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The Key Connection – How Well Do You Know Your Affiliate Product?
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Do you know very little about the product you’re promoting on your website? Does this product only exist to you as a vague banner? Do you hope it has enough of a heartbeat to send dollars your way on its own?
Then you’re not doing enough to make your affiliate relationship a beneficial one. When you promote something ensure you talk about it intelligently. If you walk into a jeweler to buy a watch and ask the store owner about one, you expect them to be able to tell you its features. If they stare at you, shrug, and say “I don’t really know anything about it, I just get ‘em in and display ‘em.” Would you buy that watch? Of course not. You’re already headed out the door.
Visitors to your site do the same thing. It’s up to you to prevent them from doing that. You’ve heard the saying “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it”. If you don’t use the product you’re promoting, or at least attempt to learn how others use it, you’ll lose affiliate commissions. Using a product gives you first hand knowledge; enabling you to write effective copy to promote the product.
Okay, okay, you’re promoting lots of different products. You can’t possibly afford to buy and try every one of them. Fair enough! You can, however, ask around and find out information from people who are using the product. Talk to them. Ask them about the good and bad features of the product. It’s a worthwhile exercise. Summarize all that knowledge into effective information content for your site.
Another benefit of talking to users about the product is in gaining testimonials. A chit-chat with someone who raves about the product is half the work done for this project. Just write down what they’re saying, edit it, ask their permission to use their name and get it online. There’s no creative brainstorming needed. Listen to them and write!
Do you know anyone who’s an ‘in the limelight’ kind of person and using one of your affiliate products? Why not talk them up and get an endorsement from them. Someone others admire and respect add value to a product that they endorse for you.
If you write your own ads and informative content ensure you can back up your claims about the product. Customers hate nothing more than reading grandiose statements that prove unfounded when they try a product. It’s the “Where’s the beef” factor. If you promise it, it better be there. As an affiliate marketer, you are the platform for the product and your websites integrity rests on you making factual claims about it.
Read reports to gain more knowledge of the products you’re featuring on your site. Read different reviews to give you a well-rounded take on a product. You’ll read something you never knew or really understood about it. That information turns into an excellent selling point.
The key in all this is connecting with your product; knowing it inside out. This way, you target your efforts for promoting it. Write about its benefits and advantages over similar products. Highlight attractive features or various uses of the product. Give your visitors lots of information to make an informed decision about your affiliate product.
They will view your website as a trustworthy one. They’ll rely on it and come back for more. They will drive your affiliate income higher.
Why Twitter is a Must for Online Business?
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Oh Twitter how I love thee! Although you might not hear those exact words said very often online, you know it’s true when you login to your Twitter account or visit someone’s blog. With the emergence of WordPress plug-ins like “TwitThis” and the various twitter badges found on numerous blogs throughout the Internet, it is obvious people adore Twitter. Just what is it that makes this social networking site so lovable? Let’s find out.
The question posed by Twitter, “What are you doing?” has become almost as popular as AOL’s “You’ve got mail.” So much so that it has even caught the eye of offline news mediums such as USA Today, CNN, and ABC. This helps to make the application popular all on its own. Those who think Twitter is just a place for computer or Internet geeks can rest assured it’s nothing of the sort.
For many, Twitter is a way to interact with like-minded individuals. Whether one is a stay at home mom who craves adult conversation, an at home worker who misses the water cooler chit-chat from past jobs, or the business owner who wants to reach more of their target market, this form of social media fills a need. It makes it easier for people to connect with others in a way they might not have previously been able to.
The fact Twitter is easily accessible and even simpler to navigate makes it a favorite as well. Anyone can create a twitter account of their own with nothing more than a user name and a password. Once that’s done, it’s easy to customize your profile and begin following other tweeps, as those who use Twitter affectionately call one another. To follow what another person is doing, just visit their page and click the follow button. You’ve now been added as a follower and when you login to your account you will see their messages on your screen.
