Author: Timmo789

One of my main blogging strategies has been to find low competition long tail keywords. With a low competition keyword, you’ve much more chance of ranking your phrase on Google, and getting free traffic. Finding high traffic, low competition keywords is of course preferable. But it’s much more difficult. It’s also worth considering the intent behind the keywords you target too. Unless you have a good phrase, your chances of turning the traffic into sales is far less.

For example, there’s many low competition long tail keywords with the keyword “free” in them! Unfortunately this kind of search tends not to result in sales. So even if you rank your phrase well on Google, you’ve only build traffic from tyre kickers who don’t want to pay for anything! Of course you could potentially turn a search like this into a sale, but you’ll spend time and effort potentially attracting the wrong kind of visitor to your site.

Find Low Competition Long Tail Keywords – Keyword Research.

To find low competition long tail keywords, you can use search tools. The free one is Google’s keyword planner. You can also use tools available on SEM Rush, and other such platforms.

But Google’s free keyword tool is a good place to start. See my article on keyword research for niche sites. To find your long tail keywords, type in a main “seed” keyword of two words or more. Then click on your monthly search volume tab and scroll through the results.

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You can of course go for the keywords with a tonne of traffic. However, you’ll likely not rank your content due to the high volume of competition on Google. So going for the long tail keywords is a better options for bloggers who want to rank on the first page for the lesser searched for key terms.

With a low search volume of 10 searches a month, it’s going to be tough getting much traffic. Even if you rank highly on page 1 of Google, you’ll only get a trickle. But the key is to create many articles like this and build up your “trickles” of traffic. Free traffic is still free traffic and 1 hit a week on a long tail keyword is better than zero on a listing which is on page 10 of Google!

Find Low Competition Long Tail Keywords – Examples

One of my favourite examples of low competition long tail keywords are pdf’s and guides. Unfortunately pdf’s do attract an audience which doesn’t want to buy anything! But pdf’s can turn into leads and sales. Here’s an example of a piece of content I created several years ago which made a sale just today!

Check out the article affiliate marketing step by step guide pdf. Pdf’s are easy to create once you know how and you can create ebook covers easily using Fiverr.com (or create them yourself).

You can find keywords like this using Google’s keyword planner. Type in your main “seed” keyword and use the filter option to add keywords you want to include. Then use “guide”, “download”, “pdf”, “step by step”, “beginners” and “newbies”, “dummies” etc. to find low competition long tail keywords.

Obscure Words

You can also find low competition keywords by using obscure keywords in your filter. Think of as many obscure words which you can use in your keyword search. This site, for example, was built on the obscure search term “autopilot”. In the affiliate marketing niche, which is very competitive, long tail keywords which are low on competition are hard to find.

So depending on which niche you’re in, look for keywords which are seldom used. You’ll often find them popping up in the search tool if you type them into the keyword filter and use them in the main search.

For a competitive keyword, you are unlikely to rank your content using the main keyword. Instead, look for your main keyword appearing at the end of the phrase, rather than the beginning.

Use the 80:20 Rule

Pareto’s principle states that 80% of your results come from 20% of your actions. With an affiliate marketing website, much of the work you do will come to nothing! Especially if you’re a blogger. But some of it will have an impact. I’ve written thousands of articles on many topics. Most of my sites fell away over time.

Many of the articles I’ve written don’t generate any traffic at all. But some of them do and continue to bring free traffic and sales. Once you can identify the strategies which work, and those which don’t, you can concentrate on the best actions to pursue.

Look for your content and boost it by linking to it and improving it too. If some of your content begins to show some promise and starts ranking on the first or second page of Google, improve it!

You can read about linking tactics, plugins and content creation plugins in my article create free website and earn money.

See also my ebook on this strategy by clicking the image below:

Testing Google For Your Keywords

Once you find a long tail keyword which fits the bill for your website, check it on Google to see the relative competition. I like to use keyword chains which offer less than 10,000 competing sites when I do the Google “sniff” test. The lower this number the better.

Then once I’ve done that I look at the search term without quotes.

Unfortunately both of these keywords would be out for me. I would use the longer one if the search volume came back at less than 10,000,000! Again, the lower this number the better.

Ranking your content is also about creating an awesome piece of content too. Without great content, you’re less likely to rank. But with too much competition, you could do all the work for nothing.

