Internet Affiliate Marketing Blog

15 Link Exchange Tips

blinky — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:34:33 +0000

Establishing inbound links through reciprocal link exchanges is a very effective affiliate marketing promotional and advertising tool.If done correctly, building inbound links can improve your rankings in the search engines by raising your link popularity, increasing your website traffic, and providing a valuable resource for your website customers and visitors.

Here are 15 link exchange tips to get you started:

1. Exchange links with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and/or customers that will be interested in your affiliate products or services.

2. Keep your link title brief and free of long sentences.

3. Try to keep your link description (for your affiliate marketing site/blog) brief (aim for 200 characters or less).

4. Do not capitalize all letters in your link title or description.

5. Do not give the webmaster a deadline on when they should reciprocate. Webmasters are very busy people and it may take from 1 to 60 days or more. Be patient and in the long run you will receive more quality link partners!

6. Never remove a link partner from your site once they have agreed to exchange links with you and placed your link on their site.

7. Do not request link exchanges from sites that are unrelated to your website. For example, if you have a candle website, don’t exchange links with a pharmaceutical website. This will not benefit your customers or visitors and the search engines may penalize your website for this.

8. Let the webmaster know that you have indeed visited their site and explain to them why a reciprocal link exchange with your website would be beneficial.

9. Be sure that your link pages are search engine friendly. Link pages are easier indexed if they have no more than 25 links per page.

10. Complete your website before requesting reciprocal link exchanges. Most webmasters will not link to a site where most of the pages are “under construction”.

11. Do not give misleading information in your link exchange request. Most webmasters are not going to believe it and your request will most likely be ignored. For example, don’t claim that your site receives 100,000 unique visitors a day unless your site really receives that many.

12. It is best to categorize your link partners. For example, you might want to have a home and garden page, a home improvement page, a candles page, etc. This is a much better way or organizing your links for both your visitors and your link partners. If you just have one huge page of links in no order, most webmasters will not approve your link exchange request.

13. Make sure your links page is linked and visible from your affiliate marketing home page.

14. If your site is family friendly, do not add link partners that offer services or products that are not family friendly.

15. Be aware of free-for-all link programs and link farms. These are sites that basically offer nothing but unrelated links and end up collecting and sharing your email address, which results in a lot of unwanted SPAM in your inbox.

The above tips are only a few suggestions on how to build a successful linking campaign. Most importantly, be patient and take your time to find quality link partners that will add a valuable resource and bring targeted traffic to your website.

New Yahoo Algo Tips

blinky — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:52:37 +0000

Stuff I recently did to some new websites, and seen a huge increase from Yahoo.

1. Internal Linking
I have used some within the page, and at the footer. Make sure put to this on every page possible.

2. Backlinks from different sources.
International directories are great or with different languages. Articles!!!! Make sure to post the article on your blogpage first before submitting it elsewhere.

3. Use long Anchor Text Keywords for your affiliate marketing site or blog

4. Blog frequently ON YOUR WEBSITE.
Try to put the affiliate marketing blog on your homepage, and use internal linking to spread the juice to other pages. Your domain should be like a pyramid. The top domain being at the top, and the less important further down. Submit your blog, and make sure to ping it! Spiderbots love fresh content so don’t make your website stale!

5. Stop using some many images that makes your webpage load in minutes instead of seconds. Spiderbots are like US Navy Seals….they go in AND they immediately come out. They go into a building and all they see is pictures. What do you think they’re going to do? Nothing here….LET’S GO! If they find countless cabinets of info, they’ll start spending more time trying to acquire info.

6. Use the link command on YOUR page and your Competitor’s page.
Look at the all the links, and you will see a pattern with the top links. They’re usually some type of blogs with high PR rankings. Gee I wonder where you should spend more time at/on?

7. Sometimes it’s always good to leave your best articles ON YOUR PAGE.
I have noticed that many ppl are taking content from my page, and giving me a full dofollow link with my content. If you save your best content for ezine, they’ll just a link to ezine. This will benefit you in the long run.

8. If you’re going to blog comment (to put a backlink) make sure to do it in a highly ranked/highly visited/do follow blogs. Most spiderbots visit it, and they’re more than likely to see your site. What website is a good website to leave your ’spam’ link? Try tmz You will notice fast results from yahoo/google. Don’t get banned from there now.

