Invest Kid

The purpose of this post is to show you all just how big of an impact one website, such as Yahoo Answers, can make towards your idea’s well-being. You see, a great deal of my website traffic comes from yahoo answers. I always post my link after every answer I give or question I ask.

I went to YA and selected the very first question I saw:

The question is very specific, but when you analyze it, you can uncover the niche of “Space Operas” or more general, “Types of Operas”. Now you’ve got 3 days (the time before the question expires) to make a website and post the link for the asker and the entire community to see. You’ve got instant traffic! Next, you search for more open questions about that topic. More free traffic!

You can try this right now on YA! It will only take a few seconds for you to find a good quality niche that you’re familiar with. Tell me and all the readers here at Invest Kid about your experience if you try this. We’d love to here about your success in the form of a comment!

While you’re trying to make money online, I guarantee you’ll run into all 3 of these types of people or sites. I’ve fallen for many tricks in my own experience, but I have definitely learned from the past!

Phishing is when one site imitates another site to get your login information. For example, a site called getfreepaypalmoney.com (this is just a made up example!) might tell you that if you log into PayPal from their site, you’ll receive $50. They are actually just saving your account information and then taking money from you, or stealing. To tell you the truth, I just got over $300 stolen from my PayPal account in the past week!! Not to worry though, because PayPal is very good at handling things like this and they returned my money promptly. If this happens to you, I strongly suggest you close your account or change your password.

I’m sure you all know what lying is, but in this case, I’m talking about false statements. The other day I saw a video on Youtube that said if you signed up for bux.to using the referral code 50clicks, you’d receive 50 cents for each website viewed instead of the normal 1 cent. Now that I think back on it, I feel extremely stupid for falling for that trick! This liar was just getting a bunch of referrals from people like me who didn’t think about what they were doing. Plus, how much sense does that make??

Cheaters are just companies or people who don’t come through! You may build up $100 in your account, but they never pay you… Rolex Mails! I know many of you all are familiar with them.

Try your best to avoid these scams and stay on track. If you ever have questions, ask me at investkid@www.com. Never trust something that’s too good to be true. I learned it the hard way, but you don’t have to.

I know, I know. I’m getting off track here. I have been talking about affiliate programs and marketing for a while, but now I feel the need to discuss something else.

As you may or may not know, I’ve been trying to set up a new blog. (Don’t worry, I’ll still use this one!) But I didn’t know what to write about. But then I thought, “I need to take my own advice and use the strategies I posted. And by doing that, I found my perfect niche.

(* indicates the field chosen for the end product)

Decide who and then go even more in depth:

• Kids, teens, or adults?
• girls, boys, teen girl, teen guys, men, women*

Decide what and go more niche:

• personal or business*
• rants, entertainment or corporate, teaching*

Decide when or what stage (optional):

• starting your business*, managing your business, ending a business, all three
• pregnancy, starting a family*, raising kids, all three
• retired athletes, current athletes, future athletes, all three

Decide where (optional):

• businesses in Atlanta*
• families in Dallas*

Your complete product is now: “How women can start a family and start a business in a big city”. It’s a large topic but small enough so that you do not get off topic and can zero-in on a specific group.

Anyhow, if you are still wondering what topic I chose, here it is: “Teens: the Good Life”

Check it out later; it’ll be at www.fizzlr.com

For affiliate programs, you need a few things to your store known to the world wide web. Here’s a simple list to get you started.

1.) The first thing I would recommend is an idea! You should know what type of product you want to sell and/or promote. This is beyond the obvious, but you’d be surprised at how many people will build an entire website full of graphics about golf, when they realize they want to sell t-shirts. It’ll put more work on you later if you don’t make up your mind now. A resource you can use to aid you in this life-changing decision (haha!) is affiliateguide.com. (I don’t like creating links.)

2.) Next, you will need a website to put all of your affiliate items on. This step includes finding a host, domain name, and building the actual site. A lot of people say that you can’t do all of this for free, but believe me, you can! There are many different things you can go with as far as web builders. If you are more advanced, I would recommend a content management system like a Joomla! site and a ZenCart marketplace. For everyone else, I would suggest something like Iompi. You can just post the pictures of the items you’re selling and put a link in the description. It’s as simple as that. Also, if you want to make your site more favorable to the web community, you might want to think about getting a top level domain name. Currently, Register.com is having a promo for small businesses. You can get a free domain for one year. I’m not sure how long this will last, so hurry!

3.) Now you need to create your identity. Some people choose to make up an entirely different person. But I prefer a less dramatic strategy such as just creating an email address made specifically for your affiliate program. If you have a domain name already, you don’t need this. You can just use admin or joe or whatever@yourdomain.com. But if you don’t you should consider using an easy joe@www.com. They don’t get any simpler than that, folks!

4.) Sales! Record your earnings! Never just count on your affiliate program. Keep track of your number of sales and find ways to get more. Submit your site into rotators and use your link as a forum signature. You’ll be amazed when you see how many people click on forum signature