Is affiliate marketing MLM?

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What is multi-level marketing? It’s much better known as a pyramid scheme. In most traditional cases, pyramid schemes are illegal. They work by constantly signing up new people to sell a product that doesn’t actually exist. The people at the top of the pyramid make money be collecting a commission off of all the sales that happen below them in the pyramid structure.
Because affiliate marketing works so well and seems to genuinely benefit both the website that is advertising as well as the website that is hosting, people tend to look for problems that just don’t exist. One of the “problems” that has dogged affiliate marketing for years is the idea that is is a multi-level marketing scheme.

Affiliate marketing is, in no conceivable way, multi-level marketing. In most cases, a site that wants to advertise pays another site to direct traffic to them. There are multi-level affiliate marketing set ups that have one site direct traffic to another site and then that site directs people to the site that pays both previous sites, but even in this case, the customer isn’t tricked or misled and there isn’t any sort of financial transaction that takes place, either. Multi-tiered affiliate marketing is simply another way for web pages to create traffic and revenue.

The way earnings work for multi-level affiliate marketing is different than a pyramid scheme, as well. Is it true that in the end, the site that is being linked to makes the most money? Sure, but that’s because they are the ones offering the product or service. The other sites are simply steering customers to them. With multi level affiliate marketing, everyone makes money and assuming a legitimate good or service is being sold at the end of the path, the consumer ends up happy, too.
In recent years, pyramid schemes have tried to gain a bit of respectability by offering legitimate products like phone cards that made the whole operation legal. But, in essence, pyramid schemes are still tainted by the perception that they are inherently dishonest and, unless you start a pyramid scheme and are at the top of the pyramid, you’re earning money for someone else.

It can be a little confusing for those new to Multi level affiliate marketing to tell the difference between it and a pyramid scheme. But rest assured the two have very little in common, most importantly the fact that almost all pyramid schemes are illegal while multi level affiliate marketing is quite legal and a very effective tool in Internet advertising,

Choosing a “niche market”

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Niche marketing can be a hard skill to master. Most people want to create a broad affiliate marketing site that doesn’t have a lot of focus so that it appeals to the most people. While this is tempting, you can be left with a site that appeals to no one at all. By zeroing in on the group most likely to buy the product you sell on your site, you can lock yourself into a niche market and, chances are, your sales will explode.
Make sure your content relates to the demographic your after. If you’re selling life insurance, you probably want to have content that is going to connect with older folks, not the skateboarding crowd. And this advice goes the other way, too. If you’re selling skateboards, make sure your content is going to appeal to that generation. You wouldn’t want your content to read like an ad for life insurance. Of course, there are some products, like books and CDs, that cross generations, but you can still write your content so it aims at a particular audience. This is the other side of “niche marketing;” making sure that your content is written for exactly the people you want to buy from you.
Now that you’re considering opening your own affiliate marketing website, you have to pick a product to sell. In previous articles, we’ve talked about how important it is to pick a product you know a lot about since you’re responsible for writing articles that try to get people to buy your product.

But there is more to it then just writing snappy articles and providing a link at the bottom of the page. Knowing how to market your articles will go a long way in determining if your site is a success or a failure.

In the process of picking out a product, don’t be afraid to go “niche.” What that means, essentially, is don’t worry about picking an item that may only appeal to a small number of people. If you pick something like televisions or books, people can go down to their local Best Buy or Barnes and Noble and get those items. If you deal with a company that most people don’t have in their towns like L.L. Bean or Tower Records, people will be more likely to shop with your affiliate site because of the prestige of those companies. People can get a pair of boots or a CD anywhere, but getting those items from those stores is extra special.

Affiliate marketing with NO money

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Maybe the single greatest part about affiliate marketing is the incredibly low initial investment you need to start earning money for yourself. All you really need is a website. That’s it. There are so many FREE programs out there that will walk you though basic web design, even if you know nothing about it, you can be up and running in the span on a day. All that’s left at this point is finding an affiliate marketing program to subscribe to.

Here are a few tips about starting up your affiliate marketing campaign today!

As you can see, there are a few ins and outs to affiliate marketing that everyone needs to know. But the key here is the fact that you can earn money with almost no work involved. Just make a website, write some snappy content and set up your links and then sit back, relax and count your money.

• Don’t use a low-quality internet provider. This can be a tough choice for those looking at keeping their costs at zero or as close to zero as possible. But your local full Internet Service Provider is going to do a better job of hosting your new money making website then some free site that crashes all the time. Your new web site is a money-making machine for you, don’t trust it to a company that isn’t going to do everything they can to make sure it’s up and running 24/7. You probably pay for an internet connection in your home already, and with your basic Internet account, you get web space. Use it and rest easy knowing that your website is in good hands.

