Stop Using Affiliate Links & Ads - Do This To Make Money!

If you want to make money online, stop using affiliate links, banner ads, AdSense, Eoic, ClickBank links, or any of the other stuff the gurus are saying makes big money. Why? Because I tried it, and the best I could do was a couple of cents per visitor.

But today I'm going to show you how this one thing made me over a million dollars online, and it all has to do with what I believe is the biggest opportunity to make money online. Yep, that's right! There's this little gap in the marketplace that very few people are paying attention to that can put tons of money in your pocket.

I actually learned this by accident about 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, I was running traffic to my websites, my blogs, videos, and all the content I was putting out. Some of those blog posts and web pages, even though they were simple and only took like an hour to set up, generated hundreds of millions of impressions and millions of visitors to my websites.

Only I wasn't making that much money. You see, I thought if I generated millions of people to my websites, I could click my heels up and retire, but nothing could be further from the truth. Maybe you're in the same boat.

You've gotten a couple of people to a website, a Facebook post, a video, or some kind of content online, and you got nothing to show for it. Or maybe you made like a dollar or sixty or some poultry amount of money that nobody even cares about, and you wonder why. So, in today's video, we're going to talk about something very important.

We're going to talk about websites that get millions of visitors and make very little money. On the other hand, I'm going to talk about simple little web pages that are super easy to make, that get maybe a thousand visitors, and generate life-changing income. And it all has to do with one little secret.

Oh yeah, and this little drop-down box! So, if you're excited to learn about what I believe is the biggest, hugest money-making opportunity of our lifetime right now, smash the like button! Let's dive into the computer.

I'm going to show you how this whole thing works, and I'm actually going to set it up live on a simple blog post that I made on a video a couple of months ago that is now generating right around 2,000 visitors a month. So, yeah, we're going to use an example that anyone can copy, because let's face it, the internet's big, and getting 2,000 visitors is not that hard to do. So pay close attention because what you're about to learn can and will change the way you make money online.

Come on, let's get started! All right, so let's get to it and talk about what this $1 million secret is. Actually, I've used several variations of these in lots of places online, and they work every single time.

Like I said, this is one of the biggest opportunities online. When we look at this, we're going to show you an actual real-world example, showing this blog post here. As you can see, it's got some people on the blog post right now, it's getting a couple of thousand visitors a month, and it's very, very specific.

Now, this blog post is one that I fixed up a couple of months ago. You could see this video from two months ago where I'm actually fixing up the blog post, and since then, the rankings have literally skyrocketed. Now that I'm getting traffic, I want to start making more money with that traffic.

So that is exactly what this training is about. When we look at this, we need to take a look at all the different money-making methods out there: affiliate marketing, drop shipping, faceless YouTube channels, blogging, software as a service, e-commerce stores, influencer marketing, Amazon FBA, and more. They all have one thing in common, and that one thing is your big chance to make money online.

This is known as UMT, or under-monetized content. What does this mean? This simply means that the majority of the content online today is under-monetized, meaning they can make more money with that content than they're currently making with just a few small tweaks.

If you learn what I'm going to teach you in this video, well then, you'll be able to take virtually any content online and make more money with it, or even help other people make more money without even having to get your own traffic. It's actually super simple. Now, you might be looking at this and saying, "Well Marcus, what about something like AOIC?

" You see websites like this one here with tons and tons of different ads from AOIC and AdSense, and sites like this with the same thing, where there's literally ads everywhere. Wouldn't this be considered over-monetized? While it does have a bunch of ads on it, it's not necessarily over-monetized; it's just a site with too many ads on it.

If you're anything like me, you probably just skip past those ads, never click them, and just read the content. That is why most people with these types of ads are making no money. The key is that less is actually more.

In the blog post we're going to be looking at today, you can see it doesn't really have that many ads on it at all. It just has a couple of buttons that I put and a few other informational type things, like a block here, which isn't an ad; it's just a screenshot. And, of course, our little appraisal tool up here.

I'm going to show you live in this training exactly how we turn this into a big opportunity. Money maker, but first, why Zoic and AdSense don't really work? Because they generate minimal revenue due to low click-through rates.

Not only that, but there's actually a lot of people who have started noticing that sites with lots and lots of programmatic ads on them are experiencing a decline in search engine rankings. So, not only are they not making much money, but they're also losing rankings and traffic every single day. The idea behind these traditional ads, like Zoic and AdSense, is that you get basically a low click-through rate, which is about 1%, or on the high end, maybe you get a 10% click-through rate.

This means over 90% of the people who come to your website never click and never make you any money. Of those who do click, the RPM (Revenue per Thousand Impressions) is actually extremely low. Most studies suggest that they’re making less than 2 cents per visitor.

Not to mention, ad blindness, ad-blocking software, and various other factors are making it so we can't even see the ads, which renders this type of programmatic advertising basically useless. That is why what I propose is using interactive elements and flipping the market. By using interactive elements, you keep your users engaged on your site longer, leading to higher conversion rates.

You can actually get a significant number of people to click on the things that make you money. For example, over here, you can see I averaged over 20 cents per visitor on this example. We achieved over 177 signups in 19 days with only 2,100 visitors, so essentially I was earning around $10 a click.

