1. Hi there Justin,

   This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing your tips, ideas and insights. I hope to one day make a decent living with my blogs. Thanks again.

   1. what if we don’t want to write all that and have money to spend.
      SEO is a very slow and tedious process.

      1. Go to a third-world/emerging country, buy some women, open a brothel somewhere. Seriously, money does not actually grow on trees.
         Even more seriously, if you have money to invest in something, buy Tesla shares.

2. Ok, interested how this will go! Ill keep an eye on it.

   1. thanks man…

3. Sadly I do not make any money from Affiliate program.

4. Thanks for sharing this basic but essentiail SEO information. In the end it doesn’t look difficult. But I would like to ask a timeframe from day zero to say $1000/month from your experience: 1 year? 2 years? 3 years time?

   1. 6-12 months if you’re hammering out 4-5 articles per day.

      It will quickly escalate too. Most of the people I know who hit $1000 per month, usually hit $3000 per month shortly after that.

5. When you tell people you will teach them isnt there a fine line to what you can tell them. If they master the niche too then they will become your competitor. I am sure that is not what you want. I have never really been successful in converting.

   1. Well no! I think one of the keys to real success is in generosity and being happy to share what you know. If someone makes the big time because of the way s/he implemented something learned from me, no problem: I don’t see that as having a new competitor, I see that as having a powerful new colleague and ally!

6. Your link http://ww.31dayfatlosscure.com/affiliates retuns 404 Not Found.
   www.

7. Nice post, definitely something that is proven to work.

   No one will actually do this, but if one does do it, they’ll reap the benefits of hard work.

8. I especially like this part. I can’t tell you how many people I try to show this to and they refuse to put the work in. Slow and steady gets rich but not in an instant.

   If you want to make good money writing SEO articles you need to write A LOT of articles. I recommend at least 4-5 per day.

9. Justin,

   with your experience, how long does it take for articles on article sites like Squidoo to really pick up some traffic ?

   Off topic: the commentform says :

   If you’re going to enter an email, remember to use http://
   ?? That´s new to me …
   I guess it should be :
   If you’re going to enter a website, remember to use http://

   Thanks,

   Filip

   1. depends on what keywords you write them for, and also how many links you get. But you can pick up traffic in 30-60 days usually with some good links.

10. I fail to see how doing something you don’t enjoy doing just to make money is a good idea. That’s what a regular job is for If you pick a product that you have no knowledge of and are in it just for the money, it will flop, and fast. You have to be at least slightly interested in what your doing, or your wasting your time.

    1. “If you happen to love something that is in a good niche, then you have the perfect niche for yourself.”

       Reading is your friend.

       1. “Whatever you do, don’t follow the old adage of “do what you love and the money will follow”. That’s complete bullshit.”

          I think I read the above somewhere, but can’t put my finger on it 🙂

          1. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

             If you pick a business solely on the basis if you “love” it or not, you’re not being very smart. As I said in the post “love” wont determine how much money you can make.

             Market forces determine how much money you make. So just by doing what you love doesn’t guarantee you’ll end up with money.

             Too many people get swayed by that B.S. mantra.

             1. I’m just saying that doing something solely based on greed is a recipe for disaster and heartache. At least if there is some heart behind the effort, your effort will not be in vain.

             2. I agree with Adam. Why don’t you do something you LOVE and find out how to MAKE money with it? Now that is a recipe for success. Otherwise, it’s just another shitty day, with the exception of driving a nice BMW and drinking a glass of expensive champagne to relive your stress. It doesn’t have to be exactly what you love, but along the lines of it. I think too many people make the mistake of actually not doing something they are passionate about.

11. Thanks for the info. I look forward to reading the rest of your post.

12. How do you get people to follow you on Twitter when you really don’t have many friends?

    1. I dont use Twitter. I dont really see the ROI in it

       1. ROI might be sooner than you think. Twitter is free. If you have a wp blog, the WordPress plugin to automate your tweet is free.

    2. Hi, first set up an account with Twellow.com – it’s free (make sure you give a full, honest and interesting profile without a sales pitch) and then search and follow as many people as you want in the categories you’re interested in. Most will follow you back. Then sign up with socialoomph.com. and automate following those who follow you, automate your welcome messages, explore the various tools and choose what works for you. Then tweet like crazy (you can tweet via both these sites, you can also pre-tweet) about things that will be of real interest to your targets. No direct sales pitch but always tweet your link. @ people whose tweets you like & retweet for the same reason. A little every day is the way with this. Don’t expect too much too soon but if you keep at it, you’ll have loads of followers and loads of targeted clicks.

