I’m sure you’ve heard about Affiliate programs by now.The beauty of this is that you actually do not have to have a website or product of your own and still make pretty good money.Interested? Read on…
All you need is a computer just like the one you using now and internet connection.
First you want to pick your Affiliate product to sell online.
There is a website that has a lot of info on the subject
http://www.onewaystreettowealth.comSign up for free with clickbank.com or paydotcom.com, go to the “Marketplace” and pick a product of your interest. There are thousands of them. Create a hoplink (your affiliate url) and write it down somewhere, you are going to need it.
Go to tinyurl.com and create a short version of your affiliate url. It’s generally a good idea not to use your affiliate url in your advertising for safety reasons plus it looks more professional.Now open your short version url in your browser to test it if it works and read the page… (you want to know what you are going to sell, don’t you) Ok, exit the page take a piece of paper and write down what you’ve just read.It must be written in your own words do not copy the webpage that could get you in trouble by breaching copyright.Make the text to be 300 or more words and add your short version url to the end of the text. If you have a website you are promoting add its url too with a short description. Write down a catchy title using words like “Learn how to…”,”Discover…”, “In just 3 easy steps…” and so on, you know what I mean.Ok, now you have written a nice article to describe a product you want to sell.Next step is to submit it to article directories. Submission is usually free and there is plenty of them.
Your article gets read by thousands of readers and webmasters looking for fresh content who might visit your affiliate link and possibly buy your product.And you have done this without any need for a website and for FREE.There is no limit to how many affiliate products you can sell so repeat the process as many times as you can and soon you’ll start receiving checks!To get you started use these directories.This one is a very popular Article directory. If You can’t find your category there just drop an Email to Administrator and he might create one for you.
Impressive Articles
Article and URL directory.
Link & Article directory
Filed under Affiliate Products · Tagged with Affiliate, Affiliate Link, Affiliate Products, Affiliate Programs, Affiliate Url, Article, Article Marketing, Browser Test, Catchy Title, Discover, Internet Connection, Marketing, Marketing Affiliate, Marketing Products, Marketplace, Money, Piece Of Paper, Products, Promote, Safety Reasons, Short Description, Submission
You see, we should be very thankful that we are born in this modern generation due to the existence of the Internet. With the Internet, all information (whether about educational blogging tools or any other such as create blogs, pr blog, free blog themes or even blogger com) can be found with ease on the Internet, with great articles like this.
The best ways to get started is head on over to Blogger com and build a blog. Now, don’t back away just yet, this is the easy part. You don’t have to know any technical hogwash to create your own blog; there are pre designed templates for you to choose from. Just pick one which suits your taste and in no time you are ready to start adding some meat to the bones of your blog via content.
Web logging is a relatively new term that has just begun to make its rounds through the Internet world. You may have asked yourself in the past “what is web logging and why everyone is talking about it?” And the answer is relatively simple. Web logging is nothing more than a website that is updated regularly with the newest entries being displayed at the top. A blog is pretty much an online journal where anybody can go and type their thoughts for the rest of the Internet world to read.
Long blog entries bore people. You should not be afraid to break up entries, you don’t have to post the whole story in one day. Also, make use of bullet points, numbered lists, and pictures.
Many people forget that they can get more information about any subject matter, be it educational blogging tools information or any other on any of the major search engines like Google. If you need more information about educational blogging tools, go to Google and be more informed.
In the sales model, you devote a blog to a single product, or range of products. When offline companies start blogs, their blogs are sales blogs – they’re using their blogs to sell their products. If you have products that you want to sell, a sales blog is an excellent business model. You could sell a product that you’ve created – an ebook, a DVD, or art work – or products that you buy from others, and resell.
After you create a blog that is interesting, now it is time to start making money. The second step of getting visitors is the most important, if you plan on making money. The third step is choosing how you will make money from your blog. You should try to keep your blog on the same topic on all your post, since you can have an unlimited number of blogs; you can have a blog for any and every topic you choose. Make sure to start a new blog if you are totally off the main subject of the blog that you are posting to.
Google Adsense is Google’s own advertising program. After signing up for a free account, you will be given a snippet of code. If you go to your blog account and open up the Source page, you can paste in the code in the relevant spot and Google adverts will start running on the page. Every time a visitor click on a Google advert, you will get paid a sum of money, based on what advertiser’s value the click to be worth.
For your knowledge, we found that lots of people that were searching for educational blogging tools also searched online for free blog backgrounds, phishing security, and even free blog script.
