Marketing tips and tricks for newbies

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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

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make money onlineI 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).

21 Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic

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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 to Get Repeat Web Affiliate Marketing Traffic

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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.

Web Affiliate Marketing Traffic

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

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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.

How to submit web site into directories?

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1. Why it is important to submit website in directories?
– Direct traffic. Some directories can deliver very good targeted traffic.
– Directory links can improve SERP for the front page by anchor text used for directory submitting (title).
– All directory links can increase site PR up to 4.
– Weight from main page of web site will be redistributed within all pages => improve SERP of internal pages.
2. Which directories are suitable?
– At the beginning of website life, all directories should be free and without reciprocal links.
– For newbie website directories should be from the same language or the same region. English website into English directories etc.
– Mature web sites will have a lot of benefits from submission into international directories.
– Directories should make direct link to your website.
– Most preferable are niche directories.
– Should I register my website in new directories with low PR? Yes! This make your link profile more natural with a lot of weak links. This is unusual when the new site have only links from strong websites.

3. How to submit website?

– How many different titles and descriptions I should use for substituting? The answer is very simple – unique title and web site description for each new directory. This will allow you to avoid link duplications.
– Should I make reciprocal links? If directory is very important for you – then yes, but do not do more than 5-10 reciprocal links from your web site in total. This is very bad for your ranking.
– Some directories check reciprocal links only once during submitting – for these directories you can create special page, but do not forget to delete it after submission. This operation required special scripts.
– Should I pay to directory owners for accepting? Only for very strong, well known directories.
– What should I do for suspicious websites (farma, adult etc)? In many directories moderators do check website description but do not check website itself. So, try to make nice description and title. If you want to use bad keywords like viagra or cialis, you can do trick by hiding these words in more long words. For example “socialist party”.

How to raise you PR fast!!!

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Every single affiliate marketer want to raise the PR (page rank) of their sites and this is not something “NEW”. Here are some opinions of how you can achieve that goal, they are all based on the experience that most of these marketers:

On Question Like: “what should i do to raise the PR and make more keywords top?”

1. You need a lot of websites linking to you basically…and the higher PR of the pages linking to you and the more relevant they are the better!

2. I would suggest you focus more on your rankings in SERP. Optimize onpage (titles, headers, meta, keywords, etc.) and the do offpage though quality link building (using your keywords as anchor texts). Some ways to build links:

Directory submissions
Forum sigs
Blogs commenting
Article marketing
Social bookmarking
Link baiting

If you really want to build PR, search for “dofollow” blogs and participate relevantly and always be on-topic. Also building links to higher PR sites similar to your niche would also help.

3. It isn’t about the PR. It is about how well you optimize it..

4. The only way you can raise your PR fast is to do a bunch of stuff before Google publishes new PR data. You’d have to do it close enough that it feels fast, but not too close Google doesn’t crawl your new links in time.

5. submit your site to list of directories.

6. Choose quality link partners, minimize reciprocal linking and prioritize One-way links and also Create new, unique & fresh content

7. You get better PR by having a good quality site. Content is the most imporant, next is back links.

8. Page rank has little impact on your actual rankings. It could be possible that there are some SEO errors which might be suppressing your SEO rankings.Make sure you do not have any duplicate content on your website, and add quality back links towards your website.

9. Seriously, I vote that the next person who says “get more backlinks” without explaining the types of backlinks worth getting should end up with their genitals stuck in their ears.

BACKLINKS ARE NOT THE UNIVERSAL ANSWER TO ALL SEO PROBLEMS.

It’s really simple, as Paul pointed out. Good sites generate the kind of links (actual traffic generating links) that webmasters want. These aren’t the low-budget chumpstain throw-a-few-banner-ads-and-little-else sites or the copy-everyone-else’s-article-site article sites or any of the other low-grade get-rich-quick-if-rich-equals-about-47-cents-over-a-year sites out there. These are sites that are useful, and original, and actually have something to offer.

Like Paul’s site. Take a hard look at it. He has stuff on there that no one else has…why? Because he actually took the time to write it himself. The only tiein to backlinks is that he gets backlinks from real people (including myself) who recognize and appreciate the time and effort he has put into writing quality content that benefits the end user. Those links in turn send him traffic…as in actual users (you know, the same ones most SEOs end up forgetting about because they’re so obsessed with rankings). Those users turn around and tell their friends. And so on and so on.

That’s the answer. Build something that others feel is worth sharing with others.

10. How to get your pr higher is like playing English snooker…easy to start playing with…impossible to master. Also don’t forget that your site may have billions of backlinks, but if the majority of them have nofollow tag (you can be sure that will happen, specially backlinks from high pr sites) its really a hopeless quest. For me Pr is just an illusion to make google even more rich…

11. PR is not a solution for increasing your SERP.

12. normally I submit to the directories and comment some blog.

13. I personally think PR is totally about smoke and mirrors, think about it. Google is probably one of the most secretive orgs in the world when it comes to anything remotely SEO. So why then do they provide a nice tool in google toolbar to show their score of a website? I think its purely to take peoples eyes off google’s real algorithms. Google does a fine job of creating mass dilusions

One side comment, not truly on topic but worth mentioning, stay clear of buying links, google is getting hotter and hotter on it. And if you are selling marketing space, links, banner spots or similar, make **** sure you put NOFOLLOW attribute on the page or links themselves or google WILL penalise your page or site.

