While I was doing my yearly planning for 2010, I listed the five marketing strategies that I intend to carry out. Number one on that list?Article marketing. I compose and submit an article at the very least once a week.

In case you’re not knowledgeable about article marketing yet, it involves composing enlightening and useful articles and distributing them to article directories - giving consent to anybody to republish your article so long as your author resource box is left intact.

Here’s a few results I’ve personally experienced from article marketing:

Free Traffic To My Site…

High authority article directories, like Ezine Articles, enjoy an awful lot of traffic (we’re talking oodles of eyeballs every month). A lot of those who read my articles regularly click on the links in my author bio box and end up going to my site. This is no cost traffic that I otherwise may not have been able to draw in to my site!

In reality, users from article directories make up a significant slice of my website visitors. So much so that, once, my website fell from its Google’s rankings and I barely noticed it. I kept getting a good deal of site visits, mostly coming from the articles I have written and published in article directories - some of them several years old.

Improved Rankings in Google and other search engines…

Search engine optimization (SEO) specialists exclaim that on the list of most valuable methods to get high Google rankings for your targeted keywords is to get one way backlinks to your site. The secret is the anchor text of these links should be the keywords you would like to rank very high for.

This strategy performs so well that an Internet marketing guru once succeeded in getting his web site rank number one in Google with the keywords “coolest guy on earth” or something like that! - just by having all his buddies link to his website with that anchor text. That is how formidable linking is.

These are the same links you receive through the typically high-authority article directories all linking back to your site through the author resource box.

Affiliate Sales…

Some article directories allow you to link, not just to your website, but to an affiliate product’s sales page together with your affiliate links. This means that your article gets blasted all over the Internet, thus increasing the probabilities of someone clicking on your affiliate links and purchasing the product. The result? Many more affiliate commissions for you.

This concept would be the essence for the so-called “bum marketing” or lazy marketing, which doesn’t even call for you to possess a website. All you need to do is craft and present beneficial articles to article directories and you make money from your articles for so long as they’re on the internet. We’re talking years here.

An added advantage of article marketing is that you turn into a published author and, as a result, an authority on the subject matter. In fact, a friend of mine got interviewed on nationwide TV because the reporter read one of her articles on the world wide web. That’s media publicity that might have cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars! Unfortunately, I have not had that kind of media opportunity - yet!

Guest post by Malick Yann

A dating website is a website which help people to find the kind of relationship they are looking for. Every month, hundred of couples are created through these websites. But the question is:

How can you help people around you or your friends to find love and also make money at the same time?

Today, many dating website provide an affiliate program. The system is very simple and affordable for anyone want to start a small business online.

Contrary to other affiliate programs where you do have to sell their products through your affiliate links before making money, dating websites have an interesting policy of affiliate marketing. Here are their programs:

- Pay Per Lead Program

The fastest way to make money with them is the Pay Per Lead Program. It means that you earn money when someone sign up for free to their website through your affiliate links or banners. Some dating websites pay you an amount of $11 per each confirmed registration you generate.

- Pay Per Sale Program

Generally, if the free member you have generated decide to order a subscription plan in order to get more visibility, details about who view his/her profile and be able to contact them by email or phone, it will earn you money. This is called Pay Per Sale Program.

- Percentage Program

This is the best of both worlds, combining per-lead and per-sale payouts. You can get up to 90% from each every sale and also a bonus if you generate 30 and more subscriptions within a calendar month for certain dating websites.

- Referral Program

You can also refer other affiliates or webmasters and earn between 5% to 10% of their payouts.

Finally, you don't need to sign up to each program separately. Some dating websites include all their programs in your affiliate account when you sign up to one.

Here are some good dating affiliate programs:

Match.com - Chimistry.com - Friendfinder.com - EasyDate.com - Megafriends.com

Author Bio:
Sincerely, I want you to succeed online. If you don't start now, it is almost certain you won't make money later. Kind Regards.

Malick Yann - Blog: http://i-moneymaker.blogspot.com , Twitter: https://twitter.com/malickyann

Guest Post by Malick Yann

What is an affiliate program ?

Many companies which sell products online provide an affiliate program. This is a simply way to advertise their products while saving money. When you register, the company give you links and banners which allow you to promote their products or services and then earn sales commissions when somebody buy their products or services through your affiliate links. It is a former system but it still work very well. It is also a good way to make more money online.

