How To Start A Successful Recipes Website

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:00:36 +0000

How to cook, this topic is becoming more and more in demand over the past few years, especially because of the downfall of the USA economy in 2008. People who used to be hard-core going out every night for dinner are now finding their budgets for meals is under strain and they have to cut back! So, where do people turn that have little or no cooking experience? Well hopefully your brand new website! And because this monstrous influx of traffic to your new recipes website leaves you with a bunch of new advertising opportunities, and by that I mean more money for you! Let me show you how:

Step 1: Register a Domain, Get Website Hosting, and a Script.

First, you will want to register a domain name from your favorite domain registrar (Your Domain Registration Company Here), try to find a domain with the keyword “recipes” or even “cooking” in the name! Next, get some reliable website hosting! I suggest HostMonster.com, they have great service, fast servers, great support teams, and almost 100% reliability uptime! Finally, you will need a good and free recipe script! For this, I recommend using the EasySiteNetwork.com recipe script. It gets a bit complicated to install because it uses MySQL databases, however, I can always install the script for you for only $5. Just email me a request!

Step 2: Promote your Website!

After you have installed your script and customized it just the way you like it, it is now time to promote your website! This can get a bit tricky, however using the right steps and methods, it will be a breeze. First you will want to develop back links, try to trade links with some other established cooking websites; this will drive some traffic as well as get you some good quality back links. Next, you will want to advertise on competing websites, I recommend going on Google and searching for a few competitors websites, find what type of ads they use (for Google Adsense, it will say “ads by Google Adsense” at the bottom), then join the ad program they use and advertise on there! This will drive even more traffic to your website and increase your income further, as well as this will hopefully get you a loyal following so when people need recipes for anything they will go to your website (that’s the goal at least). Now, if you are a bit crazy and have some money to spare, I highly recommend doing a press release through prweb.com. This will drive tons of targeted traffic to your website and will hopefully get you a few sponsorship deals, which I will talk about in step three.

Step 3: Make Money with Ads!

Remember how I said that a recipe website has “a bunch of new advertising opportunities”? Well, let me show you what I mean. After you get some good traffic to your website, it’s time to put some new advertisements on your website! I recommend signing up for Tribal Fusion and ADSDAQ. To increase your cash flow by even more is getting sponsorship deals! Talk to some local companies about advertising on your website! Especially someone who makes for example pots and pans for cooking or even some silverware and ladles or anything! And charge them about $100 per month per banner, if you get two or three banners going that will be $200 to $300 a month! This isn’t a significant income, but you can defiantly increase that by adding another banner or two or increase your prices slowly!

Well that’s it, three steps and you will have a great recipe website for the growing cooking demand! Just experiment! Even selling a cookbook on your website can turn out to be a huge success! Just experiment! Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you stick around to read some more fantastic articles! Please subscribe to my RSS feed at the top right! It will notify you of any new articles to the website so you can keep up-to-date with all the new fantastic websites to make a fortune off of!

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-Galen Schneider

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How To Be A Successful Affiliate

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:00:13 +0000

Bam! Bam! Bam! Three strikes you are OUT! Well in this case, you’re safe, as long as you follow through with my three step program to being a successful affiliate! What is an affiliate? And who would I be an affiliate of? An affiliate is roughly a volunteer promoter of a company, and by volunteer I mean you only get paid by commission, sometimes you will get paid per click (PPC/CPC), and even more rarely you will get paid per thousands of impressions (CPM); the PPC and CPM side of this is more being a publisher, but I won’t get into that now. Most affiliates get paid by CPA or Cost Per Acquisition, also known as CPS, Cost Per Sale, or even CPL Cost Per Lead. Here’s how this whole situation plays out: There are three things you need to know about before I explain how the system works. First there are networks out there (like Commission Junction, CLixGalore, LinkShare, or ClickBooth), advertisers pay these websites to list their need for affiliates to sell their products or services these are called programs, finally, you, the affiliate join these programs in search of advertisers programs to make money off of by promoting their products on your website (or some other means, I will get into later). You join an affiliate network and apply (and get accepted into) a company’s program, the affiliate network will provide you with a tracking code specific to the company’s website and often times a specific product on the company’s website. Simply after that you promote the product or service and each time you refer someone through your tracking code to the website and they purchase something, you get a commission off of it; seldom are commissions more than 10%. As for CPL (Cost Per Lead), it works just the same only CPL offers are usually for loans and mortgage type advertisers, you won’t actually get paid unless the customer is approved for a loan. However, sometimes there are CPL advertisers who want a customer’s information (phone number, email address, ect.) in this case; as long as the advertiser gets this information you will get paid regardless if they purchase the product or service! So here are your steps to success:

