I get a kick out of my friends. They ask me about how I make money with my work from home blog but then they say they couldn’t do that.

Man it’s so annoying as most of my friends are far more educated than I am and most really HATE their jobs. The truth of the matter really comes down to making the time to do something you love so that some day you might just be able to quit your day job like I did.

I don’t know of anyone personally who has more than 24 hours in their day. So it really comes down to making the time to do the things we really want to do. You can be sure they have time to watch TV for 3 hours a day, or more. I can see by my Facebook accounts that they are very active on Facebook as they are always online.

I Say “Make The Time To Make Money”

I don’t tell my friends they need to dedicate time to work from home and make money any more as it just leads to excuses. Instead I tell them what I had to do in order to get my work from home business started. They are much more receptive this way over being told what they should do.

Pick A Work From Home Topic You Love

I didn’t start with a niche I like or love. Instead I started with something I thought I would make money with, even though I wasn’t the slightest bit knowledgeable in the niche. I chose the make money niche expecting to make money from newbies like myself. Well that didn’t work at all.

It took me far to long to admit I was in over my head and needed to step back and learn what I was doing. Today I have a number of sites in a variety of niches, but now they are all niches I love to work.

A few of the websites I’ve started making money with are, home gardening, fishing in New Brunswick, how to play acoustic guitar and New Brunswick travel.

Learn Affiliate Marketing

I didn’t have products or services of my own so I do the next best thing and sell other people’s products which is known as affiliate marketing. Now I can blog about the things I love such as a day of fishing with friends and share what we did and used on our fishing trip. I create links to products and services to make money working from home and it works.

How Much Time To Dedicate

Working smart is the key so set aside a specific amount of time to learn and work your new business. I usually suggest 3-5 hours a week as a good starting point. It’s not going to take up all your time so you’re not as likely to give up due to being over worked.

You Need To Work Uninterrupted

I had the toughest time working without being interrupted so I had to be firm with my family, mostly my son as he talks as much as I do and has to tell you what’s on his mind immediately. Eventually it sank in and my work time became uninterrupted work time.

The Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardener is the guide I used to get the most from the work I do at home now.

When it comes to making money from your work at home blog or website, one of the first questions new online marketers ask is, “What works better, banner ads or text links?” First, recognize that there is no one size fits all answer when it comes to advertising. You’ll get a variety of responses depending on who you ask.

Most entrepreneurs will tell you that adding advertising on a website is a process of trial and error. Because what seems to work for one site may not work well for another and vice versa, so it’s important to carefully track the conversion rates of ads on your site.

Tracking Your Website Ads

Pay attention to which type of ads work best as well as where they’re placed. Some website owners find visitors respond best to ads immediately under the posts, while others see the best response from ads in the sidebar.

Also pay attention to the colouring. With many advertising networks allowing you to customize your ads, try to choose advertisements that complement your colour scheme. Ads that complement your colour scheme foster a sense of confidence in your site visitors because the ads look like they’re part of the site instead of being placed randomly.

Banner Ad Issues

With banner ads, one of the advantages is being able to use pictures or animation in your advertisement. But banner ads also have some disadvantages – including banner blindness. Banner blindness is the result of visitors “expecting” banners and ignoring them. Most consumers will navigate around banners to read the content they want to see.  Some banners will annoy site visitors, especially if they flash on and off rapidly.

Unless you run a shopping website, chances are visitors aren’t interested in ads specifically – they’re seeking information. The way that banners are set up, they might grab attention, but they rarely generate high click through rates.

Using Text Links

By contrast, text links are often viewed as trustworthy and have higher click through rates than banner ads. Text links also load faster and are rarely blocked by web browsers.

Before you place ads on your website, make sure you fully understand the settings for your advertising network. Some networks like Google Adsense allow you to restrict certain categories so they never appear on your website.

If you’re running a family friendly website, your website visitors may not appreciate ads promoting a get rich quick scheme or male enhancement product. Block the ads that aren’t relevant to your website or that might be deemed offensive by visitors to ensure high relevancy and soaring click through rates.

