The Affiliate Master

Accurate PNG Image assist is in!

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:32:00 +0000

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Make the Most money with Niche Markets

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:52:00 +0000

Affiliate marketing and working with niche markets is the way to go today if you are young and eager to make a lot of money. I’m not saying that affiliate marketers never have to work a single day in their lives and just rake in the cash while sitting out by the pool, but there are tremendous perks to this job. Do you hate going to work every day? Commuting, whether by car or mass transit, is an absolute bore. The hours you spend every week commuting are lost hours that you will never get back before you die. So why not choose something better?

The best thing about affiliate marketing is the freedom to work in a relaxing environment. The “office” could be your home desk, the kitchen table or, why not?, a table by the pool. Every day is “casual Friday” and all your tools are concentrated in the computer. No paperwork to shift around from one desk to another. And the earnings are on par with the setting. The more effort you’re willing to put in building a maintaining a nice website, the more money will come in every day. If this isn’t a good deal, then I don’t know what a good deal could be.

Some people think that affiliate marketing is too much work and that splashing some AdSense ads on a page is far easier. It might be so, but how much money can you get out of AdSense? Two or three dollars a day? Come on, that’s not money but loose change. Affiliate marketing may be a bit harder than AdSense, but this is where people actually spend money. If you play with the big boys, you could make as much as $175 out of every sale. That’s the equivalent of 58.3 days of AdSense at $3 per day you can make in one day.

What many people don’t realize is that the global economy is going through a huge spending period. Across the world people are willing to pay good money for all kinds of products and the Internet has made it easier than ever to spend money. Ecommerce has made it possible for people to buy things they had never had access to before. Orders pour in and products and services move across countries because people can search the Internet for answers to their problems and are willing to pay for solutions, regardless or where they come from.

It’s like a river of money moving across the planet and you can become one of those who help connect the buyers with vendors and cash in commission while never leaving their armchairs. The gap between offer and demand is huge nowadays because there are far more people with money out there than there are people who sell things. The key is to find products that are underrepresented, highly demanded and pay high. Until now affiliate information packages do not address this. Many of the marketing programs out there are about re-selling the program you have just purchased.

But things are about to change for you because help is on the way. MakingYouRicher is a comprehensive guide on niche marketing that teaches you how to make thousands a month by learning where to find the highest paying products that are searched for by millions. Visit www.makingyouricher.com/index.html and see for yourself all the opportunities that are only waiting for a quick witted marketer to take advantage of them and get rich fast.

What Uses are Affiliate program Directories?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:40:00 +0000

If you have decided to enter into the world of affiliate marketing, chances are you already have a good idea of what you want to sell. You probably already know what you want your site to look like and you even have an outline in your mind of what your content will sound like once your site is open and ready to go. But before you do any of that, you have to join an affiliate program. How do you find these programs? It’s easy. You use affiliate program directories.

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

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

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

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

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

What’s good about GreenGeeks?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Without wasting more time, let’s check out some of the pros and cons of GreenGeeks hosting.

Green Hosting with lots of great features

Just like most shared hosting providers, Green Geeks provide all the features you need to host a small-to-medium website.

Unlimited bandwidth and disk storage, one-click web apps installation supported with Fantastico, and a huge list of supported e-commerce features. Things seems pretty standard here with Green Geeks – which is a good thing as this means you can get whatever you got from other web host, in CLEAN energy.

300% Green Powered Hosting

At Green Geeks, all customer’s websites are 300% green. I repeat, not 100, or 200, it’s 300%!

How is this possible? Well, the company replaces, with wind power, 3 times the amount of energy consumed by their web servers. I was skeptical about all these ‘green achievements’ in the beginning but after checking on a recent certification (see below), I determined that the company just purchased over 2.3 million MW of clean, renewable energy in March 2009.

Reliable web hosting with daily backup policy
Another thing I like about GreenGeeks is the ‘safety’ I get when hosting with them. According to the officials, GreenGeeks servers are built on Intel Dual Quad Core servers with RAID-10 array technology; plus, GreenGeeks servers are backup daily.
This gives me peace of mind and I have no worries about the ‘what-if’ issues.

GreenGeeks Plan	Price
12 months plan	~~$7.95/mo~~ $5.95/mo
24 months plan	~~$6.95/mo~~ $4.95/mo
36 months plan	~~$4.95/mo~~ $2.95/mo

Software/Plugin	Details
Perl 5	Yes
PHP 5	Yes
Python	Yes
PHP Nuke	Yes
Mailing List	Yes
mySQL Databases	Unlimited
Ruby/Ruby on Rails	Yes
Java script/DHTML	Yes
Simple Script	No
Fantastico	Yes
Message Forum	Yes
Image Galleries	Yes
Coppermine	Yes

Payment Method	Details
Credit Card	Yes
PayPal	Yes

Policy	Details
Full Refund	30 days

Hosting Features	Specs
Disk Space	Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth	Unlimited
Addon Domain	Unlimited
Free Domain Name	Yes
Free Site Builder	Yes
CGI-BIN	Yes
SSI	Yes
FTP Accounts	Unlimited

Email Features	Details
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Forwarders	Unlimited
Auto Responders	Unlimited
Spam Assassin	Yes
Web-Based Email	Yes

eCommerce Features	Details
osCommerce	Yes
Agora Shopping Cart	Yes
Zencart Shopping	Yes
Shared SSL	Yes
SSH Access	Yes
PGP/GPG Encryption	Yes