Marketing tips and tricks for newbies

blinky — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:06:12 +0000

You have joined a few affiliate programs and now you wonder what to do…As a newbie you may have various options:

Article Marketing
Write great positive reviews of the products you are promoting, Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews. Post yours reviews on sites such as Goarticles.com or Ezinearticles.com

Blogging
Create a free blog using a blogging platform such as Blogger.com. Write posts (reviews) of the products you are promoting. Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews. Then ping your blog at a site such as Pingomatic.com. Your posts will be picked up quickly by search engines

If you want to host your own blog, read this: From Blogger to WordPress (tutorial for newbies): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8270241

Social Bookmarking
Welcome to the Web 2.0 era! In order to make it easy for your readers to save and share your content you may add social bookmark links to your blog - Link: SocialMarker.com

Forums
Join popular forums, go into your forum profile and edit your signature. Make a signature that includes your affiliate link(s), or links to your own reviews. Make frequent relevant contributions - Don’t spam! Depending on what you are promoting and the forums you are joining you will target direct sales or subaffiliates

Social Networking
Use social networking sites to promote your relevant reviews blog if any. Don’t spam with affiliate links!

PR
Once every few weeks you may post a press release at sites such as PRweb.com. Your press release will be a favorable review of the product you are promoting, alongwith your affiliate link

Email marketing
If you own a list of subscribers (people who have opted in to receive email offers from you), you may send them an email telling them about the products you are promoting and include your affiliate links in the email Once again, don’t spam!

Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
You may easily generate incomes with affiliate programs and PPC like Google Adwords You may also loose a lot of money before making your first sale. So be careful if you do use this way to drive traffic to your sales pages. Learn how it works before!
Learning centers: http://adwords.google.com + DP + PPCdiscussions.com

Make your own tools, write your own texts and try to think like a visitor or a potential buyer, study competitor tactics (use Google!), experiment, upgrade yourself all the time…It’s a matter of creativity, trial and errors, time and dedication

Never give up

Five REAL ways to make $100 or more per day

blinky — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:27:45 +0000

I decided to toss up a post with 5 ways to make $100+ per day. I’m not selling an ebook or trying to get you to read my affiliate marketing blog. These are just good ideas to keep in mind.

I’d love to hear your opinions, feedback, and ideally to hear some of your suggestions/methods in the comment box!

1.) Freelancing. Offer a service, such as writing (content creation), design, coding, SEO, etc. I know many people who don’t even have sites that exclusively provide services and make well over $100/day.

Can it be scaled? Outsourcing is key to scaling.

2.) PPC. You all know what it is. Don’t listen to ANYONE who says “that market is way too saturated.” Keep this in your mind: there is no such thing as an oversaturated market. Yes, this includes things like ringtones, nike, dating, adult, etc.

PPC-Coach is fantastic for learning, but there are so many resources on how to properly optimize PPC campaigns you shouldn’t have trouble learning, even without PPC-Coach.

A final note: Yes, PPC does require an initial investment, but it isn’t nearly as much as some would like you to believe.

Can it be scaled? Yes, nearly endlessly. Paul Bourque wrote an excellent article on scaling, despite his recent criticisms.

3.) The Shotgun Approach. This is a fairly popular method and you’ve probably heard of it before. Design 100 (or more) sites for which the goal of each is to make $1/day. $1/day is NOT difficult to achieve on nearly any site by means of CPC (adsense or others), ebay (phpbay, BANS, etc), and/or CPA offers.

Can it be scaled? Yes. Just keep building sites. Make 100 sites that each earn $1/day over the course of a year. Tweak them as you go to hit the $2/day mark.

As you can see, the “shotgun approach” will quickly add up your revenues. You are also highly diversified (one site dies/goes down/stops performing - oh well, no big deal). It’s a lot of work, but very possible to make $100+ daily.

4.) Classifieds Marketing. I know a lot of you play in this arena. Classified sites like Kijiji, Gumtree, and quite especially Craigslist are all goldmines. Most people think that doing anything regarding online sales for these sites is “spamming” or “blackhat”, when in fact it’s very possible to do entirely whitehat marketing and profit handsomely. I, personally, don’t subscribe to any particular hat color, so I do a bit of everything with these kinds of affiliate marketing sites when it suits my needs.

Can it be scaled? Yes, quite so. Consider the number of classified sites and the many, many automation tools available. It’s possible to make well over $100/day - even automated.

