jeudi 21 mai 2009
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mercredi 29 avril 2009
Easy Profits Using PPC In Your Affiliate Marketing
PPC is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising. 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.
by mosteruz
from flyxia
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.
by mosteruz
from flyxia
dimanche 5 avril 2009
What Is Niche Marketing
What Is Niche Marketing
Niche Marketing can refer to both marketing and business choice. In and of itself, niche marketing refers to finding a segment of the general market for a service or product line. One then develops a solution for the needs of that segment and then markets to it to get the word out. Let’s take a look at an example using one of the biggest companies in the world.
Toyota is a huge multinational company. At first glance, it appears that Toyota focuses on the auto business as a whole both from a marketing and production standpoint. This view is correct. Notwithstanding this fact, Toyota is excellent when it comes to niche marketing.
Toyota will search for niches for which it can supply a product in need. Toyota was one of the first companies to realize there was a group of car buyers who would be very interested in environmentally friendly cars. To answer this need, it came up with the legendary Prius. The Prius is the first mass production hybrid car. Where other car manufacturers saw Toyota taking a huge risk, Toyota saw it as an opportunity to identify a new niche and establish its brand in that niche. In marketing, it is often the first brand on the scene that takes the day.
Once Toyota took the plunge, it pursued an effective niche marketing plan. It didn’t promote the Prius in just any media. It focused on media outlets that were watched, read or listened to by people concerned about the environment. For example, it heavily promoted the car through environmental groups and their publications. As the only game in town at that time, Toyota not only dominated the niche – it was the niche.
Niche marketing translates just as well to the Internet. In fact, your first sites should be focused on identifying niches and providing products or services to accommodate the need of those prospects. One of the biggest mistakes made by new businesses on the web is biting off more than they can chew. You are not going to compete against Amazon for general book sales. On the other hand, you might be able to pound Amazon into the ground in the rare book market or in a specific niche such as home improvement periodicals. The point is to try to focus both your site and marketing on a segment of the market that is not already dominated.
Niche Marketing can refer to both marketing and business choice. In and of itself, niche marketing refers to finding a segment of the general market for a service or product line. One then develops a solution for the needs of that segment and then markets to it to get the word out. Let’s take a look at an example using one of the biggest companies in the world.
Toyota is a huge multinational company. At first glance, it appears that Toyota focuses on the auto business as a whole both from a marketing and production standpoint. This view is correct. Notwithstanding this fact, Toyota is excellent when it comes to niche marketing.
Toyota will search for niches for which it can supply a product in need. Toyota was one of the first companies to realize there was a group of car buyers who would be very interested in environmentally friendly cars. To answer this need, it came up with the legendary Prius. The Prius is the first mass production hybrid car. Where other car manufacturers saw Toyota taking a huge risk, Toyota saw it as an opportunity to identify a new niche and establish its brand in that niche. In marketing, it is often the first brand on the scene that takes the day.
Once Toyota took the plunge, it pursued an effective niche marketing plan. It didn’t promote the Prius in just any media. It focused on media outlets that were watched, read or listened to by people concerned about the environment. For example, it heavily promoted the car through environmental groups and their publications. As the only game in town at that time, Toyota not only dominated the niche – it was the niche.
Niche marketing translates just as well to the Internet. In fact, your first sites should be focused on identifying niches and providing products or services to accommodate the need of those prospects. One of the biggest mistakes made by new businesses on the web is biting off more than they can chew. You are not going to compete against Amazon for general book sales. On the other hand, you might be able to pound Amazon into the ground in the rare book market or in a specific niche such as home improvement periodicals. The point is to try to focus both your site and marketing on a segment of the market that is not already dominated.
What is niche marketing? The best way to make a lot of money on or off the web.
http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=38523
samedi 21 mars 2009
5 useful tips how to generate traffic to your blog
5 useful tips how to generate traffic to your blog
Are you a blogger? Do you think that your blog have great posts? How can you get those post to as many people as you can and generate traffic to your blog and why not money? Its is not imposible to get your posts noticed by others and to boost your blogs traffic. If you use the right strategy traffic can be converted to extra money online. It isn’t impossible, despite what you might think. There are many ways to gain new visitors and keep the old ones. Start to boost your traffic today and start making extra money online.
1. Provide free and usefull information: Most of people are online looking for information or for free things. Provide advices, How To articles or Downloads. As I said, people are all about getting information and free things. If you can offer free advice, how to articles or downloads they can use, they will find what they are looking for and they will like your blog so they will bookmark your site and keep coming back. Tu have to do is to provide steady useful content to your blog.
2. Comment On Other Blogs: Be social and go out and meet your fellow bloggers. You Don’t have to ask them putting your link on their blogroll, ( if they do so, why not agree ). I was not going to say you to ask them about blogroll. You can make a comment on their posts, other readers might see your comments and click through to your site from them. This is the way I like more to generate traffic and earn few extra cash.
3. Make promises to visitors: Write posts that promise same quality of useful information later. This could be any kind of multi-part posting with Part 1-7, one post a day for a week. You can ask your readers to subscribe to your feeds and get noticed for the future posts.
4. Respond to your blog comments: If any visitor to your blog comment on your posts why not write back to them. If you use wordpress you can use PLUGIN to allow your commenter to get noticed by email when you write back to their comment. People love bloggers that are actively communicating with them, so they can be back for more.
5. Be Social Bookmarking Guru: Use social bookmarking links in each post on your blog. (As you can see scrolling down, I am using them. If you like this post you can do me a favor and share this in your social network you use.) This lets your readers bookmark posts and if they don’t, you can do it yourself. Social bookmarking benefits are that you gain from wider exposure and more traffic through these top services.
To be honest, I am not using third option on my blog but this is going to be one of my first thing I am going to do in the near future to generate more blog traffic. If you use all five of these steps effectively, you can boost your blogs traffic and have a growing number of visitors to your blog each day. Never forget, if you use the right strategy you can convert traffic to money.
Resource http://gdiworkathome.com/blog/blogging/5-useful-tips-how-to-generate-traffic-to-your-blog.html
mardi 17 mars 2009
Facebook Can Drive More Traffic Than Google
Facebook Can Drive More Traffic Than Google
Chris Crum | Staff Writer
Ways Businesses Can Get the Most Out of Facebook
I recently discussed Twitter as a great source of traffic to sites, but the even more popular Facebook can do and is doing the same thing. In fact, reports have Facebook driving even more traffic than Google to some big-name sites.
Facebook gets over a third of the number of unique visitors that Google does according to comScore. And it continues to grow. Compete shows the lines between Google and Facebook getting closer together:
"It seems inevitable that, given Facebook's sheer scale (180 million registered users and counting), it would at some point start referring a lot of users to some sites, but the development is surprising," says AdAge's Michael Learmonth. "Web users go to Google to figure out where to go next; they go to Facebook to, well, hang out."
If Facebook's growth continues the way it has been, perhaps it should be considered Google's greatest threat (when I say threat, I mean competition) - maybe not in general search, but in terms of where advertisers are spending their money. Certainly in the foreseeable future, people will continue using Google to search, and advertisers will continue to spend money advertising with them (probably even more now that they are doing more targeting), but Facebook also targets, and it's not going to be overlooked. It could put a dent into AdWords revenue.
Even within search advertising, Facebook should probably not be counted out. "Much of the Facebook-driven traffic comes from links that members post via areas like 'Notes' and photos," notes Tameka Kee at paidContent.org. "If Facebook's influence as a traffic source continues to rise, the next step would be to figure out how to monetize the traffic to those areas with paid search. That would be one way to entice Microsoft to renew its search deal (and give Microsoft a better return on its $240 million investment in the social net)."
That's an interesting thought, considering Microsoft's lack of any mindblowing new features coming from its own search engine rebranding. They don't have any real-time search features planned for Kumo, but Facebook has its own search (and it's getting more Twitter-like).
So What Can Businesses Get Out of Facebook?
Many of the tactics I listed about Twitter can be applied with Facebook too. That includes:
- Traffic obviously. Social networks have taken over email in terms of popularity. Facebook is the top dog and continues growing rapidly.
- People can "opt in" to be your friend and see your messages. This means your messages will be targeted specifically to people who are interested in your product. It's a great way to get announcements to loyal customers.
- Just like Twitter, it can be used as a great tool for customer service, provided somebody keeps up with it.
- You can interact with the public while increasing brand awareness.
- You can watch what people are saying on Facebook about your business and use that information to manage your online reputation.
- Facebook advertising. They provide targeted ads (based on user profiles) and as mentioned above, Facebook gets a third of what Google does (that's a lot) in unique visitors. - Facebook apps (including one that will let you post right to Twitter from Facebook) make the possibilities near endless. Many apps even have further advertising opportunities.
- Twitter has a great many of the same advantages (and is certainly growing rapidly as well), but it also has a lot of skeptics. Facebook is much more widely accepted as a great social network.
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lundi 16 mars 2009
10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog
We’ve now looked at a number of popular affiliate programs for bloggers and today I’d like to finish off this series by giving a few tips that should help bloggers get the best results out of any affiliate program that they choose to run with.
1. Consider your Audience
It almost goes without saying - but it’s worth putting yourself in your readers shoes and consider what they might be looking for as they surf by your blog. Are they shopping for specific products? Might they be looking for related products or accessories? What would trigger them to purchase? Start with your reader in mind rather than the product. If you take this approach you could end up doing your reader a favor as well as making a few dollars on the side.
2. Genuine Recommendations and personal endorsements always work best
There are literally hundreds of thousands of products and services for you to choose from to recommend to your blog’s readers but making money from them is not as simple as randomly adding links to them from your blog. Your blog’s readers come back to your blog day after day because something about you resonates with them - they have at least some level of trust and respect for you and perhaps the quickest way to destroy this is to recommend that they buy something that you don’t fully believe will benefit them.
