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by  Sean Supplee

Making Money With Sean Supplee.com
Making Money Online
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Table of Contents
Legal Notice:......................................................................................................................2
Introduction:.......................................................................................................................4
Recommended Money Makers...........................................................................................5
Setting Up Your Site...........................................................................................................7
Membership Sites....................................................................................................................7
Wordpress Blog.......................................................................................................................8
Monetize Your Site...........................................................................................................13
Promoting Your Blog........................................................................................................16
List Building.....................................................................................................................19
Choose The Right Email Provider.........................................................................................19
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Introduction:
Hi! My name is Sean Supplee, I want to thank you for grabbing yourself a
copy of this powerful ebook Making Money Online. In this ebook I will go
over many of the details I do day in and day out to make money online. This
ebook is going to cover a lot of areas and I will provide you with as many free
resources and quality content to further you in your studies.
I will be going over many different ways of making money online such as
Article marketing, List building, Affiliate marketing, Cost Per Action, Adwords, Blogging,
Traffic generation, SEO and more. You will find links within this ebook that will direct you
towards other content I have written either in my blog or an ebook that will go more into detail
then what I can provide in this book.
My goal with this ebook is to provide you with enough information to get your mind thinking
money and coming up with your own unique ways to build your sites and drive traffic. The
most important step to any of this is TAKE ACTION! Make sure after you read through this
ebook you take action and implement some, if not all of the steps I have laid out for you here.
Taking action might seem simple but it's what keeps over 97% of people away from truly
making money online.
Let me tell you a bit about myself and why you should take the time to read though this ebook.
I started working online back in 2006 just off and on as a hobby making some money each
month. I thought it was cool that you could actually make money online just for doing things
you enjoyed. I held down a full time job and after work came online for an hour or two and
worked on some sites.
Back in 2008 I lost my job due to a lay off and had to make a decision. Do I do what I always
truly loved doing (making money online) or do I shoot for another new job? At first I decided
to study and search for a new job. I went to Atlanta GA for a few weeks and came back with
my Comp TIA Network+ certification. All the while in the back of my head I was always
thinking about my websites and if it was possible to make a full time income from them.
In 2009 I set out on a mission to build my sites into a profitable business I could live off. In
2010 I'd experienced much success I decided as a new year resolution to start my blog in which
I would answer all the questions I had when starting my online business. The biggest of which
was how to generate traffic for my sites. After studying countless courses and devising my own
ideas I now have an endless flow of traffic that continues to build my business to this day.
This is the information I am going to be sharing with you here. You can reach me any time via
my blog at seansupplee.com
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Recommended Money Makers
These are recommendations of sites that I have used over a long period of time and have been
paid from. While there are others these listed below make up the bulk of my income stream..
These sites have always released on time payments to me and are my most trusted and highest
income earners.
Text Link Ads
This is a great site for selling text ad space on your blogs. Its a good idea to place your ad spot
above the fold and in a high visible area. Buyers of these ads are looking for two things,
visitors and a strong backlink with a high PR ranking. Google searches for words such as
sponsor ads and will not count them in their backlinking. Instead of calling your text ad
network on your blog “sponsored ads” consider naming it featured sites. This gives your site a
better feel and also reduces the chance of Google penalizing your site and theirs.
Sign up for Text Link Ads
Google Adsense
Google adsense is the most popular and was launched back in 2003. I would have to say this is
the one thing that brought us back into the .com bubble after it burst back in 2000-2001.
Adsense runs both text and image ads along with some video to larger sites.
Sign up for Adsense
Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser works just like Adsense however they have a lower payout threshold which appeals
to many other smaller bloggers.
Sign up for Bidvertiser
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Neverblue
Neverblue is a CPA (Cost Per Action) network. It connects you with major companies such as
the ads seen on tv commercials at night, games such as eve online and netflix. Cost per action
means you get paid when an action is taken by a visitor to your site. This could be a simple
click-through, entering their zip code or email address into a form or actually buying the
product or trying a sample of it.
Sign up for Neverblue
Dealdotcom
Dealdotcom sells mostly digital products at a special discounted price. You can even list your
own products here. The best part about this site is its commission structure. Anyone you refer to
the site that gets their free account goes under you as your referral. Your direct referrals will
earn you 35% commissions for LIFE on whatever they order from the site. On top of that
anyone your referrals refer will earn you a extra 15% commissions for LIFE.
Sign up with Dealdotcom
Clickbank
Clickbank is used with my email marketing from list building. I sell products similar to the
original one that my list was built from. Clickbank offers thousands of digital products that
range anywhere from 30% commissions up to 100% in some cases. Digital products always
have a higher commission payout as there is no overhead cost such as creating the product and
shipping it out. I try to find products that are both selling well and offer a recurring commission
month after month. This allows my profits to continue to rise instead of having to create brand
new sales.
Sign up with Clickbank
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Setting Up Your Site
There are a number of ways to go about setting up your site and it all depends on what you
want to do. You can own a membership site that is free, paid monthly or a one time fee. You
can start a blog and start writing to it as often as possible (at least every 3 days). You can start a
static website with a blog for your own brick and mortar company, the possibilities are nearly
endless. In this section I will go over some of the membership scripts I have used along with
going over how to start up a solid wordpress blog.
Membership Sites
Membership sites come in all shapes and sizes and it really depends on how much functionality
you want from one and the pros and cons of each.