13. I agree with the above statement, and I agree with your post. You have identified the key components to make money selling ClickBank products, but in order to create a good sales copy on your blogs, or review sites you really need to have your heart into that product and have a good understanding. Somehow you have to appeal to people emmotions and I think it is much better if you can do it and keep your integrity.

    Oh and hey this good looking gal over here on the right side of your blog is driving me nutes! 😉 Cheers, Chad

    – Chad

14. Wow, i like this post, i will learn a lot and waiting for step 2,
    Thanks for sharing this

15. Justin, no offense, but this article is seriously lacking. First, you have a broken link to your site. Second, you mention that you should do something to make money, not do something you love. Isn’t that exactly what people are trying to get away from? People want to LEAVE their 9-5 job that they hate, but do because it makes them money.

    I’m not sure which is worse: Justin’s article, or Shoe’s willingness to post it..

    1. Again, if you actually read the post you would understand what I said.

       I am NOT advocating doing something you hate. What I am saying is that you shouldn’t be fooled by the bullshit mantra of do “do something you love and the money will follow”

       The real world does not work like that. If you happen to love something that’s in a good market, then even better – but don’t think that just because you love something you’re going to make money doing it.

       – Justin

       1. I don’t think this is a hard concept to grasp… Justin you are spot on maybe people need to look at it differently. People hate 9-5, people like me I work at a bank and I am constantly being told what to do and how to do things and what to say. And to boot I have to stay in a cubicle from 9-5. with Affiliate marketing I can work from home watch my kids grow up in front of me instead of facebook all while pitching some skin cream I could care less about. Yeah I love skin cream if it keeps me at home. If you don’t want to be successful stay at your 9-5.

    2. Doing something you “don’t love” is quite different from wanting to escape from something you “hate”. The lure is not so much what is fulfilling, or not, for a lot of people. The lure is can I make more money doing something I like “better” than what I’m doing now.

       Personally, I will take an upgrade any day. A little more money and a little more like with each thing, and pretty soon you ARE doing what you love and getting paid very well to do it.

       I applaud the article. I just wish it was posted all at once. But, keep ’em comin’ back is the name of the game…

16. “If you happen to love something that is in a good niche, then you have the perfect niche for yourself.”
    yeah,i think it’s right,it’s useful for me,thank you!

17. “Get a list of keywords together for that product (make sure you get “buying” keywords and not just generic keywords)”
    Can you please explain what you mean by “buying” keywords? Thanks!

    1. someone searching for “31 day fat loss cure” is in buying mode, while someone looking for “fat loss” probably is just looking for information

18. When will part 2 be coming? 🙂

19. “”Whatever you do, don’t follow the old adage of “do what you love and the money will follow”. That’s complete bullshit.””

    ^This… I have to say I’m getting sick of people like Gary V running around preaching this.

    At some point you have to face the music… boring stuff makes money. It’s fine if you want to follow your passion… meanwhile I’ll do the boring stuff that I’m not so passionate about and make more money.

20. Justin, your response to Adam, where you say ‘Reading Is Your Friend’, really makes you look like a child.

21. I understand what Justin and so many others are saying about not just trying to do what you love. What if doing what you love is not profitable? Just because you love something doesn’t mean it is profitable. Also what if doing something you do not love will bring you more money than doing what you love?

    And what limitations are you putting on yourself focusing in such a narrow area. If you look at a lot of businesses and hear their stories about how the owner got started, it is not doing what they loved but instead an opportunity to make money in a area that didn’t have anyone to fulfill the demand.

22. Fascinating debate about what is essentially a good article. Clearly doing something you love is a happy thing. But so is making money! I ‘run two races’ at the same time. I have a website built around a genuine niche interest that I also make money from because my natural enthusiam for the subject makes the work easy and attracts exactly the people who might want to buy the stuff I sell. I also run another project that involves sites in other niches that I’m not especially passionate about per se (which make more money) but I am passionate about this work of affiliate marketing in itself. The changing internet marketing world and strategies fascinates me and I just love watching my little empire grow. So, a little ‘drudgery’ is necessary but isn’t really drudgery anymore because I love the results and know precisely what I’m working for. I guess if you’re not very successful that could be a different story. I like the post and will be back to see if there are any little gems for me to pick up in the rest of the series. Enjoy yourselves guys, life is brief and there’s no time to waste griping about what other people do – just get on and do your thing!