The best results I’ve had from affiliate programs are where I give an open and honest appraisal of the product - including both it’s strengths and weaknesses. The most successful affiliate program I’m involved with here at ProBlogger is Joel Comm’s e-book which I reviewed here. If you read the review you’ll see that I not only tell readers who I believe the book is for but I also mention those it is NOT for. In a sense I critique it. On a surface level one might think that this wasn’t a wise move and that I should have given a glowing review - however the sales that I’ve had through the program have proven otherwise. People want to know what they are buying first and even if they know a product has limitations they will buy it if it meets their particular need.
3. Link to Quality Products
We all like to make sure we’re buying the best products money can buy - your readers are no different to this and are more likely to make a purchase if you’ve found them the best product for them. Choose products and companies with good reputations and quality sales pages. There is nothing worse than giving a glowing review of a product only to send your reader to a page that looks cheap and nasty.
4. Contextual Deep Links work Best
When I started using the Amazon Associate Program I naively thought that all I had to do was put an Amazon banner ad (that linked to Amazon’s front page) at the top of my blog. I thought that my readers would see it and surf over to Amazon and buy up big - thereby making me a rich man. Nothing could have been further from reality - I was deluding myself.
I always says to bloggers that I’m consulting with that they should learn something from contextual advertising when it comes to affiliate programs. The secret of contextual ads like Adsense is that a reader is reading a post on a particular topic on your blog and when they see an advertisement for that same product they are more likely to click it than if they saw an ad for something else. The same is true for affiliate programs. A banner to a general page on every page on your site won’t be anywhere near as effective as multiple links throughout your blog that advertiser products that are relevant for readers reading particular parts of your blog.
So if you’re writing a blog about MP3 players and have a review for a particular product - the most effectively affiliate program that you could link to from within the content of that page would be one that links directly to a page selling that specific model of MP3 player. This is how I use the Amazon program today. It is more work than contextual advertising because you’re not just putting one piece of code into a template but rather need to place individual links on many pages - but I find that it’s been worth the effort.
5. Consider positioning of links
One of the things I go on and on about with Adsense optimization is the positioning of ads. I tell bloggers to position their ads in the hotspots on pages (like the top of a left hand side bar - or inside content - or at the end of posts above comments etc). The same principles are true for affiliate advertising.
6. Traffic levels are Important
While it’s not the only factor - traffic levels are obviously key when it comes to making money from almost any online activity. The more people that see your well placed, relevant and well designed affiliate links the more likely it is that one of them will make a purchase. So don’t just work on your links - work on building a readership. Not only this, consider how you might direct traffic on your blog toward pages where they are more likely to see your affiliate links.
7. Diversify without Clutter
Don’t put all your affiliate efforts into one basket. There are plenty of products out there to link to so there is no need to just work on one. At the same time you shouldn’t clutter your blog up with too many affiliate program links. If you do so you run the risk of diluting the effectiveness of your links and could disillusion your readership.
8. Be Transparent
Don’t try to fool your readers into clicking links that could make you money. While it may not always feasible to label all affiliate links I think some attempt should be made to let people know what type of link they are clicking on. I also think consistency is important with this so readers of your blog know what to expect. For example here at ProBlogger usually put a note beside or under affiliate links to simply let readers know that that is what they are. On my Digital Camera Blog I don’t do this because of the large number of such links make it clear by the text around the link that clicking on it will take them to some sort of shop or information where a purchase is possible (ie a link my say ‘buy the XXX product’ or ‘get the latest product on XXX’.
9. Combine with other Revenue Streams
Affiliate programs and advertising programs are not mutually exclusive things. I’ve come across a few people recently who have said they don’t want to do affiliate linking because it will take the focus off their Adsense ads. While there is potential for one to take the focus off the other - there is also real potential for both to work hand in hand as different readers will respond to different approaches. You should consider the impact that your affiliate links have on other revenue streams - but don’t let one stop the other.
10. Track results
Most affiliate programs have at least some type of tracking or statistics package which will allow you to watch which links are effective. Some of these packages are better than others but most will at least allow you to see what is selling and what isn’t. Watching your results can help you plan future affiliate efforts. Keep track of what positions for links work well, which products sell, what wording around links works well etc and use the information that you collect as you work plan future affiliate strategies.
What tips would you give someone getting into affiliate programs? What has worked well for you? What hasn’t? Share you experience and ideas on affiliate programs below.
1. Consider your Audience
It almost goes without saying - but it’s worth putting yourself in your readers shoes and consider what they might be looking for as they surf by your blog. Are they shopping for specific products? Might they be looking for related products or accessories? What would trigger them to purchase? Start with your reader in mind rather than the product. If you take this approach you could end up doing your reader a favor as well as making a few dollars on the side.
2. Genuine Recommendations and personal endorsements always work best
There are literally hundreds of thousands of products and services for you to choose from to recommend to your blog’s readers but making money from them is not as simple as randomly adding links to them from your blog. Your blog’s readers come back to your blog day after day because something about you resonates with them - they have at least some level of trust and respect for you and perhaps the quickest way to destroy this is to recommend that they buy something that you don’t fully believe will benefit them.
The best results I’ve had from affiliate programs are where I give an open and honest appraisal of the product - including both it’s strengths and weaknesses. The most successful affiliate program I’m involved with here at ProBlogger is Joel Comm’s e-book which I reviewed here. If you read the review you’ll see that I not only tell readers who I believe the book is for but I also mention those it is NOT for. In a sense I critique it. On a surface level one might think that this wasn’t a wise move and that I should have given a glowing review - however the sales that I’ve had through the program have proven otherwise. People want to know what they are buying first and even if they know a product has limitations they will buy it if it meets their particular need.
3. Link to Quality Products
We all like to make sure we’re buying the best products money can buy - your readers are no different to this and are more likely to make a purchase if you’ve found them the best product for them. Choose products and companies with good reputations and quality sales pages. There is nothing worse than giving a glowing review of a product only to send your reader to a page that looks cheap and nasty.
4. Contextual Deep Links work Best
When I started using the Amazon Associate Program I naively thought that all I had to do was put an Amazon banner ad (that linked to Amazon’s front page) at the top of my blog. I thought that my readers would see it and surf over to Amazon and buy up big - thereby making me a rich man. Nothing could have been further from reality - I was deluding myself.
I always says to bloggers that I’m consulting with that they should learn something from contextual advertising when it comes to affiliate programs. The secret of contextual ads like Adsense is that a reader is reading a post on a particular topic on your blog and when they see an advertisement for that same product they are more likely to click it than if they saw an ad for something else. The same is true for affiliate programs. A banner to a general page on every page on your site won’t be anywhere near as effective as multiple links throughout your blog that advertiser products that are relevant for readers reading particular parts of your blog.
So if you’re writing a blog about MP3 players and have a review for a particular product - the most effectively affiliate program that you could link to from within the content of that page would be one that links directly to a page selling that specific model of MP3 player. This is how I use the Amazon program today. It is more work than contextual advertising because you’re not just putting one piece of code into a template but rather need to place individual links on many pages - but I find that it’s been worth the effort.
5. Consider positioning of links
One of the things I go on and on about with Adsense optimization is the positioning of ads. I tell bloggers to position their ads in the hotspots on pages (like the top of a left hand side bar - or inside content - or at the end of posts above comments etc). The same principles are true for affiliate advertising.
6. Traffic levels are Important
While it’s not the only factor - traffic levels are obviously key when it comes to making money from almost any online activity. The more people that see your well placed, relevant and well designed affiliate links the more likely it is that one of them will make a purchase. So don’t just work on your links - work on building a readership. Not only this, consider how you might direct traffic on your blog toward pages where they are more likely to see your affiliate links.
7. Diversify without Clutter
Don’t put all your affiliate efforts into one basket. There are plenty of products out there to link to so there is no need to just work on one. At the same time you shouldn’t clutter your blog up with too many affiliate program links. If you do so you run the risk of diluting the effectiveness of your links and could disillusion your readership.
8. Be Transparent
Don’t try to fool your readers into clicking links that could make you money. While it may not always feasible to label all affiliate links I think some attempt should be made to let people know what type of link they are clicking on. I also think consistency is important with this so readers of your blog know what to expect. For example here at ProBlogger usually put a note beside or under affiliate links to simply let readers know that that is what they are. On my Digital Camera Blog I don’t do this because of the large number of such links make it clear by the text around the link that clicking on it will take them to some sort of shop or information where a purchase is possible (ie a link my say ‘buy the XXX product’ or ‘get the latest product on XXX’.
9. Combine with other Revenue Streams
Affiliate programs and advertising programs are not mutually exclusive things. I’ve come across a few people recently who have said they don’t want to do affiliate linking because it will take the focus off their Adsense ads. While there is potential for one to take the focus off the other - there is also real potential for both to work hand in hand as different readers will respond to different approaches. You should consider the impact that your affiliate links have on other revenue streams - but don’t let one stop the other.
10. Track results
Most affiliate programs have at least some type of tracking or statistics package which will allow you to watch which links are effective. Some of these packages are better than others but most will at least allow you to see what is selling and what isn’t. Watching your results can help you plan future affiliate efforts. Keep track of what positions for links work well, which products sell, what wording around links works well etc and use the information that you collect as you work plan future affiliate strategies.
What tips would you give someone getting into affiliate programs? What has worked well for you? What hasn’t? Share you experience and ideas on affiliate programs below.
Written on August 26th, 2005 at 11:08 pm by Darren Rowse
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/26/10-tips-for-using-affiliate-programs-on-your-blog/
lundi 2 mars 2009
How to Get Indexed by Google
Posted in Everything Google by Dave
I see a lot of people complaining that their sites are not indexed by google after months of going live. I just launched a new site (LolDawgz) Wednesday evening. It’s a blog, and I did spend some time preparing posts prior to launching the site so that I would have several posts on the day it launched. I’m happy to say, the site was indexed by Google, with a few backlinks showing, in under 24 hours after I followed all 10 of the tips below on my “fast seo checklist”.
