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In the previous post – How To Set Reachable Goals And Start Earning Money, I outlined six simple steps you can follow to set reachable goals and start making money online. In this article, I will explain each step in greater depth. These are the steps I use to earn money online using free methods. No need to spend any money on PPC. No need to buy domain and hosting services.

So let’s get started right away….

1. Find a topic or niche

To do this, I will visit EzineArticles.com (the most popular article directory on the Net). Select a category that you’re interested in. If you already have a topic in mind, just type in a phrase on the search field and see what articles are being written on that topic.

For example, I type in the phrase “eczema treatment” and see a bunch of articles on this subject. Go ahead and read a few articles just to get a feel on what people are writing about.

2. Check if there is money to be made

In this step, you want to find out if there are products that people are buying. A very quick way to verify this is to go to eBay.com and just type in a keyword (in this case the keyword is “eczema”). A search for this keyword produces 251 results (see screenshot below).

On top of that, you can also go to Clickbank Analytics to check if any info-product available on this subject. For example, searching the word “eczema” gives you a bunch of info-products that you can promote.

3. Build an information site

First, you need to do 4 things:

- Go to gmail.com and create a new gmail account (free)

- Go to blogspot.com and create a new account (free)

- Go to google.com/analytics and create a new account (free)

- Add your new blog in Google Analytics and paste the tracking code into your blog.

Now come the hard part…. selecting the right keywords and writing the articles. We want to select 5 long-tail keywords and write 5 articles based on these keywords. Note: long-tail keywords are keyword phrases that are easy to rank on the search engines. These keywords are very specific and have low search volume.

For example, the phrases “treatment of eczema during pregnancy” and “baby eczema breastfeeding” are examples of long-tail keywords. As of this writing, if you type these phrases in Google, you’ll only see 1 page for the first phrase and 76 pages for the second phrase respectively. If you write articles (300 words) targeting on these phrases, you can easily gain top spot in Google.

To find long-tail keywords, go to SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool and type the keyword eczema. Look through the keyword list and try to find at least 5 long-tail keywords. Do not worry about the daily search volume at this moment.
Write 5 articles and submit to your blog. At the end of each article, paste in your eBay RSS Feed. To learn how to do this, read this article: “How To Make Money Online With eBay RSS Feed And Blogger Blog“.

4. Promote your information site

Here’s how to promote your new blog (after you’ve written and submitted 5 articles of course) step by step.

- Submit your blog to feedage.com >> to do this, go to your blog and click on the “orange RSS icon” you see in your web address bar.

- Go to socialmarker.com and bookmark all the 5 pages or articles of your blog.

- Next, take one article and rewrite it by at least 50% and then submit the article to these 5 article direstories: EzineArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, GoArticles.com, ArticleDashBoard.com and IdeaMarketers.com (NOTE: rewrite all 5 articles and submit each to these article directories). Do this at your own pace.

- Submit the rewritten articles (one by one) to Squidoo and HubPages. You don’t need to do all this in one day, you can do this in stages for 3-5 days.

NOTE: To write articles quickly, read this “8 Simple Steps To Write Great Article Quickly“.

5. Monitor the traffic to your blog and see what keywords people use to find your blog.

Now, log on to Google Analytics and look at your traffic statistics. Google Analytics can tell you the sources of your traffic as well as the keywords people use to find your blog (see screenshot below).

6. Rinse and Repeat.

After doing steps 1 to 4, what I normally do is let the blog runs for 30 days. At the same time, I will do my research and pick another new topic or niche and do steps 1 to 5 all over again. If I make consistent sales then I will consider to expand my free blog into a full blown site using WordPress blog with a domain name and hosting.

The important thing is to do all this consistently at your own pace. After some practice, perhaps you would be able to complete one topic or nche in 5 days. That’s it! Now you can follow this simple step and set some reachable goals.

P.S. If you need more information, I recommend you to read these two books: One Week Marketing Action Plan and Bloggers Paycheck.

You can read the full reviews here: One Week Marketing Review and Bloggers Paycheck Review.