Want to use Twitter even when you’re not at home or don’t have access to your computer? No problem. Inside your account you can choose whether to have messages sent via cell phone or instant messenger programs as well. Just browse to your settings and choose the devices tab and in a few steps you’re good to go. This feature makes it possible to tweet on the go. This is perfect for those who travel frequently or while out and about come across something interesting or amusing that they’d like to share with their followers.
Twitter’s arrival has also lead to the creation of different platforms and applications to make it appealing to just about everyone. Popular applications include, Twitter Fox, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and TweetMyBlog. Twitter Fox and Twhirl give users who are prefer the instant messaging look and feel a way to use Twitter in somewhat the same manner. Twitter Fox is an extension for the Firefox browser and Twhirl is a desktop application.
TweetMyBlog is a way to automatically post updates from a user’s blog to Twitter. In order to use it all one needs is a Twitter account and an RSS feed from their blog. It will automatically posts a tweet using your account when your blog is updated.
Tweet Deck is another desktop application that allows for more organization of updates. Instead of posting all a users tweets one right after another, it allows the user to organize tweets into separate columns within the application. For those who have customers and friends on Twitter this is a great feature.
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SUMMARY: BLOGGER MANUAL | SEO TIPS AND TRICKS (GUIDELINE FOR NEW BLOGGER)
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
In this blogger manual I’ll show you the basic off all SEO technique. I don’t like to chit-chat, so let’s straigth to the point. You must know that we have two kinds of optimization that can be done by ourselves. First, is On-page Optimization, and the second is Off-page optimization….
Do you know anything about On-page optimization? It’s everyting that you can do to your blog to make it suitable for the search engine. We have several things to do for our on-page optimization:
1. Choose the keywords of your new blog
Use Google External Keywords tool to choose your keywords. How to use this tool? It’s quite simple. Consider that you want to use “Blogspot tutorial” as your keyword. All you need to do is to type this keyword in to the keyword box. Fill the Captcha code and click on Keyword Suggestion. You will see a list of keywords that related to your first keyword. You will see that the competition of BLOGSPOT TUTORIAL keywords is to fierce for a new blog. Try to choose other keywords with the lowest competition but still have a good enough search volume. It’s better for you to start with the lowest competition level, then slowly but sure you climb up by the number of visitor. If you can take a lot of visitor to your blog, you’ll see that you can aim a new keyword with higher competition level. In this tutorial, let’s consider that the keyword you choose is “BLOGGER MANUAL”
2.Choose your URL address that suits with your keywords
For example…if it’s possible …why don’t you use this URL … http://blogger-manual.blogspot.com
3. Choose Blog Title that suitable for your blog
For example…use this title…”Blogger Manual for Blogspot”
4. Use title tag in your html
Use title tag that contain the combination of your keywords, if it’s posibble…use 7-10 words as your title. For example …. Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie
a title tag should seen like this
<title>Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie</title>
you can put this tag right under the <head> tag in your LAYOUT — EDIT HTML page
5. Use meta tag in your HTML
meta tag is a code that contain the summary of your blog data. There are meta description, meta keywords, & meta author that you should optimize….
<meta content=”blog, blogger, tutorial, manual, blog tutorial, blogger manual, blogger tutorial” name=”keywords”/>
<meta content=”blogger manual – blogger tutorial for a new blogger that contain the basic knowledge of blogging” name=”keywords”/>
<meta content=”Donni” name=”author”/>
6. Use your keyword in your posting title
7. Use your keywords in your articles and spread those keywords at the first sentences, and the last sentences. Don’t forget to add your keywords each 2-3 paragraphs.
8. It’s better for you, if your main column (the place where your article displayed) float at the left side. It’s because the spider will crawl your page from the top left to the botom right. If you put your main column at the right, then the spider will crawl your sidebar and each navigation links inside your sidebar, before it arrives to your article. Your competitor will left you behind. You may say like this “O yeah, than why there is a left float main column website defeated by the center or right float main column websites?” Simple,….It’s because the off-page factor that we should talk later.