5.) The “Super” Affiliate Marketer. No, I’m not talking about everyone’s favorite bloggers (cough). I’m talking about building a downline (2nd tier, 3rd tier, etc). Essentially people who sign up through your link for various affiliate networks or affiliate programs. I have to admit that this will certainly not be your fastest way to $100/day, but it’s a good little “side project” to keep going. Once a few heavy hitters are under you, you’ll see the effects. Have a friend who does very well in a certain niche? Get him to sign up under you and test the offers at your network - he just might like it better.

Can it be scaled? The more people sign up through your link, the more you’ll make (provided they make money).

A Complete Guide to Free Website Traffic

blinky — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:07:40 +0000

When it comes to traffic generating, many Genbucks affiliates and other website owners tend to get stuck in a comfortable rut. We often use a small number of favorite techniques and rarely venture beyond them.

I’m hoping this report will encourage you to look beyond the techniques you’re using and try a few new ones. By using a wider variety of techniques, you’ll attract new visitors from new places.

The wider you cast your traffic net, the more you future-proof your online affiliate marketing business. You probably won’t use EVERY method listed here. Choose the ones which best suit your affiliate site, your skills, your interests and your temperament.

Traffic tip #1

You MUST have high quality, unique content if you want long-term, free search engine traffic. This is the most important tip of all. Sadly, it’s one which many website owners ignore. Provide LOTS of information-rich, keyword-rich, useful content for the search engines and humans to find.

You know that search engines are being clogged with junk at an alarming rate. The other day, we came across a marketer who was boasting that he owned more than 20,000 blogs - and he’s not the only one. Consider the scary effect of this exponential increase in low quality Blogs and websites. Old, large, well established sites will inevitably become more and more important and trusted by the search engines. Owning a large, well established, high quality site is a very solid investment in your future. These days, even Google’s webmaster guidelines advise affiliates to publish “unique and relevant” content.

If you spend time thinking of ways to provide truly USEFUL content that people will talk about, you’ll automatically end up with lots of free, one-way links to your site as people recommend it without even being asked to do so. We’ve been building information-rich websites ever since we created autosurfmonster.com . This method has worked extremely well for us and continues to work very well. If your website helps solve people’s problems, they’ll love you for it.

Traffic tip #2

Keep ADDING fresh, relevant, useful content. According to Google, about half the 2.5 billion searches done a day at Google are for unique, one-off phrases. The more pages you build full of on-topic material, the better the chances your site will be found. When it comes to keywords, think big. You want your site to be found via THOUSANDS of different phrases every month. Then you can lure that traffic to your best money-generating pages or to your newsletter sign-up page.

Also, search engines prefer fresh sites which keep gradually adding new content. Don’t let your site go stale. “Our own rule of thumb is this: Add a minimum of 1 article per week, 2 preferably. Adding an article daily is euphoria and adding 1 every six hours, well, that’s the best.”

Traffic tip #3

Choose a memorable domain name. If you’re launching a new site, choose a name people will remember easily. Ask yourself: “Will people remember my domain name?” Try to choose a name which won’t be confused with similar names. You don’t want people typing your competitor’s domain name when they’re trying to find your site.

NameBoy.com has a handy tool to help you choose domain names. Also, you can find a surprising number of good deleted (expired) domain names at Whois.net. Both those tools are free.

Traffic tip #4

Buy the wrong domain name, too. If you think people may confuse your domain name with a similar name, try to buy that name, too. A good domain name registrar will make it very easy for you to redirect one domain name to another.

Traffic tip #5

Make your domain name easy to read - especially if it’s a .NET Which of the following is easier to read and understand? www.genbucks.com or www.GenBucks.com See how using a capital letter at the start of each word makes the second domain name easier to read - and easier to remember.

Whenever you mention your domain name anywhere, ALWAYS present it in its most readable form. A good place to start doing this is in your email signature file. If you’re unfortunate enough to have bought the “.net” version of a domain name because someone raced you to the “.com”, help people to remember your site by writing it like this…

Example.NET

Being MEMORABLE helps you get more repeat visitors.

Traffic tip #6

Use appropriate keywords in your image file names. searching for images. We are not sure how valuable those visitors are, but we didn’t have to do anything very special to get them. Google Images - http://images.google.com - makes it easy for people to search for graphics online.

