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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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Blogging For Money- Find a WordPress Tutorial

Blogging For Money? Find a WordPress Tutorial

The WordPress blogging platform is quite possible the most popular software for pro-bloggers and newbie bloggers alike. Now the difference between “”wanna-be”” blogging for money bloggers, and the pro-bloggers who make consistent money with their blogs – is that the pro-bloggers know how to use their tools!

WordPress is a powerful online marketing weapon – in the right hands! I think most blogging professionals will agree that  there is no more versatile or user-friendly blogging software than WordPress.

Until you learn exactly how to use the functions available in the software, you won’t realize the potential you have in your hands.

With available free plug-ins and free WordPress themes, you can have a truly spectacular web presence, and it won’t cost you hardly anything at all.

Now, of course the “”Pro-Bloggers”” already know this. But if you’re a “”Newbie Blogger””, then I’m here to tell you that you’re not too far away from being a money-making professional blogger, if you learn how to use WordPress effectively!

Before you begin your blogging for money adventure using the WordPress blogging platform you will have already learned about “”keywords”” and “”niche markets””, etc.

So, you should already have a business model in mind, knowing the keywords you are planning on targeting, as well as knowing how you intend to monetize your new blog.

But in my humble opinion, the most important thing you can learn – is how to use the WordPress blogging platform software.

There are so many things you can do with WordPress that it becomes a little scary and confusing for the new blogger.

You can find forums and articles, free websites, and even WordPress video tutorials that will help you to understand your new WordPress blog.

The more knowledge you have, the more likely you are to succeed in your blogging for money efforts.

In conclusion, there is only one certain way to succeed at blogging for money using WordPress… And that is to understand the WordPress software as well as you possibly can.

If you are going to be a welder, you have to know how to use a welding machine, and all of the tools that go with it.

If you’re going to make money as an auto mechanic, you better learn how to use the tools and equipment in an auto repair shop.

And if you’re going to be a professional blogger, and succeed at blogging for money – you better learn to use the tools of the trade. You better find a good WordPress Tutorial!

The most important tool for the Newbie WordPress Blogger to learn, is the WordPress blogging software itself.

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