Step-By-Step Guide to Launching a Membership Site.

Yaro Starak has written one of the best reports I’ve ever read on how to profit by creating and then selling your own information product.

His report is called the Membership Site Masterplan and as you would guess, it is a step-by-step guide for launching a profitable online membership site.

You can download the report from here:

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Yaro’s a great teacher and writer, and whenever he releases a report people always eagerly await what he has to say.

His gift is the ability to take complex subjects and make them very easy to understand. As you will see in this report, Yaro makes the process of setting up and profiting from a membership site so easy, anyone can do it, including you.

The Masterplan doesn’t disappoint, and once again Yaro has not held anything back. This is a report that is full of CONTENT, it’s not some hype-filled document just designed to sell a product and not really teach you anything.

In the Masterplan Yaro explains how he was able to make $250,000 from just one membership site and then goes on to lay out a plan so you can launch your own membership site and earn at least $100,000 within the next 12 months.

In the report Yaro takes you through the following process:
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- How to find topics for a membership site

- How to develop preeminence, which means people choose to join your membership site over all the other options

- What sources of traffic Yaro uses to bring members to his site and build his list

- What technology Yaro uses to deliver content (this is so simple, anyone can do it)

- How to make money from a membership site BEFORE you create the content for it

- How to fill your membership site with hundreds of new members in a matter of days by conducting a powerful, yet simple, launch campaign

- and much more…

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This is by far the most comprehensive report I’ve ever seen on this topic and I can’t believe Yaro is willing to give it away.

Of course Yaro hasn’t put all this work into the report for nothing. He’s launching a training program next week and this report is designed to introduce you to his teachings.

That being said, this report is a complete document – no matter whether you decide to join Yaro’s program or not, you will benefit greatly from this report, I know I did.

If you’re thinking of selling something online, a membership site is definitely the top choice. A product that you sell once, yet continues to deliver income month after month, is by far the best business model.

But listen, I don’t need to convince you of this, read the Masterplan. Yaro has put together a very compelling story and followed it up with a very detailed plan so you can do it yourself.

Go get your copy now –

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Good luck with your membership site!

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P.S. You can download an audio MP3 version of the Masterplan too, again at no cost. If you prefer to listen in the car or on your ipod as you run about, you will appreciate this audio file.

You can go register for both versions here –

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This is another great blog tip form Yaro Starak. This tip is about spiders, pingbacks, trackbacks, traffic benefits, internal linking, I could keep going but I’m sure you’d like to get started.

Blog Tips Newsletter by Yaro Starak Membership Site

Your blog should be like spider’s web, with each article
linking to other articles in your blog.

This technique can deliver some nice traffic benefits. Here’s how
to do it…

Hi

Last issue of this newsletter I covered trackbacks and how to use them as a blog traffic building tool. This newsletter we’re going to start with the trackback’s distant cousin, the pingback and then move to an interesting technique for building traffic – interlinking.

WHAT IS A PINGBACK?

In some circles I’ve read there is no difference between a trackback and a pingback. Many people will use the term interchangeably and in fact I’ve been known to confuse the two myself.

Generally there is one main difference – a trackback is forced by a human blogger while a pingback occurs automatically by the blogging software.

I read a description online which I think is a good way to discern the difference however I don’t agree 100% with the distinction presented. It does offer a simple way to get your head around the semantics of using the two techniques –

Where trackback is “Here’s what I think of that” a pingback is more simply “I’m using that”.

Trackbacks are intentional attention grabbers that give an opinion of another blogger’s work. A pingback merely informs another blog that you are referencing their writing.

INTERNAL PINGBACKS

I experience pingbacks when I reference to my own blog posts within my blog. I use the blogging system WordPress which automatically sends pingbacks if I link to one of my previous articles, creating a link between the two blog entries.

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Linking between your own articles is a good thing, and certainly pingbacking your own entries helps make the process efficient because it’s automatic, but there is a lot more you can do proactively to create links between your own blog posts. As with most things in blogging, there is a “smarter way”.

WHAT IS INTERLINKING?

Interlinking means when you link one of your own pages to another internally within a website.

Since you control your site you can control your blog’s entire internal linking structure. This is important for traffic because of how search engines work.

If you want the search engines to rank every single page of your blog you need to make sure they can find every page.

Search engines use little software programs called “spiders” or “bots” that trawl around the web following links and “indexing” all the content of web pages.

If your site is internally linked well together then you make it easy for the little spiders to
index every page of your blog.

SITEMAPS

I will briefly mention sitemaps because they are a convenient way to tell the search engines where all your pages are. Most search engines do a pretty good job of finding pages but sometimes they have trouble indexing your entire site, especially if your site is new.