I’d like to share these tips and tricks with my readers here and for anybody who is interested in learning how to get your site indexed fast. This is not the first site I’ve had indexed that quickly, in fact, every blog or site I launch, or launch for a client has been indexed in 24-48 hours. Please remember what I statedin the paragraph above, that I had already created several posts worh of content prior ro registering the domain, installing Wordpress and launching the blog. I’ve gotten into the habit of launching new sites this way because I had a few bad experiences in the past with sites getting indexed while they were still parked or while they had no content on them. this can easily lead to a site getting sandboxed by Google for months (which is not a fun thing).
Tips for Getting Indexed By Google
#1 ) Use RSS Syndication and add your RSS feed to Feedburner.
#2 ) Submit an article from your blog or website to Netscape
#3 ) Submit your site to Technorati and learn to tag your posts.
#4 ) Submit your blog to BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog
#5 ) Digg (or have someone else) Digg a post from your site
#6 ) Submit your site to Stumbleupon
#7 ) Post your link into the “Reviews” folder at DigitalPoint Forums
#8 ) Add yor site to the Google Webmasters Console
#9 ) Submit a photo album to Flickr and add your URL in your Flickr.com profile
#10 ) Add your site to a few blog directories like BlogRateDirectory
#11) Add Google Adsense to your site
#12) If you’re a blogger, submit your articles to Recommend Us
#13 ) Post on forums and add your site to your signature. A good list of forums is here Best Forums For Social Networking and Gaining Backlinks
Things to avoid:
#1 ) Bulk directory submissions such as “submit express” - you will only end up with an inbox full of spam
#2 ) Don’t spam your site to things like Adlandpro or craigslist
#3 ) Don’t spam other peoples blogs or forums
#4 ) Do Not use pre-written articles or otherwise duplicate content
#5 ) Do not use email spam to promote your site.
#6 ) Do not stuff your site with hidden keywords. Read this article from Matt Cutts - SEO tip: Avoid keyword stuffing
***Please note: if you’re running a spammy site with crap content or a doorway page to an affiliate program, forget about these tips.
Oh no, I think I just gave away the best tips from all those crappy E-Books you might buy on Clickbank for *free* !!!!
vendredi 27 février 2009
Common Affiliate Mistakes
Common Affiliate Mistakes
When working as an affiliate, may it be full-time or part-time, is it easy to sometimes make mistakes that you don't really notice at first. This is, of course, not anything that only concerns the affiliate world - any given business has these problems. We thought it might be a good idea to mention a few of these mistakes so that you won't have to make them yourself.
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You probably should start with purchasing the product you're about to promote as you should be able to tell your readers everything they need to know about it”
Know Your Limits
When you start looking around on the Internet you'll notice that it's very easy to find affiliate programs offering great commissions and that they are all very easy to join. We understand that it can be a bit tempting to join as many of these programs as possible in order to maximize your earnings.
Ok, it's not a bad idea to join a few affiliate programs but it's important that you know your limits. If you sign up with too many affiliate programs you won't be able to get most out of them, making it a waste of time. So, concentrate on one program or a maximum of 3-4 (start with one program and once you get the hang of it you can join 2-3 more) and make sure that these programs work well with each other - otherwise your site will give a scattered impression, making your visitors not wanting to stay.
Picking the Incorrect Product
We've noticed a trend where affiliates simply pick a product that they feel is hot right now but that they in no way are interested in. Yes, it's a good idea to promote a product that people like but if you feel nothing for it yourself your visitors will notice this and that's not a good start if you wish to make money from them.
You probably should start with purchasing the product you're about to promote as you should be able to tell your readers everything they need to know about it. Recommending something you don't own yourself is a bad idea.
Don't Copy and Paste
If you want to get noticed on the web you have to learn how to work with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Simply using copy and paste won't do as you'll get penalized by the search engines and that obviously means that you're out of the game. Create unique content, which you update on a daily basis, and take advantage of the power of keywords! Remember that you have to write both for the visitors as well as for the search engines - you can read more about this issue here.
When working as an affiliate, may it be full-time or part-time, is it easy to sometimes make mistakes that you don't really notice at first. This is, of course, not anything that only concerns the affiliate world - any given business has these problems. We thought it might be a good idea to mention a few of these mistakes so that you won't have to make them yourself.
“
You probably should start with purchasing the product you're about to promote as you should be able to tell your readers everything they need to know about it”
Know Your Limits
When you start looking around on the Internet you'll notice that it's very easy to find affiliate programs offering great commissions and that they are all very easy to join. We understand that it can be a bit tempting to join as many of these programs as possible in order to maximize your earnings.
Ok, it's not a bad idea to join a few affiliate programs but it's important that you know your limits. If you sign up with too many affiliate programs you won't be able to get most out of them, making it a waste of time. So, concentrate on one program or a maximum of 3-4 (start with one program and once you get the hang of it you can join 2-3 more) and make sure that these programs work well with each other - otherwise your site will give a scattered impression, making your visitors not wanting to stay.
Picking the Incorrect Product
We've noticed a trend where affiliates simply pick a product that they feel is hot right now but that they in no way are interested in. Yes, it's a good idea to promote a product that people like but if you feel nothing for it yourself your visitors will notice this and that's not a good start if you wish to make money from them.
You probably should start with purchasing the product you're about to promote as you should be able to tell your readers everything they need to know about it. Recommending something you don't own yourself is a bad idea.
Don't Copy and Paste
If you want to get noticed on the web you have to learn how to work with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Simply using copy and paste won't do as you'll get penalized by the search engines and that obviously means that you're out of the game. Create unique content, which you update on a daily basis, and take advantage of the power of keywords! Remember that you have to write both for the visitors as well as for the search engines - you can read more about this issue here.
from
http://www.affiliatetips.com/common-affiliate-mistakes.html
lundi 26 janvier 2009
Top 9 Tips To Market Your Affiliate Link To Make Money With Affiliate Programs
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Affiliate programs have become a popular form of internet marketing these days where an affiliate promotes the brand of company for whom he is working as an affiliate and gets paid a commission for all product sale revenues generated. Affiliates use effective marketing combinations, such as search engine optimization and also publish users’ experiences and reviews on the product or services being advertised. With the application of planned out marketing strategies can only help out affiliates to profitably carry out with their affiliate program.
There are a lot of affiliates – newbies – who want to start promoting/selling and earning money online, but the main problem is that most of the ask – what should I do in order to promote my affiliate link? Where should I start? What can I do?
An affiliate can make use of the following 10 most effective tips to promote the affiliate programs (their affiliate links) and earn maximum amount of sales and commission out of the affiliate program:
Tip 1: An affiliate marketer should always try to understand the target audience.
Doing a through research on the target audience will help in selecting the right kind of keywords that is necessary for search engine optimization. For optimizing the website, you can also publish articles related to nature of business and submit in the article directories that would obtain quality back link for your site thus making it optimized for search engines.
Tip 2: Try to make your affiliate website user friendly and place the affiliate links where it utmost visible to the targeted visitors.
Tip 3: Choose that affiliate program upon which you have expertise.
With the adequate knowledge about the product or service, you can increase the sales using your unique promotional ideas.
Tip 4: Recommend affiliate products with your affiliate links placed at various forums or product review websites.Being an affiliate of promoting a particular brand, you can gain customer confidence and augment sales by adding personal reviews containing impartial evaluations of the product.
Tip 5: Write articles about your promoted products.
Let’s say you find a product of your interest to promote. You can easily cloak your affiliate link (shorten) and start writing articles about the possibilities of such products. When you write good articles and place your affiliate links at the author resource box. Once you done, you will have to submit them to the most popular ezine directories (just make a search for ‘article directory’) or you can use a certain service such as isnare that distributes your articles to many article directories at once. Good, informative and well-researched content is the most effective way to attract potential customers. People will read your articles and click on your affiliate links. And yes, people will buy your products.
Tip 6: Newsletter is an effective way to promote an affiliate link.
It is an excellent medium to make the targeted customer known about the latest updates or happenings related to your affiliate program. All you need to do is just to find a good newsletter (not spammy one) where you could advertise your ad. One of such is Associate Programs newsletter. This way you could reach thousands of potential customers with your affiliate links.
Tip 7: You can also send emails to your friends or relatives that might be interested in some products with product reviews and links.Make the links attractive by short advertising line and put the name of the company and the URL in signature.
Tip 8: Try to get a domain name as an affiliate marketer which will help you to drive maximum traffic to your website.
Tip 9: Do not spam your website for promoting a product as search engines completely block those sites who use such black hat techniques in order to increase the visibility of a webpage.
Following these tips would help you to carry out with your affiliate programs successfully. If you search for good affiliate programs to promote and want to gain the expertise knowledge on how to promote the affiliate program successfully, log on to Click2Sell.EU (www.click2sell.eu) affiliate programs network. Here you will find all the expert knowledge about marketing the affiliate links so as to make money with affiliate programs. Make sure to always use these tips in order to promote your affiliate links to earn money!
About the Author
Egidijus Andreika is a creator of Click2Sell.EU Affiliate Programs Network. Sell your products online and run your affiliate program. Get paid instantly to your account, recruit affiliates on affiliate marketplace. Affiliates – earn money promoting products from Click2Sell marketplace. Sell downloads online with Click2Sell.EU Visit affiliate network.
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Affiliate programs have become a popular form of internet marketing these days where an affiliate promotes the brand of company for whom he is working as an affiliate and gets paid a commission for all product sale revenues generated. Affiliates use effective marketing combinations, such as search engine optimization and also publish users’ experiences and reviews on the product or services being advertised. With the application of planned out marketing strategies can only help out affiliates to profitably carry out with their affiliate program.
There are a lot of affiliates – newbies – who want to start promoting/selling and earning money online, but the main problem is that most of the ask – what should I do in order to promote my affiliate link? Where should I start? What can I do?
An affiliate can make use of the following 10 most effective tips to promote the affiliate programs (their affiliate links) and earn maximum amount of sales and commission out of the affiliate program:
Tip 1: An affiliate marketer should always try to understand the target audience.
Doing a through research on the target audience will help in selecting the right kind of keywords that is necessary for search engine optimization. For optimizing the website, you can also publish articles related to nature of business and submit in the article directories that would obtain quality back link for your site thus making it optimized for search engines.
