Simple Internet Income
I’m officially launching my print book, “How I Made My First Million On The Internet and How You Can Too!” on Thursday, February 26th, 12PM EST so I’m officially busy 
However here’s my quick 2 cents on how to generate internet income without confusion or fluff.
I call this “Simple Internet Income” because it IS simple, it doesn’t need to be confusing or complicated.
This can make you money but however there’s the dirty 4 letter word everyone hates: WORK!
Your choice. Or you could always pay to outsource.
Remember – it’s always the principle of Time or Money!
Before I begin, there are 3 extremely crucial principles that if applied, can make you A LOT more money…
1. Sell products that CONVERT (or you’ll waste traffic)
2. Sell stuff that SOLVE DESPERATE PROBLEMS (for fast cash)
3. Take action – consistently
Lets have a look at the plan!
Step 1: Find a profitable topic
Simplest way is to look at www.amazon.com or www.google.com/trends
Step 2: Find out what problems people have in relation to this topic
A desperate problem is best. Easy way is to go look at related forums.
Step 3: Find a suitable affiliate product that solve the problem AND convert well.
Simplest way is to go www.clickbank.com and look for the highest gravity products
in your related category. Join and get your affiliate link.
Step 4: Find at least 3 specific longtail keyphrases for the problem or product
Just use Google’s free keyword tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.
For example, “how can I stop snoring”
Step 5: Write (or outsource) 3 articles
Each article should be focused on each keyphrase. 300 word article is enough. Remember the article
is NOT a sales letter, it’s a presell, a teaser
Step 6: Submit articles to article directories
Start with www.ezinearticles.com first.
Step 7: Create a free keyword-rich blog (blogger or wordpress) and post articles there
Do this after your articles are published on ezinearticles.com.
Link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx
Step 8: Create a squidoo len and post articles there
Do this after your blog is up.
Link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx
Step 9: Submit articles to the rest of the article directories
Link each article back to your articles on ezinearticles.com
You can say something like: Article originally published on xxxxxx
To make this really easy and effective, I suggest getting an account at SubmitYourArticle
because the service is top-notch and it works great.
Here’s a special bonus link if you’re interested. (Do NOT share)
Step 10: Social bookmark everything
And of course you can always scale this up, then rinse and repeat.
I know this looks simple but there’s a lot of insightful stuff in this strategy
Maybe I’ll create a more in-depth product on this if time permits, we’ll see.
Take care!
Ewen
Gala
February 12, 2009 | 8:49 AMThe strategy is very interesting. Maybe I will try it.
Danny
February 12, 2009 | 9:03 AMGreat simple tips, I can assure you from my experience that this works very well!
Marian
February 12, 2009 | 9:25 AMSimple and clear, Ewen!
This works!
Marian
Zulfikar
February 12, 2009 | 9:42 AMSimple as simple can get. This is one stratergy I am going to follow for my next venture. Great tips, thanks Ewen.
How Tze
February 12, 2009 | 10:44 AMThanks for the sharing, simple and straight to the point!
Jinger Jarrett
February 12, 2009 | 10:46 AMEwen,
It seems like every time I lose my focus you pop up with something that is just so incredibly simple and makes so much sense you throw me back on track.
Thanks for the tips. I need a break from internet marketing anyway. Will look at some new products and try this.
Thanks again, Jinger
Juergen Kosel
February 12, 2009 | 10:58 AMThanks Ewen,
for giving out this simlpe plan. Its great advise for newbies to make the first dollars online. If you like to elaborate more on this model, I’d suggest to go deeper in the preparation process like finding that desperate problem and researching for the best keywords because I think that there most get stuck or wrong. And then use these keywords to write the articles around them. Thats a real simple, but effective method to get visitors.
Juergen
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February 12, 2009 | 11:03 AMHellow,and how are you ,and have a peacefull, and joyfull day to you, and your two very,very lovel, and wonderfull kids, and your wife my dear friend,Ewen!!!
I greatly thank you for your friendly, and very nice letters!!!
I feel that you are a very nice guy,and one who knows of a great deal of internet marketing !!!
My dear friend,I do not know anything of the sort to say the least, and may I tell you that I hardly know how to operate a computer at all,and I am a one-finger-typist at best.
