The One Year Millionaire

Hey Everyone.. I’d like to welcome you all back to OneYearMillionaire.net! In the next couple of issues I am going to be talking about Domains… how to choose them, what you can do with them, and any other Domain related topics. Let’s get started!

If you happen to be thinking about purchasing a new domain name for a product,service or personal blog then you might want to throw around a few ideas before you make your final decision. You probably already know by now that the best of the best Domain Names have already been scraped up a long time ago; however, you can still sometimes get lucky with the right combination.

When you are on the verge of registering a brand new domain then there are a few things that you should do to make sure that you are getting the most for your money and eventually make even more money online!

1. Keywords
   What Keywords do you want people to associate with your website?
   Whenever I have taken the time to do research before buying a domain name I have noticed that Keyword selection is key SEO! In fact, after making a couple generic searches for ******(keyword) I have easily spotted ******.com or ******.org within the first page of search results. This is just an example and might not be true for 100% of keywords, but I have found it to be a good percentage of them and these are also in competitive niches! If you are concerned about receiving a lot of Organic Traffic to your domain then think about the keywords that you need to put in your domain name and brainstorm a few possibilities!
2. Domain Branding
   Creating a Brand for your Domain isn’t just as simple as creating a Domain Name! You have to have the whole package to go along with it! This could include the design of the website, a motto or catch phrase and any other distinguishable element that you think could add to your domain!
3. Short & Sweet
   Try to keep your Domain Name as short as possible! The reason you want to do this is that it will be easier to remember and easier for people to type into their browser when they want to go there! Also if you are doing offline marketing of any sort for your website then it is a lot easier to print a short Domain Name on a business card or on flyers.
4. Avoid Numbers/Special Characters
   The reason you want to avoid numbers in a Domain Name is because it could cause confusion. Do people really know when to type “Six” or “6″? If they are a first time visitor I can see how a lot of people could end up confused and lost in the world wide web! The same thing goes for special characters like hyphens (-). They just add to the confusion in a simple task such as typing in a URL into your browser!
5. Intuitive Naming
   When you name your domain you have to think about what other people will think when they read it. You want people to be able to find what they need once they click to your site. If you have a website domain named “oneyearmillionaire.net” and all the content is about “pet training” or “animal food” then you probably didn’t name your domain properly! On the other hand if you had “pettrain.com” or “animalfood.com” then it is probably exactly what the surfer is looking for! This goes for a good percentage of websites! There are others who put in a lot of work on branding to make sure that people know what to expect on their site, but why not just go for the alternatively cheap way… by writing it in your Domain Name!

So once you have looked over this list and made sure that your domain name is up to par.. you might want to check with a Domain Registrar if your Domain Name idea has already been taken… if not, then act fast! You can easily buy a Domain Name between $10-$20! Finally just make sure that your Domain Name is relevant to whatever you are going to be using it for and then get ready to start building!

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about Domain Flipping!

Hey Everyone… I just noticed that the OneYearMillionaire blog is now 3 months. Time goes by really fast when you are having fun. It has been around a year that I’ve been doing Online Marketing and this blog was made to help out people get started in the Internet Marketing niche! I feel like I’ve made many accomplishments with this site in the short time it has been on the internet. This post will be used to show how far we’ve came so far and later on I will be able to look back at this post to compare my stats. So lets take a look at some statistics:

	March 28, 2008	June 28, 2008
Alexa Rank:	3,439,002	282,626
Technorati Rank:	2,215,272	91,705
Google Page Rank:	n/a	n/a
45n5 Top Rank:	n/a	265
These are my ranking positions as of March 28th 2008 compared to today (June 28th 2008). Everything seemed to go up a lot in rank with the exception of Google PR. The Google Page Rank update came along a week after the launch of the site so that is why the domain doesn’t have any PR yet. There should be a really positive change in that when the next update comes along…
RSS Subscribers:	0	78
I haven’t really worked much on getting RSS Subscribers, but I am pleasantly surprised to see that my numbers doubled in the past week! I should be able to reach 100 pretty soon and then keep going! To subscribe to my RSS Feed by Email click here. It is 100% free and Subscribers will be sent special bonus articles/ebooks, etc. every so often from OneYearMillionaire.net
Traffic Totals:
Daily Visitors (on that day):	12	460
Total Visitors (up to that day):	32	31,052
Total Unique Visitors (up to that day):	28	26,120
As you can see there has been a big boost in Traffic. From a dozen daily visits to over 450! The traffic on OneYearMillionaire.net has been steadily going up since I’ve launched the site! I am still working on getting the traffic to keep growing, so next time these totals should look better! I also noticed that my organic traffic (search engine traffic) has been going up in numbers lately which is also great news.

