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You may know that you have to do keyword research before you pick a domain name for your site.  You also do have to use a keyword to write articles about your affiliate product.  These two are not related, but you use keyword after you did research for the keyword that people are looking for the product.  Here are the pros and cons of doing keyword research.

Easy getting Traffic: If you know that you did the keyword research and know what people are searching for on the internet, and you have a domain that has the keyword in it, you will definitely will get a lot of traffic to your site.  That is the organic traffic that I am talking about.  You and I would know that it would be like icing on the cake if you do a little bit more of search engine optimization (SEO) by writing articles and submit it to the article directories, such as Ezinearticles.

Unavailable domain names: The problem is now a day almost all keyword top level domain names that are in your niche are already taken, especially the three-word or less domain names.  What you have to do is to add another word, such as blog, to that domain name to make it happen.

O.K. That is fine, but when it comes to Google keyword ranking, you would have a hard time to compete with other sites for traffic If those sites are page ranking higher than 5.  It means they have been in the niche for a long time.  Their domain age is probably more than five years old.  You may have a hard time to compete with them.  But I see that you can do your best with seo by generating fresh content so that Google would see your site benefits and hopefully it will give you more page ranking.

What happens if you did not do the keyword research for your domain name?

Well, tough luck! You have to work harder than if you do have a keyword in your domain name.  You might have to buy traffic to your site, otherwise you do not have much traffic at all.  You have to do SEO.  You have to write articles and submit them to article directories.  You have convert them to video and audio format and submit them to Tubemogul and other directories.  You have to use social network websites and social bookmarking sites to expose your site.  As I mentioned, you have to work very harder than if you have a domain name with keyword in it.

Similarly, it is like you know the demand is out there and you just have to provide the supplies to satisfy the demand.  That is going to be an easy sale if you are selling a product.  However, if you do not do research about the market and you make a product that there is no demand for it.  You will NOT make any sales and you will definitely lose money.

In summary, do not just take the keyword lightly when it comes to name your domain name in a particular niche.  If you do not, you will be sorry and be surprised that there are not a lot of traffic to your site.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below!

If I have left anything out or you know of any other way to make money with your site or blog, then please share with the audience by leaving a comment below.

Imagine you have a website or blog that generates thousands of dollars every month. It is great, do you think not? You would not have to do anything, but relax and enjoy the passive income. Well, it could happen to you If you follow my 6 possible ways to make money with your website or blog. A good amount of traffic is a must have before you apply them into practice.

Here are the 6 ways to make money with your website or blog

1. Donation

In order to have a donation work properly, first you have to provide a rich content on your blog or website, no bluff. When they see your great content and benefits of it, they are more than willing to donate some money to you. It is similar to “Give and Take” scenario. Here is a great example.  If you write an article and want to submit it to EzineArticles, you have to give the benefits of your article to readers first before you can ask them to buy your product or to do something.

After that, you setup a wish list account with Amazon; then ask your readers to buy you any items from the wish list. It could range from a couple dollars to hundreds of dollars. One last thing, you may want to set up a Paypal account so it is convenient for you as well as your readers.

2. Subscription

It is about the membership site where you provide a continue great valuable benefits to members every month otherwise they would not stay there for a long. You have to put your reputation on the line as an authority or expert in the particular niche or subject in order to do this kind of membership site. You can charge ranging from 14.99 to hundreds of dollars per month. Remember what is in store for them to make them stay and follow you. And proper planning and scheduling of your membership site could be the main key to make money with subscription site.  It is a recursive income!

3. Contextual ads

This is the easy one to make money after you have a great traffic to your blog or site. You can begin with Google Adsense which is easy to do once you open an account with Google Adsense and follow all the instructions and place the ad on your blog or site. For more detail on how to use it, click here. The down side is it lacks editorial control. Google may place whatever ads that they want and it may be a competitor’s ads of yours if you have your product to sell. Another interest point is the “One click gone effect”. As the name implies, the readers click the ads once and never come back again because they got what they are looking for. There is no way to have a repeat clicker!

4. Affiliate marketing

For this one, you need to sign up with affiliate marketing services such Amazon, Commission Junction, Click Share, etc….The way it works is you drive the readers or your potential customers to your merchants’ sales page that persuade them to buy the product. If they do, you get a commission from the merchants. It ranges from 3% to 75% commission. You can write articles to drive traffic to your merchants’ website. You also need to have good keywords that they are looking for in order to have a good click through rate (CTR).

5. Direct Ads

The direct ads works for those that have a higher authority in a particular subject. Once you are very popular in that industry, you will have the advertiser in the same industry call you and talk about having their ads on your site, just to display what their company name, but not about selling their products.  They can set the price of the ads.  You make more money than the contextual ads.

6. Selling your own product

You are the advertiser of  your own products that you may have. You do not need to pay advertiser to do that.  What you have to do is to drive the readers to your site and persuade them to buy your products. That is all to it!

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