Which Affiliate Products Make Money
November 18, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Affiliate Products That Convert – And How to Know If They Do
Laying The Ground Work
Many times we as marketers, are in a big hurry to get to the good stuff. Like promoting and creating our landing pages, getting the squeeze page ready, and advertising. So sometimes we might forget about how important it is that we make the correct decisions when choosing a product or niche.
So the first strategy should involve finding a product that converts. There are many that claim high conversion ratio’s, but you cannot take someones word for it, you are gonna have to work a little bit. You’ll be happy you did.
What Do You Think?
The merchant says that the product has a x% conversion ratio. But what do you think? You look at the product and there are a few questions you should ask yourself.
1. Market Appeal – Is the product targeted correctly? Is it something that the targeted market is demanding?
2. Longevity – How long has the merchant been in business ? Has it been longer than a few months? This is important, especially when dealing with physical products or services.
3. What do you think? Would you buy it? Sometimes when I am interested in promoting another product, I like to check out products first, before I do market research. Basically, I want to see if something stands out, and that is the first thing I will explain. Its your most important tool as an affiliate.
Its your instinct. When you are looking at a sales page or a product, you BETTER like it. 1 rule of thumb is that, when you read a sales page, you should want to buy it. Pick products that make you feel excited. Because, and I promise, if you don’t like it, either will the people that you try to sell it to. Besides , its awfully hard to convince someone to buy something that you wouldn’t buy.
Then you can check out what other marketers are saying about it. One thing I have learned about internet marketers, is that they have no problem blasting a product if it let them down. Now, sometimes its hard to tell if someone is praising a product, just to make a sale. But when they say its bad, its bad.
You can find this information out by visiting forums. There are plenty of good ones out there. I recommend affiliate forums and warrior forums. There are about 3-5 other good ones. Simply Google , marketing forums, and you will see the ones that have what you are looking for.
The last thing you can do to find out if the product is converting is to check the real time stats. These are the actual sales numbers for a particular product. Commission Junction, Share a sale, link share provide these stats for all of the affiliates to check out.
Some of the stats to look for are, EPC, which is – ‘earnings Per Click’. You probably know this, but EPC is the total amount of money Earned, divided by the number of Clicks. If there were 50 clicks and the total amount made was $75, that would be $1.50 per click. (Which isnt bad as long as the PPC is around $.50-$.75.
Use this simple strategy to determine whether or not a product will convert. Remember, this is your 2nd step in product selection, the first being the research phase. If you missed the research strategy, the link is below.
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Smarter Seo; How to Dominate Any Niche
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Today, with a little basic information and $50 you can have a nice niche thing going. Or with that same $50 and some hard won insider tips you can OWN any niche you want. That’s what we’ll focus on.
First things first, spend wisely. Setup a budget early on and find ways to stay within it. Use free tools whenever possible and when you do need to spend money on something, make sure it’s a bargain.
Okay, now for the good stuff. Let’s start with finding our keywords…
Part One: Finding Keywords
Finding Keywords 1: We can use a free tool to do this part. Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type in a common word or phrase that describes your niche (check the Use synonyms box to get the best variety of results.)
Finding Keywords 2: Now click on the “Approx Avg Search Volume” header to sort by the average monthly volume. You are going to take each of the search terms that look like good possible keywords and run a search on Google for them. But lets keep track. Take a sheet of paper (or Excel doc) and jot down the keyword, then the “Approx Avg Search Volume” and finally the number of pages returned on Google.
Finding Keywords 3: When you have that information for a good handful of keywords you want to come up with a success potential ratio for each. It’s easy. Just divide the “Approx Avg Search Volume” by the number of pages on Google. This is your success potential ratio. The higher the number; the better.
Example A: Approx Avg Search Volume (6,500) / Matching Pages on Google (100,000) = .065 is your Success Potential Ratio
Example B: Approx Avg Search Volume (9,750) / Matching Pages on Google (233,000) = .042 is your Success Potential Ratio
Example B has a lot more searches performed but with even more competition than A. Long story short, this means the keyword from Example A is likely our best bet to target.
Part Two: Securing Domain Names
Securing Domain Names 1: Now go to your favorite domain registrar (like Godaddy.com Register.com or whatever) and run a domain registration availability search for the keyword phrase with the highest Success Potential Ratio.
Securing Domain Names 2: Use dashes! And don’t feel like the splits need to be perfect. For example, if you have a possible domain that is three words long, first try it without any dashes. That will be gone, I can almost guarantee. Next try separating each word with a dash. Maybe it’s taken, maybe not. If not, grab it! If it is taken, don’t despair. Try just one dash between the first two words and let the second and third run together. If that version is taken, move the dash so it is between the second and third while the first and second run together. Chances are you will find one that works. Ad the best part is the search engines read it as the same keyword!