So far we have grown quite a bit since the start and we are only looking to get bigger! If you are new to the site or haven’t had a chance to look around at the older posts… check out the ONEYEARMILLIONAIRE’s top 3 most popular articles:

• The Millionaire Mindset
• Writing Flawless Sales Pages (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
• Cloaking Affiliate Links

Thanks for everyone’s support so far. Becoming a Millionaire is just a few steps away for all of us. Don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS Feed! There will be a lot of great articles coming up regarding Domain Buying & Selling, Expired Traffic & Social Networking!

As you all may or may not already know… blogs participating or launching contests is not a new trend. This has been going on for quite a while now and it seems that the prizes just keep getting better! A Blog Contest is when a Blog holds a Contest with various prizes or one grand prize for certain actions which usually require promoting that blog in different ways. People can accumulate points by leaving comments on blog posts, writing a blog review, writing about the contest itself, etc.

The reason that a lot of Bloggers do this kind of thing is because it attracts a lot of attention from current readers who will then spread it to third party viewers. These third party viewers may then turn into a regular reader of the blog itself! The lengths that Bloggers will go to in order to attract new readers is scary! I am still waiting for the day when a brand new car is put up in a contest and you have to do is write a review about the site holding the contest to win! Wouldn’t that be great?

Driving Traffic to your website is essential; so I guess there is no reason to take extra steps to make sure that the buzz gets out there! There is nothing wrong with giving out cash prizes (small or large) to increase activity on your website if you think that you will be able to profit from it in some way. By Holding a Contest you are giving your readers another reason to visit your site again and again. You also give them reasons to spread the word about your site and bring in new readers!

If you are going to set up a contest in order to Link Bait or promote your website make sure that you are providing big prizes that people will find useful! If your prize is 2 EntreCard credits then it isn’t much of a prize… but if you offer 1000 EntreCard credits then at least it has some value to it!

One great thing you could do by running a contest on your Blog is increase your RSS Subscribers! You can write down as a stipulation of the contest that they must be an RSS Email Subscriber to be able to win a prize. This will boost your numbers right away and you will see the difference immediately!

A brand new Affiliate Marketing Network called “Market Leverage” has sponsored dozens of contests recently to promote their new brand. This is a list of blogs that are holding contests sponsored by Market Leverage :

• Money Bites
• The Net Fool
• Jonathan Volk
• Cash Tactics
• Affiliate Confession
• Uberaffiliate
• Zac Johnson
• CDF Networks
• Ian Fernando
• John Chow
• Affiliates Miami
• DatMoney
• Garry Conn
• Nick Throlson
• Balkhis
• Blogger Noob
• Tyler Cruz

Have fun checking all of these contests out… I am sure that there will be more great contests on the blogosphere in the coming months.. be on the lookout! I am pretty sure that I will also be holding a contest here on the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ soon enough…

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about Choosing the Perfect Domain Name!

If you run a website then your success will completely depend on your traffic and conversions. Make Money Online Now!

Depending on what your website is for you will have a tendency to choose different ways of promoting it to your own satisfaction. I know that a lot of people just getting into Internet Marketing now are wondering how to make money with Google AdSense or other publishing programs. It is all about driving organic traffic to your site and that means you will have to rank high in search engines for your key terms in order to make the most out of your site and Make Money Online!

Your web site’s Search Engine ranking can be determined by Search Engine Optimization, Backlinks, Location and Authority. After all consideration I came to the conclusion that Backlinks are probably one of the strongest determining factors when it comes to SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). For Example: If you have two pages and one has really strong SEO and a couple backlinks while the other has a little bit of SEO and thousands of backlinks. The site with more quality backlinks usually will place better!