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All,together there have been thouthands of people including the beloved US president George W. Bush, and his family have come to listen,and download my 7-SONG CD.
I hope you would enjoy my CD, my dear friend.
Truly,
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Martin
February 12, 2009 | 11:38 AMDear Mr Chia,
There seems to be a missing step between 5 and 6 which is the creation of a landing page for the product to be promoted.
Ezinearticles have rejected my articles when linking directly back to a sales page from the vendor.
Azam
February 12, 2009 | 11:44 AMLike the step by step way. Will sure to try it out.
Doug Stewart
February 12, 2009 | 11:55 AMHi Ewen
Great post
Your first point to sell products that CONVERT is, I think, the most important.
For newbies, this means researching what people are looking for NOT what you think will sell.
I started off on that road a few years ago and wasted time and money buying products I thought would sell without checking to see what people actually wanted.
Don’t try and re-invent the wheel. What Ewen has said is what works – follow those steps to the letter and you will succeed. Oh yeah sorry it does involve work….no magic potion or button to make you rich overnight
Best wishes
Doug
http://dougstewartonline.com
Walter | Make Money Free Clickbank Mall
February 12, 2009 | 12:07 PMHi Ewen,
I’ve already implemented this strategy and i’m waiting for the money that comes in.
Affiliate promonting through articles is a proven way to make money online.
Walter
http://www.leerwiki.nl/Geld_verdienen_met_Clickbank
Soo Ling
February 12, 2009 | 12:10 PMShould a landing page be set up before the articles are submitted to EzineArticles.com (so that the links in the published articles can direct traffic to the landing page)?
Soo Ling
Ellie
February 12, 2009 | 12:51 PMEwen,
Good idea- especially if promoting one’s own product on clickbank. But as far as using affiliate links and direct linking in your article- it is against the Terms of Service of Ezine Articles to do that. It appears it can be done if you want to invest in a dedicated domain name and redirect.
What are your suggestions regarding this without “breaking” TOS or doing something sneaky.
Thanks
Barb
February 12, 2009 | 1:06 PMIt sounds really easy to follow but I have a question. It is my understanding that EzineArticles is very picky about affiliate links. Below are their guidelines.
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EzineArticles.com Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS):
Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
http://your-company-name.com/
…but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
http://your-company-name.com/page.html
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/
Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.
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It seems to me that they would not allow the standard clickbank link – am I wrong? If that is so, do you then need a website that redirects to the product you want to promote?
Thanks for the info.
Shawn
February 12, 2009 | 1:37 PMHowdy Ewen, you have made my day with these tips. I was thinking of such steps, but didn’t know that the steps were used by yourself and so many other successful Internet Marketeers. Anyways, I’ve just bought a few domain names and just started a blog. Now I need to get some softwares to automate some of the processes.THANK YOU EWEN! You da MAN!
Altis Lo (Beaulife)
February 12, 2009 | 2:00 PMYeah? Oh… This is the secret recipe from Internet Marketing Gurus who make million(s) or thousand(s) monthly. Ewen, congratulations that you have made it long time ago, and now you are sharing this secret to all your readers. Million and thousand thanks to you. I will follow these steps in my blog Best Buy And Idea (http://www.bestbuyidea.com/).
Valeriu
February 12, 2009 | 2:03 PMGood tips Even. On Step #8 I would also add a HubPage. And make a Step #11: Record a video. Plus a few more. But hey… that’s your article, not mine!
Valeriu,
Kevin Marcelino
February 12, 2009 | 2:03 PMGreat tips….and that this works very well!
Thank you
Ewen Chia
February 12, 2009 | 2:28 PMI’m so glad you guys found this useful. As I’ve always said – keep it simple and focus.
Nice one Valeriu, yes definitely a hub page and videos will enhance the system. I did say it could be scaled up, keep your creativity coming because…
Marketing is about creativity!
Some of you mentioned about linking to affiliate links from articles and yes that’s not allowed in ezinearticles.
I never said to link to the affiliate link
Soo Ling, Barb, Martin, Ellie, what I suggest is to either use a domain redirect to your affiliate link (still allowed I believe) or build a list by linking to your squeeze page.
But remember, NOT all markets need a list.
