Much of my attention lately has been directed toward marketing online–information products, affiliate programs, direct merchandise. I’m finding that one of the more difficult aspects of this has been keyword selection for use in PPC (pay-per-click) ad campaigns. The burning question I’ve been faced with is how to find a good keyword. I’ve done quite a bit of research and found some good answers.

The key to finding good keywords is research. Unfortunately, this is time-consuming, brain-intensive work. But it is necessary. But how to do the research?

For those of you who are interested, I’ve found two things that I can highly recommend. Attention: these are both affiliate links. I don’t want any comments about misleading someone. If you want to make money online, you need to attain knowledge. If you don’t like the idea of me earning a commission from my recommendations to you, search out the programs and go to the web sites yourself. But do it, one way or the other. The information is good, valuable, and worth many times what it will cost you if you put it to work for you.

The first is Google Cash. Many people have said that making money with Google AdWords is dead. That is so not true! It is true that you can burn quite a bit of money if you don’t do it right–ask me, I know! For good information on how to do it right, how to find a good keyword that you can promote profitably, Google Cash is, in my humble opinion, one of the best investments you can make in the beginning of your online marketing adventure.

Next, I highly, highly recommend becoming a member of the Wealthy Affiliate group. The sheer volume of information on this site is incredible–one could explore for days on end and not find the bottom. Yes, there are other free sites like the Warrior Forum, and there is good information to be found. But I’ve also learned that in many ways the best information resources are not free. With a membership site like Wealthy Affiliate, the owners have a vested interest in making available timely, accurate information. Of all the sites of this nature I investigated, I found Wealthy Affiliate to be the best.

Just to serve notice: I will, from time to time, be sharing information and products I have found by personal experience to be helpful. If you don’t like that kind of post, or have no interest in earning a living online, please don’t read them. If you are interested, rest assured that I will provide you only with information I have used myself, information that I know by experience is valuable and proven to work.

The following paragraphs are excerpted from chapter 16, “Some Cautions and Concluding Observations”, of The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles.

I held something of a discussion with Peter in the comment section of this post on Why the Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer. He tried to argue that economics and the station to which you were born in life, the circumstances you were born into, were the main determinant of what happens in your life. I’ll concede the point to a degree–but only because the circumstances of your upbringing influence what you are taught, what you learn on your own, the lessons you take from life as it progresses, even (or especially) your beliefs on the subjects of wealth and opportunity.

While the subject of the book is that there is an actual science of getting rich, certain steps that if you take them you become rich, the underlying premise is that a person is in control of their own life and that control is wielded by thoughts and actions.

So to begin, we will start at the end of the book, or almost the end. This chapter summarizes the main points in the book, beginning with the question of whether there is a ’science of getting rich’.

MANY people will scoff at the idea that there is an exact science of getting rich; holding the impression that the supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that social and governmental institutions must be changed before even any considerable number of people can acquire a competence.

But this is not true.

It is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in the Certain Way.

If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.

If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.  • Read the rest of this entry »

Do you question proven science? It is well-proven that if a group of people begins with a certain amount of certain raw materials, processes those materials in a certain way into new things, takes those new things and assembles them in a certain way, the end result is a plasma television. We don’t question this because it’s obvious–the plasma TV is on the shelf at your local Costco.

The same basic process works for everything that we see in the material world from buildings to roads, cars to clothes, jewelry to swimming pools. All these things have come into being by people acting in certain ways. Agreed?

The accumulation of wealth is the same. If a person believes in a certain way and acts in a certain way, wealth is the inevitable outcome, an outcome that is scientifically assured.

This is the premise of Wallace D. Wattle’s book, The Science of Getting Rich. There is a ‘recipe’, a scientific method, for attaining wealth–getting rich. If you follow the recipe, if you use your mind in a certain way, and act in a certain way, you’ll get rich. If you don’t follow it, you might still get rich (emphasis on the might) but it will likely be quite by accident or the result of the unconscious application of wealth principles. (As an aside, rumor has it that this book was the impetus to Rhonda Byrnes’ The Secret, although I haven’t verified this.)

Over the next few days, I’m going to reproduce the book here on The Fast Lane, chapter by chapter, with comments and observations. I am being more than a little selfish here–this is for MY benefit, as a way for me to better see ‘the error of my ways’. Obviously, since I am not yet wealthy, I have not been doing or thinking in the correct way. Duh.

I hope that whoever reads this can benefit from it too, if only to provide a platform for discussion or maybe an awakening of desire or sense of possibility.

P.S. I’m back–sort of. Original thought has been elusive of late, but that too is a product of the mind, yes?