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In my time researching the search engine...

http://www.microsoft.com into my browser. Apparently, that's not what everyone does. Here are some other examples from Overture: eBay - over 7 million searches, Google - over 9 million searches, Amazon - Over 800 thousand searches (OK, lots will be for the river or the forest but still ...), PayPal over 340 thousand searches and so on. Considering that Overture has only about 5% of the search engine market, you can see that there are millions and millions of people who actually use search engines to find sites when they could just type the name in their browser and slap a .com on the end. Now, on to the good stuff. Of those companies that I mentioned, all but Google have an affiliate program. For example, PayPal pays $5.00 for every person who signs up. 340 000 x $5.00= $1 700 000. Interesting! So, what can we do to make the most of this opportunity? Well, it's easier than you would think. Obviously, trying to get traffic from people searching for eBay or PayPal would be very difficult but there are literally thousands of other companies that people search for. For example, I just checked the three best known British sports betting companies - about 20 000 searches are made each month on Overture for these companies. I have noticed that without any effort whatsoever, I am actually getting a lot of traffic from people searching for company names and script names. This is because they are listed in my Affiliate and Script directories. An example of the process is - people search for a particular merchant, come to my affiliate directory and click on the link to get to the merchant. Therefore, even though they have no interest in the affiliate program, I'm making money just by linking to merchants who's content is completely unrelated to mine. Remember, this is without even trying. When I do try, I'm getting even more traffic. For example, I have a review of the FastClick ad network on my site. I get 10+ visitors each day from people searching for phrases that include the word fastclick. That's 300+ visitors per month, 15 000 per year. As you could imagine, due to the fact that FastClick pay a lifetime 5% commission on referred earnings, this is quite lucrative. So, what do you need to do? Well, you probably already use affiliate programs in some form on your site - either as a major source of revenue or to make "backend" sales. I went for years just linking to them with banners, buttons and text links. The odd short recommendation here and there proved to be the best way to get the most out of them. The problem, from a search engine perspective, is that just linking to them from your site will generally not get your page up high in the search engine rankings. A link to merchant "Acme Corp." just blends in to the text on your page and is assigned no real relevance. Therefore, you should put up an individual page on your site for each merchant that you are an affiliate of. This page could just be a review of the products or services that they offer. Just the fact that you have a content rich page about a specific merchant will almost automatically get you traffic from the search engines (once you are listed). The main point is "content rich". Also, write it yourself, do not copy content from the merchants site. Why? Well, even if they let you copy their content (lots do), Google has ways of finding duplicate content. In fact, they will usually ban the page that they believe is less important if two have the same information on them. So, write it yourself. Remember that if the merchant sells products that have gained recognition from the public, make sure you list their products. If you already have a successful site, the search engines will actually view your "review" of a merchant as being important and it is no harder to get that page in to the top 10 listings than it is for any other page on your site. Often, the difference between doing well and being truly successful online is just the ability to grab opportunities when they appear. You could find that spending just 10 minutes to set up a couple of new pages on your site could actually result in thousands of dollars in extra income each year. Remember, there are close to 600 million queries made on search engines each day - this is an opportunity! Don't let it pass you by. About The Author Sean Burns is the author of the eBook Rankings Revealed which gives you a step by step guide to obtaining top 10 rankings on the major search engines - http://www.webmastersreference.com/rankings_revealed]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.732 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:29Z

Affiliate marketing is truly one of the ...

