Time to get back to one of my favorite topics traffic. How many times have you bought a product that promises that you will earn thousands of dollars if you use their system to build sites only to find that the manual contains not one word about generating traffic. I don't care how great a product is if it doesn't show you have to generate good quality traffic then it's worthless. If I was starting out again I wouldn't spend money on any tools or e-books until I had  mastered the art of traffic generation, and it really is an art of getting trafffic to a site. … [Read more...]

Ever Since Affiliate Project X PPC users have been creating negative campaign titles in an attempt to attract customers. Things such as  Widget Affiliate Formula Scam?  etc.  Now this would be great if just a few of the landing pages went on to say that Yes Widget Affiliate Formula is complete rubbish but most of them don't, they just go on to try to sell the product anyway. Now it seems that things are getting worse. … [Read more...]

Without regular traffic to your site or blog you might as well close it down and take up a new hobby. Because without visitors and traffic your online business is a hobby not a business. Traffic can take many forms and be derived from many sources. Are you making the most of these sources? Below are several methods of attracting visitors how many are you using? … [Read more...]

Below is an exerpt from my latest newsletter   Many people get overwhelmed by the whole process of trying to make money online. They read loads of sales pages and start to believe the hype about needing tool x, y and z to succeed. Making money online need not be difficult and in fact it can be broken down to 2 steps ... yes internet marketing is a 2 step process. I like to call these 2 steps Divert and Convert. Divert Step one Divert is simply the process of getting a person to move from one webpage or email to another. This can be done in a number of ways such as article marketing … [Read more...]

If you aren't doing any article marketing you really should start with out it you are being left behind. The articles that you write perform many functions, they are original content for your sites, they drive traffic to your sites via article directories (on many of my site ezine articles brings me more visitors than MSN) they provide you with all important backlinks. The thing that many people don't like about article marketing is that it is "Hard Work" but when you think about it really isn't hard work , hard work is working 2 jobs to keep food on your table or carrying heavy loads 12 … [Read more...]

I was recently interviewed about Pay Per Lead/ Cost per action by a good friend of mine Paul Forcey (another ex-pat Brit! will the last one out please turn off the lights) The resulting MP3 is available at the site we set up Payperleadexplained.com … [Read more...]

I got thinking today about why so many people fail to make money online. I am convinced that it all comes down to simple economics. If you spend more than you earn then you won't make any money online. Simple Isn't it!. I have seen so many people over the past year who say to me I've bought Product A, and product b and product c now how do i use them to make money. I usually reply by asking them why they bought it and it's invariably because someone recommended it. Now many of these recommendations are genuine, people are using the tools to make money BUT they also have experience and a Plan. … [Read more...]