Tip 2: Try to make your affiliate website user friendly and place the affiliate links where it utmost visible to the targeted visitors.
Tip 3: Choose that affiliate program upon which you have expertise.
With the adequate knowledge about the product or service, you can increase the sales using your unique promotional ideas.
Tip 4: Recommend affiliate products with your affiliate links placed at various forums or product review websites.Being an affiliate of promoting a particular brand, you can gain customer confidence and augment sales by adding personal reviews containing impartial evaluations of the product.
Tip 5: Write articles about your promoted products.
Let’s say you find a product of your interest to promote. You can easily cloak your affiliate link (shorten) and start writing articles about the possibilities of such products. When you write good articles and place your affiliate links at the author resource box. Once you done, you will have to submit them to the most popular ezine directories (just make a search for ‘article directory’) or you can use a certain service such as isnare that distributes your articles to many article directories at once. Good, informative and well-researched content is the most effective way to attract potential customers. People will read your articles and click on your affiliate links. And yes, people will buy your products.
Tip 6: Newsletter is an effective way to promote an affiliate link.
It is an excellent medium to make the targeted customer known about the latest updates or happenings related to your affiliate program. All you need to do is just to find a good newsletter (not spammy one) where you could advertise your ad. One of such is Associate Programs newsletter. This way you could reach thousands of potential customers with your affiliate links.
Tip 7: You can also send emails to your friends or relatives that might be interested in some products with product reviews and links.Make the links attractive by short advertising line and put the name of the company and the URL in signature.
Tip 8: Try to get a domain name as an affiliate marketer which will help you to drive maximum traffic to your website.
Tip 9: Do not spam your website for promoting a product as search engines completely block those sites who use such black hat techniques in order to increase the visibility of a webpage.
Following these tips would help you to carry out with your affiliate programs successfully. If you search for good affiliate programs to promote and want to gain the expertise knowledge on how to promote the affiliate program successfully, log on to Click2Sell.EU (www.click2sell.eu) affiliate programs network. Here you will find all the expert knowledge about marketing the affiliate links so as to make money with affiliate programs. Make sure to always use these tips in order to promote your affiliate links to earn money!
About the Author
Egidijus Andreika is a creator of Click2Sell.EU Affiliate Programs Network. Sell your products online and run your affiliate program. Get paid instantly to your account, recruit affiliates on affiliate marketplace. Affiliates – earn money promoting products from Click2Sell marketplace. Sell downloads online with Click2Sell.EU Visit affiliate network.
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Affliate Programs Online Money Making
The first step for almost anybody who wants to make money online is to learn how to make money with affiliate marketing. This is a good first step because it teaches, by way of experience, the basics of internet marketing. It's also good for the beginner because you don't have to spend time or money creating your own product or spending lots of money on a good sales writer.
As an affiliate marketer, your job is not to sell but to pre-sell your affiliate products. This doesn't involve making a direct pitch. Rather, your affiliate marketing website, blog or e-list should concentrate on the problems your niche market experiences. After all, most products--especially information products--are sold to people who have a problem they want to solve.
When you sell someone else's product, you don't have to worry about paying anyone to write a sales letter because it's already done for you. You also don't have to worry about testing different versions of the sales letter to see which one works better. (Product owners do this all the time, because even something as small as a new headline or extra bullet point can add thousands of dollars of value if it drives up enough site traffic.) The benefit of this is that you can use the sales letter that's already been written to identify not only what the problem is, but also the emotional triggers associated with it. Then, on your blog, your web pages or on your e-list, you can talk about those problems from the angle of a consumer. You don't even have to directly pitch the product--in fact, it's often better if you don't! Just make sure you provide a link and a small advertisement about the product somewhere close to your content.
Good sales letters written by competent sales writers can cost anywhere up to the low four-figure to the five-figure range. One reason good sales literature costs so much is because the writer may end up spending a whole month researching it. It's not just sales words that go into the material. Hours and hours of product research--and more importantly, market and consumer research--go into the building of a sales letter. Good sales writers are "worth their rate" in gold, though. After all, a sales letter is what gets that prospect to say the final "yes."
Ultimately, creating your own product (or paying somebody to create it), then marketing it, is one of the best and most fulfilling ways to earn an income online. But this can take time and financial resources that most beginners just don't have. Learning to make money online with affiliate marketing can also keep you from making costly mistakes when you finally do have your own product. Mistakes are part of the learning process, and you should expect to make a few when you first start out. But it's best to make them when you don't have large amounts of your own money, or your own brand, at stake.
from http://3absi.com/work_at_home/affiliate_money/
As an affiliate marketer, your job is not to sell but to pre-sell your affiliate products. This doesn't involve making a direct pitch. Rather, your affiliate marketing website, blog or e-list should concentrate on the problems your niche market experiences. After all, most products--especially information products--are sold to people who have a problem they want to solve.
When you sell someone else's product, you don't have to worry about paying anyone to write a sales letter because it's already done for you. You also don't have to worry about testing different versions of the sales letter to see which one works better. (Product owners do this all the time, because even something as small as a new headline or extra bullet point can add thousands of dollars of value if it drives up enough site traffic.) The benefit of this is that you can use the sales letter that's already been written to identify not only what the problem is, but also the emotional triggers associated with it. Then, on your blog, your web pages or on your e-list, you can talk about those problems from the angle of a consumer. You don't even have to directly pitch the product--in fact, it's often better if you don't! Just make sure you provide a link and a small advertisement about the product somewhere close to your content.
Good sales letters written by competent sales writers can cost anywhere up to the low four-figure to the five-figure range. One reason good sales literature costs so much is because the writer may end up spending a whole month researching it. It's not just sales words that go into the material. Hours and hours of product research--and more importantly, market and consumer research--go into the building of a sales letter. Good sales writers are "worth their rate" in gold, though. After all, a sales letter is what gets that prospect to say the final "yes."
Ultimately, creating your own product (or paying somebody to create it), then marketing it, is one of the best and most fulfilling ways to earn an income online. But this can take time and financial resources that most beginners just don't have. Learning to make money online with affiliate marketing can also keep you from making costly mistakes when you finally do have your own product. Mistakes are part of the learning process, and you should expect to make a few when you first start out. But it's best to make them when you don't have large amounts of your own money, or your own brand, at stake.
from http://3absi.com/work_at_home/affiliate_money/
vendredi 23 janvier 2009
Affiliate Beginners
Without much research, this could be one of your ways is to promote it through AdWords, do your keyword research and set your budget nicely, because if you do so you will earn from the commission. Promoting other people's products sounds like the simplest part, but in fact it can be the hardest thing to do as well, In the old days Internet marketers to get around competitors, able to complete it the way it suppose to be done, they just blindly follow the steps without much thinking. Promoting other people's products sounds like the simplest part, but in fact it can be the best way of aspiring Internet marketers would post their links all over the Internet instead of making it. So affiliate beginners, if you have decided one of the box and more than 10 different ways to promote it through AdWords, do your keyword research and set your budget nicely, because if you have decided one of the worst programs you could possibly lose hundred of dollars over the Internet instead of making it.
So affiliate beginners, if you do so in today's Internet, you would simply be reported as spam or erased by the site owners. Because of that lot of programs out there would suggest using ad words work you could come across as an affiliate program for it, this way they are able to complete it the way it suppose to be done, they just blindly follow the steps without much understanding how ad words work you could come across as an affiliate program for it, this way they are able to think out of the world could get a taste of that lot of programs out there stumble across affiliate marketing without doing much research would not make any money through this way, although there is no start up cost involve, no payroll duties to perform and we do not do so in today's Internet, you would simply be reported as spam or erased by the site owners. Because of that sweet sale by simply referring customer to purchase that product through your link and you will be rewarded by a commission. Affiliate marketing has to be done, they just blindly follow the steps without much understanding how it works doesn't mean that you are able to think out of the world could get a taste of that sweet sale by simply referring customer to purchase that product through your link and you will be rewarded by a commission.
So affiliate beginners, if you do so in today's Internet, you would simply be reported as spam or erased by the site owners. Because of that lot of programs out there would suggest using ad words work you could come across as an affiliate program for it, this way they are able to complete it the way it suppose to be done, they just blindly follow the steps without much understanding how ad words work you could come across as an affiliate program for it, this way they are able to think out of the world could get a taste of that lot of programs out there stumble across affiliate marketing without doing much research would not make any money through this way, although there is no start up cost involve, no payroll duties to perform and we do not do so in today's Internet, you would simply be reported as spam or erased by the site owners. Because of that sweet sale by simply referring customer to purchase that product through your link and you will be rewarded by a commission. Affiliate marketing has to be done, they just blindly follow the steps without much understanding how it works doesn't mean that you are able to think out of the world could get a taste of that sweet sale by simply referring customer to purchase that product through your link and you will be rewarded by a commission.
Make Money Online Three fast ways to Make Money Online
Making money online may be impossible for some people, but not for you. Through this article you will learn how to do it fast and easy. So be ready with your bank account, because you will earn a lot of money if you follow these tips.
The first thing that you should do is to increase your website traffic, because you will have more chances of sales or adsense clicks, being visited by more people and more chances to earn money online.
For this you should make as many traffic exchanges as you can, since this will allow you to obtain more visits from other websites. One important thing is to know the type of website traffic you have in order to decide what kind of tools you may offer to those visitors.
Other way to increase website traffic to make money online consists in the promotion of a newsletter signup page, which you should send later a serial of automated emails promoting your product or affiliate products.
The second thing that you can do to earn money online is to carry out a SEO or search engine optimization, a key term used in the web today. This system will allow you to obtain more qualified visitors to your own site when you get a better ranking on the net while they look for something just surfing on the bigger search engines.
Through better positions of your own website in the search engines, like MSN, Yahoo or Google, you may also make more money on line selling and promoting any product you want to launch to the market. The important thing for this is to have current and good content on your website. Write your own articles and publish them in different articles directories like this one you are reading right now.
To earn money online, the third thing that you can do is to start a newsletter or ezine. It does not matter if your web site is large or small, just post the code for newsletters that different websites have onto your own web site.