• There are tens of thousands of affiliate marketing programs you can subscribe to. The list is essentially limitless. An important piece of advice, though, is that if an affiliate marketing program wants you to pay money to sign up, you might want to think twice. Unless the initial investment is very small, there are many other choices that you could make. You see, almost all affiliate marketing programs are FREE! That’s right, you read that right. FREE! And not only that, but some of the big time programs will even train you and give you tips on the right keywords to put on your webpage so random web surfers will find you, click on your link, buy a product and earn you money! Unless you really want to be part of an affiliate marketing program that charges money, don’t do it. There are thousands that are free.

The Most Important Factor Of Google Adwords Campaigns

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The most important factor to how well your google adwords advertising will do, hinges on how much competition you have. So think Niche, Niche, Niche!

The aim of good marketing, isn’t to get a tiny cake-crumb of traffic from an over competitive market. The aim is to get a chunky large slice (if not the whole cake) from a non-competitive market.

In this post, I am not going to be getting into teaching you how to find an uncompetitive niche area. That is really a whole other topic, (which I have already started to write). I am only covering how to write your adwords adverts here.

But do bear ‘Niche’ in mind. If the market you are in is very competitive, as a beginner, it will be very difficult to generate traffic. I should know. I made that mistake with my www.UsedCarsWorldwide.com website (my very first website which started out with a 0.4% click thorugh rate).

GETTING GOOD KEYWORDS

For the sake of having an example, lets make up a fictional niche website called www.makemoneytoday.com , a website whereby visitors can read articles on the latest types of money making ideas (and maybe buy an ebook or two). Lets say, you are now ready to start your adwords campaign.

You should first go to a free keyword search website called Overture here…

http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear…ry/suggestion/

… and type in your main keyword into the suggestion box. Overture will then give you a list of keywords and keyphrases that relate to your main keyword. Most importantly, it will tell you how many people searched for that phrase over the past month, in Yahoo.

Generally, whatever the number of searches in Yahoo, Google is two to three times bigger. So if 20,000 people searched for widgets in Yahoo, we can estimate that 40,000 to 60,000 searched for the same word in Google. If you want exact numbers for Google, you can use www.wordtracker.com although you have to pay for their service. It is a top quality tool however.

So for the website makemoneytoday.com, I typed into Overture the keyphrase ‘make money’, and these are the 10 most searched phrases that I got in return (the numbers beside the keywords show how many people searched for that phrase over the last month):

125982 make money
76147 make money online
45073 make money at home
19946 make money from home
12841 make money on the internet
11860 make money fast
11807 make money on ebay
10492 ways to make money
6133 we make money not art.com
5544 work at home make money

Now ideally, you need to have some 200 or more keywords, BUT whenever you are just starting a campaign, start out with just the 10 or 20 most popular and see how they perform. Afterwards, you can drip feed the remaining keywords into your google adwords keyword list.

PLEASE NOTE: The keyword phrase ‘Make Money’ has a very competive market. How do I know? Well, if you simply type the phrase ‘make money’ into google, take a look at the list of google adwords ads down the right hand side. Literally sit down and count them all. I started counting them, and grew bored after I’d counted 90 ads (and that was only on the first page). A compeitive market is any market that has over 50 or so advertisers in it. So in real terms, the keyword ‘make money’ would be a very difficult market to start out in. Not impossible, but very difficult.

ADDING YOUR KEYWORDS TO YOUR GOOGLE ADWORDS CAMPAIGN

When you start to write your adwords campaign, you are asked to type in all of the keywords you would like your adverts to show up for.

Now, when you input your list of keywords into your google adwords campaign, you don’t just, for example, input the keyword ‘make money’. You need to input that term in the following way…

[make money]

… encasing the word in [ ].

You then do the same for ALL of the other keywords, for example ‘make money online’, would be typed in as follows:

[make money online]

By using [ ] to encase your keywords, you are bidding on what is called an exact match. This means that when someone types in ‘make money song lyrics’, your advert won’t appear. Your ad will only appear when someone types in ‘make money’ and nothing else. We do this because that is the precise phrase that Overture has told us people have searched for.

By only bidding on exact match keywords, you can quickly work out precisely which keywords work and which ones don’t.

WRITING A KEYWORD RICH ADVERT

Now that we know our main keywords and phrases, we can begin to write an advert that will stand out and catch the customers eye.

