I would imagine that at one time or another we have all taken a look at websites that promise us how to make easy money on line. The most popular websites are about affiliate marketing – simply put you get rewarded for pushing business, for referring people to a particular site and/or selling their goods and services. You can do this by use of your own website or blogger. One of the more prominent ones is The Chris Farrell Membership, a website that promises you can build a profitable website in just 21 days?

Scam, I hear you shout! Well, maybe not. The Chris Farrell Membership website, at first glance, almost throws itself off the page at you. Crammed with information and pictures it isa very comprehensive website. You can read all about how you can build your website, all these marvellous tools you should use and ones you shouldn’t. You can read all about this without getting any actual information. This is because it is a private, membership only site. Every link you click on takes you to a sign up page.

However, membership benefits are enormous. You get access to a wide range of tools to assist you in building your business, including a 21 day video course. This can be downloaded and watched at your leisure or seen live online each day. Another fantastic benefit is free web hosting, catering to an unlimited number of domain names. That in itself is worth a small fortune; we all know how expensive web hosting programmes can be and most only include one domain name.

Traffic generation is an important part of your internet business. This programme provides a video course on how to do this successfully. It also provides you with a blueprint on how to make money online successfully and easily, provided you follow the step-by-step instructions to the letter. In fact, there is a whole library of videos and eBooks on the site to get you started and answer your questions. If you still can’t find the answer you want then you can email the man himself. He claims to respond to your query within 24 hours by video.

You also get the chance to sell or give away one of his EBooks with your own links attached to it. Affiliate marketing at its best. You sell his business for a small cut of the proceeds. It really couldn’t be any easier. You do have to wonder how some of these sites really make money though. By a very simple process. Remember, this is a private, membership only site. That means fees. You do get the chance to try out the site for one week at a very small charge. If you are happy with it you can subscribe fully at a monthly membership fee of thirty seven dollars per month. However, unlike some of the paid membership sites you don’t have to sign up for a year in advance and you can cancel your membership at any time.

It’s not exactly a risk-free venture, nothing in life is. If you are deadly serious about making money on the internet then you could do a lot worse than to try the Chris Farrell Membership. For a small outlay you can find out if it’s the right programme for you. If not simply don’t continue with the membership. Don’t write off at first glance the man who has been voted the internet’s best marketing coach for the last 3 years. That speaks volumes.
 
 

There are a multitude of websites on the internet that offer to tell you how to make money online, from the comfort of your own home. One such site is the Amazon Training Academy, better known as AMZ. They promise to teach you how to build a successful money-making website in just twenty one days.

What becomes obvious, right from the outset is that this is a site that is affiliated to Amazon, as the name suggests. Your newly built website will be for promoting and creating backlinks and reviews to Amazon products or products that are sold via Amazon. To start with they will teach you how to build a cash king website; these are sites targeted for one product per site. Later on they claim to be able to teach you how to build a multi-product site. And how to target Facebook users by building pages for selling Amazon products.

Once you have joined the site, as a member the door is opened to huge amount of material. There are a vast number of training videos and articles of members to draw from. You are given access to tools and software with which to start building your site and new articles are regularly added for you to draw information and idea from. A full support system is in place; the course owners promise to be with you every step of the way and to be available to answer your questions at all time. There is also a forum that members can join to get in touch each other and build up a support team.

One benefit the site offers is free webhosting for an unlimited amount of domain names. You will however have to purchase your domain names first from external sources. Bearing in mind that, at first you will only be creating single-product sites, depending on how many you want you want you will need a domain name for each and every site and that’s where it starts to cost money.

As with many other websites of this kind this is a membership-only site. There is a free section but there is very little information on it to give you an idea of what the site is about and how it works. However, you can join for a seven day trial for a small fee but you only get limited access to the information. This means that, if you want to know more you have to join at the full membership price of thirty seven dollars per month. However, they do promise that you can cancel your membership very easily and you are not signing up for any minimum period of time.

At first glance the course seems to be the perfect starting point for anybody who want to learn how to build websites and make money, provided you are happy being an affiliate marketer. It is difficult to find external reviews of the course, most seem to be written by the course designers themselves. The only way to find out if The Amazon Training Academy is genuine and does offer what it says is to join as a member ad that means paying out. If you are happy to take a gamble then it is worth looking at.
 