In order to achieve great ranks and make some money you need to Build Links. The more Backlinks you have, the better you are doing! I always suggest 1 Way Linking because it will always appear natural to Search Engines; that way you cannot get penalized for Reciprocal Linking. Here are Four different common types of Backlinks:

• 1 Way Links: This is a natural link from another website to your own. This can be achieved through Link Building efforts, great content that people will Link to or by Purchasing a Link on a website.
• 2 Way Links (Reciprocal Links): This is a link exchange. You place a link for someone on your site and they will return the favor on their own. This is not suggested because the value of these links is greatly reduced just because it is reciprocal. Think of it like the links are canceling each other out.
• 3 Way Links: 3 Way Linking is where there is 1 link to another site from a triangle of Three sites. It is the result of knowing that Search Engines penalize 2-Way linking. It is just a loophole around that idea; except there is still some risk involved.
• Internal Links: These are links to internal pages of your site from within your website. If you have a page that talks about Link Building you should also place links to other Link Building pages in your web site to build internal links. Contrary to what some people may think; they are also helpful to help certain keywords rank higher in Search Engines.

Some other things that you should take into consideration when Building Links are:

• Anchor Text: This is the Text that is shown when you have a URL to your site. For example: The anchor text for Becoming a Millionaire Overnight! is “Becoming a Millionaire Overnight!” This helps you rank for those terms in Search Engines that is why it is good to have Backlinks to the inner pages of your site too; instead of just the root destination.
• Do-Follow: This is a link attribute that is default for any URL. If a Link has a No-Follow attribute it means that the link doesn’t pass any PR.
• Page Rank: The Page Rank of any given page is basically a score that Google gives the page between 0/10 which determines the page’s Link Popularity. The higher the PR; the better.

When you run a web site you should always set aside some time to Build Links. A great Link Building Campaign can really make the difference between a site that does well and a site that doesn’t.

These are the things that I do for some of my websites in order to Build Great BackLinks:

• Submit to Search Engines - Submitting to Search Engines is the first thing you should do when you have your new website up and running.
• Submit to Directories - Submitting to Directories creates good quality backlinks. There are two directories specifically that are better than the rest. Yahoo.com and Dmoz.org
• Submit to Blog Directories - When you Submit to blog directories you can get a lot of backlinks to your main page and specific internal pages. Another great thing about them is that they create exposure for your blog and possibly other bloggers will link to your material!
• Submit to Article Directories - Submitting Articles is a good way to build backlinks and receive good referral traffic. My favorite article directory is Ezinearticles. Check it out.
• Submit to RSS Directories - Submitting your RSS Feed to these sites is a great way to increase your RSS Subscribers and sometimes you can also get a link to the root of your website as well.
  
  

• Create Profiles on Social Networking Websites - These sites usually allow you to have a URL to your own personal website on your Profile Page. It is a quick and free Backlink.
• Create Profiles on Social Bookmarking Websites - Creating a Profile on Social Bookmarking Sites is good because each time you update your website you can add another backlink to your web site’s Content! A few great Social Bookmarking Sites include: Digg , StumbleUpon , Mixx , del.ico.us
• Create Profiles on Forums - Creating Profiles on some forums is great because you can place a Backlink in your forum Signature. This is the space under each post that has your Backlink. It is great because not only will you receive a good Backlink, but the referral traffic from forums is amazing!
  
  

• Blogs: Link Exchange - This is where you exchange a Blog Roll Link with another Blogger in order to get some traffic. I don’t really do this personally because I am not too fond of Reciprocal Links; but it may be helpful to some.
• Blogs: Link Baiting - This is where you write great content for your site that others will link to! This could also include contests and other types of posts that are generally linked to. Writing something controversial or humorous is a great way to Link Bait.
• Blogs: Leaving Comments - This is where you leave comments on blogs that are relevant to the post. Leave a meaningful comment that either adds to the topic, or questions it. You can use the Name as your Anchor Text and Website as your URL.
• Blogs: Guest Blogging - This is where you write a blog post for another blog and place your Backlink somewhere within the post. The great thing about this is that it also builds a relationship between yourself and other Bloggers!
• Blogs: Blog Reviews - This is where another Blog will Review your Blog and place a Backlink to your main page and possibly some of your best posts! Many times this is a paid service; however, there are a few blogs that offer them for free!
  
  

• $$$: Buying Backlinks - I don’t personally do this but I know some people prefer this method. This is where you buy a link on a high profile web page that gets a lot of traffic and you receive traffic from them. I wouldn’t really do this because it could hurt PR, but if you don’t care about Page Rank then I guess it wouldn’t make a difference.
• $$$: Link Building Services - These are services offered by Link Building Companies that will do your Link Building for you. They do all sorts of things like Submitting to Directories, Creating Profiles, and Promoting on Forums.