Step 1: Domain, Hosting. . . Template?

Just as all my articles’ step 1 starts out: Domain, your favorite registrar (For example: DomainRegistry.com) and find a domain based on the products you want to sell (pick something you are interested in selling). Then, get a great hosting company I recommend, as always, hostmonster.com, in my opinion they are the best of the best! Great service, fast hosting, and almost 100% server uptime! And then find a great website template, yes I said template! You won’t want to use a blogging format, unless you want to promote the service as a “product review” type website, but even then I don’t recommend it. So here’s what I suggest, get WordPress (you just said no blogging, let me explain…) and find an ecommerce template. Does that make sense? No? Let me explain further, WordPress will help you maintain the best SEO techniques with a few simple plugins as well as you will be able to easily promote products using article postings. If you find a template that doesn’t exactly look like a blog you will get better results. Act almost like you are selling the product yourself, and make sure to put text links for their products all over your site as well as a few banner ads. Now on to step two!

Step 2: Find The Right Affiliate Network And Advertiser

I recommend using any of the programs I noted above, especially LinkShare; they will have the best selection of advertisers available. After that, search for your advertiser! A few quick tips, as I said above, make sure you choose a product you are interested in selling, especially a product that you use yourself, this will definitely help you write content promoting the products. Also, I know I really don’t need to say this, but find something high paying, you don’t want anything below 3%, it just doesn’t pay, unless you’re selling cars.

Step 3: Market, Promote, Advertise.

This section is normally where I tell you how to advertise or promote your website using conventional means. Well, here’s the thing, most of the time you will be promoting products that, one, are already being promoted through multiple advertising venues, two, is already being promoted through search engines (like Google Adwords), and three, there is a very good chance that it is against the programs special rules to advertise for certain keywords in certain areas. And there is a very good reason for that policy, so you aren’t competing with the company you are trying to promote! Here’s what I suggest, lots of times companies like this are either too stupid, or too high and mighty to advertise for free or at least very cheap and effectively. What I am talking about is Search Engine Optimization and forum or blog posting. As I said earlier, using WordPress with a few add-ons (All-In-One SEO Pack add-on) will greatly help you out in the website optimizing, all you pretty much have to do is write content for your website, then post it out on a few forums relating to your websites product, and submit to article directories. Now, blogs come in hand because chances are that other people have blogged about the same product, or same kind of products. Find a bunch of these blogs and post comments about the articles they have written, say something like “Great Article! Hope to read more from you!” Then post your link at the bottom, or often times the comment box will have an area for you to put your URL in. This is free promoting! And it’s pretty damn easy too!

Just that easy! It really shouldn’t take you more than an hour to set up your website and choose an affiliate network. After they accept you, you can start writing a few articles, promote them, and start raking in cash! And this is great because you don’t have to worry about shipping products or keeping them in stock or anything like that! Not even customer service! That’s why being an affiliate is a fantastic home run!

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you stick around to read some more fantastic articles! Please subscribe to my RSS feed at the top right! It will notify you of any new articles to the website so you can keep up-to-date with all the new fantastic websites to make a fortune off of!