What’s good with iPage hosting?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:27:00 +0000

iPage Hosting	Price
12 months plan	$4.50/mo
24 months plan	$4.25/mo

Hosting Features	Specs
Disk Space	Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth	Unlimited
Addon Domain	Unlimited
Free Domain Name	Yes
Free Site Builder	Yes
CGI-BIN	Yes
SSI	Yes
Frontpage Extensions	Yes
FTP Access	Yes

Email Features	Details
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Forwarders	Yes
Auto Responders	Yes
Web-Based Email	Yes

eCommerce Features	Details
osCommerce	Yes
ShopSite	Yes
PayPal Integration	Yes
Agora	Yes
Shared SSL	Yes

Software/Plugin	Details
Perl 5	Yes
PHP 4 & 5	Yes
mySQL Databases	Unlimited
Ruby/Ruby on Rails	Yes
Java script/DHTML	Yes
Python	Yes
WordPress	Yes
GBook	Yes
Message Forum	Yes
Gallery2	Yes

Special Offer	Details
Marketing Guides	Yes
Google Ad Credits	$50
Yahoo! Ad Credits	$25
SubmitNet	$79.95
RatePoint	$19.95

Payment Method	Details
Credit Card	Yes
PayPal	Yes

Anytime Money-Back Guarantee

The best thing about iPage is their ‘Anytime Money-Back Guarantee’ where customers can ask for a pro-rated refund anytime during the subscription period. If you are familiar with hosting industry, you should be aware that most hosting companies only allow 30 – 45 days trial period. But with iPage, things are different. You’ll get a full (for the first 30 days) or pro-rated refund when you cancel your iPage account.

In other words, you have no risk at all when subscribe to iPage! Anytime when you find something you dislike with their service, you can simply cancel off your hosting account and ask for a refund. Sounds good? You bet!

iPage – Hosting since year 1998

Without doubt, iPage is extremely new compare to other hosting companies. However, do not let their “newness” put you off! The hosting company is lead by a group of industry veteran and I would expect nothing less than ‘excellent’ from these people. I know this might sound a little biased but you have to understand that one of the top men behind iPage Hosting is Paul Bukhovko. I’d known Paul for some time and I’m absolutely confident with his ability to develop a great hosting company.

(FYI, Paul is also the keyman behind FatCow’s success.)

Exclusive offer from Google, Carbonite, VeriSign and RatePoint

Another good thing about iPage hostingis that the company forms partnerships with multiple industry leaders including big names like Google and Carbonite. iPage users get numerous exclusive deals from and to highlight a few, these deals include a 2GB Carbonite backup solution for free (great value!), a 60 days free trial on RatePoint Newsletter Manager, plus an hosting-integrated version of Google webmaster tools.

Quality customer supports

Live chat support is nothing but excellent (according to my last check on March 2010) – I asked some technical questions about Carbonite and the company’s refund policy, all questions were answered professionally. I never test on their phone support quality thus can’t comment anything on it.

However, according to iPage’s official, their phone supports are run by an award winning team based in North America (I guess that sounds reliable too, eh?).

Cheap unlimited hosting

On top of all the advantages that I mentioned earlier, there’s another huge plus point for iPage – they are dead cheap! iPage offers unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited addon domain, free domain for life (which is good but not very big deal); but then all these come with a price tag of $4.50/mo regardless of your subscription period!

What’s good with Hostgator hosting?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:16:00 +0000

BabyGator	Price
12 months plan	$7.46/mo*
24 months plan	$6.71/mo*
36 months plan	$5.96/mo*
Promo Code	WHSR25Discount

Hosting Features	Specs
Disk Space	Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth	Unlimited
Free Domain Name	No
Free Site Builder	Yes
CGI-BIN	Yes
SSI	Yes
Frontpage Extensions	Yes
FTP Access	Yes

Email Features	Details
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Forwarders	Yes
Auto Responders	Yes
Web-Based Email	Yes

eCommerce Features	Details
Agora Shopping Cart	Yes
osCommerce	Yes
Zen Cart	Yes
Cube Cart	Yes
Private SSL	Yes

Software/Plugin	Details
Perl 5	Yes
PHP 5	Yes
mySQL Databases	Unlimited
Ruby/Ruby on Rails	Yes
Java script/DHTML	Yes
Fantastico	Yes
Message Forum (PHPBB & more)	Yes
Guest Books	Yes
Image Galleries	Yes

Payment Method	Details
Credit Card	Yes
PayPal	Yes

Policy	Details
Full Refund	45 days

I’ve been hosting websites at Hostgator long before I started this blog and I still run a couple of websites with them at current time. With its quality service, the hosting company is growing fast and was named top in Texas for the recent Inc 5000 Awards.

Indeed they are one of the best hosting companies you can ever get and they are in my ‘A list’ and here are the keypoints of Hostgator’s success.

*Updates: Hostgator is now my top choice of hosting. Hostgator hosting service is reliable, priced reasonable, environmental friendly, and best of all, their customer supports rocks!

Reliable server with guarnateed 99.9% uptime

Through out the years Hostgator has never fail me as a reliable hosting service. I barely notice any downtime for my websites – while this was quite a surprise until I recently found out that Hostgator is running its own data center (huge plus point).

Also, it’s worth noting that every web hosting plan with Hostgator comes with a 45 day money back guarantee and 99.9% uptime guarantee. The deal is fully guaranteed by the company founder and CEO (Brent) himself – which is another huge plus point (responsible management team).

