After my recent post about finding hot micro niche markets with Micro Niche Finder, I’ll today present you an awesome tool that I just recently bought. It’s called Bookmarking Demon and you’ve probably heard about it while reading other money making blogs or forums. It’s well worth to mention because I believe it’s a great piece of software and especially useful when building niche websites which need that extra surge of traffic and backlinks.

Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Propeller or Mister Wong are extremely popular in these days. They usually  rank high  for dozens of keywords out there and search engines like Google love such sites. Social bookmarking sites are therefore an incredible valuable source for strong backlinks to websites and blogs. Submitting an article, story or blog post to a bookmarking site gives you an authority backlink pointing to your own site. Search engines will see those links pointing to your sites and in return give it a higher ranking in the SERPS.

Ok, all good so far, all you have to do is to constantly submit your posts to as many bookmarking services as you can. Well, there’s a catch! It’s the time you’ll need for all those submissions, each and every day…

Bookmarking Demon is the missing link between your submission attempts and getting massive backlinks and traffic to your websites and blogs. It does nearly ALL the hard work involved, which is:

• Creating (multiple) accounts on hundreds of bookmarking services automatically
• Managing websites and pages and submitting them to all the selected bookmarking sites
• Keeping track of what was already submitted to avoid duplicate submissions
• Cloaking your regular submissions with content from RSS feeds like Youtube popular vids and such
• Pinging your social bookmarking site profiles
• Dozens of more features

The BD software is a golden nugget when it comes to making your money making life easier. You’ll save a lot of time and can concentrate on other tasks like setting up more websites for example.

But let me give you a warning before you may consider purchasing this tool! Bookmarking Demon costs $147 and that’s a lot of money for many people just starting to establish an online biz. If your intention is only to submit a site or post every once in a while, Bookmarking Demon is definietly not what you’re searching for. But if you are about to develope a whole portfolio of niche websites (like I do) I can highly recommend Bookmarking Demon. Give this awesome tool a try!

See you soon,
Querblogger

It’s time to feed this blog with some fresh news again. I’m really sorry for the lack of content the last days, but I’m working on several new projects that eat up most of my time. But there’s definitely a reason for me working that hard! The year 2009 should be THE year for my online career. I would like to finally start earning some real money from the web, enough money to eventually make a living from it.

Ok, the last days I did some keyword research for a new niche site. I therefore used the Wordtracker Gtrends tool and also Google’s Keyword tool. Both tools are incredibely helpful and you could research thousands and thousands of keywords day in, day out. But there’s a catch! It takes a lot of time to build up a comprehensive keyword list. Building such a keyword list usually involves getting the monthly search count for a certain keyword, finding long tail keywords, finding competing websites that also target your keywords and many more things. And trust me, keyword research is time-consuming as hell (and also sometimes extremely boring).

So I went on to get some tools that may help me in automating my keyword research. And while browsing the Warriorforum I finally found some recommendations from the fellow Warriors which pointed me to a program called Micro Niche Finder. And before you think “hey, this guy is only trying to sell me some shitty software for some nice affiliate cash”, please be assured that I can really highly recommend this tool and I would also do so if they wouldn’t offer an affiliate program. But since I’m here to make some money…you know.

Ok, what is Micro Niche Finder? Well, it’s a program that does nearly all your keyword research for you, automatically! You put in some main keyword and MNF spits out dozens of long tail keywords, including the following:

• monthly search count
• search trend
• competing pages
• advertising cost
• commercial intent (based on Microsoft tools to value a keyword)
• strenght of competition.

Especially the last value (SOC) brings down your keyword research to a simple number which shows if the choosen keyword is worth any efforts or not. Low numbers show that it’s easy to rank with such a keyword, higher numbers keep you from wasting your time to optimize for such keywords.

MNF also let you dig deeper on a choosen keyword to find even longer tail keywords. On top of that it also helps you in finding appropiate affiliate programs (e.g. on Clickbank or Amazon), getting content and articles or a strong LSI search (it finds keywords that semantically fit to your choosen keyword, good for SEO purposes).

I could talk a lot longer about the benefits of Micro Niche Finder, but I will rather use that time to find some new keywords instead. That’s easy too, MNF also offer a brainstorm tool and shows what’s hot and heavily searched right now. You simply click a button and the keywords are coming in.

Ok, enough text. I won’t regret buying Micro Niche Finder since it helps me a lot in saving time. I now can concentrate on other stuff like getting content for my sites or building backlinks, other stuff that’s important for making money online! If you’d like to get some more infor on MNF, feel free to sign up for their free introducery videos that show the benefits of using that great tool!

