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Jan 25, 2008

Selecting The Best Affiliate Network / Affiliate Program

Selecting The Best Affiliate Network / Affiliate Program

The whole wide web world of affiliate marketing is full of opportunities.

There are very few jobs in life that take such little effort that can lead to such big rewards. But as is the case with most jobs, what you put into it will closely reflect what you get out of it.

So, how can you maximize your time as well as your dollars? Here are a few tips to point you in the right direction when it comes to picking out the affiliate marking opportunity for you.

You gotta believe in the product! One of the golden rules of affiliate marketing is that if you don’t believe in the product, how do you expect the people you’re steering to it to believe in it? You can’t.

You should only choose a product that you like, a product you have tried and found to be of good quality and maybe even a product you actually use! Remember, you have two choices when you set up your affiliate website, you can just toss a bunch of links on a page and hope people click on them, or you can create a cool page full of great and interesting to read content on the product your linking to.

If you’re trying to write content about a product you think stinks or isn’t a good buy, it’ll show. The more passionate you are about that product, the better your chances are of making money.

Knowledge is the key! This one is a bit tougher, but it’s becoming easier by the day. There are, simply, thousands of affiliate marketing opportunities out there for you. And even better, almost all of them are free, so you have a pretty good selection to choose from.

The second golden rule of affiliate marketing is to choose a product that you know a lot about, or, at the very least, a product that you can talk a lot about. Need an example? Say you’re in an affiliate marketing program with Amazon.com. It would probably help your site if you’re an avid reader (if you link to the book section) or if you can do album reviews (if you link to the music section.)

This is good advice even if you aren’t linking to an online superstore. If you are linking to a candy company, provide some content about how candy is made or who invented it. If you’re linking to a company that makes skateboards, talk about Tony Hawk or the X Games.

Getting people to read your content and convincing them to click on that link and to buy that product is the whole point of affiliate marketing. You’ll be much, much more effective if you are knowledgeable about what you’re trying to sell!

Affiliate marketing is a gold mine waiting to be picked. The amount of money you can make is staggering, but you can make a lot more if you follow the golden rules.

By being passionate about what you sell and being knowledgeable about the field, you’ll convince many more folks to click away and buy.

Making Use Of Affiliate Network & Affiliate Program Directories

Making Use Of Affiliate Network & Affiliate Program Directories

You probably just made a website or a blog and decide to monetize your site, chances are you already have a good idea of what you want to sell. You probably already know what you want your site to look like and you even have an outline in your mind of what your content will sound like once your site is open and ready to go. But before you do any of that, you have to join an affiliate program. How do you find these programs? It’s easy. You use affiliate program directories.

These sites keep complete databases filled with the latest and greatest affiliate programs. They are usually searchable and provide you with all the information you need to get your site up and running as soon as possible. Let’s take a look at what other services these affiliate program directories provide.

The first thing you’ll see when you visit one of these sites is a list of programs you can sign up for. We’ve talked in earlier articles about how important it is for you to be knowledgeable about what you sell so that you can write captivating content and its in these directories that you’ll find programs that match your interests. If you want to run an affiliate website that sells car parts, you’ll find it here. The same goes for pet supplies or mail-order cakes and pies. No matter what your interest is, you can find the perfect affiliate marketing opportunity in one of these directories.

Most of these directories have a list of the best programs or the highest recommended programs, too. This can be a big help if you’re new to affiliate marketing and you want to take on a well-respected company first. This will help you in various ways since you’ll be dealing with an affiliate program that has a history of making money as well as a program that you can trust to not take advantage of you. The best-of list on the affiliate program directory sites can be a big help.

You’ll also find a whole slew of resources for affiliate marketers. The sites usually contain articles about how to get the most out of your site and ways you can increase your sales. These resources can be used over and over again and are worth visiting for the advice alone.

Affiliate program directories are the starting point for the money making adventure known as affiliate marketing. Without them, we would have a sea of affiliate marketing sites with no products. The directory sites allow users to choose exactly the right program for you so that you can start making money right now.

Jan 21, 2008

Wordpress Plugin, FeedBurner & Blogger / BlogSpot Solutions For BidVertiser Ads For Feeds

Wordpress Plugin, FeedBurner & Blogger / BlogSpot Solutions For BidVertiser Ads For Feeds.