For example, Google offers "Free Mailing Groups", an auto-responder system used to submit a newsletter to your subscription list. There are various free scripts that carry out this function. In other words, through this way you will allow people to subscribe for your newsletter or ezine with the latest news you will have about your products and promotions.
A free gift might be absolutely necessary in order to motivate your visitor to give you his - her name an email address.
The first thing that you should do is to increase your website traffic, because you will have more chances of sales or adsense clicks, being visited by more people and more chances to earn money online.
For this you should make as many traffic exchanges as you can, since this will allow you to obtain more visits from other websites. One important thing is to know the type of website traffic you have in order to decide what kind of tools you may offer to those visitors.
Other way to increase website traffic to make money online consists in the promotion of a newsletter signup page, which you should send later a serial of automated emails promoting your product or affiliate products.
The second thing that you can do to earn money online is to carry out a SEO or search engine optimization, a key term used in the web today. This system will allow you to obtain more qualified visitors to your own site when you get a better ranking on the net while they look for something just surfing on the bigger search engines.
Through better positions of your own website in the search engines, like MSN, Yahoo or Google, you may also make more money on line selling and promoting any product you want to launch to the market. The important thing for this is to have current and good content on your website. Write your own articles and publish them in different articles directories like this one you are reading right now.
To earn money online, the third thing that you can do is to start a newsletter or ezine. It does not matter if your web site is large or small, just post the code for newsletters that different websites have onto your own web site.
For example, Google offers "Free Mailing Groups", an auto-responder system used to submit a newsletter to your subscription list. There are various free scripts that carry out this function. In other words, through this way you will allow people to subscribe for your newsletter or ezine with the latest news you will have about your products and promotions.
A free gift might be absolutely necessary in order to motivate your visitor to give you his - her name an email address.
dimanche 18 janvier 2009
The Affiliate Roadmap to Success
If you're looking for a quick and easy way to start making money online, consider joining one of the Web's free affiliate programs.
There are endless free to join affiliate programs available on the 'Net — in any category you might be interested in.
And joining an affiliate program is without a doubt the easiest way to start earning an online income.
Here's how it works.
You become an affiliate for another company's product by joining their free affiliate program. Then you promote their products or services on your website. Anytime someone you refer buys something from them, YOU get paid a commission.
And the best part is that it doesn't cost you anything to get started!
Most good affiliate programs will offer you free resources to help you promote their products effectively. Things like banner ads, salescopy, or product photos that in many cases have already been tested and proven to work.
You simply download them and use them on your website.
Why are they willing to do this?
Well, the better YOU are at promoting their products, the more visitors and sales THEY'LL receive. So everybody wins!
You're helping them get customers that they might not have been able to get otherwise. And you earn money for doing so!
The amount of money you can earn from affiliate sales will depend on a number of factors:
Commission amount. Companies will offer anywhere from 5% up to 50% of a product's sale price — a BIG difference.
Price point of product or service. A higher price point means a higher dollar amount for you, depending on the commission. This should be balanced with the commission amount.
Potential volume of sales you can make. Some highly specialized products can sell far more infrequently than others, limiting the number of sales you can make in a given time period.
How effective you are at promoting their products. The amount of time and effort you're willing to put into promotion is a HUGE factor. Techniques like building an opt-in list and using email marketing to build relationships with your site visitors can catapult your earning potential.
There are a number of ways to find free affiliate programs. But if you're just getting started, you might want to check out affiliate directories like AssociatePrograms.com and AffiliatesDirectory.com. They provide lists of credible free to join affiliate programs that have been pre-screened.
You can also sift through websites that sell products you're interested in. They'll tell you if they have a program they can join.
As an affiliate, you earn a commission for any sales made by people who click through from your website and purchase an affiliate product. So making money with website affiliate programs is dependent on maximizing the number of sales your site visitors make.
And in order to maximize sales, your website needs traffic -- and lots of it!
Here are some techniques that will help you send visitors to your website:
Achieve a high ranking in the search engines.
Make sure your website includes keywords that target your particular market. When the search engine "spiders" come to index your site, they'll boost your site higher in the rankings for those keywords. Ideally, you want your site to show up on the first or second page of search results.
Write short articles that will be distributed all over the Web.
All that's required is about 400 words on a subject related to the product you are promoting. Include your byline and a link to your website at the bottom of each article, then submit them to free article directories, like EzineArticles.com.
When other site owners who are looking for content for their own sites republish your article, your name -- and site link -- will be propagated all over the 'Net.
Buy pay-per-click traffic.
One of the fastest ways to drive additional traffic to your site is by advertising with pay-per-click search engines, like Google AdWords. All that means is that your link shows up in the section for paid advertisers. Then every time someone clicks on your link from a search engine results page, you pay a pre-determined amount.
Build a list of visitors' email addresses.
This allows you to contact your visitors again with valuable information that will lure them back to your website. Or, you can even promote affiliate products directly by email.
It's a great way to build relationships and trust, which translates into more sales over time.
Once you've got these tricks working for you, it is much easier to start making money online with affiliate programs.
There are endless free to join affiliate programs available on the 'Net — in any category you might be interested in.
And joining an affiliate program is without a doubt the easiest way to start earning an online income.
Here's how it works.
You become an affiliate for another company's product by joining their free affiliate program. Then you promote their products or services on your website. Anytime someone you refer buys something from them, YOU get paid a commission.
And the best part is that it doesn't cost you anything to get started!
Most good affiliate programs will offer you free resources to help you promote their products effectively. Things like banner ads, salescopy, or product photos that in many cases have already been tested and proven to work.
You simply download them and use them on your website.
Why are they willing to do this?
Well, the better YOU are at promoting their products, the more visitors and sales THEY'LL receive. So everybody wins!
You're helping them get customers that they might not have been able to get otherwise. And you earn money for doing so!
The amount of money you can earn from affiliate sales will depend on a number of factors:
Commission amount. Companies will offer anywhere from 5% up to 50% of a product's sale price — a BIG difference.
Price point of product or service. A higher price point means a higher dollar amount for you, depending on the commission. This should be balanced with the commission amount.
Potential volume of sales you can make. Some highly specialized products can sell far more infrequently than others, limiting the number of sales you can make in a given time period.
How effective you are at promoting their products. The amount of time and effort you're willing to put into promotion is a HUGE factor. Techniques like building an opt-in list and using email marketing to build relationships with your site visitors can catapult your earning potential.
There are a number of ways to find free affiliate programs. But if you're just getting started, you might want to check out affiliate directories like AssociatePrograms.com and AffiliatesDirectory.com. They provide lists of credible free to join affiliate programs that have been pre-screened.
You can also sift through websites that sell products you're interested in. They'll tell you if they have a program they can join.
As an affiliate, you earn a commission for any sales made by people who click through from your website and purchase an affiliate product. So making money with website affiliate programs is dependent on maximizing the number of sales your site visitors make.
And in order to maximize sales, your website needs traffic -- and lots of it!
Here are some techniques that will help you send visitors to your website:
Achieve a high ranking in the search engines.
Make sure your website includes keywords that target your particular market. When the search engine "spiders" come to index your site, they'll boost your site higher in the rankings for those keywords. Ideally, you want your site to show up on the first or second page of search results.
Write short articles that will be distributed all over the Web.
All that's required is about 400 words on a subject related to the product you are promoting. Include your byline and a link to your website at the bottom of each article, then submit them to free article directories, like EzineArticles.com.
When other site owners who are looking for content for their own sites republish your article, your name -- and site link -- will be propagated all over the 'Net.
Buy pay-per-click traffic.
One of the fastest ways to drive additional traffic to your site is by advertising with pay-per-click search engines, like Google AdWords. All that means is that your link shows up in the section for paid advertisers. Then every time someone clicks on your link from a search engine results page, you pay a pre-determined amount.
Build a list of visitors' email addresses.
This allows you to contact your visitors again with valuable information that will lure them back to your website. Or, you can even promote affiliate products directly by email.
It's a great way to build relationships and trust, which translates into more sales over time.
Once you've got these tricks working for you, it is much easier to start making money online with affiliate programs.
mercredi 14 janvier 2009
Start Your Own Affiliate Program
Dreaming of becoming the next Amazon.com? Extend your reach and increase the sale of your products or services through an affiliate program. An affiliate program is not that expensive and the benefits are huge!
If you have a web site selling products or services, why not start your very own affiliate program. It's not that difficult or expensive and the benefits are huge. Use the money you save from promoting your site yourself to pay your affiliates!
What is an Affiliate Program?
An affiliate program is way of allowing others to sell or promote your products and services for commission.
Benefits
Because your banners and links are placed on other sites this makes you more visible with not much effort.
You have other people marketing your product and services, it's not all down to you.
Your sales will increase dramatically.
You will certainly appear "bigger" than what you are and your credibility will be higher.
Gone are the days when only the "big" sites could set up and run affiliate programs. Today its easy and there are a couple of ways of doing this. You could get someone to install the required scripts on your own server and run it yourself. This is the way I like to do it as you have full control; but in order to do this you need to be able to accept credit cards on-line via your own merchant account.
It's not that expensive or complicated, sometimes it's a matter of who you know. My hosting company actually provided and installed the script on my latest site absolutely free and offer an excellent service. Take a look at http://www.rambit.com to find out more about this option. You need to decide what your objectives of your affiliate program are before you decide which route to go down. You can either have your whole site replicated or you can have a script installed that will simply track your affiliate sales. You will need to look at various options depending on what you hope to achieve.
Ask yourself the following questions before you begin.
Do you want to replicate your entire site giving each affiliate their very own www.yoursite.com?
Do you simply want to track sales giving each affiliate their own unique ID?
Do you want to pay affiliates for actual sales, clicks or leads only?
Do you sell products, services or electronic products? Do you want your affiliates to market all your services and products or only some?
Do you want to pay only the actual affiliate who makes the sale or do you want to build a two-tier program, compensating the affiliate for sales his referrals make too.
Do you want international affiliates or affiliates from your own country only?
Do you want to pay a percentage of sales or a flat rate?
