Affiliate Marketing is a good way to earn extra revenue from your website. Many programs have a high payout and take very little time to set up. The following article on affiliate programs is a summary of the detailed information you can find at Affiliate Marketing Guide.
Make Money Now!
Well, you’ve created a new website, or maybe you have heard about how you can earn money online and want to see if it’s right for you. Often people are first exposed to the possibility of earning money online by seminars or online line eBooks. You might have even received emails stating how easy it is to get rich online. “Just follow our easy tips and start making over $1000.00 per day” Sound familiar? Let me assure you, paying the $49.99 for the ebook, spending 20 minutes setting up an affiliate site and sitting back and watching the check start coming in is not likely to happen.
That doesn’t mean that it is impossible to earn money over the Internet with affiliate programs, it’s just not that easy. First you need to have a good understanding of how affiliate programs work, choose a product that you believe in and can sell, set up a site that will actually get the desired response from a visitor, and finally get people to come to your site. This takes a lot of work and more importantly will take time before you start seeing results.
I already have a site; can I add affiliate programs to make money from it?
Likely so, if you already have a site that has quality content and you have visitor coming to it, then you have already done most of the work. The next step is choosing the right affiliate program to maximize the amount of money you can make on your website. This may mean choosing more than one affiliate program and doing some affiliate management to organize how they are laid out.
Where do I start?
First you need to research the available affiliate networks. There are not only a lot of different networks but also a number of different styles of networks to choose from. These include:
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Pay per Click (ppc) One of the most popular of these is from Google. You sign up for an adsence account and add code to your site, which displays ads that people have created through Google Adwords. Pay per click is one of the simplest affiliate programs available. After signing up for the account and getting accepted you choose they types of ads you want (image of text), how the ads will look (size, text colors, etc) and they produce some code you add to your site. Your most difficult job is to decide where to put the ads on your page and how to make them look so that you get the best results. Google provides most of the pay per click management and does all the work of finding companies willing to pay to advertise on your site.
The problem with pay per click is it often doesn’t pay much. You worked hard to get visitors to come to your site and $.03 to have them click on an ad and leave doesn’t go very far. Of course not all clicks pay the same amount. By having the right text on your page those clicks can be several dollars or more per click. For more information on this you can read our page on Pay per click.
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Pay Per sale – This is a little different. For this one you get paid each time someone buys an affiliate product after leaving your site. Payments on these can be much higher. $50, $100 and more is not uncommon. However you only get paid is someone actually buys.
With this type of program you will often spend much more time working on actually selling the product. This means researching the product, maybe even buying it yourself and then writing a page telling your visitor why they can’t live with out this product. A lot more work, but a successful campaign will also make you a lot more money. You can add many pages to your site devoted to different affiliate products or add the code to sell the product on an existing page that talks about something similar.
Remember while choosing products you don’t really have to put it on a page that talks about the exact product, you can put it on a page that attracts people who might be interested in the product but are on your page for another reason. For instance, if your site is about your wedding cake store, adding a few Amazon affiliate ads showing wedding dresses doesn’t compete with your store, but likely will be of interest to your readers.
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Pay Per Lead – Usually this is only offered by affiliate programs with big ticket items. Good examples are automotive or house sales. The profit made through each sale warrants the originator of the affiliate program to pay you just for providing a good lead. They are then responsible to make the sale. You will often see affiliate programs for automotive sales pay $3-$10 per lead.
Usually it is considered a payable lead when the visitor enters the affiliate programs site from your site and fills out some sort of contact form for the Affiliate manager to be able to contact them with.
Is affiliate marketing worth it?
There is a tremendous amount of money to be made on the Internet. With some hard work, time, and a lot of perseverance you can be one of those people making that money. Don’t quit your day job though. Make this a side job until you get it well established, this could take some time, but YES, affiliate marketing is worth the effort.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
How to Write a Press Release
One form of Internet marketing that ties in well with public relations campaigns used by non-internet businesses is the press release. The use of press releases has been common since the beginning of newspapers. Business send out short article to news editors and reporters trying to catch their attention so that they can get a free write up in the local newspaper.
Internet marketing is very similar but in addition to getting your information distributed in a physical media the goal is to also get distributed in the virtual media, the internet. The actual format of the Press release is the same when used for internet marketing as it is for other news media marketing.
Start with a catchy title.
Something that will get the reporters, or the internet viewers attention. Boring titles get ignored, try to come up with something that will make the person want to read shat is in the article.
Summary:
Summarize what they will find in the article. On web sites this often is viewed with the title to catch the interest of the reader. It should not replace the article, just cover some of the main points that you will find in the article.
Body:
This is where you put all the details or the press release, the message that you are trying to present.
Contact Information:
Be sure to include multiple ways for the person to reach you, phone, email, even an address can be added.
What to write:
A press release is a notification of some news worthy story. That you are having a sale probably won’t get much attention. A movement in the management, offering of a new service, an award, etc, might. Make sure you write about something that really would be considered news by people other than you. You can write the release yourself or make use of one of the copy writing services that are available.
