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Affiliate Marketing Strategy – Important Aspects of Affiliate Marketing

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that the winning affiliate marketing strategy involves getting as much traffic (and as much targeted traffic) to your affiliate products as possible. And getting enough traffic starts with choosing a product or service that is guaranteed to generate interest and then to convert into sales.

One part of an effective affiliate marketing strategy is making sure that you leverage off of the merchant’s time and effort that have been put into his or her product or service. An experienced and skilled merchant will know that the more his or her affiliates are selling, the more he or she will earn. And therefore, he or she will continue to test and tweak the product’s or service’s sales page to make it into a the most compelling offer possible that makes it hard for people to refuse once they land on the page.

Look for sales pages that are simple and clean, that offer a compelling headline, testimonials and, if possible, even a timer that shows people how long they can claim the product or possibly the bonus that comes with it.

Once you’ve chosen a product with a proven sales page and conversion rate, you need to get as much high-quality traffic to the offer as possible. You can do this directly by advertising your affiliate link with PPC (pay-per-click), classified ads, banner ads, etc. Or you can set up a content blog or website that provides useful information on the niche of the product or service you are selling.

If you are just starting out, a blog might be the easiest way to get started and a WordPress blog is often the most highly recommended because it comes with many free plug-ins that will allow you to be more visible to the search engines.

Keyword research is an important part of any kind of affiliate marketing plan of action. After you’ve chosen the product or service that you want to promote, then choose the keywords that you are going to use to get traffic to your link or to your website or blog. Again, if you are new, you want to choose less competitive keywords.

Go to the Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool (which is free of charge) and type in the general term that describes your product’s niche. This tool will then provide you with all the related search terms that people are actually using when they go to their browser and do a search. The tool also provides you general statistics on how often each term is searched, how competitive each term is, what people are bidding on this term in PPC ads, etc.

Start with lower-searched terms and use these in your blog/website content, or in your direct link advertising methods. As you start to get more visitors, you can start using more competitive terms in your affiliate marketing strategy.

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WordPress Wizard 2

WordPress Wizard 2.0

A Complete Review Have you ever considered the idea of being able to make money online? Chances are if you have, you have probably thought about the idea of making money with a blog. Many people do make money with blogs, and good money too. The problem is, is if you are new to Internet marketing and blogging, you do not stand a chance at earning an income from your blog. This is because there are professional marketers out there who understand what it takes and are way ahead of you.

So, while you are trying to catch up with them, they are eating up all of your potential traffic and sales. This is where WordPress Wizard 2.0 can help you. To be able to make money online with your blog, it is essential that you are equipped with all the knowledge you need from the basics to the more advanced education. WordPress Wizard 2.0 has all this for you. It contains more than 50 training video tutorials on how to blog using WordPress.

It’s exactly what newbies to blogging need to get started and get profiting with their blogs. You are taught everything from setting up your own WordPress blog, monetizing it to earn money from it, to driving targeted massive traffic to it. You are giving access to 6 modules which include: * Internet Marketing Basics – This includes video tutorials on how to register your own domain name with places such as GoDaddy, how to change DNS names, how to get hosting, how to install and use FireZilla FTP program and how to use cPanel. * WordPress Basics – You will be giving access to video tutorials on installing WordPress, installing themes and plug ins and more.

* Advanced Tutorials on WordPress – Learn how to upgrade WordPress, use Windows live writer, create back ups, edit CSS style sheets and how to use RSS. * Make Money Online with Blogs – This tutorial is all about making money with AdSense, monetizing your blog with affiliate products through ClickBank and how to publish free articles to drive traffic to your blog. * Link Building and SEO tutorial – You will learn all about SEO and ways to build links. * Email Marketing and RSS – You will learn how to build a list using your blog and marketing your products through email marketing using Aweber.

Not only will you have access to these training tutorials, but you will also be giving special bonuses such as The Keyword Warrior, Forum Warrior, Blog Warrior, Forum Warrior and Directory Warrior. These are important tools that every successful Internet Marketer needs to help them make money online with their blogs. WordPress Wizard 2.0 is a great program for people getting started in the Internet marketing and blogging world. It will get you up and running fast with your WordPress blog and get you into profit mode right along side all the other successful marketers.

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Monetizing your Blog

Monetizing your Blog

After you have set-up your wordpress blog and begun getting some traffic to your blog from your link building and from the search engines you can begin monetizing your blog. You shouldn’t start monetizing your blog too early because it will turn some people off from your blog. Also make sure that you don’t make each post a big advertisement for some product or advertisement because your readers won’t enjoy that too much. You need to figure out the perfect combination of ads to make money off of your blog while keeping your readers happy.

