The 5 Best Free Keyword Tools

If you want to be successful with SEO you need to know which keywords are easy to rank on and write articles that target these keywords.

However, how can you find such keywords? The goal is to find keywords that are easy to rank (low competition) and still have enough traffic so it is worth to work on.

To easily find these keywords it is wise to use a keyword tool. I’m sure there are much more than the five I mention. However, these are the tools that I use and I can recommend.

The title says that the keywords are all free and that is correct. However, there are usually paid plans for each keyword tool. With the paid membership you get usually more keywords, more searches or more data.

Should I pay for a keyword tool?

I wouldn’t see it as cost and more as an investment. Because if you find keywords that your competitor doesn’t you can easily rank faster and higher than your competitor and have a big advantage.

That’s why I am paying for some keyword tools and I can recommend to you to do the same!

So here is my list of my favorite keyword tools 🙂

Jaaxy

Jaaxy is one of my favorite tools when it comes to keywords research. You enter a keyword and within seconds you can see whether a keyword is easy to rank on or not.

What really helps are the “traffic lights” that show you if a keyword is good (green), average (yellow) or poor (red). However, the disadvantage of Jaaxy is that they don’t have any information about paid traffic.

If you are only interested in free traffic than this tool is great but if you are searching for good keywords for your PPC campaign I would use another keyword tool.

Keyword.io

When I need new ideas I’m using Keyword.io. You enter a keyword and you get a huge list of long tail keywords.

That has two advantages. On the one side, it is much easier to rank on long tail keywords as it is on short keywords. So, for example, it is much easier to rank on “how to do affiliate marketing for beginners” than on “affiliate marketing beginners”.

On the other side, it is easy to find new ideas. So, for example, if you enter “affiliate marketing” you get a list of 450 keywords. I’m sure you’ll find at least one new keyword you have an idea you could write about.

SemRush

SemRush is also a great keyword tool to get a lot of information about a specific keyword. The functionality is very similar to Jaaxy.

However, the advantage of SemRush is that they also offer information about PPC campaigns. That means you get information about how much you need to pay for a specific keyword, ect..

SpyFu

SpyFu is another great tool with a lot of functionality. One the one side SpyFu is a great tool to spy on your competitors’ website. You can easily see the keywords they are ranking on and for what keywords they are paying.

On the other side, you can get a lot of information about specific keywords. You get information about traffic volumes, competitors, cost per click (PPC), and the ranking history.

Google’s Keyword Planner

If you have been working with Google Adwords I’m sure you already know the keyword planner from Google.

It is not as detailed as the other tools, but you can still get data about the search volume and the competitors. However, the data is only very rough data. For example, for the keyword “affiliate marketing” you get a search volume of 10,000 to 100,000 searches per month and the competition is medium.

Of course, you can use that data but I would recommend using the other tools to find specific data. However, this tool is also great to find ideas. You can use the function “find similar keywords” to find new ideas for new posts.

Conclusion

As you can see there are many very good keyword tools out there. Together with these tools, I can always find new keywords and ideas I can realize.

Now I want to hear more from you! What is your favorite keyword tool and why?

SEO – Advantages and Disadvantages

There are a lot of discussions about Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

The one side thinks that SEO is the best strategy to build an online business while the other side thinks that SEO is a waste of time.

But who is right?

What is SEO?

The goal of Search Engine Optimization is to rank your website high on search engines like Google.

That is achieved by creating valuable content for specific keywords. The more content you have the more websites Google can index and the more traffic you can have.

Advantages

Let’s at first have a look at the advantages of SEO.

Free source traffic

I believe that is one of the best arguments for SEO. You don’t have to pay anything for your traffic.

That’s also a reason why so many people try to succeed with SEO at the beginning of their online marketing career. You don’t have to invest any money (besides website hosting) and you can already earn your first money.

If you think about it that can be a very effective method. Let’s say you pay $50 per year for website hosting and you earn $500 the first year. That doesn’t sound like a lot but compared to your input you 10X your investment!