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A friend of mine owns an autopilot travel affiliate website. His site ranks on Google for some major keywords and he gets free traffic. It’s monetised with hotel bookings and car hire companies. So on an average week, he’ll earn a passive income from hotel bookings and car hire bookings.

Obviously lately due to the Covid-19 situation the whole world has been in lockdown. People can’t travel and so his sites have lost traffic and income. For this reason, it’s worth diversifying your affiliate websites if you can. A travel website won’t earn much right now. But a site promoting work from home can do very well!

Autopilot Travel Affiliate Website – How To Create One

It’s not easy creating free traffic from Google. I didn’t even attempt to replicate my friend’s success because travel isn’t my passion. Steve loves travelling though and always has. He built his site years ago and managed to get a top domain name and some major back links. This didn’t happen overnight and he created lots of information on his site over several years.

You can check out his website here: As you can see there’s lots of useful information on the site.

If travel is your passion, an autopilot travel affiliate website might be a good idea. However, don’t expect it to make money overnight. Steve’s site took years in the making!

To create a travel site you should start with a keyword or several keywords which you can build a site around. This website was built around keywords to encourage Google to rank it in the search engines. You can see how I built this site in my article create free website and earn money. Ideally choose a topic you love, because it’ll help dramatically. See my blog post best micro niche for blogging.

A keyword targeted domain name isn’t totally essential however it can give you a bit of an advantage.

Autopilot Travel Affiliate Website – Building Your Site

It’s going to take some dedication to build a site which is useful for your visitors and eventually gets the attention of Google. That’s the autopilot part! Without Google ranking a niche website, you won’t get any visitors and therefore never make any affiliate commissions.

Let’s assume you’ve already done your keyword research for your niche site. You’ve chosen your domain name and built your site. See how to do this here.

Now you’ve got your blank canvas to work with. You should use some plugins to give your site the best chance of ranking and getting seen. Get an SEO plugin, a social media share button plugin and a post sharing plugin. Read about plugins in my article create free website earn money.

These will help you get exposure on your site which is what you’ll need to get Google to rank it. You’ll also need some quality content so always start with that! Use the keyword planner to find other keywords which relate to your main topic. Write articles for each of the keywords you find in the planner.

Backlinks

Steve, my “niche blogger buddy” was lucky, and got a backlink from a major website. This gave him loads of traffic and when he started his autopilot travel affiliate website, there wasn’t much competition in this niche. So people assumed his site had the most authority. So they linked to it and he built a number of links just because he wrote quality content on there.

So before you think about backlinks, try to find a specific keyword which you can build your site around. Ideally one with little competition. Then, build some awesome content. Content which sets you site apart from the others.

You can then go about building backlinks in a number of ways:

• Use article writing websites such as Hubpages.com and ezinearticles.com
• Build other niche sites of your own, and link from them to your content
• Comment on other people’s blogs within your niche
• Offer to guest write for other bloggers in your niche
• Use social media to find people interested in your topic
• Share your content throughout your social media platforms – ideally use an autopilot post tool which syndicates your content as you publish it.
• Create videos on YouTube and link back to your website content.

What’s Your USP? Unique Selling Point?

There’s a million generic websites out there which earn nothing! What’s going to set yours apart from them all? Get really focused on what you are about and what you can offer people that others can’t. This is key to your site doing well. If you’re just going to create a website like all the rest, it can easily get lost among the noise.

But create something a little different and people will share you content automatically. This is what you want to create. For this to happen you need to provide a service and give massive value.

If you don’t manage that, your site will struggle to get the number of visitors needed to build a business out of. Get it right and you can have a passive income from it eventually, if you work hard enough for long enough! See how long does it take to make money with affiliate marketing.

Autopilot Travel Products

Making money with a travel blog can be a great way to travel and earn at the same time. You can build a travel blog around various topics such as:

• Travel information – Specific destinations (Like Steve’s)
• Products to buy for travelling with – A “go to” blog for travel products
• How to earn while travelling – Offer online business tools for the traveller who wants to earn while travelling
• How to save while/before you book your travel

Depending on your particular passions and interests you might choose one or all of these topics for you blog. “Earn online” products are good because you can attract travellers who want to build an income from their laptops. These kinds of products offer ongoing commissions (recurring income). Especially things like software products and memberships. Sign up on this site for more information. See also recurring income affiliate programs.