These are just the basic things that you should do when you are Building Links for your website or blog. If you would like to know more about Building Backlinks then check out these two websites… they both have a lot of detailed information about Building Links:

• Link Building Bible - This is a blog completely dedicated to the topic of Link Building. They also have their own Do-Follow Search Engine called the ‘Do-Follow Diver‘ which makes it a lot easier to find blogs to leave comments during your Link Building Campaign.
• Mixed Market Arts - This blog is the home of the ‘Link Building Cookbook‘ . A great resource for anyone who wants to build better links to their site!
• Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing School - This Post “102 Ways to Make your Site a Backlink Superstar” is a great Link Building Guide.

Now that you know how to Build Great Links and where to find them.. go ahead and do it! The success of you site depends on it. Sign up to my RSS for free and you will be notified whenever I update with great Link Building articles.. or articles that will make you money!

In the next Issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about Running Contests on your Blog!

Becoming a Millionaire overnight is not possible, you are probably dreaming.

I’m sorry if I have misled a lot of you with the title of this article but if you still believe that you are going to Become a Millionaire overnight then Internet Marketing may not be for you! Becoming a Millionaire isn’t just going to happen… unless you win the lottery (but that is a different story)!  A Career in Online Marketing is almost a test of determination and perseverance! I know that my original intention to work at home on the internet was so I could take it easy and relax more; which was not an option with a full time job! I quickly realized that making money online was a lot harder than it seemed and that I would have to put in a lot of work in order to succeed.

There are two ways to Become a Millionaire. The first way is easy because all it requires is one thing: Luck. Becoming a Millionaire can happen in the blink of an eye if you happen to have luck on your side and win the lottery. The second way to Become a Millionaire requires hard work and dedication to your goal! Many Millionaires achieve their wealth or success through a business that they operate.

If Becoming a Millionaire is what you really want then I won’t try and argue with you because I already established my own personal goals that I know I can achieve! If you are willing to put in the time, the effort & the money then you are already many steps closer to reaching that first million!

Here are the 5 keys that will make your dream of Becoming a Millionaire through Internet Marketing a lot more clear:

1. Passive Income
   One of the best ways to make a lot of money on the internet is to find a way to make passive income. Passive Income is way to earn money an a regular basis without working on a regular basis! A few different things you can do to make Passive Income includes Owning a Business, Publishing Ads, Affiliate Marketing Promotion or Receiving Royalties from a Patent! Passive Income is great because you can work hard for a little bit on your money making techniques and then rest while the money rolls in automatically.
2. Multiple Streams of Income
   Did you ever hear of the saying “Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket”? Well, this goes for anything…especially when financial investment is involved! If you want to make money from the internet then you shouldn’t just do 1 thing to generate wealth… you should find as many ways to pull in some cash as possible. You can easily have a website that displays AdSense Ads & Private Ads while Selling Products & Receiving Affiliate Commissions!
3. Savings
   When you make money online… the best thing to do is go straight to the bank and deposit into your savings account! It isn’t a secret that interest accumulates on money in bank! Use this to your advantage because you could easily retire at a much younger age if you think about it!
4. Joint Ventures
   A Joint Venture is when you take two businesses and create a partnership for a specific project, event, etc. The reason this is great especially for young entrepreneurs and solo proprietorship is because you can take yours skills and combine then with someone else to create something great. The better reason is that the other party in the Joint Venture will likely make up for your weaknesses! For example: There is a Programmer who knows how to Program great software and is the best in his field; the problem however, is that he has no social skills! He finds someone who has great communication skills and they team up to launch a new program… The programmer does all the tech work and the partner does all the marketing and promotion!
5. Expansion
   No matter what you do on the internet to earn money, the only way you are going to make it big is if you are willing to expand! If you are beginning with a small website with AdSense ads.. once that gets going.. don’t be scared to start a few more websites with the same concept and principle to make it bigger! Expansion takes money, but brings in even more!

If Becoming a Millionaire is your dream; then go for it! Remember that there is no one who can stand in your way and if you occasionally run into a brick wall it isn’t the end of the world. They are there for a reason and that is to see how badly you want something and how hard you will work to reach it!

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk a little bit on the topic of Link Building and give you a few great resources!