 

So, you’ve built your website and published it. Now you sit back and wait for the traffic to your site to start generating a nice healthy income for you. But it isn’t happening. Your site is nowhere to be seen on Google rankings and there certainly isn’t any money flooding in. That’s where SEO Masters Academy claims to be able to help you.

A relatively new product on the market, the developers promise to teach you the art of search engine optimisation to such a level that your site will be at or near the top of the rankings. They promise to teach you all the tips and tricks they have learned over the years. And they promise to teach you how to produce a site that will pass all Google tests.

The first thing they will tell you is about traffic generation. This is the most important part of getting a site ranked and earning. No traffic equals no income; it’s as simple as that. They claim to be able to teach how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your site by following their proven and tested method.

What they don’t claim is that you will be earning a large fortune in a short period of time. Unlike some sites they do make it clear that this is not an overnight success story for anyone. You do have to be prepared to work hard and you will not be raking in the dollars instantly. What the product is primarily about is teaching you how to write your site to an expert level.

The website itself has a wealth of information – but says very little. If you are prepared to read through it all you can find out exactly what they can teach you, from using keywords correctly to backlinking, and much more besides. What they don’t tell you is how they teach it. They do mention having access to over one hundred videos but don’t tell you what they are.

The site is also full of screen shots of Google rankings and of income earned from using their methods. And there are numerous amounts of testimonials from satisfied customers. How much of the information you believe is entirely up to you. On the face of it it seems to be another one of these websites that make terrific claims about how you can beat the system and eventually rake in the money but gives very little else away.

Unless, of course, you choose to purchase the programme. They do offer a full money-back guarantee though and say that you can go through the entire course and then ask for your money back if you are not happy with any aspect of it. There is no indication about how long the course lasts either although that they may depend on the level you are working at and your own personal learning strengths.

All in all, SEO Masters Academy is quite an expensive course. At the princely sum of ninety seven dollars per month, it is a huge investment to lay out on a course that you can’t test out first. However, some external reviews do rate it as an excellent course and that maybe suggests that it is worth spending out for.
 
 

A vital part of trying to build a business on-line is to have an email list. Building one of these lists is possibly the most difficult part about internet marketing. 5iphon claims to have the best, viral list builder on the market. They offer both free and paid membership to their programme.

In order to sign up for the free programme you need to give them your email address. Before you get any further you will be confronted with an offer to instantly upgrade to a paid membership. You don’t have to take up this offer and can continue straight on to the free site. However, if you choose to upgrade to Hardcore you will be asked to pay a one-off fee of forty dollars and then twenty dollars per month for a year. After that your membership is free for life.

Basically, in order to build your list you need to promote your website. When you sign up you are given a referral link – this is a link to the 5iphone website. It is recommended that you start by visiting E-zines on the internet and advertising your website on their sites. Most will charge you for the advert. Some of these sites will generate interest, some won’t, so you have to be prepared to pay a little money for no result on some and hope that other sites will provide you with the contacts to start building up your list.

In order to actually get people to subscribe to your site you have to have traffic. One very easy and free way of doing this is to have a Twitter account or a Facebook fan page. You could also join forums about internet marketing and advertise your site there as well.

Once you have started to build your list you can participate in something called ad-swapping. Basically, you need to find a free or very cheap offer on the internet and create an ad about it, including, of course a link to your website. You would then join up with another member who has a similar size list to yours; your ad gets sent to the other member’s list of contacts and vice versa, thus generating more traffic to your site and more potential contacts.

The only difference between free and paid membership is the chance to earn commission. Free membership is all about building up an email list. Paid membership gives you the opportunity to earn commissions from you referrals if they upgrade. At a rate of twenty dollars per sign up and a monthly commission of ten dollars per month from referrals who upgrade to the highest membership the money can soon add up.

Basically, this is affiliate marketing. Your entire business will revolve around advertising 5iphon. However, many of the methods involved in this programme can be used if you already have your own website and at a far cheaper cost than the two hundred and eighty dollars you will be charged for subscribing to 5iphon Hardcore.
 
 

Making money from the comfort of your own home is not always the easiest of tasks. Article writing is one way. You may want to write an article and submit it to several different websites. Or you may have been given a job to do writing an article and then rewriting it a couple of times so it looks different. There are two ways of doing this; either manually or by using software such as The Best Spinner.

