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Affiliate Marketing Support

By on September 8, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Getting Affiliate Marketing Support

One of the biggest advantages that you can have when you decide to get into the world of affiliate and online marketing is some kind of affiliate marketing support. As more and more people decide to test out this relatively new way of making money on the internet, there is a great deal of hope, confusion, and skepticism. You want to make sure that you start out on the right foot and avoid any scams that are out there. And this is where a good support system can really make the difference between failing and succeeding.

Affiliate marketing support will be necessary throughout your whole affiliate marketing career–not just when you start out. In fact, it may even be more valuable as you actually start to gain experience and insight in the industry. Forums can help you keep up with what the new trends in the industry are, as well as get advice and make valuable connections that will prove useful in both the present and the future.

Another good place to look for help is with the actual affiliate merchant that you are promoting. The best merchants will provide you with tips, training, and support that will allow you to make the most sales with the product or service you are promoting. It is obviously in their best interest to arm you with whatever you need to sell their products.

Another good idea is to find a mentor. This will be someone that you can have direct access to and learn from–not a guru who is marketing a product but not his or her actual help. Many mentors actually spend a great deal in forums and offer free advice so as to build up their credibility and expert status. There is no real substitute for learning from someone who is successful in doing exactly what you want to do. While there are many products on the market to help you get started, keep in mind that the world of internet marketing and affiliate marketing is constantly and quickly changing so it’s very easy for a product to become outdated with methods that worked at one time but do not work now.

You can also decide to pay a nominal fee to become part of a membership training or support site. Make sure you join one that is targeted specifically for affiliate marketing and any of the other various forms of internet marketing. Do your research to make sure that the site is what you are looking for and check out the testimonials provided. Sometimes you can even contact the people who offer testimonials and they can help you in your decision as well as in other aspects of your affiliate marketing path.

The above are just some of the easiest ways to obtain affiliate marketing support and to maintain it as you proceed in your journey.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips

By on September 3, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

3 Important Affiliate Marketing Tips

Affiliate marketing is a very hot topic right now. Who wouldn’t want to just start making money from selling someone else’s product or service online, without even leaving their home? Sounds easy, right? While affiliate marketing is not rocket science, it does require work, dedication, and patience. You are not the only person who finds it intriguing to think that they can actually be making money off of someone else’s product without even leaving your house. The field is very competitive and if you want to become a player you will need to invest time and effort, and possibly money, into your endeavor.

The first step in effective affiliate marketing is choosing a commercially viable product to sell. This is not particularly hard, but keep in mind that you have millions of products and services to pick from, some good and some not so good, so you want to have a list of criteria that your product must meet. Clickbank is an extremely popular site and a good place to get started with affiliate marketing. The site itself also offers many affiliate marketing tips. And, you can see stats which tell you how well a product or service is doing. Some feel that these stats aren’t all too reliable, but if you find a product that you like, and one that has a good “gravity” and “popularity” measurement, then just go ahead and contact the owner of the product and ask him or her to show you some sort of proof of sales and conversions. This is very simple, and any merchant worth his salt will be happy to provide you with the details.

Another of the most overlooked affiliate marketing tips has to do with traffic testing and tracking. As you probably already know or will soon realize, there are a million and one ways to get traffic to your affiliate offer. How do you know which one to choose? You really don’t. You have to try one for a while and see how that works, or try several at a time and compare them with each other. When you find some that are clearly outperforming others, invest more time, effort, and/or money into those and let the others go.

Last but not least, take a look at the support that you can offer your customers. Yes, that’s right. If you are selling a product (whether it’s yours or not), you should be prepared to answer questions about that product. While this may bother you, it is also one of the factors that will separate you from other affiliates who are not answering questions. This also probably means that you will have to actually buy the product and not just promote it blindly, without knowing its real features, advantages, potential problems, etc. Making use of these three affiliate marketing tips will distinguish you from the other affiliate marketers in the business today.