Filed under Blogging Tips · Tagged with Article, Blog Entries, Bloggers, Blogging, Blogging Tools, Bones, Bullet Points, Content Web, Educational, Educational Tools, Existence, Google, Hogwash, Internet World, Major Search Engines, Offline Companies, Related, Sales Model, Subject Matter, Templates, Tools
About a month back I posted an article on the Top 10 Free Article Submission Sites.
These were based on my research with Alexa for the site rankings (a combination of traffic and page views) on some of the most popular article submission sites. I then took a crack at the Top 4 on the list and started submitting articles.
This post is all about the results, what I learned, and some Tips and Tricks that will help you out and save you some time if you should decide to try them out yourself.
The list looked something like this (lower is better):
I decided to target the top 4 first. I set up accounts at EzineArticles, ArticlesBase, Buzzle, and SearchWarp. All were fairly easy to do, and it took me maybe about an hour to fill out all the required crap and to build my profile. Over the course of the next month, I submitted every post from my blog as an article on all 4 sites.
1. All of them limit the number of outgoing links in the article or your sig. It ranges from 2-4 links max be it to your site, or to other sites. I found the best happy-medium was to include 2 links in my sig, and then use the remaining spots in the article body to other sites. It’s kinda a pain when I am referring to resource sites to help people out, but that’s the way it is.
2. Don’t pitch yourself or your business. I know that is the reason you are submitting the article, but it is REALLY frowned upon. I used my own logos to serve as examples for an Identity Kit articled and got slapped. I also tried telling people in the article that the Article Sites would not allow my pictures, so I pointed them to my site to get the pictures. Again slapped.
3. None of these sites allow any type of video. That’s tough for a quasi-video blog like mine. Now I have to decide which is best for my own blog (people like video) and what drives traffic to the site and builds buzz (the articles).
4. If you can, copy the source HTML code from your blog and on the article submission site, switch to HTML view if available. (Most of them have it) Then just copy the code in, switch over the “normal” view and tweak. This is by far the easiest way to get a decent looking page. If you use wordpress like me, do not just copy and past the content from the Visual Mode of wordpress. It will come out formatted like crap and will take forever to fix.
This site is far and away the most difficult site of all of them. BUT they really do have the best page ranking. Unfortunately it didn’t do squat for me.
Approval =F
I NEVER got an article approved with the first submission, many took 3-4 changes to get approved, several were never approved and I ditched even trying.
Ease of Submission = F
VERY picky interface to insert content. Cludgy at best. On average, it took about 20 minutes to reformat every post to look ok.
Article Views = B
Article views – 139, profile views- 35
Not bad, not great. One added bonus though. I noticed that a search on my business name in google had a searchwarp.com article in a couple spots in the top 10. Not bad.
Approval = A
Every article I submitted, even the “offensive” ones were approved quickly. Also allow more links than some of the others.
Ease of Submission = B
Easy. Just copy HTML from wordpress
Article views =C
Article Views – 81, search engine referrals- 48,
This one was just weird. Set up the account, created a profile, and submitted a few articles. Now it says that I have not submitted any articles, and my account is on hold.
This one is now my favorite. It took a little while to get everything and approved and rolling, but now it’s a breeze.
Approval = A
Every post has been approved. No worries
Ease of Submission = B
Again easy peasy. Just past the HTML code from your wordpress and tweak a little. More advanced formatting takes a little more work.
Article Views = A-
Article views – 119
Traffic to my site from these article sites can be summed up in one word – Suck. Ezinearticles which pulled the best still only contributed .2% (two-tenths of one percent) of my site traffic. Part is the nature of the sites themselves. They are geared towards getting people to THEIR site, not yours. I understood this going in, but my hope was to get at least a little more.
On the flip side, it is really difficult to track the general buzz addition that an article site adds. Since I started the blog in August, my site visits have been doubling every month. That’s certainly OK with me and more than I had been expecting. That HAS to be in some part to these sites. While my traffic is still nowhere near stellar, my goal of 100,000 visits a month now certainly looks doable.
I stumbled across a tech tutorial site recently by accident. I figured it would be a good spot to throw up a few of the Joomla and Wordpress tutorials I had. Took about 10 minutes to create a profile and submit my entries. It is still really early yet, but this one looks great for actually driving traffic to your site. Within 2 days I had already gotten more site visits from this one aggregator than all of the article submission sites combined.
