I’m Onibalusi Bamidele, a 17 year old blogger from YoungPrePro.com

I have been blogging for 14 months now and one great mistake I made early in my blogging career that I really regret was not building an email list. I quickly fixed this after 4 months of blogging but I still found it difficult to get subscribers to my email list.

Like most new bloggers I waited for weeks to get subscribers but I didn’t progress, I sometimes only get a subscriber in a day and if I am really lucky I will get 3. After two months I only had 150 subscribers. It was really frustrating!

The truth is, the money is in the list, but how can you really make money from your list when it is very small.

Let’s do a simple calculation.

Let’s say you get a 20% open rate for every email you send to your email list, and a 50% click through rate, and you only have 200 subscribers as a new blogger. If you send a promotion to your email list about a product that needs 30 people to make a single sale it means only 40 people will open your email, 20 will click and zero will buy. Make the number of your email list 2000 and it will be 400 people opening your email, 200 clicking and at least 6 whooping sales!

You see a whole lot of difference in having a small list and a big list?

The truth is BUILDING A BIG EMAIL LIST ISN’T DIFFICULT, at least, not after you finish reading this post.

I that used to get  2 subscribers a day now get an average of 20 subscribers every single day, as much as 100 subscribers in some days and a whooping 400 subscribers in some weeks. Do you see that building a subscriber list isn’t at all difficult. What am I doing differently? Below are some major things I did to more than triple my email subscription rate overnight.

I Started “Smart Guest Blogging” Massively

Guest blogging is really effective and is one of the best ways to build a massive subscriber list. In fact, guest blogging is my best blogging investment.

You should also realize that building a successful list from guest blogging isn’t just about writing guest posts as you like but about guest blogging smartly. I wrote hundreds of guest posts early in my blogging career but found it difficult to get 50 subscribers in a week but once I started guest blogging smartly I was able to get as much as 100 subscribers in one day from some of my guest posts.

Guest blogging smartly is all about understanding the pareto principle which states that 80 percent of results comes from 20 percent of your efforts. As a smart guest blogger, you need to understand what that 20% that brings results is. For me, it was guest blogging on big blogs. Once I realized guest blogging on big blogs was the game changer in significantly improving my email list subscription I started targeting more big blogs and my subscription went over the roof.

Here are some of my tips for getting the best from guest blogging:

• Have a great offer that will serve as your lead magnet
• Design a great squeeze page for your offer and try to explain what your offer is and why people should get it
• Start writing guest posts massively and ONLY link to your squeeze page

It’s that simple. Doing the above alone can bring about 500 subscribers every month (which adds to your list significantly).

In case you’re still confused about guest blogging and need more clarification you can download my free guest blogging eBook or hire me for help on that.

I Made Use of My Blog Effectively

A lot of us have a great marketing tool at our finger tips but we under utilize it greatly. Aside from my guest posts, my blog is the second top source of traffic to my landing page and with the different forms on my blog alone I get hundreds of subscribers to my email list every month.

Always do your best to make effective use of your blog to drive traffic to your squeeze page and increase conversions on your blog. You should always mention (and LINK TO!) your squeeze page whenever you have the opportunity and you should have at least two forms on your blog directing traffic to your blog.

In case you want more solid advice on significantly increasing email subscriptions you can read this great post (with a practical and effective video) on SmartPassiveIncome.com.

Tweaking My Squeeze Page

Do you know you can double your email list subscription without increasing traffic to your blog? How? By split testing and effectively tweaking your squeeze page. I used to get a conversion rate of around 12 to 15% from my squeeze page but after making some little tweaks I was able to increase my conversion rate to 30%. Below is a screenshot of my latest conversion rate from my squeeze page.

That means I’m getting 300 subscribers for every 1000 visitors. If you have a 15% conversion rate it will be 150 subscribers for every 1000 visitors and if you have a 50% conversion rate it will be 500 subscribers per 100 visitors.

You should also note that the quality of your traffic matters so you should always do your best to get more quality traffic.

Some simple things you can tweak on your squeeze page to get more conversion are tweaking:

• Your headline
• Your headline color
• Your feature list
• The length of your squeeze page
• The text above and below your subscription form
• The format of your squeeze page

In case you’re really interested in conversion optimization and you want to know more about split testing your squeeze page you can read this post on SiteFurnace.

Sometimes you just need to think properly and look for ways to capitalize on the little traffic you’re already getting.