Happy keyword searching!
Querblogger

Today I received my first check from Clickbank, a small piece of paper worth $350. The check was sent last wednesday and I’m amazed how fast it was delivered.

The money was made during my last months’ work on different niche sites that I own. I must admit, these sites are not the best money makers that I have, but they still generate some small bucks here and there, regardless if I promote them or not.

Now I only need to receive 2 extra checks before I’m eligible to receive funds via direct bank deposit, which is even faster and doesn’t involve taking the check to my local bank. Clickbank requires one to get at least 3 checks in any 90 days period for verifying measures. Once the third check finally arrives and the money is successfully banked to your local account, you can enter your bank details and Clickbank will pay you on a weekly(!) basis.

All in all, this Clickbank check was a nice christmas surprise and it’s definitely good for buying some gifts from it (my family demands this…). And yes, I could have posted a nice payment proof showing my huge CB check (e.g. like Jeremy Shoemaker did with his check from Google), but I think nowadays it’s way too easy to fake such stuff and it therefore doesn’t really make sense to show you at all. But you can trust me that Clickbank is a paying company!

Now I’m lucky. What else should I say?!

See you,
Querblogger

Today I want to present you a real awesome software that will help you in building an affiliate niche store for all your money making needs. I already talked about some software scripts like BANS or PHPBayPro and all their shiny features and benefits, but this one is definitely better!

The software I want to present you is named StoreStacker and, as the name already implies, it lets you literally stack together an online store, easily and within only some minutes time. And all that without the need of manually gathering product information, choosing the right products to promote on your store, choosing the right affiliate links and even writing the content that should accompany your product listings. StoreStacker is a script that does most of that hard work in a nearly automatic way and it’ll save you a lot of time so you can concentrate on building even more stores or work on your money making projects.

Basically, StoreStacker is an easy-to-install script that you’ve to put on your webspace in order to make it work. After installing it you’ll be presented with an admin interface where you can easily manage all the settings and features that ship with the software. Setting up a shop is easy, even for a complete newbie.

StoreStacker lets you choose out of a vast number of 10,000,000 products from several major affiliate networks. All you have to do in order to bring the right products on your store’s pages, is choosing the right category that fits with your choosen niche. After setting up the look and feel of your site (StoreStacker also comes with 12 high quality templates) and choosing different options on how your brand new affiliate niche store should behave (e.g. cache settings, extra content), the software will create your affiliate store with dozens of product listings within seconds! The script will also automatically keep an eye on your site’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization), an amazing and well thought-out feature never seen before in comparable products on the market. The right SEO behind an online shop is pure gold since it drives more targetted traffic to your site. And you know, more traffic means more sales means more money to earn!

The StoreStacker software natively ships with support for automatically pulling dozens of products and information from eBay, Amazon and even Youtube so that you can integrate targetted videos with your affiliate product listings as well. If you want to add even more power, you can also ramp up the software with plugins that support Clickbank, RegNow, Overstock, Hotelclub, RSS (for enriching your store with external content) and soon even Commission Junction as another major affiliate network. An amazing portfolio and a lot of potential money to make too.

StoreStacker can be used to build a website completely from scratch or be added to any existing website to take advantage of existing traffic. Once purchased, you can use it on unlimited domains to build unlimited stores. And since a store can be build within minutes, you can only imagine the possibilities. The automatic Search Engine Optimization (e.g. setting the right meta keywords, showing related products, automatic asitemap creation), the integration of Youtube videos and content via RSS makes for an incredible software capable of attracting many visitors.

The StoreStacker Affiliate Niche Store Builder combined with some good niche research and promotional efforts, can really make a difference in your wallet. Once an affiliate store is up and running, it’s only a matter of time until the money flows in. And the best thing, you don’t have to spend a lot of time on maintaninig your stores, the script automatically takes care for you and updates your pages with fresh content and product listing! It can’t get any easier!

To get some more insight into this powerful affiliate store builder, I’d highly suggest you to visit their extensive tutorial page, where you’ll also find some nice videos explaining the software and how to set up a niche store. Or you can download StoreStacker right here, it’s affordable and worth its price! Definitely check it out, it’s worth it!

The best regards,
Querblogger

Long time ago since I’ve last written a post here on TMME. I must excuse for being late with my writings, but I’m still quite busy at the moment with my new projects. Anyway, let me give you a short update on my current progress.

You may now that I’m currently working on 3 new niche websites where I promote several products from the Clickbank affiliate network. Each product will bring me around $30 to $40 in commissions if someone is buying through one of my sites. I’ve personally proved that such websites are really working, my first niche site I created several months ago still brings me around $30 to $60 per months, without further working on it.

