Sunday, May 31, 2009

Affiliate Marketing With Google - Simple System to Start Getting Affiliate Traffic

Getting consistent traffic to your website is crucial to your business as it will ensure that there will always be people viewing your offer.

If you want to have more sales, you will have to drive more traffic and there is no secret to it. So how can you do affiliate marketing with Google to start getting the traffic from them?

The 1st thing that you must know is that the internet is created for the purpose of sharing and gathering information.

Big search engine like Google will always want to make sure that their visitors will get the most relevant information when the visitors uses their search engine.

Since Google is the biggest search engine on the internet, you will want to get traffic from them.

Now, you will start to gather a list of keywords that people are using when they are looking for information that are relevant to your market.

Once you have found a list of keywords, the next thing that you will want to do is to write 1 article that is being optimized for each keyword that you have found. For example, if you have 100 keywords, you will have to write 100 articles.

You will want to place your keyword in the 1st 4 letters of your article title. You will want to put it in such a way that it will look natural and the title is attention grabbing.

The next thing that you will want to do is to place your keyword intelligently in your article content.

You will want to put it in such a way that people will be able to read the article and understand the content. You will want to aim for keyword density for around 1% so that your article will look more natural.

Once you have written the article, the next thing that you will have to do is to submit the article to the top article directories.

You can also further distribute it through squidoo, hubpages and more. As these top authority website are being spidered very frequently by the search engine, there is a good chances that your article will get indexed.

If it is indexed, it will be good for you as it means that you will get free search engine traffic when your articles are listed.

Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.

He has recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse

Zack Lim - EzineArticles Expert Author

The Absolute Best and Most Profitable Affiliate Programs to Promote

This article is going to be short and sweet; this is about making the most amount of money with the most profitable affiliate programs.

Have you heard of the term “Residual Income” or “Recurring Income”?

If not, it’s a term that’s used by people in MLM or Network Marketing (same thing different verbiage) when they are presenting their business opportunities.

Both these terms mean you’re doing the work once and getting paid over and over again.

This is how MLM’ers make their long term money and that’s how you as an affiliate marketer will be making your long term money.

First, let’s look at what most affiliates are doing. I want to show you what separates the average affiliate that’s making little or zero money to the ones that are living their financial dreams.

The Super Affiliate.

Don’t worry if you’re doing the same things as everyone else is right now, after reading this report that will all change and you will become a SUPER AFFILIATE!!

Typically, the average Affiliate Marketer heads off to Click Bank or Commission Junction and searches for products that they want to promote.

They look for products that offer high commissions, 50% or better. Heck, if you’re going to do this you might as well make as much money as possible right?

Side note: When you choose a product to promote, it’s far easier to promote something you have an interest or basic curiosity about, not something you know nothing about.

I like hiking, so promoting products and services about hiking is easy for me because it’s something that gets my juices flowing. (Sorry if I just gave you a bad visual)

However, if I was trying to promote products and services about quilting something I know absolutely zero about and have no interest in learning anything about.

But I started promoting this affiliate anyway just because it had a high commission available I would probably have only moderate success, simply based on the fact it holds zero interest for me.

Ok, moving on…

Now that you’ve found the products and services you want to promote, you’re off to the races marketing these affiliates.

When you make a sale, you make a commission. However, you only make the one commission for that one sale. You have to start the process all over again.

One sale and one earned commission.

One sale and one earned commission.

One sale and one earned commission.

Wow, sounds like a lot of work to do over and over and over.

Why only make one sale and one commission why not take a page for all those MLM’ers and make residual income?

All you need to do is start promoting affiliate products or services that offer recurring commissions.

And these affiliate programs would be Membership Sites.

For example:

- Dating sites
- Online gyms
- Personal trainers
- Internet Marketing
- Business in a box
- Self Improvement
- Cooking
- Advertising
- And so on….

None of your marketing efforts or advertising strategies changes when promoting membership sites, the only thing that will change is your income.

Let’s look at some basic math and let’s start getting YOUR juices flowing. (my turn for that visual)

I’ll be the average affiliate marketer and you will be the Super Affiliate.

ME: I’m promoting a product that sells for $27, and I get a 50% commission for each sale $13.50. And in my first month I make 100 sales, so I have earned $1350.00.