Steve’s airport site works by selling hotel bookings and taxi services. He also uses car rentals and monetises with travel accessories.

With micro niche affiliate marketing, you create content to find visitors for free. Building an income from the internet takes time and isn’t easy and there’s various routes to achieve it. Paid marketing is undoubtably an easier and quicker route. But building free traffic has always been something I’ve been inspired by.

With micro niche affiliate marketing, you create content which gets found on Google, and other search engines. People come to your website and sign up to your offers. You can then suggest various affiliate products to them via email and bingo, you make money!

But how to you start this process and how reliable is it?

Micro Niche Affiliate Marketing

This website “autopilot money making software” is a niche website. The “money online” niche is however incredibly competitive. So it’s a tough nut to crack. Hence why it’s built around a more obscure keyword like “autopilot”. You can read how I built this site in my article create free website and earn money.

With micro niche websites, the key is to find a topic or interest which floats your boat and build content around it. If you’re passionate about something, you’re much more likely to pursue it for long enough to have a successful blog. The best micro niche for blogging is one which you’re passionate about. Micro niche blogging topics can be almost anything. Topics such as making money online, health and fitness, weight loss and dating though are pretty competitive.

A micro niche is a niche within a niche. For fitness for example you could choose a very defined topic such as “chair yoga for the elderly”, or it could be hand exercises for guitarists. Getting more specific in your niche is useful for two main reasons:

• It helps you get clear about your audience
• Your content is more likely to rank on Google since there’s less competition

Choosing Products

Affiliate marketing is how you can monetise your affiliate site. By choosing the right product for your interest, you’re more likely to make sales. If you get a mismatch between your visitors who like your content and the product, you won’t make any sales.

So choose products which you, yourself would really want; since your target audience is likely to think and act like you. This is true only if you’re choosing your topic around your passions, which is recommended.

You can find products everywhere online in almost any niche. Just do a search for “garden hose affiliate program”, and you’ll likely find something:

You can also find products to promote on sites like Clickbank.com, JVzoo.com and click2sell.com

Sustaining Your Interest Over The Long Term

Sustaining a blog over the long term without an interest in it is pretty difficult. Even if you follow something you’re passionate about it can be tough. But blogging about something you don’t give a s”*t about is painful. For starters you’ll have to research everything you write about. I did this for a website about harvesting mushrooms. It was painful and eventually I gave up on it!

You’re also going to have competition too, whatever niche you find. So to overtake that competition in Google’s search rankings is going to be a challenge. If you don’t create a useful resource around your topic, Google will know too by the way people interact with your content. So it will be marked down in the search engines and you’ll get less visitors.

So it’s a good idea to find a topic or interest which you love. Otherwise you’ll struggle maintaining the necessary effort to succeed.

Micro Niche Affiliate Marketing – Turning Passion Into Income Online

The exciting thing for me with micro niche affiliate marketing is turning a passion into an income on the internet. What’s more, if you succeed with a niche website, you’ll have free traffic and not have to pay for marketing. This means sales are 100% profit!

Your first job is to decide on your topic and build a site. See how I built this site here. Get into a habit creating content on a regular basis and keep going. Link back to your articles in as many ways as possible.

To set up monetisation on your site, you can simply use affiliate links and banners from the program you decide to use. You should also get an autoresponder which is an email delivery and collection service. An autopilot email marketing service is an important part of monetising your micro niche affiliate site and definitely worth investing in. It lets you collect subscribers who you can keep in touch with about the products you’re going to offer.

Email marketing works because it lets you communicate with your website visitors long after they have left your website. If you don’t get one, you’re going to be relying on people landing on your site and instantly purchasing a product; which is hard to achieve.

Micro Niche Affiliate Marketing – Review Sites

If you want to keep your expenses down completely and not invest in an autoresponder, your best bet is to build a review website. With a review website, your visitors are very targeted. They are usually looking for a review for a product which they are going to buy. They just want to learn something to reassure them that they are going to get what they want. Then they will often purchase.

If your review is the last thing they read before making a purchasing decision, they will use your affiliate link to actually buy the product and you’ll earn a commission.

The problem with a review site is you’ll need to have access to many products and it’s harder to get noticed among all the competition.