This is article re-write software. Basically, it will take your article and spin it into a new one, one that says exactly the same but uses different words and phrases. This is a vital task if you want to get your articles rated properly on the search engines and near the top of the rankings. Google works like this: – It reads it and rates your article based on a number of calculations, i.e. keywords, phrases and content. You submit the same article to twenty different websites but, because it is identical Google will only rate it once. Re-write that same article into twenty articles that are the same in content but written differently and Google will rate it twenty times, therefore giving you a much better chance of reaching the top.

The way in which this software works is quite simple. You simply give the software the paragraph or article you want re-written and it will do it, either with or without your help. It contains a database of synonyms that it draws from. Unlike many other re-write programmes this one also builds its database from its users. If you choose to use another word instead of one the system suggests you can add it to the database, thereby helping to grow and expand it. This is called Groupware.

It works in two ways. One is auto spin – the software will completely re-write your article for you. However, you do need to check it manually afterwards and it is almost guaranteed that you will find flaws and errors that need correcting. After all, nothing and no-one is perfect.

The second way is manual spin. You choose the word or phrases you want changed and they system checks them for you and suggests alternatives. You can either accept the option or add one of your own. It may sound tedious and time-consuming but, in actual fact, this software can spin an article in this manner fairly quickly, depending on the speed you want to work at.

There are two downsides to the software. One is the groupware function. Because it relies on input from other users to build its database you must have a good functioning internet connection. At the moment there is no option for working offline. The other small downside is the price. You are offered the chance to try it for a seven day trial period for seven dollars. After that, if you choose to fully subscribe the charges are seventy seven dollars for a one year subscription, and every year thereafter. However, you won’t get a good article spinner for nothing and charges across the board are pretty much the same. This means that The Best Spinner is definitely not out of the loop and in fact is one of the better pieces of software on the market at the moment.
 
 

If you’re a blogger or an article writer or maybe you make viral videos you will know how difficult and time consuming it is to submit your articles and videos to the many hundreds of different sites on the internet. For each site you have to create an account before you can submit your work and your account has to be verified. This all takes up time that you could be using to write more quality articles. Magic Submitter is the programme for you.

This is a piece of software that says it does just about everything you need to do to get your articles out there. Once the programme has been set up to your specifications it claims to be able to create all your accounts for you, verify them and submit your work all over the internet, to whichever site you want. But, does it really do what it says on the box?

Well, the answer to that is yes, it does, to a certain extent. The programme will create accounts for you at any of the sites you specify. It is also capable of handling the verification emails for the accounts. It will even set up a unique email address for you to use with these sites, provided you only want to use Gmail or Yahoo.

It is a fairly simple programme to use although you are urged to watch the comprehensive tutorial videos that are included with the software. These give you step-by-step guidelines on how to use the software to its best ability and to get the most benefit from it. Once you have uploaded the video or article you want to submit you simply select the sites you want it to go on and off it goes. Unfortunately the software is not compatible with the larger sites like Word Press and Blogger so if these are your target sites then you need to look elsewhere.

As with almost everything in life there are some downsides. Firstly, the software does not solve captchas. You know, those hard to read words and numbers that most websites now use, to verify that you are a real life human being. So how can it possibly create accounts for you if it can’t get past this stage? Easy – if you’re prepared to pay a little more then you will gain access to captcha-solving software that can get past them. Another downside to this programme is that, where other submission software can submit your article to many hundreds of sites at once, this one can only do three. Fine if you only want to submit to a small amount, but if you want your article on a lot of sites then you still have to sit there and tell it to submit regularly.

This is not the cheapest product available on the market but it does offer you a very low-cost thirty day trial to test it out. If you are happy with it then by all means go ahead and buy it. Be aware though, it’s not a one-off payment programme. You will be required to pay a monthly fee of sixty seven dollars in order to use this programme. Whilst it isn’t the absolute best product on the market, Magic Submitter is not, by any means the absolute worst either. It is worth looking at and for big internet businesses it could well be the solution you are looking for.
 