For example on the WWW Treasure Hunt site at http://www.wwwtreasurehunt.com I have two affiliate programs. I needed one affiliate program to compensate for Treasure Hunter sign-ups and one to reward affiliates for advertisers. For the first option, I used a script which I obtained from Superscripts at http://www.superscripts.com/agentspro/cgibin/agents.cgi? salad which my hosting company installed and configured for me for free. This script allows treasure hunters to sign-up from an affiliate site without actually leaving it. For the second option, I chose to have the whole site replicated but had it configured specifically to track advertiser sign-ups only.
If you don't have your own merchant account, you could use a service like Clickbank. They provide a payment facility and will track your affiliate sales. You can find out more by visiting http://hop.clickbank.net/?hollyj55
If you have your own merchant account but want an outside company to handle and track your affiliate program, you could use a service like either http://www.linkshare.com or http://www.cj.com/ who make it easy and handle everything for a fee.
When deciding on which service to use to set-up your affiliate program, think of things from the affiliate's point of view and what's important to them. A key factor to running a successful affiliate program is having happy affiliates. Make things easy for them. Offer different banner sizes, text links, real-time stats and e-mail notification when sales are made.
Once your affiliate program has been set-up, you'll need to promote it. As a starting point, list your site at http://www.revenews.com , http://www.associateprograms.com/ and http://www.affiliatebroadcast.com . These sites also provide information on marketing your own affiliate program. The point is there are lots of options for you to choose from. Depending upon your circumstances, financial situation and whether you sell products or services, but which every method you choose, you could soon be on your way to becoming the next Amazon.com!
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mardi 13 janvier 2009
How to make Dollars on Affiliate selling
Affiliate marketing is a wonderful way to create an online income and many web entrepreneurs have made a fortune on the back of it, however, it isn’t an automatic key to Internet profits. You have to get a number of things right to succeed with Internet marketing. These things aren’t hard to do, but they are necessary and you have to be prepared to take the time to learn and apply them.
There are three main aspects to affiliate marketing success: choosing the right programs, implementing successful Internet marketing strategies and consistency.
How to Choose the Right Affiliate Marketing Programs.
The affiliate marketing programs you choose need to be associated your niche and complimentary to one some other. This way, your Internet marketing can accommodate all your affiliate products and not have to be unique to each one. For more info visit us at (www.affiliate-directories-online.com) your targeted website traffic will already be generally interested in the various offerings on your website or blog.
Other things you should look for in an affiliate marketing program are: quality products with money back guarantees, excellent customer service, high commission rates with low payout thresholds, well written sales pages to maximize conversion, and customer tracking for at least ninety days (preferably longer).
Prospering Internet Marketing Strategies
Without website traffic, you will be unable to make any sales - no matter how great your affiliate products are. It is therefore crucial to learn and apply proven Internet marketing strategies to build traffic and encourage those visitors to click on your affiliate links. Internet marketing begins with website design, content and search engine optimization strategies (SEO).
Your website needs to be easy to navigate, focused on one particular niche (although it can include sub-categories), contain unique, relevant and useful content which is updated regularly and optimized for search engines by using (but not overusing) keywords related to your page content. Once you have created your website you can implement traffic building strategies such as article marketing, paid search engine listings, press releases (where appropriate), write blogs related to your subject and link back to your website (also have direct affiliate links on your blog), and engage in social networking sites such as Face book.
These are basic starting points for generating website traffic that is targeted and likely to be interested in one or more of the affiliate products you are promoting. There are plenty of online resources that can teach you how to apply these various strategies to promote your site and increase your affiliate marketing referrals.
Consistency
If you truly want to become successful at affiliate marketing then you need to work at it consistently. For example, your website and blog needs to be updated regularly with new and original content that is relevant to your niche. This is essential to encourage visitors to return but it is also important to gain free search engine traffic. Article marketing is also a very effective traffic building strategy but it will only work if some one-visit site like (www.affiliate-windfall-secrets.com) it is done on a regular basis. As soon as you stop working on your online business, your traffic will die off and your business will fail.
There are three main aspects to affiliate marketing success: choosing the right programs, implementing successful Internet marketing strategies and consistency.
How to Choose the Right Affiliate Marketing Programs.
The affiliate marketing programs you choose need to be associated your niche and complimentary to one some other. This way, your Internet marketing can accommodate all your affiliate products and not have to be unique to each one. For more info visit us at (www.affiliate-directories-online.com) your targeted website traffic will already be generally interested in the various offerings on your website or blog.
Other things you should look for in an affiliate marketing program are: quality products with money back guarantees, excellent customer service, high commission rates with low payout thresholds, well written sales pages to maximize conversion, and customer tracking for at least ninety days (preferably longer).
Prospering Internet Marketing Strategies
Without website traffic, you will be unable to make any sales - no matter how great your affiliate products are. It is therefore crucial to learn and apply proven Internet marketing strategies to build traffic and encourage those visitors to click on your affiliate links. Internet marketing begins with website design, content and search engine optimization strategies (SEO).
Your website needs to be easy to navigate, focused on one particular niche (although it can include sub-categories), contain unique, relevant and useful content which is updated regularly and optimized for search engines by using (but not overusing) keywords related to your page content. Once you have created your website you can implement traffic building strategies such as article marketing, paid search engine listings, press releases (where appropriate), write blogs related to your subject and link back to your website (also have direct affiliate links on your blog), and engage in social networking sites such as Face book.
These are basic starting points for generating website traffic that is targeted and likely to be interested in one or more of the affiliate products you are promoting. There are plenty of online resources that can teach you how to apply these various strategies to promote your site and increase your affiliate marketing referrals.
Consistency
If you truly want to become successful at affiliate marketing then you need to work at it consistently. For example, your website and blog needs to be updated regularly with new and original content that is relevant to your niche. This is essential to encourage visitors to return but it is also important to gain free search engine traffic. Article marketing is also a very effective traffic building strategy but it will only work if some one-visit site like (www.affiliate-windfall-secrets.com) it is done on a regular basis. As soon as you stop working on your online business, your traffic will die off and your business will fail.
dimanche 11 janvier 2009
Maximize your commission from affiliate programs
The majority of affiliates are not earning much money from the affiliate programs they belong to. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here are a few tips and techniques that will help you to maximize the commissions you receive from the affiliate programs you belong to.
Choose your affiliate programs with care.
The most critical thing you need to do is choose your associations with care. If you do this wrong, you limit your ability to earn good commissions before you even start.
The programs you choose must fit with the product or service range that you are offering. It is important that they are natural add on to what you are selling. Alternatively, they must complement the theme of your site. For example, if you offer web design services, a natural add on could be an affiliate program for web hosting. For more details go to www.money-secret-exposed.com. If you do not offer your own products or services, then your web site needs to convey useful information on a topic of your interest. Affiliate programs relating to this topic of interest would be good adding ones for your site. For example, if you have a poetry site, useful affiliate programs could be poetry books, greeting cards, or flowers.
Limit your choice of affiliate programs initially so you can concentrate your efforts on learning how to market them effectively. Having too many programs will dilute your focus and make it harder to learn what works best. Once you are successfully selling and making reasonable commissions from your initial choices, you are then in a better position to choose new programs to add to your site.
Don’t choose based on what pays the highest commission. Instead, put yourself in the shoes of your customer and choose what would best serve their needs. When you do this, you will choose programs that will sell very well and make you more commission in the long run.
Personal recommendations.
Once you have decided on a small list of programs you think are suitable, buy the product or service yourself before making your final choice. This will enable you to test the service delivery and product quality to ensure that it is totally suitable for you to recommend to your customers and visitors.
Your credibility with your customers will be damaged if your refer them to another merchant who does not provide them with good service or product quality. Therefore, always test the product or service before you give a personal recommendation.
Most marketing experts say that the best way to sell products through an affiliate association is by personal recommendation. Once you have used the product, you are then able to write a review that tells your customers or visitors what you liked about it and how it helped you. A personal recommendation will sell more than any advertisement.
Opt In Lists v. Web Sites
Your advertising message will produce a stronger response from people that already know and trust you. Therefore, your own opt in list or ezine is going to be more effective than your web site at generating commissions. If you don’t have a means of staying in contact with your customers or visitors, you are severely limiting your income producing potential. To know more about it login to www.ad-tracking-pro.com. Banner links on web sites are less effective than text links. More people will click on a text link than a banner. With text links, you are able to pre-qualify people before they visit your affiliate partner’s site, and you will find that more convert to sales.
Advertising
To supplement your promotional activities, consider advertising that gets people to visit the details of the affiliate program on your site, or alternatively, sends them direct to the affiliate site using your affiliate link. Paid ads in ezines can be relatively cheap and can provide you with highly targeted prospects for your promoted product or service.
Choose your affiliate programs with care.
The most critical thing you need to do is choose your associations with care. If you do this wrong, you limit your ability to earn good commissions before you even start.
The programs you choose must fit with the product or service range that you are offering. It is important that they are natural add on to what you are selling. Alternatively, they must complement the theme of your site. For example, if you offer web design services, a natural add on could be an affiliate program for web hosting. For more details go to www.money-secret-exposed.com. If you do not offer your own products or services, then your web site needs to convey useful information on a topic of your interest. Affiliate programs relating to this topic of interest would be good adding ones for your site. For example, if you have a poetry site, useful affiliate programs could be poetry books, greeting cards, or flowers.
Limit your choice of affiliate programs initially so you can concentrate your efforts on learning how to market them effectively. Having too many programs will dilute your focus and make it harder to learn what works best. Once you are successfully selling and making reasonable commissions from your initial choices, you are then in a better position to choose new programs to add to your site.
Don’t choose based on what pays the highest commission. Instead, put yourself in the shoes of your customer and choose what would best serve their needs. When you do this, you will choose programs that will sell very well and make you more commission in the long run.
Personal recommendations.
Once you have decided on a small list of programs you think are suitable, buy the product or service yourself before making your final choice. This will enable you to test the service delivery and product quality to ensure that it is totally suitable for you to recommend to your customers and visitors.