You could get ONE domain name and create multiple sub-domains (each redirecting to affiliate link) and go from there.
Ewen
Tiat Leong
February 12, 2009 | 3:12 PMIn this “recession” climate, everyone of us should look at building an internet business and helping others along the way.
I like this quote by Frank Kern: How can I make a million dollars per month while helping others and having a great time in the process!
Ewen, I look forward to your print book! Can I have a signed copy?
Bryan Hee
February 12, 2009 | 3:20 PMAffiliate marketing is the simplest business model to replicate. The 3 basic simple steps to start an online business:
1. Products
2. Website
3. Traffic
To Your Success
Bryan Hee
Heather
February 12, 2009 | 4:30 PMHey Ewen,
I didn’t know you had a blog…wow, thanks for the awesome information. So many great tips…you rock. You know I’ll be back:)
Heather
Cristian
February 12, 2009 | 5:28 PMHi Ewen, Very Good Luck with the Book. I have no doubt that it will be a Grate Book and I look forward to have it!
About the tips you gave above, very useful but only if you take action! In my opinion this is the most important thing. You could have the best product ever and all the articles you could have and a list of millions of people but if you do nothing all that equals to “0″.
Good Luck to you all, I wish you all the best in the internet business.
Cristian
Dean Henry
February 12, 2009 | 6:12 PMI think this is a good overview on how to make money online Ewen. But I do believe, there must be a correct way to each of the steps. I also think that’s where the money is, teaching people how to do the steps mentioned properly.
Btw, Is there a possibility of implementing Twitter somewhere in the list? is it necessary even?
Cheers,
Dean
http://dean-henry.com
Ludwig E. Parker
February 12, 2009 | 8:53 PMI always love your tips, you are one of the few marketers that I follow. You have a genuine desire to help people with good information. I was just curious why you would link your blog posts back to the ezine articles site? Is this for added credibility? Thanks again.
PLR Unleashed
February 12, 2009 | 10:51 PMHello Ewan
I just marvel at how you always bring things back to the simple level. You always have but Newbies are distracted by all the rubbish we are sent in our email box telling us how we can make a fortune, but never making it as simple as you do.
You should be required reading for every Newbie. I’d have saved a fortune if you’d been around 10 years ago!
All power to your elbow
Joe
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Peter Carter
February 13, 2009 | 2:35 AMWhat’s the significance of pointing everything back to the Ezinearticles site?
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Thomas Ham
February 13, 2009 | 4:49 AMHi Ewen,
Great tip.
But I think in your excitement over telling us this Simple Idea, you forgot to mention,
you need to put the affiliate link in the articles.
Carl
February 13, 2009 | 8:36 AMHi all,
I have a question. It says create a blog in step 7. Since my focus is the fitness and health market, does the blog have to be a general one or does it have to be specific? Meaning each affiliate product needing a blog by itself?
Example: fitnessandhealth.blogspot vs burnfatquickly.blogspot
alex
February 13, 2009 | 9:38 PMIt’s like the old adage find a niche and fill it
burt
February 14, 2009 | 3:53 AMEverything sounds great, but where do you place your affiliate link? Maybe I am missing something? You can’t put an affiliate link on your Ezine Articles articles. I think it’s better to put your affiliate links on your Blogger blog, instead of linking back to your Ezine Articles. Instead, in your Ezine articles, link back to your Blogger blog, where you will have your affiliate links to the product you are promoting. Each of your articles should have a link back to your Blogger blog.
Thanks!
Don James - The Agile Marketer
February 15, 2009 | 4:24 PMWow Ewen!
I’ve always been a huge supporter of your work for all of my subscribers and members. Nicely done – this is the best formula spelled out in such simple steps. Great job! I will let them know that as well.
Thanks.
Bartosz
February 17, 2009 | 9:29 PMHi Ewen
If I put the same article on my blog and squidoo, ezine articles and other article directories it will make my duplicate for GOOGLE and ban my blog.What do you think about it?
Please give response as soon as you can because if this works I try it.