BidVertiser is really going all out for their BidVertiser Ads for feeds.

BidVertiser now have a plugin for WordPress bloggers out there.

This plugin would seamlessly add BidVertiser Ads to any WordPress feeds.

You need to join BidVertiser as a publisher and download the plugin from your BidVertiser Publisher account.

Solution for FeedBurner allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in your current FeedBurner address. Click here to learn more about the FeedBurner solution.

Solution for Blogger/Blogspot that allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in the footer of each of your post feeds. Click here to learn more about the Blogger solution.

Join BidVertiser Now & Start Monetizing Your WordPress, FeedBurner & Blogger / BlogSpot Feeds.

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Jan 19, 2008

Using PPC To Make Easy Profit With Your Affiliate Marketing Business

Using PPC To Make Easy Profit With Your Affiliate Marketing Business

Pay Per Click ( PPC ) is one of the most cost-effective ways of targeting internet surfers to your online business. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click, accounts to 2 billion dollars a year and is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars by the year 2008.

Let us take a quick look at how PPC Search Engines work.

These engines create listings and rate them based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers bid against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or phrase.

The highest bidder for a certain keyword or phrase will then have the site ranked as number 1 in the PPC Search Engines followed by the second and third highest bidder, up to the last number that have placed a bid on the same keyword or phrase. Your ads then will appear prominently on the results pages based on the dollar amount bid you will agree to pay per click.

How do you make money by using PPC into your affiliate marketing business?

Most affiliate programs only pay when a sale is made or a lead delivered after a visitor has clickthrough your site. Your earnings will not always be the same as they will be dependent on the web site content and the traffic market.

The reason why you should incorporate PPC into your affiliate marketing program is that earnings are easier to make than in any other kind of affiliate program not using PPC. This way, you will be making profit based from the clickthroughs that your visitor will make on the advertiser’s site. Unlike some programs, you are not paid per sale or action.

PPC can be very resourceful of your website. With PPC Search Engines incorporated into your affiliate program, you will be able to profit from the visitor’s who are not interested in your products or services. The same ones who leave your site and never comes back.

You will not only get commissions not only from those who are just searching the web and finding the products and services that they wanted but you will be able to build your site’s recognition as a valuable resource. The visitors who have found what they needed from you site are likely to come back and review what you are offering more closely. Then they will eventually come back to search the web for other products.

This kind of affiliate program is also an easy way for you to generate some more additional revenues. For example, when a visitor on your site does a search in the PPC Search Engine and clicks on the advertiser bided listings, the advertisers’ account will then be deducted because of that click. With this, you will be compensated 30% to 80% of the advertisers’ bid amount.

PPC is not only a source of generating easy profits; it can also help you promote your own site. Most of the programs allow the commissions received to be spent for advertising with them instantly and with no minimum earning requirement. This is one of the more effective ways to exchange your raw visitors for targeted surfers who has more tendencies to purchase your products and services.

What will happen if you when you integrate PPC into your affiliate program ?

PPC usually have ready-to-use affiliate tools that can be easily integrated into your website. The most common tools are search boxes, banners, text links and some 404-error pages. Most search engines utilize custom solutions and can provide you with a white-label affiliate program. This enables you, using only a few lines of code, to integrate remotely-hosted co-branded search engine into your website.

The key benefits ? Not only more money generated but also some extra money on the side. Plus a lifetime commissions once you have referred some webmaster friends to the engine.

Think about it. Where can you get all these benefits while already generating some income for your site ? Knowing some of the more useful tools you can use for your affiliate program is not a waste of time. They are rather a means of earning within an earning.

Best know more about how you can use PPC search engines into your affiliate program than miss out on a great opportunity to earn more profits.

Simple Tips To Increase Your Site Search Engine Ranking & Traffic

Simple Tips To Increase Your Site Search Engine Ranking & Traffic :-

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.

• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.

• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.

• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.

• Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.

• Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.

• Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.

• Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.

• Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.

• Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.

• Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.

• When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.

• When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.

• Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

Jan 14, 2008

BidVertiser Ads for Feeds (RSS/ATOM) - Now in Public Beta !

