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How To Succeed Online As An Affiliate For Under $100 – Part 10

Mr Success — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:00:13 +0000

Step 9 – Get Traffic From Search Engines

So far you have selected a great product, have your own site, have a resource page, are offering visitors a gift and following up with them. You’ve done well!

Now it’s time to list your site with the search engines.

The Search Engine Optimization business is confusing to say the least. It’s all too easy to find sites that offer us that juicy “top 10 position” if we will only pay them a fee.

WARNING: These are often a scam. Do NOT give them your money!

There are some very legitimate things you can do to improve your search engine position and begin getting some traffic from surfers interested in the topic of your site.

Best of all, they won’t cost you a dime. Here are three things you can do today to help your site get noticed.

Register with the search engines for free. So many people skip this step, focusing instead on quick fixes like software programs or “cloakers” that offer temporary results at best.

The thing to do is to submit your site to Google, Yahoo and the DMOZ yourself, and then let time and the quality of your site improve your ratings.

While this is a very basic step (you will want to do more in time) it’s a great place to start, especially if you do not have spare money to spend on books, membership sites, or software for search engine positioning.

You can submit to Google here

You can submit to Yahoo here

You can submit to the DMOZ here

Keep the content on your site current. Search engines love content that changes. Add new products to your resource page and change the wording on your home page once a week and you will do well with most search engines.

Ask for meaningful reciprocal links. While you could spend hundreds on programs like Arelis or Zeus, and spend huge amounts of time as well, using common sense as you surf will pay huge dividends and cost you nothing.

As you travel the Internet, stay on the lookout for sites that compliment your site. When you find one, take a moment to dash off an email proposing that you link to them and they link to you. Then let time become your ally as you build a list of links that really mean something, the type of link-backs that search engines respect, and reward with higher rankings.

Best of all, each of these techniques is effective … and free!

How To Succeed Online As An Affiliate For Under $100 – Part 7

Mr Success — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:00:53 +0000

Step 6 – Get Fast Results With Pay Per Click Advertising

Without a doubt, pay-per-click advertising is the fastest method available to create results for your marketing. Google’s site claims that their Google AdWords campaigns can deliver results in an amazing 15 minutes!

In a nutshell, pay-per-click works this way. Large search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Overture generate millions of searches a month. They know that getting a top-ten rating on their search engine is hard, so they sell space on their search page for small ads to appear. Buying these ads lets you, the small advertiser, bypass the search engine ranking wars and have your ads appear right next to the “big dogs” free listings.

Usually, there is no charge for your ad to appear, but you do pay the rate you agreed to pay every time someone clicks on your ad. Hence the name of “pay per click.”

The amount you agree to pay for every click is called the bid amount.

Setting up with AdWords is fast and free. All you pay for are the actual clicks to your site, and you can even choose how much you can afford to pay per day.

Since you now know what product you will be promoting, choosing some good keywords should be easy.

NOTE: The goal here is to make money, not to dominate the search engines or get a #1 listing in every keyword possible. Even if the best keywords to describe your product are very competitive, you should be able to generate traffic using pay-per-click.

Here are two tools to help you choose the right keywords. Use these tools to create a list of keywords, then use Google’s keyword tool, available to you after you create an AdWords account, to see what the current bid is for each word.

Good Keywords is software you download and use on your computer. It is free.

WordTracker is a service that helps you find even more keywords. They offer a free trial, which is what I recommend you use at this time.

Make a list of the top 20 keywords pertaining to the product you have chosen and see what Google charges for clicks on those keywords. Then decide how many clicks per day you want to pay for, establish your account, and get ready for the traffic to begin!

Here are a few tips on bidding and using pay-per-click on modest budget.

Be careful about how much you bid. If your budget is $100 or less, spend no more than half on pay per click in a two week period
Monitor your clicks very carefully. If you have received 100 clicks but made no sales, consider changing your ad or the keywords on which you are bidding.
Don’t use a mystery approach with your ad. When you are on a modest budget you must make every click count which means you want people clicking your ad because they are truly interested, not only curious.
Google is not the only pay-per-click search engine, but is the largest one that does not charge a fee or require a minimum to begin. As you grow and begin to earn profits, consider duplicating the success you have on Google, on Overture and other pay-per-click search engines.