Tactic #1: Your Own Opt-In List If you've your own existing opt-in list this would obviously be the quickest way to start. However I'd like to provide you with some ideas to maximize the response and results you wouldn't otherwise get if you never applied them. It's always a good tactic to provide some kind of time-sensitive bonuses to entice your list to buy through your affiliate link. It has always work and it'll continue to work. You should also do at least 3 follow-up mailings as statistics have proven that you will get the most sales from your 2nd and 3rd mailings. Now what if you don't have your own list to begin with? The most logical action would be to seriously consider building your own money-making list without delay. A complete course to build and profit from your own opt-in list is at http://www.ewenchia.com/listsecrets.htm Alternatively a 'second-rate' method is to use... ==> Tactic #2: Other People's Lists What do I mean by this? One quick method to leverage on someone else's list is through ezine advertising, particularly with solo ads. As in all kinds of advertising, what you want to do besides advertising the affiliate program is also to build your own list. A simple way to do this while promoting the affiliate program is by using a catchy one-two sentence signature file after your name. The best advertising you can get is to pre-qualified targeted lists of like-minded people, especially people with money in hand. While these are rare and even harder to identify, an amazing resource can be found here http://www.ewenchia.com/ultimatetraffic.htm ==> Tactic #3: Google AdWords You can start promoting any affiliate program in less than 15 minutes with pay-per-click advertising, especially Goolge AdWords. Since Jan 6th 2005, there had been some changes to Google's policies regarding advertising of affiliate products on Google AdWords. Without going into boring details, you can still advertise affiliate programs by using landing pages customized to the affiliate program you're promoting. As I've provided in detail exactly how you can use Google AdWords in "Striking Affiliate Gold", I won't repeat it again. You can download a copy of the manual at http://undergroundsalesletters.com/strikegold.pdf ==> Tactic #4: Article Marketing This is one tactic you got to get started on because it works. I've made tons of affiliate sales purely from articles. In fact, one of my articles generated over 25 affiliate sales in a little over 3 days on autopilot. The key to successful article writing is to provide real information and tips. Make sure it doesn't sound like an outright sales pitch. Any recommendations you make should be added value to the article. The recommendation should not be its main purpose. Again I won't be repeating information I've already covered. If you're interested in using articles as an affiliate promotional weapon, download these two revealing reports I've written: http://www.marketingebookreview.com/LifetimeTraffic.pdf http://www.stuffyourinboxwithcash.com/lazy.zip ==> Tactic #5: Leverage On Your Existing Web Pages There're 3 main ways to go about doing this... One is to simply promote your affiliate programs on highly trafficked and relevant pages of your website. Check your website statistics to see which pages visitors view the most. These are great target areas for your promotions, especially if they are relevant to the affiliate product in question. Two, recommend affiliate products on your thank you pages. After a visitor has made a purchase from you or sign up for your ezine, all you've to do is add in a short recommendation of an affiliate product prominently on the thank you page. Third, use your custom error (404) pages as affiliate marketing tools. This is the page that shows up when visitors enter a wrong URL or extension, there's no point in wasting this space so why not use it to promote an affiliate product? ==> Tactic #6: Capture Exit Traffic On Demand You can quickly make extra affiliate sales just by using an exit window or pop up window to promote your affiliate programs. While there're popup killers out there, you'll be surprised just how many percent of people actually install them - I don't. Fact is, pop ups, especially exit pop ups still produce good results. Stick with one tasteful pop-up targeted to your visitors and you'll see great results. ==> Tactic #7: Other Quick And Simple Tips Recommend affiliate products in your 'thank you emails'. This is a no-brainer, whether you're saying thanks for joining your ezine or for buying a product, always give your email recipients an affiliate recommendation for a targeted product you've personally found useful. You can also create autoresponder courses on topics related to the affiliate program you're promoting as a form of follow-up preselling. That's it for now and I hope this article has been useful. If you're interested, you can read the FULL article at http://www.ewenchia.com/affiliate.html Go and profit from your affiliate programs with confidence! Ewen Chia is an expert at creating cash windfalls online and has been called "The Super Affiliates' Super Affiliate" for his extraordinary expertise as an affiliate marketer. You can discover his secrets at http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com http://www.EwenChia.com]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.733 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:29Z

