Aug
26
2009

Affiliate Marketing Tip – How to Pre-Sell Your Content to Survive the Competition

By Peter HC Lee

Do you know that in affiliate marketing your content, be it found in your website or your affiliate blog, is one of the biggest reasons why you succeed or fail in the business. Focus on pre-selling this content and you have a clear chance of making it. Better still profiting from it like all others who have realized it too. This article discusses what content pre-sell means and why it is important:

Your Website

Your website is the first stop your visitors and prospects see so don’t you think the look and feel of it will determine a little of your affiliate marketing success? It is therefore important to present a clean design in a professionally looking site.

Your Contents

Your contents that you write should reflect the person you are, the brand you are promoting and the products you are convinced will help your visitors. The confidence that your message carries and the service that you provide help them to trust your recommendations.

What Should You Write

What you write is important. You want to write content that is useful and helpful to people who are searching for in the net. So write content that leads people to the next click that solves their problems. In short, don’t get pushy with your affiliate products and don’t oversell. Sometimes doing less does you more good than you’ll ever know.

Avoid That Sales Pitch

Most people have usually formed a mental block of sales pitch so you should avoid them. Successful affiliate marketers usually don’t use them while SEO experts think good sales pages make bad SEO pages. Instead do include your call of action like joining your newsletters as it is easily made subtle and not seem to be too pushy.

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Aug
19
2009

Paydotcom Tips and Tutorial For Beginners

By Mohd Azlan Bin Ab Rahman

Thinking about using Paydotcom? Great choice. If you want to sell eBooks, whether as an affiliate or vendor, Paydotcom should be your number one choice. These are advantages of Paydotcom over Clickbank

  1. No commission theft problem. Every Paydotcom affiliates must enter their PayPal account upon registration. Should an affiliate attempt to buy from his affiliate link, the system will automatically deduct the commission, making vendor get 100% profit.
  2. No waiting for payment. All payments are paid via PayPal account. A hassle-free way to receive payment, for non-US affiliates.
  3. Zero startup cost for vendor. This is another reason why Paydotcom is a risk-free way to handle payments and affiliates. Unlike Clickbank and 2Checkout where the vendor need to pay $49.00 for start, this fee is not required for Paydotcom.

Tips to use and promote Paydotcom products.

  1. Register for both PayPal and Paydotcom account. Unlike Clickbank where you just need an email address, Paydotcom requires you to have a PayPal account. Please register and verified your PayPal account as soon as possible. You don’t want PayPal to limited the access to your own account.
  2. Research for markets with high demand. Without proper research, all your effort soon will be wasted. There are many ways to perform market research. However, I strongly recommend that you check Clickbank marketplace first for start. Both Clickbank and Paydotcom are similar. Whatever sells at Clickbank, with gravity score 1 or higher, would definitely a great market for Paydotcom products. After you found a product with high gravity at Clickbank, check Paydotcom marketplace for products in similar topics.
  3. Find the relevant keywords to the market using Google Keyword Tool. You won’t be able to market online without this tool. Google Keyword Tool is still the best in my opinion, not only because it has the largest keyword database, but also because it is free. Remember, target only for long-tail search terms, regardless your traffic strategy is pay-per-click, search engine optimization, article marketing or video marketing.
  4. Start by posting articles first. Article marketing is great source of traffic. Not only because it is free, but also because it’s fast. Unlike SEO or blogging where you need to wait for months, in some case, years to see result. There are tonnes of article directories online, but for start I highly recommend either Ezine Articles or HubPages. These two are top article directories, with higher page rank and good reputation on Google’s eye.
  5. Send traffic using Google AdWords. To succeed online, you need both free and paid traffic. Why? Well, because each traffic strategies has its limitation. If you are using free marketing like article or SEO, there’s no guarantee your article will remain on the first page of Google search result. By using AdWords, at least you can overcome this problem.
  6. Start your own blog. Forget creating a website. A blog is a better alternative to websites, not only because it can be setup and run in minutes but also because Google loves blogs. Search engines loves blog because the script is search engine friendly and most blogs are always up-to-date, with fresh content. Plus, readers can post comments, share their thoughts which would create better, quality content. If you are on low budget, you can create a free blog at Blogger. However, I strongly encourage you to register your own domain and host your blog. Create a WordPress blog. Not only because WordPress blogs are beautiful, but also it has several interactive features like widgets, SEO and spam filter.
  7. Browse for related forum. Forum marketing is actually an advanced traffic strategy. It is not a necessity. However, if you love to chat with a group with similar interest as yours, why not try forum marketing? Make sure you read the forum rules. Some forum allows signature, some don’t.
  8. Grow your mailing list. If you don’t have a mailing list, you don’t own your business. On the internet, if you don’t have a mailing list, you will always depend on Google for traffic and customers. Should Google dropped your website ranking from the first page, all your traffic and customers will be gone overnight. By having email list, you will always have a potential buyers for lifetime.

