About Blog Traffic

By admin | Published: August 9, 2009

No blog survives without traffic. More so, less
traffic only means that the content is not that good.
However, there are also instances wherein a great blog
does not have enough traffic. The key in getting
traffic is to come up with a strategy and make
everyone notice your blog. There are a few things that
you need to consider with regards to generating
traffic to your blog and these are not that different
from planning a regular Web site.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic
a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is
your target audience and where exactly you are
generating your blog’s traffic.

The Content

The content of your blog is very important. It is the
reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your
blog interesting and learn to master the ideas
included in your blog. The content should also be
relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out
what your audience wants and if what you are writing
satisfy them.

The content is especially important if you are
planning sales from your blog. Firstly, you must
become a trust-worthy and credible source of
information before people try the product. Blogs are
excellent medium for sales since they allow you to
connect and converse through the use of the content.
You must realize that without a great content, your
blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against
others.

In order to gain audience for your content, remember
not to publish infrequently. Additionally, do not
criticize others if you do not have facts to support
your claim and references for those facts. If you
criticize, do it in an objective non-personal manner.
What you can do is to publish often and make sure that
the entry you are about to publish is meaningful and
of high-value. Lastly, be yourself to help your
audience relate to you but do not reveal any private
information.

The Ping

Some bloggers take the extra mile just to ping and do
not solely rely on the blog software pings. The blog
software pings’ job is to update the servers for the
purpose of announcing your content updates. Search
engines and blog directories then checks these update
servers for the latest updates; this is the reason why
your blog’s content gets into search engines quickly.

Pings make blogs excellent search engine optimization
tools. There are even instances where it only takes a
day before your content gets into search engines.
However, your blog’s content will only take hours to a
few days to get into most search engines, on average.

When starting a blog, always check the instructions
included. There might be section wherein you can turn
on the blog software ping automatically, which
activates on the background. By doing so, whenever you
publish content in your blog, it will instantly
transmit ping updates.

RSS feeds are also important. Not only will you be
able to publish your content within a short duration
but also replicate your content through the use of
your RSS feed. Nowadays, the flow of your content is
real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content
to a wider audience.

There are several ways to promote your blog. However,
keep in mind that there is no strategy for quick money
when it comes to profitable blogging. It requires
dedication, time, a strategy for the content and
patience before the cash starts flowing in.

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Backlinks

By admin | Published: August 6, 2009

As affiliate marketers everything we do is aimed at driving traffic to our site,squeeze, page affiliate sales letter or blog. We write articles with our webpage URL in the recourse box for a back link We comment on other affiliate marketing blogs and make forum posts. We bookmark our articles on our favorite social bookmarking sites.

Why do we post comments on another marketers blog? Are we commenting to provide more quality content or are we posting a comment to get credit for a backlink?

After looking at blog post comments for a period of time I’m convinced that most of the blog

commentors are commenting for the backlink and not to provide quality information. I am not talking about those demented individuals that post fowl mouthed comments. I am talking about those comments that say “nice post”, “you have a good idea there”. Those comments add nothing to the information presented on the blog post. This is the reason many blogs have a no follow tag. Search engine spiders do not recognize a url with a no follow tag and. hence, no back link credit for the commenter.

Do we bookmark our articles on social bookmarking sites for exposure for our articles or to get backlink credit.

From what I have seen of the social bookmarking sites is that most bookmarks provide a backlink and maybe a clicks on your url. Bookmarking on several social sites will give several backlinks. At times your article bookmarked will become very popular and go viral. Should that happen the many clicks on your website affiliate link way over shadows the value of a backlink. This does happen. I would heartily recommend you bookmark your quality articles and then cross your fingers.

Do we visit and comment on the forums with signature file in place in hopes some forum visitor will click on our signature file link or are we posting to forums to get backlinks?

Some of the more popular forums have a nofollow tag. Not all just some. Form posters were using some sneaky tactics to include several backlinks in each post and the forum administrators countered with making all of the links nofollow links. Posting on those sites will give exposure to your url for a forum visitor to click on, but, no backlink credit..

There are still plenty of dofollow forum sites around to join and post for backlink credit. A word of caution. Many forum followers feel that Google is able to differentiate between those that post only to dofollow forums and/or blogs those that post to the dofollow and nofollow blogs. The thinking is that those posting to dofollow only is not a way the backlinks would naturally occur. A slap may result. I am going to play it safe and include both for awhile anyway.