Here's another example in the Bible market where I was averaging 25 cents a click, and in the lottery market, it was averaging 12 cents a click, and on and on we go. This works like crazy. Not only does this help you get more engagement and more clicks on the things that make you money, it’s also going to provide better data collection.

You’ll know what people are interested in on your site, allowing you to adapt and adjust based on what they click on and what they don’t click on. Simply using programmatic ads does not allow for this; you’re essentially just giving your data to some big company. So, number four, what we want to do is focus on content that performs better.

We want to have interactive tools on our website—whether it's search boxes, drop-down menus, interactive icons, forms, in-line pop-ups, interactive content, gamification (like progress bars, badges, radio buttons, checkboxes, checklists), live chat, chatbots, and the whole nine yards. The idea is to create something natural based on what people are doing on your website. Case in point, here's a PDF converter website that was using those programmatic ads.

Although, I did notice something interesting when I used an incognito window: one of the ads was actually pretty smart; it had a little start button or download button that generated a lot of engagement. Let me ask you this very important question: on this web page, what do you think generates more clicks—the button that says "choose files," the ads over here, all this stuff up here, or anything else on the website? If your answer was the "choose files" button, pat yourself on the back; you win!

On this webpage, that is the most important button. The same is true if we go to Google; the most important button here is the Google search button. If 100 people come to this webpage, odds are 100 people are going to search for something, and that is where interactive elements come into play.

What we want to do is take our website and think about what would be natural based on the keyword or the way that they got there. If they came from a YouTube video and they’re looking for notes, we should have a download button for the notes. If they came from Google and they were looking for a table or a PDF or they want to convert a file, we need to keep those in mind and look at what is natural based on what they're doing.

In the example we’re going to be using today, they are coming here looking for a GoDaddy appraisal tool and they want to appraise their domain name. The amount of people that are actually putting a domain here and clicking "appraise"? Yes, it’s nearly 100%.

The same thing happened when I had a Bible website that featured different versions of the Bible. I had pictures of various Bibles, such as the NIV, the New King James, and the New Standard. Because there were different choices of Bibles, the click-through rate on the selections was about 99%.

The same thing occurred with my lottery website. I had a simple website where they could go and find the lottery numbers, and I included a drop-down box that had today’s date. Why?

Because when you go to a lottery website to check the numbers, you need to know the date of the drawing you entered. The amount of people that clicked this drop-down box again was around 99%, meaning virtually everyone who visited the site clicked on that and ended up at my affiliate offer. So, if I had a website like this, the key would be to provide something they can download—maybe I can find PDF software that they can click on or download—or offer them a free domain appraisal or an appraisal guide or something similar.

think to myself, what would natural fit here? Or another example: when I ran my famous tattoo website that got all kinds of attention for making a bunch of money, I quite simply had a search box where they could search for the tattoo and then, under that tattoo search box, I actually had images of the most popular tattoos that they could click and go to the affiliate link to actually see that tattoo. So, instead of saying “download a million tattoos,” if they were looking for a cat tattoo, I led them to the page with the cat tattoos.

Getting this data is actually very simple. I would just go here and type in "tattoo" or whatever my keyword was and find the top tattoos. We can see here that "butterfly" is one of the top, which is why I had it on my website.

Then we had Medusa, snakes, skeletons, and on and on we go. Because it was interactive, lots of people used the search box and clicked the icons, which got way more traffic to my affiliate offers and the things that made me money. I did the same thing on this little basketball layout program, where I had little basketballs and things that they can click, taking things from the affiliate offer and putting them on the web page so that people knew exactly what they were getting.

Not only that, but I made sure it fit why people were on the page in the first place. Again, with the tattoo website, we had the search box right here, front and center, because I knew people would want to search. With my mortgage website, putting the zip code in was a key player in finding the rate for their local area.

So, notice how all of these things are natural, and they work really, really well. Not only that, but it's going to increase engagement on your websites, your blogs, and any of your content online because people are going to actually click and find what they want. This is key.

You might be saying, “Well, Marcus, that's all fine and good, but where do we take them to actually make money? ” This is where the flip-the-market idea comes into play. What we want to do is flip the market from one thing to another.

If they're on your website looking for stuff like mortgage IDs or calculators or something like that, they're kind of a passive person looking for calculators and tips on mortgages—just information. What we want to do is try to flip them into something that is going to help them and also pay us. For example, if the rates are good, we could link them to a refinance offer, which pays lots and lots of money.

What we're going to do is have our calculator here with our interactive elements, and then at the bottom we'll say, “If your calculator said 5% or more, click here to save tons of money by refinancing. ” Then, we take them to a helpful article about refinancing that shows ads based on what they're looking for. We can even get them into different affiliate offers and things of that nature simply by getting them to click.

The name of the game is getting people to click, but the problem is most people are lazy. They just want to stick a code on their site and get rich instead of going out there and looking at each piece of content separately. When we look at these case studies, we can see that interactive elements versus traditional ads are going to skyrocket your income like never before.