 

Virtually every website on the internet today contains links to other sites and other sources of information. These are known as either outgoing or incoming links. Incoming links are more commonly known as backlinks and these play an important part in your ranking on a search engine. Backlink Battleplan shows you how to build quality links that will pass SEO inspection.

You want as many people as possible to visit your website. The best way to direct traffic there is to place links to your site elsewhere on the internet. However, search engines are becoming extremely picky about what information they use in site ranking and if they don’t consider your backlinks to be of quality you won’t be ranked properly. You also run the risk of having your site banned if you over link or link to what Google consider to be inappropriate sites.

The developer of this programme claims to be able to teach you how to create your backlinks easily using only free tools that are available on the internet – if you know where to look. A lot of people already use software to help them create quality links but the cost of this can run into many hundreds of dollars. This is fine if you have the budget and are receiving a good income from your sites through these links. For people who are just starting out though the expense alone is a huge stumbling block.

The course is designed to be accessible by people of all levels, from complete new comers to highly experienced internet marketers. Divided up into sixteen separate modules the course covers everything you need to know, teaching you exactly what backlinks are, how to use them and when to use them. It also covers using social networking sites to promote your business. Each module is accompanied by a high quality video which is fully downloadable. This means you don’t have to watch it on the internet which is a real bonus if your connection is a bit hit and miss at times.

Another bonus is the addition of a short course on keyword use and research. This is very useful if you are just starting out in the arena of web marketing and can make or break your site. He covers the art of article spinning as well and how to make account creation a simple process.

All in all this seems to be an excellent choice of course for both beginners and experienced people alike. Although all of the tools he shows you are free and already available the chances are, without assistance you wouldn’t be able to find them. Unfortunately the course is not free; the price tag attached for this wealth of information is ninety seven dollars. However, if you sign up immediately you can get twenty dollars knocked off that price, making it quite competitive. And the cost is a one-off, no follow up fees, no monthly or yearly subscriptions.

Backlink Battleplan is a very new programme. Released in 2010 it has already been updated twice and continues to be updated as the market changes. It is already climbing the ranks as a leader in internet marketing tools and is definitely one to be watched.
 
 

The internet has been flooded recently with programmes claiming to teach you the art of search engine optimisation, or SEO. Some are free and some charge. Without exception, each and every one of these programmes will teach you something about how to get your website ranked by a search engine such. SECockpit claims to teach you everything you need to know with one simple piece of software.

SEO is the most important part of getting your website on view and out there for all to see. Primarily, the search engines look at keywords – which ones you use, where you place them and how often you use them. Put simply, it wants to know if you are using smart keywords.

This latest piece of software is slightly different from others on the market. Firstly, it is a complete online application which means you can use it with any browser. Some of these programmes will only work with one of the major browsers which means, unless you are prepared to change you can’t use it. Secondly and probably the most important change is that they use cloud technology rather than desktop.

Cloud technology has many benefits. The most important is that applications need no installation, making them much faster than desktop. Secondly, updates are automatically installed by the provider rather than the user, meaning no more time lost for updating your software.

The concept behind this new software is basically the same as all other keyword research tools. It’s how the job is carried out that makes it different. It is a much faster tool than many others and claims to return up to two hundred keywords per minute. And that’s fully processed keywords. Bearing in mind it is a cloud application this is a perfectly believable claim. Most applications take a minute or two to perform a search on just one word.

Another plus is the data sourcing. Again, many programmes will only use one source for their keyword analysis; SECockpit uses several, including the little used secret of using related searches. For example, you pick a keyword, your software analyses it using just one source and comes up with your choices. This one not only uses several sources but it will also search for related material, thereby increasing your word count by an untold amount.

Another benefit to the system is a full task management programme. Basically, the software will tell you what to do next in your search for the best keywords. It will set you tasks to complete in order and, in order to achieve the best results these should be completed in order. On top of all of this, it keeps a record of your performance; you will be provided with site rankings and performance thereby giving you the edge in knowing what does and doesn’t work.

However, this is not a cheap product. You are offered two payment plans, each one offering a discount. You can choose to pay a price of seventy seven dollars per month, a saving so f twenty percent or you can pay every six months at a cost of two hundred and ninety seven dollars, a massive reduction of fifty percent. Whichever way you choose, you won’t be disappointed. Although it is a relatively new product SECockpit promises to beat the market in next to no time at all and reach the top spot in SEO tools.
 