Pay-Per-Click Ads

Google Adsense is the biggest ad network for bloggers and you’ll be best off using them for your pay per click ads. You simply make some pay per click ads to the size you need them in the Adsense admin section and implement them into your blog. The size of the ads will make a big difference so make sure you don’t try adding too big of ads into your blog. You should try to implement the ads into your blog so that they fit right into the content as it will draw in more clicks.

Affiliate Leads

Many of the affiliate networks offer leads that you can add to your blog and what this means is simply that you send your readers to a lead page where they sign-up for something free. Leads don’t pay that much when there free, but some of the leads which cost money will pay a lot of money. You’ll also find that you have better luck trying to get people to join leads then buy products.

Affiliate Products

All affiliate networks have products that you can promote and you can either add links or banners to your blog to promote these products. It’s best to generally write a review as a blog post to promote the product this way it won’t interfere with your blog. You will be paid on a commission basis for the products you sell ranging anywhere from 5-75%.

Link & Banner Sales

There are lots of webmasters and businesses that will buy links and banners from blogs with traffic and you can make lots of money with ads. You can choose to find the people privately on webmaster forums or you could advertise your blog in some of the networks out there that allow you to advertise your blog in hopes of selling links and banners. Many of the networks work great and will find you advertisers quickly, it’s best if your blog is niched based though when looking for private ad sales.

There are lots of ways you can monetize your blog as you can see, and I haven’t touched all of the methods either. I’ve gone through the most popular methods, but there are some other things that can make you money depending on your website niche. I’d recommend starting out with these monetization methods first so that you can make some money before moving onto other areas. Also remember that you should stay with the same networks until you reach minimum payouts so that you don’t have money sitting in a bunch of networks that you can’t withdraw. It’s a rookie mistake that many webmasters make and I don’t want to see you waiting months for your first check.

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The 3 most effective ways to monetize your blog

The 3 most effective ways to monetize your blog

Today internet is full of multiple blogs making money in various possible ways. But among them one should choose the most popular ones to earn solid amount within a couple of months. Perhaps, you thought that now I will show the google adsense income as one of them. But on this point, not everyone is successful, as for making huge income one need to choose the most popular niche and get paid per clicks more than just a few pennies. So this article is related to the 3 most wide-spread money-making methods with blogging, not including google adsense:

1. Use your blog as an online place for expert consultations and then recommend affiliate products or services.
Do not try to simply advertise this or that product. Here the most important thing is to provide your readers with real valuable and interesting information that they need to hear from a specialist in this area. Therefore before starting any blog, sit down and think thoroughly in what field you are considered to be good, even if not expert. So after you have decided this main moment, then create your blog and choose products and/or services related to your niche. It would be better to choose those affiliate programs that will provide you guaranteed monthly residual income. But you would be better first to test the products yourself and then recommend them. In this way you will gain more credibility of your readers.

2. Create and sell your own info product.
This money-making method is the alternative way, if affiliate programs are not for you, though many people are making a six-figure income every year, just by selling others’ products. Today almost everyone who comes to the internet try to create his own info product, mostly e-book. So why do not you also try? If you think over your experience in this or that field, you will surprisingly discover how many areas exist in which you have some valuable knowledge or experience you could share with others and earn money for that. So why not format this information that can be useful for many people into a unique info product? After having created your own e-book, you can promote it with various methods online and get constant income from the sales. For example, you can sell it on your blog or website, if you have one, or you can promote it on others’ sites or e-zines.

3. Sell ad places on your blog.
Today selling places to various companies for putting their banner on your website or blog is one of the most popular ways to earn passive income on monthly basis. You think it is a very hard job to find the clients to willing to put their advertising on your website? Not at all! You need just huge traffic on daily basis. If you’ll have, let’s say only 100 visitors a day, then companies will themselves find and offer you to advertise their services.

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How to Create a Profit Pulling WordPress Blog Today

How to Create a Profit Pulling WordPress Blog Today

The WordPress Platform has come a long way since the early days, so much so that you can now easily control every function of your WordPress Blog from an easy to manage WordPress Admin Dashboard ….

Install your WordPress Theme, Install your WordPress Plugin, Install Affiliate Products, Optimize your WordPress Blog.

Now if you have never used WordPress before you may be breaking into a cold sweat just thinking about this ….