Compared to the return on investments in the stock marketing (usually between 5-10%) that’s more than 10 times more effective than investing in stocks!

Targeted traffic

Another great benefit of SEO traffic is that the traffic is highly targeted. As the user is already searching for a specific keyword on Google they show interest in a specific topic.

If you now can provide value and show them that you are an expert in your niche you can convert these people into your buyers.

High potential

There are over 3.5 billion searches on Google every day! That is a huge potential for traffic.

Of course, not everyone is searching for information in your niche, but there is more than enough traffic in your niche! If you want to you can use the free Google Keyword Planner and search for the volume of keywords.

For example, the keyword “banana cake recipes” has between 10,000 and 100,000 searches every month! And believe me, the people on the first site of Google for this keyword don’t have a problem earning money 😉

Disadvantages

Besides all these great benefits there are also some disadvantages of SEO we want to have a look at.

Takes a lot of time

The common mistakes people do at SEO is that they think that they can get a lot of traffic within the first month. However, if you have a brand new website it can take between 3-6 months to get your first traffic.

And that really depends on your niche! If you are in a niche with a lot of competition (like earning money online or weight loss) it can take much longer to get a good amount of traffic.

That’s also one of the reasons why people quit early. They set up a website, write posts for 2 months, they don’t see any results and they quit before even Google recognizes their website.

This is compared to paid traffic where you can get your first traffic within minutes a very long and demanding road.

The reason why this process takes that long is very obvious. Google needs to know if your content is valuable and helpful before they help you getting traffic.

Takes a lot of work

As I said it takes minimum 3-6 months to get the first results of Google. In this time you have to stay active and post new posts regularly.

Only if you keep updating your website Google will give you more and more traffic.

As I said, one of the advantages is that the traffic of Google is free. However, you have to put in a lot of work to get that free traffic. That means you don’t have to invest any money but a lot of time.

You could hire a writer to outsource the content creation but that questions the advantage of the free traffic. Maybe it would be more effective to pay for traffic instead of paying a writer but that is a decision you have to make as an online entrepreneur.

Controllability

One of the biggest disadvantages of SEO is the controllability. You can’t control the amount of traffic you get from Google. That may be 10 clicks today and 50 clicks tomorrow.

That makes it really hard to build a reliable business if your only focus is on SEO. There are stories about online businesses that crashed with a Google update.

I heard from one business that went from $10,000/month to $400/ month within one month. The reason for that was a Google update that destroyed the ranking of that website.

I believe that you can’t say you have a successful online business if your only traffic source is SEO. As I said from one day to another it can happen that your earnings shrink.

A good way to avoid that problem is to build other traffic sources. This can be paid sources like Google Adwords or Facebook Ads or other free traffic sources like Facebook or Pinterest.

I believe that the best way is to try to convert the SEO traffic into email marketing leads. That way you can create a huge email list and be independent of Google updates. If you want to know how to start with email marketing you can check out this post with 8 steps to email marketing.

Conclusion

I believe that SEO can be a great way to build a huge source of free traffic. However, you should be careful to also build on other traffic sources so you’ll be independent of Google updates.

Also always you should have a look at the big picture and not think that 30 posts will give you a huge amount of traffic. Have a look at website with a lot of SEO traffic. They usually have more than 150-200 posts and create new content every day!

If you want to learn more about SEO I can recommend the Wealthy Affiliate. In this training program, you’ll learn how to build a website based on SEO and how to earn money with it! (Click here to check it out)

What has been your experience with SEO? Do you think SEO is great or do you think otherwise? I would love to hear from you so please leave a comment below!

Why you can’t earn before sowing

You check your Clickbank account or your Amazon affiliate account and there is still a big 0.

How could that happen?

The problem is that you didn’t sow. You can only harvest the plants you have sowed yesterday.

But what should you sow?

Do you want to earn money online?

Do you want to build an online business?

Do you want to break free from your 9-5 job?

Then you need to put in the seed first.

You need to sow value.