Your credibility with your customers will be damaged if your refer them to another merchant who does not provide them with good service or product quality. Therefore, always test the product or service before you give a personal recommendation.
Most marketing experts say that the best way to sell products through an affiliate association is by personal recommendation. Once you have used the product, you are then able to write a review that tells your customers or visitors what you liked about it and how it helped you. A personal recommendation will sell more than any advertisement.
Opt In Lists v. Web Sites
Your advertising message will produce a stronger response from people that already know and trust you. Therefore, your own opt in list or ezine is going to be more effective than your web site at generating commissions. If you don’t have a means of staying in contact with your customers or visitors, you are severely limiting your income producing potential. To know more about it login to www.ad-tracking-pro.com. Banner links on web sites are less effective than text links. More people will click on a text link than a banner. With text links, you are able to pre-qualify people before they visit your affiliate partner’s site, and you will find that more convert to sales.
Advertising
To supplement your promotional activities, consider advertising that gets people to visit the details of the affiliate program on your site, or alternatively, sends them direct to the affiliate site using your affiliate link. Paid ads in ezines can be relatively cheap and can provide you with highly targeted prospects for your promoted product or service.
vendredi 9 janvier 2009
10 Affiliate Marketing Management Tips
Discover the answer to the 10 most common Affiliate Marketing Management Questions, read on to learn more...
Discover The Answer To The 10 Most Common Affiliate Marketing Management Questions
1. Is affiliate marketing right for my business?
Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful and effective means of gaining new customers, regardless of your product or service. Affiliate marketing exposes your business to new customers and can get you out of your marketing rut. Additionally, when you initiate an affiliate marketing campaign, you’re in control. You determine the commission rate you pay and pay only when your affiliates make a sale. It’s a no loss operation for you because you only pay when a sale is made.
2. What are the startup costs?
When you start an affiliate program you have the choice of handling the operations yourself or having it managed by an affiliate network. The costs for either choice are reasonable and generally start around a few hundred dollars. Additionally, as a business owner don’t forget that many of your costs may be tax deductible. To start an affiliate marketing program in house, costs will include:
Affiliate management software
Affiliate marketing support including a website that answers affiliate questions and a means for them to contact you if any issues arise.
Affiliate marketing materials including banner ads, copy, coupons, and promotional content.
An affiliate marketing contract agreement
Tracking software to track cookies, click throughs, payments, etc…
If you choose to hire an affiliate network to handle your program they generally charge a flat fee or a percentage of what you pay out each month.
3. How much time will it take out of my workday/workweek?
Most experts agree that it will take you about an hour and a half each day to manage your affiliate program. They also recommend you to budget more time in the first few months of your program, approximately two to three hours a day. Even the most efficient affiliate managers spend about 45 minutes a day managing their affiliate program.
Professional affiliate managers generally spend an average of 40-80 hours a month dedicated to managing, tracking and promoting your affiliate program.
4. Should I use an affiliate network?
Do you have an extra 3 hours a day for the next two or three months? Do you have an hour a day to devote to managing your program after the initial three month program is complete? An affiliate network, while it may be a bit more expensive on the outset, can help you focus your time on other profit generating tasks. Additionally, an affiliate network can help expose your affiliate program to a wide variety of experience affiliates, which means more money in your bottom line and more exposure overall.
That being said, there are a tremendous number of effective in-house solutions including some you’re likely already familiar with like 1shoppingcart.com and affiliatepro.com. These programs will help you stay 100% in control of your affiliate program and are effective at managing your program.
5. How should I pay affiliates? What type of commission works best?
This is a very important decision because it not only affects your profits, the right commission rate will help you recruit top-notch affiliates. The general rule of thumb is to set your default commission rate at a rate you can afford to pay while leaving room for time limited commission increase offers, promotions, and private offers. For example, if you can afford to pay 50% of your gross profit margin, pay 25% instead and tier it so that after a sales goal is reached they earn 30% or you can bump it up to 50% during the holidays or during typically low sales times.
6. How do I recruit affiliates?
Your customers may be your best affiliates. After all, they already appreciate and enjoy your products or services. A simple link on your website is a good place to start. Here are a few ways to find quality affiliates:
Online forums. These are excellent places to meet and greet and connect with like minded individuals. They’re also a good resource for affiliates who are interested in, motivated, and qualified to sell your products and services. Using a forum, you can announce your affiliate program. Be careful to not ‘sell’ on the forum as most forums look down on this and may kick you off. Additionally, you can include a link to your affiliate site in your signature.
Find websites that link to your competitors and approach them about being an affiliate for you. Likewise, you can find affiliates using your favorite search engine and contact them about joining your program.
One last way is to join an affiliate network or become listed on an affiliate directory. This will ensure that affiliate marketers who are searching for new products and services to promote. However, keep in mind that many beginner marketers also seek products and services to promote via affiliate directories and they may lose interest and motivation before they ever make a sale. This isn’t a strong deterrent because they don’t get paid unless they make a sale, however it should be noted.
7. What is the best way to communicate with my affiliates?
Email is the general tool of choice, which makes an auto responder a fantastic tool for basic emails like the welcome email, introducing promotions, coupons, sending links and banner ads, and answering Frequently Asked Questions. It is also generally advisable to have an email address, fax number, and telephone number available for when affiliates have questions that are not answered by your frequently asked questions web page or when they simply want to speak with you.
8. How do I motivate affiliates?
Money motivates no doubt about it. That being said, affiliates are also motivated by feeling that they’re important to you. This means when they ask for your time, you give it. Additionally, promotions, bonuses, prizes, contests, and commission increases are all tools to motivate and inspire affiliates. Constant communication, like sending a weekly or monthly Ezine, will also help remind your affiliates that you’re out there and invested in their success.
9. Do I need to hire an affiliate manager?
The answer to this question really depends on your needs. How large is your company? Do you have the time to manage your program? Do you have the skills to manage your program? An affiliate manager is the person that:
Recruits affiliates
Communicates with affiliates
Develops, tracks, and reports on promotions
Develops programs to enhance affiliate program
Motivates affiliates
Tracks sales and pays affiliates
Monitors your competition
These are all extremely important functions and if you have the time to handle them yourself, excellent! If you do not, then consider hiring an affiliate manager.
10. How do I find/hire an affiliate manager?
Outsourcing an affiliate manager is fairly easy to do. There are hundreds available with a quick online search. You can ask associates, inquire at online forums, or post an advertisement seeking someone to fill the position. Depending on the complexity of your affiliate program, you could consider a well qualified virtual assistant for the job. The skills your affiliate manager will need are:
Organizational skills
Communication skills
Attention to detail
Knowledge of online business, internet marketing, and basic ecommerce operations
Basic html and graphic experience are a plus
Discover The Answer To The 10 Most Common Affiliate Marketing Management Questions
1. Is affiliate marketing right for my business?
Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful and effective means of gaining new customers, regardless of your product or service. Affiliate marketing exposes your business to new customers and can get you out of your marketing rut. Additionally, when you initiate an affiliate marketing campaign, you’re in control. You determine the commission rate you pay and pay only when your affiliates make a sale. It’s a no loss operation for you because you only pay when a sale is made.
2. What are the startup costs?
When you start an affiliate program you have the choice of handling the operations yourself or having it managed by an affiliate network. The costs for either choice are reasonable and generally start around a few hundred dollars. Additionally, as a business owner don’t forget that many of your costs may be tax deductible. To start an affiliate marketing program in house, costs will include:
Affiliate management software
Affiliate marketing support including a website that answers affiliate questions and a means for them to contact you if any issues arise.
Affiliate marketing materials including banner ads, copy, coupons, and promotional content.
An affiliate marketing contract agreement
Tracking software to track cookies, click throughs, payments, etc…
If you choose to hire an affiliate network to handle your program they generally charge a flat fee or a percentage of what you pay out each month.
3. How much time will it take out of my workday/workweek?
Most experts agree that it will take you about an hour and a half each day to manage your affiliate program. They also recommend you to budget more time in the first few months of your program, approximately two to three hours a day. Even the most efficient affiliate managers spend about 45 minutes a day managing their affiliate program.
Professional affiliate managers generally spend an average of 40-80 hours a month dedicated to managing, tracking and promoting your affiliate program.
4. Should I use an affiliate network?
Do you have an extra 3 hours a day for the next two or three months? Do you have an hour a day to devote to managing your program after the initial three month program is complete? An affiliate network, while it may be a bit more expensive on the outset, can help you focus your time on other profit generating tasks. Additionally, an affiliate network can help expose your affiliate program to a wide variety of experience affiliates, which means more money in your bottom line and more exposure overall.
That being said, there are a tremendous number of effective in-house solutions including some you’re likely already familiar with like 1shoppingcart.com and affiliatepro.com. These programs will help you stay 100% in control of your affiliate program and are effective at managing your program.
5. How should I pay affiliates? What type of commission works best?
This is a very important decision because it not only affects your profits, the right commission rate will help you recruit top-notch affiliates. The general rule of thumb is to set your default commission rate at a rate you can afford to pay while leaving room for time limited commission increase offers, promotions, and private offers. For example, if you can afford to pay 50% of your gross profit margin, pay 25% instead and tier it so that after a sales goal is reached they earn 30% or you can bump it up to 50% during the holidays or during typically low sales times.
6. How do I recruit affiliates?
Your customers may be your best affiliates. After all, they already appreciate and enjoy your products or services. A simple link on your website is a good place to start. Here are a few ways to find quality affiliates:
Online forums. These are excellent places to meet and greet and connect with like minded individuals. They’re also a good resource for affiliates who are interested in, motivated, and qualified to sell your products and services. Using a forum, you can announce your affiliate program. Be careful to not ‘sell’ on the forum as most forums look down on this and may kick you off. Additionally, you can include a link to your affiliate site in your signature.
Find websites that link to your competitors and approach them about being an affiliate for you. Likewise, you can find affiliates using your favorite search engine and contact them about joining your program.
