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Affiliate Marketing is a Scam?

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:12:05 +0000

I get this a lot from people and we get into a conversation that leads no where. There are some things that I always get confronted with

Affiliate Marketing is Illegal!

Hold on for a second. First of all I dont’ want to repeat the question again asking you how you found out its illegal. Let me explain the legal issues. There is a catergory called, BlackHatSEO. This one is the illegal way to earn revenue. Most of it is bending the rules and hiding it and some are just wrong. There are some affiliate that do this but not a lot. There is whitehatseo which is purely legal. The way you are suppose to. Is adding a link with a banner and your affiliate link illegal? There are millions of sites that do this and no it is NOT illegal.

O yeah smart guy I will snitch on the IRS

So what? Go ahead but let me post a video of it on youtube and we can all laugh on how you will get pwned. Seriously. We get TAXED. I had to do my taxes for these. You can even get a LLC to do business take or a SP. Its the same thing as a contractor from a construction site.

Its a scam like that google bucks web site where it promises you income.

No.. they are legit too. And they don’t PROMISE anything. They give you to secrets but 99% of people are lazy

Its a pyramid scam

You sign up for offers by your own will through an affiliate network. No one tells you to refer people. No one is on a conga line. You have chances to advance when you double triple your earnings. You are a sales person. Sigh..

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What I need to learn for affiliate marketing

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:36:24 +0000

I just realized that setting up a blog, setting up a web site, iframing a site, signing up for affiliate networks, and desinging a web page isn’t too easy. In the beginning I was just like everyone else. I always refer back to a point where I was so frustrated at dreamweaver when I still new. I downloaded dreamweaver and then I bought my first domain which was commonsickness.com. My goal was to make a medical site and throw some adsense in it to make some revenue. So when I got to dreamweaver, I tested it out. First I wanted to post a picture in the body of the web site. Easy right? NOO!! It was so hard just to post it the way I wanted it. Believe it or not it took me 3-4hours to figure it out. That was how much I was a newbie back then. I also had a problem of getting the web site from my computer to the internet. That took another hour or so! But now I can do it very quickly since I learned from pure experience.

What do we need to know? The answer is simple but the task is difficult.

EVERYTHING!!

html!

HTML .I recommend starting off with very simple things like learning html The most basic internet essential out there is learning how to change the font and color. Then adding on to posting pictures in html. You do not have to necessarily know the code by heart but that will help you speed up the process in the future.

Photoshop

Learn Basic Photoshop. There is no way to avoid this. Just learn how to do web 2.0 graphics and change the color of fonts with designing. Just google “photoshop tricks” and there should be thousands of web sites that show you step by step. It is not hard. Most of the graphics that you see from web sites are easy to make and capable for newbies. It is just putting everything together to get one picture. Advance photoshop is something that takes so much practice. It is not essential to make money online. Advance techniques of photoshop is usually for designing and artists.

Firefox ftp logo

FTP/UPLOAD. Great! You have a design of a web page and its stuck in your computer. Now you can actually post it on the internet. I only use 2 programs which are firefox ftp and cute ftp. Firefoxftp is great! It is a small plugin for firefox and all it does is upload all the files from your computer to your hosting. Cuteftp is a program that is a little more than uploading. It gives you the ablity to edit files and do some last minute coding. So both these programs dominate each other in one way or another.

Google.com

Google. Please..seriously. Use google.com for your research tools. 99% of the time what you need or what you are looking for is already online because someone in a forum asked how to do it. Or somebody like me posts something about your subject that would teach you.

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Affiliate Marketing Dictionary

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:24:23 +0000

In the beginning I had a hard time figuring out what stuff meant. It seems that once people start making money and blog like me, they neglect to know the vocabulary. Everybody just assumes that everyone who is reading their blog knows what CTR means. Well I’m sorry but not everyone knows the meaning. Don’t feel like such a newbie because we all started out like that. Sometimes I read a blog and I still need to google what the term they are using is. This post might be one of my “Useless Posts” but I made it specially for newbies. Well here we go. And if you still don’t understand, feel free to drop a comment or send me an email and I will further explain it. Its all self-explanatory but everyone learns in different ways. Maybe you learn by definition and somebody else learns by demonstration. Either way I hope this post helps at least one person.

Advertiser - The person who is trying to make a few bucks by driving traffic through a web site through promotion. You are promoting an offer and you will get $$ if a customer buys it.

Advertisement – This is seen all around you. It is an attractive picture/video that helps lures the customer so they will buy the product.

Affiliate – This is YOU. Someone who is the middle man. You help get the merchant some customers and you will get a certain amount of commission depending on the product/ offer.

