Posts Tagged ‘affiliates’
January 19th, 2010
by Justin Harrison
It is incorrect believe that the top search terms are good choices for keywords. This seems logical but it doesn’t take into account other competition. Picking keywords that match the advertiser’s business usually have more of an impact.
The use of special modifiers narrows the field a bit so that you will attract a higher quality audience. For example, use the term “flower gardening” instead of just “gardening” and you will eliminate the crowd that is more interested in vegetable gardening. “Perennial flower gardening” would be even more specific.
There isn’t much benefit to an advertiser if the receive many clicks but below average conversion rates. Viewers who are merely clicking on ads and not purchasing anything are only costing the advertiser money. Drawing more likely candidates requires well targeted keywords. This results in a better conversion rate and better ROI.
Creating keywords requires examining your web site and picking out the words and phrases that describe it. You should also look at other web sites in the same target market. Try to figure out why those sites are good or not and look at how they word their advertisements and content. If they are reaching the target market you should attempt to leverage their terms and phrases where possible.
It can also be helpful if you learn to think as a customer would. Google offers the recommendation to list all the things a customer might type into a search engine while looking for a certain product or service. Consider the possibility that there may be several different spellings for those words. As an example, foods which are low fat could also be called “light” or “lite”. Either spelling should be a keyword so that every potential customer is reached.
Keeping track of how effective a campaign is is a critical component. You can use Google’s conversion tracking tool along with Google Analytics to see how a campaign is doing. If you see advertisements that are not generating as much traffic as estimated try to make some changes. Then, keep watching the results to see if the change improved things.
September 30th, 2009
People love to make things complicated, but making money online is actually really simple. Whether you are selling your own product, promoting affiliate links, or making money from Adsense or “click flipping”, it all boils down to just two things: Conversions and Traffic.
Conversion
Conversion comes first. You need to have an offer that people want. That “offer” might be a product, or it might be an enticing advert (e.g. Google Adsense) that people want to click on. And you need some kind of presentation (such as a sales letter) that encourages them to take the action that you want them to take (eg buy the product or click on the advert).
In many ways this is the easiest part. Most people can put together a half decent website or sales letter that will make at least some money from their visitors.
Traffic
But then, of course, you need visitors. The more people that you can get to come to your site, the more money you will make; especially if those visitors re highly targeted. But, given the number of websites online: all competing for the same visitors, just how do you get more visitors to your site?
Well, there are just three ways that traffic comes to your site:
- Visitors type your URL straight into their browser. That results from some sort of off-line promotion: it might be your business card, a radio advert, an article in a magazine or a conversation with a friend.
- People click on a link. The hyperlink may be in an email they received (eg from a friend or from an ezine they subscribed to) or it may be on another website they have visited.
- Or they do a search in the search engines, see your site in the listings, and click to visit you.
And that is it. There is no other way for them to get to your website.
How To Get Traffic
So, if we know that, how do we get more traffic? Easy:
- Promote your Internet presence in all your offline promotional materials.
- Get lots of people to put links to you on their website, and lots of people to send out emails with your links in them.
- Get a top position in the search engines.
It sounds simple, but maybe it is not so easy. Just how do you achieve steps 2 and 3 without spending loads of cash or getting banned by the search engines?
To understand this, we need to think about how the search engines work. Again, it is much simpler than people say.
The Search Engines
Search engines want lots of people to use them. To achieve that, they strive to deliver relevant and up-to-date content to people who do a search through them. But how do they determine what is relevant to your search?
There are only two ways that they can achieve that:
- They scan your site and, using very sophisticated algorithms, they determine what the subject matter of your website is. They also check how new or old it is, how recently it was updated and so on. These are all known as on-page or on-site factors. You have direct control over many of these factors when you set up your site.
- They look at what other people write about your website. In doing so, they look at two factors: how many people have links to your site (and what those links say) and also how important is the site that links to your site. An important ‘authority’ site that points to you is worth more than a whole list of unimportant sites. They also consider how old the links that point to you are, and a number of other factors about the link and the context in which it is found.
At the same time, the search engines are constantly looking out for sites that try to fool them into thinking that they are more relevant or more popular than they really are. Which is why the so-called “black-hat” techniques quickly lose their effectiveness.
Getting To The Top
And so, to get to the top of the search engine lists you need to do two things:
- You can optimize your on-page factors. There is plenty of information on the Internet and off it about how to do that. It is not difficult but, in itself, it is also not enough.
- Get lots of high-quality, one-way, relevant links to your site from as many other ‘important’ sites as you can.
How do you get people to link to you?
This is the Big question.
- Produce a fantastic site so that others just really want to tell others about your site.
- Pay others to link to you – buy a text link, or offer an affiliate program.
- Swap links with other websites – but reciprocal links are clearly not worth as much as one-way back-links and it is a lot of work to do this effectively anyway.