 

Market Samurai is, in a nutshell, a keyword analysis tool. We all know that that to get quality traffic to our websites and get the results we want our articles and blogs have got to pass the search engine tests. One of the ways in which search engines rank an article is the keywords. And you need to know that you have got the right ones for the right results.

It is quite a simple programme to use and works with any article, blog, newsletter, etc. that you want to check. Basically, it helps you to find the keywords that are right for your site. The way it does this is by extensive internet research and analysis – work that could take you hours, even days can be done in minutes.

So, your article is ready to be published. Unlike an article spinner you don’t give this programme huge chunks of text to analyse. Instead, based on the topic of your article or website, you give it a specific keyword. The programme will then trawl through its database and come up with hundreds of alternatives for you to consider. Each word will be analysed by looking at how often the word is searched for, how often it is used and, maybe more importantly, how many other sites use it.

Based on all this you then pick the words you want to use and ask the programme to analyse a bit deeper. It will look at the top ten sites that use the word or words that you have picked. For newcomers to the programme, and to the world market research, who may not fully understand the jargon that is used, a simple colour coding system is in place. Words highlighted in red denote it as a word that is widely used, amber, not so much and green is for words that are not used too much. This doesn’t mean you should avoid them; in fact it’s the opposite, the more green, the better.

One of the more popular aspects of this programme is the rank tracker. It will track your site rankings within the three major search engines. This means that you can see, at any given time, exactly how your site is performing. You will be able to determine if any changes are needed and make them.

There are other features to the programme as well. It has a facility that allows you to search for the best domain name, based on keywords and topic. And it will also provide you with a certain amount of content for your keyword, making it easier to write your articles.

There is a free trial for Market Samurai – the length of it seems to depend upon when you download it. On average though, it will be around 7 days. At one hundred and forty nine dollars for full access, it is by no means the cheapest. But, unlike some this is a one off payment and it is yours for life. However, they do make it clear that once the final module has been added the price will jump significantly. Most likely this is just a marketing ploy to make you buy it now but it’s probably something you’ll never know.
 
 

The biggest and most important tool you will ever use for marketing your business is the internet. Everybody uses search engines to find the information they want and most people will only look at the first one or maybe two pages of results. So that’s where you want your website to be, preferably on page one. You could just write your website, submit it and hope for the best. The chances are though, your site will appear way down the list and will generate very little traffic. That’s where SEOPressor comes in.

Developed by Daniel Tan, a man at the top of his profession as a search engine optimiser, it is designed as a plug-in for WordPress. This is now one of the leading blog sites used to produce websites and web content and there are many plug-ins available for it. However, none do the job as simply and easily as this product.

SEOPressor works both with you and for you to ensure your site is optimised for traffic. Think of it as an automated editor. To edit an article you have to read it thoroughly, suggest changes or rewrites where necessary. You could suggest adding in more keywords, or taking some out. You might even think about changing some of the fonts used, highlighting words with use of bold, italic and underline tools. As any editor will tell you it’s a time consuming job, can be tedious and is subject to human error.

That is exactly what this programme does. It edits your articles in a manner synonymous with that of a real-live human editor. It will read your post from start to finish, looking at keyword placement and density. It will make suggestions about changes you should make. It may even suggest re-writing parts of the article in order to optimise your search results. Keyword placement is an important factor in results, as are key phrases. The plug-in will also check your images and may suggest adding keywords to them and it will make suggestions regarding the use of fonts and how to highlight your article to make it stand out. Sounds brilliant doesn’t it. So easy, just install the plug-in and leave it to get on with the job in the hand.

Not quite. It may take on the part of an editor but it will only make suggestions. Human interaction is still needed to complete the job. It will only search based on what you have told it to search for. It won’t tell you what keywords you should use, only suggest where you should put them. In short, it is an assistant not a full time employee.

Reasonably priced with two levels of subscription, SEOPressor does offer you a full sixty day money-back guarantee. You can purchase it for use on a single site or for multiple sites. Both subscriptions offer excellent support and lifetime updates. Both subscriptions are a one-off payment and the programme is yours for life. Much cheaper and, some may say, much more efficient that hiring an SEO to do your work for you this product represents excellent value for money.