Only by producing high-quality valuable content you can harvest your wishes.

Who doesn’t sow can’t harvest

I’m sure you know that.

They see the opportunity to earn money with an online business and they start a website.

Soon they have a lot of (low-quality) posts and added some poor pictures. Now they place some affiliate links and banners on the side and they wonder why they still haven’t earned one dollar.

But nothing happens.

A big 0 is laughing at them.

Every day.

Every week.

And then they start questioning online business.

“That’s not working”

“Why is it not working for me?”

“My friend was right. That’s all scam.”

However, they forgot the most important part.

Putting in the seed.

5 steps for a rich online harvest

Step 1: Find your niche

Before you can create value for people you need to know your audience and how you can give them value. The best way to do that is to find a topic you like and feel passionate about.

We all have hobbies and interests we can talk about for hours.

There is an easy question that can help you figure out what you are interested in:

What would you do with 10 million dollars in your bank account?

That sounds a little crazy but that really can help. Think about it.

If you have enough money so you don’t have to work for money anymore what would you do?

Would you take care of your garden? Would you play basketball all the time?

Write down all your answers.

Now think about topics you could write about. If you can think about 5-10 posts you could write that can be your niche!

However, here it is important that you don’t need to be an expert in your niche!

You can become an expert by working in your niche. The more you learn about your niche the more you’ll be an expert.

So your niche can also be something you really want to learn.

It is important to mention that it is more important to start less than perfect than start never.

Step 2: Prepare your field

You need a place where you can place your seek, right?

That means in online marketing you need a domain and website hosting.

Step 3: Sow, sow, sow

Now you need to start sowing and build the foundation of your business.

Start creating high-quality and valuable content despite the fact that you don’t have any traffic yet.

Step 4: Start spilling

If you have created the foundation for your business you can start working on your traffic. However, it is not important to have a lot of traffic. It is important to have quality traffic.

Join forums in your niche and start engaging in discussions and help people by answering questions.

Join Facebook groups and comment on other blogs in your niche.

Step 5: Take care of your plants

Now that you have started earning your first money you need to take care of your business.

Look out for comments and answer them. Try to find new information that is relevant to your target group.

That makes it more attractive for your visitors to come back.

Then you can harvest

I don’t want to lie to you.

Sometimes it can be really hard to work hard on your website and still get no results.

However, if you put in the seed and spill it with enough water one day your business will be big enough to carry all the fruits you wanted.

Most people don’t put in enough seed or wait long enough before they can harvest their fruits.

Put in the work first and then you can lean back and watching your plants growing 🙂

 

10 Tips To Find More Ideas You Can Write About

If you have a blog you should regularly post new content. At the beginning that can be very easy because there are many topics you can write about. However, after some time it can get really hard to find new topics you can write about.

I’m sure you know all that feeling sitting in front of your computer having no idea what you could write about. It always feels like you’re wasting a lot of time. And you are.

When I started with blogging I had the same problems. However, with the time I found different methods how I could find new ideas and I want to share my methods with you:

Tip #1: Inspiration from other blogs

It’s always a good idea to have a look at other blogs in your niche. What are they writing about? What posts have the most engagement (comments)?

However, you should never copy any content from other blogs. It may seem like a good idea, but that really hurts your ranking in SEO. Google always checks if your content is already posted somewhere and lowers your ranking if you are copying content.

Tip #2: Current topics – news

Is there a product of a topic everyone is talking about in your niche? Are there maybe exhibitions that your audience could be interested in?

The news channel is always a good source of new ideas and information. However, here it is important to write about news that is relevant to your niche!

Tip #3: Learn from your newsletters

I hope you already signed in for many newsletters in your niche? If not, you should do that right now! Why?

Because that’s an easy way to get information about new product launches or other news. You also get a lot of content and information you can use to write your own article 🙂

Tip #4: Learn more about the problems from your niche

What are the biggest problems in your niche? Search for the problems in forums of your niche and write down all the problems they have.