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affiliate programs which payhigher than 50% commission. Think about this for a minute. Let's say you sell your product for $50 and you give 50%commission. You have 5 affiliates who each make 10 saleseach. You pocket $1,250 after paying commissions. You now have 50customers. Five of them end up purchasing your $100 backendproduct for a profit of $500. Total profits is $1,750 foryou. Now let's consider giving away 75% commission to youraffiliates. By giving away higher commissions, you get 10 affiliatesinstead of the 5. Ten affiliates making 10 sales each at$50 will make you $1,250 -- which is the same front endprofits as before. Now you have 100 customers and make 10 backend sales for$1,000 profit. So how did you end up making more when you increased youraffiliate commissions by 25 percent? You made it on thebackend. Here's what is happening behind the curtain as you increaseyour commissions. You gain more affiliates and subscribers as thoseaffiliates send you more traffic to your site. Those affiliates are happier with their higher paycheckbecause you gave them higher commissions. Therefore, theywill continue to send traffic to your site. This cycle increases your traffic over time as you gainmore customers, more affiliates and more subscribers. It's the ultimate viral marketing machine! More subscribers equal more profits. More customers equalsmore profits. More affiliates equals more profits. So is all that worth a hit on your front end profits? Yes! The problem most people have is they can't stand to seetheir affiliates making more than them. Tunnel vision keepsthem from seeing all the extra subscribers, customers andaffiliates which could be theirs. Please remember one thing about running your affiliateprogram. A 75% reduction in profits is better than a 100% reduction,which is the case if the affiliate had not made ANY sale. In summary, you should create an affiliate program for yourfront end product which gives away a majority of theprofits. You should also spend your time creating multiple backendproducts. Gary Huynh is a full-time online information marketer. Hecurrently earns money from affiliate programs along withrunning multiple membership sites. View his weblog at:http://www.garyhuynh.com for more tips and tricks to helpyou achieve a full-time work from home business.]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.736 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:29Z

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You may have heard of joint venture mark...

Offer to do all the work. You'll handle all the mailing, marketing documents, and product fulfilment.

Collect the customer money yourself and then send your j/v partner his cut for each sale.

Stress the fact that your partner will be "getting money for no work." This is a strong incentive for an entrepreneur to become your j/v partner.

You will deduct your mailing costs and other expenses first and then split the balance with the partner.

Always get your j/v partner to sign your letter agreeing to your terms.

Include an "exit clause." This allows you to cancel the j/v agreement if you find your partner is a headache to deal with. By following these steps to a joint venture, you'll be able to quickly add hundreds or thousands of potential customers to your database that normally would take years to accumulate. And, most importantly, you'll increase your sales. About The Author Dave Coyne is a copywriter, marketing consultant. Start A High Income, Low Risk Home Business And Never Create A Product, Write An Ad or Talk To Anyone. Get this free report. Send a blank email to dcinfobiz@GetResponse.com]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.739 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:29Z