Securing Domain Names 2: Keep in mind, this domain and resulting Website is for SEO purposes NOT branding. Who cares how long it is or how many dashes it has? Certainly not you. The search engines will love it!
Securing Domain Names 3: A word of advice… Get your domain name as quickly as possible. The older it is, the better in Google’s eyes. And they actually run date scans on domains using a Whois registry so they know the exact date and minute the domain was registered.
If you’ve never used one check out AllWhoIs.com or BetterWhoIs.com and enter any domain name. It tells you plenty of of important information, including the owner, registrar, date or registration and even the owner’s home phone address if that’s what he or she used to register.
Securing Domain Names 4: As for the domain type, .com is best bet and .net and .org extensions also do well. I don’t bother with the others and I really strive for .com whenever possible.
Part Three: Deciding on Website Type
Deciding on Website Type 1: Do you want a blog or a regular static site? For quickest results I recommend setting up a WordPress blog (free technology with thousands of free templates.) Google loves blogs because they are fresh, dynamic and already nearly perfectly optimized for their spidering bot.
Deciding on Website Type 2: If you do go with WordPress I also recommend installing the free WordPress plugin “All in One SEO Pack” by Michael Torbert. It’s amazing and totally free. You can get it at http://semperfiwebdesign.com/category/portfolio/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/
Part Four: Finding Web Hosting
Finding Web Hosting 1: There are tens or thousands of companies you can go with or you can even just host your site at WordPress.com.
Finding Web Hosting 2: Personally I would rather keep full control of my site for future expansion and customization. And I have so many niche blogs in service that saving even just a few bucks is a big deal. I use the starter blog package available at http://www.vortexhost.com/hosting/blog-hosting.php for $25 per year. It’s also got push button WordPress installation, which is nice. So I’m up and running in about five minutes.
Finding Web Hosting 3: But again, there are literally tens of thousands of hosts to choose from. Shop around and stick with one you really like. It’s much easier to track each of your niche blogs with a single host (control panels, stats, etc.)
Part Five: Optimizing Your Site
Optimizing Your Site 1: So far we’ve covered how to select the most profitable keywords, purchase unbeatable domain names, use the Website type most revered by Google for quickest results and how to get reliable inexpensive hosting with bonus features. And we have only spent about $35 ($10 for the domain and $25 for hosting.)
Optimizing Your Site 2: Now we move onto the actual optimization part. I will laundry list the things you need to keep in mind for a competitive edge and recommend a tool bargain if you decide you need one.
Use two of your most important keywords per page; the primary and a secondary.
Use your main and secondary keyword in the page or post title.
Try to make each page about 500 words in length or more, using at least five paragraphs.
Mention your main keyword about four time one the page as follows: Once at the beginning of the first sentence, once in the second paragraph, once in the third paragraph and once towards the end of the final paragraph.
Mention your second most important keyword about four times one the page as follows: Once toward the end of the first sentence, once in the third paragraph, once in the fourth paragraph and once towards the beginning of the final paragraph.
Add your keywords and META descriptions to the WordPress plugin “All in One SEO Pack” and let that do the heavy lifting for you.
Optimizing Your Site 3: If you have an SEO analyzer tool, use it. This is a tool that goes through you site just like Google will, and does the same to your top competitors that dominate your search engine of choice, then tells you EXACTLY what you need to do to steal their top positions.
Optimizing Your Site 4: If you don’t have a tool like that but think it would help, you can download a free trial version of one of the better ones at http://www.iBusinessPR0M0TER.com. If you decide to buy it, you will have the same tool that makes eBay number one all over the world. And for about $250.
Well that’s it. You can dominate any niche you want with little time, effort or expense. Why do I feel so confident about it? This is the exact process I have used to dominate over fifty niches from Bass fishing to coin collecting and, of course, search engine optimization.
Above all else enjoy the ride. Best of luck!
Mike Small founded http://www.SEOpartner.com in 2004. With eleven years in SEO he has written several popular books on Web optimization and continues as a successful consultant working with clients from the US, UK and Japan.
How To Choose A Niche Topic To Build Your First Wordpress Blog
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Have you always been envious of those that could somehow choose a niche without almost any thought? Now you don’t have to be. I wish I had realized this process I’m about to show you earlier when I first started building websites online.
I can understand you being sceptical about how to choose a niche topic. However, you won’t be once you read what I have for you in relationship to choosing a niche topic to build your first wordpress blog around. Patience is a virtue, and for those that have been able to stay with me this far, the good stuff is coming!