That way you can easily find ideas for new content. In addition, that makes you content highly relevant to your audience and that makes your blog even better!

That way also more people start reading your blog and leave your link in forums or other blogs.

You can also find problems in Facebook groups or in the comments of your own blog.

Tip #5: Remember yourself

How was it when you started in your niche? What has been your problems in the beginning? And how did you solve them? Write down your problem and how you solved it and make a post out of it.

With that method, you can find many ideas for tips and instructions, especially for beginners.

Tip #6: Learn, learn, learn

You should always keep growing. Invest time in reading books, visiting seminars, watching webinars or buy digital info products. The more you know the more you can write about. All these things lead you to an expert status in your niche.

And that will give you more readers, more trust, and more income.

Tip #7: Variety on your blog

Mix up different topics like reviews, competitions, surveys, etc. to get a variety of different blog posts. Nobody wants to read only product reviews.

If they only read about product reviews they soon will think: “he only wants to sell something” and they will never come back. The biggest part of your blog should be helpful content.

From time to time you can post a product review but the main part shouldn’t.

Tip #8: Stunning visuals

Your blog shouldn’t be only text. Add some visuals to make your blog more beautiful and worth looking. If you have great content and beautiful images your blog posts will be shared more often on your social networks.

Tip #9: Change your environment

Sometimes it really helps to change your environment. Instead of sitting in front of your desk all the time change your environment and go to a coffee shop instead.

Or go to the park with your laptop if the weather is great. Or maybe it helps to leave your desk and writing your blog post on the kitchen table. This can help you to boost your productivity and idea finding. I stopped planning on my laptop. Instead, I go outside and write down my weekly plan on a piece of paper.

That way I much more relaxed and I have much more ideas.

Tip #10: Don’t make this mistake

The biggest mistake you can make is to get stuck in front of your laptop. If you have no idea what you could write about and sit down for hours thinking you are wasting your time.

Especially when you pressure yourself to write that article. In the end, your article is not written very well and your reader doesn’t get a lot of value. And they notice that.

Sometimes you notice that yourself and throw your article away 😀

I hope that my tips help you to get ideas what you can write about 🙂

How do you find new ideas? How do you find new topics you can write about? I would love to hear from you so please leave a comment below 🙂

Book Recommendation: Napoleon Hill – Think and grow rich

I think this is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read. Inside the book, you’ll find many different success stories from many different people.

The influence of some of these people we still feeling today, like Thomas Edison. You’ll learn all the different steps you need in order to be successful. Every step contains success stories and examples to show the reader the importance of every step.

This book really shows the reader that the subconscious mind, as well as the intuition, is important for success and that every kid has everything it needs to be successful. However, society and parents aren’t trained to have success so we unlearn many things.

I can really recommend this book to everyone who wants to reach any goal in this life. That doesn’t mean your goal has to be to “become rich” but the principles and strategies can be applied to every goal.

Click here to get the book.

Blurb: “This edition of Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich is a reproduction of Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, the ONLY original version recommended by The Napoleon Hill Foundation, originally printed in March of 1937.

The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book.

In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. This book will teach you the secrets that could bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success.

Money and material things are essential for freedom of body and mind, but there are some who will feel that the greatest of all riches can be evaluated only in terms of lasting friendships, loving family relationships, understanding between business associates, and introspective harmony which brings one true peace of mind! All who read, understand, and apply this philosophy will be better prepared to attract and enjoy these spiritual values.

BE PREPARED! When you expose yourself to the influence of this philosophy, you may experience a CHANGED LIFE which can help you negotiate your way through life with harmony and understanding and prepare you for the accumulation of abundant material riches.”

Have you read the book? What has been your experience with this book? I would love to hear from you so please leave a comment below 🙂

Why your idea is worth nothing

You are lying in your bed and suddenly you have a great idea for a new blog post or a new digital product.

You turn on the light and note your idea into a notepad.

And then.

Nothing.

You stay in your daily routine and even don’t think about your idea. You had so many ideas that could have been best-selling books, high-converting digital products or fantastic blog posts.

