Affiliating
5 Hottest Online Money Making Methods
Aug 10th
What are people doing to make money online? Where do they learn how to rake in the cash?
Here are this weeks 5 most popular products people buy to make money online, right now.
1. Mobile Monopoly
This is the top seller right now. Learn leveraged mobile marketing to repeatedly pull down pure profit commissions over $1,000 a day while building dozens of lists.
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2. Turbo Profit Sniper – Incredible New Money Making Software
In second place we have a totally free “visitors software program”, that helps you to have thousands of free visitors in less than 30 days
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3. Blogging to the Bank
In third place we have a new version of the auto-blogging system that will help you earn money with your blog. And yes you get a free blog with this product.
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4. CB Wealth Formula
In fourth place we have a highy popular info product that will teach you the secrets of making big money as an affiliate. Created by 2 of the world’s top internet marketers.
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5. SEOPressor Wp Plugin
Shockingly Effective, Tested and Proven Wordpress SEO Plugin That Will Skyrocket Your Website’s Search Engine Ranking
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Slow month – do not panic
Jul 26th
For an internet marketer and blogger July and December are the worst months of the year. The affiliate sales go down and most advertsers seem to be on holiday. So it has been for me for 10 years and this trend still remains.
On the other hand, the months before, ie June and November are usually more profitable than any other months of the year. Advertisers are looking to buy advertising space to last all through July and affiliate sales go though the roof, specially if you advertise hotels and travels.
The important thing is not to panic. I have friends who lose their patience after a couple weeks without revenue and close down their blogs. Just to restart afresh in August or September.
Big mistake!
Most of you know by now how difficult it is to build a blog that provides a decent income, and to restart it will not help the situation. On the contrary advertisers and visitors keep away until they see that the blog have continuity and that may take months or even years.
July and December is therefore the best months for bloggers / marketers to take time off, wind down the pace of work, so they have new momentum when as all goes back to normal in August or January. When you have been going as a blogger for a few years you learn to plan your budget so that the money will last even during ” the off season”.
Keep your cool and do not give up. Think of it as a good chance to get some well deserved rest.
Ad pools – newbie tips & tricks
May 13th
Most affiliate networks have many advertisers connected and as an affiliate you look for the programs that seem most profitable and most likely to generate money, right?
Once you have been accepted to a program it’s time to put up banners on your blog or website.
All affiliate banners contains a tracking code to track where traffic is coming from. If you tinker with the code, chances are that it does not work and you may not get paid. Don’t fiddle with the code unless you are absolutely sure of what you’re doing.
It’s quite annoying to having to keep track of which advertisers and banners are still active and which ones that has changed conditions so it is no longer profitable (it happens all the time, so keep your eyes open). The best thing to do is to create ad pools that automatically displays different banners from all the advertisers you are working with. This means you have only one code to keep track of and the pool isshowing only those ads that you are connected to. In short, you just have to change the settings in the ad pool (not the ad code) in order to stop displaying a particular ad. This is much easier than changing every code you put in to the blog or site.
Some affiliate networks also have predefined ad pools where every click gives a certain amount no matter what the conditions of the advertiser are. For example, Double has a predefined pool where each ad click gives $0.5 and 8 of ‘my’ affiliated advertisers are connected. Normally they would only pay 5-25 cents per click, but with the ad pool I get paid at least twice as much.
Good luck!
Landing page recipe to gain quality score
Mar 22nd
As you may know, Google uses a “quality score” to help determine your CPC (cost per click) and ranking. Although the exact formula for this score is a big secret, there are several things that are known and that we can do to raise our quality score.
Google rates your score as either: Poor / OK / Great. The score is based on the ‘relevancy’ and quality of the keywords we use, the ads and the landing page.
Don’t worry too much about the quality score when “testing” a product, once you a find a product that is doing well, go back and optimize everything to try and achieve a “Great” quality score to reduce CPC and raise your position.
Basic techniques for your landing page:
- Have the keyword show up in your ad and in the headline preferably.