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Affiliate Marketing Website

By on August 29, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

How to Increase Traffic to Your Affiliate Marketing Website

Having an affiliate marketing website will do you little good if it is not well-ranked in the search engines. If you are well-ranked, on the other hand, your site will come up when someone does a search for the types of products and or services you are offering, or information that is relevant to that. There are many ways that you can increase your site’s rankings. Here are just a few of them.

First of all, you should try to add new content to your website or blog on a regular basis. A good rule of thumb is to do this about 2 times a week. If you’re stuck about what to write about, do a product review, or take an article that you’ve written and break it up into more detailed points. You can also do an article about a video that is relevant, or an e-book that you’ve read.

Next, an easy way to get your website indexed is to submit it to directories. Many directories are free and some charge you to submit your site but they offer greater visibility. There are thousands of directories to choose from. Try to add your site to 10 to 20 directories a month, or you can hire a person or a service to do it for you for not too much investment.

Article directories are another great asset of affiliate marketers. While it does take some time to write articles and submit them to the directories, it is completely free and very effective. There are two schools of thoughts on this. Some say that you can submit your article to the top three directories, and others say it works better to submit them to hundreds of directories. If you do choose to submit them to many directories, you might want to consider investing in some article submission software.

Making use of forums are another way that you can establish both credibility and links to your site. Try to stay active in at least one forum by asking genuine questions and answering what you can. If you can keep up with it, try to contribute at least one comment per day. This will definitely generate links to your affiliate marketing website. Use the same principle to post comments on highly ranked blogs. If possible, comment on blogs that are ranked higher than your website or blog is.

Use socialmarker to bookmark your site on some of the social bookmarking sites. Do not bookmark your site on all the sites at one time or in one day. Instead, do it in a randome fashion. Bookmark your site with one social website on one day, along with some other sites, and maybe the next day bookmark your site twice along with some other sites, and maybe skip a day of bookmarking your site.

These are just some ways to get your affiliate marketing website ranked to get more traffic.

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Affiliate Marketing Without A Website

By on August 24, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Succeed in Affiliate Marketing Without a website

Is it possible to succeed in affiliate marketing without a website?

The answer is yes, it is. While most would agree that you’ll eventually make more if you can implement certain strategies on your own website, it is definitely possible to profit without worrying about how to go about starting your own site or blog. And it might be a good way to start so that you can begin profiting right away and gradually learn how to build your own site.

Affiliate marketing is very appealing because you have a ready-made product along with a sales page and all you have to do is find a way to get traffic to it. That sounds easier than it actually is, especially because you are not the only one trying to sell the products that you decide to promote. But when you do make a sale, you will most likely get anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of the sales price in commissions.

One of the quickest and easiest places to start is on Clickbank. This site offers an enormous choice of mostly digital products and services that you can sell. Take a look at the training offered on the site to help you get started. Based on the stats that Clickbank offers for each product, you can decide which one or which ones you want to promote. If you are new, it’s generally recommended that you start with just one product.

One of the best ways to then proceed with your affiliate marketing without a website is to do some article marketing. But before you do this, you’ll need to do some keyword research. Use the free Google Adwords Keyword Tool to come up with the exact keywords that people are typing into the search engines when they do a search for whatever it is that you are offering. Then, you should purchase a domain name with the top keyword in it so that you can direct that to your affiliate link. Next, write an article on one of the keywords you select — the article should be between 400 and 600 words. Include the keyword in the title of the article and in the first sentence of each paragraph of the article. You should try to hit a percentage of about 3% of your article being your keywords. Then, submit your article to sites like EzineArticles.com. Keep in mind that while you cannot place links from your article to your affiliate page, you can do so in the resource box which appears at the end of the article. This is really the most important part of the whole article so make it compelling enough for the person to click on the link.

Writing articles is really one of the best ways to succeed in affiliate marketing without a website because it helps you establish a presence and some sort of authority, even though you do not have the website.