YOU: You’re selling a product that has the same price tag of $27, you get the same commission for each sale $13.50, you sell just as many in the first month as I do (100) and you make the same amount of money $1350.00.

So far no big deal, were making the same money all is well and we are both decide to start looking at that new car.

Now month two rolls around and here’s where the difference is.

And I mean a BIG TIME difference.

ME: Let’s say I am a good marketer and I sell another 100 items. This means I make another $1350.00 in my second month. Not bad most people would jump at making that kind of money online.

However, here is we separate the average affiliate (me) and the Super Affiliate (you).

YOU: You’re a good marketer too and you also sell another 100 items and make another $1350.00 in your second month. Not bad good on you (golf clap).

BUT WAIT!!

Don’t forget about the first 100 people you sold last month. You also get paid from those sales which means you have another $1350.00 coming to you.

Plus the $1350.00 you made this month, you have made a total of $2700.00 for your second month.

Let’s keep with this sales theme where we both make 100 sales per month.

I will keep earning ONLY $1350.00 per month.

However the smarty-pants you are. You will be ADDING $1350.00 to your monthly income.

Month three your income is now $4050

Month four your income is now $5400

Month five your income is now $6750

Month six your income is now $8100

Are you staring to get the picture?

Because I am not promoting affiliate programs with recurring commissions, I only made $1350.00 in my second month, and $1350.00 in my third, and $1350.00 in my fourth and so on and so on.

Because I’m an average affiliate marketer my income does not increase each month.

Now with that said obviously I can increase my income each month. All I need to do is sell more or promote more then one product or service.

Nevertheless, I have to do this over and over again just to maintain my monthly income of $1350.00 or to better it. But you will ALWAYS have a head start each month, because your income is recurring.

Now the example I gave was us living in a perfect world where everyone that is paying for their monthly membership dues will continue to do so month after month.

Well this is not true, people drop out of programs everyday. Therefore, the chances are those first 100 people you were paid on in the first month will probably be less in the second month.

SO WHAT!!

Even if half of them do not continue with their membership dues, that’s still 50 people giving you an addition $675 head start on month number two. Where in month two I’m starting at zero, I have no head start.

No matter what math you use, promoting affiliate programs with recurring commission are the absolute best and most profitable programs to promote.

Side Note: One of the resources I use to find affiliates is Click Bank. When you’re searching for affiliates in the click bank marketplace, under the results is a list of information regarding each affiliate, simply look beside “Future $” if there’s no dollar amount there the affiliate offers no recurring commission. If there is a dollar amount they do.

To Your Success
Leo Emery.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Affiliate Marketing - 6 Things to Consider in Choosing Winning Products

Affiliate marketing as a way to make money online is becoming increasingly popular. It saves the internet marketer the burden of having to produce his own product or even his own sales copy. Basically, what he does is pre-sell a product that's already been packaged for him. It's no wonder, then, that many internet marketers start out in their online business career by doing affiliate marketing. The fact that there are thousands of affiliate programs to choose from makes it even more attractive. The question for the intrepid internet marketer then becomes not whether he should get into affiliate marketing but how to select the best affiliate programs or products. So that is what we're going to tackle in this article.

There are six things the affiliate marketer should consider when choosing a program.

1. A Product that's in demand

Listen and observe the world around you. What are the desires that people give voice to? Find a way to fill these desires and offer it to them. The product could be a course that could teach them a way to make money online or a service to help them find the love of their lives or the vacation spot of their choice. There's very likely to be an affiliate program selling these. Whatever product or service you promote, make sure that there's a demand for it. Without a demand, all your best efforts to make money online will be rewarded by a pittance.

2. High commission rates

Look for programs that offer high commission rates. Some programs pay out as much as 75% in commissions. It takes as much effort on your part to promote a product that gives you a $2 commission as it does one that pays you $30, so you might as well go for the higher payout. (There may be times, however, when the $2 payout can be a good idea. You can't discard these products offhand as they may just turn out to have mass appeal and sell like the proverbial hotcakes. But be discerning. Generally speaking, though, high payouts are what you're looking for.)