Host unlimited domain

Hostgator is now offering ~~600GB of disk storage and 6,000GB bandwidth~~ unlimited bandwidth and disk storage!. On top of that, you will get unlimited domain hosting with Hostgator. In short, this actually means that you can host ALL YOUR WEBSITES in just one single web hosting account with Hostgator.

Unlimited MySQL and POP3 email account

While most other hosting companies will only allow you to have a certain number of MySQL database, you get unlimited (I repeat, unlimited!) MySQL database with Hostgator. That’s quite an advantage if you’re planning to build a huge web application.

Room to grow

Hostgator offers shared, dedicated, reseller hosting. Along with the recently launched VPS hosting plans, Hostgator offer great rooms for website growth. This makes server switching and upgrading possible within Hostgator – which in other words, huge money and time savings for you as the website owner.

Environment Friendly

Lately Hostgator had turned green by powering and cooling their server using wind power.

What is the best way to select an affiliate program?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:57:00 +0000

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

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

• You got to believe! One of the golden rules of affiliate marketing is that if you don’t believe in the product, how do you expect the people you’re steering to it to believe in it? You can’t. You should only choose a product that you like, a product you have tried and found to be of good quality and maybe even a product you actually use! Remember, you have two choices when you set up your affiliate website, you can just toss a bunch of links on a page and hope people click on them, or you can create a cool page full of great and interesting to read content on the product you’re linking to. If you’re trying to write content about a product you think stinks or isn’t a good buy, it’ll show. The more passionate you are about that product, the better your chances are of making money.

• Knowledge is the key! This one is a bit tougher, but it’s becoming easier by the day. There are, simply, thousands of affiliate marketing opportunities out there for you. And even better, almost all of them are free, so you have a pretty good selection to choose from. The second golden rule of affiliate marketing is to choose a product that you know a lot about, or, at the very least, a product that you can talk a lot about. Need an example? Say you’re in an affiliate marketing program with Amazon.com. It would probably help your site if you’re an avid reader (if you link to the book section) or if you can do album reviews (if you link to the music section.) This is good advice even if you aren’t linking to an online superstore. If you are linking to a candy company, provide some content about how candy is made or who invented it. If you’re linking to a company that makes skateboards, talk about Tony Hawk or the X Games. Getting people to read your content and convincing them to click on that link and to buy that product is the whole point of affiliate marketing. You’ll be much, much more effective if you are knowledgeable about what you’re trying to sell!

Affiliate marketing is a gold mine waiting to be picked. The amount of money you can make is staggering, but you can make a lot more if you follow the golden rules. By being passionate about what you sell and being knowledgeable about the field, you’ll convince many more folks to click away and buy.

What is Residual Affiliate Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:42:00 +0000

When most people start exploring the world of affiliate marketing, they think that they might run a site that will link to sites like Amazon or eBay where people will need to buy a book or a CD or start or win an auction for them to get paid.

But there is another kind of affiliate marketing that can earn you money without lifting a finger. Don’t believe me? It’s true!

If you link to a site that requires a customer to buy a membership in something, say a gym membership or maybe an adult site that requires a monthly fee, you don’t just get paid once when that person signs up.

Every time that customer pays their monthly membership fee, you get paid. Honest! It’s called residual affiliate marketing and it can be an amazing way to make money from home on your website.

Everyone dreams of sitting at home and making money without doing anything. Well, this is a legitimate way to do just that. Different kinds of membership sites tend to keep customers for different amounts of time. If someone remains a member of a site or a program that you linked them to, you could get residual commissions for years to come. If they cancel after one month, then you would only get one commission. This is why it’s extremely important to link to quality websites. You’re maximizing your effort. A good rule of thumb to follow is if you wouldn’t use that site, don’t expect the people you’re linking it to use it either.

How can you maximize this profit stream? The best way to do it is to choose who you link to carefully. Try to go with sites that offer high quality products that get used up. Things like vitamins are a great choice. They tend to be expensive and people develop good brand awareness with things like medicine and vitamins so if a customer is happy buying them from a site you linked them to, they will become regular customers. A happy customer for the company you link to ends up being a constant revenue stream for you!

Residual marketing can be an absolute gold mine for some web users. It doesn’t happen automatically though, you’ll need to make sure you link to quality products and services if you expect people to use them again and again. Make your choices wisely and you’ll be shocked at how much money you can make!

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What is Affiliate Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:37:00 +0000

Affiliate marketing has quickly become one of the most popular and the most effective ways to advertise on the Internet. The premise of affiliate marketing is very simple.

A company, let’s say eBay, goes to another web site and asks them to place a banner or link to eBay on their site. Every time a user clicks on that eBay banner and visits the site, the owner of the original site gets a commission. It’s as simple as that.

The history of affiliate marketing goes back to approximately 1994 with the trailblazing music website www.CDNow.com. They were, as far as most people know, the first site to pay other sites for directing Internet traffic to them. Internet giant Amazon.com soon caught on and became the site most associated with affiliate marketing. Today, the practice of affiliate marketing is used by essentially every major web site in the world.

Why affiliate marketing? One of the reasons that affiliate marketing has proven to be so popular is that it is completely based on performance. In most cases, the company doing the advertising doesn’t pay a single penny to the site that is carrying their ad unless there is evidence that Internet traffic has been driven to the advertising site. There are, however, other ways of doing affiliate marketing.