The basic layout of an effective adwords advert, has four main parts to it:

1. The keyword rich title
2. The benefit with keywords
3. The feature
4. The capitalised display URL

For example, when you type in ‘make money’ into google search, this is one of the adverts that came up along the right hand side of the page:

�1000 a week anyone?
I’ve made �70,000 in two years!
Try it out absolutely risk free.
www.grahamlaurie.com

I am going to break it down and explain how I think it could maybe improved, whilst showing you how to layout your basic adwords ad…

1. The keyword rich title

�1000 a week anyone?

These are people who have searched for Make Money. Whenever your advert appears, the only parts of it that are highlighted are any words in your advert that match the keyphrase the visitor search for. In this advert, neither ‘Make’ nor ‘Money’ can be found anywhere in this ad!

This means that no part of the advert is highlighted, and this advert doesn’t stand out nor captures the attention of the customer. A better title would be something like, Make Money Online. Simple, but keyword rich, and much more likely to stand out. Also, he needs to capitalise each word of the title.

2.The benefit with keywords

I’ve made �70,000 in two years!

No benefits offered. Whether he likes it or not I, as a potential customer, don’t care how much HE has earned. I simply want to know how much I will earn.

The reason why we put the benefit in the second line is because people usually read the title, the first line, then skip the third and fourth line. So if you don’t tell the customer why your website will help them instantly, you won’t get them to visit your website at all. Also, he needs to capitalise each word of the second line. A better 2nd line would maybe read something like, Increase Your Wealth In Five Easy Steps. I have offered a benefit that will draw you in instantly.

3. The feature

Try it out absolutely risk free.

If he had told the reader what benefit he was offering them in his second line, this third line would probably be a clear feature. But without a benefit rich line, the reader simply has no idea what it is that he is offering ‘risk free’.

Also, once again, each word has not been capitalised. Maybe a better line would be something like, Online Resource To Making Money.

4. The capitalised display URL

www.grahamlaurie.com

The domain has nothing to do with the main keywords. Also it is hard to read, since we don’t know where one word ends and the other begins. Also, unless your name is Bill Gates, your name isn’t going to attract much interest when it comes to making money.

If he were to use this domain name for his product, he should present it so that each word is capitalised, like www.GrahamLaurie.com, otherwise he would be better off getting a domain name (or a sub domain name) that has the keywords in it, for example www.GrahamLaurie.com/MakeMoney/ would do well, since the keywords are in the URL.

So if we apply what we have learnt so far about writing a google adwords adverts, his original advert which currently looks like this:

�1000 a week anyone?
I’ve made �70,000 in two years!
Try it out absolutely risk free.
www.grahamlaurie.com

… would have a layout more like this…

Make Money Online
Increase Your Wealth In Five Easy Steps
Online Resource To Making Money
www.GrahamLaurie.com/MakeMoney/

That is just a rough draft, but you can see the difference. The keywords are in there (which means they are highlighted, thus making your ad stand out).

ALWAYS SPILT TEST YOUR ADVERTS

Once you have written your first adwords advert that you are happy with, you should immediately sit down and write another one.

Now when you run your advert, you don’t just run the one advert, you run BOTH of those adverts side by side, simultaneously.

Whichever one performs better after around 20-30 clicks or so, you keep that one and pause the poorer performing advert.

You then write yet another advert, which you now run side by side with the original better performing advert.

The aim is to keep trying to write an advert that does better than the last one. Eventually your click through rate will increase, because you are constantly improving your adverts. This is what is meant by split testing.

ALSO NOTE: When you do set up your advert, there is an option where you can choose how much you wish to bid per click. Never accept their recommended bid. Always put in your own bid.

The recommended amount I would put in is $0.10 per click. A beginner mistake is to bid what they recommend, and this will cost you a lot if you do.

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300 Article Submission Sites

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Some of them are very new and have only a few articles submitted.

Most of them are article submission sites , but few are directories with good PR, so I have included them.