3. Effective Sales Copy

Check out the sales website of the affiliate marketing program you're thinking of joining. Is it effective? Does it convince? The product you're promoting may be great, but if the sales website is written poorly and unconvincingly, then it's likely to have a poor conversion rate. In this case, your best efforts at pre-selling may not meet with the success they deserve. So look for products with a striking sales copy.

4. Amount of Competition

Competition is good because it shows that there's a market for the product you're promoting. However, when the amount of competition is very large, it makes it that much more difficult for you to make a profit as you're all contending for the same clients. Of course, with the right skills and methods, you can outsell any competition, but if you're a neophyte in this field, then it may be best to stick to products with a moderate amount of competition in the beginning.

5. Payout Dates

Before you sign up, check the payout dates of the affiliate program. The closer the payout dates, the more preferable. Getting paid weekly or every two weeks beats getting paid only every two to three months. This is especially true if you advertise and have a limited advertising budget, or if you have other fees to pay. The quicker you get paid, the quicker you are able to utilize your money towards your online business.

6. Payout Minimums

Again, you want a program that has low payout minimums. Some programs will require you to earn $50 or $100 before transferring your earnings to you. If you think you can hit this minimum fairly quickly, then that's fine. You want to steer clear of programs with very steep minimums because if for some reason you haven't reached their minimum but have garnered a fair amount and you decide to move on, then you're not going to see whatever it is you have earned. And the same principle as payout frequency holds true for payout minimum: the quicker you get your earnings the better so that you can reinvest it into your online business.

Consider well these 6 important factors and you're on your way to a good start towards your affiliate marketing online business success.

Elvira Avila has been writing articles for more than 30 years. For more material on experiences, resources, tools, etc. related to making money online, visit her blog at http://onlinebusiness-elvira.blogspot.com/ .

Elvira A. Avila - EzineArticles Expert Author

Genuine Money Making Opportunities in the Internet

A person interested in making extra money in his free time can have ample opportunities on the internet. Online survey companies can provide him job of paid online surveys. He can avail this genuine money making opportunities in the internet. He has to work for only 10 hours a week and he is sure of making more than $500 per month. An hour of survey fetches him $20.

The surveys are filled with fun and the requirement is about giving honest opinions about quality of products he has been asked to use and experience by the online survey companies. He should have a PC and a high speed internet at his residence and a dedicated email address for this survey work. He is required to pay one time fees for the online paid survey database service for making extra money. There are high ranked paid online survey companies that give money back guarantee which solves his financial risk.

Many product manufacturers and service providers allot the work of market research to online survey companies, on their newly introduced products or services. The online survey company distributes this work of giving honest opinions after using the products or services, to consumers like this person who is interested in genuine money making opportunities in the internet.

The online company makes payments to the consumer by Pay Pal, check and Amazon gift certificates. The person who enrolls with a legitimate online survey company need not pay any middle men for signing in with the company. Most of the genuine survey companies enroll people free of cost.

As the quantum of work increases, the more the money the person earns. He can introduce lot of friends and relatives in this type of work. A genuine paid online survey company negotiates with the new entrant, its terms and conditions and adheres strictly during the payment for the work. Paid online surveys are performed to get true market research information.

The questions strictly pertain to the focal point of the central theme without distraction. Generally, the online survey company allots 4 surveys per week and pays correctly after two weeks of the completed survey. The person is eligible to enroll with more than one online survey company to enhance his money making opportunity. Experience makes him manage all the work systematically given by the different survey companies. After a few months of regular income, he can convert his part time job into a full time business.

A perfectly honest opinion survey is complete in about half an hour. If his work is appreciated and is promoted to take part in a focus group which lingers for a longer time, he is sure to make more money. An advantage of this opinion survey work is that the person who is enrolled gets many free sample products which he will otherwise buy from the market.

A slow start in this business enables him to understand the credibility and transparent functioning of the online opinion survey company. This business from home may not pave way for a fortune but definitely supports the person in recovering from debts and gives him the opportunity in making more money.

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7 Secret Steps Most People Don't Know About Affiliate Marketing

1. Get Inspired

Take a pen and a list of paper. Write down everything that you love doing, as many as you can recall from your past experience. If the product you try to sell is something that interests you personally, you will get much more joy from promoting it. The more passionate you are about what you do, the more chances that you will succeed and make profit. This is what separates full-time internet marketers from those who only end up loosing money online, trying and buying every single product out there about "work from home opportunities" and hardly ever get their foot in the door.