Affiliate Link - This is the link that is specially made for you so if a customer buys the product you will get credit from their sale or lead. There are ways to cloak your affiliate link from the customer and from the publisher so only you know the information.

Affiliate Manger - Once you sign up with a network, you will be assigned an affiliate manager. Somebody who will give you advice and tips on which offers to run. Word of caution, they can even steal all your traffic and commission if they know your keywords and referrer links. Don’t worry there are ways to hide the referrer links.

Affiliate Fraud - The amount of revenue that was obtained illegally under the TOS of the affiliate program.

Affiliate Tracking - These track your keywords so you know which keyword is converting to make you money. There are many keyword tracking software. Some are free and some cost money. I would recommend

http://prosper202.com/apps/

Well it helped me a lot and I talked to the creator. He could had made a lot of money off this but he made it free so the least I can do is post it on my blog.

CTR (Click Through Ratio) - The amount of clicks divided by the total number of visits. You want this number as high as possible. The CTR is traffic goes to search for your web site and it’s the amount of how many of them clicked to get into your web site. In simple words, out of XX many people, what is the ratio that would click a link.

EPC (Earnings Per Click) - The earnings per 100 clicks. It would be nice to see this one the product you are selling because it shows if there is potential in the product or not. Every 100 there will be an average that the traffic is turned into sales.

Commission – The amount of revenue that an affiliate earns that’s paid by the publisher. It can be a lead or a sale. Most of the time, commission at the sales level is always going to be a certain %. However in lead it is a fixed value.

Recurring Commissions – Commission that is paid to an affiliate if a customer pays for reoccurring costs. For example, phone service, internet hosting, domains.

Unique Click – A click that is new to the web site or web page. It is tracked by IP address.

ROI (Return on Investment)- As affiliate marketers, we use this as a main guide to see if we are profiting in a campaign. We as pay per click marketers, pay for each click if somebody clicks. We are hoping that the Costs of clicks is less than the amount of commission we will earn. So Revenue – Total Click Expense = Net gain / Net loss.

Residual Earnings / Residual Income – We love this terms because when you market online, you get the joy of having this type of income. It is the income that is made by an affiliate that keeps on reoccurring for a certain period of time if not, for life.

Super Affiliates – I hope one day I become one. This is the top 1% of affiliates that are earning a large sum of money.

Impression – The amount of times an advertisement like a banner was viewed.

Minimum Payout – The amount of revenue that is required to get paid by the affiliate program. Once minimum payment is reach the affiliate has to wait for the ending payment period to request payroll.

Net 15 Pay - This is common practice of many affiliate programs. As you occur revenue and you reach minimum payout and the end of the payment period, they pay you 15 days later.

NET 30 Pay – As you occure revenue and minimum payout is reached by the end of the payment period, you get paid 30 days later

Email Marketing – The method to lure customers into purchasing a product or offer through the use of email service. In my opinion this does NOT work well and usually marked as SPAM.

SEO (Search Marketing Optimization ) – The process of creating a purpose on the internet! Basically the point of SEO is to get to the top 10 rank of that niche on google.

Domain Name – The name of a web site that represents itself on the internet. Think of it has somebody’s name. For example : Uselessaffiliate.com is my name name

Domain Hosting – The place where a Domain name is directed to become active. The hosting is like the body and life of the domain name.
WOW that was a lot..however I will be updating this as time goes by. If there is anything wrong please let me know.

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Make Money Online Step One

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:11:39 +0000

So you want to make some extra income online? Or Maybe you want to make a career with affiliate marketing. Whatever your situation is, you want money. Well if you do not know where to start, you can start here where I can give you a few pointers. For beginners start to read blogs and articles about affiliate marketing. However I repeat do not try to buy any books or videos. Do lots of research first because this will help you succeed on your way to start affiliate marketing. I spent countless hours just researching on how stuff works and trying to understand terms.

Affiliate marketing is just like school. First they teach you all the material and then they give you a test. However the test will be how well you can convert an offer to make money. Learn how to do research on your own. Affiliate Marketing does NOT teach you. There are some step by step books but that information is already on thousands of money making blogs. Someone just made it easier for you to read and put together while they are making a profit. Read READ READ before you make any assumptions. Make sure you also look at their form of advertisement and promotion methods.

So what you should do know is learn how to use GOOGLE.com and branch off the keyword affiliate marketing. You can search for PPC, CPC, EPC, MAKE MONEY ONLINE, AFFILIATE NETWORKS, HOW TO MAKE MONEY, ETC Just go through those terms and you should be up in late hours just to learn how everything works.

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