Some advertising sites have paid the site hosting their link based not on the number of times an original IP visits through the link, but on the number of times the banner ad was “seen.” This method presents a whole host of problems since things like hit counts can be forged and there is no way to insure that just because someone visited a web page that had your logo on it that they even saw it or if they did, that they even knew what it was.

Other methods of affiliate marketing include paying only when a link is followed AND some kind of transaction takes place. This can be tough on the site hosting the link because the attention span of the average Internet user isn’t long enough in most cases to follow a link and then either complete a purchase, or fill out a form of some kind. The conventional method simply pays a host a commission for every time an original IP is directed to their site.

In a matter of only a few years, affiliate marketing has become one of the most cost effective ways to drive traffic to a site. Since, in most cases, both the advertiser and the host profit from the set up, there is no reason to believe that affiliate marketing won’t be a dominant advertising method well into the future.

What are Two-tier Affiliate Sites?

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:41:00 +0000

Most experienced web users are familiar with affiliate marketing and how it works. You provide a link on your website and when someone follows it and buys a product, you get a piece of the profit. It’s easy. But there is a new way to make some serious bucks when it comes to affiliate marketing.

It’s called two-tier affiliate marketing. Don’t let the complicated name fool you. It’s just as easy to make money from two-tiered marketing as it is from the traditional style.

The way two-tier affiliate marketing works is that not only do you make a buck or two when someone follows a link from your site and then buys a product or service, but you also make a buck whenever someone follows the link from your site and then signs up to become an affiliate marketer just like you! It’s like getting double the profits for no extra work!

And the best part? It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Every time that new affiliate marketer makes a sale of a product or service, you continue to make a few extra bucks. Not only that, but when they get someone to sign up for affiliate marketing, you get a piece of their profits too! It may sound too good to be true, but it isn’t. If you can get a whole host of people to sign up for affiliate marketing through you, you continue to make money off of their sales as long as they are in the program.

And don’t worry about any legality problems. You’re selling legitimate products and services so anyone that suggests that what you’re doing is multi-level marketing is dead wrong. The set up may be somewhat similar, but it is completely legitimate and you are rewarded on how good of a job you do signing people up, exactly like a real job. You only make what you earn!

And the best part of it all is there is no limit on how much money you can make. If you are a wiz at getting people to sign up for affiliate marketing through your site, the amount of commission you could be chalking up is staggering. Two-tier affiliate sites might just be the best and easiest way for you to run a business from home that is profitable and has almost no hassle. So, what are you waiting for? Join up today and start collecting commission now!

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5 Tips to improve the search engine ranking position

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:12:00 +0000

Do you have an online business that is running on the internet currently? If the answer is yes, there are a few basic tips that you should take into consideration. Putting your online business on the web is very easy but getting a deal closed can be really difficult. Most of the online businesses are end up closing down when they are not able to successfully sell and market their product, their website may be professionally designed but you must understand that traffic is the key.

Tip #1- Provide High Quality Content

High quality content is extremely important for a website , the more quality content you publish and the stronger the trust you will build with the visitors. Try to optimize only one keyword in a page and try to target low competition keyword in the initial stage, once your site has regular traffic then only you can consider targeting a more competitive keyword. I understand that keyword research is a repetitive task and is sometimes boring while doing it, but you have to carry on because keyword is the foundation of your website as well as for your online business.

Tip #2- Incoming link is the key to success

The old day link exchange campaign is no longer effective in improving your search engine ranking position (SERP). The search engine evaluate your site by the vote other website gave you, in other word they are looking at how many incoming links are pointing to your site. The more incoming links you received, the higher the search ranking will be.

Tip #3- Submit Your Site to Site Directories

This is another great way to build backlinks, although site directory is not as popular as the search engine but a one way link back from this directory will definitely help in improving the search engine ranking. There are many directories that require you to pay by placing link in the directory, but there are also ton of site directories that allow you to place a link without charging you a penny.

Tip #4- Add a Site Map

Sitemap can help your visitors easily find the contents from the site. Other than this, a sitemap also help the search engine to find the page from your site so that it can be included in the search result in the soonest. A site map helps everybody to search and browse your website easily, get one today.

Tip #5- Be Patient and Find Other Means of Traffic

Search engine usually require a longer time to rank your site if you site is still new. You should be patient and it will sometimes take up to weeks for your site to get noticed. While waiting for the search engine to crawl your site, it doesn’t means that you have no other thing to do. You can join PPC campaign, post in forums, buying ads from authority sites, submit article to article directory and so on. All these alternatives can help you to improve your search ranking and get your site noticed by the crowd.

Building links require a great patience, it is impossible to get your site blast around the web overnight. Keep these tips and mind and implement it consistently, you should see a big pay off in the coming future.

Article Marketing Traffic Generation Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:08:00 +0000

One of the best ways to get your niche audience to your site is to target them in article marketing. Article marketing is a revolutionary way to use your words to generate traffic. Essentially you (or hired content writers) can write about a topic directed at your site and include a bio and a link to your website. Article marketers will submit articles to article directories.

When someone uses Google, Yahoo or any other search engine, often these articles will pop up and they will click on them.

What this means is that only those interested in the material in the articles are reading the content. They will also be more interested to click through to the link (your page) and continue to read, as long as you write and target your articles properly. Article marketing, when properly exercised can multiple your traffic in a matter of days!

Write something actually worth reading- perhaps you have not browsed through the net recently, but, unfortunately there is a lot of hogwash out there. Many people attempt to use article marketing and simply write about anything and everything. Not a good idea.