However, why should you choose affiliate programs ?

1- The cost !

In general, joining an affiliate program is completely free. So, why spend a lot of money when you can start your business online for free. In addition to join for free, it's good to understand that you avoid all possible expenses you normally need to start a profitable business online.
With affiliation:
- No expenses to manufacture products you want to sell.
- No expenses to build a sale's website.
- No expenses for the hosting of your sale's website.
- No personal expenses.
The seller provide you what you need.

2- The ease-to-use !

Affiliate programs are easy to use. You avoid all problems due to the management of a classic business: inventory control, budgetary control, purchase order control, risk management, data management... Being an affiliate allows you to avoid all these kind of worries.

3- The time !

You don't need to spend a crazy time to earn an regularly income. It is very easy to build automatic systems which can generate incomes every month without having to work every day.

4- The payment system!

When someone click on your affiliate link and buy a product you will automatically get your sales commissions. You just have to log on to your affiliate account and check your selling and earning statistics.

Author Bio:
Malick Yann is a lazy internet business and marketing teacher who help people to succeed online.
Blog: http://i-moneymaker.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/malickyann

Guest Post by Meka

Everyone is looking for a quick way to make some cash. Whether it is $5, $25, or even $100, people like quick cash, especially when it is free. There is a way you can make some quick cash online pretty easy.

What You Need?

- A Paypal Account (Free and easy to sign up)
- Skill

That's basically all you need to make some quick cash online. I bet you are wondering what you have to do. The first thing you need to do is join Forums.Digitalpoint.com. It is free to sign up. Digital Point Forum is one of the largest Internet Marketing communities online.

There are a lot of members there who are interested in making money online. They come there to share their knowledge amongst the experts in the money making realm. There is also a section in the forum that will take you to the next step.

It's called the Buy/Sell/Trade section of the forum. Hundreds of members use this section of the forum to offer, exchange, and get services and products. For example, some people need articles written and will pay someone to do the task for them. Some may need a logo made and will pay someone if they can do it.

This is where the skill comes in for you to make the money. If you can write some quality articles, you can make some quick cash. If you are good with design, there are people looking to hire designers. There are also people looking for people to post on their forums and will pay for each post.

If you have some sort of skill, especially skills related to Internet marketing, you can make some quick paypal cash at digital point forums in the Buy/Sell/Trade area of the forum. Join and have a look around, introduce yourself and look over what types of things that people are looking to buy whether it be a service or content. There is surely something that you can do that you can get paid for.

Author Bio:
My name is Meka and I run the website Ways to Earn Online. I spend most of my time researching the best ways to earn money online including affiliate marketing, get paid to sites, surveys and more. I show people what works and how to apply what I have researched to make a good income from home.

Guest post by Michael-John Wolfe from Residuals and Royalties blog

If you are like me, you’re very hesitant to try different money making schemes on the internet because many times they wind up being scams. I have personally tried tons of ways to make money online and I can tell you that only a select few actually wound up making me a real profit.

I recently stumbled on a website called Cash Crate and I have to say the results have been stellar. By simply signing up for trial offers – I have made between $200 and $400 a month. Some of these earnings are from referring other people to Cash Crate but about 60% is directly from filling out trial offers.

Don’t get me wrong – there is a down side to Cash Crate. Your email box will be flooded with spam email from all of these trial offers. But you can just do what I did, which is to create a specific email address that I use only for Cash Crate. This way, I don’t care about the hundreds of spam emails that I receive.

If you don’t have the time to fill out trial offers you can use a program called Robo-form, which you can download free online. Robo-form will fill out all the required fields on each trial offer with one click! Imagine how much faster you will be making money.

The other thing that you can do is to build a website or blog that is specifically dedicated to Cash Crate. You can refer others to Cash Crate and get a percentage of their earnings. Of course, if you decide to do this you will need to be high in the search engine rankings for the term “Cash Crate” and other similar searches.

Don’t get me wrong, you won’t get rich off Cash Crate – but you can make a few hundred bucks a month. In this economy, any supplemental income we can get can be a great help. I have personally made a blog that is dedicated to finding legitimate ways to make money online and over the last two years I have found about sixty different sources.