If it’s possible…it will be better if you put your keywords at the end of your page or right in the footer of your webpage.
If you do this, then you can boost your position up to 400 positions. If you were in the 1200 , now you may hit to the 800th position….. Now, you may already bend your face and say “Yeah, and what does it use for?” I’ll say “Nothing,…it still can’t help you” you have to complete the OFF-PAGE optimization to be the king of the Search Engine Result Page….
Oh, and what is off-page optimization? Simple, it’s all about everything that you can do to promote your blog.
1. Increase the number of your visitors. You can do blogwalking to invite people. Or do some promotion in facebook, to invite people visit your blog
2. Build links to your blog. But before you do a link building process, you should know the type of links:
a. Link from shoutbox….it has no credit for you
b. Link from Comment box… it has credit if the blog has relevant content to your blog
c. Trackback link….It’s a link that appear if you review any webpage in your blog and leave your link at the comment column of the webpage. It has more credit than a common link from the comment box
d. Reciprocal link is a kind of links that appear if you do some link exchange. It has a very good credit if both of the oage has relevant content. But, has no credit at all if they don’t have any relevant content
e. One way link…. If you have one way link that is directed to your blog, then it will be the most perfect link you can have
So what is the criteria of a good link?
1. It connects the relevant pages
2. It comes from a higher Pagerank page
3. It’s a one way link
At this poin, is there any conclusion you get? Well, my blogger manual will continue with the biggest question mark….”HOW CAN I GET THOSE BACKLINKS?”
It’s quite simple, but I tell you that it won’t be easy at all. Your solution is to send a request message to every webmasters that you want to ask for a backlinks. The badnews is A high pagerank Webmaster will be very selective to accept any link exchange offer. It’s because…if they make a bad decision of which page should be connected to their website. It can kill their pagerank instantly. Let’s consider like this if you accept to link your blog to other website … and you don’t know that the website has been banned by google….than you will take a risk to be banned also by Google. Or at least Google will penalize your blog by reducing your pagerank 1 or 2 points.
Well, It’s still the basic knowledge, but I thinks it’s enough for you to develop your SEO skill by following this short blogger manual. If you have any question….feel free to visit blogger manual. And you can contact me at contact form that I have provide for you. —-THE END OF BLOGGER MANUAL – SEO SUMMARY —
I’m still a new blogger, But I love to share everything that I have learned from many sources. I hope this articles can help you to develop your blog
Twitter Marketing: How to be Follow-Worthy on Twitter
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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I often get asked the question, “How do I get more followers on Twitter?” Many of my clients want to pay a sum of money for the latest scheme to get them 10,000 new followers in 24 hours or some such nonsense as that. As in all marketing strategies, it’s not the number that counts. Rather, it’s the quality in the numbers that really matters. So, 10,000 followers who are not members of your target market are fairly useless to you. Of much greater value would be a smaller list of 1000 followers who are all members of your target market.
All in all, online social networking is not that vastly different from face-to-face networking. Some basic networking principles still apply, regardless of the platform:
To be interesting, you have to be interested (in others). Try to be a resource and give first before asking for anything.
I’m not particularly a social person, nor do I like to waste time making chit-chat with my followers. It’s just not my style. I realize I lose some major networking points because of this personality trait, although I will comment on something of a personal nature or add to a discussion on occasion.
However, what I do well is educate and provide useful information that people want and need, so that’s the strategy I use in my social networking. Quite frankly, that’s the primary reason I pay attention to only a small select group of people on Twitter — they consistently provide me with great information of use to my business, and many times it is this same information that I’ll retweet to my followers. Understandably, it’s probably taken me longer to build a following than someone who spends more time on this than I do, but in the long run, you have to determine what works best for you and set a finite amount of time each day to devote to social networking so that it doesn’t become all-consuming.