Write something entertaining, write something informative and write something worth reading.

Use keywords- keywords are searched words- words that will get your article noticed on search engines. Make your keywords specific and use them about 2-5% in each article. Any more than this and your article could begin to sound like an advertisement, or you could be, gasp, black listed.

Beware of black listing- article marketing directories are well aware of the power of keywording and that is why they have technology to ensure that marketers are not simply sending them… well... crap. If you use too many keywords then you could be banned from the article directory and your articles not accepted. This is a complete and total waste of time so follow the rules of the directory and don’t try any sneaky stuff!

Don’t advertise, inform- the main point of your article is to direct your prospects to your website; however, you want to do this by proving that you actually know what you are talking about and have something informative to say. No one wants to be caught in an article-advertising trap. We get enough advertisements on radio and television, thank you very much.

Don’t re-write- it’s tempting to simply type in your keyword and rewrite similar articles. Don’t do this. First of all, it’s illegal. Second of all, you are not providing your prospects with anything new, and thus, your website will not be much help to them.

Prove you are an expert- you need to prove this with your words and with your bio line. After the article, you will most likely have a chance to explain ‘about the author.’ Demonstrate your knowledge by providing background information.

Beware of jargon- if you are writing an article about a new medical breakthrough, then it may make sense to use medical terms and diction that any regular Joe would consider to be written in Greek.

Not a good idea; although you want to attract a certain group of people, regular Joes will be reading your material too. Sure, you want to sound smart, but you also want to be understood.

Be different- Write something that has never been said before; take a different approach to an old idea; make people read to the end.

This is what generates traffic.

Look to help- most of us can write; however, not many can write well. And, in the article marketing business, you need to ensure that your articles are written well. If they are not, then you can kiss your success with article marketing goodbye. There are so many

SEO, web content writing and web marketing companies out there that have the credentials and the experience to make all the difference in the web world.

Use a sociable voice- make friend with your audience reading the articles by speaking like them. Colloquial language is okay in certain situations; as long as you are not offending anyone.

Don’t save the link for last- the link is your clincher- it’s what makes your prospect actually click on your website. It is the traffic generator. So, link placement is vital. Read the rules of the article directory to determine the number of links allowed and then, if allowed, place the link throughout the article, not just at the end. Many people will not actually make it to the end of the article, especially if the content is less-than-thrilling. So catch them before they can click away.

Use real-life situations- Make your writing relatable. Think like your audience when writing the articles and you will have a better chance convincing them to continue to click through to your website.

Make them laugh- reading something that is humorous on the web is a welcoming change. If you can add humor to your articles, go for it! This is one of the best ways to gain respect from your readers and convince your prospect to click to your site.

Choose point of view carefully- If you want to relate to your audience, it’s best to use first person point of view. If you are offering advice, second person point of view is often a wise choice.

Third person point of view can seem a little too impersonal and academic; however, it certain articles, this actually works well.

Choose your title wisely- it’s all in the title. You need to make sure your title uses the keywords you have chosen and is specific enough to be noticed by search engines. For example: “Carpet Cleaners” is not a good title even if your website is all about carpet cleaners.

Instead try “The Top Five Reasons to Use Carpet Cleaners” which gives your article an angle and an informative spin.

Make friends with bold subheading- many people will simply skim through an article looking for the most important parts. So give them what they want by bolding the important parts and using bolded subheadings to split up the article.

Uncover the power of lists and bullets- numbered lists and bulletlists are an immediate eye-catching device. As mentioned above, most people will simply scan the article for useful information. This usually comes in the form of bulleted and numbered lists. They can attract viewers and also make your content easier to read and therefore more interesting.

Add a picture, if you can- if you are able to add a picture to your article then do so. However, in many instances this is not actually allowed. Make sure the picture relates back to the article information. For example, if you are discussing the best massages for your massage therapy website, a picture of a woman getting a foot massage is a great visual addition.

Mix up your paragraph sizes- short and long paragraphs grab reader’s attention. No one wants to look down an article and see 5 perfectly shaped paragraphs- talk about boring! This isn’t English grammar class after all. You don’t have to use the standard 5- paragraph format anymore.

Shine through- let your voice and your personality shine through the pages. Speak like you are talking. Be funny, be creative and be witty. Let that voice out and paste it all over the pages of your content.

Stay away from swear words- don’t try to be cool. Don’t try to be pretentious. Don’t try to be bold. Swear words look just as stupid on the screen as they sound coming out of people’s mouths. They are offensive; they are crude; and they are not suitable for articles.

Social Media Traffic Generation Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:04:00 +0000

The Internet is a social place. Although everything is done in the virtual world, the place is swarming with social networks, social media sites and social opportunities to target your niche market and network with the right prospects.

So why not take advantage of the social nature of the net by using social media as a way to generate traffic and target your niche. Below we have listed some of the top tips in the subject of social media traffic.

Get Noticed: go in with a bang by launching your new site, or new content on social bookmarking sites. Many social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Reddit and Netscape are read on a daily basis and a perfect place to start your traffic generation debut.

Take advantage of free ads: Gum Tree is a great place to get your new website noticed. Gum Tree is a free advertisement space where you can make an ad for your website, for free! It doesn’t get any better than that!

Get Accounted: start creating as many social networking accounts as possible. Social networking is a great way to get your product or service noticed. Set up a MySpace Page, a Facebook Page, a Yahoo Page and much more. Ask your friends to add your page as “fans” and watch your traffic jam up.

