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Are You Over Complicating Things?
joniki
Published on November 30, 2012
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
Listen...
New people often get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information and things required to get going in this business.
Let's calm down for a second....
It is true that all of these things are important and at some point we want to make sure we have everything in place to give ourselves the best chance to succeed.
Let's take a moment and simplify a couple things.
What niche should I choose?
Here's the approach I take with new people and it is going to help with pretty much every step after choosing a niche.
Forget about what niche markets make a bunch of money...
Your focus as a newbie should be in building sites that rank and get traffic.....PERIOD...
I know you are thinking "Steve, I want / need to make money"...
Guess what? Sites that rank and get traffic make money if you have the right content on the site.
The easiest way to get the right content and choose a niche to get started is to find things you know about, love or have a passion.
There is no easier way to craft content for a site than to write about something that interests you.
I also recommend using the Google Adsense program...
This is because new people tend to try and "sell" when they begin writing content. You should not be trying to sell affiliate products. The merchant is the sales person.
With Adsense ads you are just going to write your little heart out about things you enjoy and let Google place the relevant ads for you. There is no way for you to sell with Adsense ads.
Are you going to make a ton of money with Adsense?
Maybe, maybe not. Conventional thinking is that I can make more money on an affiliate product that earns me a $20 commission than I can on an Adsense ad that pays me 20 cents.
That affiliate product only pays you $20 if the visitor goes to the merchant site and actually buys. Adsense pays you on the click. Each click is money earned, not the hope for money earned.
Using affiliate products over Adsense in the long run will probably make you more money on an annual basis, but when you are new the point is to start doing something.
DO SOMETHING...EVERY DAY...
Stop sitting around analyzing the hell out of stuff and worrying about making the right decisions.
I can promise you that if you do nothing then you will NEVER have a chance of making money. If you do something every day then your chances increase every day.
Forget worrying about making mistakes and failing....
You are going to make mistakes and fail no matter how much you analyze and try to be perfect.
If you are tracking the results of what you are doing then you will begin to understand what works and does not work for you.
Just go do it....
New people often get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information and things required to get going in this business.
- What niche should I choose?
- I have to make sure to select the right keywords (or I am screwed)
- Finding the "perfect" domain name.
- Setting up a website
- Do I have all the right plug-ins
- Make sure I set up Analytics ( you better be tracking my friend, seriously)
- Now I have to figure out to write engaging and unique content for site visitors AND make it so they click on something that gives me a CHANCE of making money?
Let's calm down for a second....
It is true that all of these things are important and at some point we want to make sure we have everything in place to give ourselves the best chance to succeed.
Let's take a moment and simplify a couple things.
What niche should I choose?
Here's the approach I take with new people and it is going to help with pretty much every step after choosing a niche.
Forget about what niche markets make a bunch of money...
Your focus as a newbie should be in building sites that rank and get traffic.....PERIOD...
I know you are thinking "Steve, I want / need to make money"...
Guess what? Sites that rank and get traffic make money if you have the right content on the site.
The easiest way to get the right content and choose a niche to get started is to find things you know about, love or have a passion.
There is no easier way to craft content for a site than to write about something that interests you.
I also recommend using the Google Adsense program...
This is because new people tend to try and "sell" when they begin writing content. You should not be trying to sell affiliate products. The merchant is the sales person.
With Adsense ads you are just going to write your little heart out about things you enjoy and let Google place the relevant ads for you. There is no way for you to sell with Adsense ads.
Are you going to make a ton of money with Adsense?
Maybe, maybe not. Conventional thinking is that I can make more money on an affiliate product that earns me a $20 commission than I can on an Adsense ad that pays me 20 cents.
That affiliate product only pays you $20 if the visitor goes to the merchant site and actually buys. Adsense pays you on the click. Each click is money earned, not the hope for money earned.
Using affiliate products over Adsense in the long run will probably make you more money on an annual basis, but when you are new the point is to start doing something.
DO SOMETHING...EVERY DAY...
Stop sitting around analyzing the hell out of stuff and worrying about making the right decisions.
I can promise you that if you do nothing then you will NEVER have a chance of making money. If you do something every day then your chances increase every day.
Forget worrying about making mistakes and failing....
You are going to make mistakes and fail no matter how much you analyze and try to be perfect.
If you are tracking the results of what you are doing then you will begin to understand what works and does not work for you.
Just go do it....
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