Creating “Hooks” For Your Visitors

Ideally use a “hook” to get people to join your email list once they land on your website. This could be an ebook, a video series or some kind of free downloadable product. I use a few hooks such as my ebooks and I offer a free video series about building an online business.

Your hook should be something of value which is clearly useful and attractive for your visitors. In exchange for your product, your visitors will give you their email address. Then you can continue following up with them giving them value through your emails and build more trust over time. When your subscribers know, like and trust you, they’ll be more likely to purchase something you recommend.

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Looking for an automated money making system free of charge? The internet offers one of the best opportunities to automate an income from anywhere in the world. You just need to know what to do! I looked for an automated money making system free of charge for years. Unfortunately there’s some work involved, so get ready to roll up your sleeves!

The best strategy I found to automate income from the internet was in selling affiliate products. You can also use Google’s Adsense program too and depending on your particular content strategy (more on this later), you can even do both.

Automated Money Making System Free – A Disclaimer

Let’s get down to brass tacks. In order to automate money from the internet you’re going to have to do quite a bit of work. Without giving value in some way, it’s just not going to happen. So be ready for that! If you want it fast, you’ll need to invest. The fastest way I found was to purchase a high ticket funnel with a range of digital products you can sell for 40%+ commissions. If you’re interested in this sign up on this site and learn more about high commission affiliate programs.

But this article isn’t about investing. The title is “automated money making system free”, so that’s what this is about. To do things completely free is a lot more difficult than paying even a small amount. If you have even $100 to invest I’d suggest getting your own website and using an autoresponder to collect emails. But let’s get back to free strategies.

Completely Free Strategies

Completely free strategies allow you to find customers and send them to products they want. My first online sale came from a completely free strategy. I joined a site called Hubpages.com and wrote a number of articles. Hubpages is a completely free blogging platform. It let’s you create content and promote suitable affiliate products to your audience. If you’re unsure what affiliate marketing is, here’s a short overview. Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets anyone sell other people’s products over the internet for a commission. When you sell a product through your affiliate link, you earn a percentage of the sale.

See affiliate marketing for more on this. Hubpages has certain rules and does limit the choice of products you can use. However, it’s a good place to start if you have zero money to spend. You’ll need to create a lot of content and get people to it for them to see your products which you share, and your links. This can take a lot of time and effort and nothing is guaranteed.

A better way is to have your own website. This means you can control what you put on it and you can choose the best affiliate products for your content. It also means you own the content on it too.

Completely Free Strategies – YouTube

YouTube is another option for completely free strategies. There’s various social media platforms you can use too: Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin. All of these can be used to build an audience and attract customers. You can then lead them to affiliate products which are suitable and appropriate to your followers.

YouTube is a great platform to build an automated money making system free. Again it will take time and a lot of work to do this. You first need to decide on what content you will provide for your visitors. This decision is pretty important because it will determine what you create your videos/content around, who you will attract and what products you will choose.

I talk about this in my article best micro niche for blogging.

You’ll find the journey is easier and you can be more natural and therefore attractive if you choose a topic you’re aligned with.

There’s nothing worse than trying to create content around something which you don’t care about! So pick something you can get behind and last for the long run!

Automated Money Making System Free – Products

Your choice of product is pretty important. Unless your followers can get behind you, they won’t buy into you or the products you recommend. So you could spend a huge amount of time and get nowhere. If your content is about a certain topic, choose a product, or products which are aligned with that topic. If your videos are about flower arranging and your products are about scrapbooking, for example, there’s a massive disconnect. Your audience is very unlikely to want that particular product.

So choose products which you would personally buy yourself. If you would buy a product, this means you’re more likely to be aligned with it in your content. If you don’t want to actually purchase a product, choose something you’re interested in. You can find products all over the internet which allow you to earn money by selling them. Just type in “your interest affiliate product” into Google.

I have an interest in martial arts so here’s a quick search I did:

You can also find a load of products on a site called Clickbank. Clickbank offers many products for affiliates which can be sold globally since they are digital products. See my article on clickbank autopilot money making software.

Don’t Quit, Just Learn

These strategies are definitely going to take you some time to do. You’ll likely experience a lot of frustration so it’s well worth joining an online community for help and support. Going it alone with free strategies takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. Most people will give up before they even see any sales.

