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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Affiliate Apprenticeship

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  • Friday, January 26, 2007

    8 Crucial Search Engine Optimization Tips For Affiliate Marketing!

    8 Crucial Search Engine Optimization Tips For Affiliate Marketing!
    By Franck Silvestre

    It's amazing to see many affiliates struggling to make commissions because they don't know or they just neglect the importance of search engine optimization for affiliate marketing.

    An affiliate website well optimized that provides useful information can perform very well if you manage to get it on the first page of Google, Yahoo and MSN in a profitable niche.

    For an affiliate website to attain excellent rankings, you need to take care of these search engine optimization basics...

    Let's start by on-page optimization:

    1)Optimize your title tags.

    Your title tag is very important in the eyes of the search engines, so do not forget to put your keywords.

    2)Use the header tag.

    It's amazing to see how many affiliates and web masters in general forget to add the most important header tag to their site: H1

    3) Use the right keywords on your web pages.

    Before writing your articles, be sure to carry out a keyword research and use these keyword along with related keywords in your article.

    4) Your web pages must be focused on one or two keywords.

    Target one or two keywords only per web page.

    While on-page optimization is important for your website, what will really make the difference is off-page optimization. Your link building strategy must follow the following rules:

    5) Create good content that will be linked to naturally.

    Write for people and not for the search engines. If your content is good, other websites will link to you.

    6) Try to get inbound links with your keywords as anchor text.

    When you exchange links with other web masters, be sure that they use the right anchor for your site.

    7) When getting links, don't forget deep linking.

    Your inbound links should not only point to your home pages, but to internal pages as well.

    8) Get links for high rankings websites.

    Getting links with other websites is one thing, but getting links from trusted websites will have a bigger impact on your rankings in the eyes of search engines.

    Affiliate marketing is an easy way to make money on the Internet, and the secret to get good search engine placements is consistency. Follow these steps to be ahead of 90% of your affiliate competition.

    Refine your marketing skills with Franck Silvestre, a Top affiliate. For the best affiliate marketing tools, and to learn other affiliate marketing experts advanced techniques, please visit his affiliate programs website.

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    Tuesday, January 23, 2007

    The Smartest Way To Start Your Online Business

    Affiliate Programs, The Smartest Way To Start Your Online Business
    By Matthew Mills

    Is it your desire to start an Affiliate Programs business? Or any online business for that matter? Affiliate programs are the easiest businesses to start. The best part about having an affiliate business is that you can pick, choose and refuse who you wish to become affiliated with.

    Affiliate programs are the easiest online business to get up and running. Why? Well, with any online business you must have a product or service to sell. First you must create this product or service and then you must be able to fill orders.

    Selling your own product or service also means creating a website. Then you must learn how to write ad copy, set up a marketing plan and be able to accept payments online. These are just a few of the chores you must perform.

    Selling a physical product is a bit more complicated. You will need to make an item, package it and pay for shipping costs. If you provide a service, than you will most likely have to start by doing free jobs. That will help build your credibility. When you finally decide to charge for your services, you are still limited by how much work you can actually handle.

    Affiliate programs are a great way to get started in an online business. In fact there are some Super Affiliates who are making a great income. These programs allow you to sell someone elses service or product and make a commission on every sale or lead.

    You do not need to build a website or handle any transactions. Your job is to drive traffic to your affiliate link. This link is a special URL code that will identify customers coming to the affiliate site from your advertising. It will be the website address with a code attached to the end.

    Some affiliate programs also have tiers. That means if someone else is interested in selling the product and they come through your link and sign up; you get a small percentage of their earnings as well.

    Before you choose a program, try to determine if people are buying that product or service online. There are many ways to hunt for that information, including free ways such as the Overture keyword tool.

    When you have found an area that is popular, type the subject along with the affiliate program into your favorite search engine and see which programs have services or products for that topic.

    When you have found a program that looks interesting read its terms. Make sure and choose programs that give you high payout. Ebooks and downloadable software have the highest rates as there is no physical product to make or ship. If you are satisfied with the terms then sign up. It is usually a quick and simple process.

    The reason affiliate programs are so great for beginners is that you only need to focus on marketing. Many affiliate programs have information on how to market and give you tools such as banners, product feeds and more.

    You can also look for other information on marketing including writing articles, creating pay per click campaigns and commenting in online forums. As you gain experience drawing traffic, you will make adjustments to your selling strategies and start creating a wonderful income.

    Affiliate Programs can be very lucrative. Have you started yours yet? Would you like some help getting started? This ebook is just what you need to get you going. Follow this link to make your start: Affiliate Programs

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    Monday, January 15, 2007

    Affiliate Marketing Mistake #4

    In the post titled Affiliate Marketing Mistake #2 we discussed the problem of promoting only one product, in this post we will address the mistake of representing too many products. When there are an overwhelming number of offerings on one site customers can become confused and end up leaving and going to another source to find a product that meets their needs. It is necessary to know your products well, and offer only the best choices to your customers.

