Secrets of A Success Affililiate Marketer
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
* What is Affiliate Marketing?
* Getting Started with Affiliate Marketing
* Identifying a Niche
* Taking Advantage of Keywords
* The Basics of Setting up your Website
* Getting your Website Set Up
* Search Engine Optimization
* Understanding Affiliate Networks
* Selecting the Right Products
Chapter 2
* Landing Pages or Content Sites?
* Landing Pages
* Content Sites
* Succeeding with the Pre-sell
* Developing your Message
* Removing the Roadblocks
* Developing your Plan
* Your Personal Plan for Succeeding as an Affiliate
Chapter 3
* Mistakes to Avoid
* Not Making Use of your Time
* Not Spending your Resources Wisely
* Not Knowing your Product
* Not Taking the Time to do your Research
* Falling in Love with a Product
* No Focus
* Not Performing Research
* Not Making Sure you Have Variety
* Not Taking Advantage of Testing
* Lack of Training
* Not Understanding your Target Market
* Not Tracking Sales
Chapter 4
* Marketing Tips
* Content is Always King
* The Matter of Traffic
* The Importance of Having the Right Attitude
* Finding the Right Marketing Methods
* Tips for Marketing Multiple Programs
* Understanding Trends in Affiliate Marketing
* Getting Off to a Good Start
* High Priced Items or Low Priced Items?
Conclusion
9 Tips on Flooding Your Website with Traffic
Yahoo Answers is one of the easiest ways to drive traffic to a website. When you participate in answering questions in Yahoo Answers, you will also receive traffic from Yahoo search engine as well. As a matter of fact, Yahoo is regarded as one of the most popular search engines available today. Hence, your website has high chance of receiving exceedingly increased traffic if you make use of Yahoo Answers. Best of all, you do not need to pay for using this tool. It is absolutely free!
The following are 9 useful tips on generating high traffic to your website by using Yahoo Answers:
1) Answer the questions as thoroughly as possible. Always answer to the point. This will increase your chance of being selected as the top choice answer and as a result, you will receive more traffic to your website.
2) Answer those questions that are familiar to you. You need to have sufficient knowledge on a topic in order to provide an informative and useful response. If you are doubtful about a question, you should do some research on it before attempting to answer it. Most importantly, you must answer the questions correctly. Check the answer before publishing it as you cannot edit it after it is published. Incorrect answers can affect your credibility and this will affect traffic to your website.
3) Remember to place your website link in the Source box using a URL address similar to the topic. In addition, the landing page you intend your visitors to visit needs to provide information related to their enquiry so that they will not be disappointed.
4) Include your keyword in your answer. You can also use your keyword as anchor text by using the html code “href”.
5) Answer the most recent questions as far as possible (e.g. posted within few hours). When your limits are raised and you are allowed to answer more questions each day, you can attempt to answer questions other than the recent ones. Yahoo search engine results page will pick up your answer regardless of the date of the original question.
6) Answer as many questions as you can each day and aim to reach your limit of questions. Be reminded that besides the Yahoo search engine, Google may also pick up your answers and you will earn a back link.
7) Customised landing pages are crucial. Create specific pages where people can find the information easily when they land up there. Do not simply lead them to the main page of your website.
Exercise patience for results to occur. If you have been answering questions on a daily basis, placing your keywords in your answers and linking your websites through the source boxes, you will see eventually received the results you desire.
9) It is important that you collect as many points as possible. In Yahoo Answers, you will receive 2 points for each answer you give, 10 points for being selected as the best answer and 1 point for every answer you vote on. You must be at level 2 to be allowed to vote for answers. Thus, you need to work hard to achieve this level as quickly as possible. If you reach level 2, you can earn more points by voting for answers. When you have earned more points and become a top contributor, a badge will appear near your avatar picture. After attaining this status, your answers will have higher chance of being chosen as “best answer” and more people will view your answers and websites. As a result, you will gain more traffic.
The above described some useful tips you can use to increase traffic to your website through Yahoo Answers. The process will usually take some time before you can see desirable results. This simple yet effective tool is rated the best for generating high traffic volume to a website.
Solo Ezine Ads
Solo Ezine Ads are advertisements published in ezines or newsletters where no other ad competes against your marketing message. This ad is then sent to Email Opt In Mailing List of ezines who have already agreed to receive these ezines and any accompaning ads.
These Email Opt In Mailing List are already familiar with the publisher of the ezine and trust his or her recommendations.
A well developed solo ezine ad sent through this type of advertising channel has the great potential to be read. Many online professionals have used this method to build huge internet businesses.
While no one can guarantee your solo ezine ad will make your email marketing success, using this method will offer you the best chance of getting your marketing message out to interested Email Opt In Mailing List.
By using solo ezine ads, you eliminate competition from other advertisers. Hence you will have to make use of your advertising to get the Email Opt In Mailing List to click and eventually close the sale.
One of the benefits of using solo ezine ads is the amount of words you are able to use. Generally publishers allow ads to include up to 500 words. This allows you to create headlines, bulleted points, and your URL. Think of it as a mini-mini website.
Your ads should have an attention getting headline (believable headline) subheadings, bullets, and a call to action. Above all, emphasis on benefits rather than features.
Take full advantage of the amount of space you are given. Proof read your solo ezine ad, let others read your ad too. State a problem, then share how your product or service can solve it for them.
Once you have an ad ready, you need to find a reliable and relevant ezine that will send your message to their Email Opt In Mailing List.
Do a search on the internet. Some ezines require membership fees and others are free. There are thousands of ezines and newsletters to choose from. Not all will allow advertising. However, you can subscribe to a few to see if they are of value, if so, contact the publisher and offer your product or service for his or her review. A good review from a trusted publisher can mean profits to you.
Tracking your ads is very important. If you place ads with more than one publisher you will need to know which are pulling and which are not pulling. Otherwise, you will be wasting money on those not performing solo esine ads.
With the advent of Google Adwords, and the rush to advertise using this effective method, Internet marketers left the ezine world. This leaves an old but still effective marketing door open, especially for niche marketers.
Spend some time today searching for quality ezines in your targeted market. A well written solo ad in a quality ezine is still workable