But you didn’t.

Don’t worry you are not alone. There are too many people who have great ideas but don’t realize them.

If you have an idea but you don’t realize it your idea is worthless.

“It’s not about the ideas, it’s about making ideas happen!”

Don’t get me wrong. Your ideas aren’t worthless. If you realize your ideas your ideas can be very valuable. So let’s have a look how you can realize your ideas.

How to realize your idea

Step #1: Make a plan

There are unlimited tasks every day. You have emails you have to answer, Facebook messages you have to take care of and then there are non-business tasks like cleaning, shopping or cooking.

If you only react to the circumstances of your life you’ll never be able to realize your ideas.

That’s why you have to make a plan.

I have made the best experience with weekly plans. That means every Saturday or Sunday I sit down and write down all the things I have to do the next week.

Then I look for appointments the next week and make a plan on which day I want to finish which task.

That way it is easy to stay productive and motivated. However, here it is important that you don’t give yourself too many tasks.

You shouldn’t get demotivated by looking at the number of tasks you have to finish.

Maybe at the beginning, you give yourself too many or too fewer tasks but after some weeks you’ll figure out the perfect amount.

And still, if you realize 3 of the 5 ideas you are still have realized much more than nothing.

Step #2: Block time frames

If you want to realize new ideas you need time and effort.

That means you have to take your time to work on your ideas. Here I recommend blocking time frames every day to work on your ideas.

That doesn’t have to be big time frames. 1-2 focused work is much more worth than 8 hours 50% focused work.

Inside this time frame, you should put away your phone, close your email program and have only programs open you need for this task.

After this 1-2 hours, you should make a pause. Now you can go on Facebook or answer your friends’ messages.

Tip: Try to find the time you are the most productive. For me, the most productive time is in the morning after breakfast. Here I only work on the most important tasks.

On the afternoon when I have a little down phase I answer emails, go to Facebook etc.

Step #3: Set a goal

The best way to stay focused and productive is to create a goal you want to chase.

As this is your personal project you usually don’t have a limited time. Do you remember back when you’ve been to school and you had to create a presentation?

I never started working on my presentation two weeks before. I usually waited until the last day and try to make the best working hard on the last day.

But now you don’t have a date for your presentation. That’s why you have to set yourself a goal. If you don’t know how to set a goal you can check out this article!

Every month I write down all my goals I have for this month. Then I make a plan how I want to achieve this goal. I write down all the steps I need to work on.

Then I make a weekly plan to work on these tasks. All you need to do now is to follow your plan. It can be really motivating to see your progress every single day.

That’s how you can build up momentum and together with the momentum you are unstoppable!

Step #4: Celebrate every realized idea

Celebrate yourself for every realized idea! Be happy about every realized idea. That makes it easy to motivate yourself to work on new ideas.

Also, you can give yourself a reward for every realized idea. Maybe you buy something you always wanted or you go into a fancy restaurant. Whatever it is you should celebrate your hard work and feel good about it 🙂

Conclusion

Every idea is worthless until it is realized. With the help of these 4 steps, I have been able to realize a lot of ideas I had and to built up a lot of momentum!

What is your idea you finally want to realize?

Online Sales Pro review – Scam or Opportunity?

Online Sales Pro is a lead generation, marketing automation, and direct sales software tool. They say that with their help you are able to grow your leads, your sales, and your cash flow (check it out here).

Let’s see if that’s true and dig into this tool a little more.

How does it work?

Online Sales Pro has different features we want to have a look at.

Landing Page Creator

Online Sales Pro offers nine different landing page templates you can choose from. The templates look very professional and they are all fully responsive.

This is very important since more and more traffic is coming from mobile phones.

You can change the headline, the background, the button, and the colors. However, the problem is that you can’t edit the format of the landing pages. So for example, you can’t add text labels, other buttons or anything like that.

If you want to focus on short landing pages with a video, for example, the templates are good but nothing special.