Use StumbleUpon- Submit your site to Stumble Upon and then get your friends to stumble on it as well.

Create a Yahoo Group- join or create a Yahoo group in your area of interest. Most likely others in that group will be interested in knowing about your website and checking out what you have to offer.

Tweet with Twitter- Tweet, you have mail. Twitter is a new social media revolution that combines text messages with the Internet. It may seem a little confronting, but it’s a great way to advertise your website. Get a following and send them a tweet.

Contribute to Forums- one of the best ways to use social media in your favor is to make a brief contribution to Forums in your topic of interest. Include a link to your website after offering incredibly advice. However, make sure you use sparingly- don’t spam.

Search for relevant sites- there are literally social networking sites for everyone and everything. For baby boomers, for music lovers, for avid photographers, for video gamers, for George Lucas fans, for Twilight lovers, and for every single other fetish in the world. Take advantage of this by joining social networking sites that relate to your website. This is where your prospects will be.

Show you care- by participating in other social media outlets, you are showing to others that you are genuinely interested in the subject. The more comments you share, the more you will be respected and revered as an active member in your niche market community.

Add the “tell a friend” function- on your website, add the ‘tell a friend’ function. This is a simple little button that allows people to easily connect to your website and inform others about it. In the cyber world, word of click is just as important as word of mouth. So make the most of this with social media.

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Using Articles to Make Money

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:37:00 +0000

looking through the universe of online affiliate marketing, you’ll notice that most sites fall into two categories. There are sites that simply have a list of links to other sites that sell products. You’ll notice that these sties come up often in web searches on Google or Yahoo, but they don’t seem very useful since all they have is other links and no actual content of their own.

The other kind of affiliate site is the kind that you want. It is a site that has all the same links that the others do, but it also has content. Now, what does “content” mean, anyway? Content is simply an internet term that means articles or information on a web page. Why do affiliate sites that use content work better than those that don’t? It’s simple.

If you click on a site, say, a site about growing roses, which would you rather find? A list of links that you have no idea if they are any good or not or if they even link to a reputable company? Or an informative, well-written article about growing roses that has a link at the bottom for a company that, while you still don’t know if they are trustworthy or not, the person who wrote this content thinks so and they sure sound like they know what they are talking about. Which one do you think does better sales every month? Exactly, the site that uses articles.

This is the number one reason why you should be knowledgeable about the products you wish to sell. It will be a million times easier to write content that sounds like it was written by an expert if you know your way around your product. If a web surfer stumbles upon your site, finds your articles well-written, informative and fun and then sees a link to buy a product related to the article, your chances of making money off of that customer go up 100 times. The big secret to affiliate marketing isn’t a magic formula or miracle catchphrase. It’s well-written content.

There are even companies out there that will write content for you, for a small fee. It may seem like a silly thing to invest in on the surface, but once you see the hard numbers that show how much better affiliate sites do with content then without, you’ll be on board in no time flat.

Treat Your Affiliate Marketing Site Like a Business

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Maybe the single greatest part of affiliate marketing is that is can make you as much money as a real online business that sells a product or service without all the hassle that comes with inventory, shipping and returns. But that profit only comes with proper planning and care.

Let’s take a look at a few things you need to do to make sure that your affiliate marketing venture is worthwhile and done the right way.

• Do you research first. If you were considering starting a business in the real world, you wouldn’t just go rent out a piece of property, get the permits and open your business the next week. You would learn everything there is to know about the business you chose and you would try to make your business as successful as possible. While you may not need the same level of dedication with your affiliate marketing site, you should have a good idea of what you want you site to sell, what product you want to sell and where you are going to get your content from before you start. Are you a good enough content writer to have 15 different programs on your site, or do you only have strong feelings for two or three products and you want to stick to them? You need to give your affiliate marketing program a real chance to work so once you pick a style and theme, stick to it for a while to see if it makes you money or not.

• Learn the basics. You don’t have to be an expert web designer or web content writer to make money off of your affiliate marketing site, but it sure helps. Luckily, there are a slew of fantastic low-cost programs out there that can walk you through web site creation step by step so that even if you don’t know HTML from Java, you can have a great looking website. The same goes for web content. Your content needs to be informative, fun and interesting AND it needs to sell your product all at the same time. It sounds complicated but it really isn’t. You can head to your local library or bookstore to find books on how to write web content or you can simply read other affiliate marketing sites to get some pointers. If shoppers aren’t captivated by your site, they won’t use it. Plain and simple.

While it can be tempting to just throw up a quick, basic website with little to no content so you can start making money right away, the experienced affiliate marketer knows better. Take the time and do it right and you’ll see the results in your bank account.

The Biggest mistakes Affiliates Make

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:34:00 +0000

For those that are new to affiliate marketing, the whole thing can seem too good to be true. A real business from home that make you more than enough money to live on and you don’t even have to bother with products or shipping. Many new affiliate marketers simply jump into the business without properly researching it first and end up frustrated and angry that they aren’t making big time money within the first few days. Here is a quickie guide to common mistakes that affiliate marketers make and how you can avoid them.

• Patience is the key. For even the best affiliate marketers, it takes time to build a customer base. The people that are legitimately making $10,000 a month in affiliate marketing spent years getting to that level, not days or even months. For some that are new to the trade, it seems like that level of success is an overnight thing, but it isn’t. Once you pick an affiliate program, after researching it ahead of time, of course, you need to stick with it. You should change your content on a regular basis, update your site weekly, add in some holiday-themed pages and make sure you stay up to date on product information from your parent company, but the most important thing to do is to simply stay the course. If you jump ship after a month, the chances of your affiliate marketing site taking off are slim to none.