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Affiliate Search Engine

By on August 19, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Affiliate Search Engine Programs

You can find an affiliate program almost anything nowadays — including affiliate search engine programs. Although the list has decreased greatly in the past years, there are still some search engines that give you, as an affiliate, a part of what they earn if you refer their service to others. These affiliate search engine programs are not offered by the big search engines such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo, but you might be able to get some commissions by promoting them. Many people are fed up with Google and all of their “unfair” rules and rule changes that happen overnight. And they could be looking for other options.

The most recognized search engine that offers an affiliate program is 7Search. It is also one of the few remaining. The 7Search affiliate program is a Pay-Per-Search program and it advertises over 14,000 participating affiliates. You can earn commissions in two ways: by installing a search box on your website, and then getting a commission when someone does a search, or through direct text links to search results. You make three and a half cents per search or 63 percent of the revenue share from all of your text links. You could also decide to accept a bit lower rate for each search that is performed in exchange for earning credits at the 7Searches mother company’s (Emergency24) banner exchange program. You get paid on your commissions every 3 months and you must have earned at least 25 dollars for your check to be sent out. Otherwise, your earnings accrue until you meet the 25 dollar mark.

In general, 7Search seems to be a popular choice for many marketers both for its PPC results and its affiliate programs. Claims from those who have used the PPC platform to advertise their sites and businesses are that their ads are getting viewed by a large, targeted market, and returns on investments are very impressive. Those who participate in the affiliate program also claim to earn a decent share and they do get paid on time.

When you sign up to be an affiliate, you get a search engine box that you can put into your website and when your usual visitors come in, they can easily use this box to do their next searches. When they do this, you make money since the box that you are given has its own code that is specific to you and your earnings. You will not be able to make a living off of this type of affiliate income, but it is something that you can use to enhance your current earnings. Will affiliate search engine programs come back into play again? Right now it seems that most traffic is still going through Google which is definitely at the forefront of PPC. But it’s hard to predict even what will happen with Google in the fast moving world of the web.

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Affordable Search Engine Ranking

By on August 14, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Attaining an Affordable Search Enging Ranking

Getting an affordable search engine ranking is not especially hard to do but it does require some time. Getting a good ranking has a lot to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which basically means how well the search engines like your site. If you can meet their standards, you will be ranked. And the more they like you, the more highly you will be ranked. But it isn’t just about how well the search engines like you that counts. What they seek to determine your ranking is how well others like you. How do they measure how much others like you? They look at how many links you have coming in to your site. So, if you can increase these links, you will increase your search engine ranking.

There are paid methods that you can use to increase incoming links (or backlinks as they are often referred to) to your website. But it’s very easy to skip those and just go for the affordable search engine ranking. Some easy ways to raise your rank is to obtain bookmarks from the social bookmarking sites. This is completely free of charge. Just go to the SocialMarker site and sign up for the various bookmarking sites. And then submit your site. It’s very important that you do not just go through each bookmarking site all at once. Do a couple a day or every two days. And you may even want to bookmark some other things along with just your site. Mass bookmarking could actually get you penalized with the search engines.

One of the other most effective ways to get good search engine ranking by establishing links to your website is article marketing. And this is absolutely free. Do some keyword research with the Google Adwords Keyword Research tool (also free) to find out the searched for keywords that are relevant to your website. Then, write one article that centers around each keyword. Put the keyword in the title of the article and in the beginning of each paragraph, if possible, as well as in the last sentence of the article. Try to write an article that it at least 400 words long. Your keywords should appear no more than 3% of the time within the article. Submit your articles to the main article directories, such as EzineArticles and GoArticles, within the appropriate categories. And make sure you include a link back to your website. Also keep in mind that you are not allowed to submit the same article more than once. So, you will have to vary your words a bit so that the search engines consider the articles to be different. Some say that rewriting the article so that it is at least 30% different than the original is ok. Others say it must be more than that. You can do this rewriting (otherwise known as “spinning”) yourself or take advantage of some of the software programs that do it for you. Some of these software programs are actually free, so you can still stay within the affordable search engine ranking range.