Making these little tools is actually very easy. We can go over to websites like this one here and create a little dropdown based on the stuff that we want. Remember, dropdowns work like crazy!

If you had a mortgage site and it said "choose your state," most people are going to choose their state. If I had a dropdown that said, “How much money do you want to make? ” and it said $10,000 a month, they're going to use a dropdown to find the number that they want.

I can take them to an article based on specifically what they want to do. Or, in the weight loss market: “How much weight do you want to lose? ” I mean, isn't that much better than a bunch of weight loss random banner ads, affiliate links, and things that nobody wants to click on?

Yeah, I thought so too. So, I can make a simple dropdown and put it on my page in a very easy way. Not only that, but I can actually track what people are clicking on.

So, if they're using the dropdown and most people want to lose 150 lbs, well then I know that, and now I can adjust my marketing accordingly to get more clicks and make more money. Or maybe you want to go over here and make a search box. We can create a search box however we want: color it, make it fancy, make it easy to use, and bada bing bada boom, people are going to use it, and we get paid.

Or maybe you're going to go over here to, like, Icon Scout and get different icons that you can have: like radio buttons, question boxes, and different things like that. Using these interactive elements is a game changer, but don't worry—you don't have to know code. All we need to do is make something very simple.

For example, if people are coming over here to look up their domain value, let's say I put in articlefinish. com, which is one of our blog profit network domains, I can see that it is listed at $476. So, thinking about all the people that are coming here appraising domains every.

. . Day, what would these people want that I could get the most clicks on?

Well, maybe I can have a list of buttons: like "Domain over $500, click here," "Under $500, click here," or maybe a big button that says "Click to sell your domain. " A lot of people, when they find out the price of the domain, might want to sell it, not knowing how much money it might have been worth. Having that button there, instead of some ad for GoDaddy or something like that, is going to be a game changer.

Then, I can take them from that to maybe a course on domain buying and selling, or maybe they could sign up for GoDaddy auctions or something like that. What we want to do is something very direct and very easy. Or let's say we wanted to go through and actually get them into the domain selling process.

I could simply take something like this box here, copy it in a program like Snagit (obviously, make sure you have the rights to it), block out the words, right like this here. Then, I could say something like, "Sell my domain now," and now we have a banner that's going to far out-convert anything else out there. I could simply click "Edit Post," put my banner right in here like this, and then bada bing, bada boom!

I have something that people are going to want to click on just out of sheer curiosity because it fits what we're trying to do. Then, I can take them to a video talking about how to sell the domain and get them into one of my courses about domain selling or something like that that puts money in my pocket. Or I could use one of the tools I get from Blog Profit Network.

We actually have several different Voodoo plugins in the Voodoo Plugin Suite that is included with Blog Profit Network, where you could go through and create buttons and slideshows and various different things like that. Take a look at this one here: we had 10,000 people look at the slideshow, and 8,300 actually clicked on it. Here's another one: 76,000 people viewed the slideshow, and 42,000 actually clicked on it.

That's over a 50% click-through rate, where most ads are getting, yeah, like less than 1%. So if I wanted to go here, I could simply make a group of buttons called "Domain Selling," choose my size right like this, and then I can make little buttons right like this, or even buttons that are filled in that actually look like buttons like this one here. I could have little questions like "Check other websites for domain value," "Sell your domain here," "Click here to get a custom appraisal," and all kinds of different things that are based on what the user is looking for.

The key is in being super interactive, and when we're super interactive, we can convert traffic like crazy. A bonus tip is to make your interactive elements actually real and work, and put trackers behind them. This is what we do in the Voodoo Suite of plugins that you can get at BlogProfitNetwork.

com. But if you want to do it on your own, you can also track it using different short URLs or things of that nature that'll track which ones people click on, or you can even use something like Crazy Egg to see what people are clicking on your website. Now, making these is actually pretty easy, and I'm going to include the entire notes, including the HTML code for some of these elements, in the links where I go and create them, as well as the programs I use to do screen captures and different things like that.

We could see here there are tons and tons of different elements you can use: some of them are like a search box, drop-down box, radio buttons, checkboxes, and yep, if you're making these, you can just copy the code right here, and it'll put it on your WordPress super easy. Again, these will be over at DownloadNotes. com.

We can also see things like text area, date picker, file upload (which is perfect if you're doing PDFs and stuff like that), reset button, number input, slider boxes, navigation menus, image carousels, video players, light boxes, inline popups, click-to-copy button, sticky headers, and footers like I have on my blog down here. By the way, that's a pretty good video. If you get the notes, watch that one.

I think you'll like it. On and on we go; these elements get clicks, and clicks make money. So start using these elements, watch your click-through rate skyrocket, the engagement on your site is going to go up, which is going to increase your traffic—not to mention the search engines like that too.

You're going to be able to convert your traffic like never before. So grab the list over at DownloadMyNotes. com and check out the videos in the description that are going to go more into these landing page elements.

Also, in Blog Profit Network, I just uploaded this two-hour video on how to use these elements on your landing pages to boost your income like crazy. So check out the links in the description, and I'll see you in the next video!