Social media, also known as Web 2.0, has risen above the line as a really powerful marketing tool online.
The label "Web 2.0" suggests with the intention of something at an earlier point in time called "Web 1.0." But there really wasn't. There was firstly the Internet, or the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 is the first name coined several years back by a guy called Tim O' Reilly. He used it to label the raft of changes that were occurring in the design of websites, and the many new social interactions and technologies that were rising up on the web on a quick rate.
Web 2.0 is nothing brand new, and some fundamentals of web 2.0 is the easiness of socializing, , collaboration, marketing and promotion and a easy like mind group through the usage of web applications. Web 2.0 sites device their power from the human associations and system effects from this characteristic that is made achievable, and growing in effectiveness the more and more people use.
Social bookmarking gives users a unique opportunity to express their own personal
take on information and resources, as well as on the organization of these
resources. The process of social bookmarking allows people of similar interests and
tastes to locate each other and create a sort of online cyber-community.
Web 2.0 websites are user generated content sites. Visitors to the sites sign up and next start contributing their own content to the site. MySpace is a user generated Web 2.0 social networking site. Users create their own profiles, upload videos, add pictures, and even music to the site.
Also, in this branch of Web 2.0 is something else known as social bookmarking sites such as Digg which allow users to submit links to stories, videos and websites that they like along with their own review of everything in general about the website. All of this coming from the contributions from users just like you and me.
Social networking is all just about sharing valuable content and making some new friends. Social networking sites aren't precisely just for teenagers anymore, today these sites span the spectrum of demographic groups. While teenagers are still more apt to make use of them than older people, there are currently niche social networking sites which target groups who share common interests like parenting or investing.
Following on from and building on simple browser based internet bookmarks, we come to shared bookmarks. These are a means for bringing together internet users who share similar interests. Using social bookmarking, such users can pool their resources on the web, and this is what social bookmarking is all about at its most basic level. The bookmarks are not stored on a particular computer but they are instead created and stored on a remote web server. They are effectively stored on an external website that can be accessed anywhere.
Social bookmarking sites allow you to create a profile then bookmark your favorite sites. These bookmarks will be shared with other users on the network. When you bookmark a site you'll give a short description and then pick a category and add keyword tags to your bookmark. These keyword tags allow your bookmarked site to be shown up when any user searches for bookmarked sites for that keyword.
When you create an account on social bookmarking sites, lets say Digg, or StumbleUpon, you then hold the choice of bookmarking your website on their website. Once your website has been bookmarked it is present for everybody to see. It typically takes me around two-four minutes tops to sign in and bookmark a site on these social bookmarking sites, but yet still effective and the amount of traffic you can acquire is highly.
For your worth you want to bookmark your website web pages and your blogs and blog pages (and by this:Every web page that is important, and you even bookmark your Web 2.0 pages that you make too. Bookmark all of them because their all web pages and Google ranks these web pages that they like and really not your overall website.) to better enhance your marketing potential. You will need to pick the appropriate category, give a short but to the point catchy description of the site and then pick the appropriate keywords to tag your bookmark with. Therefore, bookmark things that are of quality and are informative, useful and you will gain a reputation and this will build up your traffic.
In short, you need to have your website placed in the appropriate category, use relevant keywords and offer a good product with a good description.
In Web 2.0, users interact in what you can say a personal way. They exchange ideas and impressions and even in many of these cases meet many new people, make some friends, and develop a community.
Remember this inside tip that will allow you to generate a high traffic tide, is that you'll need to use various web 2.0 sites, and set up your own web 2.0 sites.
As the Web 2.0 generally, social bookmarking is in addition here to stay. Social book-marketing means sharing favorite sites, and discovering much more useful stuff by working together as a community. It taps into what Internet Explorer calls "favorites," and most other browsers call "bookmarks." It lets members sort out and categorize sites and blog posts by "taggin" them, and reveals their popularity by presenting the number of visitors.
Web 2.0 visitors are additionally much more eager to buy online. A few years ago, ordering something online was both a little annoying and risky, since security features were merely just emerging. This is no longer the case with sites that are adopting Web 2.0 technology and the number of people who buy products online has increased exponentially.