The huge growth of RSS feeds, empowered by the growth of blogging, created the demand for new ways to monetize RSS feeds. Hundreds if not thousands of debates through the blogsphere confronted the ones supporting full feeds with the ones supporting partial feeds, were it always ends in "but how can I monetize my feed"?

BidVertiser are excited to share with you a new way to monetize your RSS/ATOM feeds - BidVertiser Ads for Feeds. After a few steps of registration and feed verification, you will be able to show the BidVertiser CPC ads in your feeds, as well as get access to our various multiple-subscription Feed Widgets that will help you publicize your new feed.

Here is how it works:

1. Login to your publisher account and click "Add New BidVertiser". During the Public Beta, you may also click the "Public Beta" link. If you are new to BidVertiser, click here to create a publisher account.

2. Make sure you are under the BidVertiser for your Feed tab.

3. Provide your feed URL and title and click Next.

4. Verify your feed ownership by adding a temporary post with a unique verification code we provide you with.

5. Choose your favorite multiple-subscription Feed Widget and add it to your website or blog. Detail instructions for each of the major blog platforms is provided as part of the process:

How to place the code on WordPress Blog

How to place the code TypePad Blog

How to place the code Blogger Blog

You're done!

Remember - you can't start to monetize your feeds too soon - register now and make sure you publicize your new feed address as soon as possible!

Update 1:

BidVertiser have added a transparent feed verification which now enables you to verify your feed ownership without pasting a visible code in your feed.

About BidVertiser:

BidVertiser runs a pay per click advertising network, serving billions of ads per month on tens of thousands of websites. BidVertiser offers web publishers with the ability to sell their ad space, automatically, to the highest bidder, on a pay-per-click basis. Advertisers can place ads directly on sites of their choice and pay only when a visitor clicks-through to their site, as well as geo-target their ads.

BidVertiser serves text ads in all types of standard ad units as well as allowing eBay advertisers to create ads for their listings automatically (as an eBay Compatible Application) and now, with the added support for RSS/ATOM feeds, BidVertiser opens a new way for publishers to monetize their online ventures.




Jan 13, 2008

Affiliate Marketing Beginner ? Focus Your Efforts

One mistake that new Affiliate marketers often make is to go out a join a lot of Merchant programs and try to promote them all. This is usually due to being very enthusiastic and wanting to start promoting a lot of Merchants as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this is usually not the best strategy to go with if you are new to Affiliate Marketing. This tutorial will go through a few things that new Affiliates should do to educate themselves about marketing with clixGalore and why it isn't necessarily a good idea to join a lot of Merchant programs.

The first thing that needs to be done for any Merchant program you join is research. If you are not up to speed on Affiliate Marketing in general, then you should certainly consider reading ALL of the articles available here at clixGaloreTutor.com. After you are comfortable with the basics of Affiliate Marketing, you will need to find out about the specific product you want to promote and develop a plan for how you intend to develop it. By concentrating on one Merchant or a group of similar Merchants you will give yourself a better chance at success. This maybe slightly counter-intuitive - after all if you promote 100 merchants, by extension, you should make 100 times as many commissions, right?

Wrong.

Affiliates who specialise in one area or niche of Affiliate marketing, tend to do better - especially if they are in the early stages of developing their Affiliate career. Over time, it will be possible to diversify, but for the early stages it is far better to concentrate on a single merchant, product or niche.

Another mistake that many new Affiliates make is to fill a site or webpage with hundreds of Affiliate links and banners and expect people to click on them. Again, this simply won't work well at all. You are far better advised to develop a website around a single product, Merchant or niche and concentrate on promoting it to people who would be interested in that topic. Provide them with information and Affiliate links that are related to the topic.

Alternatively, if you are promoting Merchants via other methods, you would be well advised to concentrate on a single area. For example, developing an email list interested in a particular niche will be more responsive to offers than a general email list. Always keep the niche in mind.

Even using PPC marketing like Adwords, you will find that concentrating on a niche helps. Knowing a specific product or niche area well will usually improve your results in that area. This is mainly reflected in your choice of successful keywords which you will come to develop and improve as you discover which work and which don't.

Now, in deciding which product or Merchants you should concentrate on promoting when you are relatively new to Affiliate marketing, you should consider a few things first. Perhaps the most important is knowing what to look for in a Merchant program. There is a helpful tutorial on that topic here.