Here are the 7 ways you can become follow-worthy on Twitter:
1. Distribute your ezine. My ezine is chock-full of useful info each week, and it’s connected to both Facebook and Twitter. So, every time I publish an issue, all my Facebook and Twitter followers receive it.
2. Distribute blog posts. My blog is also connected to both Facebook and Twitter, so every time a post is made, all my Facebook and Twitter followers receive it. My more popular articles will be retweeted at least 10 times by different followers on my list because they felt the content was valuable for their network.
3. Distribute your articles. My EzineArticles.com account is connected to Twitter, so every time they accept an article for publication, it goes out to my Twitter and Facebook followers.
4. Retweet the posts of others. I’m regularly retweeting the posts of people I follow that I find useful and think that my followers will find useful as well. In fact, I am regularly cited as someone to follow because I provide great information to my followers.
5. Create a tips hashtag campaign. I’ve got a tips series that I publish on Twitter where I regularly publish tips on traffic generation for my followers. Many of these have been retweeted over time.
6. Comment on other people’s posts. If I have something pertient to add, I’ll comment or reply to a small number of posts each week. 7. Be interested in your followers. Ask and answer questions, make referrals, take suggestions, provide support, and do many of the thing you would normally do if you were in a room of people.
Use your information and knowledge to build your following on Twitter. Your followers will pass your useful information to their networks, and slowly but surely, your number of followers will increase, as well.
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Maximizing Your 140 Characters on Twitter
October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Are you Twittering yet? Those new to Twitter might not really ‘get’ what it this social marketing tool is at first but as soon as you find some people to follow and get people following you, you’re going to see the potential. Micro blogging is mini blogging and it can pack a wallop of a punch in terms of social networking and marketing because of the potential for followers who could pay attention to every thing you have to say! Woo people with credit cards in their hand and you are golden!
What’s interesting is how many people on the microblogging platform are being sold something constantly and don’t even realize it because they’re just participating in an online discussion. Those discussions lead to links being clicked on and buzz being spread and ultimately, to people making money!
If you want to make money online and think you don’t have time for a tool with 140 characters and a lot of idle chit chat, you’re leaving money on the table! Look at Twitter and see all the potential.
Follow and Be Followed
Twitter only works if you’re following people and they’re following you. If you’ve joined and done nothing with your profile, it’s not going to do anything for you. Follow and be followed. One doesn’t work well without the other. Unless you’re super famous, people won’t stay on your follower list unless they feel like you’re listening to them. If you’re an online guru with a lot of clout people might not really care if you’re on their list because they still want to know what you’re saying but if you’re going to use the tool, you need to be prepared to converse with the little people and avoid elitism. That’s not to say you have to follow every single person that clicks on your name, though. There’s a fair bit of Twitter spam going on so you’ll want to be a little bit choosy about whether you follow someone or not. And, that tells you right there what you shouldn’t use Twitter for. Spammers quickly get ignored with this tool.
Twitter Tools
Because Twitter is a pretty basic tool, there are a lot of advantages to using some of the free tools that exist to enhance the Twitter experience. There are dozens of tools that help you get Twitter doing what you want or help you mine the user base for information. Tools like Tweetdeck, Twhirl, TwitterFox, TweetBeep, Hashtags, Twittermail, Twitterly and more all have varying features and benefits that can help you maximize the earning potential.
Success from Reciprocity
Reciprocity is key to success on this social marketing tool. Because it’s a virtual water cooler environment, you need to be a positive contributor in order to gain benefits from it. After you find a group to follow and get some people to follow you, you need to converse, you need to provide value and you should establish yourself as a valuable person to follow. Then, people will do things like: click your URL, re-tweet your interesting tweets, tell others to follow you, write @before your username so their followers can see you might be worth following, social bookmarking your interesting tweets, digging your URLs and more. See how this tool can help you?
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