Earn A Living Online

I've been playing with a few methods lately to make money online without a website. Before heading to bed, I'll give you a brief run down of one of the methods I use. It's actually quite cool how it all works.

None of this should even have to cost you any money either. I used one tool that I paid for to do the keyword research, but of course you can look for a highly searched keyword with low/weak competition the old fashioned way. I forget exactly how myself, I've been spoiled with Market Samurai.

When I say "without a website", I mean, you don't have to have a hosting account and you don't need a blog or anything created, not even a free blog from Wordpress.com or whatever.

Here is a list of the sites/tools that I used:

• CB-Analytics.com - CB-Analytics.com offers an easy way to find "hot" Clickbank products.
• Clickbank Marketplace - Use Clickbank of course to get the hoplink for the product that you want to promote.
• Keyword Tool - Use your favourite keyword tool, like Google AdWords External Keyword Tool to find a keyword or keyphrase to target. Also grab a few synonyms or other high searched terms to use for tags.
• URL Shortening Service - I used bit.ly because I can create shortened URL's on the fly and use them for tracking. You will need an account there, it's free.
• Dapper.Net Dapp Factory - This free service (you will need an account) will be used to create a feed from a static page.
• Yahoo! Pipes - You will need a free Yahoo! account for this service. This will be used to turn your Dapper feed into something that has monetary value for you.
• Free RSS Directories - Submit your RSS feed that you created in Yahoo! Pipes to several free RSS directories slowly over time.

OK, there are lots of technologies mixed in this process. The important one is RSS.

You will be creating the initial RSS feed using Dapper based on a keyword search in the Clickbank Marketplace. Grab the URL in the form of http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm?keywords=keyword from Clickbank. "keyword" is not the keyword you are targeting, it is just a simple search query. Upon visiting that URL in Clickbank, you will be presented with a list of products that match your criteria. The resulting list will have a couple of elements that we are interested in. The product title (and it's hoplink) and the product description. You can extract that info and create an RSS feed of it using Dapper. Now anytime a new product is added to Clickbank matching that criteria, it will be automatically included in your Dapper RSS feed.

The important elements in a typical RSS feed include title, link and description. With this Clickbank data (and the resulting Dapper feed) we have all 3. Granted the description is a little sloppy, but don't be a perfectionist with this, it's not necessary. But the one problem that needs to be addressed is that the link (the Clickbank hoplink) does not include our affiliate ID. We need to include it in there, and cloak it with bit.ly (or a similar service). That's where Yahoo! Pipes comes in.

With Yahoo! Pipes we can manipulate the RSS feed on-the-fly and create a new RSS feed on the other side.. an RSS feed that has our cloaked hoplink in it. We could get fancy and sort the feed by Clickbank product popularity but that's a bit more complicated and not necessary.

With a bit of "regular expression" magic and some looping and editing we can get a search engine friendly feed that can be submitted to the free feed directories. The result will be a page on each directory containing a self-updating list of all the products on Clickbank that match your criteria, with a cloaked link with your Affiliate ID embedded that you can track stats for using bit.ly.

Some of the feed directories will allow you to enter tags. Also, some will grab the title of your feed that you submit and use that in the URL on their site so name your feed in Yahoo! Pipes appropriately (with your keyphrase). Your feed can rank for your targeted keyword in the search engines. Definitely submit your feeds to FeedAge.com and FeedAgg.com because Google is loving them right now. On the directories where you can find your feed page, make note of the URL and do some Social Bookmarking and other link building if you so desire.

Now, working the Yahoo! Pipes magic is a bit tricky so I won't be getting into it in great detail here. When I get more time I will try and put together a PDF and/or a video for the whole process (including Dapper). But here's the short story: Use Regular Expressions to replace the 'zzzzz' in the hoplink to your ID, at the same time you can append a dynamic tracking ID using a text input if you know how. That way you can track which directories are getting you sales. (Bit.ly will show you where the clicks are coming from, not the sales)

Now, loop through the feed and replace your URLs using the bit.ly API and dynamically insert the long URL (hoplink). Store the short URL in an unused element (pubDate) temporarily. For some reason the short URL is lacking http: at the beginning, so prepend it to the sub element item.pubDate.http. Rename it (CopyAs) a link element and you are done! I know this isn't very straight forward but perhaps it can steer you in the right direction until I can find more time to detail the exact steps.

Remember, after doing this once... it is super easy to "clone" your Yahoo! Pipe and duplicate the process. The 1st time took me 2.5 hours. The second time took 15 minutes.

Until next time...

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