When you have come to terms with that, and have chosen a small niche to begin marketing, you will be in much better stead that many beginning Affiliates. Concentrating on your specific product. Merchant or niche will give you the greatest chance of success by focussing your enthusiasm, efforts and Affiliate education.


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Search Engine Marketing For Affiliates

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Building Large Affiliate Content Sites

Building Large Affiliate Content Sites

If you are marketing your Merchants by developing content websites around their products or product categories, then there are a few things you will need to think about. Here are a few things that you should consider when you begin developing your content websites as well as a few ideas that might help you along the road to developing a successful Affiliate site centred around good content.

More is More!

Content websites are those that provide information about a product or services. Usually these will be in a specific niche - for example, travel, technology or cooking. The common thread amongst Affiliates who develop these kind of sites is that they often develop big sites - very big. The more content you develop around you niche, then the more likely you will be to generate a lot of traffic to your site through incoming links and search engines.

The type of content can vary and as a general rule, people tend to develop content sites around things they either know or love. This reduces their chances of burnout, because it is very unlikely that you will enjoy developing content around something you are not interested in. Choose something you like or can constantly develop content around and then develop as much quality, original content as you can.

The more page you have listed in the search engines, the better the chance that people using search engines will find those pages. Some of our top Affiliate have as many as 50,000 pages listed by the major search engines because they have been adding content on a daily basis for many years.

Do the Maths

When planning your site, you should always do the maths in regards to what it will take to create a successful site.

An average to poorly designed Affiliate site will usually get a click through rate on their banners of around 1%. An average to poorly designed Merchant site will convert around 1% of their traffic into sales. While these are on the lower end of what you can expect, they are useful figures for making conservative estimates for Affiliate income.

By using those rates, you should try to calculate how much traffic it will take you to generate a sale (obviously with room for improvement). By using the above figures, you would need to get 10,000 targeted visitors to your website to generate a single sale for your Merchants.

The actual income for that sale would differ from Merchant to Merchant, but you could get some idea from looking at the Merchant EPC (Estimated Payout per 100 Visitors).

In short, you will need to ascertain how many unique, quality visitors you will need to get to your site in order to return the income that you are expecting.

If you are going to be producing a content website, then you will also get more and more traffic from the search engines, the longer you keep adding content to your site. Time is on your side if you keep adding content because larger sites draw more search engine traffic on average (of course, you should try to adhere to the general principals of SEO when building your site).

Plan Your Content

Now, getting 10,000 targeted visitors to a specific page of your site might be easier said than done (find more tips on getting traffic here). One part of that is producing content that could attract a constant flow of visitors. "Evergreen" content is something to think about - that is content that is always current and useful for visitors.

This would usually exclude news type websites (though not always). A directory type site is an example of evergreen content - think reference material rather than topical material. The most successful Affiliates with content sites usually produce material that will not go out of date in a short amount of time (there are many exceptions to this rule though, so if you are determined to start a niche news site, don't be discouraged).

Of course, there are sites that successfully combine reference material with topical material too.

The core of the issue is that you need to develop as much quality content as you possibly can. By developing large content sites, you increase your chances of getting traffic and also of converting that traffic into Affiliate sales.


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Improving Your Click Through Rate

Improving Your Click Through Rate

Constantly improving the performance of your Affiliate website is one of the tasks that takes up a lot of time for most professional and successful Affiliates. Optimising advertising placements in a way that ensure the most sales should also be one of the things that you do for your own site. This tutorial will take you through some of the things you can do to improve your own Affiliate website. More specifically we will concentrate on optimising your site in order to improve the click through rate (CTR) on the Affiliate banners and text links on your site.

There are two basic ways for a visitor to click through to a Merchant from an Affiliate's website. Banner ads are probably the most obvious and most common way. The other way is of course, text links. Let's look at each of them separately.

Banner Ads

Banner ads are simply graphics advertising a Merchant program or product that you place somewhere on your website with the hole that people will click on them out of interest. There are a few ways to optimise your banner ad placement.