Author Bio:
You can visit Cash Crate’s website by clicking here: Cash Crate

Guest post by Tynnisha Hamilton

As we all know, eBay is an excellent way to make some extra money online by getting rid of the stuff that we don’t use or need anymore. But, did you know that there are people making millions every year from eBay? It’s true—and while I’m not guaranteeing that you can make millions if you start selling on eBay, I still am saying that it is possible.

When starting off on eBay, it would be smart to start off with selling things around the house just so you can get a feel for how eBay works. When you have a firm hand on how it is possible to make a pretty decent amount on money, then you may want to move on to other techniques.

Some users prefer to use dropshipping, but it has never been a favorite of mine. Dropshipping is a supply management technique that makes it so you do not have to keep items in stock. The dropshipper provides you with the information for a product, you sell it, and they ship it to the person that ordered it from you. This has never been a favorite of mine because I do not want to risk my eBay reputation on a dropshipper. Also, if that product sells for less than I purchase it from the dropshipper, then I just lost money.

Making money on eBay is so much easier for me when I buy products from a wholesaler like Liquidation.com or simply buy products from eBay and resell them. For example, I recently bought five Blackberry smart phones from a seller on Ebay. They sold for around $300, because they had no battery and no back to the phone. So, I bought the phones and I separately bought the batteries and backs for the phone so I spent no more than $400. Then, I sold four of the phones for $180 each and the other phone I kept (I needed a new phone!). So, that means I made $720 (about a $320 profit) and was able to keep one of the phones for myself. Now that’s good business.

If you can find a good way that works for you on eBay, then go for it! The harder you work at it the more money you make.

Author Bio:
CashChaser.com was started by Tynnisha Hamilton. The website and the Cash Chaser Blog(http://www.cashchaserblog.blogspot.com) is for those who want to make extra money online.

Internet marketing is a good way make a living online. Through Internet marketing, you can promote affiliate products, sell freelance service or market your website; and in return you can make even more money than you make from your job. But Internet marketing has more competition so you need to be more creative and hardworking.

There are various tools for Internet marketing. These are the tools that can help you market your products successfully. Below are some of the Internet marketing tools available today:

Blog
Blog is one of the powerful Internet marketing tools that most of the online marketers are suggesting these days. Blogging will not cost you anything and it can potentially generate targeted traffic to your page for long term. Starting a blog is free using the blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress. Then you can introduce yourself, let other know what you are doing and start posting useful and interesting content that your targeted prospects are interest on. Keep updating your blog with good content to build traffic and creditability.

Once you have blogging for some time, your readers and visitors would have known you and you may then write blog posts about your products or write reviews on the affiliate products that you want to promote to your blog visitors.

Article
Articles are another great way to get exposure for anything that you want to market online. The process of using articles to market your online business isn't complicated. You start by writing informative articles or 'how to' articles that are relevant to your product or business, include your website link in author bio of each of your articles and submit them to online publishing websites.

Your articles mustn't be written like sale pitches because the online publishing websites and article directories will not accept them. Make your articles easy to read, straight to the point and give some value to the readers. This will make the readers interested to click on your website link to find out more good information from you or know about your offer once they have finished reading your article.

Forum
Whatever product or service you are trying to sell online, there will be forums that are discussing topics related to what you are offering. The forums might not talk about products but what they are discussing and posting have a relation to what you are selling. For instance, say you are promoting online games and they are forums that discuss about how to play online games, the strategies they can use and so on. These forums certainly related to your products. The members of the forums are your potential customers. The question is how to direct these potential customers your site to buy your game products?

Participation is the answer. Joining and participating discussion in the related forums will enable you to establish an image in the forum communities. The key to building a good image in the communities is to contribute useful and valuable information that the members are looking for. Always be helpful in the forums and sharing good tips will gradually build up your name.

Add your website links in the signature line. Since you are providing valuable information frequently in the communities, the members who read you messages will see your link in your signature and probably follow your link to check out what you are offering or to get more useful information from you. So another free targeted traffic source to your business website.

Guest post by Andy Walton

Ever written a review of your hotel for Tripadvisor? Or perhaps your thoughts on your new TV for epinions? Maybe you spend hours on twitter and facebook... basically, do you find yourself writing content but not getting paid for doing so?

