What is WP InstantPay?

Well I think I’ve put it in the title. This is a WordPress plugin that will let you integrate PayPal in your blog. You can thus receive payments for anything you sell on your blog. Now that’s cool since you won’t have to do some technical work and browse all the PayPal documentation to have a button on your site. It’s made easy.

And there’s another very cool feature: it splits payments automatically. So if you want to have your own in house affiliate program, you can do so! The payments are directly splitted between you and your affiliate.

This is something I really appreciate, in the past there were some other scripts used for commissions paid by Paypal. The script would say you get 50% commission, actually you would get 100% every 2 sales. So actually you don’t get paid anything on the first sale, but on the second one. I didn’t want to make some efforts to realize I made 3 sales, and got paid commissions for only 2.

With WP InstantPay now released, I hope merchants will switch to it and thus allow a commission on all sales. If you want to have an affiliate program, you will need a PayPal API, that you will easily get from your account, you need a PayPal Business account first. Not needed for simple payments (no splits).

Now I guess for us little marketers who may want to create their own product, WP InsantPay will allow many to start their own selling blog.

The documentation on WP InstantPay website is very complete and tells you everything you will need to make this a smooth integration. There are much more features: 3rd tier, emails (so you can send your affiliates, or customers), pre-made templates for emails sent after purchases, product lists…

Ideas

I guess you may have PLRs (articles, softwares…) with resell rights on your computer, then you can already start selling those.

And if you’re a freelancer why not sell your services? It can be an easy way to receive orders for articles, design, backlinks or whatever you have to offer.

Create your own reports: have some short eBooks, even at $7-$10 each, few sales each week can be a nice income if you create several of these reports.

Of course, I know you could have done it without it, but I’m all for going the easiest way of doing things. And I’m sure you are too. It’s a worthwile investment, for now it’s $67. That’s a great price considering the potential profits it can help you to create.

Here’s my link:WP InstantPay

I got this recommended by two marketers I really respect and that made a difference in my business, Josh Spaulding and Chris Rempel. I’m talking about Elite Niche Research by Andrew Hansen and John Stanton.

To make more money as an affiliate with niche markets, this course tells you something different from anything that you’ve heard before. Chris Rempel said he found niches that was paying $500 per lead, some $2000 per sale admitting he thought he knew it all about niche research.

I guess I and you too have still something to learn. It’s $77 for the course and $114 if you take the course with 25 first niches, there is an upsell at $37 too.

So please check this while the price is low, it’s going to raise soon.

Check out Elite Niche Research.

I’m not going to update 1 blog per day, but 3. And I think it’s going to be easy. Again that’s a SMART goal in 30 days I will have 3 blogs with each 30 more posts published on them.

2 blogs are already indexed, 1 will be started from scratch. Here’s the plan for each.

1. One of the blog already indexed is in the top 3 results in Google for its 3 main keywords. It’s been there for months and maybe 2 years, competition is still low. I’m going to add related offers, in the same niche. Since it’s Christmas there are tons of great deals, free gifts and promos coming, that’s true for so many physical products sites. I’m just going to add one deal a day, very fast, and many buyer keywords!
2. The other indexed blog is in the fitness niche. I have already reviews written for both physical products and info products. I’m going to add posts with videos from YouTube. Simply adding workout videos and commenting/trascripting them so I don’t just copy and paste the code, I also want to add text so my keywords are also in the post. I’ll link the posts to the reviews or equipment needed for example with my affiliate links.
3. The third blog has no content, and never been developped. I registered the domain loooong ago but never did anything with it. It’s also in the fitness niche, fat loss more precisely. I have compiled keywords I want to write about, or actually… what I and a writer will write too. I’m going to outsource about 15 articles first, and maybe more for article marketing since I’ll have some backlinking job to do.

So really, the content creation is just going to be for that third blog and just one per day. If you think about it, when you’re focused on 3 blog/articles per day, especially when you planned ahead, this can be really easy and fast.

What’s your challenge?

What’s your plan?

Christmas is in 30 days, so even with one blog properly monetized you can make some nice bucks.

Have you chosen a physical product? Go on Amazon, select a toy for kids, a bestselling electronics, kitchen appliances, most wished for, most gifted… Write around buyer keywords and backlink there.

Okay I’m ready to work now,

Stay FOCUS!