Remember, Internet purchasers are commonly picky. They will buy items online as long as the process is not too complicated, their credit card number is safe and the whole process is easy going.
The relationship among buyers and sellers has also changed noticeably. Clients no longer want you to be the person who's selling, and nothing more they expect you to take part in a closer relationship with them, they expect the decisions you make to be transparent, and they expect their concerns and demands to be taken honestly and seriously.
So Pretty much about these social networking sites you will realize take these steps. From creating a informal profile that shows you as a person. Next you want to find groups that fit with your interests and join them. You never want to spam any of the groups, these are just your way of getting yourself seen without pushing your product or service. Lastly utilize the on site blogs to exhibit your products and service. Also, remember that social networking sites is just one form of the Web 2.0 market that you can take advantage for your marketing. There are so many different Web 2.0 websites out there free for you to get on and use.
Blogs are considered Web 2.0 and are very great marketing tools as well.
A blog is basically an online journal that you can create and post entries into. The difference is that generally a blog is wide open to the public so others can read what you have created, where as a journal or dairy is a private book that you keep hidden. A simple explanation about a blog, just like this one I'm using right now.
When creating a blog, remember to keep your blog fresh since a stale untouched in awhile blog will lose readers. Since blogs that are on site have an entry date on them, even a new reader that just found your page will go somewhere else that is more fresh and updated since your entry dates are old. This is an significant part of marketing with a blog and if you cannot keep it fresh then it will more than likely work against you. Now your posts do not have to be anything lengthy all the time, if fact you want to keep them short but point driven.
Note too, that a very good way to gain lots more traffic and build back links that will boost you in the search engine results is to take some time and read other people’s blog entries and place an appropriate comment on their entry. Most blog authors will return the favor and go and look at your blog and there you have it, another back link.
Here are some of these Web 2.0 sites.
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Myspace
4. Youtube
5. Squidoo
6. HubPages
7. LinkedIn
8. Digg
9. Delicious
10. Reddit
11. StumbleUpon
12. Linkagogo
13. Propeller
14. Technorati
15. Fark
And the list really can keep going and going. You are better off using these more common popular websites that everyone is bandwagon on and that Google just loves and these websites literally will give you a huge boost in traffic which is what we want.
So if your serious about promoting your website, blog or business, you mush sign up for at least a few of these social medial sites to be fully successful. All serious marketers have already signed up for most of the social media sites out their and trust me they are marketing them too.
2/28/10
2/13/10
Affiliate Marketing Plan With Traffic
Traffic Affiliate Marketing Plan
One of the most important aspect of any profitable marketing plan is the "traffic generation". Now without the right traffic no net-based business can flourish. Yesterday and today people all around the globe are using search engines like Google itself, Yahoo, Bing etc. only to find products, gather data information and services for their needs.
Overall, your earnings will play the role from what is coming from your sites traffic. So the more traffic you get, the more possible money their is for you to make. Here I have posted some of these traffic methods so you can take some thought with these ways to get traffic to your website.
A bit of advice is to not let the traffic get to much in your head. What I mean by this is that you might get a little overwhelmed by many of the traffic methods there are for you to put into use.
You want to watch yourself as you first start off and try to drive traffic to your site. And by this, you want to take each traffic method that you feel best with, slowly. In other words if your just starting off then your really not going to know to much about these traffic sources. But as you start to get familiar with traffic your soon realize that some of these traffic methods can be done quickly and easily.
What it all comes down to, is really just a matter of securing traffic that have the interest in the product or its products niche and sending them straight to your offer or free download which in most cases will be sending them to your website that you have made that all wraps around the niche your involved in.
After you find and have selected a product, you'll need to start sending as much traffic that you can to your website.
Here are some common ways to use and send traffic directly to your website or even your blog:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - is pretty much performing these little tasks on and to your website that the search engines crawl your site so that they can include it in their directory also known as getting indexed.
Article Marketing - Over the last few years article marketing has become one of the most popular ways to send traffic. You'll catch yourself writing informative articles on the topic your product relates to. Where then leads you to uploading these articles to free article directory sites. There are many of these article directory sites that you can submit your article to. Using more of the bigger popular article directories would be better than you wanting to submit them to every free article directory.