Note: When I use banners I try t use a banner that is product specific. This way I can match the banner to the page content.

Making money working from home is challenging to say the least but with good content and the right affiliate products it’s a whole lot easier. So, if you want to make money with affiliate marketing I would personally recommend Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner.

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I have loved the opportunity that is work from home online marketing for more than 10 years and it’s only getting better and better.

Initially I was having a problem making money online because I thought I needed a product or service of my own in order to make good money.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. Let me tell you…

Having Your Own Product Isn’t Required

I was so happy when learned that having my own product or service wasn’t a requirement for affiliate marketing success. I had a buddy who was doing well with his own product and learned from him it was the best way to go. The thing is I didn’t have the skills this guy has and fumbled around for far too long trying to come up with a product.

I wasted a lot of time and money, only to learn it wasn’t even needed. I just needed to learn what affiliate marketing was and take it from there.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Simply put affiliate marketing is selling other people’s products and services for a cut of the action, usually in the form of a commission. The thing is knowing what affiliate marketing is and making money with it isn’t quite the same. I spun my wheels for some times before finding a quality instructional guide by Rosalind Gardner called Super Affiliate Handbook.

Clickbank And Ebook Reviews

I love the Clickbank Marketplace because they have thousands of digital products I can make money with and I don’t need to own any of them. I have a variety of niches, which include, gardening, fishing, playing guitar, puppy training, travel, and more yet I have always been able to find ebooks I can promote from these niche sites.

Create A Blog In A Niche You Love

What is affiliate marketing? At it’s simplest affiliate marketing is selling other people’s products or services for a commission or payout meaning you don’t have to have your own products and that works for me. It also means you have products to promote and sell that you don’t have to purchase first, so no inventory.

You can be a work from home blogger in Moncton New Brunswick like myself or you could be half way round the world. It doesn’t matter much today as most of us who work at home marketing have easy Internet access 24/7/365.

Affiliate Marketing And Target Traffic

Affiliate marketer can’t just put up affiliate ads and links and expect to make money. It usually takes more planning than that, although the majority of newbies give it try before every learning how to really make money with affiliate marketing.

Why? It’s because they really believe it’s that easy and actually do expect to see money being made in just a few days. The thing is making money required traffic that is targeted towards the niche they are promoting to and that takes work.

Learn Affiliate Marketing Tactics First

I didn’t start making money on a regular basis until I invested my time learning how to make money with affiliate marketing. Before that I would make a sale a month if I was lucky that month, so frustrating I almost gave up entirely.

The thing is I didn’t give up after my first few failures because I knew there was money to be made. It didn’t happen by accident and took purchasing Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook to get me on track. It only took me a couple of days and I was on track and making sales.

Once I learned what I was doing wrong and made corrections it was a whole new world for me. My traffic even changed. I was seeing traffic that was targeted to my niche and not arriving based on other keywords in my content.

Today instead of fumbling around trying to get more and more traffic to pages that weren’t optimized properly for my niche I now get tons of free or organic search engine traffic. Now the time I spend drumming up more traffic is easier and I get far more positive results and convert it into money which I couldn’t seem to do before.

Affiliate Products To Promote

When it comes to affiliate products I can promote the sky is literally the limit. I could be promoting huge airplanes, although I’m more into fly fishing that flying. Today I do affiliate marketing in a number of niches, mostly my hobbies.

I love using Amazon.com as I not only find new niches to try but I also find products to promote in my existing niches. For digital products like the Super Affiliate Handbook I go to the Clickbank marketplace where I have access to many thousands of ebooks I can promote and resell.

I also use LinkShare and CJ or Commission Junction for physical products that match my fishing, home gardening and other niche websites.

I use a few paid tools that have allowed me to start blogs and websites in new niches as well as to find the keywords I can make money with through affiliate marketing. The first program I purchased for this is Keyword Elite 2 which saves me so much time and time is money. The second program I purchased was Micro Niche Finder.

I’ve been a work from home marketer for more than a decade and have to say there are few things I’d rather being doing today. Of course being a paid sport fishing guide would be right up my alley but that’s not likely to be happening, so I’ll just keep enjoying working from home and go fishing any time I’d like.