To increase your email list subscription by over 300% get the Viral List Building Plugin Onibalusi Co founded. Also ensure you hire him in order to learn how to start guest blogging smartly.

Hi my name is Mitz and I have been building WordPress Websites full time and for many years I have always struggled with my e-mail open rate. I guess that many bloggers and Webmasters are faced with the same problem. I would send an email out to my email list and the response that I got was absolutely shocking. It was almost not worth even sending an e-mail out as the e-mail open rate was below 10%. Therefore all of those lovely people that I collected on my e-mail list, would not even getting to read my fantastic messages that I was sending to them.

Now days it is fairly easy to get people to sign up on your e-mail list, especially when you have a plug-in like subscribers magnet, however the problem lies with managing that list and getting the best out of it. If you do not concentrate on getting your subscribers to open your e-mails then what is the purpose of the e-mail list in the first place?

I kept seeing that terrible less than 10% email list open rate time and time again, until I started experimenting with my e-mail list strategies. I researched and studied different ways to improve my e-mail open rate and began implementing some very easy changes that would eventually ensure that my subscribers were reading my e-mails. See the screen shot below of my statistics for an e-mail I had sent out. I went from 8.3% directly up to 29% for my e-mail open rate. I was actually pretty happy with that response as I had only started on tweaking my methods.

How I increased my E-mail Open Rate by 100%

I am presuming that you know how to add an optin form to WordPress or that you are already collecting your e-mail subscribers for your website. I use Mailchimp to manage my email list and I collect optins using Subscribers Magnet by Maxblogpress.

Composing e-mails to suit the reader.

When I first started e-mail marketing I basically thought that these people on my list were interested in what I had to say. This is true to a certain extent but you must give the reader what they want. You cannot just start promoting products to people that do not trust you and know you. I went back and rewrote all of my e-mails, and while doing so, I simply thought about what the reader would want.

After I had come up with these fantastic e-mails, I then looked for spaces to maybe put a link back to my website as a reference, or maybe sometimes mention a product. So basically if an affiliate link did not fit into this particular e-mail, I would simply not add one. The fact that I was trying to  place links into an e-mail that really didn’t belong just made my message look like spam. Now I am confident that my e-mail list is receiving valuable information and I know this is true because my e-mail open rate has increased considerably.

Testing subject lines.

Have you ever written a fantastic e-mail to send to your list to later find that the e-mail open rate was almost suicidal. Having great content in the e-mail is not enough! You need to have a great hook to catch the fish. unfortunately, no one can really tell you what subject line to use your subscribers, as we are all in different niches with different people reading the e-mails. this is why we need to test our subject lines. This is the first thing that your e-mail subscribers will see, and in a split second they will decide if they want to open in your e-mail or not! That is all the chance you have. If these people see something they do not like they can also mark your e-mail as spam. If your business relies on e-mail marketing you must be very careful with your subject lines and continually test them to see what your readers like to open.

To see the difference between to subject lines, you will need to study your statistics.

Analyzing statistics.

I shouldn’t have to tell you that you will need to analyze your statistics as we have to do that with everything when we are building websites. As I mentioned above, testing subject lines will need to be analyzed, because if you don’t analyze the results you will not know which subject line is better. This applies to every area of your e-mail.

The Screen shot below shows my e-mail open rate for a particular e-mail, the list average open rate, and the industry standard e-mail open rate. As you can see, in this particular industry, I am doing very well with my open rate.

Using text e-mails.

Sometimes sending a HTML e-mail is not appropriate and people have certain security measures installed to not accept these e-mails. Therefore your e-mail open rate is reduced already if most of your subscribers will not accept an HTML e-mail. Although your e-mail might be formatted to be sent as text as well, it might show up with funny characters that make people think it is spam.

Also people often associate a fancy HTML e-mail with a big company or some kind of advertising. If you send a simple text e-mail then it looks like it is a bit more personal and directed at the person who is reading it. I’m not saying that this will work for everyone but I am definitely suggesting that you give it a try.

Narrowing focus for each e-mail.

After you have got people opening your e-mails with your fantastic subject lines, the content is the next important thing. As I stated above, the first thing you need to do is write your e-mails for your readers. The other important thing that I do, is only focus on one subject or one e-mail. Let’s face it we do not want to confuse the situation. It’s like having a landing page and funneling your customer to the buy now button. In your e-mail you want to direct your reader to click on the link that you have in the e-mail. Therefore I have found that if you focus on one subject and one or two links at the most, you will come up with great results. This not only improves your click through rates, but it also improves trust with your reader, and therefore increases your e-mail open rate for the future.

