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Affiliate Marketing – 3 Steps to Online Success

Posted on May 25, 2008 under Internet Business | No Comment

Affiliate marketers are always looking for a successful market that will provide ongoing profits. Affiliate marketing isn’t rocket science, but you do need to have a strategy. It takes proven marketing practices and perseverance.Many practices that have worked before with online marketing continue to work today. With these top three affiliate marketing tips, you’ll be able to able to increase your sales and excel in the affiliate marketing world online.

Practice #1 – Always use unique web pages to promote each separate product you’re marketing. Don’t lump all your products together on one page or website. Web hosting is very cheap today and it’s much better to have a site focused on each product.

Include product reviews on your site. In this manner, visitors will feel that you have used the product and have an opinion.

Always include testimonials from people who have tried the product. Be sure the customers are willing to give you permission to use their information on your site. If you’re just starting out, you can likely find testimonials on the product owner’s website.

Write articles outlining the use of the product and put them on the website. Make the pages eye-catching, persuasive and ask them to act on the information. Each headline should compel the reader and encourage them to read even more. Always emphasize the benefits of the product.

It’s a good idea to offer free reports on your website. Try to position them at the very top side of the page so they simply cannot miss them. Your reports can also be broken up and used as autoresponder messages. Mail them to everyone who puts their information in your opt-in form. According to research, a sale is usually closed on about the seventh contact. So, it’s imperative to have an autoresponder.

Practice #2 — Two things can happen when a prospect lands on your website: they will either purchase from you or they will click away from the page, never to return. When you send helpful information to them on a regular basis, you’ll build a relationship and remind them of your product. Always ensure that the content of your messages are directed towards the benefits and specific reasons to buy the product. Never make your messages sound hyped up like a sales pitch.

If you offered the free reports mentioned above, make sure that they opt-in to your autoresponder before they can download the reports. Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in your email messages. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that will dump the message before your potential customer can ever read it.

Practice #3 — There should be a major focus on targeting the traffic to your website based on your product. When the people visiting your site have little or no interest in what you’re offering, you won’t make sales and they won’t come back. Post articles to ezine publications and article directories. This is really an easy way to market and can be extremely effective and lucrative.

You should try to post at least two articles per week. More is better, of course. Each article should contain 300-600 words. By continually posting articles you can generate upwards of 100 targeted readers to your site in a day with one article. In fact, by clicking on the links below, you can learn how to generate much more than 100 readers with one article. Only 1 out of 100 people will be interested in buying your product or retaining your services. When you can generate 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, you will make about 10 sales on average. Considering that you will profit about $25 on an average priced Clickbank product, when you multiply your daily earnings by 30 days, that totals $7,500 per month. That’s not too bad for a little bit of perseverance and some writing.

The practices I’ve outlined are not very difficult to do. They just require a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You will create a good source of income if you just have a plan and perseverance. Most affiliate marketers fail because they do not have a plan or they are lazy. Just think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving!

Make Money With Adwords Cheap Content Network Ads

Posted on May 25, 2008 under Internet Business | No Comment

If you want to make money with Adwords, you will need to keep up to date with the new strategies that are constantly appearing, as well as keeping pace with the changes that Google makes to its Adwords policies.In 2007, with the publication of Day Job Killer, Adwords became a game of ‘kill the competition’. Almost immediately, software systems and membership sites sprang up to help the advertiser track and conquer his competitors’ ads. Unfortunately a lot of these memberships were very expensive.

Almost at once, people who could not afford the Adwords spy systems or were tired of the constant fighting for search engine placement began looking around for new ideas. Early in 2008 we saw the first signs of what they had found. In fact it was not new, but a rediscovery of something that had been considered dead – the Adsense content network.

If you have come to Adwords in the last couple of years, you may not know that the search and content networks were once united. Google separated them to give advertisers more control in the days when click fraud was common. Most advertisers immediately (and rightly) turned off the content network for their ads.

However, times have changed. Click fraud is nothing like as common as it was, thanks to Google’s very heavyhanded measures in closing the accounts of any Adsense user who has any strange clicking activity on their site. This is a big problem for Adsense site owners because it means that any bored kid anywhere in the world can put them out of business by repeatedly clicking on their ads. But for Adwords advertisers, it means that the content network has opened up again.

Advantages of advertising on the content network instead of the search network include a cheaper cost per click, and a lot more control. You can actually pick the exact sites that you want your ad to appear on.

The last point there is very important. When setting up a campaign for the content network, always specify target sites for your ads. In fact, you should specify not only the site, but the exact pages of the site.

Just like with the search network, you need to avoid having people click when they are not really interested, and you do that by picking out pages that are very closely related to your product. For example if you are promoting a dog training ebook, you will want your ad on a site about dogs but only on the dog training pages.

It is also better to pick out sites that have their Adsense ads ‘above the fold’ so that people see them as soon as the page is opened, without having to scroll down. Ads in the ‘hot’ area toward the top left of the screen will usually do best.

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