- Provide them with fresh, unique content that adds value to their site in return for which they agree to post a back-link to you. Many sites are constantly looking for fresh, unique content. They get this content by traipsing through the article directories or by subscribing to article submission services.
So, if you send out articles to these directories, your articles will end up both on the directories themselves AND on the niche sites that pick up and use our articles. AND some of these sites are likely to be valuable “authority”-type sites. Of course, whether it is taken up and by whom, depends on the quality of your article.
As you can see, this last method is the simplest and most powerful. It gives you hundreds or thousands of one way links, from niche, relevant sites, all for free. All you need is some way to get a different, unique, article to each of those directories and ezine publishers. Which is, of course, what our software does.
But wait a minute! It doesn’t stop there. The real power behind this method comes when you use it regularly. Preferably at least once a week. Imagine getting 200 to 1800 new permanent one way links every week! By the end of a year, you could easily have 50,000 or more relevant, quality, one-way links to your site! And you can connect the submission process to a timer to put everything on autopilot!
That is the real power of this system’s software and that is why it beats every other traffic generation and SEO system out there.
September 12th, 2009
iCoolBusinessIdeas.com has claimed that the second internet boom is upon us. Even in unstable times and recession you can still grab you share of the internet goldmine. One way you can make money online is with affiliate marketing.
But why should you become an affiliate, aside from the extra income of course? Well you are not directly dealing with customers for one. Look at it this way; say you are going to buy a computer, you go to a shop (website) and instead of directly buying the computer from a company you buy it through the salesperson (affiliate). Now let’s say 2 days later the computer breaks down, you go back to the shop but instead of going to the salesperson (affiliate) you go to customer services (the company who makes the product). See? As an affiliate you have no responsibility for the product itself, you merely sold it. Instead, all the hassle, aggravation and confrontation is the sole responsibility of the merchant.
Furthermore you get to choose to promote what products are of interest or significance to you. One affiliate network, Clickbank, has over 10,000 products and services worldwide in its affiliate program, so instead of being hired as a salesperson in a shop and having to talk up a product you have really no interest in, by becoming an affiliate you can choose to promote and market products that are genuinely of interest to you. In addition to this there is the prospect of unlimited growth. If you are hired by a shop then your basic wage will be capped and most likely you will have to work extremely hard to earn your commissions. With Affiliate Marketing the prospects are endless, you can choose to work as hard or as little as you want. Additionally your wages won’t be capped as they will reflect how much effort you have put in to a certain marketing campaign say.
These are not the only advantages that comes with being an affiliate marketer but they certainly give an idea of how it works. However just knowing what it is will not be enough to guarantee success, you need to have a blueprint with proven techniques in order to accomplish your goals. The best way to do this is to learn from someone who is already a success in this field. Unfortunately many charge for their knowledge however some things in life are still free and “The Ultimate Affiliate Guide To Quick Cash” is one of them. It provides the knowledge that only a few affiliate marketers possess and attempts to bring this expertise into the mainstream so that everyone can benefit from them.
Hopefully this article has given you an idea of what to expect as an affiliate marketer. If you do decide to go down this path with its many perks and advantages then “The Ultimate Affiliate Guide To Quick Cash” is a must read.
May 25th, 2009
by Jason Glover
Most of us want to make an income but do not wish to clock in everyday at the same boring job. Having a boss who will not work with us to help us when we need it and is hard to deal with can get old really quick. This makes it very important to find other ways to make money. If you do your research, you can quickly find there are a lot of ways to make money.
If you are interested in working for yourself, you should certainly consider working on the Internet. There is a world of jobs that would be possible for you to do if you would just take the time to learn what they are.
There a lot of expert professionals who know a lot about freelancing that you may to consult with to help you reach your goals. You can usually hire these people for a low cost of $100-200. They can offer you a lot of assistance in finding the best job for you as well as teach you many things you may not have known about.
Many people also work as Internet sales people. With this job, you will need to get a database of people you can sell to. As soon as the base is established, the amount of money you can make can easily be amazing. . You should have the base for three months. The great news about this is there no money to get started.
Another great way to make money is to become an affiliate for sites like Amazon or other big sites. This can allow you to make a money when products are sold. You can get all the instructions you need when you sign up.
Amazon.com offers yet another great chance to make money by becoming an affiliate. All you have to do sign up for affiliate membership. Most vendor sites do not charge anything for this and if they do you may want to be wary of them.
You will need to promote your links on the home site to be successful at this.
You also will need to sell a product that you are good at selling. You should design you website to accommodate the links and banners you will need. Be sure you add the ID or reference number in the link so you can be identified.
You also sell products if you wish. The key to help your success is to design of your website to accommodate links and banners. You must be certain to add the ID or reference number in the link so you will get credit.
To your success,
Jason
P.S. Many affiliates do not last long due to lack of maintenance. In order to avoid this, check your links often.