E-mail open rate research.

The absolute best way to increase your e-mail open rate is to sign up for my e-mail list at my WordPress website and study the e-mails that I send you. I have done this before with other Internet marketers, and instead of scouring the e-mails the information, I am examining them in other ways. You will see my E-mail opt in box in the top right-hand side bar that I created with Subscribers Magnet.

If you have any questions for me concerning your e-mail open rate, please leave a comment below.

Are you faced with a poor website performance?

Are you tired of trying to make your visitors stick to your website?

Is your quality content unable to deliver the goods?

I don’t mean to start an online quiz. Neither am I trying to make a pitch for a product that can enhance website performance. But yes, this simple tip could help you do that, if you have been facing problems similar to what I faced a few months back.

My blog was my dream. I was putting in everything to ensure that my blog was being read. I followed most of what successful bloggers like Darren and Yaro taught. Yet my blog wouldn’t attract visitors. Repeat readers were extremely less. Even the first time visitors browsed off my blog in less than 5 seconds.

What was the problem?

I had Google Analytics installed on my blog. But for most of the period it was installed, I was using it only to know what were the referring sites, what were the backlinks and what keywords were getting searches.

Until one day as I was reading through Alexa’s analysis of my website. The first line read, “almost 85% of the visits to this blog are bounces”. I was stunned. The next day when I logged into my analytics account, there was no reason why I wouldn’t have noticed the bounce rate figures mentioned in bold out there on the dashboard.

I knew I had to reduce my bounce rate.

The below two images shows the bounce rates from 1^st January till 16^th February and then from 17^th February till 27^th March respectively.

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The first one show a bounce rate of 82.67% and the second one a bounce rate of 12.28%.

What did I do differently?

I took the help of a website called as whichloadsfaster.com and compared my blog with a few others in the niche to see the difference in page load time. My pages were taking almost 125% more than most other blogs.

I was able to figure out the reason why my visitors were browsing away from my blog. I had to reduce my page load time.

Page load time is often one of the biggest reasons why people decide to browse away from websites. I personally would not want to spend ages waiting for a website to load. Probably this is the reason why flash websites are no more in fashion. Everyone is short of time and needs things delivered quickly.

I did the following simple things to reduce my page load time and I could see the difference in my blog stats. My subscriber count increased by 200%. My sales went up by about 38%. My repeat visitor count improved by 47%.

1.       Image Optimization – There were far too many images that I was using on my blog. These were part of the blog’s design, but there were being called from the page itself. This took a lot of time because there were too many requests that were being sent to the server. I did a simple tweak. I integrated all these images into the css (style sheet) of the theme. This reduced the requests and consequently page load time.

2.       Banner ads – I was running a lot of banner ads on my blogs. The ad codes for these banner ads were being provided by the merchants whose products I was promoting. Since the images were being hosted on their servers, the load time of these images were very high. I did a small workaround. I downloaded these images onto my server and then uploaded them as banner ads. The load time decreased considerably.

3.       Use dimensions for images – My posts had a lot of images but they had no dimensions. Every time a page loaded the images took a lot of time to load because of unknown dimensions. I was able to cut down the load time considerable once I started mentioning the dimensions of the images.

4.       Remove irrelevant plugins – Plugins are something that gets called every time a page loads and can considerably affect page load time. I was using more than 35 plugins on my blog. I decided that I will use only the most important ones and remove all others which were not that useful.

5.       Optimize tables – WordPress creates a lot of tables on your MySQL database. Most of the execution happens from these tables. Hence it is important that you optimize these tables periodically. Use something like GD Press tools to optimize you tables and you will find a lot of improvement in your blogs page load time.

6.       Content Delivery Network – Finally, one of the most important things – use a content delivery network. A content delivery network can help speed up your website by rendering cached pages. Most of the CDNs are paid options. I did not want to spend anything extra and hence found a good solution in Cloudflare. It is free and is available as an option on the cpanel of your hosting itself.

By doing these 6 things, I was able to reduce my page load time by more than 100%. Post doing all this I rechecked at whichloadsfaster.com and I found that my blog was now loading faster than the other blogs that I had compared earlier.