Sincerely
Bartosz Konarski
http://www.bodybuilderssecretzone.com
Krisiti Milthre
February 17, 2009 | 9:41 PMLooks great and looks simple. Would surely try it out. Thanks.
myportal2u
February 19, 2009 | 2:10 PMGreat tips
Like the step by step way
Rob - Internet Marketer
February 20, 2009 | 6:37 PMThanks for the step by step method to make money online. I have tried it before and this really works. I have been into internet marketing and I think that the problem with most newbies is that they are not discipline enough to follow the step by step method, or they gave up after starting the first few steps. Another problem when I first started was that there were tons of information on the web, each promising internet riches if you follow their step by step method. Which one do you join? Whom do you follow? My advice is to stick with one method that you like and follow it straight to the T, like this simple method outlined by Ewen.
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Product Quality Reviews
February 21, 2009 | 4:33 AMThanks for this ‘paint by numbers’ layout Ewen … Keeps things simple and focused, which is hard to do at times. I printed this out and placed it on the cover of my marketing journal.
Best to you,
Scott
Husanto
February 21, 2009 | 6:31 AMI do not know what I have to say, but this information is really amazing.
success forever…
Husanto
http://www.husanto.com/blog
Donald Lim
February 21, 2009 | 7:00 PMHi all
In case you are wondering if this works, I can tell you that it does. I have been doing it for the past 1 year generating passive streams of online income doing this.
Kudos to Ewen for publishing this!
Whether you have a landing page or not, it still works! (I got 2 income generating projects, one with a landing page to build my list, the other without any landing page but instead linking direct to my affiliate link using a domain name. So, just buy a domain name and point to your affiliate link directly, or to your landing page if you have one, ezinearticles.com still allow this).
Also, if you picked the right niche, you will realise that your articles on ezinearticles.com will take up page 1 of google search results. I have as much as about 2-3 articles out of top 10 google search results.
Like what Ewen has said, the main challenge to this approach is WORK! So, if you are thinking of using this method, you got to move your butt, or pay someone else to move theirs for you!
Good luck to all of you!
Regards
Donald
The SMART Infopreneur
Ttoye
February 24, 2009 | 3:33 PMHi Ewen,
Great post.
A question for everybody. For me to submit my articles to ezinearticles.com, Do I have to get different domain names for every affiliate links I am promoting or can one domain name lead to several affiliate links?
Thank you.
Ttoye
eswar
February 26, 2009 | 9:22 AMSome of you mentioned about linking to affiliate links from articles and yes that’s not allowed in ezinearticles.
I never said to link to the affiliate link.
Hi, Ewen, could you please throw some more light on this.
Please, Please, Please, Please.
Steve Mitchell
March 4, 2009 | 9:00 PMHi Ewen and all… Great article Ewen, thx for sharing.
Could you Ewen (or someone) explain the reason for having all the articles point back to the same articles in Ezine Articles? Is it simply to create back links for the Ezine Articles (assuming they are linked back with the primary keywords as anchor text?), and therefore get the EA articles ranked higher in the SE’s?
One further thought – I think it’s important Ewen to emphasise that the 3 long-tail keywords for the articles need to have either a) healthy search numbers or b) are significant ‘buyer’ keywords focused on searchers ready to buy …identifying long-tail keywords that meet a) and b) is even better!
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Best wishes, Steve.
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Theo Encarnado
March 7, 2009 | 11:10 PMEwen,
When I think of internet marketing “guru” i think of Ewen. Ewen gives and teaches so much and makes marketing on the internet so much easier. Thank god for people like Ewen Chia.
Theo
Ewen Chia
March 10, 2009 | 5:13 AMBest way is not to use affiliate links in the articles but instead drive traffic direct to your own web page first. This could be a simple blog, review page or better, optin page.
Ewen
Fran Civile
March 11, 2009 | 8:40 AMStep 7: Create a free keyword-rich blog (blogger or wordpress) and post articles there
In step 7 Ewen says to build a blogger blog or Wordpress (I think he might mean Wordpress.com)so you don’t have to buy a domain…
I find that Blogger blogs are fast and easy to build with a choice of templates and a
http://whatevernameyouwant.blogger.com URL – no need to get a domain name – Ezine Articles
accepts that and it’s a good idea to mention something free like a short report at “link to your blog” in your resource box.