Right now I’m done with creating the niche sites and I’m in the progress of driving traffic to these sites. I’m using article marketing for the main portion of traffic. I’ve already written several articles and submitted them to Ezinearticles. I must say, it really works! Although I haven’t made any sales with these sites right now, I’m already receiving traffic, around 30 to 40 unique visitors per day for all 3 of my sites (yes I know, it isn’t really that much…). The best thing is, that I already got some clicks on my Clickbank affiliate links too!

I must definitely write many more articles in order to create sales from my sites. The more traffic I can drive to my niche sites via my articles, the more possible sales I’ll hopefully have! Maybe I will also hire a copywriter who will write those articles for me. I’ve seen people on the Warriorforum who are writing quality articles for $5 per 300 words. And since I’m making quite good money from NeoBux, I’m sure I can afford some bucks to help me getting my job done.

Ok, enough for now. I’ll keep you updated!

Bye,
Querblogger

I just want to give you some short updates on what’s going on in the money making world and with my current progress.

First, NeoBux has introduced a slightly different referral renting system and has also increased prices. You can read about it in the News section of my NeoBux lens or here at the NeoBux forum. Think about what you want, I personally don’t see too much benefits of the new system right now. But let’s see how it will work out and if it really increases the overall referral click rate (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, have a look at the NeoBux forum please).

Second, I made just another Clickbank sale from my first niche site. Another $30 in my account that slowly fills up, but could be filled more faster if you ask me

Third, my 3 new niche sites are finally ready and I’m currently about writing several articles to publish on Ezinearticles. Those articles should (and already do) bring me some traffic to these sites and hopefully some sales. Right now I’m already receiving some search engine traffic too and my Clickbank links got clicked too. But no sales so far… I’ll keep you updated!

Ok, back to some more work…!

Bye,
Querblogger

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

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

The last days I thought about what would be better and easier to market, a niche product with small competition and less traffic or a popular item with lots of competitors and a whole bunch of traffic?

Well I haven’t got the excact answer for that yet, but so far I’ve already found some advantages and also disadvantages from both affiliate marketing methods. First, and before I’ve read some very interesting threads on the Warriorforum and other sites, I thought that going niche would be the ideal way for promoting products as an affiliate and making some good money from it. Indeed, niche marketing really works. I’ve already made some sales from my personal Clickbank niche test site that I created some months ago. But is it the “holy grail” of affiliate marketing?

A good question if you ask me. Although niche marketing has many benefits like having fewer competitors and an easy search engine domination with your choosen keywords, there are still some major disadvantages. The worst of all is traffic, simply as that. A niche market is, you may quess it, tailormade to a small group of people that are interested in a particular topic. Therefore potential traffic to a niche site is usually small too. Less traffic means few sales means less money. But doesn’t one want to make more money from affiliate marketing? What about choosing a more competitive “niche” with more traffic, more sales, more money to make?

You know what I want to say? No? Ok, let me explain. What would be better, to get a big piece of a small cake or to get a small piece of a (really) big cake? I would rather choose the smaller piece, not because I’m not that hungry…

Establishing you affiliate business, the small piece of cake, in a highly competitive market, the really huge cake itself, has some benfits too. Although you have a lot of competitors you also have the chance to grasp a certain percentage of the high traffic that swirls around a popular product. You don’t necessarily have to get to the first search engine results for your particular keyword in order to get some of that traffic. Even if your affiliate site is ranked at the 5th or even 10th position, it will probably bring you enough traffic, depending on how hot the product/service is that you’r about to promote. Maybe even more traffci than from a tiny niche site.

So what’s the difference between creating a niche site that you have to get ranked on the topmost search results in order to get some traffic and creating a site in a competitive market with a ranking far behind the first sites but with a lot of traffic? I personally think, and that’s also the reason of this post and my thoughts, it’s the work involved in creating an affiliate site and driving traffic to it. What would be easier, to maintain a number one position in the SERPs or say position number 50? Sure, the second position.

To sum up my thoughts, I think going for a popular product or service should be easier to make money with than creating a niche site. First, a popular item means traffic, a lot of traffic. Second, you wouldn’t have to maintain a #1 position in the search results, hence less SEO work. Third, you have a lot of competitors that have choosen many longtail keywords that you can “spy out” (hehe, evil evil) and choose for your own site (which should be a bit better optimized than your competitor’s one).

Now my question, what do YOU think about it? Is niche marketing the fantastic affiliate marketing money maker or is it going after a popular product and so to say being a “parasite” that subsists from the huge traffic such a product has created?

As I already said at the beginning, I don’t have a correct answer yet, althoug I’ve read some other people’s thought about going broad is far better than niche marketing. Just want to know what you think about it.

So long,
Querblogger