Here are my year 2008 goals
Blog often and add at least a blog post a day. I know last year I was little bit lazy on my blog posts. I would like to add more valuable content in 2008.
Increase my traffic to my other sites to at least to 1000 unique visitors in each of my top 6 flagship sites.
Aggressive promote my top affiliate revenue maker Aweber & Hostgator.
Landing Page is key to any PPC Affiliate Marketing. There are several resources online how to optimize your landing page but with this article you will learn and discover several new practices and tips and inside secrets on how to build and optimize a best landing page for your affiliate marketing. These landing pages can convert your visitors into buyers. As an affiliate marketer one of the best effective ways to make money online is to provide a solid product review added with quality content for the visitors. Below are some of the great tips any affiliate marketer should used PPC online advertisement for promoting affiliate offers.
1) Write a Strong Review – Recommend your visitors with a strong and unbiased review about the product you are promoting, this would give you a good opportunity to convert your visitors into buyers. Study shows that a person always looks for solution for their problems and if you could give them an unbiased recommendation about the products most likely they would go ahead and buy it.
2) Write about the benefits – Study and research shows that visitors are more interested in the benefits of the products. Clearly stating the benefits of their products on the landing pages can easily turn your website visitors into buyers also if you can direct the visitors with strong benefits on your landing page it will definitely do a good job with your Pay Per Click advertisements.
3) Highlight Keywords in Landing Page – Highlighting keywords on landing pages will help the visitors, since it helps the visitor to know that they have arrived at the right site for what they are looking for. Always use H1 title with keywords to that page; it also helps you to increase your quality score on Adwords.
4) Sending to Merchants page - Navigation is key to all website, even if you are doing affiliate marketing sending visitor to the merchants site without any confusion is very important. The visitors should be easily assessable to the right product page after the review from your site. This will also save money and convert well if you can send the visitors to the right merchant’s product page instead of sending to their home page.
5) Product Comparison – comparing product with other merchant’s products is very important if you are writing a review if the buyer wants to buy certain product and you are providing the right comparison of that product with other merchant’s product and comparing their prices, benefits and features will win your visitors and turn them into buyers. Always it is good to compare a 4-5 of merchants if not more.
6) Final Tip - Keep clear and complete concise about the affiliate product you are promoting on the landing pages. You landing pages should have an unbiased review, comparison chart, testimonials and ranking if you want to be successful with your PPC advertisements in affiliate marketing.
An incident with one of my affiliate program inspired me to write this blog post. I run an affiliate program on Powerpoint which uses to generate me a couple of hundred dollars revenue every month. Last month the Merchant site updated their website and added more features to it. Which is good for the affiliates because now you have more products to promote?
But the new added features caused a big problem with my affiliate login, I was not able to login and access my stats as well as my earnings, this caused me quite worried. I wrote couple of email to my Affiliate Manager, Serge Who instantly replied back saying that you earnings is been tracked and is sales is been added to the account and they are trying to fix the issued very soon. Finally my monthly commission arrived in time that was when I was satisfied. As I said that I want to ask all affiliate marketers out there that
Serge is a perfect example of a good affiliate manager. An affiliate relationship isn’t just based on money; it’s also based on trust. The affiliate marketer has to trust the merchant that you will get paid out accurately on time and won’t give you a hassle. From Affiliate point of view is a program which offers 40% commission but never pays on time isn’t worth the effort. It is better to take a program which offers 8% commission on a consistently without worrying. Affiliate loyalty is key to any affiliate marketing success.
If you are joining a new affiliate program, my personal opinion is that one of the crucial step each affiliate marketer should take is that develop a trustworthy relationship with the merchant as quickly as possible and never spoil that reputation. An each affiliate manager should do it vice versa.
Finally, since trust can be a vital part of affiliate marketing, it may be worthwhile to keep it alive.
As you all would have heard by now from internet marketers that the “money is in the list“.
I would say the same because it is exactly true. One of my major sources of income is from my list. Which I have been building it from the last couple of years. Some of my niche list has grown up to 8000 subscribers. If can get that kind of email subscribers it is a huge asset. You can market anything related to that niche to these email subscribers.
But there is a professional way to do that. And it is possible because of my favorite email list building service aweber. Which still now is my best way to get visitors signed through my website newsletter signup?
The more you add targeted subscribers to your list the more money you can make.
Here are some of the simple methods to build your email list.
1) Write articles and submit to article directories and at the end of the article on the resource box link to your newsletter subscription page.
2 )Offer free report related to your niche, and ask their email for downloading that free report.
3)Have a newsletter subscription on all your web pages the more eyeball see your newsletter on your website chances are there that they will lead to signup.
Just follow this simple list building tips and you can see your list grow. Also checkout Aweber services the top email list building services.
I get several questions from non Internet marketers about affiliate marketing, when I tell them about what is my main source of income. I try to explain to them what is affiliate marketing is all about but still they are confused, now I started to respond to them as I do online marketing which is hassle free. Been said that I would like to tell you that Affiliate marketing is truly hassle free. Since it doesn’t involves complicated online transactions like merchant account, credit card authorization etc. It is very simple business with no overheads; all you need to spend is time and effort to build that business to the next level. Determination is key to be successful in affiliate marketing.
Some of the rules you need to follow if you want to start hassle free affiliate marketing business.
1) Start on a niche in which you are comfortable writing.
2) Buy a domain name which is relevant to your niche.
3) Contact a web designer to create a search engine friendly website or if you are good at HTML or can work on HTML editors you can work on it yourself.
4) Start of with at least 100 pages of unique content on the site.
5) Learn Search Engine optimization or outsource that to a SEO company.
6) Add more content pages on a regular basis.
7) Join Affiliate Networks like CJ, Neverblue Ads, Shareasale and Amazon Associate so that you can promote their merchants products.
Write reviews on those products, and insert merchants links on these content pages, Don’t over link and confuse the visitor.
9) Add on content until you get regular and good traffic from search engines.
10) Build links to your website with relevant and related website of your niche.
With the above said tips and if you are adding consistent content to your website and updating links sure in the long run you can start earning a good residual income from affiliate marketing.