Tom

So does adding more content to your blog daily brings you more traffic, well yes, but it is certainly not that much. I’m sure I provided quality content, shared a lot of free stuff, tips and all. Maybe 3 affiliate promotions over a month, how many did you get in your email from your favorite guru?

So here’s proof I reached the 174 published posts mark, actually 181, this one you’re reading being a draft and doesn’t really count:

Well the results are here:

Before starting the challenge, I got 62 unique visits, 87 page views for the 30 previous days.

At the end of this challenge…

I have 94 unique visits and 135 page views. So impressive, a very high peak of 8 visitors on November 9th… Really nothing to be proud about, anyway I never have seen this blog as being my main money maker, just sharing some informations about internet marketing.

I didn’t have any comment, other than spam.

That’s still over 50% more unique visits, 55% more page views. So if these improvement were to be the same on a more visited blog then it would be very interesting.

But even on a low traffic blog like this one, traffic can be monetized, I just don’t have ads flashing everywhere or affiliate links in all posts. It’s not optimized for monetization.

If it was, then even 94 targeted unique visits can lead to some money. Though I can not be SUPER happy with the fact that blogging each day here, someitmes posting more than once a day only got me just 1 more visitor a day, I succeed on my initial challenge.

• Did I add one blog post each day? YES
• Did it bring more traffic? YES

If you haven’t seen my previous post about Chris Rempel’s 72 hours offer (affiliate video reviews), he had a website generating $400 a month from 7 visits a day on average, so again, even with low traffic you can make money providing you have high converting elements on your web pages.

So what’s next?

Well for you I don’t know, I asked at the beginning of the challenge that you should challenge yourself too, for the same goal or something different and then we could share our experience. But anyway, you, one of my 4-8 visitors didn’t tell me anything about that.

But I’ll be happy to hear your thoughts and experience from previous and future challenge you set to yourself.

For me, another challenge is waiting for me, it’s going to be almost the same. Adding one more blog post per day to a blog, except this time it will be optimized for conversions and I’ll see my results. No, sorry, I’m not sharing my niches and the products I’m promoting, there are tons out there and I actually promote any kind of product and services. Just take acion on something you know people buy. Simple right?

I’ll try to update this blog at the same time, maybe less often but at least twice a week to tell you about what I’m doing and my results, I hope this may still get me some more traffic this time, and above all help others. It’s becoming another point I want to develop, giving to others. The more you give, the more you get as they say.

Plus, Christmas is in 33 days, so another 30 day challenge is just right for me. I have some work to do now, since I need to figure if I do this on an existing blog or a brand new one, from scratch, which will require backlinking in addition to content creation.

For next year, I’ll be doing more case studies like these. I find it’s a very good way to keep motivation, especially when you make it a challenge. It becomes a goal, and if you set SMART goals you should be able to achieve them all. If you take action.

Impossible is nothing (adidas), Just do it (Nike). So everyone is happy.

Tom

Now I always loved Chris stuff and you can see the quality of these video reviews at this 72 hours offer on Affiliate Armory. Chris was able to get $400 a month with only one website… and that was with just 7 visitors per day!!!

The link above is not an affiliate link, maybe I missed the affiliate area , but anyway it may interest you. It’s currently $197 for the 10 videos, or less than $20 per video which will individually sell for $69 soon. So if you think there is a lot of value there you will want to have a look to this.

Also, by setting up this sales page, Chris is also sharing 10 niches that are profitable. So even if you don’t buy you will want to check out those and may do your own videos or niche sites around these products. These are all on ClickBank and health related, this should get you thinking

These videos will be very effective as a page on your website, though of course you can upload them to YouTube I don’t think this is the ideal thing to do. I would use them as a featured product review, something that stands out on my site, top of the fold. You just need to copy and paste a bit of code in a post or page and voilà.

Happy conversions!

Well that’s it for now, it was just a quick post. I thought it may interest some of you and that’s a great deal, so why not share it?

Have a great day!

Tom

So if you were hesitating on how to get started, simply take your main and secondary keywords and add the modifiers to make these buyer keywords. Then check the competition but don’t get discouraged if this looks tough. If you market at the right places you can still get traffic there.

Now even with no offers to promote, buyer keywords are generally great for AdSense. Advertisers target buyer keywords, and those get some nice amount per click due to their competitiveness. So people looking to may be inclined to click on ads if these are actually showing what they’re looking for and if you don’t have other links.