What’s cool about this site is that it points directly to your website, not theirs. The summary is posted on their site, but then goes to your website for the actual article.
www.good-tutorials.com
My submissions –
Starting this month, I am going to stick with articlesbase and search warp and begin a trial of the next 3 on the list. I will keep my account on ezinearticles, and maybe post something if I think it has a REALLY good chance of not getting bounced (no links, no pictures, sesame street language, and nothing to do with my business. If they didn’t have such a stellar traffic rating I would ditch them entirely, and I still may.
So I’m off to try Articlealley, articlesphere, & Articleclick.com (*note: I don’t think selfgrowth.com is really going to fit, but I’ll check it out anyway) As with this one, I’ll post my findings sometime next month. Until then, happy marketing!
JJ Kennedy is CEO of Evil Genius TV, the small business coaching and strategy arm of Evil Genius Interactive, a web and marketing development firm located in Gainesville, FL. He is an MBA, happily married to a Veteranarian, and is hoping to have a few little ones soon.
Filed under Wordpress · Tagged with Alexa, Article, Article Body, Article Submission Sites, Best, Blog, Buzzle, Crack, Crap, Followup, Free Article Submission, Free Submission, Happy Medium, Logos, Page Views, People, Pitch, Sig, Sites, Source Html Code, Submission, Target, Tips And Tricks, Traffic, Which, Worked
There are all kinds of methods used to generate web traffic. One very good traffic generator is article marketing.
The way it works is that you first determine what you want search engines to find, look for the good keywords about the subject, and then write an article that revolves around a your keyword or keyword phrase, post it strategically on the web, and allow the search engines to it. Usually authors include a resource box at the end of the article that contains a link back to the website that you are marketing.
Places that you can post your article include your own blog, and articles directory that is on your website, commercial article directories such as http://goarticle.com, or http://ezinearticles.com. You can also post articles on some web 2.0 pages (like Squidoo), etc.
Additionally, you can offer to let your readers publish the articles in their newsletters or on their websites. It may seem that the publication in the newsletter would not really help you. However, you must realize, that many publishers post archives of their newsletters on their websites.
The reason that they will republish your articles, is because they need or want to provide content to bring their websites to life. So the better your articles, the more likely it is that at least some marketers will take your article and publish it giving you credit, of course, and if you set your article up right, you’ll also get a link back to your website.
The idea is that you can generate web site traffic that appears in the organic areas of search engines. The organic areas of search engines comprise the most direct matches to your query. They are what the person asking the question looks at first. The person making the query may also look at the pay per click ads along the right side of many search engines, for these may also be relevant to the query.
Thus, it can be seen that both the organic and pay per click matches can be used to generate traffic to your website. The main difference is that with organic matches you don’t pay even a penny, whereas with pay per click items, you pay every time somebody clicks your ad.
You can, of course, use software to help you create your articles or to help you generate traffic in other ways. For example, the way I am creating this very article is by dictating it using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is so good, that I barely need to touch the keyboard at all.
While I’m a pretty fast typist, I can go nearly three times faster simply by dictating what I want to communicate. The software converts it into text right before my eyes. Even with the corrections, I go faster by dictation than I do with the keyboard.
I also use keyword research software to figure out what keywords and keyword phrases I should be using to generate web site traffic. It’s not always simple, but sometimes it’s unbelievably simple. And for me, dictating the words while looking at the keywords gives me a lot of confidence as I create my articles.
I’ve touched on a number of different ideas in this article. I also included a number of different keyword phrases in the same article. So the question that I have, because this is something of an experiment, is whether or not the search engines, as well as my visitors, will find articles like this useful.
After all, it is the utility of an article that makes it worthwhile, at least to this writer.
Bal Simon writes and publishes
business information content at
IntenseComfort.com which helps new entrepreneurs with their product creation and simplifies their marketing efforts. Get the free “marketing gems” ebook, and ecourse by visiting his site today.