Lead generation

One of the greatest features of Online Sales Pro is the Online Sales app. Every time you get a lead you get a notification on your phone. That means you can instantly write them a personalized email or give them a call (if they give you their number).

This can really boost your conversion. Especially if you work in a business where you need to spend more time with your lead like multi-level marketing or coaching.

Email Integration

Of course, you can also integrate your favorite autoresponders. The integration is very easy and works very well. You can integrate AWeber, GetResponse, MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, and NowLifestyle.com

3rd Party Funnels

Online Sales Pro also offers a variety of different pre-built funnels for other services like DigitalAltitude, MCA, Reverse Commissions, and much more.

That feature really takes out a lot of work if you work with the programs. Just fill on your affiliate links and you already have a funnel. I don’t think it can get much easier 🙂

Training

Online Sales Pro offers a variety of lessons about affiliate marketing. The focus of this training is on list building. I think the training is easy to understand and has a lot of good and valuable content.

However, if you check out the guides they deliver you can see that these pdf guides are not from Online Sales Pro but rather from another source. However, that doesn’t mean that the quality is bad.

If you are already an experienced marketer I don’t think you’ll learn a lot of new stuff but still, you’ll find one or two strategies you can use.

However, if you are a beginner to affiliate marketing maybe this free guide can help you out.

Cost

Online Sales Pro costs $37/month. Within this package, you get as many landing pages and funnels you want to create. This also includes the hosting of all your landing pages.

Besides the basic package, there is also the MVP upgrade. The MVP upgrade costs $97/month. By upgrading your account you get more advanced training and early access to new templates and sales pages.

In addition, you can create a customized MVP store with your affiliate links which your referrals will see. That way, you can easily create different income streams.

Does it work?

The templates are very basic and the app works well.

The integration with the autoresponders are working very good and the training is very basic.

You can’t integrate your landing pages within WordPress that means that can be a huge turn off for many bloggers.

If you want to have a landing page tool together with an integrated autoresponse I would recommend to check out ClickFunnels (check out here my review) or Builderall (check out the review here).

These tools are much more flexible and they also offer an autoresponder integration and much more features that Online Sales Pro can’t deliver.

 

Conclusion

Online Sales Pro is a great lead generation tool for coaches and multi-level marketers. The notification feature really helps you to build up trust and boost your conversion.

If you have a WordPress blog I can’t recommend you this tool as you can’t integrate it with your blog. Here I would choose a different tool like OptimizePress or ThriveThemes.

As I already mentioned, if you are really interested in building an landing page I would recommend using other tools.

Now I want to hear more from you!

What do you think about Online Sales Pro? Are you using it to generate leads?

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Blog vs. Landing page – what do you need?

“You need a blog!” – “No, all you need is a landing page!”

This could be a real conversation of two people discussing who is right.

But who is right?

What do you really need?

Today I’ll show you this.

But before that, I’ll explain more in detail what a “blog” and a “landing page” is.

What is the difference between a blog and a landing page?

What is a landing page?

A landing page is a single site on a website. It is a static page that doesn’t change regularly.

It will be used to either promote a product or to generate leads for email marketing.

Usually, a landing page for lead generation is very short while a sales page can be much longer. However, it can also happen that the sales page contains only a video.

Also, there is no navigation on a landing page.

You can also create a landing page with your CMS (e.g. WordPress). There are some themes which enable you to create landing pages. If your theme doesn’t have this feature you can use a plugin for that.

There is usually one single goal of a landing page. Either to create a lead or a sale. That’s why a landing page doesn’t have a navigation or a sidebar because the user should only focus on the landing page.

What is a blog?

A blog is a website which will be refreshed with new content regularly. Usually, there is a view with the newest posts on the top.

The length of these posts can vary. In an info niche, the length can be between 800-1500 words, in news niches there can also be short posts with 250-500 words.

In addition, a blog contains a navigation and a sidebar, sometimes two and sometimes none at all.