My friends all thought I was crazy for quitting my day job to start a work from home business as one who makes money online. However, today they all wish they’d listened to me back then as they are still telling me today how much they hate their jobs.

I have friends who love to play guitar as much as I do but they all leave their party time for the weekends when they can sleep in if they feel the need. Me, well I am up for a guitar jam any day or night of the week as I don’t have that 9-5 thing going any more.

Find What You Love And Make Money With It

I’ll admit I didn’t get it right the first time I tried and it took me some time to admit I had taken a wrong path but I didn’t give up like a few of my friends have but they won’t admit they didn’t do anything I share with them. Instead they thought they could buy success and lost thousands.

Note that none of them tried doing a single thing the love to do. For me, I have sites in niches that include all my hobbies and most of my interests. Sadly two of my friends decided to go the porno route as they thought they would start making money over night. Well that didn’t happen and they just gave up.

Online marketing isn’t a get rich quick idea, although you can stand to make a great living, it just takes time getting the ball rolling and the money coming in steadily. Most newbie work at home marketers haven’t got the patience or desire to work hard to earn their income and quit after their first failure.

My advice is to take the time required to find the right niche for you. This way you will not be lost for content after the first few articles you write.

Take Time To Research For The Best Keywords

My first mistake was not doing any research, at all. I knew what I wanted and went for it, Even a little research would have shown me I didn’t stand a chance in the niche I chose. The competition was too fierce and it would take me years to compete with them.

So glad I was too stubborn to give up and quit.

Eventually I came to realize I needed to do some research and that was when I changed everything I was doing and started over. I kept the two domains I had purchased though and today I use them and make money with them, but I did a lot of learning before that happened, as they were make money online sites and I really had no idea how to make money online, as my bank account showed.

Invest Time And Money in Your Research

I found I would get so lost doing research in the niches I was interested in. I would start out fine but before long I was just lost. It was about that time Bob P. told me about Keyword Elite 2 and my research started to make sense.

I had been looking for things that would sell when I should have been looking for keywords I could actually rank for. That’s when things changed dramatically because I started getting traffic for the words I was using. That traffic was targeted traffic who wanted what I was promoted.

It was all making perfect sense now. Instead of finding quality products I needed to find quality keywords I could get the right kind of visitors using. That was the key I had completely missed.

My experience to this point had been going after all the top money makers which didn’t make me any money. I just couldn’t get the traffic, but I was getting enough non-targeted traffic that I honestly believed I was almost there but was just deceiving myself.

I had a work from home business that just didn’t work, although I worked my behind off trying to get it work with learning anything.

Affiliate Marketing And Work at Home Business

Once I had made the change from the top make money niches I couldn’t rank for to hobbies and interest sites I started learning about affiliate marketing and products my readers would be interested in. This is when I went from making pennies with programs like Adsense, to making real product sales.

My home gardening tips website was getting a good amount of traffic but the amount of income was tiny until I found a few quality affiliate programs with products home gardeners would want for themselves. My sport fishing blogs were the same way until I found affiliate programs that fit them and more money started flowing my way.

Once I had invested the time learning how to be a work from home affiliate marketer I started my work from home make money online blogs and now make money in a niche I couldn’t even get target visitors for.

I have a recommendation for learning affiliate marketing from an expert. Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook is the ebook that changed my online experience and is worth your investment.

Years ago I started using WordPress and haven’t looked back. Today I’d say WP is right at the top when it comes to blogging platforms and free and paid themes. I’m not alone either as there are thousands of others just like me using WordPress for their blog.

I tend not to use free blog themes any more as I have started using paid WP themes. The problem I have with free WP blog themes is the fact they have footer links you can’t get rid of that don’t relate at all to my blogs and I’ve spend hours and hours trying to find quality for free and it was easier to pay a small fee to have quality themes.

I have many blogs today and can’t be wasting time trying to find free blog themes that don’t have links hiding in them I can’t remove or trying to find free themes that are truly optimized for search engines.