    All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in this business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Have patience and take time to learn step by step all the aspects of affiliate marketing. This will prove to be the difference between sucess and failure because there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely. It is well worth the effort! To learn how to jump start your affiliate marketing campaign Click Here!

    Saturday, January 13, 2007

    Affiliate Marketing Mistake #3

    In the last few posts we have been talking about affiliate marketing, and some of the mistakes commonly made by new affiliate marketers. This post will address the third mistake. Many inexperienced affilliate marketers stuff their sites with banners that do not provide enough information about the product at hand. There are banners flashing all over the page, but there is a lack of useful information about the product. The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners. Banners are great promotional tools, but they are not a replacement for useful content. It is important for customers to know and understand the features of a product, and good content will be able to help them realize this goal.

    Friday, January 12, 2007

    Affiliate Marketing Mistake #2

    The second mistake made by affiliates is that they try to make significant income by promoting only one product. Consequently, customers are not given enough options to ponder. Fewer sales will be made than if there were more products, since what appeals to one person might not catch the attention of another. It is always better to offer several good products than to have only one option. If you have more than one website or blog, look for a variety of products you can offer which relate to the theme of each site, and don't forget to link your sites to each other. Clickbank, Paydotcom, and others have literally thousands of affiliate opportunities relating to almost any theme. Many of these are free to join, and you can start promoting right away.

    Thursday, January 11, 2007

    Affiliate Marketing Mistake #1

    The first common mistake many affiliates make is their lack of knowledge concerning principles involved in their business. This refers to the affiliate’s knowledge of search engines in particular.
    Affiliate marketing involves advertising, and advertising through the internet could not be what it is without the existence of search engines. Every affiliate needs to make these search engines his best friend through studying search engine optimization closely, so that he will know how to get the most exposure for his website. Learning how to get high rankings in top search engines is a key to internet marketing success. If you want to learn about search engine optimization without doing all the leg work Click Here!

    Wednesday, January 10, 2007

    Affiliate Marketing

    Myths concerning affiliate marketing are appealing and attractive. People who do not know the entire system are prone to believe that it is something capable of giving them great fortune overnight. Stories concerning affiliates who earn tremendous amounts of money swim in their heads, and while these stories are as true as they can be, there are those who believe that they are going to have the same fortune once they indulge in this particular business.

    It is true enough that affiliate marketing is financially rewarding. People who have gone through all that is necessary to succeed in this business are reaping the seeds that they untiringly sown. Many of them enjoy the kind of existence that would not have been possible for them under ordinary circumstances. Having gone through the A-Z of affiliate marketing, however, these people are the ones who know that while such business is lucrative, there is absolutely no easy money in it.

    Ignorance of this fact is one of the main reasons why there are people who fail miserably in the internet business. There are those who believe in myths concerning the easy money involved in systems such as affiliate marketing. They do not know that there are those who have wasted time, effort and too many resources in trying to pursue the life of ease that they believe this business will give them. They go into affiliate marketing armed with nothing but myths and fantastical notions of wealth, never realizing that they are bound to make mistakes that will prove to be their downfall.

    Many affiliates make mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs. Affiliate marketing is not as simple as an affiliate promoting a merchant’s wares through his website and getting paid for it. It is also about knowing the market and the customers.

    Discovering the most common mistakes affiliates make can perhaps dispel the gloom surrounding affiliate marketing by correcting some wrong notions about it, and help you to understand that like any other business, there are dos and donts involved in this one if you want to make each step count. My next few posts will address specific errors to avoid in affilate marketing. To learn more about becoming a successful affiliate marketer Click Here!

    Saturday, January 6, 2007

    Getinng Started Tips

    My husband and I have been generating income from home for over 15 years. We have tried everything from a home bakery to internet marketing. You name it, we've probably tried it.
    Some of our ventures were more successful than others, and we lost thousands of dollars on some. The good news is that there are legitmate ways to make money from home, and the internet is the best place to find them.

    There are hundreds, probably thousands of opportunities on the internet, and many are scams, so do your homework. Check out any program you are interested in simply by putting the name into Google search to see what others are saying about it. This is quick and easy, and could save you a lot of money, and a great deal of aggravation.

    If you enjoy giving your opinion, you could be making money doing just that. Whether you're looking to make a few extra bucks a month , or you're looking for a full-time income you can earn from home, this is one of the easiest and most fun ways to make money I've ever seen. For more information on getting paid for your opinion Click Here!

    Another one I know you are wondering about is ebay. Everyone knows that there are people making a killing selling on ebay every day. What is the big secret? If you have ever tried to market on ebay you know it's not as simple as it looks. If you are intersted in learning how an ebay powerseller made it big Click Here!

    Remember, when you start any business there is work involved. There is no magical way to make money without effort. Keep looking until you find the right opportunity for you, then stick with it. Success is around the corner!