There is an online site that invites you to post information on their site and you get a backlink for doing that. Beneath your information post they place your link along with a snap shot of your site’s home page.

I have been posting on their site to determine if doing so is really helping me. This site is called Qondio. I would say the site is between a social bookmarking site and article site. Probably closer to a bookmarking site.

Maurice Petersen is an affiliate marketer who uses article marketing to bring traffic to his site. For an excellent free special report on affiliate marketing click on  3 Keys To Creating Big-Time Commission Checks

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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 3

By admin | Published: July 31, 2009

NOTE:  The following is a guest post from one of my favorite
internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 3
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Some people have the ability to persuade others and talk
them into just about anything.  Especially when it comes
to influencing their buying decisions.  They know how to
push the right hot buttons, say things the right way and
generally get consumers into an emotional frenzy to the
point they are ready to click an order button.

There are two key words in that paragraph that really need
to stand out in your mind:  “some people”.

Not everyone has this ability.  In fact, only a few do.

That brings me to the third reason why I love affiliate
marketing…

** You don’t need to write a world class salesletter**

Have you ever tried to write a salesletter? There’s a
reason why professional copywriters charge up to $10,000
(and sometimes even more) for a SINGLE salesletter. It
takes a lot of experience and skill to write a top-gun
salesletter, which is why most people have a hard time
convincing people to buy if they do create their own
products and website.

They simply don’t have the right salesletter in place
to make it all work. Without good copy, it really doesn’t
matter how spectacular the offer is, you’re simply not
going to get many sales.

SIDEBAR:  The average conversion rate of site visitors
who become buyers is reportedly less than 2%.  That
means 98 out of every 100 do NOT buy.  That’s why
sales are so incredibly bad for a poor site … you
*might* get 2 sales out of every 300-400 visitors.

BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to write a
salesletter! You simply direct people to someone else’s
high-octane salesletter for THEM to convert your leads
into commissionable sales.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to write a world class salesletter.

…………………….

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week.  Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://healthelp.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net

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Your Own Affiliate Marketing Website

By admin | Published: July 25, 2009

I have always been impressed with those who could build there own website using only html. That was all there was available until the advent to wysiwyg editors. If you ever talk to one of those guys or gals they will probably tell you that they prefer to set up a website that way. Like I said I’m impressed,but I cannot do that. Then along came the wysiwyg editors that enables us less gifted to build a web site. I can testify that the average guy or gal can build a website using say Front Page as I have built a couple sites. I have not used Xsite Pro. I understand that Xsite Pro makes creating a web page easy to do.

With all the web site designers around why would you even want to create your own site? You may have other reasons ,but, I’ll share mine here.

  1. I’ll have the knowledge of what to fix or change if that is needed.

  1. When I am creating something such as creating my own website it gives me time to consider what I want to accomplish and how I am going to do that. I felt at times that I could not tell a designer what I wanted in a web presence as I was not sure myself. When out sourcing I would need to be specific about what I wanted.

  1. If you are just starting out and money is tight you can delay the cost of website creation for awhile. I say for awhile because once you get up and running you may decide to outsource that part of your business and concentrate on marketing your business. Time spent marketing is time well spent.

Blogging has been popular for a few years now. With that popularity there has been development of existing blog platforms and several new blogging platforms are now available. Word Press has been popular as a blogging platform for several years. In fact most bloggers rate Word Press an number 1.

Word Press is free. That will help make it popular. It is a very functional blogging platform with hundreds of plugins and tools. The plugins add to the functionality of the blog. I am not going to comment on the various plugins as I would need to comment on over a hundred.

Word press also has free hosting, making your web presence totally free. This free hosting should work fine for personal blogs. Affiliate marketers will want to host the blog on personal server or a commercial server. Word Press has restrictions as to what can be placed on a blog hosted by Word Press. There are literally hundreds of hosting companies around. If finding a hosting company is new to you, visit an affiliate marketing forum and ask for a recommendation. The two forums I go to for this kind of information are warrior Forum and Associated Programs although there many great forums available.

Installing Word Press on your own hosting account has been a little troublesome in the past. Fantastico was the program of choice and did a good job most of the time. Then came Fantastico Deluxe which did an even better job. Your web host has these tools.