www.101articles.com
www.1articleworld.com
www.a1-articledirectory.com
www.a1articles.com
www.aadpro
www.ababba.com
www.ablearticles.co.uk
www.acearticles.com
www.acmearticles.com
www.activearticles.com
www.activeauthors.com
www.add-article.com
www.addarticle-submitfree.com
www.addyourlinks.info
www.advertisingknowhow.com
www.allaboutarticles.org
www.allaboutguide.com
www.allaroundsuccess.com
www.amazines.com
www.answer-site.com
www.anyarticles.com
www.archivex-ht.com
www.articleaccess.com
www.articleagency.com
www.articlealley.com
www.articleavalance.com
www.articleavenue.com
www.articlebag.com
www.articlebar.com
www.articlebeam.com
www.articlebin.com
www.articlebiz.com
www.articleblender.com
www.articlebliss.com
www.article-blogs.info
www.articleboutique.com
www.articleboy.com
www.articlebunch.com
www.articlebus.com
www.articlecapital.com
www.articlecircle.com
www.articlecircuit.com
www.articlecity.com
www.article-content-king.com
www.articlecorral.com
www.articlecrazy.com
www.articlecube.com
www.articledaddy.com
www.article-daily.com
www.articledash.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.article-database.com
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.articledestination.com
www.article-directory.info
www.article-directory.net
www.articledomain.com
www.article-domain.com
www.article-exchange.com
www.articlefair.com
www.articlefarm.com
www.articlefeeder.com
www.articlefever.com
www.articlefile.com
www.articlefocus.com
www.articleforyou.com
www.articlefrenzy.com
www.articlefusion.com
www.articlegarden.com
www.articlegroup.com
www.article-hangout.com
www.articlehopper.com
www.articlehub.com
www.articleinn.com
www.articleintelligence.com
www.articleinterchange.com
www.articlejoe.com
www.articlejunction.com
www.articlekarma.com
www.articlelists.com
www.articlelocker.com
www.articlelookup.com
www.articlemailbox.com
www.articlemap.com
www.articlemarketer.com
www.articlemasters.com
www.articlemax.com
www.articlemill.com
www.article-monster.com
www.articlemotron.com
www.articlenest.com
www.articlenews.us
www.articleonlinedirectory.com
www.articleoptimizer.com
www.articlepanel.com
www.articlepeak.com
www.articlepipeline.com
www.articleportal.com
www.articlepot.com
www.articleprobe.com
www.articlerampage.com
www.articlerich.com
www.articlerocket.com
www.articles24.com
www.articles365.com
www.articles411.com
www.articles4content.com
www.articles4free.com
www.articles-4-free.com
www.articles4reprint.com
www.articles4rss.com
www.articlesandauthors.com
www.articlesbase.com
www.articlesbeyondbetter.com
www.articlesearchnet.com
www.article-search-online.com
www.articleselections.com
www.articlesexpress.com
www.articles-galore.com
www.articleshelf.com
www.articles-hub.com
www.articlesindex.com
www.articles-keyword-rich.com
www.articleskingdom.com
www.articlesmagazine.com
www.articlesnatch.com
www.articlesnet.co.uk
www.articlesnetwork.com
www.articlesolutions.com
www.articleson.com
www.articles-online.biz
www.articlesonline.org
www.articlesoup.com
www.articlesphere.com
www.articlesrightnow.com
www.articlesrus.net
www.articles-submit.com
www.articlestack.com
www.articlestash.com
www.article-store.com
www.articlestreet.com
www.article-submitter.com
www.articlesworld.net
www.articleteller.com
www.articletime.com
www.articletogo.com
www.articletower.com
www.article-treasure.com
www.articletrunk.com
www.articlevenue.com
www.articlevillage.com
www.articlevista.com
www.articlewarehouse.com
www.article-warehouse.com
www.articlewell.com
www.articlewiz.com
www.articleworld.com
www.article-world.net
www.aticle-den.com
www.authorcontent.com
www.bestarticlecity.com
www.bestwahmarticles.com
www.bigarticle.com
www.bigarticledirectory.com
www.bigarticles.com
www.blogwidow.com
www.cajun101.com
www.cjp-internetmarketing-tools.co.uk
www.contentarticles.com
www.content-articles.com
www.content-corral.com
www.contentdesk.com
www.content-edge.com
www.contentfueled.com
www.contentmasterworld.com
www.dezinersplace.com
www.directorygold.com
www.earticlesonline.com
www.easyarticles.com
www.eclipse-articles.com
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www.expertprofessional.com
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www.ezinearticles.biz
www.ezinearticles.com
www.ezinecrow.com
www.ezinefinder.com
www.ezineplug.com
www.ezine-writer.com.au
www.fetcharticles.com
www.findanarticle.co.uk
www.findandpostarticles.com
www.free-article-directory.com
www.freearticlehq.com
www.free-article-search.com
www.free-articles-search.com
www.free-articles-zone.com
www.freebie-articles.com
www.free-content-resource.com
www.freecontentzone.com
www.freehere.com
www.freeinternetarticles.com
www.freewebsitearticles.com
www.freezine-articles.com
www.freezinesite.com
www.freshdocuments.com
www.geminipublishing.com
www.getyourarticles.com
www.goarticles.com
www.goarticles.net
www.gogetarticles.com
www.goodinfohome.com
www.gspublishing.com
www.hotarticles.net
www.iarticlebeach.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.infoarticles.com
www.infonexus.org
www.internetmagnet.com
www.ireprint.info
www.isnare.com
www.jodee.biz
www.justarticles.net
www.justarticlesonline.com
www.knowledgedetective.com
www.kokkada.com
www.leadarticles.com
www.masterarticle.com
www.media13.com
www.mega-articles.com
www.mikeserovey.us
www.miniguides.info
www.morganarticlearchive.com
www.msjsoftware.com
www.myarticles.biz
www.my-articles.com
www.mydolittle.com
www.net-magazines.net
www.netsbestscripts.com
www.newarticlesonline.com
www.newfreearticles.com
www.newsweb.info
www.niche-article-directory.com
www.niche-content-articles.com
www.nichecontentdirectory.com
www.nowlearnmore.com
www.onearticles.net
www.onestoparticles.com
www.postarticles.com
www.publisherscloninghouse.com
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www.read-reviews.info
www.real-articles.com
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www.reprint-content.com
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www.savearticles.com
www.searcharticles.net
www.searchwarp.com
www.seekindex.com
www.simplysearch4it.com
www.skaffearticles.com
www.smartarticle.com
www.softwebworld.com
www.solidbytes.com
www.spinasilverdollar.com
www.stickyarticle.com
www.submit-your-articles.com
www.submityournewarticle.com
www.superarchives.com
www.team77.com
www.telladoc.com
www.thearticlegenie.com
www.thearticlelibrary.com
www.thearticleworld.com
www.thearticlezone.com
www.thecontentcorner.com
www.theezine.net
www.theonlinearticleplace.com
www.theresourcedirectory.com
www.thewebcontent.com
www.thewebpage.com
www.theywrote.com
www.top1k.com
www.topicnow.com
www.traffichelp4u.com
www.ultimatearticledirectory.com
www.unitedarticles.com
www.upublish.info
www.viewarticles.com
www.virtualwordpublishing.com
www.wahm-syndicate.com
www.webarticlepost.com
www.webmarketmagazine.com
www.webs-best-directory.com
www.wowarticles.com
www.yeeheey.com
www.yournetarticles.com
www.zerocostarticles.com