Distribute press release:
Next you need to distribute press your release. This can be done over a number of different channels. The old way was by putting all the information in an envelope and dropping it off at the News Paper office. Now this is much better accomplished by email or a press release service. Online press releases are pretty easy, you just go to a press release site, open an account and fill in the information. If you would like to reach the local paper, then you likely need to contact the newspaper to get the email address to send the release to.
You can check our Internet press release sites list for a good list of sites to send your release to.
Internet marketing is very similar but in addition to getting your information distributed in a physical media the goal is to also get distributed in the virtual media, the internet. The actual format of the Press release is the same when used for internet marketing as it is for other news media marketing.
Start with a catchy title.
Something that will get the reporters, or the internet viewers attention. Boring titles get ignored, try to come up with something that will make the person want to read shat is in the article.
Summary:
Summarize what they will find in the article. On web sites this often is viewed with the title to catch the interest of the reader. It should not replace the article, just cover some of the main points that you will find in the article.
Body:
This is where you put all the details or the press release, the message that you are trying to present.
Contact Information:
Be sure to include multiple ways for the person to reach you, phone, email, even an address can be added.
What to write:
A press release is a notification of some news worthy story. That you are having a sale probably won’t get much attention. A movement in the management, offering of a new service, an award, etc, might. Make sure you write about something that really would be considered news by people other than you. You can write the release yourself or make use of one of the copy writing services that are available.
Distribute press release:
Next you need to distribute press your release. This can be done over a number of different channels. The old way was by putting all the information in an envelope and dropping it off at the News Paper office. Now this is much better accomplished by email or a press release service. Online press releases are pretty easy, you just go to a press release site, open an account and fill in the information. If you would like to reach the local paper, then you likely need to contact the newspaper to get the email address to send the release to.
You can check our Internet press release sites list for a good list of sites to send your release to.
Web Marketing
One of the primary reasons websites fail is not how the site looks, the content of the site, or its features. Wonderfully designed site with a great product fail every day. While these items do affect the success of the site the primary reason many sites fail comes down to Web Marketing, helping the right people actually find your site.
From this page I will be linking to pages discussing many of the key internet marketing methods these Web Marketing Companies (and you) use including:
* eMail Marketing (Very Effective)
* Pay Per Click (PPC)
* Text Link Ads
* Network Marketing (Similar to MLM)
* Viral Marketing
* Link Baiting
* Banner advertisement
* Online Social Network Marketing
To illustrate the need of Web Marketing lets consider a “Real World”, “Brick and Mortar Business”. It’s safe to assume that most of us have seen good businesses fail. While you can’t always rule out bad management, more likely the real reason of the failure was the inability of the owner to get customers in the door to look at the product. An old saying about the most important part of a business is “Location, Location, Location”. Sad but true, the quality of the product is not always what makes the business succeed.
But how does this relate to marketing your website? Internet Marketing follows many of the same rules as marketing any other business. It still comes down to “Location, Location, Location”, but instead of making sure you are on a busy street, you need to make sure your website is featured on a busy web page. “Busy Web Page”? No, not one that is cluttered and hard to read, one that not only has a lot of people visiting it, but has people visiting it that are interested in your product.
There are two main ways to get your website featured on these coveted great locations.
1. Buy the position
2. Create such compelling content that people volunteer to put you there.
You can buy the position in many ways some directly; Adwords and web page advertisements are two of them. Or indirectly; you can buy links that influence the search engines to put you on their high traffic pages (popular search engine result pages).
Regardless of the method you choose to market your website you have the unenviable task of trying to market your site better that the Web Marketing Companies marketing your competitors site. This can be difficult but not impossible.
Don’t despair, Web Marketing is a challenging field that takes a little time to learn but, the advantage is not having to give a Web Marketing Company a share in those hard earned profits!
From this page I will be linking to pages discussing many of the key internet marketing methods these Web Marketing Companies (and you) use including:
* eMail Marketing (Very Effective)
* Pay Per Click (PPC)
* Text Link Ads
* Network Marketing (Similar to MLM)
* Viral Marketing
* Link Baiting
* Banner advertisement
* Online Social Network Marketing
To illustrate the need of Web Marketing lets consider a “Real World”, “Brick and Mortar Business”. It’s safe to assume that most of us have seen good businesses fail. While you can’t always rule out bad management, more likely the real reason of the failure was the inability of the owner to get customers in the door to look at the product. An old saying about the most important part of a business is “Location, Location, Location”. Sad but true, the quality of the product is not always what makes the business succeed.
But how does this relate to marketing your website? Internet Marketing follows many of the same rules as marketing any other business. It still comes down to “Location, Location, Location”, but instead of making sure you are on a busy street, you need to make sure your website is featured on a busy web page. “Busy Web Page”? No, not one that is cluttered and hard to read, one that not only has a lot of people visiting it, but has people visiting it that are interested in your product.
There are two main ways to get your website featured on these coveted great locations.
1. Buy the position
2. Create such compelling content that people volunteer to put you there.
You can buy the position in many ways some directly; Adwords and web page advertisements are two of them. Or indirectly; you can buy links that influence the search engines to put you on their high traffic pages (popular search engine result pages).