To take advantage of this, when choosing the file name of an image on your site, use an appropriate key phrase, for example, “book-ends.jpg” if you’re promoting book ends.

Here’s a tip we just discovered… When we searched in Google Images for “book ends” we discovered that the very first search result was for a page which did NOT contain a graphic of book ends! Instead, the page contained a “book ends” LINK to a book ends graphic on a second page. It if suits the design of your site, you may want to experiment with this technique.

We are not sure how much use traffic to images is, but if it’s ADDITIONAL traffic you can get simply by choosing image file names carefully, it’s worth having.

Traffic tip #7

Do REALLY SERIOUS keyword research. If you want to get LOTS of traffic from search engines, you need to find out the exact phrases which people are typing into search engines. There are free tools available for this, but they’re not nearly as useful as the more comprehensive paid tools.

For example, if you’re using the Overture keyword tool for your research, be warned, its results can’t be trusted. The Overture tool shows you the SAME number of searches for all these searches:

bikini girls

girls bikini

bikini girl

girl bikini

bikinis girl

girl bikinis

This is obviously nonsense. The Overture tool is useful to give you a quick rough guide, but NOT for, serious research.

“The harder it is to discover a certain search phrase (getting traffic), the less competition you will have in the SERPs (for that search phrase). If a keyword research tool is free and popular, how many competitors will you have for the phrases you discover there?”

Traffic tip #8

Try this page titles experiment. Here’s a good way to increase your traffic. Go to Google and type any phrase into the search box. Look at the titles of the websites in the top 10 rankings. Which ones catch your eye and tempt you to click on the link? Some are dreadfully stodgy, boring. Some are merely a long list of keywords. Some are good. Some are junk. Good titles are written for search engines AND humans.

Now look at the titles on your site. Start with your most important pages. Rewrite them to make them more eye-catching.

Now go to Google and do a search of your site like this…

site:example.com

Study the page titles. If you own a large site created over many years, you may be horribly embarrassed at just how BAD some of your page titles are. Do you want to find some examples of good titles? Simply go to Google and do some more searches. Don’t stick to your industry.

Type in all sorts of different phrases and study the titles that appear in the top 10. You’ll soon be brimming with ideas on ways you can improve your page titles. Checking how enticing the information is in your meta description tag can help, too. Some search engines display this information in their search results. If you have a well established site, you may have written many of your page titles and meta descriptions years ago when you knew less about marketing than you do now. If so, it’s time for another look at them.

Traffic tip #9

Organic SEO - a few key points. Search engines are getting cleverer all the time. You can try to outsmart them but to us it makes more sense to work WITH them.

They’re gradually getting better at sifting out low quality websites and ranking them poorly. So build high quality websites containing genuinely useful material that other people want to link to.

The basics of good search engine optimization are fairly simple. Here’s a very quick summary:

· You need to make it easy for a search engine to figure out the topic of your page.

· Find appropriate keywords or key phrases and use them in the title, in the page heading, in the introduction, throughout the article, in the meta description, in alt tags, at the end of the article, in links on the page, in bold or italics, and perhaps in a list on the page.

· Use key phrases in your file names, for example: keyword1- keyword2.html.

· Use synonyms and word variations naturally throughout the page.

· When linking to your pages, use appropriate keywords in the anchor text (the words people click on). Do this for links throughout your site, and also on other people’s sites which link to yours. Vary the anchor text.

· For internal links, it’s better to use text than graphical links.

· Create a logical navigation system so that humans and search engines can easily find the content on your affiliate marketing site.

· Get links from other sites to internal pages as well as to your main page.

Traffic tip #10

Submit to the main directories. The more high quality links you have to your site, the more impressed the search engines will be. Start with major directories such as…

Yahoo!

DMOZ.org

21 Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic

blinky — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:37:45 +0000

Here is the Very Good 21 Techniques to Increase Traffics in our Blogs which Most of popular blogger are using in affiliate marketing blogging (problogging).

1) Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)
2) Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
3) Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
4) Participate at Related Forums & Blogs
5) Tag Your Content
6) Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)
7) Don’t Jump on the Bandwagon
8 ) Link Intelligently
9) Invite Guest Bloggers
10)Eschew Advertising (Until You’re Popular)
11)Go Beyond Text in Your Posts
12) Cover Topics that Need Attention
13) Pay Attention to Your Analytics
14) Use a Human Voice
15) Archive Effectively
16) Implement Smart URLs
17) Reveal as Much as Possible
18) Only One Post in Twenty Can Be Linkbait
19) Make Effective Use of High Traffic Days
20) Create Expectations and Fulfill Them
21) Build a Brand

So, having affiliate marketing blog or just blogging is a really common thing, that most webmasters do, they are blogging about things, that are familiar with. Every one can do ti.