23. I have been seriously looking at the ShoeMoney Plan, but I have a question. I have no website, or product, or service (that I know of), how can your program help me to earn money on the internet? I would really appreiciate anyones input or ideas that would be of use to me.
    Thanks in advance.

    1. Hi Debbie!

       Get yourself a free website. There are loads of possibilities. Then use your website to publish original articles and reviews relating to your affiliate program and products, whichever you eventually choose. Always add you affiliate link. You can promote your chosen program in loads of free ways via free classified ads, social media, article publishing, blogs and commenting. On the other hand you don’t necessarily need your own website at all, you can just drive traffic to the program via your link and some programs (such as my own) give ready-made hosted sites to their affiliates. A little research will turn up literally hundreds of ways to promote your link and then it’s just a case of finding what works and going with it. It does take time to build but if you sign up on a good team you should get good support. I’m sure that Shoemoney Program would be an excellent way to start. All the best. If you need any help or advice (and you’re serious about becoming an affiliate marketer) then please get in touch – and read this site as it is packed with good stuff and great people!

24. I mean surely, this is just the process and I can say, it is tedious and boring; The more reason people don’t succeed on it.

    We must stick to it until we know what works and what’s not. We must stick to it until we have our first major income online.

25. So i’m curious about the article writing part of this. I I thought this whole google change has affected the article content. Do you think it has affected anything?

26. Yes its tedious and boring. But, to succeed at anything in life let alone the internet affiliate world, you have to put time in and work at it… Looking forward to your next update…

27. Really looking forward to the other steps.

    Another thing if I might add is stop doing tons of researching and just take action, this is something I struggled with when I first started as an affiliate. I would stay on forums 24/7 and never take action.

    1. I totally agree with that, James! I think most of us have been there at some point. Little and often I have found works for me – but that little has to be something which directly counts as affiliate work not just pootling about ‘doing research’! I’m not against research, you understand, but yes, the balance has to be in favour of promotional activity. Driving traffic. That’s our job!

28. agree with your opinion, and so forth … perseverance will succeed!

29. Thanks a lot for the tips. I’ll sure use these techniques and try to make my first $1000 as an affiliate marketer 🙂

30. Do you plan on talking about ppc?

31. Well I wanna know how to earn $1000, please let me know. Thanks!^^

    1. I want it too! it is impossible

32. Seeking out higher value links from strong authority sites will expedite this process. Don’t just look at article marketing as your primary form of SEO- look at a more holistic approach.

33. Writing a “quality” article in 20-30 minutes is highly suspect, especially when your goal is really to just crank stuff out in hope of boosting your SEO. I’m not arguing against the effectiveness of your tactics here, I just think that this is the reason why the internet is full of so much crap and why Google’s search results don’t show the best results anymore.

    The reason why most people fail to make money online is because they hate the process. That’s why the old adage of “do what you love and the money will follow” IS TRUE. Because if you’re doing something you love then you’re less likely to give up and move on to the next money making tactic. Understand these concepts is important, but if you’re looking for results by creating assembly line content in a soulless manor you’re not going to be very inspired to work through “the dip”.

    If none of your “niche” interests are big money makers then you better love business for business sake. That way if you’re creating a business around fat-loss, or “how to get a girlfriend”, and you aren’t interested in those niches, then at least you’re loving the business building side of things. If you don’t love business, and you’re just studying this stuff because you are lazy and don’t want to work anymore then you’ll probably give up anyway.

34. My first $1000 as an affiliate raw material buy

35. Fascinating side line discussion about passion, loving what you do, purity, self righteousness, negativity, economics, $1000, 9-5 drudgery and life…. But a question about the main topic… the wonderful article! I have done some of this but find it hard to write 4-5 articles a day on the same topic and keywords. I actually write for Demand Studios so the writing isn’t difficult. It’s how to alter the article content every time. Could you address that? And thank you for this information! Well written, clear, concise, and hopefully profitable for all not arguing the facts of life. BTW – those reading here do have a passion for SEO, affiliate marketing, web design, working at home, freedom from 9-5, so this is a very good example of “do what you love and the money will follow”. Sometimes the topics you have to promote aren’t your passion, but I am passionate about the process as a whole. Again, thank you for your blog and I will be following your main site from now on.

36. How do you do a press release, and where? Also, should we be setting up a landing page or blogg? Do we do the articles on our own site or on hubpages?