• The second big problem that many affiliate marketers fall prey to is subscribing to too many programs at once. By doing this, it makes it very hard to provide top-level page design and content relating to all of these programs at once. You should only subscribe to two or three programs at once. This will allow you to give these programs your laser-like focus so you can turn them into money makers sooner rather than later. Patience is, again, very important. It may seem like the best way to go is to load up your site with two dozen affiliate marketing sites but there is little chance that will make you any money. If your site is focused, you’ll be in much better shape.

The vast majority of mistakes that new affiliate marketers make are ones out of inexperience. They want to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible. What they don’t realize is slow and steady wins the race. Dedication, hard work and focus are the best friends of affiliate marketers.

Talking to your affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:31:00 +0000

If this is your first time running an affiliate program website, it can be a bit confusing. Is your site designed the right way to attract the right customers? Is my web content good enough? Am I using search engine keywords the right way? It can be a lot to handle if you’re new to affiliate marketing.

One thing that you can do to help yourself master each and every affiliate program is to simply talk to the company that you’re linking to. It sounds simple, but most affiliate marketers just set up a site, toss in some content and links and forget about it. They don’t go that extra mile that can mean the difference between selling a few units and selling a bundle. Here are a few tips for helping to boost sales on your affiliate marketing website.

• Before you go to your seller, set up your site for a month or two and record the traffic and sales you are able to do. Those ways, when you go to the parent company, you can say, see, this was what I was doing, and these are the sales I got. No one knows the product you’re trying to sell better then the company that sells it. Use this knowledge to your advantage. Maybe the company you link to just finished an internal study that shows that people are especially fond of a particular benefit of the product your selling that you don’t even know about! If you write your content around this benefit, you might see your sales double or even triple.

• By talking to the parent company, you’re sending a clear signal that you are taking this affiliate program seriously. And trust me, the people in charge will take note. Recent affiliate marketing studies have shown that over 90 percent of all affiliate sales come from only 5 percent of affiliate websites. If you can end up in that group, you’ll be making money faster than you ever thought possible.

• By keeping in contact with the parent company, you can stay up to date with any sort of product changes, price changes, shipping rule changes or any other information that might impact in content of your affiliate website. Nothing will anger a customer more than a promotion on your website saying that if a customer clicks here, they will receive free shipping, only to have it not be true. By staying connected to the parent company, you’ll always have the most up-to-date promotion info.

The benefits of befriending the parent company of your affiliate programs are vital to running a good business. You owe it to your customers, as well as yourself, to have the latest, most accurate information on your site at all times. Respect your customer base and they will reward you with loyalty that will pay off big.

Search Engine Basics

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:28:00 +0000

Maybe the single most important part of running an affiliate website understands how people find your site and how to make your site stick out among the billion or so other sites on the Internet.

If you’ve been using the Internet for more than an hour or two, chances are you know what a search engine is. Websites like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com have developed into multi-billion dollar corporations in the last ten years.

Using search engines is extremely simple. You just go to the site, type in what you want to find and click enter. But how can you make sure that your site will be found? As it turns out, it’s all about the keywords.

When a site like Google or Yahoo searches the Internet to come up with results from a web query, it takes the number of keywords on a site into consideration. It also takes particular keywords or phrases into account, too. If someone is doing a search for “Book about Rolling Stones,” a site that has that phrase or a phrase similar to it 10 times is going to come up higher than a site that only mentions it once. That’s why its so important to incorporate keyword text into your web content so that when someone does a search for, say, “Oolong Tea from China” and that just happens to be what your site sells, your site comes up high on the list, not buried on the bottom.

The trick is to incorporate these keywords or keyword phrases into your web content, and still have your content make sense. This is a super-tricky obstacle to get around. The best advice I can give is to simply read around and see what other affiliate marketing sites have done. Remember, your content is a huge part of your site. If people don’t stay on your site for a minute or two reading your content, they will never, ever click on any links you have and buy any products you’re selling. You must find the balance between a heavy use of keywords and well-written text.

Knowing how to use search engines is a big part of affiliate marketing. You can have the best content, the timeliest links and the best product in the world and you won’t do a lick of business unless people can find you. Learning the art of incorporating keyword text into your affiliate website may seem tough, but it’s the difference between making a few bucks here and there and making it big in affiliate marketing.

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Perils of Affiliate Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:15:00 +0000

While there is serious money to be made in the world of affiliate marketing, it should not be entered into willy-nilly. Just like any other business venture, the proper research should be done so that you know ahead of time how much money, time and effort you can expect to spend before you see a profit. Here is a short list of expectations that people sometimes have wrong about affiliate marketing.

• Just like a good highway, you have got to have traffic. You can be selling the best product in the world, have an attractive website design and have the best content on the Internet and if no one can find your site, you aren’t going to make any money. What to do? You can buy advertising to drive traffic to your site, but that costs money, usually more money then you are taking in. It’s a very fine line to walk; a tightrope that most people fall off of into debt. It is going to take time and experience to learn the proper formula, and you should expect some debt until you figure out the right combination.