Here are some:
1. www.EzineAticles.com
2. www.ArticleDashboard.com
3. www.GoArticles.com
4. www.Buzzle.com
5. www.IdeaMarketers.com
6. www.ArticleBase.com
7. www.isnare.com
Social Networking - Also known as social media is becoming the new frontier in traffic generation. Some of these networking sites are alike Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and some others. Using these social media sites can create a big boost for your traffic.
Email Marketing - I think you might have heard this line before and one of the most popular sayings in the Internet Marketing world is "the money is in the list." And this refers to a great deal of truth. Learning the ties around where to create these lists are how to is really important.
PPC - Which stands for "pay per click." PPC advertising involves you having to bid on certain keywords to obtain your placement of your organic search engine results with search engines such as Google with their Google Adwords, MSN with their Microsoft adCenter and also Yahoo Advertising. These are paid advertisements that I suggest you get more familiar with before diving right into it. PPC requires a more essential way and wouldn't best if your just starting off. Being at the tip of it and knowing what you are doing will make everything easier. With PPC, you pay the program for every click your ads receive, and can find it to be very effective and fast. It can be pretty expensive if not managed correctly and don't get me wrong but there are many affiliates who find it another way to create tons more of traffic.
Forum Marketing - One of the easiest ways to generate back links to your site along with potential subscribers and buyers. One thing to keep in mind is trying not to spam the forum to much because this can get you banned. Always try to provide resources and information, share tips, be helpful.
Video Marketing - It may sound hards. But really all you need to do is create a video or maybe just capturing your monitor screen filming yourself of something like a step by step follow introductions on a certain topic.
Classified Listings - Another very easy marketing strategy you can use. All needed to be done is to join the classified server where there are many of, then create a Ad with your keywords getting them to click on your link to find out more.
Blogs - Blogs rock. Two of the most popular blog providers are Wordpress and Blogger. Blog comments can also get you more back links and you can follow the same pattern as forum marketing. Just make sure to provide related content for the niche you are in.
Also, please remember that in this post, these traffic methods have way more in depth about lots more you can do that could only better up your odds. I'm only giving small descriptions of these possible ways to generate traffic to your website. I'm going to go over all these traffic methods more in detail surely in later posts. Also be sure to use these other web tools that are free and you can generate more traffic to your website.
1. Squidoo. Create a Squidoo Lens.
2. Hubpages.
3. Create a fanpage from Facebook.
4. Friendster
Some methods for generating traffic will be harder than others.. and some will be more expensive. But bottom line is that you need your traffic and anyway that you can get it.
Another very important aspect, the most important thing you can do ever is to take action! One of the biggest problems people will run into in Internet Marketing is something called "Information Overload" and this can mostly be saying "I'm taking in a bit to much information that I'll never get the time to implement it." Seriously your going to learn a whole lot pretty fast online and you'll find yourself with loads of information and you might or might not know what to do with it, which brings me down to the next tip I wanna talk about.
This other tip would to be "take it one thing at a time." Not only is it important to take action, but you really do need to take one thing at a time until your more comfortable. This is very important, because when your ever brainstorming about some of these traffic methods you will soon be able to think about all the possibilities of creating these traffic sources, but when working on implementation and focusing on them will only play a bigger role! You do not want to get scattered all over the place.
Take each method at your pace, and just focus. If anything try and test your traffic methods one or two at a time for each day of the week and continue to build off of that. Trust me your going to hear many new traffic methods while learning Internet Marketing, focus on working with getting your traffic and don't get caught off guard too much by picking up something else that is new without anything else being done first. It will get messy trying to dive right into everything at once about everything new thing you run into. Try focusing on certain traffic methods and stick with it and build around it.
One of the most important aspect of any profitable marketing plan is the "traffic generation". Now without the right traffic no net-based business can flourish. Yesterday and today people all around the globe are using search engines like Google itself, Yahoo, Bing etc. only to find products, gather data information and services for their needs.
Overall, your earnings will play the role from what is coming from your sites traffic. So the more traffic you get, the more possible money their is for you to make. Here I have posted some of these traffic methods so you can take some thought with these ways to get traffic to your website.
A bit of advice is to not let the traffic get to much in your head. What I mean by this is that you might get a little overwhelmed by many of the traffic methods there are for you to put into use.