Word Press has a history of continually improving their blog platform. That means a new version is issued often. Upgrading an existing blog to the latest version in the past has been difficult. I have not upgraded some Word Press blogs for that reason. The problem with that is the latter plugins may not work on an older version.

Installing a Word Press blog on you own web hosting server has become simpler. Find out if your web host has a program called Simple Scripts. I understand that simple scripts can also be used to upgrade your blog. I have not tried to upgrade using simple scripts yet. I had such a hassle using Fantastico to upgrade a blog I am not rushing into it.

Word Press has several themes available that are simple to install. Themes address the appearance and functionality of your blog. Themes control the color of the blog, whether you have 2 or 3 columns on a page and possibly a graphic header. Using the latest Word Press version and an embellishing theme your blog can look like a web page. I have visited some Word Press blogs on line and did not know it was a Word Press blog. You can tell mine is a blog, but, then it is still a work in progress.

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Profit From PPC In Your Affiliate Marketing Business

By admin | Published: July 23, 2009

PPC search engines are one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising. According to Forbes magazine, PPC or Pay Per Click   is expected to increase to around 8 billion dollars per year and currently amounts to 2 billion dollars a year.

Let us take a  look at how PPC  works.

PPC based on a bid amount the website owner is willing to pay for each click from that search engine. Advertisers compete against each other to receive higher ranking for a specific keyword or long tail keyword.

The highest bid will then have the site ranked as number 1 in the PPC Search Engines followed by the lesser bidders, up to the last bidder that has placed a bid on the same keyword or phrase. Your ads then will be displayed on the results pages according to the dollar amount bid keywords.

Can you make money by using PPC in  affiliate marketing.

Affiliate programs  pay when a sale is made or a lead delivered after a visitor on your site clicks through.  Your earnings will change as they will be dependent on the web site content and traffic.

The reason to include PPC into your affiliate marketing program is that visitors are more likely to click on an PPC link than order a product. Profits are easier to make than in any  affiliate program not using PPC. You will be making profit based from the clickthrough rate  your visitor  make on the advertiser’s site. Unlike some programs, a sale is not required to make money.

Visitors to your site that are not particularly interested in your affiliate product may click on a PPC ad. This also

contributes to your sites recognition. Visitors may also return to your site to use the search function. They may review what you are marketing more closely.

Advertisers bid on key words or key word phrase ranging from 5 cents a click to sometimes several dollars.(rare). The Google gurus claim Google pays out between 30%to 80% for each click through.

As with any profits to be made in affiliate marketing, driving traffic to your site remains very important. A visitor may return to use your PPC Search Engine link, however you need to get them to your site first. To do that you will need to use the same optimization techniques you would use if you were not using a PPC  Search Engine. You may even consider using Google Adwords-a different form of PPC to drive traffic to your site.

What happens if you when you include PPC with your affiliate program?

Ready-to-use PPC tools can be easily installed on your website. The most common tools are search boxes,  text links, banners, and some 404-error pages. Search engines also utilize custom solutions. They can provide you with a white-label affiliate program. You can then, using only a few lines of code, integrate into your website a remotely-hosted co-branded search engine. .

The key benefits? More money generated. plus lifetime commissions if you refer some webmaster friends to the engine.

Think about it. Where can you get all these benefits while already generating some income from 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.

Find out more about how you can use PPC search engines in your affiliate program. Otherwise you may be missing out on a great opportunity to earn more profits.

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Your Own Product?

By admin | Published: July 16, 2009

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Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product

to sell online, but never “finishing” it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –

** You don’t need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to

be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

* I don’t have any good ideas!

* I’m not a writer!

* There’s too much competition!

* I don’t know how to set everything up!

* I can’t figure out where to start!

* It’s too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give

when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.

I’m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come

up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products.

You simply promote someone else’s already proven successful

offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have

lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out…

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don’t know everything! Why try

to create a product on every topic imaginable in your

market when you can earn just as much money by simply

promoting someone else’s really good offer as one of your

profit streams?

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to create your own products.

…………………….

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching

you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in

only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in

the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!

Visit http://YOURCLICKBANKID.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net

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No or Low Cost Marketing

By admin | Published: July 14, 2009

Do you find often yourself wondering what your marketing program should be? You understand that the finest products ever will not sell if no one knows that you are selling them. A very high percentage of online marketers fail and one very big reason they do is their business expenditures are greater than their profits. It becomes important then to see enough results from your marketing efforts to continue funding your marketing effort. In this article we will discuss ways of promotions that are no or low cost.