Direct Marketing Techniques To Your Website

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FEW WAYS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF UR WEBSITE USING DIRECT MARKETING
(1)Make it easy for a prospect to locate and gain access to a web response area.Web response forms allows prospects to potentiaaly qualify themselves.reinforcing the response area by providing links acroos the site provide multiple opportunities to respond.
(2)Cr8 a promotional area with special offers.Make sure this special offers change 4m time to time.Tie these offers with direct marketing campaign
(3)Place an onsite banner ad.An onsite banner ad is used to advertise and promote ur website on other peoples website
(4)Offer a free subscription letter to a online news paper on ur site.
(5)Drive traffic to ur website via traditional media.After investing on a website be sure to capitalize on its existence.then promote the website aggresively.If u have any special offers promote it on search engines thereby drawing traffic to ur site.

101 Ways to increase traffic (Start)

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1.Write and submit articles . It is a classic, but it works. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem these days.

2.Write and submit press releases, think prweb after you do one.

3.Write and ping blog entries. Always make sure to link back to your website with your blog posts. Try making multiple blogs and have them all link back to one main site.

4.Make sure your website is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/.

5.Advertise your website in the appropriate categories at Craigslist. Try posting your ads in the most populated cities in the world.

6.If a niche related forum that you frequently visit allows signatures, then make sure to add your website url in there.

7.Make sure to view related products on Amazon.com. You can try and take some customers from your competitors here by providing your own url if the product is similar.

8.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.

9.Review some related products on epinion.

10.If you purchase a product that you actually like, then feel free to give an individual respect when respect is due and leave a testimonial. You should be able to get some traffic from that website if your testimonial is left with a url.

11.Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.

12.Keep updating content on your websites/blogs… try at least once per week.

13.Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites, especially at http://del.icio.us/.

14.Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords.

15.Tag blog photos at Flickr.

16.Politely ask your readers to subscribe to your rss feeds.

17.Try coining your own term. Might want to trademark it if you smell that it will become popular.

18.Encourage readers to comment on your blogs.

19.Include translation for your websites/blogs, especially in Chinese.

20.Do not be boring, write about something that a wide select of people would want to know about.

21.Make sure to edit your writing (unlike what im doing ).

22.Comment on other related blogs.

23.Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.

24.Sponsor a charity, most charities will link back to your website, and you are also doing a good deed .

25.Sell an item on eBay as a charity auction. Most charities will link back to both your auction and your main website.