Worry not, it is simpler than you may think….. I would suggest following the simple steps before you even start to think about the technical stuff.. now most would tell you get a domain name etc etc

Ok, that is half right, but if you follow the steps suggested below, then the likelyhood is you will get your WordPress Blog setup right – First Time ……

Step 1 – Research and choose a Niche

This is an important first step, this will get your creative thinking head on, just get a blank piece of paper and write down maybe 5 things that interest you. Once you have your list, then you can check how popular these ideas may be by using for example the Google Keyword Tool Anylazer…

Step 2 – Choosing your Domain Name

Choosing a Domain Name could be a two minute job, for example if you want to self-brand yourself, if so it would be a case of registering yourname.com

If you are looking to blog about a certain niche, then some basic research is required. I would also suggest you look to try and chose a keyword rich. For example, if you are blogging about Bonsai Trees then try and have this within your Domain Name.

Step 3 – Registering your Domain Name

There are many Domain Name Registers out there, I have used a few, over the last year I have used Namecheap.com for a number of reasons, they are reasonably priced, offer free WHOIS Gaurd to protect your Personal Details and with their money off coupons you can secure your Domain Name for under $9.00! . If you enter “”Namecheap Coupon Code – July 2009″” then you can save money on the cost.

Step 4 – Setting up your Webhosting Account

It is important you get this step right, I have in the past lost out with Webhost companies disappearing overnight and with it your websites and business. It can be personal choice who you decide to host with, I would recommend Hostgator.com, the reasons behind it they are reliable and cheap, offer 24-7 customer service and to help you get started you could get the first months hosting for only 1 cent!

Step 5- Updating your DNS Nameservers

This step is required to have your Domain Name Register, ‘point’ your Domain Name to your ‘webspace’ so when people type your WordPress Blog Domain Address into their Internet Browser, it will automatically go to where your WordPress Blog is installed. Your Webhosting company will supply your Nameservers Information – for example- ns1.yourwebhoster.com, ns2.yourwebhoster.com you would access ‘Transfer to Webhost’ in your Domain Control Panel and enter the Nameserver Information and Update. It can take up to 24 Hours to propgate the information and point to your webspace.

Step 6 – Installing your WordPress Blog

As I mentioned in Step 4 it is important to choose the correct Webhosting Company for your webhosting needs, one of the reasons being that they will supply a powerful function called ‘Fantastico De Luxe’ , so with a few clicks of your mouse you can have your WordPress Blog installed in under 3 minutes.

The steps above are just the start to creating your profit pulling WordPress Blog.

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How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

Have you heard about niche marketing? If yes, you are on the right track to making money online. If no, then please read on…

Niche Marketing is a super lucrative marketing method and online business system which focuses on targeting various micro lucrative niches to make money online. When I say “”micro””, it means niches that have not yet been discovered or are still pretty much untapped. By tapping into these micro niches, you will not be competing with the big guns out there. Instead, you will be catering to a targeted group of audiences and hungry customers that are waiting to buy your digital information and products.

Doing niche marketing is a very interesting business as you get to venture into numerous different niches and markets. You will not only earn great money from niche marketing but you will also get to learn new things from niche marketing. I particularly enjoy doing niche marketing by creating multiple niche sites or niche blogs to promote affiliate products on various lucrative niches. I usually come out and build 2-3 niche sites every week to target profitable micro niches. Of course, before you can even start to design and build your niche sites, you will need to do intensive research, that is, carefully-structured keyword research, to discover hot profitable niches to market on your sites/blogs.

The thing about doing niche marketing is that, it is quantity that counts as you will need to have a collections of various lucrative niche sites in order to earn great amount of money online. Basically, for my own money-making niche sites, I will carefully research and find the top 10 most lucrative niches to venture into. Now you might be asking, “”Oh didn’t you said that we should target only untapped micro niches instead of common and extremely-competitive top niches?”” Yes, I did said that but I am not targeting these common popular niches… I am identifying the top 10 most profitable niches and then I will narrow them down, i.e. going into sub-niches. Bingo! By going deeper into the top niches and coming out with micro sub-niches within the niches, you will avoid the excessive competitiveness and get straight into making money online from your niche sites.

Niche marketing has become a prevalent online business system for numerous online marketers to utilize and make great money online. It simply works and if you put your time, effort and money into creating and venturing into more niche sites every week in and week out, your online revenue income is just going to be an exponential growth for the long run. Many Internet Marketing Gurus out there will tell you how they achieve their wealth online from their “”Secret Techniques”” or “”Secret Tricks””. They will usually say that they made big bucks online from here and there using secret tricks and techniques. Yes, they do make comfortable income online. But the thing is, they did not tell you the whole truth! These Internet Marketing Gurus make lots of money not from “”secret tricks and techniques”” but from their huge amount of hard work, time and money being invested into building a chain of lucrative niche sites under their belt. Simple! They made their money online from Niche Marketing and in fact, niche marketing is changing how people make money online. And I am not talking about active income streams but PASSIVE Income streams from niche marketing. In addition, the kind of niche sites that these so-called experts built are not simple cookie-cutter websites that are built within minutes using some “”revolutionary”” software. They have instead spent large amount of time, effort and money into creating and building many quality niche sites and monetize the sites for great profit online.