You can set up a blog with different CMS (Content Management System) like WordPress, Joomla, Drupa, etc. and you can code it yourself if you want to 😉

The goal of a blog is to generate readers and build trust to potential customers. In addition, you can generate leads for email marketing. Also, you position yourself as an expert in your niche.

So what do you need – Landing Page or Blog?

I think maybe you already know the right answer 😉

You should… wait for it 😉

… use both!

Use Landing Pages and a blog!

And that has several reasons.

3 Reasons for a Landing Page

Reason #1: You want to earn money online and for that, you need email marketing

Email marketing is your most important asset of your online business. So it really makes sense to start right away building your email list.

To get leads for your newsletter you need sign up forms. Of course, you can place sign up forms on the sidebar of your blog but the conversion rates of landing pages are much higher.

That means you can have more leads with the same amount of traffic on your landing page than on your blog.

Reason #2: The sales rate is higher on a Landing Page

In most of the niches, it is possible to create a digital product and sell it.

Of course, you can try to promote this on your blog but not many people will find your article and buy your product.

Also with the sidebar and the navigation, it is easy the user gets distracted.

On a landing page, it is much easier to explain the product and why it will help your visitor.

In addition, if you buy traffic (Google AdWords/Facebook PPC) it is much easier to measure the conversion rate of your product, as there is less distraction.

Reason #3: The signup rate is higher

Reason #2 also applies if you want to generate leads.

These are very good reasons for a landing page. So why should you use a blog?

3 Reasons for using a blog

Reason #4: Google loves blogs

With a blog, it is usually much easier to rank high on Google than with a landing page. One the one side, Google loves content. And on the other side, if you publish content regularly you have after some time a lot of content.

You wouldn’t find so much content on a long sales page.

That means, Google has more to index and you get better rankings with your keywords.

And that means more free traffic for you. Who doesn’t want to have that?

Reason #5: Nobody likes ads

If you publish helpful and interesting content on social networks it doesn’t look like an ad. If you publish instructions, tips, and ideas they will be seen as helpful content.

On the other side, landing pages are usually not welcome.

Reason #6: Trust is everything

With the help of a blog, you can position yourself as an expert in your niche and build trust to your reader (and potential customer). Your reader gets a lot of content from you and gets to know you and your brand better.

Think about it. When was the last time you bought an expensive digital product and from who? Have you found yourself a sales page without knowing the creator behind?

Or is it someone you already know longer and you visit his blog regularly?

Conclusion

Yes, you can live without a landing page. And yes you can live only with a landing page.

However, you are missing on some huge opportunities.

If you use landing pages and a blog you can have all the advantages of both!

Now I want to hear from you:

Do you use both, landing pages and a blog? Or maybe only one of it?

Or do you use nothing?

Let me know it by leaving a comment 🙂

Morfix Review – Scam or Opportunity?

Auto-liking, auto-commenting, auto-direct messaging, and auto-scheduling. These are only some of the great features Morfix promises on their website (see here).

But how good are the features working in reality? I tested this Instagram automation tool and in the following, you can see my results.

How does it work?

Morfix works very similar to Leadfriend. They help you grow your profile by engaging with other members in your niche. Before the algorithm can work you need to set up your account.

Setting up your account

Before you do anything else you need to pick a niche. Morfix has already predefined niches like:

• Entrepreneurship
• Make money online
• Food
• Health and Fitness
• etc.

You can also choose “custom” if your niche is different. Now you need to choose which options you want to use. Here is a screenshot of my account where you can see more details:

As you can see you can turn on and of automated liking, comments, following and unfollowing. So for example, if you don’t want to auto-comment you can turn that off.

Next, you can set up advanced auto follow/unfollow options. The screenshot below shows you all the options:

There are many different options you can set. If you have a rather new account you want to turn down the follow/unfollow speed so your Instagram account won’t be blocked.

In the next step, you can set up comments you want to be posted. This really depends on your goal. This can be for example “Great post! Be sure to check out our profile!”.

Now you can also set up hashtags and profiles you want to target.