26.Start a publicity campaign, do something that individuals in your niche will take note of.

27.Brand your website with a logo and a slogan/catch phrase. Think IBM.

28.Hold a crazy contest that people in your niche will talk about. This will equal more links and traffic to your website.

29.Build a tool that individuals in your niche will love and enjoy. Then give it away for free. If the tool is helpful, then you will get quality one-way links to your website.

30.Contact small newsletters sources offline and submit articles to them.

31.Become friends with editors of an offline publication.

32.Give speeches offline. Start small and local. Also, do not forget to participate in toastmasters meetings in your area.

33.Have a GREAT product. All of the marketing/advertising in the world will do you NO good if your product is sub par. (No problems at MN)

34.Make something innovative. If you are selling information, what makes your content something you cannot get from the local bookstore, Barnes and noble or even eBay for that matter?

35.Is your product groundbreaking? Will you leave individuals with no choice but to talk about your product or service?

36.Are you selling something that wide groups of people want to know about but there is limited/scarce knowledge?

37.Write good content, if your writing is good then people will share it with their friends. In addition, webmasters will use it as content on their website with a reference back to your article, or at least they should.

38.Spark emotions. If you get people emotional about something then they will most likely talk about it.

39.Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.

40.Build a list of subscribers. Your list is like a golden asset to you if utilized correctly.

41.Write tip articles, such as “Ten easy tips to blank-blank-blank.”

42.Buy traffic from the search engines by utilizing one of their PPC campaigns.

43.Open up a myspace account and find targeted friends so that you can promote your services to them. Do not spam people, myspace is cracking down on spammers and are starting to sue people.

44.Solicit a link from your local chamber of commerce.

45.Have an easy to remember domain name. If your domain name is too long or not memorable then people may forget your site.

46.Add a bookmark option to your website/blogs.

47.Purchase the misspelled versions of your domain name and have it redirect to your main one.

48.Use keywords in your image alt tags. For example,

49.Make sure to include appropriate keywords in your title tag, search engines show more prominence or importance to keywords here.

50.Place appropriate keywords in your anchor text when linking.

51.If you have a profile anywhere online, always include appropriate keywords and link back to your website.

52.Try to get links from websites within your niche with a high pr (pagerank). Some The more one-way links (inbound links/backlinks) you have to your website, the higher your pr will become. Pagerank is important because websites with higher prs tend to have a higher search results in Google. It is a no brainier that if you can get number one for a competitive keyword then you will have enough traffic that you can handle… oh by the way its all free targeted traffic to remind you

53.Outsource grunt work. Time is in essence money…. you can hire individuals at freelance services to send emails, request JV proposals, or to answer questions from prospective or current customers.

54.Offer something for FREE. Abracadabra is not the magic word, FREE is. It is like a worm on a pole for a fish in the water…. its bait! Offer a free mini course or free ebook to help collect more subscribers. You can always offer a backend to monetize on this opportunity, such as an affiliate product for example.

55.After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product. For example, if I offered a traffic ebook, then after the individual purchase it would make sense for me to offer a traffic conversion bonus for a limited time only.

56.Become the virus within your niche. Make yourself the bug and have people talking about your product. When people talk about your product then you can induce the viral effect. However, you must give people a reason to talk about you, and being like everyone else is not one.

57.Do your research and find expensive niches to tap into. A good way to do this is to find how expensive someone is paying for a keyword on a PPC search engine. If you can sell items that are more expensive more often then it is a quicker way to get rich .

58.Become an active respected member of niche related forums. You can do this by offering quality posts. Hint Hint, it is not the number of posts you make, it is the quality. Remember, quality or quantity. Many useless or negative posts will have people looking at you funny.

59.Test, test, test. Your flushing money down the toilet if your not testing to see what campaigns are bringing you in the most money compared to which ones are costing you money. When you test, you can eliminate the campaigns that are costing you dollars so that you can properly maximize your marketing efforts. Without proper testing, you are pretty much lost and can’t improve. You can only guess to what has or what is working. With proper testing, you do not guess, you know.

60.Stay up to date on what is going on in the world, you can monetize off hot topic trends.

61.Network, when you know more people you can find people that can help you get what you need.

62.Offer an affiliate program for your product or service. Make sure to let your satisfied customers know that you have one, if they like your product then they will be even more delighted to know that they will get money for referring you.

63.Write and give away a free ebook or report. It does not have to be long as long as its quality information neatly formatted and put together. You can also make a brandable ebook or report and allow affiliates the opportunity to brand their affiliate links in there to pass on to the next individual. You can then send this ebook to your subscribers or submit it to ebook directories.