• Remember, if you follow the same tips as everyone else, chances are the market is already saturated with sites using the same techniques. This may be the toughest part of affiliate marketing. Try to figure out exactly the right technique to attract customers to your site and away from 100 other affiliate marketing sites that are selling essentially the same thing. The only real way to handle this is to stick to the basics. Believe in the product you sell, design an attractive site to sell it and write good content to keep people on your site and clicking on the links on your site. If you are patient, this formula, more often than not, will work, but it will take some time.

• Updates, update. Many new affiliate marketers think that all you need is that first shiny, new webpage with original content and then you just leave the page be for the next six months and watch the money roll in. It just doesn’t work that way. You have to be ready to add new content to your page every two weeks at the most. Change the theme on your page to show visitors that you’re updating constantly. If you are coming up on Easter or Thanksgiving, change your site to show this. It’s reassuring to web surfers that they are visiting a page run by someone who is paying attention.

The road towards affiliate marketing success is full of potholes. But it can be navigated with patience and hard work. You may not strike gold right away, but keep digging; the shiny nugget is right around the corner.

More Common Affiliate Mistakes

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:14:00 +0000

In the last few years, affiliate marketing has exploded on the Internet. In pretty much every web search that is done during every second of the day on the Internet, people are steered towards affiliate marketing sites. Some work, some don’t and some are gone before they even have a chance to get going. Let’s go over a few common mistakes affiliate marketers make when setting up and running their site.

• Make sure you completely understand the affiliate program you’re signing up for. It can be really tough to turn down that one program that brags about the huge commission, but if the program is selling car parts and you don’t even drive, you might want to pass it up. If you know a lot about sports or pets or horses, try to find an affiliate marketing program geared towards your area of expertise. You might not become a millionaire overnight, but in the long run, you’ll make a LOT more money that way, and you’ll enjoy the affiliate marketing experience a lot more, too.

• If you have the option on your site for folks to sign up for emails, make sure the ones you send out are informative and fun and not spam. Yes, you want to make sure you get the links of the product you’re selling in the email, but you have to take the time to set it up so it doesn’t look like spam or people will get annoyed with your site, opt out of your emails and never visit your site again. It’s the difference between taking a bit of extra effort and not. If you’re willing to go the extra mile, you’ll see the reward in your sales.

• Try to write your own content. It’s not unheard of for a person to visit 4-5 different affiliate marketing websites and see the exact same content on all of them. The site creators simply used the same public domain copy and didn’t even bother to change it up at all. Don’t let this happen to you. The only way your site will stand out among all the garbage is to make sure your content is completely unique.

Making mistakes when you start a new business are common. It’s going to happen, so don’t panic when it does. But with a little research, and a bit of common sense, you can avoid most of the mistakes that plague the laziest of the affiliate website creators.

The 3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:12:00 +0000

Now every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.

Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

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

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

2. Offer free reports to your readers.

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

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

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

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.

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

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

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

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

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!

SEO Traffic Generation Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Pierro) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:04:00 +0000

SEO, or search engine optimization is the be-all-end-all of traffic generation. The two go hand in hand. This is because, in order to gain traffic to your site your articles, your advertisements and your website must all be search engine optimized. So, when it comes to SEO, make sure you target everything and anything around this incredibly important concept.

Essentially, there are three basic elements to SEO- key wording, linking and content. Consider key wording, linking and content the three Musketeers to successful SEO. To get you started, we’ve offered the top ten tips to SEO. Keep these in mind for all your copy and content to ensure the maximum traffic generation results.

1. Choose good keywording phrases- instead of shaping words around articles, shape articles around words. Target your content around keywords or ideas. In order to find an angle for your article, consider using Google Adwords to see which keywords are most likely searched. Then, write an article around these key phrases and terms. This may seem like an odd concept, but as soon as your brain gets used to it, the writing will flow naturally.

2. Use keywords throughout your website, marketing and advertisement- use keywords in your title, your subheadings and in your links. If you can, even use your keyword in your URL.

3. Link away- it is okay to link to other sites. In fact, it’s a good idea, especially if these sites are highly respected and informative. Sites with .edu and .gov are often the best because they represent a highly regarded source.

4. Link to your heart’s content- Links do not have to just be certain words. You can also make title links and anything else you want links. People are automatically drawn to links, so switch it up and make your content stand out.

5. Use your anchor text in links- Make sure your link text features your keyword phrase. Links stand out on websites and most people will click through, especially if your keyword phrase is directed towards their interest.

6. Always add new content- are you constantly updating and adding new content to your website? Well you need to be to ensure SEO success! This cannot be stressed enough. Content is what will make your break your site so make sure your content is entertaining, up to date and informative. For more content tips, check out the Article Marketing section.

7. Be Bold- make use of Bold HTML tags and other HTML tags to make your website stand out. Bold is beautiful.

8. Use Alt Imaging- a picture is worth a thousand words, especially on the net. Putting alt attributes on your images can allow you to place relevant text around your image, better for search engine indexing.

Keep in mind that images are searched just as much as content is.

9. Include a site map- a site map is a great way to navigate through your site and can also be submitted to Google with XML site map.

Site maps help search engine robots find every page on your website in just two clicks. What this means is better search engine results for all your web pages. Make sure you link all pages properly for the best SEO results.

10. Follow the rules- SEO has a set of particular rules. You need to understand the legality of SEO so you don’t get banned from search engines. So how do you do this? You research. You study. You learn. Take some time and go through the basics of SEO on the main search engines. Understanding the do’s and don’ts of SEO is critical when it comes to generating traffic. After all, you SEO strategy can either make, or break your website.