Banner ads "above the fold" perform better than banner ads "below the fold." The "fold" is simply the bottom of the screen on the page you are viewing. If something was "below the fold" then you would have to use your mouse to scroll down the page to see it. Now, with banner ads, they are more likely to be clicked on by visitors when they are above the fold, so it is good practice to place them somewhere near the top of your page.

Now there are a few different spaces at the top of a web page that get a better CTR. For example, banners in the left column will generally do better than banners in the right column. Small banners at the very top of the left column have a good CTR. If you want to use a rectangle (468x60) banner, then it is best to place it at the top of your page, but under the navigation (assuming you have a horizontal navigation list). Or you can place it immediately under the title if your content has a title for best results.

If you have a content website with stories or reviews (like a blog for example), banners that are inserted as close to the content as possible will usually perform well. Also 468x60 banners that are inserted immediately after the content (ie. at the bottom of the story) will often do reasonably well - especially if they are relevant to the content.

Bad places to put banners are below the fold and in the right hand column. Banners at the bottom of the right hand column will usually perform the worst on a page.

As for the type of banner ads you choose to use on your site, you should remember that dynamic banners (ie. banners with movement on them) tend to get a better CTR than static banners.

Text Ads

Many people don't realise that, used properly, text ads can actually outperform banner ads in increasing CTR. There are a few things you should remember about using text ads in order to ensure the maximum CTR possible though.

As always, make sure that your text links are relevant to the topic at hand. If you are writing some type of relevant content about the product or service of a Merchant than use relevant words as the anchor text of your text links.

As for placement, if you have a content website then there are a few things to think about. A review or story should usually include three text links (to the Merchant) to maximise CTR. A text link towards the beginning of the content, a link in the body and a link towards the very end of the content will give your readers a good chance to click on them and ensure that at least some of them do.

The other trick for text links is that often they will enjoy a high CTR if they are placed in the navigation bar of a page. That is usually in the horizontal bar at the top and bottom of the page or in the vertical navigation that many pages have at the top left.

Now, while these tips should guide your placement of links and banners on your site in order to increase your CTR, they are a guide only. The success of these guidelines will vary from site to site and, as with everything about your site, you should continually test and compare in order to improve.


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5 Ways To Improve Your Google Adsense Earnings

5 Ways To Improve Your Google Adsense Earnings

One of the best way for webmasters who wants to monetize their websites, is through Google Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites.

But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates.

Why choose this format out of the many you can use?

Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background.

The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages.

This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them.

So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done.

Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

How To Make Money With Your Traffic

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.

We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

E-books and Affiliate Programs

E-books and Affiliate Programs

Some E-books combine very well with an affiliate program. When the affiliate receives some extra benefit from promoting the viral message, like being able to brand your E-book with his affiliate links, the affiliate makes a sale when a reader buys through a branded link. You benefit from increased traffic on your website because the affiliate is willing to promote the E-books for you.

Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.

Remember the K.I.S.S. principle Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.

Once you are sure you have an E-book that will be of value to an affiliate program, approach them with your idea and be able to show that it will be mutually beneficial.

Viral Marketing using E-books is one of many techniques that all together have a cumulative effect in attracting customers and subscribers to your business and in attracting targeted visitors to your website. You will very soon find out that this is an excellent way of increasing sales, subscribers and referrals.

Jan 12, 2008

Landing Page Success Tips

Landing Page Success Tips

Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there shouldn’t be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

Mailing List for Affiliate Network & Affiliate Program Marketers

Mailing List for Affiliate Network & Affiliate Program Marketers

If you are an affiliate marketer who wants to make a comfortable living from referring your prospects to other people’s product or service for decent commissions, then you must consider building your own mailing list.

Building your mailing list of hungry prospects can be one of the best investments you will ever make, as it is time and effort worth spending on. When you strike on a Joint Venture and have a new product or service to endorse, you can look no further than your own mailing list.

Granted, that most affiliates, as in more than 90 percent of them, are not making money from affiliate programs, but this often results from the same amount of effort focused on least effective methods.

While having your own mailing list is, by a long mile, not the only effective affiliate marketing method, you can make affiliate sales very quickly even in the next few hours after sending a sales message, provided that your mailing list is huge and responsive.

This is often true, because owning your own mailing list for you to endorse products and services to is one of the fastest-producing results, beating other affiliate marketing methods imaginable.