64.Add viral components to your blog such as social bookmarking options, and a refer a friend option.

65.Be funny, people like something that will make them laugh and they will spread it for you if it is a genius idea.

66.Syndicate your content by using an RSS feeds on your website.

67.Answer people’s questions answers with a link to your website in the sources area.

68.Put a link in the “about me” section of your eBay profile.

69.Make and upload a viral video to you tube. Use appropriate keywords in the video description for your target audience.

70.Record an informative podcast and submit them to poplar podcast directories.

71.Provide helpful answers for Google adsense on their help forum with a link back to your website. Go here to check it out:
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help

72.Get people to comment and add content to your site. When they do this, they will provide you unique content, no need to pay for ghostwritten articles.

73.If you cannot get JVs, then try to bribe webmasters for sponsored advertising space on their newsletters.

74.Include a media section on your website so that you will give the media an easy way to stay up to date on what your company is doing.

75.Try to teach a class at your local community college or university. The more exposure you get in the public, the more credibility you will receive.

76.Make a screensaver and make it easy for individuals in your niche to download it. Have eye candy graphics combined with your company logo to brand yourself.

77.Write something controversial and spread it freely to your target market. It can be something as idiotic as the Da Vinci code, but as long people talk about it, its a successful campaign. A few hints, something controversial is something that goes against established beliefs in your market.

78.Write and publish a book. Having your own book is a quick way to gain credibility.

79.Take a guru in your niche out to lunch, and pay for it.

80.Start an organization or club about something. This can be done online through Yahoo! or Google groups.

81.Volunteer. Donate your time to a good cause…you can always network with people and form connections at the same time.

82.Get involved in your community and try to run some type of
outreach program.

83.Offer good customer service, you may be surprised on how many referrals you get just be having a reliable one.

84.Consider adding a direct mail marketing campaign to your marketing

85.Put an ad in your local yellow pages to get some local customers. Yellow pages tend to be more successful then newspaper ads because individuals are looking for a particular service when they are browsing through the yellow pages as opposed to newspapers.

86.Post bulletins in your local supermarket. However, since not everyone may carry a pen or pencil, place your contact information and url on strips on the bottom so that individuals can rip it off and take it with them.

87.Host your own commercial so you can put “as seen on TV” on your products.

88.Conduct surveys and publish them. These make you appear as an expert in your field of study.

89.Break a record or shoot to be in the Guinness world records for something.

90.Make a sitemap for your website.

91.Use a favicon for your site.

92.Make your visitors more involved in your website. You can help accomplish this by adding CGI scripts to your site.

93.Make sure you have no broken links on your site, and make sure that your website shows clearly in all browsers.

94.Find domain names that get traffic, purchase them, and have them redirect to your website.

95.Spell correctly whenever using keywords in writing.

96.Look at sites related to your niche to try to figure out how they get their traffic.

97.Properly optimize your website for the right keywords.

98.Try to avoid java scripts on your website as much as possible.

99.Do not use frames on your website.

100. If your website becomes popular and starts getting lots of traffic, try switching to a dedicated server. The longer you site is down equals the more lost visitors you will have.

101. Write a quality 101 article about a steamy topic that people want to know more about in your niche .

PPC Opinions Of How They Can Increase Your Sales

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a list of pay per click sites>>www.payperclicksearchengines.com/

I would say the most important ones are:

1- Yahoo/Overture
2- Google
3- There is no big player after the first two, but here are some of the bigger ones:
– Looksmart
– Miva (aka FindWhat, Powers Excite)
– Kanoodle
– Search123

i like http://www.epilot.com/ this ones ok too http://insite.lycos.com/

There is also

www.mirago.com & www.enhance.com

Try http://www.click-share.com

I am working with them from 6 mounts and have very good results with very high CPC.

They also provide products ads.And the most trustable ones are Adwords and Overture.

I’ve used Enhance and 7Search and have been very happy with them. I’ve also had some bad luck with some of the lesser known ons with automated clicks and even got a warning from adsense to let me know.

I’ve been using abrite selectively, I’m looking for sites with a CTR of less than 2% as I can often purchase a text link for only $0.01 per click. If you choose sites with a CTR (Click Through Rate) less than 2% you can almost be certain there is no click fraud going on.

Adbrite at $0.01 per click combined with Google Adsence displayed on your page earning average $1.00 per click with a CTR of 2-4% is a great way of doubling your money and it’s quite low risk if you set your daily budget low. I’ve been spending on avergage $10 a day to generate $20-$40 a day with just one site alone. Not enough to retire on, but a steady income for very little work.