37. Sorry, but this article is total bullshit. I don’t even trust that you ever made 1000$. For example – write article in 30 minutes and every day 5 articles – where is quality? Where is some benefit for reader? You’re just a generator of text. You can see bullshits in every single sentence.

    1. Do you really think Shoe would let me write for his blog if I didn’t “walk the walk”?

       You can write a quality in 30 minutes, it just takes practice. Quit watching tv, get off Facebook and just write.

       – Justin

38. I remember back when this was called “BUM marketing”. It’s funny how times have changed.

    If someone can wrap their heads around basic SEO, the long-tail keywords are the next logical steps and the first easy targets. Makes sense, doesn’t it? 🙂

39. Justin,

    Great article. Can you give suggestions on how to alter each of those 4-5 articles a day when the content is the same subject. That has been my difficulty in the past when writing for article sites.

40. It’s definitely realistic to focus on that first $1000 barrier, as it is probably the hardest part. Once you cross that barrier things tend to get easier… At least it means you are doing something right.

    People need to understand that when they write there will be stuff that actual interests them and some stuff will be for their readers.

    Thanks for the post Justin.

41. It’s a good point about looking for magazines to determine whether a niche is profitable. Definitely something to think about when looking over the shelves.

42. I love how your motives are so self interested to promote your own product while at the same time providing extreme value to the audience about how to make money with affiliate marketing.

43. hi justin,
    awesome post 🙂 thanks for sharing. I made a related post on my blog, the idea is same to use long-term keywords that converts well.

    Ashish Patel

44. thanks a lot of for post

45. After reading the inforrmation on your help pages—I feel that this in not something for me. Please refund my money immediately.

    Thank you————–Pat Busch

46. Hello Justin im so confused ive never done blogging i have no idea where to start or how to start for that matter.. Everything sounds easy but when it comes down to actually doing it im stuck i dont know how to start..

47. I`m just wondering with this strategy, how do you determine if a keyword is too competitive and how many searches should it be getting? Also, after you post these articles to your blog or squiddo or wherever, where you continually keep posting the 4-5 you are writing throughout the day for 6-12 months?

48. Justin,

    I have a Spanish blog and my problem is to find the right product to promote in Spanish … do you think to translate your product to Spanish language?

49. Well here it goes I don’t think I could be any lower so I just tried to spend my last 80.00 dollars on this and I think I just got access for not much! So this will tell all. I sold my house about a month ago and have been staying in hotels and in my car since then. Not where I want to be in my life. Lets see what you got!!!

50. One of the most opportune websites I have discovered for know-how within this distinct niche market. I’ll be coming back every so often for new posts.

51. Good post. Keep ’em coming!

52. While I think that this method will work, there are examples on some forums of people writing articles every day for years and earning less than $5k a month.

    In addition, most people simply won’t do it due to 2 reasons. The first is the long range payoff and the second is the uncertainty in the payoff. It takes a tremendous amount of staying power to stick with a strategy like this, day in and day out for up to a year.

    How about writing 5 or 10 articles a day for webmasters and selling them for $10 or $20 each first, which would give you a $1000 income in a week or two to invest in other parts of your business as you climb up the learning curve and build your bankroll?

53. You make it sound so easy. Maybe it is. I guess the key is indeed finding a product that people will buy.

    the 5-10 articles per day, however, is a challenge.

54. Great post! Thanks for the good tips.

55. Do you have to pick one product or could you pick a whole category like writing about all Xbox action video games or fixed gear bike parts as two random examples?

56. Thank you that interesting web-site, although i possibly could certainly not discover the rss feed

57. what logo is the best selling for your 31 day fat loss? Could you email it to me?

    thanks!

58. come on, who can write 5 articles a day, thats very unrealistic and bs story

59. i am 16 years old ..can i make a 1000$ ?

60. Hey Justin
    why did the 31 day fat loss cure leave clickbank is it still being sold?

    what else are you promoting

61. Squidoo? Wasn’t it bought by Hubpages sometime ago… Should I promote a product I dont use myself, but has a lot of gravity in Clickbank

62. The 31 Day Fat Loss Cure no longer seems to be available on ClickBank, since these reply”s date back to 2011 how do we know this method still works? And by the way Squidoo is out of business!

63. I have read – this post the 5th time and I am re-studying it again because of the valuable and great content. I will use this as my reference resource and go to post/article for my affiliate success. Thank you so much for sharing with us these tips, insights and strategies that work for affiliate marketing.

64. Thanks..love your post

65. instead of waiting for sales on your site you could also earn some with impression through adsense account get now and start wasting page views

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