Above all, be sure that you control how much you spend on pay-per-click by setting your maximum daily billing amount.

Tip: There are many pay-per-click search engines that will offer you an incentive to try them. See our resource guide for a list but be aware of their terms before you begin! Few things are truly free and you don’t want to commit much needed monies just to try a small search engine that seems to be offering a “deal”.

How To Succeed Online As An Affiliate For Under $100 – Part 3

Mr Success — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:35:12 +0000

Step 2 – Create a Web Page

Yes … You NEED Your Own Site

The reasons to create your own web page are powerful indeed. The simple fact is that you will need a website of your own at some point, so you might as well do it now.

With your own site you can generate leads, build a list, use a follow up to supercharge your sales, and more.

This article is not about website development, so I’ll just touch on each briefly.

The advantages of having your own website are:

The ability to capture a visitor’s information and follow up

On your site, once a visitor asks for more information you can send them a series of messages on why they should buy your product, along with the useful information you offered.

Most people don’t buy on the first visit, so this is crucial to your long-term success.

2. The ability to craft special offers for the products you promote – even when you are an affiliate. Don’t think that because you are an affiliate you don’t control the sale. With your own site you can offer special incentives, like unique bonus items, that the customer can request via email after they buy.

This works very well and you can get these bonus items on most resale rights sites once you make a little money.

3. The ability to change the products you promote at will. Let’s say that you create a site about autoresponders and are making some sales, and then the company you have been promoting becomes less desirable or goes out of business.

With your own site you simply change the copy and you won’t miss a beat. If you had been sending that traffic directly to the site you had been promoting it would be much harder to make a mid-course correction.

4. You will be building a presence on the search engines. The advantages here are obvious. Search engine traffic is much easier to get than most people think, and having your own site is the first step.

5. You can sell space on your site as the site starts to earn visitors and sales. This will not happen until you have some serious traffic and can prove it. But selling space on your site can be very profitable. In fact, selling space on your site is the basis of Google’s wildly popular AdSense program.

Choose A Host That Offers Templates

Creating your own site is very easy now. You need to start with a good hosting company. Look for one that provides templates to make creating websites quick and easy and you will be a step ahead.

When it comes to creating an information website, remember that the site design does not matter. The quality of the information, not the presentation, is what matters most.

HOT TIP: If you want to start completely FREE try Blogger.com You can use a blog as a web site with no problem and Blogger (run by Google) is 100% free and super easy to use. http://www.blogger.com

Using a blog as your site will give you the added advantage of being able to syndicate your content via RSS. Although an explanation of RSS is beyond the scope of this report, using a blog will practically assure you a fast listing on Yahoo.

No matter what service you choose, do not get a host that offers free hosting but requires that their banners appear on your site. Experience has proven that this does not work and hurts sales badly since you cannot control where the banner appears or what it says.

What Type Of Site?

The product you choose and your personality will determine the type of site you create. By all means, feel free to be yourself! After all, this is your site.

My recommendation is that you create a review site. A review site simply means that you write short reviews of the top 10 or so products in any field.

Sticking with our autoresponder example from before, you could review the top 10 autoresponder companies, explain the difference between an autoresponder service and autoresponder software, find articles about how to use autoresponders to post on your site, and give a free book about autoresponders to each visitor who requests it.

By creating a review site you have the best of all worlds. Just consider:

The search engines will love your site since it is topic specific and reward you with free traffic.
You earn a commission no matter what your reader chooses since you only review those products that carry an affiliate program.
People who ask for your free gift can also receive follow up messages about other products, creating a powerful back end income.
As your traffic grows you could even sell space on your site to large autoresponder companies who want even more business!

Other types of sites that work well for affiliates are:

Top ten sites – List the top 10 companies in your chosen niche.
Best Buy Sites – Show people where to get the best prices and build loyalty for your site while you earn.
Hot Deal Sites – Build a powerful mailing list by offering to blast an email to your list when you find hot bargains that won’t last long.

No matter what type of site you choose, establish your online presence now and you put time on your side.

Ok. You just learned “Step 2 – Create a Web Page”, and the next part you will learn “Step 3 – Offer a Resource Page“. See you.