Well, now your inner writer can find an outlet. Wikinut is new site that accepts writing on a massive range of topics, and pays you a share of any advertising your pages directly generate. You can sign up for free, and write guides, reviews, tips, recipes... pretty much anything you like.

We'll then publish your work to a worldwide audience and put targeted adverts onto your pages. Anybody that reads your content will then be tracked by our system, and you'll receive a share of the advertising revenue. You'll also be able to check how often your pages are read using our simple but in-depth stats, receive reader feedback and comments and earn Nutpoints as a member of our ever-growing Wikinut community.

We pay out to anybody with a PayPal account, which are free and easy to setup. Plus it means you don't need to give us any private or secure information, all we need is your PayPal email address. We take care of any transaction costs, so you'll receive your full share of royalties.

And as well as earning money by writing, yuo can invite other people to join Wikinut. You'll receive a share for life of any advert revenue your referred friends generate - so you can even make money without writing a word!

Once you become an experienced author, we may invite you to become a moderator. This means you'll get to review other the pages of other users before they are published. For every page you moderate, yes you guessed it, you'll receive a share of the advert revenue.

That's 3 different ways to earn... so stop making other people rich, and get a share of the online goldrush yourself. Get Wikinutting today!

Author Bio:
Andy Walton, co-founder of Wikinut, invites you to join our growing community on www.wikinut.com where you can write content about any topic, and earn advertising royalties.

Guest Post by Stephen Ng

Are you like me? Always believe that to do well online; you need to have great content? Well not anymore! Every other day, I try to write the best article for my readers like yourself and most of the time it will take me more than a day to write one good article.

In the process to write a good article, very often I have to research on the topic on what I am going to write. There are so many blogs out there and when I am unlucky, I won’t be able to gather any valid points to include in my article. Does this sound all too familiar to you as well?

Don’t get me wrong! I am not asking you to write junks to entertain your readers. If your reader wants to be entertained in this manner, they would have gone to YouTube and search for some comedy videos. Your visitor on your blog is hoping to bring home a lesson that they can be proud to share with their friends and that is what I hope to achieve in this post.

There are simply too many information that can be found on the Internet. If you have read a great article earlier on another blog does not mean that you won’t be able to read another article that is even better? You are not able to read the best article between these 2 blogs because the first blog is better with marketing and that is why you found him!

Having good content is important. Equally important is your marketing. It is similar to having great ideas without taking any action to bring it to fruition. I am not here to teach you how to write your article. Instead I am here to suggest that marketing is more important that good content. What is the use of writing a good article and when it is done, you forgot to publish it? Will your visitors get to read it? Therefore what I am trying to share with you is that Marketing is King and Content is Queen!

Author Bio:
Internet Marketer, Stephen Ng has more to share on Make Money Easy Online at his blog.

Guest Post by Michael-John Wolfe

I have to admit, I started my blog - Residuals and Royalties with a passion and conviction to become one of the top bloggers in the "make money online" niche. I had a great Wordpress design and I was posting every day. Like the hare in the old children story - I started out fast! I was excited to see my blog gaining traffic and for months I kept posting at an amazing pace. Then when I noticed that I was not making the money I had hoped, in fact I was not making much money at all - I did what most bloggers do. I quit. I stopped posting almost altogether. I may have added a post here and there - but that initial drive was gone. This is the reason why I am not a top blogger and if I plan on becoming one - I better start acting more like the turtle.

Being like a turtle requires a slow steady pace of building inbound links to my blog and posting at least 3 times a week. Consistency is the key to success. I just wish someone would have told me that a year ago. The fact is - if you want to be like Shoemoney, Darren Rowse or John Chow - you have to be consistent.

I haven't given up my plan of becoming a top blogger and I believe my website has all the makings of a top blog. But as of now, I am going to start living life like the turtle. My goal is to slowly move to the top few pages of Google for the search term - make money online. This term gets 600,000 to 1,000,000 searches per month. I plan on monetizing my blog so that advertisers will want to purchase space. I plan on building a following via twitter, RSS and Aweber. These are the secrets to becoming a top blogger. So if you'd like to watch me grow, check out my blog at the link below.

I have spent the last year finding legitimate ways to make money online and I am sure you will find a few gems there for yourself. I currently make about $900 a month online, which is no where near my goal. But hey, it's a start.

Author Bio:
Check out Michael-John Wolfe's Residuals and Royalties blog at: make money online