Regardless of the method you choose to market your website you have the unenviable task of trying to market your site better that the Web Marketing Companies marketing your competitors site. This can be difficult but not impossible.
Don’t despair, Web Marketing is a challenging field that takes a little time to learn but, the advantage is not having to give a Web Marketing Company a share in those hard earned profits!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Social Bookmarking More About Sharing Than Bookmarking
I have been in the SEO industry for more than 4 years now. From what I have learnt from my experience, is that Social Media is the most aggressive tool in the internet marketing industry to gain web traffic in a short period of time. Most of the SEO experts refer to it as Viral Marketing with a mix of SMO, Social media marketing but popularly known as Social media optimisation.
I have often seen in most reputed companies based in the UK, they have social bookmarking experts who are assigned the job of bookmarking site details such as Title, Description, URLs and tags into most popular bookmarking site such as Delicious, Reddit, Stumble Upon etc.
Tis is no brainer,I believe it's the waste of technology or just stuffing or spamming these web 2.0 sites. Submitting your site details into these highly traffic generating websites is not enough. There are loads and loads of people doing it. But we should be more intelligent and smarter than others by making good use of these social engagement sites.
These are some tips below which you can use to promote your website through Viral Marketing:
1) Create full profile with real name on these websites. Submitting just the details required to bookmark sites for free is not enough. Create a profile where other members can easily get connected with you.
2) Along with bookmarking websites, it is also necessary to share these websites. Make friends, join groups of your industry and try to remain active in these sites as much as possible.
3) Create groups using most highly and relevant search term of your industry and invite your friends to join these groups.
4) Use your Gmail, Yahoo and other IM contacts in finding more people who are already using these web 2.0 sites. Also invite other friends in your contacts to join these websites which would help in networking as well as promoting their websites.
5) Instead of choosing just keywords such as "Social Bookmarking" as title choose "How Will Your Website Benefit Through Social Bookmarking". People like long phrases rather than just keyword stuffing.
Follow these simple steps and you will find a rather new look of Social Media Optimization.
I know its difficult to use these steps in all social bookmarking sites but you can easily try them in top 10 bookmarking sites of my choice.
1. Delicious
2. StumbleUpon
3. Propeller
4. Digg
5. Reddit
6. Furl
7. Mixx
8. Diggo
9. Twitter
10. Faves
You can also try some other sites that are popular as well as good traffic generating such as FaceBook, MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Xing etc. These are social networking sites where you can communicate with people from your relevant industry as well as share your tips and strategies all together. This above tactics describe viral marketing in whole. Viral marketing is lot more creative and the person who is able to attract traffic with content can only survive in the viral marketing industry.
So if you don't have any experience in viral marketing then choose some established company that offers professional SMO services and helps your website in getting lots and lots of relevant traffic.
Try these 10 most popular social bookmarking sites to promote your website and I assure you that there will be gradual increase in your web traffic not too long.
I have often seen in most reputed companies based in the UK, they have social bookmarking experts who are assigned the job of bookmarking site details such as Title, Description, URLs and tags into most popular bookmarking site such as Delicious, Reddit, Stumble Upon etc.
Tis is no brainer,I believe it's the waste of technology or just stuffing or spamming these web 2.0 sites. Submitting your site details into these highly traffic generating websites is not enough. There are loads and loads of people doing it. But we should be more intelligent and smarter than others by making good use of these social engagement sites.
These are some tips below which you can use to promote your website through Viral Marketing:
1) Create full profile with real name on these websites. Submitting just the details required to bookmark sites for free is not enough. Create a profile where other members can easily get connected with you.
2) Along with bookmarking websites, it is also necessary to share these websites. Make friends, join groups of your industry and try to remain active in these sites as much as possible.
3) Create groups using most highly and relevant search term of your industry and invite your friends to join these groups.
4) Use your Gmail, Yahoo and other IM contacts in finding more people who are already using these web 2.0 sites. Also invite other friends in your contacts to join these websites which would help in networking as well as promoting their websites.
5) Instead of choosing just keywords such as "Social Bookmarking" as title choose "How Will Your Website Benefit Through Social Bookmarking". People like long phrases rather than just keyword stuffing.
Follow these simple steps and you will find a rather new look of Social Media Optimization.
I know its difficult to use these steps in all social bookmarking sites but you can easily try them in top 10 bookmarking sites of my choice.
1. Delicious
2. StumbleUpon
3. Propeller
4. Digg
5. Reddit
6. Furl
7. Mixx
8. Diggo
9. Twitter
10. Faves
You can also try some other sites that are popular as well as good traffic generating such as FaceBook, MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Xing etc. These are social networking sites where you can communicate with people from your relevant industry as well as share your tips and strategies all together. This above tactics describe viral marketing in whole. Viral marketing is lot more creative and the person who is able to attract traffic with content can only survive in the viral marketing industry.
So if you don't have any experience in viral marketing then choose some established company that offers professional SMO services and helps your website in getting lots and lots of relevant traffic.
Try these 10 most popular social bookmarking sites to promote your website and I assure you that there will be gradual increase in your web traffic not too long.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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