What you need to keep in mind is that this is the same for everyone. Those who succeed will keep going, even when there are no results. Over time, you’ll start seeing some people visiting your content. This will grow if you continue to put it out there. Eventually, if you keep at it for long enough, you’ll see some sales. Those who keep going no matter what will eventually see a massive exponential rise in their traffic (visitors) and sales. The goal is to achieve this and start earning money passively! See create passive income with $1000 for more on this.

If you want to join an online community for more help and support you can do so here.

There’s no definitive best micro niche for blogging. Ideally choose a blog topic which you have an interest or passion for. Otherwise, you’ll quickly lose momentum and run out of ideas. A blog takes time and effort to build up and is definitely a slow strategy for making money.

But if you stick it out for long enough, Google will reward you by giving you a ranking for your keywords. When and if this happens you can expect a sudden surge in traffic. If you’re blog is set up right, this can mean more leads and sales and a passive income.

Choosing A Micro Niche

Micro niche blogging topics vary and there’s plenty to choose from. A micro niche is a niche within a niche. For example a niche could be the fitness niche. A micro niche within the fitness niche would be something like chair Yoga for pensioners, for example. Still, that may not be the best micro niche for blogging. Can you monetise? Do you have a passion for your topic? Is it competitive?

With a micro niche, you delve down into a smaller version of your niche which appeals to a very specific audience. Because you’re online, you still have a pick out of a global audience. And a micro niche offers much less competition; so you’re far more likely to get ranked for your content and get free traffic.

The best blog niches to make money can vary. But getting traffic is a must. Without people getting to your content, your business is dead in the water. So your choice of topic is pretty important. Some say choosing an ‘evergreen’ topic is important. Evergreen niches make money all year round. Unlike some niches which make money only seasonally. Christmas trees for example only sell around Christmas; so choosing such a niche might not be a great idea.

Ikigai

What’s your ikigai? Ikigai is a Japanese term which is found by aligning your passions, interests and vocation. It means “a reason for being”/ Once you can identify your ikigai, you have hit upon a potential mini niche to build a blog around.

Why is it so important to choose a topic aligned with your passions? For a couple of main reasons:

• It’s much more difficult creating content around something you don’t know about and/or have no passion for
• You can’t sustain an interest in something you’re absolutely not interested in

I had a blog I started about mushroom harvesting. A friend of mine had built a niche website around the niche of potatoes. I decided I could find a niche which was completely untapped around some kind of vegetable. So I started doing some keyword research for niche sites around various topics. I eventually found a domain name “whentoharvestmushrooms.com” and started creating content around it. I knew nothing of the topic, but found the keyword was being searched for and had very little competition.

Worst Micro Niche For Blogging

But I made several errors here:

• Choosing a topic I had no knowledge about previously
• Picking a topic which was seasonal
• There were very few affiliate products I could align with the content
• I chose a topic I had no interest in

Because I knew nothing about the topic of harvesting mushrooms, I had to research every post I created. This was labour intensive and no fun at all, since I didn’t really give hoot about my subject – I just wanted to make a site which made money.

The seasonal nature of the blog meant I only got traffic around the mushroom harvesting season. So, for much of the year the site lay dormant. I also couldn’t find many affiliate products to sell from the site, something I should have looked into before choosing the topic.

Eventually I grew tired of building on the site and left it. It ranked top of Google for some time, but eventually someone with a greater passion took first place. They were obviously passionate about the topic and created many more videos and posts that I was capable of doing. I ran out of enthusiasm for the site after several months of creating content and gave up on it. Eventually I got rid of it but it taught me a few lessons.

Why So Specific?

A micro niche is important for a few reasons:

• You can identify a specific customer and lead them to a specific product
• Your site/blog is more easily going to be ranked and found by visitors

There’s a saying in sales: try and sell everyone and you sell no-one! So having a very specific niche means more of the right people will find you in the overcrowded space of the internet. If you aim for a competitive niche, even a profitable one, you’re likely to get lost in the crowd.

Popular evergreen niches include: health and fitness, money making online, dating and relationships, self improvement, weight loss, pets, beauty, gadgets and technology.

But throw up a website in any of these niches and you’ll have hundreds of thousands of competing websites which will likely drown you out. So unless you can afford to pay for marketing, you’ll want to find something which is less competitive.

