Useless Affiliate

Wow its like 7am right now and I’m hard at work already. I feel that in the morning my productivity rate is at its peak performance. No one is awake and everyone is still sleepy and no one to talk to. The best time of day to manage everything. The hardest part of finding the right keyword is well. . finding the right keyword. If I knew all the answers right now, I would be a super affiliate. But for now I’m not. There are so many keyword tools out there and I have not tried them yet. So far for my niche I am focusing on the long tail keyword.

A long tailed keyword is a chain of keywords that has about 3-5 keywords. For example, if you were promoting acne, you would use :

1. How to treat acne
2. Best acne medicine for teenagers
3. remove blackheads with best medication
4. Best medicine to treat blackhead
5. free proactive trial

Those are just a few examples. So why wouldn’t you just use “treat acne”, or “acne medicine”. This has to do with the type of customers you are looking for. In PPC you don’t want to waste your money on people who are just researching acne. The customer has to be someone who has a potential of buying the product.

In reallife situations, lets say we go into a car dealership. So I walk in and you walk in with me. I talk to the sales rep and ask him I want that White BMW Z4 in the corner. So simple enough because I know what I want and he has a high potential to make a sale. After I buy my car you talk to the sales rep and ask him “I need a car”. In order for him to help you as much as possible hes going to ask, what kind of car? what color? you want a sports car? do you want 4 doors?. ETC. So now hes refining your search and you have a small potential of giving him a sale because you are not targeting what you want. Maybe you just came there to test drive every single car but don’t buy anything.

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

Lets see too bad I didn’t have this blog up since I was too busy getting up my campaign and niches. I was told by a friend to start it on ASAP so I had some sparetime and why the hell not right? So I done it. First of all, I got some accounts from affiliate programs. I got approved in a few days. I already had a web site up and I had a host. I had money to burn on this campaign. Now I needed a domain for my niche. I got everything all set up. First I created a landing page. I will NOT lie. It took me about 5-6 hours to make one. I did not have sufficient knowledge to make a landing page. I researched how to do it and by the end of the day I had made my first landing page. Now I linked everything with my affiliate links and i did NOT use tracking. But wait.. shouldn’t I use tracking first?

Bum Marketing is something that I’m not much of a pro because I barely use it for now. However, just like everything on the internet advertisement everyone has to learn it. Bum Marketing is a pretty simple concept. It mainly focuses on SEO traffic. This is very time consuming but in the end your mark on the internet is there forever. When you don’t have sufficient cash to fund your clicks on yahoo or google, this is the way to go. However this approach is not INSTANT unlike PPC when in 24 hours you make money.

Hello fellow affiliate marketers, I bet after all the research of PPC you guys are wondering where to start. Pay Per Click is one way to start. I myself, started to use pay per click method to make that extra money. I wouldn’t say its a good way for beginners but PPC makes you learn everything you need to branch off to make other offers work. SEO is also a good way but takes lot of time and experience. I’m not saying Search Engine Optimization is really difficult but if you are trying to rank with other people that is where it does get tough.

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.

Well now that I got your attention how do I get started? First thing is first

Do you have a business mind frame?

I have to ask this because a lot of people get the impression that it is in a virtual world and its not the same as a physical business. In order to succeed one has to have the mind and motivation to do well.

Do you have the dedication?

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