Some advice and warning

  1. Apply for PayPal debit card if possible. Using PayPal as payment methods could be both good and bad thing. The bad part is, for certain reasons, PayPal might limited access to your account sometimes. Try avoiding this limitation, if you can. One way is by applying for PayPal debit card.
  2. Don’t pick too many traffic strategies at once. For the first six months, focus on search engine traffic only, whether free or paid. It will take some time learn and see consistent income from one traffic source.
  3. Don’t jump into over populated markets like internet marketing, search engine optimization, AdSense and make money online. There are lots more less competitive niches out there like pet niches and gardening with lots of traffic and money to be made. So why jump into crowded niches?
  4. Learn, learn and keep learning. Internet marketing, is not a simple game. It’s just like your day job or retail business. It takes years of time to learn and be a good doctor, engineer, teacher, researcher or whatever your day job is. The same goes for online business. The more you learn, the more experience you had, the more money you’ll make.
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Aug
17
2009

How to Promote ClickBank Products Easily

By Sarah Brownss

Hardly to say but I’m still a click bank newbie struggling for huge profits form affiliate marketing. In this article, I will share my personal experience in the last 3 months with you.

1. About 3 months ago

I heard the word “click bank” form my friends, he told me click bank.com is a goldmine and gurus are making more than $1000 each day with no effort. I don’t believe his words so I searched “click bank”. The results are amazing since CB is really a great leading affiliate website so I decide to join CB.

2. My first sale

I don’t know how to build a website at first so I created a blog spot account so easy only 2 minutes. I wrote 3 short articles about a CB product and add some hop links, 2 days later my first sale came $35. After finishing it, I have read many articles about click bank and affiliate marketing to find the best way to promote click bank products. After studying affiliate marketing for 7 days I finally realized in order to success with CB you have to: generate huge targeted traffic to your landing pages.

3. How to get free traffic

3 moths later, I have tried many ways of getting traffic to my website and I have make some sales through free traffic. However, what I need now is huge profits rather than 1 sale every 3-5 days. Yahoo answer, article marketing, web 2.0 and traffic form Google bring me some cash but I have to spend a lot of time on meaningless works. For example, yahoo answer. Although I can suggest people to buy some products by answering their questions, yahoo will close your account if you use too much spam links.

4. Get tons of targeted traffic with no effort

That’s right pay per click. I have tried pay per click but failed with Google and MIVA because pay per click can bring you huge profits or wasting your money in a single day. So I decided to use Michael Jones’s click bank code, it’s a step by step video training course mainly on pay per click marketing. Guess what happened, after 2 weeks I earned more than 800 with pay per click marketing, Michael Jones’s pay per click marketing strategies are really great!

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Jul
29
2009

~What One Ought To Do To Get Good Internet Marketing Results

What One Ought To Do To Get Good Internet Marketing Results

By: Winston Choo

It is important for any online entrepreneur to know exactly what their internet marketing results are like. This will help them to then judge very quickly how a particular online marketing campaign is going and if they need to make changes in order to improve them. Below we provide you with a few tips that should help with getting better results and so improving your rankings within the online search engines.

If you are, want to get the best results possible you need to look carefully at the number of words that you have written on each page of your website and in articles. For the pages of your site, you should be aiming for no less than 250 words on each page, whilst for articles a good number is 450 or more. If you do not provide sufficient text within your pages and articles, you will find that the search engines such as Google will downgrade them. In addition, if you are selling any kind of product on your site you should include a very concise but detailed description about it on the site.

When it comes to the pages of your website and any articles that you write, you need to include a good selection of quality keywords and phrases within them. It is best if you use ones, which are being used by potential customers when they are carrying out any kinds of online searches. Today, you can get hold of plenty of good quality tools that carry out keyword analysis and will be able to suggest the kinds of ones that you should be including within the text of your pages or articles.

Once you have the right keywords or keyword phrases you will then need to incorporate these within the meta tags and also the text. Ideally, it is best if you include these within the title, the first paragraph and the last paragraph of the content. Plus if you can dot them a few times within the text itself, but not too many. You should in fact be aiming to have these keywords or phrases making up a total of 3% of the total content of your text.

When writing any content whether it be for the pages of your site or articles that will be used to promote it you need to take a number of factors into consideration. It is crucial that everything you write is clear and concise and will offer the reader an answer to their problems. Also, you should write it in a way that they find it very easy to read and will not become bored after a few seconds and continue their search elsewhere.

Also when you are writing articles that you will be using to promote a product or service it is a good idea to keep each paragraph as short as possible. Ideally, each paragraph should consist of no more than 3 or 5 sentences in each one. Plus you need to have a title that is going to actually want the person looking at it to read on further.

When writing any kind of content you need to be able to provide the reader with a way in which they are able to solve the problem they are dealing with. But you should avoid trying to give too much away otherwise you will lose the opportunity of them clicking on the link in your resource box in order to get even more answers to their problems.

In this article, we have offered you some tips that should help improve your internet marketing results and so improve your rankings on the various search engines. Remember the higher you rank the much more chances of increased traffic flow to your site, which could in turn result in more sales for your business.

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