This website is an example of a micro niche site in the money making online genre. It’s a very competitive niche so difficult to get noticed. You can see how this site was built around the main keywords in my article create free website and earn money.

If you can identify a passion or interest, link it to a very specific niche and build a site around it, you could be onto a winner! But it will take a lot of hard work before you’ll see the fruits of your labours.

Popular Topic Vs. Micro Niche

Take a look at the image above. You’ll see I’m using the keyword planner to find low competition keywords for some of the articles I’m writing on this website. With highly competitive keywords, you’re much less likely to get any ranking on Google. That’s because there’s far too much competition. It’s far easier to go for the “low hanging fruit”.

Would you rather have zero traffic from a competitive keyword which gets 100,000 monthly views or 10 views a month from one which is less competitive?

See my article keyword research for niche sites.

Keyword research for niche sites can be done with Google’s free keyword planner. There’s more tools you can buy too, such as SEM Rush for example, but Google’s free tool will do the job!

When I built this site, that’s where I started. I found the keywords for the domain by typing in “autopilot money making” and other similar keywords. The keyword planner gives you a number of keywords which might be suitable for you to use.

Once you have found a keyword which might be suitable, head over to Google for the “sniff test”.

Choose a keyword with a long tail. The more words in your keyword, the more likely you’ll be on getting your niche website to rank for them. Most two word keyword combinations are too competitive. Plus, you’ll struggle finding a domain with two main keywords in it. most of the best ones are already gone!

So let’s take “autopilot money making websites” as an example keyword. Take your keyword over to Google and type in into the search bar. You should get the results and number will appear at the top of the page (on a desktop computer, not a mobile).

Take a look at the number at the top left of the image above. 1,710,000 represents the number of competing websites/pages for this particular keyword. Anything below 10 million is good. Less than 5 is great and less than 2million is good too. As a comparison, take a look at a hugely competitive keyword such as make money online:

That’s why you don’t want to build a niche website around competitive keywords like these! You’ll never rank your site! Anyway, back to the keyword we found “autopilot money making websites”. Once you’ve done a basic search for your keyword, do another one in quotes “like this”. You should get another number and this denotes the number of pages competing for that exact phrase. As you can see the number is pretty low for this one.

Keyword Research For Niche Sites

Once you’ve found a good keyword which you like, you can head over to Namecheap to purchase your domain name. A well targeted domain name with your main keyword in it has much more chance of ranking for it, once you’ve built out your website. See how this site was built in my article create free website and earn money.

The keyword used here “autopilot money making websites” only gets around 40 searches a month, (see keyword planner image at the top). However, this might be a good keyword to build a site around, particularly if you have an interest in this area and some good products to promote. The “money online” niche tends to be very competitive too so this might be a good domain to use.

If your domain name is available on namecheap, purchase it and buy a hosting package to host your site on. You can learn about putting a site together in this article.

Building Out Your Site – Keyword Research

Building out your site will take some time. You can of course just throw up a small website which only has a few pages. But the more content you put on it, the more likely it will be that it will rank on Google. Ideally write at least one lengthy article with your main keyword as its title. Write 2000 words and stick that post/article on your front page.

You can then use Google’s keyword planner to find other keywords which are relevant for your website. Do this by typing your main keyword back into the planner. If nothing shows, use a shorter keyword. This should give you a number of titles for your blog to write articles on. Using this same example, this is what the planner should look like:

To start with you can pick out the keywords which meet the same criteria as we have just seen. That way, you’re more likely to get found by Google searches more quickly. As your site develops, you can go for the shorter and more competitive keywords to help you create more content.

Use links from your new content to deep-link to your other articles with their main keywords. This will help Google to see what keywords are relevant to which articles. See more in my article create free website and earn money. You can also download my ebook Niche Blogging For Profit below.

Keyword Research For Niche Sites – What To Expect

Building a niche site takes time but depending on how you go about it, you can rank a site fairly quickly. Of course there’s never any guarantee with Google so just make your site as good as you can make it. Trust quality over trickery! You can’t trick Google any more so don’t try.

Sometimes a site will start to rank within a month and sometimes it can take longer. Depending on the niche you choose, your site may not rank at all. This is why it’s important to go for the low hanging fruit, not the competitive keywords which have huge amounts of traffic but far too much competition. It’s much better to have a few visitors to your site for a low-competition keyword, than none for a very competitive one.