Tips For Writing An Effective Title

blinky — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:32:20 +0000

Tips for writing an effective title for your webpages of your affiliate marketing site:

1-Do not stuff so many keywords on the title tag. You can add more keywords into your detail description.

2-Think about users what they type and write accordingly and it should be to the point.

3-Do not write anything that is not relevant to your webpage.

4-Do keyword research (part of the affiliate marketing strategies) and analysis before writing title tag, so you can include most important keyword (also called primary keyword) in your title tag.

5-Try to make an appropriate sentence, so that user can read and understand your affiliate marketing products what kind of services or products you are selling.

6-Make sure your primary keywords should appear first and in the prominent area of your webpage.

7-Write unique Title for each page.

8-You can also write your website name or company name, but it totally depends upon your marketing and brand building strategy.

9-Make sure your Title tag is grammatically correct.

10-Make your Title tag short and targeted for some particular keyword. This will make your affiliate marketing site look more attractive.

If you use these tips while you are creating your webpage title, you will do your best for your online business, having in mind that most of your visitors will look up into it - they will read it in order to get a short information about your site and business at first place.

Tips to Get Repeat Web Affiliate Marketing Traffic

blinky — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:24:43 +0000

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant affiliate marketing sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and affiliate products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your affiliate product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

9. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

10. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your affiliate marketing products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

Proven Methods of Bringing Traffic to Your Site

blinky — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:20:22 +0000

These are the most common and successful ways that high-traffic affiliate marketing sites have gained their position on the web:

1. Search engines- This is by far the most common way to gain traffic to your site. If you have opportunity to view the log files of a popular website, you will see that they derive a large portion of their daily traffic from search engines. If you want to improve your performance with the search engines, you need to study and understand how they work.

2. Number of pages on your site- This one only makes sense when you think about. The more pages your site has, the higher your traffic will be. Think about it. If you have 5 pages on your site and every visitor looks at all 5, then that equals 5 hits per visitor. If 5 people visit, that equals 25 page views and so on and so forth. Having more pages will increase your search engine traffic.

3. Optimize all your pages- If you are going for SEO, be sure you optimize all of your pages not just your home page. This ensures that your site pages are coming up under multiple search phrases and not simply just your home page. This brings in more specific types of traffic and people who are actually interested in your site which will lead to a higher conversion rate. Better optimization on each of your pages will lead to more traffic and success.

4. Domain name- If you can get keywords actually in your domain name, this can increase your search ranking and traffic as well. While it is not always possible, it is very beneficial if you can pull it off.

5. Check your log files- Once you have launched your site, be sure to watch and study your log files to see what types of keywords people are typing in to find your site. These log files will show you what search engine keywords brought people to your site and often, you will be surprised at what you see. This will help you make changes to your site to increase the traffic based on those facts taken from the log files.

6. Link popularity- A higher number of incoming links will boost your search engine rankings as well. Remember that quality of quantity is best when choosing the sites you will link share with.

Now you know what methods will work to bring traffic to your site but you may still be wondering exactly how to do all of this. If you do not know how to use SEO and SEM and you do not have a full understanding of keyword placement and how it works with web traffic, it may benefit you more to hire someone to help you optimize your site for traffic. Paying an expert to do it right the first time will save you more in the long run than doing a poor job of trying to build affiliate marketing traffic on your own when you don’t know what you are doing.

If you plan to do it yourself, make sure you learn as much as possible about each method listed above and the best way to implement them to be successful. Don’t just trust the word of other internet marketers. Look into the facts and find out the truth of what works and what doesn’t and how things work. If you take a proactive approach with gaining traffic to your site, you will be more successful and will see the numbers that you want to be seeing.

In addition to these methods there are other ways of increasing traffic to your site. You can advertise on television, in magazines and on advertisements on the internet itself. Word of mouth is also a great way to increase your traffic. If people like your site, they will tell more people about it so remember that a good quality site is as important to increasing affiliate marketing traffic as all the other methods combined.