The first membership script I used is called Instant Member. This script comes at a great price of
just $97 and each additional site after is just $47. Secret Traffic Reports which is a monthly report
that uses this script. The script has many benefits and unique features such as being able to drip
content over several months, different upgrade options, one time offer pages and supports many
popular payment methods such as Paypal and Clickbank.
I have found there is a major drawback with this script which is its lack of some customization.
All of the pages are encrypted so you can not edit any of the pages besides in your admin area.
This makes things difficult if you wish to add additional pages such as a JV invite page or add
features to your pages such as javascript as the editor in the admin area is only an HTML editor
and will not support javascript.
The second script is one I am using right now called Launch Formula Marketing. This script
comes with a bit of a price tag at $997 or you can do a payment plan for $333 over a 3 month
span. This script so far is awesome and easy to set up. Once you pay for the script you can use
it on as many sites as you wish. You also get 1 year of free upgrades for the script. The best
feature is it's fully customizable and comes with a built in rebrander. This is one effective tool
to use when you want to build yourself a large list. It allows you to create an ebook, give it
away for free and then upsell them on the rebrand rights for the ebook. They can then login to
their account and input their affiliate id's and give the ebook away for free with their own links.
The one site I have used this script on so far is Take Action List Building.
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Wordpress Blog
Having a blog is powerful for any of your sites. It can be used as both an income source and a
traffic generation magnet that pulls search engine traffic from all over the world. The key to
running a blog is to post up unique quality content day after day. From my experience you will
want to post at the least every 3 days to your blog and up to 2 times per day depending on the
niche you are in. The important part here is unique quality content only!
The first thing you are going to need if you do not have one already is a domain name. Take
some time to think about what your blog is going to be about. It should be something you are
passionate about and like reading and writing about since you will need to create unique
content for it every day. Is your blog going to be a personal blog to brand yourself such as I did
with seansupplee.com ? Or is your blog going to be set around a specific niche.
If you are going with personal branding then it's a great idea to buy your name as the domain
name. If you are going to be focusing on a niche do some keyword research and find out what
keywords are drawing the most traffic for your niche. It is important to take your time on this
and find a keyword you can put into your domain name. This will help you greatly later on
when you start doing additional SEO work for your blog.
Setting up your wordpress blog is easy. You can download it and install it from their website at
wordpress.org. You can view the 5 minute install steps at Installing Wordpress. The other option
is by having a hosting provider that allows you to install it from your Cpanel called Fantastico.
I created a post about installing wordpress from Fantastico here.
Configure your wordpress for success
The next course of action you want to take is to set up your blog ahead of time for success.
There are literally thousands of wordpress plugins to help make your blog better and offer
unique features for your visitors.
Akismet Comment Spam Killer
This is the cream of the crop! With so many people trying to get quick easy backlinks,
comment spamming has become a real issue. Akismet requires that you get a API key which
requires a low monthly or yearly fee but is worth it. Spam comments are caught early and
deleted creating much less of a hassle for you.
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SI Captcha Anti-Spam
This is a good free option if you do not want to pay for Akismet. However some spam
comments do get though. It places a captcha code which the commenter must put in before the
comment is submitted.
Comment Luv
Comment Luv allows you to give a little back to those that take the time to leave a comment. If
the website they input is a blog of their's it will search for their most recent post and add a link
back to their blog.
Top Commentators Widget
A simple plugin that allows you to display your top commentators for your blog. It's a great
way to give a little more to those who are active in your community. I display the list on my
right hand menu of my blog. Each are linked up to their site and have a do follow tag attached
helping with their SEO rankings. Just one more way to give back to your fans.
Subscribe To Comments
A simple add on that allows your commentators to subscribe to that particular comment string
RSS feed. This way they can keep up to date with any comments made on this particular post.
Related Posts by Category
Allows you to add a section below each posting that searches for keywords in the topic you just
wrote about makes a educated guess as to what other posts the reader would be interested in.
This is a great way to get visitors to your older posts you have made.
Tweet Me Me
A simple plugin that places a retweet button with counter on each post. It allows a quick and
easy way for your visitors to retweet your post to all of their followers. A great viral tool to add
to your blog to gain additional exposure.
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WP Policies
Allows quick creation of your needed policies on your blog such as Anti-spam, disclaimer,
dmca notice, email policy, earnings disclaimer, external links policy, medical disclaimer,
privacy policy, terms of use and testimonial disclaimer. All which are required by FTC and if
you use Adsense on your blog.
Ultimate Google Analytics
Allows quick set up of Google Analytics for your blog so you can keep track of your traffic.
Analytics is the best tool to track traffic, sales funnels, hits to pages and keyword traffic.
Sociable
A customizable bar at the bottom of each post allows for quick access to popular social
networking, printing and social bookmarking of your post. A great viral tool to add to your blog
to gain additional exposure.
Wibiya Toolbar
This has to be my favorite addition to the blog. It's the bar you see at the bottom which is
customizable with tons of useful features such as recent posts,quick access to your twitter feed
and facebook fan page, translates your content into different languages and more. It's powerful
and allows easy access to parts of your blog. It allows your readers to access information
without having to scroll around your blog to find it.
Wordpress Database Backup
The most important plugin ever! This is a must have, you can backup your wordpress blog
daily via email or sent to your computer as a download. This is an easy way to make sure your
information does not get lost.
Wordpress Mobile Edition
Allows you to make your blog easy to navigate on any cell phone or mobile device with
internet access. It removes your ads and allows cell phone readers to get only content. It is
simple to set up and I was surprised at how many people accessed my blog via itouches and
cell phones after it was added.
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