You can keep adding to your site by finding other low competition keywords too which are similar to your domain name. As you do this you should see some movement and traffic over time if you’re patient.

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There’s a few strategies to make money on autopilot for free. Back in the early naughties, I bought and downloaded an ebook from eBay. This struck me as the perfect way to make money from the internet – selling a digital, downloadable product. Over the following few years, I tried all sorts of strategies to replicate this simple digital transaction; from the other side (as a seller).

I created ebooks and tried to sell them. But didn’t make any sales. After buying an online course, I realised there was a better way; affiliate marketing.

Make Money On Autopilot For Free

To make money on autopilot for free requires some work. But to “autopilot” an online sale can be relatively simple. Simply sell a product to someone which you don’t personally own. Affiliate marketing gives anyone this opportunity.

As an affiliate, you can choose from thousands of online products and become a seller of them. When you make a sale, you earn a commission. Online sales can be tracked back to your affiliate link. So you can sell a product without having to deal with a customer or even touch the product yourself.

Affiliate marketers use all kinds of strategies to sell products. Here’s just a few:

• Direct response marketing – not free but the best method by far.
• Social media marketing – Create a following on a social media platform and lead people to your products
• Blogging – Blogging is one of the most popular low cost strategies. It’s slow but cheap or free.
• YouTube – YouTube can be used as a paid platform or for free. Build up a bank of content which generates considerable traffic (visits) and send your followers to affiliate products.
• Email marketing – Use an autoresponder to collect emails and deliver value driven content – sell affiliate products to your list. See autopilot email marketing.

Those are the main strategies but there’s thousands of other possibilities of course.

Make Money On Autopilot For Free

One of the best strategies I used was writing content on a site such as Hubpages.com. Hubpages lets writers create content for free, even without their own website. Over time, and with a lot of work, you can build a huge amount of content which leads customers to products online. You can also make money using Google’s Adsense program using this platform. When people click on your adverts, you earn small commissions. You’re effectively getting paid for advertising without a website.

One of the best things to write about is products. If you review a product in your content, you attract people seeking to buy. This is a huge key to finding the right audience. If you attract the right people, you’re more likely to make sales. Review websites, or content is great for affiliates because it usually attracts buying customers.

One of my very first sales online came from a review I had written on Hubpages. I paid nothing to make this sale; it just took some time to write the article.

You can also apply this same strategy using YouTube.

The Problem With Completely Free Strategies

The main problem with completely free strategies is they take time and effort. But if you’re patient enough, you can start generating results within a few months if you go about it right. You’ll need to create a lot of content though and of course your results are never guaranteed.

You’ll also have to likely spend a lot of time creating content with no results at all. This is difficult to maintain, especially if you don’t fully trust the process. This is why it’s better to choose a topic you love, so you can maintain your interest over the longer term. See how to find a niche for affiliate marketing.

If you have some money to spend, the best thing you can do is get your own website and an autoresponder. You can use free autoresponders such as mailchimp if you’re low on funds. However, I’ve personally found Aweber to be much more user friendly.

You can read about building a keyword targeted website in my article create free website and earn money. A keyword targeted domain can help you get more people to find your site. But you’ll still need to work at it to build up your flow of traffic and sales.

Choosing The Right Affiliate Products

A good affiliate product will reward you well. Many newbie affiliates choose products which pay very little and only reward them once. I did this too when I started out. The best products are ones which give the end user lifetime value and pays the affiliate ongoing commissions. These tend to be software products and memberships.

Recurring income affiliate products offer the affiliate the best returns for their efforts. They can sell an item once, and make ongoing income forever.

Finding the right customers for the products is a challenge however and it’s well worth getting some training on this.

But with the right products and a good strategy you can maintain for at least 6 months without seeing a return, you are good to go!

No One Said It Would Be Easy!

Yep I said 6 months! For a free strategy to work, you need to plug away at it for a long time. You can speed things up of course and it will depend on your strategy. But blogging, for example is definitely a slow burner.

I made a few early wins when I started out with affiliate marketing. But you need to stick at it for a long time if you want to see consistent results. Plus you need to work consistently.

If you want it faster, you’ll need to work harder or use paid marketing.

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