2. Find The Crowd

Once you have got some nice and neat ideas you think will sky rocket - well, its time to do some Market Research. This crucial step ensures that there is enough demand for your product/services idea. All you need is a starving crowd for whatever it is that you trying sell. One of the coolest tool to use, which is free, is Google Trends. It is absolutely amazing when combined with Google Sets to both analyze the market trend and expand potential keywords. What you want to achieve here is to make a list of at least 7 "hot products".

3. Know Your Competitors

Now that you've got a list of hot products, which hopefully you are passionate about, it's time to see how much is the competition out there? Again, try Google Keyword Tool. This brilliant free service will tell you exactly how much competition exist for any given keyword, and how much is the search volume for that particular search. The key, is to target niches, which have higher KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index). If you were to place an Ad campaign through Google, the higher the KEI is for your keyword, the better ROI (Return On Investment) you would get.

4. Traffic Generation

Just as with any traditional "brick and mortar" business where customers are everything, for online internet business "traffic" is everything. There is a proportional line between sales and traffic that you can generate. If you are just starting out and don't want to risk hard earned money, try with free traffic generation strategies first. Some places like: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, classifieds, articles, Yahoo answers and many many others will give you opportunity to expose your message in front of thousands of targeted internet users(you can find more tricks and tips in the link below). This has proven to be a very affective way of getting lots of free traffic and you don't even have to spend a penny, unlike any other overused tools like Google Ads, which is increasingly becoming harder to monetize from.

5. Tracking

Once things are up and running, make sure you have a way of tracking results. Bit.ly is one of the many great tools to shorten your affiliate link and keep tracking for free. It will even show you user's demographic information and graph of click volumes and dates. A few things you want to be able to track back: user's location(additional: age, sex, and etc, there more specific the better), time-date, source where clicks were generated and which ones actually converted into sales. All of these useful information will be necessary for the next step.

6. Optimization

Now lets say for example you spent $450 on ads and got 1000 clicks (45 cents per click). At the conversion rate of 2%, from above 1000 clicks you get 20 sales. Each sale makes you $20 (after all reductions). So now you have made $400 and spend $450 for advertising. Wow! you just made a profit of $50 !!! Just kidding, nooooo, you actually lost $50! That's why not optimizing properly will only make holes in your pockets bigger. So make sure you keep good tracking of everything you can to optimize campaigns. Always test, test and test again! To find out what works best, don't assume, because many things can not be easily predicted.

7. New Hot Trends

Almost every product will have it's picks and downfalls. For example "online business opportunities" are hot at the moment. There literally thousands of people out there who just lost their jobs and looking for the next income source to pay bills, to feed their family, and the list goes on. So, just keep en eye on whats going on around you and soon you will find some other areas that you might want to explore as well, which perhaps are untapped and hold some great money making opportunities.

To Your Success

Konand Co - An Internet Marketer Who Loves Helping Others To Live Out Their Dreams http://www.MaverickMoneyMakersTMclub.com


Affiliate Marketing - 5 Steps to Ensure Your Success With No Money Down

People all over the world are fed up with being at the mercy of fickle employers and an out-of-control global economy and are turning to Online Businesses to take control of their futures.

By selling other people's products as an Affiliate, you won't need a website or any inventory. However, there is a bewildering number of products, markets and media to deal with, so let's break it into 5 manageable, No Money Down steps.

Step 1: Stay mainstream and don't try to reinvent the wheel.

You will find every product you can think of at Clickbank, which also provides a tried and tested system that ensures you get paid straight away for every sale you make.

Step 2. Product Selection.

Passion pushes profit, so choose a product you would buy yourself.

Whether it's green energy, body building or tropical fish, what you enjoy never seems like work. Keep in mind that you will be directing traffic to your chosen supplier's site and it is they who will be closing the sales, so make sure that their pitch page is up to the job.

Step 3. Market Analysis.

Find your customers and get to know them.

This means get to understand where they go and what they do when they are both online and offline. What online forums and groups do they belong to? Join them. What do they discuss? What problems, needs and wants do they have? What products are they already buying?