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Clickbank Affiliate Marketing

By on August 9, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Basics

Clickbank is an extremely popular and profitable affiliate network on the worldwide web and many clickbank affiliate marketing individuals make a lot of money with it. This article will give you the basics on how to go about using this powerful website.

Signing up with Clickbank is fast and easy and there are several tutorials, tips and training that show you exactly how to get started.

Next you’ll want to look for your first product or service–keep in mind that Clickbank is generally geared for digital products. Try to pick something that you are interested in, or that is in a niche that already involved in. It’s easier to stay focused on what you are doing if the topic actually interests and even inspires you. If you already have an established site on a certain topic, it’s very easy to incorporate some clickbank products to sell there. The more specifically targeted the product to your site, the better. Look for products and services that have good gravity and popularity stats. If you find something that you really like but the stats don’t add up, then it’s really not worth the effort you’ll have to spend on it.

You can decide to promote your product directly with the salespage given to you by the merchant, or you can do it by setting up a blog or website and positioning the product there. Most experienced marketers will agree that you can do the direct ad to merchant website as a newcomer to affiliate marketing, and it is a way to learn the ropes, so to speak. But it is worth your time to eventually set up your own blog or website. WordPress is very popular and professional looking, and it’s quite good in terms of SEO (search engine optimization) as well.

Just some general pros and cons of Clickbank affiliate marketing:

One big pro, especially if you are a newcomer to affiliate marketing, is that Clickbank is extremely easy. The second big pro is that the commissions are on the high end when compared to other affiliate networks.

One con is that many of the products offered on Clickbank are not of the best quality, although they can be expensive. There are really a great deal of rags-to-riches types of products and e-books. You can also find many good products but you do need to do a bit of digging, depending on the niche you are working in.

Another con is that the Clickbank stats are really nothing special, especially if you compare them to sites such as Adsense and Amazon, just to name a few. Also, you can only create text links automatically with Clickbank. Other types of links are not available.

Clickbank affiliate marketing is a good place to get started in affiliate marketing and many experienced marketers are successful with them as well.

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Compare Affiliate Marketing

By on August 4, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

How to Compare Affiliate Marketing with Other Jobs Many newcomers to online marketing like to compare affiliate marketing with other strategies for making money. The draw of affiliate marketing is strong, especially if you are new and have no product or service of your own to sell. You can just go to one of the many affiliate networks (like Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon, or any of the CPA networks, just to name a few), sign up for the product you want to promote, and get started. There is no investment necessary, and your salespage is already prepared for you. Also, many merchants offer support for their affiliates. Another big advantage of affiliate marketing is that you don’t need to keep inventory. And if you use Clickbank as your affiliate network, there really is no inventory to store anyway because its products are mainly digital. This is also something to keep in mind for if and when you do want to create your own digital product. Perhaps one of the biggest appeals of affiliate marketing is that the sky is the limit in terms of how much you can earn. The more you sell, the more you earn, and no one or nothing can cap your earnings, unless, of course, you do something that is unethical or illegal. You are your own boss when you become a full-time affiliate marketer. You have no one to answer to but yourself. And you can team up with other like-minded individuals in order to pump up your sales and knowledge. When you compare affiliate marketing to a nine-to-five job, the biggest feature that sticks out is that you can work from anywhere, anytime. All you need is a high speed internet connection. So these are some of the reasons that so many people want to at least try affiliate marketing. However, if you have dreams of making millions, or even thousands, or even hundreds of dollars overnight, then you need a reality check right now. Being successful at affiliate marketing requires quite a bit of learning. While there is no investment needed to start promoting affiliate products, you will need to invest in some sort of training and tools to help you in your endeavor. Also, while you will find lots of ads that promote affiliate marketing as a job that you only need to do a couple of hours a day, or even a couple of hours a week, this is not how it works in the beginning. While you can definitely start your affiliate marketing career training on a part-time basis, you will need to put in just as much, if not more, time and effort "on the job" as you would in a traditional company. When you compare affiliate marketing with other jobs, you will also see that the field is very competitive. If you put in the training, time and effort to succeed in this business, you will have a very lucrative future.

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