Jobs for Felons EBook – Lesson One
As I’ve mentioned before, I plan to create an ebook that will teach my readers, and those who have been convicted of a felony, how to recover from the devastating experience and make money online. The Jobs for Felons eBook is still in development and I will post a link to it as soon as I have it ready. In the meantime, I plan to post, blog by blog, the method for starting a website online with the purpose of making affiliate money, monetizing the site for paid blog posts and link sales, and also offering the site in a process known as domaining. These will be the processes I”ve used to become a successful online marketer and I’m now earning more income than I did before I was convicted of a felony.
So, let’s get started. For this eBook “glimpse”, I will provide you with the details on how to start from scratch and build a website. For entertainment purposes, I am going to make my sample website one that is about animals. You can choose any niche you are interested in – maybe parenting, sports, medicine – really anything. The first step is to narrow down your niche and to find three to four, longtail keyword phrases that are highly searched on the internet but have very low competition levels. This keyword research should be done first, before you even buy a domain or set up hosting. It is important to find a keyword rich domain as this will be favored by Google, Yahoo and Bing.
For the first step, let’s find a bunch of keywords that have high search volume. Using a keyword tool called SEObook (which can be found here), select the icon that says “keyword tool, and you’ll be able to type in long tail phrases and find one that has a high search volume. It is important to find long tail phrases – say three to four words a piece, with search volume of, at least, 100 per day. If you choose more broad keywords, with high search volume, they will be too competitive for this project.
In may example, I am doing a search for “monkeys for sale”. Right off the bat, I see the following four, long tail keyword phrases with search volume as follows:
capuchin monkeys for sale – 2772
squirrel monkeys for sale – 1522
baby pet monkeys for sale – 1499
monkeys for sale – 1420
These figures represent the average number of people who are searching in the major search engines using these targeted phrases. So, I’m on my way to picking a domain and website – looks like I’ll be focusing on some aspect of moneys for sale. In Lesson Two, we will discuss how to determine which of these phrases, with high search volume, also has very low competition on the web – a key to successful online marketing.
Be sure to come back and visit and sign up for our RSS feed here at jobs for felons. We want to help you make money online by building a site that can be monetized and, possibly, even sold for money.
Expanding Job Search to Include Blogs and Ecommerce
Typically, I try to provide advice and tips on job opportunities online. If you are searching for jobs, and using the internet to do so, you may want to consider not looking for job leads but, instead, starting your own online business. That is really the focus of my website – to provide ways in which to earn money online. While many blog posts here on Jobs for Felons provide tips for finding work online, it is my goal to also provide an opportunity for earning money online through an online business.
In the coming weeks, we will talk about how to start an online business blogging in a niche industry and also how to start an online business using ecommerce tools and drop shipping. We invite you to come back often and obtain information and tips online. Also, please free to share your own success stories so we can reach out to other people who are in the same situation and trying to bond together in our successes.