You want to watch yourself as you first start off and try to drive traffic to your site. And by this, you want to take each traffic method that you feel best with, slowly. In other words if your just starting off then your really not going to know to much about these traffic sources. But as you start to get familiar with traffic your soon realize that some of these traffic methods can be done quickly and easily.
What it all comes down to, is really just a matter of securing traffic that have the interest in the product or its products niche and sending them straight to your offer or free download which in most cases will be sending them to your website that you have made that all wraps around the niche your involved in.
After you find and have selected a product, you'll need to start sending as much traffic that you can to your website.
Here are some common ways to use and send traffic directly to your website or even your blog:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - is pretty much performing these little tasks on and to your website that the search engines crawl your site so that they can include it in their directory also known as getting indexed.
Article Marketing - Over the last few years article marketing has become one of the most popular ways to send traffic. You'll catch yourself writing informative articles on the topic your product relates to. Where then leads you to uploading these articles to free article directory sites. There are many of these article directory sites that you can submit your article to. Using more of the bigger popular article directories would be better than you wanting to submit them to every free article directory.
Here are some:
1. www.EzineAticles.com
2. www.ArticleDashboard.com
3. www.GoArticles.com
4. www.Buzzle.com
5. www.IdeaMarketers.com
6. www.ArticleBase.com
7. www.isnare.com
Social Networking - Also known as social media is becoming the new frontier in traffic generation. Some of these networking sites are alike Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and some others. Using these social media sites can create a big boost for your traffic.
Email Marketing - I think you might have heard this line before and one of the most popular sayings in the Internet Marketing world is "the money is in the list." And this refers to a great deal of truth. Learning the ties around where to create these lists are how to is really important.
PPC - Which stands for "pay per click." PPC advertising involves you having to bid on certain keywords to obtain your placement of your organic search engine results with search engines such as Google with their Google Adwords, MSN with their Microsoft adCenter and also Yahoo Advertising. These are paid advertisements that I suggest you get more familiar with before diving right into it. PPC requires a more essential way and wouldn't best if your just starting off. Being at the tip of it and knowing what you are doing will make everything easier. With PPC, you pay the program for every click your ads receive, and can find it to be very effective and fast. It can be pretty expensive if not managed correctly and don't get me wrong but there are many affiliates who find it another way to create tons more of traffic.
Forum Marketing - One of the easiest ways to generate back links to your site along with potential subscribers and buyers. One thing to keep in mind is trying not to spam the forum to much because this can get you banned. Always try to provide resources and information, share tips, be helpful.
Video Marketing - It may sound hards. But really all you need to do is create a video or maybe just capturing your monitor screen filming yourself of something like a step by step follow introductions on a certain topic.
Classified Listings - Another very easy marketing strategy you can use. All needed to be done is to join the classified server where there are many of, then create a Ad with your keywords getting them to click on your link to find out more.
Blogs - Blogs rock. Two of the most popular blog providers are Wordpress and Blogger. Blog comments can also get you more back links and you can follow the same pattern as forum marketing. Just make sure to provide related content for the niche you are in.
Also, please remember that in this post, these traffic methods have way more in depth about lots more you can do that could only better up your odds. I'm only giving small descriptions of these possible ways to generate traffic to your website. I'm going to go over all these traffic methods more in detail surely in later posts. Also be sure to use these other web tools that are free and you can generate more traffic to your website.
1. Squidoo. Create a Squidoo Lens.
2. Hubpages.
3. Create a fanpage from Facebook.
4. Friendster
Some methods for generating traffic will be harder than others.. and some will be more expensive. But bottom line is that you need your traffic and anyway that you can get it.
Another very important aspect, the most important thing you can do ever is to take action! One of the biggest problems people will run into in Internet Marketing is something called "Information Overload" and this can mostly be saying "I'm taking in a bit to much information that I'll never get the time to implement it." Seriously your going to learn a whole lot pretty fast online and you'll find yourself with loads of information and you might or might not know what to do with it, which brings me down to the next tip I wanna talk about.