I wanted my blogs to look more profession and to be optimized for search engines and is the reason I use Elegant WordPress Themes along with a few other paid WordPress themes. I use them because they work and I don’t have to wonder what little secrets are hidden by the authors.

I have never had much luck modifying free blog themes without affecting something I know nothing about. This makes me very nervous about making changes and again is a big part of why I don’t like using free blog themes today. Time is money and I’d rather invest a little money to have quality themes than wasting my time trying to find quality free themes.

My personal advice and recommendation is to take a few minutes and check out ElegantThemes and you’ll quickly see what I was so willing to invest my $39.00.

Unless you have been under a rock you probably have heard the internet has made it possible for many people to earn a full or part time income from home.

At the same token you have also heard how people are blogging their way to large sums of income. The question that may resonate in your mind is how can I make this a reality for me.

In this short article I will show you how to do both by learning how to start a work from home blog. Don’t worry if you are not technically proficient in websites or html code the blogging format makes it easy for just about anyone to create a good looking website from scratch.

Step 1: Determining a Profitable Niche

First and foremost if you are going to work from home you have to generate income. To do this you need to determine what are people looking for to either purchase or to obtain information from. Essentially you are looking for a niche that can earn you income.

This is essential and not as difficult as it sounds you may take a course on how to find profitable niches or begin with one of the popular websites online. The site I am referring to is Amazon. Amazon will provide you a ton of ideas of what people are buying and searching for.

Step 2: Picking a Keyworded Domain Name

Now that you have some ideas of a couple of niche’s you think you could explore from income. Your next step will be picking out a domain name. The domain name you choose will reflect the product or idea you found in determining your niche in step 1. If the dot com for the product or term you wanted is taken try the .info as a back up.

A popular platform to purchase your domain name is Godaddy.com. However there are others who offer cheaper prices than Godaddy and could be found with a simple internet search.

Step 3: Finding a Host For Your Blog

There are a number of host servers out there for your blogger website choosing one should not be an arduous process. One site that is extremely blog friendly is Hostgator.com. HostGator allows you to create a WordPress blog simply and efficiently. It also has a great tracking feature that allows you to see how many people visit your blog monthly.

Step 4: Monetization Your Blog

Making money can begin on the first day of your blog if you learn several ways to monetize your blog. A simple way is to create a Google AdSense account. Google allows several ads to be placed on your site and once a visitor clicks on the ad you earn a small amount of income. If you pick a good niche the amount of money earned could be quite substantial.

So there you have it 4 steps on how to start a work from home blog.

Work at home bloggers like myself are always looking for strategies and winning systems that will help us to work less and make more. I have been making money online since 2001 but trust me nothing was easy about it.

Today I would like to share an article I read this morning that will help you to know more about the Wealthy Affiliate University. But first it’s only right to include a link to his Wealthy Affiliate University Review.

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It a very common thing for work from home marketers new and old to slip up a bit when it comes to article marketing and using proper SEO or search engine optimization.

Following the steps listed below you should be able to stay on track and have your pages indexed so you can receive target traffic you can earn money through. Just a little SEO and you’re on your way.

1. Keyword Stuffing

This reminds of two particular clients. I explained that they needed to use specific keywords and phrases known as keywords so that the major search engines would pick them up and index their pages so they could be found in the search engines.

Well they both sent me back pages of content that we so stuffed with their keywords that they made me laugh. At first I thought both of them were having fun with me but they weren’t. That’s when I explained keyword density.

I also asked them if they would stay on pages that were stuffed like that. That was when they started to understand about keyword density and keyword stuffing.

I told them they could have a keyword density of about 3-5% without any keyword stuffing or spamming.

Next I explained it was best to spread the keywords across their articles and blog posts. Start with your keyword phrase in the first hundred or a hundred and fifty words. Usually the first paragraph or sentence. Then again halfway through and again in the last paragraph. Make it look natural of course, as you would expect to read a post or article.

Really the goal is to keep your readers or visitors happy with your article yet using your keyword enough for the search engines to know your focus, without spamming.