14. create a sitemap in webdirectory

15. I support statements about qulaity content – there are lots of examples were a low PR site outranks high pr site on some of the keyword based on its knowledge (size and quality of the content) on particular keyword.

At the same time I can give a few examples where the positions in Google are purely built on link and anchor text from inbound links.

Biggest dependency is the competition – the weaker the competing sites the easier it is to get to the top.

Straight to the topic – fastest way to drive pr is increase traffic to the site. The more traffic the higher the pr

16. My websites have over 300 pages of high quality video tutorials, the ranking were dropped from PR5 to PR4, PR3…… finally to PR0 about 6 months ago. When my websites have only about 30 pages, the ranking was PR5 about two years ago. The more contents I added, the lowest PR will result.

I think PR has no any relationship with content. Even websites with only a few pages with normal contents have PR3 or PR4. Why my websites with 300 pages with different contents will be penalized to PR0?

17. on page SEO and a couple of links does wonders for SERP ranking

18. Backlinks are the key. But also use anchor text in the backlinks.

For example…

Google

The word ‘Google’ is the anchor text, substitute that for keywords that you think others might use to bring your site up in the results.

19. Okay since PR is really an issue for the OP, you could also try participating in dofollow forums, blogs, or submitting to directories, etc. Their value is very low but they sum up. Overtime those pages you participate in or submitted to might have higher PR in the future.

You can also look for expired domains with PR and buy it.

20. Hi
Now PR is a favorite topic of mine

The ways to get good PR are
Great unique, frequently updated content. This is really the way to go

Page popularity ie backlinks Must be domne with some care

I think the content of your page is of paramount importance. There are websites that are not affected by the Google updates and I think this is due to the great webpage content

With regards to building backlinks, sticking to things like article submission and commenting in related blogs [pay attention to the titles of the posts you are commenting on are good practice

Affiliate Marketing Training

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Everyone knows Affiliate marketing is becoming very popular. There are countless programs and Ebooks out there to promote and receive affiliate commissions from. Finding a product or something to promote is the easy part, although some people struggle with trying to decide on that perfect product to sell. Don’t get hung up on this.

There is no perfect product. Don’t waste your time procrastinating. Go to a digital product retailer and market one or more of their top sellers. If you have no idea what to sell, please see references at the bottom of the page. There is a link there to a source that lists it’s top selling products online. Each one of the listed Top 10 income opportunities have been researched and proven to work. Just pick one, follow its direction and you will achieve success.

If you are really serious about becoming successful affiliate marketer – you must be disciplined. You will be learning a new way to make income other that the typical 9-5. It is extremely important to be organized. You only get out of an online business what you put in to it.

CashBurners Affiliate Program

Do a little research first to make sure that what you’re promoting is legitimate. Once you’re confident in a few products, pick the best one and go for it. Don’t spend a lot of time on your first one. Put something generic out there and see how it goes. You can soon tell if something is going to be successful or not.

You would much rather know if something is going to work before investing a lot of time in creating a website and follow-up emails. You want to see whether it’s worth your time to make an aggressive advertising campaign. If you see some success and it’s not great but you have seen a profit, then you should tweak it and try again. If do not see any profit at first, you may need to revisit your approach or pick a different affiliate marketing product.

Fortunately, there are a lot of products from which to choose. Some work and some don’t. In most cases, it’s not the product that’s the problem; it’s the person promoting the product. Generally, something is done wrong, they don’t see any results and they quit. Most of the time it is a result of not having the proper training and the tools you need to become successful.

There are a number of mini-series, articles and newsletters out there to get information on how to be a successful affiliate marketer.The problem is, you never get the important information you need. They lead you on but never give you the right information unless you purchase a product from them. There is a mini-series out there called the “Simple Formula for Success” that shows you step by step how to become successful and also shows you all the secret tools that the super affiliates use to run their businesses.

If you truly want to be successful online, you must have a plan or system in place. After it is in place it has to be tested. Keep trying until you see results you are happy with and then duplicate your efforts. Most people that want to pursue an online business don’t do this. They get frustrated and quit. The system works if you work it correctly.

EasyFLV Streaming Video software

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The streaming video software available from Easyflv.com makes it easy to add video to your website. You can choose from a number of default web video players to make it complement your website or design your own. Easyflv runs on all windows versions, including vista, so there shouldn’t be any problems getting it to work.

There is a single version and multitrack version available and both include a batch flv converter to be able to convert existing video files into flv format for efficient web video playback.

The multitrack version is ideal for running a series of video tutorials where users can choose to view them in sequence or opt to view any video in the series.

At $49 for the complete package, it offers great flexibility and is easy to use. The single video players are only 3kb in size with the multitrack players only 15kb, so it loads quickly. The video quality output is also surprisingly good for something in this price range.

Article Submission Tips

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Article submission is an excellent way to market your affiliate marketing website. But many authors don’t get the full benefit from their articles, simply because they  concentrate on volume of submission rather than quality. Submitting your  articles to as many directories as possible is fine, but their is another way to  get your articles noticed.

By using this marketing technique below I managed to get one of our articles to the top of Google for the search terms in the title of the article in just two days.

Here Is How We Did it:

1. I added the article to an article directory
2. I submitted the article to Digg and Stumbleupon.

Having your article referenced in these sites is almost guaranteed to get it quickly indexed in Google. What’s more, if the article is good you have the potential of a lot of traffic from these two sites.