So start with your keywords. That’s what I’ve done, I compiled a list of 10 buyer keywords around my main keyword for one of my niche website. These will be outsourced, I’ll submit them to top article directories and create few web 2.0 pages that will link to my money site.

I’ll repeat this for as much websites as I can, and may create new ones too. When time is short outsourcing is really a great help and can push your business beyond your expectations.

• There will be tons of deals, promos, discount and coupon codes for products that I promote or websites these products are featured on. So of course, I will add these coupons regularly, each time they are released by the merchant.
• I have many niche websites for multiple products, so I need to boost them in the SERPs to get decent traffic. I will write articles for all of these, I mean I will do some myself and outsource some more.
• Building more backlinks from a variety of source is also on my list. Social bookmarking new posts, blog comments, Press Releases, web 2.0 properties, doc sharing sites. I’ll also throw some videos out there. This may sound a lot of work but I know I can do it and you can too.

Basically I could sum up my plan to “Drive traffic to websites that get the click“. To get the click from your website to the merchant, your copy must be good, but you can also have some featured offers in prominent position, and state a big benefit (free shipping, discount…)

Amazon is great because they know everything about conversion.

If you are super focus you will be amazed at how much you can accomplish in a day. Challenge yourself for Christmas too and you’ll get motivated. Why not something like “I will create a 10 pages website and write 10 other articles to market it withing 48 hours”. Looks cool right? 20 articles in 2 days. The articles you submit of course should not be submitted all at once. But once they’re written, the hard work is done!

In a week you can have 3 built and marketed, or even 10 websites marketed if you already have some websites that just need some boost. Check what websites performed well in the past for you but that you let die a bit. If they are still ranking well then you might just want to add more content targeting buyer keywords (<- I gave a nice list there).

That’s it.

A nice little challenge that can make you some nice profit if you really focus on it. Go kick some ass (or something of the like), be a money action taker maniac and become a rockstar!

Stay focus!

Tom

Christmas is a “money spending event” that occurs every year. You can’t miss this opportunity. If you have physical products websites it’s time to boost them a bit. You can even start building some websites from scratch and then arket them all way around.

Actually there are so many products you can think of that there are certainly stuff you can promote and make money since there are not too much competition.

But there is something really interesting that you should take into account:

If people go shopping online at Christmas, this is not only just for one product only. So you may promote even low priced items you see on Amazon and it gets you a low commission on this product, but as a buyer you and I know we prefer getting all our product delivered in one shot. So your visitors may end up becoming buyers of 1, 3, 10 products and commissions will really add up then.

This is why it is so important to drive traffic now to your website, no matter if it is for low priced items. Now of course you can just promote high end electronics too. Also since we speak (okay I speak) of Amazon, you know you can check the Bestsellers for each category and sub category, but you can also check the “Most Wished For” and “Most Gifted” tabs for more ideas that people would really want to have for Christmas or will be offering.

You find these two tabs when you check the bestsellers in a category. At the time I’m writing  several products in the Bestsellers, Most Wished For and Most Gifted are the same. So… well, you know what this means for you.

Now select few products and go add some reviews somewhere, build links, outsource content if you can, drive traffic rinse and repeat until Christmas. I’ll share with you my plan tomorrow.

Now go take some kind of action that makes an income.

Stay focus!

Tom

I thought it would be a nice thing to make another buyer keywords list. What I want to say first is that generally, to get buyer keywords, you need to add keyword modifiers. These modifiers are additional words that reveals a behavior. So of course what we want to target is the buying behaviors of people.

If you know what buyers are typing in their search engines queries then these keywords can make you some big bucks. There are more than one phase a buyer can go through before making a purchase.