Lastly, you can set up direct messages that should be sent out to new followers. Here you can vary with different versions.

One the one side this is great for split testing and on the other side, this needed to “trick” the Instagram algorithm. If you only have one version and this message gets sound out 50 times a day the algorithm thinks you are using a tool and will maybe block your account.

However, to avoid this you can create many different variations of one message.

Schedule posts

Another great feature of Morfix is auto-scheduling posts. You can either choose your own content or already created content from Morfix. They already give you access to hundreds of pictures in the Lifestyle, Entrepreneurship and Fitness niche. So if you don’t want to

So if you don’t want to create content you can use this content.

The idea of the scheduling feature is pretty good. However, I think it can be improved. At first, you have to schedule pictures in a different time zone (GMT +8) what can be very confusing.

Also, there is no option to see only pictures you haven’t posted, yet. So you always have to know which pictures you have posted and which you haven’t.

With a little practice, it gets easier but at the beginning, it can be really frustrating.

After scheduling your posts you can see in the logs if there has been a problem with posting your pictures. Unfortunately, there are sometimes errors and your picture couldn’t be posted.

I also have noticed that scheduled pictures have a much lower engagement rate than manually posted pictures. I think the Instagram algorithm notices if you schedule a lot of posts and lowers your engagement but that is just my opinion. (If you need a tool to schedule check out this tool)

Cost

Morfix offers different packages with different features.

Free account: You can start Morfix as a free member and use some of their features. You can automatically send out DMs to your new followers and activate the auto-like feature.

However, the messages and your scheduled posts are branded by Morfix. If you want to remove the branding you have to upgrade to the premium package.

Premium account: The premium account costs $37/month and has all the automation features for one account. That includes auto-liking, auto-commenting access to the affiliate program and training and much more.

If you want to use Morfix with more than one account you have to upgrade your account to Business.

Business account: The business account costs $97/month and includes up to 5 different Instagram accounts. In addition, you get invited to the auto engagement group which will help you boost your account.

Who is it for?

Morfix can be a great tool for

• People who want to easily get more followers
• Business owners who want to sell with Instagram
• Affiliates who want to earn money with the Morfix affiliate program

Does it work?

I already had one account using Leadfriend but I wanted to test Morfix and created a second account. It all seemed very great until I started scheduling some posts.

As I already mentioned, you have to schedule the posts in a different time zone. That was really confusing at the beginning. But after the first 10 posts, it worked out pretty well.

They say that if you have a very new account you have to turn down the follow/unfollow speed so you won’t get blocked. However, I had my speed on the lowest level but I still had problems with it.

My account didn’t get banned but in the Morfix dashboard, it said that the Instagram algorithm throttled my account. That isn’t something bad, it just means that in the next 4-5 days the Morfix algorithm doesn’t work.

That is something completely different to Leadfriend where I never had any problems. However, when the algorithm is working the growth is very good.

Also, as I already described, the scheduled posts have a lower engagement rate than manually posted pictures.

Besides, these small problems the algorithm works out very good and I get new followers and leads every day.

The affiliate program

Morfix offers a very great affiliate program. Here are the two reasons for it that I liked the most:

Reason #1: Commission structure

For every referral in the premium package, you get $20/month recurring commissions. That means if you only refer two new members you account is free! For every business referral, you get $50/month recurring commissions.

This is a great opportunity to build a passive income stream!

Reason #2: Step-by-step training

Inside the Morfix backend, you get step-by-step affiliate training that really helps you to become a successful affiliate. The training is very detailed and should be enough to make money on Instagram.

Conclusion

Morfix is a very good tool for Instagram automation but it is not perfect. It has a great backend with many different settings and a great affiliate program.

However, there are some small problem with the tool but if you can live with these you’ll have access to a great tool. If you want to start your free trial check click here.

If you want to download a free ebook how you can earn your first $1.000 with Instagram and Morfix click here.

Have you made any experiences with Morfix? Or maybe you are using another tool? Let me know by leaving a comment below 🙂