In a nutshell, the affiliate marketer who gets ahead of the pack is the one who owns a huge and responsive mailing list of prospects.

Jan 10, 2008

What Affiliate Marketers Need To Know To Survive Online

All affiliate marketers are always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck.

Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them.

Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today.

With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be getting…

Too Many Affiliate Programs & Affiliate Networks - Which one to choose ?

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program or affiliate networks. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on.

Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.

What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links.

Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.

Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? 5% - 20% is the commission paid by most programs. .01% - .05% is the amount paid for each hit. If you find a program that also pays for impressions, the amount paid is not much at all. As you can see from the figures, you will now understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important.

These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website. Try to ask your affiliate program choices these questions. These can help you select the right program for you site from among the many available.

Which Affiliate Program / Network To Join ?

Too many stories have cropt up about affiliate programs and affiliate networks. Website publishers and bloggers have heard them over and over again, that some are even afraid of joining one. The stories they may have heard are those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this kind of affiliate market does not have real, worthy product.

You do not want to be associated with these schemes. It is obvious you want to be with a program that offers high quality product that you will readily endorse. The growing number of those who have joined already and are succeeding immensely is proof enough that there are reliable and quality affiliate programs out there.

Why participate in an affiliate program?

It allows you to work part-time. It gives you the opportunity to build a generous residual income. And it makes you an owner of a small business. Affiliate programs have already created lots of millionaires. They are the living testimony of how hard work; continuous prospecting, motivating and training others pay off.

If ever you are deciding to join one, you must take note that you are getting into something that is patterned to what you are capable of. This will be an assurance that you are capable of doing anything to come out successful.

How do you choose a good affiliate program to promote? Here are some tips you may want to look over before choosing one:

1. A program that you like and have interest in. One of the best ways of knowing if that is the kind of program you wish to promote is if you are interested in purchasing the product yourself. If that is the case, chances are, there are many others who are also interested in the same program and products.

2. Look for a program that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in that particular industry. This way, you are assured that of the standard of the program you will be joining into.

3. Join in the ones that offer real and viable products. How do you know this? Do some initial research. If possible, track down some of the members and customers to give you testimonial on the credibility of the program.

4. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Make inquiries. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

5. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

6. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

7. Select one that has plenty of tools and resources that can help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate programs have these capacities. Make use you decide on one with lots of helpful tools you can use.

8. Check out if the program has a proven system that can allow you to check your networks and compensation. Also check if they have it available online for you to check anytime and anywhere.

9. The program that is offering strong incentives for members to renew their membership each time. The affiliate program that provides continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain its members. These things can assure the growth of your networks.

10. Be aware of the things that members are not happy about in a program. Like with the ones mentioned above, you can do your checking at discussion forums. If you know someone in that same program, there is ho harm asking if there are many downsides involved.

Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program and network you will be promoting on.

Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will make you anticipate and prevent any future problems you may encounter.

Monetizing Your Website / Blog With Google Adsense

A lot of website publishers and bloggers now realizes that there are good money to be made with Google Adsense.

Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based ads on their website’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.

How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.

How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?

1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The AdWords will start appearing immediately after.

3. You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.

4. View your statistics. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.

Once you got your account working, you may still want to pattern them to the many sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your website will perform and the amount of money it will give you.

It is a common practice that when a site earning money, the tendency is for the owner to want to make more out of what they are getting already. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense contents.

Time and some important factors that you can practice and use.

How do you increase your Adsense earnings?

1. Choose one topic per page. It is best to write a content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher clickthoughs.

2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.

3. Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.

4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed.

5. Site Build It. This is the perfect tool to be used for creating lots of Adsense revenues. Site Build It has all the tools necessary to quickly achieve a keyword-rich site that can rank high in the search engines. This will also produce a flow of traffic to your site of highly targeted visitors.

How Can You Start Making Money With Google Adsense

Google Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tool a website or blog could ever have. Google Adsense enables a publisher / blogger to monetize their sites easily. Google Adsense if are utilized properly can generate a huge and healthy income for publishers and bloggers alike. However if you are not using them rightly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. Something that all people hate doing.

How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time.

Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot of people given the gift of being good with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process.

There are actually three steps to put into mind before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense.