One of the easiest ways to find out what aspect of your website is taking so much time to load is to keep an eye on your browser’s status bar. You will find something similar to “transferring data from…..”. This should tell you what you need to work upon. But this comes only after you have done all of the above simple things.

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My name is Adam Franklin, and my business partner Michael Ullman and I would like to share a true, very motivational story about a very successful blog we created about a year ago.

This blog went from zero to $100/day in 90 days, and now generates up to $400 per day, all through Google Adsense. It was this blog that helped push us to create “Adsense $100k Blueprint”

Here’s some more background on that blog:

By late last year, we had condensed the steps that make up the Blueprint. After many ‘trials’, testing, tweaking, etc., we had more-or-less systematized our  process and distilled it into the basic “step 1, step 2…” plan that’s in the book. One of the first efforts to follow the ‘plan’ exactly was that site.

We had become enamored with the vocational training / adult ed / education niche (hint, again: still hundreds of huge, wide-open opportunities there… start with “certificate programs”, “vocational training”, etc). We had been poking around the ‘medical training’ niche using Micro Niche Finder. Some of the terms we had come across that we felt warranted further examination were “nursing school”, “medical assistant”, “medical technician”. Drilling down on “nursing school” we came across some of the terms mentioned in the ebook.

we took one as a ‘seed’ keyword, and found about 5 other related keyword phrases, all of which had decent search volume. Two of them had thousands of searches per month, with very ‘light’ competition.

We then registered the domain name, set up a WordPress and  outsourced 10 articles, 2 each for 5 keyword phrases. 1 was used as the target “Page” URL, and one to add after as a supporting “Post”. We loaded the 5 Pages, plus we wrote the initial homepage Post.

Now it was time to launch the site. It was indexed in about 48 hours. Once it was indexed, each article was submitted to Ezinearticles. We also created a Blogger blog, and Squidoo lens, did the basic Social Bookmarking, and created 1 article set for Unique Article Wizard.

In about 6 weeks we had low Page 1 rankings for 2 of our target keyword phrases. We outsourced another 10 articles or so, and continued to add content & backlinks. We were starting to see about $10-$20/day (this particular site was averaging $.50/click). At about 8 weeks, we had Positon #2 or Position #3 for those two keyword phrases, which gave us about 400 visitors per day total. With roughly 20-25% click-through, we were now at $40-$50/day. Right around the 90 day mark, one of the phrases hit Position #1, more than doubling traffic, and topping $100/day. About a month later we put the site on Flippa, showing a $115/day earnings, and getting $32,500 for the site.

As part of the sale, we agreed to continue on ‘managing’ the site – agreeing to write 2 articles per week, and doing an hour or two of backlinking per week – in return for 25% of the revenue above what it was at sale time. This also let us continue tracking site performance.

At 5 months, there were multiple Position #1 keyword phrases, and many of them had spots #1 & #2 or #2 and #3 indented double-listings. The site hit $300/day right about at 6 months. Two months later, it hit a high of $415/day.

Needless to say, not all of your sites will perform that well – all of ours don’t perform that well either. But it shows what happens when you ‘hit’ on all cylinders: good niche selection yielding high-volume, under-leveraged keyword phrases, a ‘smart’ content & backlinking campaign, ramping up over time but not too fast or hard, and a layout that converts well.

That is the crux of the “Adsense $100k Blueprint” , and while we all get some ‘duds’ even when everything checks out, this plan insures reliably repeatable successes.

I hope you’ve found this post to be motivational.  The reality is that there are an endless number of opportunities on the web, and you can almost guarantee your success with hard work and perseverance..

I am Onibalusi Bamidele a 17 year old entrepreneur and blogger from YoungPrePro.com. I started my blog on the 2^nd of April 2009 and in approximately 11 months of starting my blog I am already making $5000 online monthly. During this process I learnt a lot of things and one major lesson I learnt is that anybody can start making money online within the shortest period possible as long has he/she has the right plan and information on how to do it. I have decided to write a post that details my step to $5k online monthly and how you also can achieve it.

Before I Start

When most people read the title of this post they will be thinking about the next get rich quick scheme or buying an informational product. While it is easier to write a 32 pages informational product on the subject and sell it to make some quick bucks I believe the same information can be effectively presented in a short post of less than 1,500 words and that what matters most isn’t how long the guide you read is but what you do after reading the guide. I’d like you to know that this isn’t a get rich quick scheme and it took me 8 months of hard work to achieve what I achieved so you should know that before you continue with this guide.