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Synergistic Products/Services First off, and this is a cardinal rule, only promote those programs which will allow you to create synergies with your site. This means selecting programs that naturally complement the subject matter of your site and that will therefore be of interest and relevance to your site visitors. This will ensure your prospects (ie your site visitors) are pre-qualified which will result in a relatively higher conversion ratio (the ratio of visitors to purchases) than would be the case if your traffic is untargeted (which will be the case if you promote unrelated products and services from your site.) => Quality In All Things Keeping the need for synergy uppermost in mind, look for quality programs first and foremost. The last thing you want to waste your time, money and reputation on is a shoddy product or service. There are just too many quality programs out there to settle for anything less. =< Stability of Company Look for a company that's been around for a while and that's reputable and stable (both financially and in its management). Any reputable company will have full contact details readily available so do your research. => References Look for testimonials and references from other affiliates. If the company you're interested is not forthcoming when it comes to putting you in touch with other affiliates, move on. => Affiliate Agreement Look for a professional, considered and detailed affiliate agreement (contract). This shows that the company is serious about its business. Watch out for exclusivity clauses and other restraints. Some affiliate agreements will require that you not promote competing businesses' products and services. This is not to say you should avoid such agreements. As a general rule, it is your interests not to promote competing programs anyway. Just be aware of what the agreement says on the subject to avoid getting yourself into hot water. Look also for an agreement that treats spammers harshly. This protects not only the company but other affiliates as well. The last thing you or any other reputable affiliate needs is to have your reputation and the reputation of the product/service you are promoting besmirched by these sorts of tactics. => High Commissions Promoting someone else's affiliate program necessarily requires that you divert traffic away from your site and towards someone else's. Make sure you're properly compensated with a high commission structure. And be sure to set up your link so that when the visitor clicks on it, a new browser window is opened for the target site. This at least keeps your site in front of the visitor so they can go back to your site once they've finished at the site your link has taken them to. => Lifetime Commissions Look for affiliate programs that will credit you with not only THIS sale but all other sales the customer may make in the future. Many programs are set up so that the customer is identified as "yours" so that when the customer returns to the target site in three months time, the sale is recorded as having been generated by you. => Residual Commissions Include programs that offer residual commissions in your portfolio. Good examples are webhosting services, autoresponder services and the like where customers sign up for a continuous service that requires periodic, regular payments. You receive periodic, regular commissions as a result. => Tracking of Commissions Look for programs that allow you real-time access to your stats so you can keep easy track of your commissions. => Reliability of Payment When checking with affiliate references, find out what the business's record is on paying out commissions. If they're slow or there appears to be a pattern of problems, keep looking. => Frequency of Payment Make a note of payment schedules too. Some programs pay weekly, some monthly, some quarterly. Some only pay once you accumulate commissions of a certain amount. None of these arrangements are necessarily good or bad in and of themselves. Just be sure you know what to expect. => Programs that Require Payment Up Front Two words: MOVE ON! => Affiliate Support Finally, take a look at what support the business offers its affiliates to make sales. Do they provide resources such as sample ads, banners, logos and the like? Do they provide useful advice about maximizing your sales? A good affiliate program provides affiliates with a LOT of support in these areas. MAKING MONEY FROM AFFILIATE PROGRAMS OK, now you know what to look for in an affiliate program. Here's how to maximize your sales of those products and services and, therefore, your commissions: => Get Your Own Website No ifs, no buts. DON'T rely on the you-beaut self-replicated job the company provides all its affiliates. Link to that site from your main site. => Get Your Own Domain Name This presents a much more professional image. Many people won't give the time of day to a business that thinks so little of its prospects that the owner won't shell out 70 bucks for a domain name. So mean business and look like it. => Get Traffic To Your Site (Duh!) As a rough guide, you will need at least 500 targeted unique visitors a day to your site to make reasonable money from affiliate programs. => You Must Have A Site That Will Attract Repeat Visitors If your website is nothing more than a splash page consisting of little else other than banners for umpteen different affiliate programs, forget it. Your site must be worthy of your visitor's time and interest before you can even begin to think about converting that visitor into a paying customer. So create a real site with real content that will keep them coming back for more. => Personal Testimonials A personal testimonial will result in more sales than a mere link or advertisement. So take the time and trouble to write a personal endorsement of the product or service you are promoting. And, of course, it goes without saying that in order to write a personal endorsement, you must know that of which you speak. NEVER promote a program you haven't first purchased yourself. If you don't think enough of your program to invest in it, how do you expect to persuade others to? => Promote With Your Sig File Include a link to your site in the signature of every email you send. => Promote In Your Own Ezine Finally, if you're not already publishing your own ezine or newsletter to stay in touch with your site visitors, start. It's a great way to promote not only your site but also the affiliate programs you promote from your site. MAKING SERIOUS MONEY FROM AFFILIATE PROGRAMS The only way of making SERIOUS money from affiliate programs is by creating your own product or service and recruiting affiliates to sell for YOU. The affiliate program phenomenon is one of the Internet's true success stories. It provides a toe-hold for the would-be internet entrepreneur to begin a real, live business of his or her very own. But the real beauty of affiliate programs lies not in what they can do for you, as an affiliate, but what they can do for you, as a recruiter of affiliates for your own program. By all means jump on the bandwagon and start promoting other people's products to get your start. But don't wait too long to start developing your own product line. There is a ready-made salesforce numbering in the millions ready and waiting to sell it for you. About The Author Elena Fawkner is editor of the award-winning A Home-Based Business Online ... practical home business ideas, resources and strategies for the work-from-home entrepreneur. http://www.fawkner.com/subscribe.html]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.741 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:30Z

Are you frustrated with your affiliate p...

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With the increased use of popups on site...

www.polarloans.co.uk).  We delivered 1,000 visits to the site where the application process was a javascript function.  We had 1 application. We then switched the apply buttons and links to a normal HREF link and sent another 1000 visits to it.  We have a 10 fold increase in applications. The only on-page changes were the Apply button links and we drove the visits via PPC spend. ** What can you do? It maybe time you looked at the major links on your site to your product sale pages on affiliate links.  If they are running as Javascript functions it may be wise to try switching them to normal HREF links and test the results. You can always change them back if you need to but consider the potential revenue option. It certainly has worked for us!  Jason Hulott is Director of J2 Squared, leading specialists in Internet Consultancy  whose specific aim is to drive more revenue to websites. Their main area of focus are the insurance, finance, and automotive industries.]]> tag:hiroseno.com,2007:/blog/affiliate03//21.743 2007-05-05T00:09:03Z 2008-03-31T05:28:30Z

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