- Keyword in the domain name
- Keyword in the meta tags of the landing page
- keyword in the ad copy of the landing page (headline, first paragraph and last paragraph most important). Keyword index should be around 2-5% (use www.keywordDensity.com to measure).
- Having other content pages on your site
- Having “Privacy”, “Terms” and “Blog” links on your page
- Have a “Sitemap” on your website, in particular have a Google Sitemap
- Have a “contact us” link with email address.
More advanced techniques:
- Google doesn’t like affiliate links. Use Redirects or Cloaking to hide your affiliate links. (www.tinyurl.com)
- Have outbound “authority site” links on your landing page
- Google likes a domain that is registered as Public (not private) and the longer it has been around the better. It’s also said that if you reserve the domain for 5 years, its better then year by year. Of course only do this for a proven product.
- Internal linking within your landing page using “anchor text”. Having links from other quality websites to yours is great too.
- The “contact us” link is even better when you also put a phone number and address (doesn’t have to be real)
- Google isn’t a big fan of “opt in boxes” especially forced opt ins and strong language around the box. I think they are okay with a soft opt in box that isn’t so strong and demanding.
Keep in Mind
- These suggestions are only to keep your adwords payments low,
they are not meant to increase conversions (although it may
help)
- a better quality score means lower minimum bids
- every adwords campaign is manually reviewed by google
- remember the visitor is important and google will randomly
solicit visitor feedback on whether they like your website
Do
- Put a professional photograph of yourself on the landing page
- Include information about yourself, your team, and what you do
- Have a separate landing page for each keyword you use in your
campaign
- Design your landing page to be user friendly and professional
looking
- Use a unique looking landing page for each keyword you’ve
chose in your campaign
- Ensure that your product must be perceived to be of quality
- If you collect user information then tell the user why
Don’t
- Don’t say a report is free if the user must sign up for it.
Say that “signup” is free instead
- Don’t put any ads on the landing page you use for
promoting affiliate products – not even google ads
The Affiliate Code – review
Mar 11th
The Affiliate Code snagged the 2nd position in the sales top list and since there has been very few interesting products in the market lately I decided to take a look at it.
It is no secret that the info product gurus are copy cats and basically; if you buy one then you have seen them all. The Affiliate Code covers basically everything you learned from older products like Commission Blueprint and similar products.
There really is nothing revoutionary or new to be found in The Affiliate Code. The good thing is is covers basically everything you need to know about working as an affilite. So yes, it is a good newbie product.
To summarize, The Affiliate Code constists of training videos that will show you step by step all you have to do to make money online from affiliate programs by using free traffic techniques.
Modules:
Module 1: Picking A Profitable Niche
Module 2: Choosing The Right Product
Module 3: Affiliate Website Set up
Module 4: Using an Autoresponder
Module 5: Copywriting Secrets
Module 6: Getting Free Traffic
Module 7: Tracking Your Results
Module 8: Scaling it Up
For those who have been around for a while and bought info products in the past, the Affiliate Code is probably not for you. The little new information there is can be found on affiliate forums and discussion groups.
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Hide your affiliate links
Mar 10th
Cloaking and redirects
In the SEO realm, it is well known that Google does not like affiliate links. To encumber the whole blog with banners, Adsense ads and other adverts is not a good move if you want to be on good terms with the search engine we all love to hate. Google dominates, and if you are in Google’s bad book your whole future as an internet marketer is wavering on the edge of a cliff. If you do not make radical changes on your blog / website and focus more on quality content, you risk losing your future income.
Once you’ve been punished for keyword spamming, link spamming or affiliate-link spamming it may take a while before your site’s reputation is recovered. Better avoid that punishment from the start, right?
As a blogger, you don’t need to worry about this as much as if you have a regular web site. Your position in the blog charts will not change regardless of what Google thinks. However you lose the organic traffic from search engines and it can sometimes be quite a lot of traffic involved.
How unlikely it may seem for us bloggers people are, first and foremost, searching for information in the usual way; via search engines. This is easy to forget sometimes.
There, thats was problem number 1; Google’s reluctance to affiliate links.