How I Make Money Online

I will also like you to know that there isn’t a single way to make money online. There are numerous ways you can make money online, it can either be by blogging, affiliate marketing, offering your services or doing some other things. One thing you should note is that every one of these techniques requires you to have something really valuable to offer before you can get results.

I make money online by offering my services to others and the tips in this post will be based on that approach. Even though you can still implement what you read in this article into other aspects of making money online it will be more effective if you plan to be offering your services to others.

Below are the steps I took to start making $5k online monthly.

1. I Developed a Skill

While it is easier to be sold by many of these push button scams and get rich quick scams promising to help you make tens of thousands of dollars your first day online I’d like you to know that making money online isn’t that easy. To really succeed online you need to have something to offer to people. In my case it was my writing skills, I write a lot and I love writing, I focused my efforts on writing everyday without even knowing that it will help me make a living at one point in my career.

While you might believe that you know a lot of things it is also very important for you to know that it is better to be a master of one trade than to be a jack of all. Don’t try to know and do 10 things, look for one and make yourself the possible best at it.

You don’t necessarily need to be born with the skill that will help you make money, and it doesn’t have to be what you presently know. Look for one thing you know you’re good at or one thing you’re ready to commit yourself on. Develop yourself on it and others will start seeking your help.

2. I Made Myself an Expert

Being an expert can make a difference in you making money online or not. When I talk about being an expert I’m not saying you need to be a guru with a list of over 100,000 subscribers or a guru making over $50k online monthly. Being an expert is all about you specializing in one skill and making yourself the possible best when it comes to that skill so that you can achieve the best result in it. Being an expert is all about making yourself one of the first person people will think of when they talk about that thing, being an expert is all about making yourself renowned as far as your skill is concerned.

I wrote a lot of guest posts within a short period of time, I learnt a lot about guest blogging and I made sure I got published on some of the biggest blogs in the industry, including here, Problogger, DailyBlogTips, John Chow and even some very big blogs like ReadWriteWeb and Business Insider. This alone brought me a lot of opportunities, people started respecting me when it comes to guest blogging and a lot of new opportunities started coming my way.

It is also important for you to know that being an expert isn’t about you professing it, you have to work hard to achieve that status and people will start calling you an expert. I never called myself a guest blogging expert, people call me that and some people have even gone to the extent of calling me the king of guest blogging – it isn’t because I told them to call me that but because they saw my work and they believed that I know what I am doing. You have to prove to people that you’re truly an expert by giving the best possible when it comes to what you have to offer.

3. I Leveraged Social Proof to Get Results

All the above points are only a part of the game, they made me known and they showed people what I’m capable of but I got no true result until I showed myself, I got no true result until I told people what I am capable of. It all started when I wrote a post on my blog telling people how I wrote 270 guest posts in 8 months, this boosted my credibility, made people to start respecting me, brought a lot of interview offers and eventually landed me a big client. Social proof is really powerful and can help you get a lot of results.

If you’re a blogger selling a course on how to get more blog comments you have to prove to people that you truly get comments to your blog and if you want to teach people how to gain more subscribers you have to have a list of thousands of subscribers to back your claims. If you want to teach people how to make money blogging you have to prove to them that you’re truly a blogger making money online and if you want to teach people how to get traffic to their blogs you need enough traffic to back up your claims.

While it might look very simple I’d like you to know that it really works, ever since making use of social proof to let people know that I’m effective at guest blogging, I’ve gotten more clients than I needed and I’ve rejected a lot of clients – there are so many people in need of your services, you just have to prove to them that you know what you are doing. Here are some ways to leverage social proof in various niches:

• If you’re a life coach you need to show people how many successful people’s lives you’ve helped make better.
• If you’re a marketer you have to prove to people that you really know what you’re saying.
• If you’re a designer you need to have a great portfolio of some of the best works you have done.
• If you’re a freelancer you have to show people your work in order to prove to them that you’re efficient and effective.

Once you’ve been able to realize that it takes effort to make money online and that specialization can help accelerate your journey to online success you will find it easier to make more money online.

Onibalusi Bamidele is a 17 year old entrepreneur making over $5,000 online monthly, visit is blog at YoungPrePro.com to learn more about what he does and download his free ebook: How I Make $3,000 Online Monthly to learn how he makes money online and how you too can.