This other tip would to be "take it one thing at a time." Not only is it important to take action, but you really do need to take one thing at a time until your more comfortable. This is very important, because when your ever brainstorming about some of these traffic methods you will soon be able to think about all the possibilities of creating these traffic sources, but when working on implementation and focusing on them will only play a bigger role! You do not want to get scattered all over the place.
Take each method at your pace, and just focus. If anything try and test your traffic methods one or two at a time for each day of the week and continue to build off of that. Trust me your going to hear many new traffic methods while learning Internet Marketing, focus on working with getting your traffic and don't get caught off guard too much by picking up something else that is new without anything else being done first. It will get messy trying to dive right into everything at once about everything new thing you run into. Try focusing on certain traffic methods and stick with it and build around it.
1/25/10
My First Profits With Affiliate Marketing
An Affiliate Marketing Plan
My first profit as a affiliate with a PPC campaign.
How I broke in my first sale ever online with my affiliate marketing plan took these steps:
From me getting my first hosting provider with Host Gator with what was called the baby plan that came out to be about $7.95 a whole month where I also bought my first domain name and the domain itself was $15.00 and this covered me for the whole year.
After setting everything up with my hosting providers, this was the time where I had just bought a subscription that I got in my email in-box and what this was, I was able to download already made niche made websites which led me to some of my first niches I jump into.
One of these niche websites templates was RevPhone and it's a ClickBank product. Along with the RevPhone which is like finding someones phone or cell number who may be prank calling you are maybe a lost number you want to find or anything up there with phone numbers and finding out who owns the number. It was a pretty decent niche plus I had the website already made :).
Good thing too about this subscription is that these were ready made hot niche website templates that were currently hot and these niches are actually still hot and can find yourself making good amounts of money from these niches. This was all from the single subscription that I bought and bottom line, really all I had to do was plug everything right into place and this would allow me to quickly get all this up fast. So this was a really easy going flow, save some extra time and had a good excited momentum kinda say to get these up already.
The next set of websites I received with the RevPhone were in another folder named April09. This folder had 2 different types of websites in 4 different folders. Okay I had folders like muti-page wow folder, a single template-wow folder, content-wow, and bonus-headers-wow.
This second niche made template was an xbox 360 red light fix guide and along with this was the same deal. Came with the muti-page xbox, single template-xbox, content-xbox, and bonus-headers xbox.
Here are some sample pics of these templates and what were in these folders.
muti-page wow:
This one was the single-template WoW
For the content-wow. This folder contained four more folders inside with all the content that I threw onto my site. Each of these folders were
-Articles. These were the 10 articles that I used on my website.
-Reviews. Total 3 reviews of the 3 products that I was promoting on the site.
-Auto-responder. This was a full week free newsletter that was being offered on the site that people can opt-in and get.
-Video-review. Mp4 format and I didn't end up using the video at the time.
As for the bonus-headers-wow folder, were 3 more folders header 1, header 2, and header 3. Each of these headers had a extra 3 more folders within them that contained 3 different headers in 3 different colors. So I was able to change the image at the very top with either of them.
Here is the muti-xbox:
muti-page xbox
Single-template xbox
This was pretty much everything I got which was all worth. Another feature about this purchased subscription is that these templates were professional written, with the pro graphics to match it all up. What I thought in the long run I knew would only just help me out more.
So what ended up being worse case scenario, all that was needed to be done on my part was plug and play everything in and edit some of the headings and word text throughout the web-page, and that's exactly what ended up being so.
All the files came in zip format so after extracting them onto my desktop, I needed a way to upload them onto my hosting provider servers. One of the fastest and easiest ways to do this is to get a ftp client - which is a program that's used to send or retrieve files from an FTP server. Their are free downloads that you can download right away online. Two of these free sites are FileZilla, this is the one I like to use, and Coffee Cup would be another good one that is free too.
After you download this you still need your login info to your ftp and you can get this from the cpanel or if not just ask your hosting providers. The info you will need will be something like your host, the user name, a password, and port number. After signing in all you need to do is gather all folders and files that involves your site and building it.
So for me this would be the files that I zipped onto my desktop. Now, I dragged them into the ftp client (FileZilla) in the folder which will be name public_html are something alike, I know public should be in there because this is one of the root folders of your domain that will allow you do display your site to everyone around the web. So now I uploaded all the folders, files it came with and named the files correctly so they correspond with each other property to prevent any future errors or problems that can happen while browsing and clicking throughout the website.