What really is no or low cost marketing? No or low cost marketing has many forms.
1.Use the Traffic Sites. Post sales ads on the traffic sites and Safe Lists. This can be time consuming as the traffic sites require  surfing a number of site to keep your ad active. There is a time money trade off there. I have seen a number of big name marketers using this method of promotion.

2.Article marketing. We hear that content is king. Quality article posted on the internet with a resource box is one of the favorite methods for no or low cost marketing. The article can aso be posted to your blog, featured in your newsletter and used in an email marketing campaign. There are also low cost article distribution sites to distribute your articles to hundreds of article sites.

3.Use forums. The idea here is to find a few forms in your niche area and periodically answer questions and post comments. Now don’t blatantly advertise your site, but, let your signature file work for you. From your signature file on your posts you will get back links to your site which is good for search engine optimization. A forum visitor may click on your site url.

4.Social bookmarking sites. Bookmarking your articles submitted to article sites often results in more  visitors to your site. Onlywire.com is a no or low cost service that will simplify the bookmarking effort.

5.Social sites. There are more Web 2 Social Sites than you really want to know about. Some of the big ones are Linkedin, Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Actually there are many more social site that can help you marketing. If you find a site that looks good to you find out all you can about it and give it a try. All the above listed sites have listing guidelines peculiar to that site. Become familiar with how each site operates to get the most benefit from using them.

Here are some rules and guidelines they all share:

1) Ask people about themselves and their business, when you first meet them.

2)Do NOT sell yourself or your business.

3) Make appropriate comments. Interact with people often.

4)Offer helpful advice and suggestions  to individuals.

5)NEVER spam people

A good Web 2  social site example is Facebook. Facebook says that they have 100 million active users. You may want to visit Facebook http://www.FaceBook.com and register. Fill in your profile information and investigate the many way to use this site.

Spend some time on your profile as this can be an excellent way of promoting your business. You will find users actually text messaging their friends. There are many specialty groups to join or you can start one. Some people post their baby pictures, event pictures and other pictures that might be of interest to their friends.

Using Facebook pages you can actually advertise on Facebook. At the bottom of your home page click on advertising. Then click on Pages near the top on the advertising page and the Facebook Pages will open.

Several of the Social Bookmarking Sites will post your bookmark on Facebook and Twitter.

Youtube. I am sure you have heard of youtube. Posting your videos on youtube results in a back link to your site. You can comment on other videos and receive additional back links. If you list your site on the video you may receive traffic from that.

If you are using a blog to help market your products then investigate sites like Technorati and other blog listing sites. Commenting on other peoples blogs is a good way of getting your url on many different blogs and will result in back links to your blog..

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How ANYONE Can Get Started With Affiliate Marketing

By admin | Published: July 9, 2009

Affiliate marketing is one of the most “passive” forms of online income there is.

- No products to create.
- No customers to deal with.
- No shipping or refunds or anything.

Easy peasy. Well, once you get started it is.

The hard part has been HOW to get started.

1. Buy a web design program for $300?
2. Hire someone to create a website?
3. Set up something free that you have no control over and could be taken away any time?

eek. Not great options, until now. Jimmy D. Brown, highly successful online marketer – and fantastic mentor, has put together a course teaching how ANYONE can get started with affiliate marketing with NO experience, NO $300 website software — and build a lasting business.

He was kind enough to share an excerpt from one of the lessons of his course. Keep reading to see his teaching style. I think you’ll like it.

—–

Excerpt from Affiliatenaire
by Jimmy D. Brown

Welcome – welcome – welcome!

We are entering into some exciting times now. Today’s lesson and next week’s lesson mark the final “setup” activities.

Today we’re going to “populate” your blog with content and next week we’re going to publish the first issue of your newsletter.

Then, it’s time to…

Promote, promote, promote!

Woohoo!

So, we’re closing in on those first sales. Keep going. You’re almost ready to begin seeing some results from your efforts.

I’ve heard from quite a few members who have told me they are “finally getting somewhere” due to the step-by-step, drip-feed format we’ve been using. Trust me when I say, it’s only going to get better.

But, it does illustrate a good point: the hardest part of success in internet marketing for most people is getting out of the gate.

It’s been my experience that those who get things setup end up making money. The staggering failure rate that is reported as the “norm” primarily is a result of the lack of getting the foundational things in place.