What is their SECRET? There is no secret at all! They simply build more and more lucrative niche sites as time goes by, and by the end of the day… they will make the bulk of the money online! If you look at the 80/20 rule, you will find that only 20 percent of the numerous Internet Marketers out there are making the most amount of money online. Why? Because they know how to do it the correct way. They may not be intelligent but they are clever and smart. They, including me, know that 80 percent of the online marketers are doing the wrong things or are either mis-led and only the 20 percent of us are making the real money online! We know how to do keyword research to identify lucrative sub-niches to target and then start building sites revolving around these sub-niches. Next, we will begin marketing these niche sites intensively and begin earning money online. And most of these niche sites are painstakingly built and set up once, monetized and optimized, do the marketing intensively for a few months and they are off to be left around to help us collect Passive Income online for the long-term!

Imagine if you have more than 100 such niche sites, if each niche site earns you just US$1 per day, one day you will earn US$100 and one month you will earn a whopping US$3000 just with these 100 lucrative niche sites! And the revenue doesn’t just stop there, you can keep increasing your portfolio of lucrative niche sites (i.e. create and build more and more lucrative niche sites), monetize the sites with more affiliate products and ads and then increase your marketing and promotion effort… then you will be making even more money online! That’s how the real Internet Marketers made their fortune ONLINE! This is the TRUTH that has been finally REVEALED!

Now, the thing that most newbie Internet Marketers face is the problem of building such quality niche sites online. Even if you have some web developing and web designing skills, you will still face another problem of how to monetize and optimize your niche sites. You are not a web designer and neither are you a SEO expert. In addition, the time and effort spent on researching and building niche sites are definitely not easy and most newbie Internet Marketers and even veteran marketers struggled at doing all these!

The Good News is, I personally own a Niche Marketing Web Development platform where I help many of my clients to build lucrative Premium Niche WordPress Sites for them to get started on the Internet. If you tap on my more than 4 years of Niche Marketing experience to assist you in building these profitable niche sites, then you will not only reduce your own workload and stress but also get to quicken your process of learning how to make money online.

For a very limited period, I am offering my services to help you build your first Premium Niche WordPress Site. The niche sites that I will be building for you will be carefully-researched, gorgeously-designed, well-monetized and SEO-Optimized and superbly well-implemented with lucrative affiliate products and ads to help you start making money online with niche websites.

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How Bloggers Could Make Thousands A Month

How Bloggers Could Make Thousands A Month

There are a ton methods that bloggers can use to make money on there blog but some are less known then others and often bloggers don’t use some of the most profitable and effective methods of monetization. A lot of bloggers use affiliate networks, me included but the fact is there is also another method to make more money. If you’re wondering what that method is, it’s simply to either make your own products or to buy products with master resale rights or private label rights. Make sure they come with the rights listed above so that you have the complete documentation to be able to sell the products or else you could run into legal troubles for illegally selling a product you’re not aloud to. Believe me when I tell you this it’s definitely something you don’t want to get into because it’s a battle you’ll lose nine times out of time and many product owners will go through the troubles of suing you.

Once you buy some products with master resale rights you can then create a review for it and make a new page on your blog selling the product. You now will be able to retain 100% of the money that you sell the product for instead of only receiving a commission like you do from affiliates. This is a method often overlooked by your average webmaster and it’s why lots of A list bloggers are making such good money. If you notice most of the products they promote are either their own products or products they retain full profit from because of owning rights to sell it. There is still money in affiliate networks and I don’t recommend selling your own products until you’ve got an established blog, but once you do and you have your marketing techniques down to a science then promoting your own products is amazingly beneficial.

There are also benefits of selling your own product or a product with master resale rights over selling affiliate products. The main benefit would obviously be that you keep all the profit and you don’t give any of it to anyone. Apart from that though there are still so other benefits like the fact you can set whatever price you choose for the products and also how you promote them. Many affiliate products have huge sets of terms and conditions which usually save their butt, when you sell your own product then you make the rules of how everything goes and you simply do as you please.

Selling your own products or products you’ve bought rights to is definitely the best way to earn a full-time income on the internet. One product can make sales for years down the road without doing anything except a bit of promotion in the early stages. There are lots of products on the internet that you can buy rights to as well you just need to make sure that you buy the right products that will sell. There is no point in buying products that are ten years old because the information will be outdated and you’ll have trouble making any sales.

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