What I’m about to show is how to choose a niche in a way that you haven’t been exposed to yet.
I call it the Process Of Elimination.
Let’s first explore some opportunities you might be interested in. To do this write down at least 10 things you are interested in doing as an online business on a piece of paper. By doing this you getting your ideas out of your head and on something you can work with. That’s the first step.
Next, start breaking down the list you just wrote to 5. You see how this works yet?
Now with the remanding 5, break that down to 3.
With only 3 remaining now all you have to do is choose one of the 3.
Do you see how the Process Of Elimination works now?
I found this process really helpful and easy to employ because either way you look at it with the decision you make it’s a niche topic you have an interest in and spending some time on as a online business.
Now if you plan on building several niche wordpress blogs I recommend you keep that list handy so you can apply the same technique to the remainder on the list. This will help you keep on track and focused on your projects.
With so many niche topics to build a website around online it gets difficult to sometimes make a decision on which niche topic to start with first which is why I use this process above and am sharing it with you now. And it took less then an hour to do.
So what do you do next?
Keyword Research!
This is the last step of the Process Of Elimination and the most important. Why would you want to build a wordpress blog or any website for that matter if there’s no market for it. We’re building these sites for a reason and that is to make some money.
So with that said its time now to do our Keyword Research homework.
I use Googles free keyword research tool do this step. It’s easy to use and gives you some valuable stats about what people are searching for online under your selected keywords or niche topic.
Go to è https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
If your keywords or niche topic produce high search counts and lots of adwords advertisers then you’ve found yourself a profitable niche topic to start building a website or wordpress blog around. If it is the other way around, start the process above over again with your remaining niche topics you wrote down earlier.
Those are the basics of how this technique works. I could keep on going about the keyword research end of things but that’s an article within itself. Start with this first.
You’ll find after doing this a few times it gets much easier because you’ll be familiar with how the process works.
I wish you nothing but the best in your pursuit of choosing your first niche topic. I have faith that with my tips above you are going to be able to achieve it all in only less then an hour.
Cory Threlfall owns and operates a blog called The Web Development Central BLOG. Here you’ll receive Expert How-To Articles, Video Tutorials and Recommended Resources for getting your first website up and generating traffic. Visit today and subscribe to his Free RSS feed or Twitter feed so you’ll be the first to receive his latest blog updates. Go now to: How To Choose A Niche Topic
The 3 Hot Tips to Make Money Fast Online via Twitter Technology
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Twitter is considered as the fastest growing online social networking used by most of the folks around the globe. It’s easy to get more followers on twitter which is your asset to make money fast via online. Here are some of the helpful tips on how to make money out of your targeted twitter followers:
1. Direct Selling. You may give a good offer to your followers by sending them tweets. It may be you affiliate product that you want to promote to them and get a good commission if somebody buy from you via the twitter website. By simply putting your affiliate link in your tweet, some of your thousands of followers won’t hesitate to click the link, and more likely they purchase the product through your affiliate link. You could make money based on your sales made.
It’s a little bit challenge to make your words convince with maximum length of 140 characters only allowed in every tweet. But you can make your affiliate link shortened by using some free services such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, and budurl.com.
Make use also of your public profile by putting your link out there, so that everyone who get interested to view your profile can’t escape seeing your affiliate link.
2. Another good way to make money fast at online with twitter is to provide people with freebie opportunity. You do this by simply putting your link in a tweet to a cost per action (CPA) offer. Just make a search on google if the term is a new thing for you.
At cost-per-action offers you can advertise offers that could make you little money. It might be a single dollar or two. This is too compelling to most of the people because they will just only to leave their email addresses or Zip code, and then get a great chance to win some good stuff.
The stuff will dramatically do best for you, especially if your offer is based on your interest.
3. The last tip for you to consider in order to make a decent money with twitter is by giving away freebies such as a special report, e-books, and others in return of asking a good favor from them to provide their email address. All you need to do is simply tweet the link towards your freebie page wherein at the same time building your list. Sooner or later you may promote products to the list. Making money from your targeted list is a good marketing strategy than direct selling.
Just take note also your success will be too dependent to how large your targeted twitter traffic coming to your offers. So the first to focus is to build large targeted or like-minded twitter followers in order to surely hit the success you ever wanted.
Armil Velos has been showing people how to make money online fast and easy for over 5 years. If you want to learn from him exactly how he generates a decent amount of money from the internet on completely autopilot for every single month. You may visit now his free blog – make money fast at online – for you to quickly discover his proven free money making tactics.
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