If you quit and turn back, you’ll be stuck in the starting position once again. And off to find another “option”. One more stat in the staggering failure rate.

If – you – stick – with – this – and – follow – instructions – you – won’t – fail!

Introduction

The ultimate way to get buyers is to strategically use presell content to convert browsers into buyers. It’s time to start blogging!

Your first step is to populate your blog by posting at least five or six messages initially. That way, anyone who visits your blog in the near future will see a busy blog, which makes them more likely to return. If they visit and see just an article or two, they may assume the blog is abandoned (which means they won’t bookmark it, subscribe to the RSS feed, or visit it again).

After you’ve populated your blog, you then need to commit to a regular posting schedule. Obviously, the more you post the better. So if you can post a short article each day, that’s great. But if not, then commit to posting at least three or four times per week.

SIDEBAR: We’ll talk more about “regular” weekly blogging later. In fact, I’ll give you so many ideas for getting ready-made content and creating fresh content that you’ll have plenty of options for years to come. For now, we’re just gonna focus on populating your blog with initial content so it has some “meat” to it when people visit.

—–

To get access to the entire course, simply go to  http://tinyurl.com/affiliatenair. You’ll be so glad you did. You not only get access to Jimmy’s “system”, but you’ll receive 52 weeks of solid training walking you step-by-step through the entire process, including videos and the names of support if you get stuck.

Check it out:http://tinyurl.com/affiliatenair

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Va Va Viral

By admin | Published: July 3, 2009

There is a long standing cliché in the advertising business stating that a customer will tell an average of three people about a product or service they like, and eleven people about a product or service they did not like. Viral marketing began as word of mouth advertising and is based on human behavior. As we can see from above not all viral marketing is good.

Remember the Ponzi scheme and other related investment Pyramid schemes? They are an early and unfortunate examples of viral marketing. As the schemes expand investors are paid from the principal investments of later investors. Early investors are so enthusiastic that they recruit others resulting in tremendous growth. Eventually the pool of available investors ends and the scheme collapses. This was viral marketing at its ugliest.

Although the above examples of early viral marketing are a bit ugly, they demonstrate clearly that viral marketing is based on human behavior. If you see a good movie and tell some of your friends about it, that’s viral. Viral marketing makes use of the natural tendency of a person to want to share something with others which they have found themselves to be informative, entertaining or amazing.

If you are blessed with an active imagination, you will uncover the many faces of viral marketing. Remember, you want to promote a product or service in such a manner that causes others to enthusiastically endorse and tell others about it.

A classic example of using the internet to virally promote a product of service is the way Hot Mail built there email service. They used what we now call a signature which asked you to let a friend know about this free email service. Gmail still uses a version of this concept. When you type in a new email address a little window asks if you want to invite them to gmail.

As the internet has developed and with that development brought advanced and interesting marketing techniques. For some time now ebooks have been the darling of internet marketers. With the ease of digital distribution and being able to include additional information and/or sales information via a hyperlink, ebooks can be distributed to large numbers of people.

Now if we promote our ebook in such a manner that causes others to enthusiastically endorse it and tell others about it, our ebook will have to contain great value for people to get enthusiastic and tell their friends.

Now make your ebook free. Free is probable the most used, most misused and the most still used word in a marketers vocabulary. Combine your free high quality ebook with an attractive incentive for your target market and you might just go viral.

I have such a high quality, free ebook with an attractive incentive to fully develop these viral marketing concepts. The greatest viral marketing idea of all time. Yours for the clicking.

And just to illustrate the principle:  the book is free,
publishers may reproduce this article and change the URL to
point to your own rebranded version. http://vur.me/over59/viral-marketing/

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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1

By admin | Published: July 1, 2009

NOTE:  The following is a guest post from one of my favorite
internet marketing mentors.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product
to sell online, but never “finishing” it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –

** You don’t need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to
be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

* I don’t have any good ideas!
* I’m not a writer!
* There’s too much competition!
* I don’t know how to set everything up!
* I can’t figure out where to start!
* It’s too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give
when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.
I’m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come
up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products.
You simply promote someone else’s already proven successful
offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have
lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out…

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don’t know everything!  Why try
to create a product on every topic imaginable in your
market when you can earn just as much money by simply
promoting someone else’s really good offer as one of your
profit streams?

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to create your own products.

…………………….

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week.  Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://healthelp.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net

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