Step 4. Competitor Analysis - you know where the customers are, so next you need to outmanoeuvre the competition.

It's easier than it sounds. Using powerful free tools, such as Google Alerts which will tell you immediately anything about the company or product enters the public domain, and Alexa, which analyses site traffic and demographics, you can reverse-engineer everything they have done and do it better. After all, once someone has beaten a new path it's easy to follow it and take a few shortcuts.

Step 5. Using the knowledge gained in Step 4 put your products in front of your target market.

Go to their forums, go to the blogs they read and publish articles with key words that push them up the Search Engine Rankings and place your links.

Move progressively through these 5 Free Steps and prove to yourself that you can make it as an Affiliate Marketer and take control of your future.

With the skills you acquire along the way you could well end up creating your own products and websites and recruiting your own Affiliates.

Did you find this article helpful? If you did, take a look at step-by-step Affiliate Marketing video tutorials here:

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Barry G Russell - EzineArticles Expert Author

Affiliate Marketing is the Best Online Business

Affiliate marketing is estimated to be a more than a $7 billion/year industry, and it continues to grow each and every year.

Some of the largest companies in the world rely upon affiliate marketing to fuel their e -commerce sales, and there are thousands of small and medium sized businesses that use affiliate marketing every single day to drive their online sales.

If you don't already know what affiliate marketing is, it's a merchant, such as an online toy store, will pay a sales commission to anyone who refers customers to their website.

This referral process is managed by using specially coded links that represent the referring affiliate whenever someone clicks on that person's link and then rewards them with a commission when that prospect makes a purchase.

In other words, these "affiliate links" keep track of who refers business to a website, and the person who refers this new customer is called an "affiliate".

Generating a part or even full-time income by running your own affiliate marketing business has many benefits. Here are the 10 reasons that affiliate marketing is considered the best home based business.

1) Very Flexible
You can make money promoting products and services in almost any industry or niche market you can think of. With thousands of available affiliate programs to choose from, you can promote toys this week, gardening tools next week, children's clothes the following week, and so on.

You can promote any type of products that you think people might be interested in, while earning affiliate commissions each and every month.

2) Run the Online Business Anywhere You Want
Because an affiliate marketing business is all conducted via the Internet, you can run your business from just about anywhere in the world - even while you're traveling. As long as you're able gain access to the Internet, you'll be able to run this business as though you were sitting in your office.

3) Low Startup Costs
An affiliate marketing business can literally be started for less than $100. Unlike other business opportunities that you may have been exposed to, there are no startup fees, or application fees to becoming an affiliate, because it's completely free.

4) Part Time Or Full Time
If you currently have a job that you'd like to replace with your own business, you can work and build your affiliate marketing business in your spare time, or you can dedicate yourself to affiliate marketing on a full time basis. The point is that you can work as little or as much as you want, and still build a profitable online business through affiliate marketing.

5) No Inventory
Since you'll be promoting products and services that other companies actually sell, you don't have to mess with the headaches of having to stock inventory.

6) No Shipping
Since you're not actually selling something to the end consumer, you don't have to deal with shipping hassles of actually having to get the item to the customer. Instead, you can just refer someone to your affiliate link, and when they buy the product, the whole ordering and shipping process is out of your hands, and the company that actually owns the product takes it from there.

7) No Payments
Since you're not selling your own product or service, you don't have to physically collect money from the customer, set up a merchant account, or any of that stuff. You simply refer people to your affiliate link, and then they pay the company for that product or service, and the company sends you your commission.

8) No Customer Support
This is a great benefit to you, as an affiliate, because you don't have to deal with the customers of the companies you promote, and this means you don't have to handle any complaints, problems, or any other types of problems that come with having to interact with customers.

9) No Selling
You may have seen claims from other business opportunities, such as with network marketing, that no selling is involved, but this is completely true with affiliate marketing, because the merchant's website is already set up to promote the products with proven web copy, testimonials, and so forth. All you have to do is get people to that website.

10) No Website Needed
We just covered the fact that the merchant already has the website that does the selling of the products or services that you're recommending, so you really don't even need a website of your own. Now, there are certainly some advantages to having your own affiliate website set up to help promote your affiliate offers, but it simply isn't necessary to do so in order to make money with an affiliate marketing business.