Problem number 2 is the visitors who do not think you should earn commission from your links and they remove tracker code from the URLs. On top of it all, there are hackers who like to hijack your affiliate links and steal commission from you.
It’s a cruel world we live in. 
Sure, but then we can just use cloak links, right? Cloaking means hiding affiliate links using other links. In other words, you get another link pointing to the correct link.
There is only one small catch … Google does not like cloak links, either.
Plague or cholera? Or maybe a little of each? Sometimes you only get bad options and have to make the best out of the situation. My suggestion is not to exaggerate in any direction. Use a little of both and stay alert.
Here are some simple ways to cloak and redirect links:
HTML, PHP and Java – redirecs
One way is to make a so-called HTML redirect. You simply create a page on your own domain, and that page will redirect the traffic on to the sales page.
<meta http-equiv=”REFRESH” content=”0;url=http://www.link.com”>
Simply replace www.link.com with your affiliate link.
The problem is that the code for redirects to be added inside <head> and </ head> tags, which complicates things when you have a blog.
Instead, you can use a simple javascript:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
window.location = “http://www.link.com”
//–></script>
This redirect show no trace on the page, but is making it difficult to keep statistics. The same applies for redirection with PHP. The code looks like this:
<?php
header(“Location: http://www.link.com”);
?>
You can also use redirect with htaccess, but that topic is a bit over the top. However, I will raise the subject at a later date.
Cloaking services
I do not recommend online cloaking services because many of them are just trying to take advantage of all the free traffic they get and there are also scam sites that replace your links with their own. It may take a while before you even realize it and who knows how much money you’ve lost then?
As if that wasn’t enough, Google will immediately find your cloak links and start frowning.
If you still want to use a cloaking service you can visit TinyURL. From what I know they do not hijack affiliate links, but it has happened that they delete links so they no longer work.
I strongly recommend that you use the tag rel = “nofollow” on your cloak links, so the search engine crawlers don’t start sniffing about. This also applies on your redirect pages.
Beginner’s guide to making money online
Mar 1st
What are your options?
It has been quite a while since I wrote articles for beginners and since the questions pile up I thought I would write down some options (there are more opttions out there though) you have to make money online and what is required of you to become successful. I also talk about the risks and downbsides with each method.
Resell rights
It is very popular to sell products with resell rights or privale label rights. The biggests advantage with this form of selling is that you will make money instantly when someone buy a product from you. You also get 100% of the profit. As an affiliate you earn a percentage of the sales amount, you will have to reach the minimum payout and wait up to 2 months before you actually see a paycheck. The disadvantage is that you will need your own website, forum or blog to promote the products. This sometimes means you will have to create a site from scratch but often you get a ready template that you can just kodify a bit and upload to your hosting account. You have to know how to create payment buttons and paste the code in your site but you find full instructions on the payment processors’ websites.
You find a big list of resell rights products you can promote
Blogging
A successful blogger can make millions! The richest bloggers are those that write about a certain topic like fashion, cars, music, games, IT and so on and get hundreds of thousands visitors per week. 2-5 blog posts per day is necessary in order to succeed and the money comes mainly from advertising and promoting affiliate products/services. The more popular your blog is the more advertisers will want to display their banners in your blog. There is a huge series of articles about becoming a super blogger in the where you find info on how to get started, how to get advertisers and much much more.
These are some of the most common methods to make money online and as you probably figured out already, none of them comes without a bit of work. How much you will earn depends on how much effort you put in and how much you know about marketing. There are great guides available online in order to learn more and the hottest guides and sofware is found on the top list. We update the page weekly so that you can be sure to get you hands on up to date guides. We also test and review some of the products so you knoiw exactly what you get for your money.
Affiliate
As an affiliate you earn commission by promotoing other people’s/companies’ products or services. There are many affiliate networks you can join to find products to promote.
In order to make a living as an affiliate you have to build a website or a blog and use it as a pre-sell page. You can also work with a contact list and do email promoting. You mustn’t just send traffic to the merchants website and hope for the best. That used to work a few years ago but those days are over and if you do that you will loose money.