One last way is to join an affiliate network or become listed on an affiliate directory. This will ensure that affiliate marketers who are searching for new products and services to promote. However, keep in mind that many beginner marketers also seek products and services to promote via affiliate directories and they may lose interest and motivation before they ever make a sale. This isn’t a strong deterrent because they don’t get paid unless they make a sale, however it should be noted.
7. What is the best way to communicate with my affiliates?
Email is the general tool of choice, which makes an auto responder a fantastic tool for basic emails like the welcome email, introducing promotions, coupons, sending links and banner ads, and answering Frequently Asked Questions. It is also generally advisable to have an email address, fax number, and telephone number available for when affiliates have questions that are not answered by your frequently asked questions web page or when they simply want to speak with you.
8. How do I motivate affiliates?
Money motivates no doubt about it. That being said, affiliates are also motivated by feeling that they’re important to you. This means when they ask for your time, you give it. Additionally, promotions, bonuses, prizes, contests, and commission increases are all tools to motivate and inspire affiliates. Constant communication, like sending a weekly or monthly Ezine, will also help remind your affiliates that you’re out there and invested in their success.
9. Do I need to hire an affiliate manager?
The answer to this question really depends on your needs. How large is your company? Do you have the time to manage your program? Do you have the skills to manage your program? An affiliate manager is the person that:
Recruits affiliates
Communicates with affiliates
Develops, tracks, and reports on promotions
Develops programs to enhance affiliate program
Motivates affiliates
Tracks sales and pays affiliates
Monitors your competition
These are all extremely important functions and if you have the time to handle them yourself, excellent! If you do not, then consider hiring an affiliate manager.
10. How do I find/hire an affiliate manager?
Outsourcing an affiliate manager is fairly easy to do. There are hundreds available with a quick online search. You can ask associates, inquire at online forums, or post an advertisement seeking someone to fill the position. Depending on the complexity of your affiliate program, you could consider a well qualified virtual assistant for the job. The skills your affiliate manager will need are:
Organizational skills
Communication skills
Attention to detail
Knowledge of online business, internet marketing, and basic ecommerce operations
Basic html and graphic experience are a plus
Because they’re going to be representing you, you’ll want to make sure they’re personable.
Author: Jeremy Gislason
Cash and Pay-per-click Affiliate Programs
Millions are paying to get a ride on the Information Super Highway everyday.
Millions are paying to get a ride on the Information Super Highway everyday. Now, it is widely known that the Internet is an accessible resource of many income-generating activities. Whether you belong to a private sales company or you are just interested in internet marketing, PPC affiliate programs can be a powerful venue to make money from the Internet. A partnership with an affiliate merchant is a win-win situation for the merchant and the affiliate: sales are soaring because of exposure and traffic while the affiliate is earning good cash.
To make things much simpler: the affiliate merchant provides a strip of advertisement and pays you when someone clicks on the ad’s link. You can get a commission of $0.10 to $0.30 for every click, but it sometimes it can go higher depending on your merchant affiliate. Sometimes, merchants require a quota ($1.4 for every 1000 clicks). Plus, you can get discounts from your merchant affiliates if you happen to like their products too. You can just kick back and relax while your website is generating cash. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
What is PCC Affiliate Program?
PPC means pay-per-click, wherein you get in partnership with an affiliate company that literally pays you for every click. There are actually two types of PCC affiliate programs – those who pay a commission based on the number of clicks and the other based on the sales. The pay-per-click scheme is much more popular than pay-per-lead because the affiliate gets paid by just clicking the ad, regardless of whether the visitor buys from the affiliate merchant or not. Plus the chances of a visitor purchasing something from the affiliate merchant are not really that high.
In choosing an affiliate program, read the fine print carefully – some pay-per-click programs get the ratio of the number of people who went to your site and the actual people who clicked on the ad. If you have a heavily targeted website, this can hurt your earnings.
How do I start?
Of course, you need to have a website. Depending on your target audience, choose the best affiliate merchant that is most related to your topic. For example, your website is about Carpentry then you can search for affiliate programs that sell tools used in carpentry.
However, if you don’t have a website, that’s not a problem. You can put up a content site about absolutely anything under the sun like ‘Taking Care of Dogs’ or ‘Decorating your own Home.’ But wait, its not over yet. We are faced by a dilemma – on how to increase traffic! You first need to get internet surfers to see your website, then the ad.
How do I increase my traffic?
First, design your website in such a way that it will attract internet users. A user-friendly site is always recommended so that the customers will know which one to click. Take into consideration the look and feel of the advertisement. If it doesn’t look professional, most likely, users will just ignore it. Place the ad on a strategic location – one where users can see it clearly. Visibility of the ad is always important.
Another way is to post a link to your website in forums, web communities, ezine articles or bulletin boards. However, this method requires a lot of effort – that defeats your purpose of getting easy money in the first place! The key is to do something once and forget about it. It’s like putting your business on autopilot. To maintain you pay-per-click business, be sure to track down site activity, so you are updated on how much money you are making.
Can I make more money?
If you think you can go to the next level, you can try a two-tier affiliate program. This gives you the power to recruit affiliates. Other than the money you get from your website’s clicks, you will also get a percentage of what your affiliate generates. Some companies give 30% to a soaring 50% commission on all referral sales.
Remember, you should be able to manage and monitor your affiliate program. If you can recruit more affiliates, then you can get paid more without even moving a finger! Choose affiliates that can most likely attract more internet users and bring more traffic. You just have to know the right people.
Millions are paying to get a ride on the Information Super Highway everyday. Now, it is widely known that the Internet is an accessible resource of many income-generating activities. Whether you belong to a private sales company or you are just interested in internet marketing, PPC affiliate programs can be a powerful venue to make money from the Internet. A partnership with an affiliate merchant is a win-win situation for the merchant and the affiliate: sales are soaring because of exposure and traffic while the affiliate is earning good cash.
To make things much simpler: the affiliate merchant provides a strip of advertisement and pays you when someone clicks on the ad’s link. You can get a commission of $0.10 to $0.30 for every click, but it sometimes it can go higher depending on your merchant affiliate. Sometimes, merchants require a quota ($1.4 for every 1000 clicks). Plus, you can get discounts from your merchant affiliates if you happen to like their products too. You can just kick back and relax while your website is generating cash. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
What is PCC Affiliate Program?
PPC means pay-per-click, wherein you get in partnership with an affiliate company that literally pays you for every click. There are actually two types of PCC affiliate programs – those who pay a commission based on the number of clicks and the other based on the sales. The pay-per-click scheme is much more popular than pay-per-lead because the affiliate gets paid by just clicking the ad, regardless of whether the visitor buys from the affiliate merchant or not. Plus the chances of a visitor purchasing something from the affiliate merchant are not really that high.
In choosing an affiliate program, read the fine print carefully – some pay-per-click programs get the ratio of the number of people who went to your site and the actual people who clicked on the ad. If you have a heavily targeted website, this can hurt your earnings.
How do I start?
Of course, you need to have a website. Depending on your target audience, choose the best affiliate merchant that is most related to your topic. For example, your website is about Carpentry then you can search for affiliate programs that sell tools used in carpentry.
However, if you don’t have a website, that’s not a problem. You can put up a content site about absolutely anything under the sun like ‘Taking Care of Dogs’ or ‘Decorating your own Home.’ But wait, its not over yet. We are faced by a dilemma – on how to increase traffic! You first need to get internet surfers to see your website, then the ad.
How do I increase my traffic?
First, design your website in such a way that it will attract internet users. A user-friendly site is always recommended so that the customers will know which one to click. Take into consideration the look and feel of the advertisement. If it doesn’t look professional, most likely, users will just ignore it. Place the ad on a strategic location – one where users can see it clearly. Visibility of the ad is always important.
Another way is to post a link to your website in forums, web communities, ezine articles or bulletin boards. However, this method requires a lot of effort – that defeats your purpose of getting easy money in the first place! The key is to do something once and forget about it. It’s like putting your business on autopilot. To maintain you pay-per-click business, be sure to track down site activity, so you are updated on how much money you are making.
Can I make more money?
If you think you can go to the next level, you can try a two-tier affiliate program. This gives you the power to recruit affiliates. Other than the money you get from your website’s clicks, you will also get a percentage of what your affiliate generates. Some companies give 30% to a soaring 50% commission on all referral sales.
Remember, you should be able to manage and monitor your affiliate program. If you can recruit more affiliates, then you can get paid more without even moving a finger! Choose affiliates that can most likely attract more internet users and bring more traffic. You just have to know the right people.
Five Success Factors In Affiliate Programs
Not every affiliate program is good to join with. There are some factors that determine whether the affiliate program is good or not.
Not every affiliate program is good to join with. There are some factors that determine whether the affiliate program is good or not.
First factor is demand. Find a profitable market before you take any affiliate program. With a bigger market size, it will be easier to promote your affiliate products. Go to freekeywords.wordtracker.com and try to find a product that has a lot of searchers in the net.
Second is a commission incentive. Don't take any affiliate program that pay you 5% to 20% for digital products. You will earn more if you promote an affiliate program that gives 50% or more commission for each product sold. There are a lot of affiliate program who give more than 50% for commission.
Third is sales letter. All you need to do to promote an affiliate product is by referring people to the publisher's site. Then you just hope that the customer get convinced by the sales letter and then buy the product. So you need to choose an affiliate product that has a good sales letter. One of the best ways to tell if a sales letter is good or not is to read it by yourself and see how do you feel. If you don't feel persuaded to buy, then it is likely that many others will not, either. Your referral efforts can be waste if the sales letter doesn't convert well.
Fourth, the promotion material. The purpose to become an affiliate is to do less work and make more money. An affiliate program is already saved you some time and effort, but you would also want to do less work where ad-writing is concerned. Some affiliate program provides necessary promotion materials such as solo ads, ppc ads, sales letter, and even follow-up email.
Fifth, quality. This one is self explanatory. You may promote the product better if you really know that the quality of the products is good and you have tested it by yourself.
Another tip is cloaking your affiliate ID so nobody can steal your commission. You can go to TinyUrl.com to convert a long URL with your affiliate ID to a short one and you can hide that your link is an affiliate link.
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