Keyword search. Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrase. Select the ones which you think has more people clicking through. This is actually a keyword selector and suggestion tool that some sites are offering to those who are just their Adsense business.

Writing articles. Start writing original content with keywords from the topics that you have achieved in your search. Take note that search engines are taking pride in the quality of their articles and what you will be writing should keep up with their demands.

Quality content site. Build a quality content site incorporated with Adsense ads that is targeting the subject and keywords of your articles and websites. This is where all that you’ve done initially will go to and this is also where they will prove their worth to you.

The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. Try to position your ads where surfers are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.

Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are more techniques and styles to generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and working them to your advantage, you will realize that you will be getting three times more than other people who have been previously doing what they are doing.

Finally, Adsense has some excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of site on a site by site, page by page, or any other basis you wanted. You should be aware oft his capability and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.

Another thing you should know. Banners and skyscrapers are dead. Ask the experts. So better forget about banners and skyscrapers. Surfers universally ignore these kinds of ad formats. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as an advert and advert are rarely of any interest that’s why people ignore them.

To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you wanted to achieve and how you will go about achieving them. As with any other kind of business ventures, time is needed coupled with patience.

Do not just ignore your site and your Adsense once you have finished accomplishing them. Spare some time, even an hour, making adjustments to the Adsense ads on your sites to quickly trigger your Adsense income.

Give it a try and you would not regret having gotten into Adsense in the first place.

Google Adsense - The Best Way To Monetize Your Website / Blog

Ever since Google started their PPC ads, Google Adsense, Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters all over the Internet. Already, there are a lot tales of fabulous riches made and millions of dollars made by those who are just working from their computer at home using only Google Adsense. It seems that Google Adsense have already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the best and easiest way to make money online.

The key to success with Google Adsense is the placing of ads on pages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords. The higher the cost-per-click to the advertiser, the more you will receive per click from your site. Obviously, it does not pay to target low cost-per-click keywords and place them on pages that do not receive hits.

With all the people getting online and clicking away everyday, it is no wonder why Google Adsense has become an instant hit.

For the newbies who are just new to this market, it would be a blow to their pride knowing that their homepage is buried somewhere in the little ads promoting other people’s services. But then, when they get the idea that they are actually earning more money that way, all doubts and skepticism is laid to rest.

There are two major, and clever, factors that some successful webmaster and publishers are learning to blend together in order to make money easier using Adsense.

1. Targeting high traffic pages on your website. If you check on your logs, you will discover that many of your visitors are taking advantage of the free affiliate marketing resources and ebooks that you are offering on your site. In simple words, your ads are working effectively and are generating more clicks. It also means more money for you.

2. Placing Adsense links on pages that are producing little, or better yet, no profit. By placing Adsense on a free resources page, you will reduce the amount of potential customers being lost to other sites. Tricky, but effective nonetheless.

When learned to work effectively, these two factors are actually a good source of producing a minimal amount of revenue from a high traffic page. Many people are using this strategy to pick up some extra and cash with Adsense. This is also especially rewarding to informational sites that focus their efforts on delivering powerful affiliate link free content to their visitors. Now they can gain a monetary return on their services.

With the many techniques that people are now learning on how to make the easiest money by their Adsense, it is not surprising that Google is trying everything to update and polish their Adsense in order to maintain their good image.

The possibility of adding is 2nd tier in Adsense is not impossible. With all the people spending more time in their Adsense now and still more getting into this line of marketing, there is no doubt about the many new improvements yet to be made. Imagine the smiles on the faces of the webmasters and publishers all around the world if ever they sign up for sub-affiliates and double or even triple the amount that they are already earning.
The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem “useless”.

With Google Adsense, the possibilities are limitless. Yet there is also the possibility of someone taking advantage of the easy money process that this internet marketing is doing. If you think more about it, these negative factors may force Google to break down and thrash Adsense in the process. If that happens, people would have to go back to the old ways of internet marketing that does not make money online as easy as Adsense.

For now, however, Google Adsense is here to stay. As long as there are people wanting to earn some easy cash online just using their talents, the future ahead is looking good. Besides with all the strict guidelines that Google is enforcing over Adsense, it will take awhile for the Adsense privileges to be spammed and even terminated.