Today you need to convince your readers to buy a products and put them in the right state of mind before they visit the merchant’s website
You need to know about writing copy that sells, a bit of search engine optimization, write ads that will not cost you fortune but yet get you a lot of traffic. You also need to do keyword research and babysit your campaigns, track the traffic and sales in order to remove the campaigns that doesn’t work and scale the ones that are profitable. Tracking is the key to the cash here.
There is no way to make money as an affiliate with just a few minutes of work per day, it can be hard work but when you strike gold with your campaigns it is well worth it.
Trading with domains can be very profitable but it requires quite a bit of work and research. You have to be a little bit of a fortuneteller and predict what domains will be popular in the near of far future. Some domains you will have to sit on for a few years before they can be sold and some can be sold after only a cuople of months.
The best way to earn money fast with domain trading is to do what we call site site flipping. This means you buy a new or existing domain and create a website. Then you start sending traffic to that website and raise the value of the domain that way. There are a lot of free information about domain trading on our sister site DomainDominating.com where you learn exactly what to do in order to raise the value of a domain, how and where to sell and how much you should ask for.
Stock/currency trading
This used to be a niche for people with razor sharp knowledge about the stock/currency market and who read Financial Times daily. Today there are robots and services you can use that will help you pick stocks/currencies with potential and they will tell you what to buy, when to buy and when to sell. Is sounds like a dream, right? Well there are still risks, the robots cannot predict everything and sometimes you can loose money instead of earn. Not every stock/currency is a winner and your best chance is to also stay updated with the world economy and do your own thinking. To get started you need to sign up with a stock broker/currency borker service like e-Trade/Forex and transfer money to your account. From the trader account you can buy and sell stocks and currencies and you get real time stats and news. Every transaction will cost you some money so you have to take that into consideration when buying or selling.
PT Sites
Paid To sites offer money when a visitor read ads or email. The payment is very low and your best chance to earn money is to refer a lot of people so you can earn from your downline. You can also buy referral packages from the PT site. This is the easiest way to earn cash but it comes with quite a bit of risk since many PT sites are run by scammers and even if the site is legit it can still go bankrupt overnight. If you choose to work with PT Sites only invest in the ones that have been around for a while and is proven to pay the members.
Author: T.J
Targeted Marketing For Affiliates
Aug 9th
Focusing of efforts is necessary in all forms of business, and affiliate marketing is no different. In marketing, a well-defined audience, or target audience, that you write for, advertise for, and try and connect with on a daily and weekly basis is essential if you hope to achieve any sort of monetary gain and success. Identifying and focusing your efforts on this target audience will help with all factors of your affiliate campaign.
Arriving at your target audience has everything to do with the product(s) you have chosen to promote and what sorts of customers would be interested in them and the market they are a part of. This distinct market your chosen products reside within is known as your targeted niche market. A smaller market existing within a larger one, an example of this could be nursing mothers. Nursing mothers is a niche market within the larger group that includes all mothers. Admittedly, nursing mother numbers are growing each year, yet it is still a subsection within the group of all mothers in general. By tailoring all of your content towards nursing mothers specifically, you will greatly increase your chances of higher returns. Whatever subject matter you have picked to focus on, you must educate yourself as to all the ins and outs regarding it. The followers of the niche you pick will surely have a breadth of knowledge concerning it, so it will be a large part of your job to stay informed and inform others in return.
This increasing knowledge base will be a large part of the development of yourself as an expert in your field and is essential in branding yourself thus. When you gain the trust of your readers as someone who is “in the know”, they will be sure to check your site for developments and new information related to your subject matter. Building a community of readers that value both your opinion and the information you provide is an excellent and essential step towards encouraging them to purchase your promoted products. Why would anyone purchase anything you suggested if they didn’t believe what you wrote or represented contained anything of worth or value? It is your job to sell yourself as much as it is to sell the products you are promoting in affiliate marketing. By selling yourself as an informed expert in your field and tailoring and catering your content to the target audience you have chosen, you will increase your chances of being a successful affiliate marketer.
Author: Peter Ryan