2. Use Headings To Break Up Content

I land on webpages pretty much daily where the content is just one solid block of text. No breaks other than paragraph breaks and that makes it harder to read and find things you’re looking for.

Instead of making it tough on your readers which often leads to them leaving your page early and before getting to the click you so need to succeed, break your article into sections using headings like I have done in this article.

• Use heading
• Use paragraph
• Use numbering
• Use bullet lists
• Use numbered lists

3. Fix Typos And Grammar Errors

Some people use typos as a tactic to get traffic from those who misspell key words when typing search text in search engines. Not a tactic I choose to use on purpose because I don’t like seeing typos on a page.

When I see too many I think they are using it as a tactic which I don’t care for or I think they really have a problem using their spell checker and often just leave the page and site with no intention of returning. I feel people lose more than they gain using a typo tactic.

I understand that we have many many users online today that have English as their second or even third language, which impresses me all to heck but it doesn’t help if they don’t use a grammar checker or someone proof read their documents.

4. Misuse of Article Spinners

I personally use The Best Spinner to help me rewrite articles so I can publish them online without the duplicate content problem. I use TBS but I don’t use it’s auto features. I pick each synonym individually so my articles read like a human wrote them.

I think one of the biggest problems today is the misuse of article spinners and writing for search engines only. Not thinking about your visitors trying to read crap articles may get you the traffic your want but they won’t stay when they can’t make sense of your content.

For me personally article spinners work great, save me an amazing amount of time. I get the more traffic and they stay on my pages. Because of this my pagerank increases and I make my living.

So, for me The Best Spinner has been a great investment.

Note: I use a feature TBS has that allows me to protect my keywords from being spun. This is such a powerful option and makes a huge difference in the type of traffic I receive.

In Conclusion

The four key SEO points listed above can make a huge difference in your bottom-line if you are willing to invest time to do it right for each and every article you create.

Link building today is a vital part of any work from home business that has a web presence. It’s a skill that can be easily learned and should be done on a daily basis. I use backlinking to gain more traffic to my webpages. Here is some of what I do that makes me more money.

1. Visit Relevant Blogs And Comment. I love visiting blogs that are in my niche to see what they are talking about. Then, once I’ve read their latest blog post, I like to leave a comment that will add value to the post, if I can. If I can’t then I usually will ask a question about their post so that I learn more.

Doing this will get the attention of the blog owner and even their readers and subscribers.

I leave a link back to a relevant page on my own blog which gets me more traffic from relevant traffic.

2. Take Time To Get Listed in Web Directories. You should take the time to find directories you can list your blog or websites in as it’s another method of getting backlinks and better ranking for your sites and pages. One way backlinks are the best kind to get but they should be located in the proper categories on these directories.

3. Request Link Exchanges. I don’t really do a lot of reciprocal linking today as I much prefer one way linking as do the major search engines. It’s part of why I have multiple domains on the same topic and have multiple hosting accounts with different IP addresses.

Having multiple sites in the same niche but on different IP addresses allows me to offer three way linking so that they appear to be one way links.

4. Use Article Marketing. To do proper article marketing you really should find pages on your site and use those keywords to write articles you will publish to various places online. You will be able to leave at least one backlink, or it’s not worth your time.

Each article should have similar focus, keyword focus that is, but should not be the same article, as some people do. Write an article that complements the page you are linking to so the search engines will see it as relevant and help your ranking.

I only publish articles to article directories with pagerank. I look for PR4 and up. I also always start with eZineArticles.com as they are the strictest at accepting articles.

Rewrite each and every article so that you are not publishing duplicate content as it won’t help your pagerank. Personally I use The Best Spinner to rewrite articles faster but before I publish spun articles I make sure I have proof read each one to see that they read like a human wrote them.

5. Vary Your Anchor Text. This is important because it makes your backlinking look natural to the search engines. If they see that you have 1000 links pointing back to your site which all say the same thing they will know they are not natural and that can go against you and your site’s page rank.

These 5 points should help you get your own backlink campaign going that will start the process of getting your site ranked higher in the major search engines.