Let’s see an example, if John searches for…

• Apple Iphone 4 – We know that brand and model names are buyer keywords but at this stage John is still in research mode, he is clearly interested in this model but may want to know more about the features. He could of course just want to buy it, but this keyword would be included in most buying phase searches.
• Apple Iphone 4 vs AnotherPhone – John is comparing phones, which one is more appropriate for him, or which one will give him more satisfaction for the price, which one has more features… He’s researching and comparing. That indicates he really needs a phone and you can build comparison pages/reviews or add a comparison to your review to help him make more sales.
• iphone 4 reviews – John wants to know what others are thinking about it. Users feedback is important, you can find reviews on Amazon as well as video reviews on YouTube.
• Apple Iphone4 price – John may just want to know what is the price, but also where can he get the best price. So other variations like “best price iphone 4″ are also phrases you should consider (think “cheap”, “deals”, “promo”).
• Iphone 4 on sale – Now he’s clearly searching for a discount. Other keywords could be “iphone 4 coupon codes” or “iphone amazon coupon”. These are really hot keywords.
• Buy iphone 4/buy iphone 4 on sale/order iphone 4 online – Self explainatory.

Now what if your content could include these keywords. Some of them or all of them?

Well if you can structure your page by describing features (and BENEFITS!), user feedback (you can add a video), then comparison with another similar product, tell where to get it at the best price (maybe the top 3 best place to get it), and have keywords modifiers like (on sale, cheap, best price), then you can target multiple keywords.

Or you can target one main keyword for one page (like Iphone 4 review) and have other articles to target other keywords and link to your review. One post will compare the product to another and say, check our review. Another one will give a coupon code, another one will demonstrate one super cool feature and link to the review again to check all the other stuff included.

Okay now, it’s time to throw out keywords, buyer keywords that you can use in your content to get the best targeted traffic to your review and sales page. Identify them for each phase they may belong to. And add your own, what keywords do you use to look for a product you want to buy?

• cheap, budget
• best buy
• sale, on sale, for sale
• inexpensive, affordable
• low priced
• price, best price
• cost, low cost
• compare
• new, used
• limited edition
• deals, best deal on
• promo
• vs (versus – product A vs product B)
• brand + model, model number/name
• review(s)
• colors (these target specific model and the color the user would like the product to be, “blue electric scooter”)
• size (great for clothing, shoes : 9 birkenstock medina, Hugo Boss shirt medium (or XS, S, M, L, XL, Plus size…)
• buy, order, purchase
• discount, bargain
• coupon code, code, promotional code
• outlet, clearance, closeout
• shop, store
• pre-order
• in stock
• free shipping, overnight shipping, overnight

Some modifiers can also be questions. Yahoo! Answers is a great place for questions where lots of people are asking where they can buy/get/grab/find certain product on sale. Now you can take advantage of this by answering those, or go a blackhat route by asking and answering questions yourself (there’s a right way to do it, search for it).

You can also submit articles with these keywords:

• Where can I buy Insane Muscle Building Miracle Pill on Sale?

People who are truly desperate for a solution are also proven buyers. They will ask questions, join forums, and search online.

• How to
• How can I
• Where to
• What (and tons of questions after that)

These questions can be about buying, learning, stopping a problem/symptom (preventing from)…

Some desperate buyers will even scream in their topics : “HELP ME solve my problem!” “Help” is clearly a word someone in need of a solution would use. If you can come up with a solution for them that would be cool.

Now these last examples can be used to create your content and target buyers, but also to find niches. Just go to Google and type “where can I buy”, without quotes and see suggestions. You can then add an “a”, “b”, “c” and find many suggestions that you will really be pleased to answer, on forums, answer sites, blog posts and your own articles.

Okay want an example? Here’s something you can try:

“What is the best” in Google will give you suggestions you can market right now, again add a letter and see what comes up. I found “what is the best product for acne”, I think it has some potential . In a next post I’ll give you solutions to make the process of building buyer keywords list super quickly and easily. But in the meantime, just use the knowledge you got here.

Most people don’t take action, so if you can create a little plan around these keywords to build a website and create your marketing content then you will make money. I already gave you one little plan (the review + other articles that link to it).

Tom

So how do you get buyers to visit your website? Well… with Buyer Keywords!

It is often keywords that relate closely to a product or service but not only. Words that tell that people are ready to buy, or almost ready to buy. I came accross a blog post from Matt Carter simply called Buyer Keywords. He’s sharing a list of modifiers that most buyers would use.

Some easy examples are buy, reviews, cheap, etc. But can also be clearly claiming for a solution to a problem.

So when you write your content for affiliate offers, you may want to include those in the body of your copy or even use these as your main keywords. If you can rank for cheap laptops, do you think you can make money?

Check the post, and also the comments, people have shared their thoughts, I even added my humble contribution.