Filed under Traffic · Tagged with Article, Article Marketing, Authors, Blog, Generate, Generate Traffic, Keyword, Marketers, Marketing Places, Organic Areas, Pay Per Click, Pay Per Click Ads, Phrase, Publishers, Search Engines, Selfreferencing, Site, Traffic, Traffic Generator, Used, Web Pages, Web Site Traffic, Web Traffic, Website Directories
Article is a good way to get truckloads of free organic traffic or search engine traffic for your Internet Business. Article helps to build its’ author’s credibility and enhance his status as an expert in his niche. Expert authors who submit original high quality content article often will receive huge traffic to their website when niche online publishers reprinted them. What makes a good article? And How to drive the huge massive traffic to your Internet Business. Here are four things a good articles should have to make it successful and helpful in making Internet Business a profit earning one as well as overwhelm with traffic. 1. Good Keywords and Good Keyword Phrases An article must always be centered on the keywords and keyword phrases. When visitors go to a website, many are just merely browsing or looking for a specific keywords or phrases. They usually go to search engines and types in the keywords they are searching. Your articles must have keywords that are related to your site. There are many tools in the Internet that provides service in helping a site administrator in optimizing their keywords and determining what keywords and keyword phrases are mostly sought out. You can use this tool to determine what good keywords to use and write about. 2. Good Keyword Density Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase is used in an article. An article must have good keyword density optimized for a search engine to search. This will make the search engines to rank the site high in their search results. What makes a good keyword density? A keyword density for an effective article should be not too high or too low. With a very high keyword density, the essence of the article is lost. This might backslash and turn off a reader as well as get blacklisted by search engines. It is too low; the search engines by ignored them and not get listed at all. So, a good keywords density for articles should be at least having ten to fifteen percent of keywords in their content. 3. High Quality Article Content Content is king especially high quality one. An article cannot just riddle with keywords but must also be content packed good reading materials. Articles must be able to entertain people as well as provide good information and help for their needs. Articles should be written well with correct spelling and good grammar. If you want people to trust you, make your work good and well thought out. People respond well to figures, facts and statistics. Try to get great information and as many facts as you can. An article that is packed with high quality content will boost your credibility or reputation as an expert in your niche or topic. When more people believe in you, they will be able to trust you and your products. 4. Have Links in Your Articles Link are another important thing in your article. If you are going to submit articles to Article Directories, Rezones or contribute your articles to Newsletters and other sites, you must not forget to include a link to your site. A resource box with a brief description of your site and what you have to offer should be placed right after your articles that you have submitted. When people read your articles, they will most likely click on the link directing them to your site if they like what they read. Now that you know what makes a good article. Hopefully, you will be able to use them to get huge truckloads of traffic to your site and make a handsome profits from them…
Filed under Traffic · Tagged with Amp, Article, Business, Business Article, Credibility, Expert Authors, Free Traffic, High Quality, huge, Internet, Internet Business, Keyword Density, Keyword Phrases, Massive Traffic, Niche, Phrase, Profits, Publishers, Quality Content, Search Engine Traffic, Search Engines, Site Administrator, Traffic, Traffic Website, Truckloads, Your
Old-good-days articles publishing sites had only text options, and if they had something like pictures or photo upload, this was in the form of sending them MS Word file with all in it. To publish such an article, editor had to read through it, and then pass it to publishing department, where folks had to use individual approach to each article to be published, like you have in Newspaper. Taking into consideration information blast in recent decade, this old way of submission and publishing doesn’t work anymore and both articles and press release writers use submission and publishing automation tools:
1. If you are articles writer: write our article; prepare your author logo in BMP, JPG or GIF format; prepare illustration to your article in similar graphical formats, however it should be bigger than author photo or company logo, but should fit to standard computer screen plus it should take into consideration modern internet upload speed limitations. If you would really like to be cool and modern, prepare video rollick in MPG or AVI formats
2. If you are article publisher: upgrade your media portal to be ready to accept articles with photo, company or author logo, plus optional movie or video blog
3. Search Engine Optimization – what it is about? Well, if you are articles or PR writer and you are contributing to your product users community, then your do not need to care about such terms as SEO – google, yahoo, msn, altavista and other search engines will find you and make you popular, ranking by your community work contribution. If you don’t plan to do community work, you have to pay for Search Engine Optimization, which in essence is dosing the density of your product or services keywords in your website contents
4. Search Engines Future. You should expect that google spider will be more efficient in its evolution and probably even revolution, meaning that all the tricks of SEO improvements will be taken into consideration and in essence disregarded by first google and later on by MSN , yahoo and other searching tools
Filed under Seo · Tagged with Article, Article Editor, Articles Publishing, Author Photo, Automation Tools, Avi Formats, Google, Google Yahoo, Graphical Formats, Internet, Marketing, Media Portal, Other Search Engines, Photo, Photo Company, Photo Upload, Plus, Product Users, Publishing Department, Search Engine Optimization, Speed Limitations, Standard Computer, Strategies, Submitting, Text Options, Users Community, Video, Website Contents