I’m not going to cover sitemaps in-depth because it is a whole topic on its own, however I do recommend you have one as the first step to create a good internal linking structure for your blog.

Here are some resources for building and learning more about sitemaps:

GOOGLE LOOKS AT WEB PAGES, NOT WEB SITES

Google ranks pages based on how many other pages link to it. That’s PAGES, not SITES, which means when you link one blog entry to another you are helping each blog article earn better search engine rankings so it will bring in more search traffic.

Simply linking to all your blog posts in every new blog post you make is not going to do much for your traffic and will turn away your readers (not a good strategy!), however a few well placed internal linking patterns can be very helpful over the long term.

During the first few months I blogged I wrote definition articles for many key terms in my industry, including RSS, PageRank and other Internet business and blogging topics.

I regularly link back to those articles when I mention the terms in a new blog post so that beginner readers can read my definition article to get a grasp of the concepts. Not only is this great for usability it helps my blog search rankings too.

GET YOUR KEYWORDS AND PHRASES RIGHT

The most important thing when you link your blog entries together is to choose the right keywords.

The keywords you use in the anchor text (the text your readers see as underlined links) help to define what search terms that article will rank well for.

Lets say your blog topic is “share trading” and you wrote a definition of the PE ratio (the price-to-earnings ratio).

Every chance you get you should reference back to it in new blog posts. Each time you do this you would use anchor text along the lines of “what is the PE ratio”, but be certain to mix it up with variations.

This helps that page rank higher for search phrases like “what is the PE ratio”.

INCREASE YOUR PAGEVIEWS

Even if I’ve totally confused you with all this talk about search engine rankings there is one very good plain and simple reason to interlink your blog articles as often as you can – to increase your pageviews.

Pageviews are how many individual pages each visitor to your blog reads. Obviously you want to increase the number of pageviews because that means your readers stay longer at your blog and read more of your content.

By interlinking your articles well, and that means placing links between your own articles in a logical manner, you create a nice pathway for a reader to navigate through your blog.

COVER THE BASICS

Some of the topics I covered may be too technical for beginner bloggers. If there is one piece of advice you should take away from this newsletter and implement on your blog it is to link back to your previous blog posts regularly.

Use logical anchor text links and don’t worry too much about keywords. If you label your links well for humans you generally label well for search engines too. It’s easy to get caught up with keywords so don’t spend too much energy worrying about how you link to your articles, just do it.

Whenever you write a new article think whether it would be appropriate to link to another article that includes relevant content.

It takes two seconds and can provide fantastic benefits in search engine rankings, pageview numbers and increases the length of time each visitor stays at your blog.

Here’s to your blogging success,

Yaro Starak

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Passion is contagious and it is up to you to be a carrier of passion about your topic and to infect others with your passion. Unless you are really passionate about the topic that you choose to construct a membership website around, you are not going to be a happy camper.

But just being passionate about a topic yourself is not enough. The second part of the successful membership website formula is that there must be a large enough demand for information about the topic. The best way to determine the level of demand is to visit the blogs and forums that are dedicated to the topic that you are considering.

If you are passionate about the topic and there is a demand for information about the topic, you have the magic formula for building a successful membership website.

Eager entrepreneurs quite often will see only the possibility of a nice recurring income and jump into a membership website without thinking it through completely. When choosing the topic for a membership website, the ideas are almost endless, but choosing carefully is very important.

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Building community around your product or service is important.

But, how do you do it and what tools or plugins should you use when creating a membership site?

Register for this complimentary webinar to find out: Tuesday May 4th 2010 9PM EST/8 PM CST/6PM PST

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The training is called “Plugins That Rock” and it will outline the most popular plugins for building membership sites and online communities.

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Membership Websites

There are several different types of membership websites that are available, Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and MySpace, paid exclusive sites, free membership sites, and a community membership site.

All of these different types of membership websites have one thing in common. Interaction between members is allowed and encouraged. In the past with Web 1.0 there was no such thing as two way communication, not any more. Most of us are members of at least one of the following, if not all of them, Youtube, Myspace or Twitter.

You will always find a blog or a forum on all of the different types of membership websites that provides a place for members to communicate. This allows the members to communicate with each other as well as with the owner of the membership site.

One of the biggest reasons that membership sites are so very popular today is because of the communication opportunities provided through the membership site. They will no doubt continue to be popular for this reason alone well into the future.

A membership website provides a place for the sharing of information and thoughts. Nowadays everyone likes to share their opinion, and listen to the opinion of others. People enjoy learning from and sharing information with others.

With the many different types of membership websites that are available, there is a site for everyone. Remember when starting your own membership web site, there will always be people that will be interested in the platform that you will be providing.

And lets not forget the profitability that comes from owning your own membership website with recurring income accumulating each month.

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