Fran
Steve Mitchell
March 11, 2009 | 10:08 AMHi Ewen…
I get the bit not to use aff links in articles but the bit I don’t get is in your blog article http://internetwealth.com/training/?p=60 you refer to posting articles firstly in EA (which I get), and in various other places eg SYA, Squidoo, HubPages, etc, which all point BACK to the EA articles rather than to our own web page (which is the bit I don’t get?)…
…why do you suggest pointing all the articles BACK to the same EA articles, rather than have all articles, EA ones and all others, pointing back to our website directly? Is it simply to create back links for the Ezine Articles (assuming they are linked back with the primary keywords as anchor text?), and therefore get the EA articles ranked higher in the SE’s? Wouldn’t getting all articles linking directly to your web drive more traffic to your website rather than to the EA articles?
Could you take 30 seconds to explain?
Thanks – Steve.
jason
March 11, 2009 | 10:57 AMHi all..
anyone here can help me??Ewen Chia can help me??!?
i totally cant understand..even i watched the video clip also cant catch up..
can u teach me please????
i really need this greatest job/biz..
thx…jason
Nick
March 12, 2009 | 11:44 PMSteve,
Google ranks back a lot farther then 2 links now. They will scan links up to 3, and 4 links deep.
So, the old way was Page 1 > Your Site = Authority
The new way you have to do it is Page 1 > Page 2 > Your Site = Authority
Better yet is Page 1 > Page 2 > Page 3 > Your Site = Authority
This creates deep backlinks that show Google your stuff is getting double and triple linked, thereby increasing your authority on the subject.
Nick
JP
March 16, 2009 | 1:50 PMThank you again for consistently looking out for the rest of us and sharing your well tested online secrets. The fact that you are willing to share these for free is just an added perk.
Much success to all!
JP
http://product-gurus.com
Michael Ferdy
March 24, 2009 | 6:27 AMTAKE ACTION consistently’ it’s always the principle of Time or Money!
Thanks Mr.Chia, for revealing out this simple plan.
this article and the book are really helpful for new-comers to conduct this.
However, could you refer me to which article which shows how you prepare all the necessary thing and how to conduct simple research for best keywords to put and play around into my article? Simply because i dont know how to be a writer /journalist to attract visitor.
Felix Makmur
March 28, 2009 | 9:07 AMThanks for this really great and comprehensive tips and instructions, Ewen. I also just bought your new book and I must said that it is probably the most complete “bible” of internet marketing that ever existed. Again, thanks a lot for sharing.
Jason
April 2, 2009 | 2:41 PMI’m bookmarking this
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Carolyn Connor
May 12, 2009 | 3:57 AMHi Ewen.
I want to thank you from the bottom of heart for everything you do for the people like me and others newbies. I love your newbie cash machine book I keep it close to me all the time I hope you never take it of the market.I wanted to ask you if you still have the my free website builder grafic-pack for sale, I love to buy one pack from you, I try to get it from it’s web site but is not posible you see I already have the mega-all-in-one-package I purchase it with Internet Money Machine “I’M SO HAPPY I PURCHASE THAT PACKAGE”! a life saver step by step to build my wordpress blog you should tell the newbies that post here on your blog about it so they could get it too. I mean for that price nobody could go wrong
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Wamest Regards
Carolyn
Bryan Hee
June 22, 2009 | 2:10 PMFocused, Motivated, Committed and Take Action-”Just Do It!” is important to success online.
To you success,
Bryan Hee
Julie
July 7, 2009 | 1:15 AMI asked the same question others have asked above. Question…why do you suggest pointing all the articles BACK to the same EA articles, rather than have all articles, EA ones and all others, pointing back to our website directly? Is it simply to create back links for the Ezine Articles (assuming they are linked back with the primary keywords as anchor text?), and therefore get the EA articles ranked higher in the SE’s? Wouldn’t getting all articles linking directly to your web drive more traffic to your website rather than to the EA articles?
Here is the Answer I received from Ewan’s support desk: In all Articles Directory, EA is the Mother of Article directory. As you will get alot of traffic purely from there itself.
Another thing, when your article at EA has many views, it will help to rank the article in EA, which will get more views in the end.
If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask us, we will be happy to assist you.
alex farguson
October 4, 2009 | 7:40 AMI found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.