin in October 2005. Basically it offers you to write and publish single webpages, so called lenses, that may deal about different things you like and/or want to promote. You can think about Squidoo like a bloghost, with the exception that your blog will be more like a static webpage that you only update from time to time.

Creating a Squidoo lens is relatively easy. After choosing the right name for your lens (it will be part of your URL, e.g. Squidoo.com/YourLensName) you can immediately start filling it with content. A lens consists of different modules like a text module or a questbook for example. You can add as many different modules as you want, there’s no limit in possibilities. Each module should be filled with content, e.g. in a text module you should write down the text that belongs to your lens’ theme. After adding all necessary modules, text, images and other stuff you like, you have to publish your lens and it will immediately go live and starts receiving traffic.

The best thing about a Squidoo lens is the fact that you’re allowed to place links (including affiliate links) right within your lens’ content. You can add as many as you want and use them to either drive traffic to your websites/blogs or to directly generate affiliate sales for example. Because Squidoo is very popular, frequently visited from many people around the world and new lenses are indexed extremely fast, it’s a perfect marketing tool! When choosing the right keywords to target and with good content, it’s quite possible to make some nice affiliate sales and money.

Squidoo also features a revenue sharing model, meaning that each lens you’ve published may bring you also a share of all the advertising revenues it has generated. Those revenue comes from ads shown next to your lens and also from Amazon widgets if you want to use them in your lens. If you have a popular lens with lots of traffic, then you may see some bucks from that revenue sharing alone. You can also donate your earnings to different charities if you will.

So far I’ve only written and published 4 lenses, but I’m amazed about how well they perform and help me in making some extra money. Especially my lens about NeoBux brings several new referrals each day and it is listed in the top 10 for the same keyword. Squidoo lenses are definitely worth your time if you want to get some extra traffic or money. You can use them to create a small piece of online real estate that you can use to establish your online business, be it lenses about products you promote or useful articles that will show others that you’re an expert in your field. Squidoo is a nice and free way to increase your online exposure to potential buyers, readers, whatever you like. Simply give it a try and start creating your first lens right now, it’s easy!

Bye bye,
Querblogger

In this post I’ll give you a short review about my personal favorite webhost that is called Hostgator. Since I moved my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install several months ago, I used the Hostgator service without facing a single problem. It’s a reliable and relatively cheap webhost that offers many useful features.

I’m personally using the so called “Baby” account where I pay only $7.95 per month. Although it sounds like a somewhat funny name, it offers many advanced features that are everything but being “Baby”. The best one is the option to have unlimited domains. That’s a very important fact because you can host multiple websites/blogs instead of only one while paying only a single monthly fee. Right now I’m only using it for 3 websites, but there’s no limit in the total number you can add. I’m also planning to add even more websites, especially niche sites, to my account.

My hosting account has 600GB of webspace and I’m allowed to have 6,000GB of monthly bandwidth. You’ll never reach those limits when having only some simple websites and/or blogs, and by simple I mean sites that may even have several hundred pages. You only have to keep an eye on the processing time your site’s need to show up on your reader’s browsers. Because you’re on a shared host, meaning several people having their accounts on the same machine, you can’t use much of the server’s CPU power. E.g. running the next Facebook would probably a very bad idea and you’ll be kicked if you use too much of the server’s resources.

Hostgator uses cPanel, a very popular account management software that features all the tools you need to maintain your sites. It’s easy to set up MySQL databases (also unlimited), create email accounts or watch your site’s stats via AwStats. You can even install popular scripts like Wordpress or PhpBB with a single click on your mouse via the Fantastico service. You have full control over your hosting account, a big plus in my opinion.

All in all I can only recommend Hostgator. Especially the “Baby” account is a nice way to set up multiple websites for cheap. I mean, paying only 8 bucks a month is quite affordable, especially while looking at all the features they offer. So far I didn’t have a single problem with Hostgator and I hope to not have any in the future.

Ah, before I forget! You can join Hostgator via my affiliate link if you will, it’s definitely worth it if you try to establish multiple (maybe money making) sites for cheap!

See you,
Querblogger