I just cant fault the service as it is so cheap, and so many quality sites are signing up to it after the google adsense purge.

Use the following link to have a look at them. www.adbrite.com
I’ve had no problems with them and they are great for arbing.

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Article marketing and article directory list

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1. Make sure to properly check the guidelines of various article directories – some directories will strip out HTML and some don’t. Make sure you take proper care of that in order to obtain maximum links with good anchor texts.

2. Don’t use the same article(s) that you submit to article directories ON your website as that may trigger duplicate filters of search engines. If you want to, at least tweak your article a bit.

3. Don’t make too many links to your website in your article – as the chances of your article being approved decreases. As a rule of thumb, get one link in ‘Article Body’ and two links in ‘Author Bio’ – this works well for most of the article directories.

4. Find as many article directories as possible that are related to the content on your own site. Google this:
“your keyword here” submit article

5. Don’t publish your email address while submitting to article directories – as you know what that means? SPAM!!! – Or you may make a separate email account for this purpose.

6. If you want your article to be picked up by some of the larger places, then you are better off submitting it by hand under your own name and account (rather using any automated service/software).

7. Make sure to submit your article in only RELEVANT article directories and it should be submitted in the correct category.

8. Consistency is the key. It is a fact that as more and more articles are added to the article directories, your article will go lower in the listings, but if you constantly and consistently submit new articles, then you will continue to reap the benefits.

Here is a good list of articles directories, be careful to start with 1. And follow: 2,3,4….
1. http://www.ezinearticles.com
2. http://www.goarticles.com
3. http://www.articlecity.com
4. http://www.a1articles.com
5. http://www.ideamarketers.com
6. http://www.searchwarp.com
7. http://www.isnare.com/
8. http://www.amazines.com
9. http://www.articledepot.co.uk
10. http://www.articledashboard.com
11. http://www.easyarticles.com
12. http://www.articlebin.com
13. http://www.articlebeach.com
14. http://www.articlehub.com
15. http://www.articlegarden.com
16. http://www.articlesphere.com
17. http://www.articlealley.com
18. http://www.articlesfactory.com
19. http://www.articlewise.com
20. http://www.articlegeek.com
21. http://www.writeyourarticles.com
22. http://www.media13.com
23. http://www.submityournewarticle.com
24. http://www.article-hut.com
25. http://www.bharatbhasha.com
26. http://www.article-spot.com
27. http://www.articlefusion.com
28. http://www.article-planet.com
29. http://www.valuablecontent.com
30. http://www.theallineed.com
31. http://www.articletrader.com
32. http://www.articleworld.net
33. http://www.certificate.net
34. http://www.articlepoint.com
35. http://www.alumbo.com
36. http://www.reprintarticles.com
37. http://www.free-articles-zone.com
38. http://www.articlefinders.com
39. http://www.articlejoe.com
40. http://www.articleson.com
41. http://www.article-hangout.com
42. http://www.linksnoop.com
43. http://www.fresh-articles.com
44. http://www.stickyarticle.com
45. http://www.article-content-king.com
46. http://www.articlematrix.com
47. http://www.publisherscloninghouse.com/
48. http://www.linkgrinder.com
49. http://www.rectonet.com
50. http://www.anyarticles.com

10 Eye Popping, Jaw Dropping Ad Copy Secrets

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1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales.

2. Publish a list of famous and respected customers who have bought from you on your a copy. People will think that if these people bought from you, they should also trust your business and purchase your products. Make sure to get their permission first.

3. Show before and after photos for your products on your web page copy. Show the problem picture and then beside it, show the picture of the resolution to the problem when they use your product.

4. Include an article or review that has been written about you or your business with your ad copy. This will show people that your business is respected and will increase your credibility.

5. When you offer free bonuses in your ad copy, also list the dollar value beside each bonus. People will feel they’re getting a good deal and it will increase the value of your product.

6. Hire a famous person to endorse your product or service. Make sure the person is well known to your target audience. Include their picture and statements on your ad copy.

7. Include your own picture on your ad copy. This will show people that you’re not hiding behind your ad copy and will increase their trust. Also, include your contact information below the picture and a brief statement or quote.

8. Tell your potential customers on your ad copy that you will donate a percentage of their purchase price to specific charity. This will show them you really care about the people. They may just buy your product to donate to the charity.

9. Ask your potential customers plenty of yes and no questions in your ad copy. The questions should remind them of their problem and make them think about what will happen if they don’t purchase your product.

10. Tell your potential customers they will receive a free prize if they find the five words in your ad copy that are misspelled or spelled backwards. The longer you can keep someone reading your copy the greater chance of them purchasing.