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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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Introduction to Article Marketing

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:27:47 +0000

I love article marketing because the only thing you waste is your own time IF you fail. Unlike PPC marketing, article marketing is doing everything the “old fashioned” way. S.E.O…. Pay Per Click is guaranteed traffic depending on the keywords you might get no traffic or high volume traffic. Usually high volume traffic gets you so much hits but you pay for it. The higher you pay the more traffic gets driven to your web site and/or landing page. For article marketing only one thing counts. “Organic Traffic”. hmm..remind me to add this to the affiliate dictionary. Organic Traffic is traffic is known as “unpaid listings” in a search engine or in a directory of some sort. The difference between organic traffic and paid traffic is the amount of money you spend. Simply, organic traffic is FREE but takes days to weeks and months! to rank #1. Pay Per Click Traffic gets you #1 spot but you pay for it. Some keywords can go up to $5-$10 with a low quality score.

Anyways, we use we article marketing to promote offers that is usually an ebook. There is an ebook for over thousands of things from weight loss, how to ( insert problem), cookbooks, etc. So pretty much this is flexible and writing an article wouldn’t be so tough when you pick your favorite niche to produce. So should we start? Here is the beginning of article marketing.

Step 1 : First of all sign up for ClickBank. This is the most popular place for promotion of ebooks. Search the web site for any niche you wish. Clickbank is some what challenging to understand its many properties such as gravity and last sale, etc. I will go over this when I write about how to use clickbank in a later post right now I do not want to overload you with information. You need to create a hoplink. Don’t know how? click here http://www.clickbank.com/hoplink_faq.html. Do not be afraid of having no web site because clickbank does NOT call you or approve you. Everyone is approved.

Step 2: Sign up for ezinearticles.com. This is where you will write up and BS your articles. Once you are signed up search your niche and see how many people posted articles. If your niche comes up to be <10,000 you can dominate it easily. If its in the triple digits as 100,000, then its a bit harder to gain. I think ezine lets you add 2 links to the article. This is used to make the traffic click on your link. Ezine does NOT accept direct linking so you will need to set up a web page. If you can write about 1 article a day then you should be good for that niche. In the beginning it takes about a week for them to actually approve your article. YES you will have to be patient. Make sure it fits an article criteria. So now you have an OFFER and a place where traffic accumulates.
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Step 3: Go make an account on blogspot or wordpress.com if you don’t have a domain + hosting. Now write like a continuation on your article that is very general so you can use it over and over again since all your articles will link to that exact same web site. Now the link to the offer will be somewhere on that page usually at the top of the end or both of the written mini article. Once you have that up check your hoplink if it works and try to hide it by using a hyperlink text. There is another way to hide it completely but for now this know this basic. Sometimes people steal your sales by putting in their own hoplink to replace with theirs.

Step 4 : Now your job is to create more and more articles to populate the niche. This will give your article higher rankings on google and more hits. In this type of marketing, the more the hits the more you earn money. Conversion rates are VERY low but your high volume assuming you have over 100 articles will compensate for that. That is one reason why you would not want to PPC an Ebook because after 20 – 50
+ hits you will lose money and no one will buy your ebook.

There are more ways to promote the article but for now good luck and be creative! If you need to learn anything from the minor details like hiding a hoplink just google it! However in the future I’m going to go over everything you should do. The only thing i won’t tell you is my niche !

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Keyword Tips

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:52:42 +0000

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 :

How to treat acne
Best acne medicine for teenagers
remove blackheads with best medication
Best medicine to treat blackhead
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.

I hope the gives a bigger picture on the types of keywords you might need. Don’t get me wrong the short term keywords are good too if you have some money to burn.

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