(If you need a little more help about FTP Clients and how to upload everything, I've posted a video on my blog so feel free just to check it out)
Okay, now I had a good feeling everything was pretty much done and so I wanted to give it a peak. I open up a new tab typed in my domain name that I was using for the site and at the time wasn't a full domain it was a sub-domain, pressed enter and the website ended up popping up exactly how I thought it would have.
Now from their the website is looking pretty, I got that there, now really left to do was just edit some of the text that was displaying on the site like the headings, tittles, subtitles, changed some of the text paragraphs mixed up the words to give not such the same look because there were other people who were going to use these same sites so changing up some of the text is a good idea.
One big thing that can help you out is your own unique content that can easily be created re-wording off valuable content that is already out there. Everything you write about needs to wrap around the niche you are in and can find yourself creating some good content easily, Google really does love unique content. I Then added my affiliate links throughout the site to make sure that if they clicked on it they were getting there from me and hopefully they were to buy or download the offer.
Another big tip to remember too which is something I wasn't even doing at the time along with not even creating my own unique content, TRACK everything with (Google Analytics), and to cloak your links! What cloaking your link would do for you is prevent and protect you from any sneaky people trying to get a little chunk of your revenue and will hide your affiliate link with another link it generates for it.
Okay now everything was pretty much all set and done that had to do with my website. At this point all I was doing was I kept browsing throughout the whole site, clicking everything making sure nothing was creating any type of errors and that my affiliate links were my own actual affiliate link. Then from here on out it was time to create a PPC campaign with Google AdWords that this single campaign led me to my first sale with affiliate marketing.
This came after I had to make my own PPC campaign which at the time was the first set of marketing that I learned online along with affiliate marketing. So when I finished up my website it ended up being a late night that I wasn't going to let myself not finish up the site. Once everything was done properly in place I was now finished for the night and really all I wanted to do is launch this before I went to bed to let the campaign run for the whole night and the whole next day. Ended up being a little bit on a late night, but I managed to get everything done and set before it got to late.
All on my part that was left to do is stack up the stats and see where this may take me and I wanted to let this night end already so that maybe I might have just 1 click are something the following day.
The next morning came, I was still pretty excited and so I jumped right on the computer when getting up. I open up ClickBank along with Google Analytics and wow their it was shown right there up on the daily sales snapshot right when I logged into ClickBank. It had the day, month, date and BAM $24.92 from a WoW guide :)
This sale came to me the same day I launched my website. Literally was in like less than 11 hours right after setting up the PPC campaign. From this point on, I figure it was smooth enough to let it ride on it's own.
My first profit as a affiliate with a PPC campaign.
How I broke in my first sale ever online with my affiliate marketing plan took these steps:
From me getting my first hosting provider with Host Gator with what was called the baby plan that came out to be about $7.95 a whole month where I also bought my first domain name and the domain itself was $15.00 and this covered me for the whole year.
After setting everything up with my hosting providers, this was the time where I had just bought a subscription that I got in my email in-box and what this was, I was able to download already made niche made websites which led me to some of my first niches I jump into.
One of these niche websites templates was RevPhone and it's a ClickBank product. Along with the RevPhone which is like finding someones phone or cell number who may be prank calling you are maybe a lost number you want to find or anything up there with phone numbers and finding out who owns the number. It was a pretty decent niche plus I had the website already made :).
Good thing too about this subscription is that these were ready made hot niche website templates that were currently hot and these niches are actually still hot and can find yourself making good amounts of money from these niches. This was all from the single subscription that I bought and bottom line, really all I had to do was plug everything right into place and this would allow me to quickly get all this up fast. So this was a really easy going flow, save some extra time and had a good excited momentum kinda say to get these up already.
The next set of websites I received with the RevPhone were in another folder named April09. This folder had 2 different types of websites in 4 different folders. Okay I had folders like muti-page wow folder, a single template-wow folder, content-wow, and bonus-headers-wow.
This second niche made template was an xbox 360 red light fix guide and along with this was the same deal. Came with the muti-page xbox, single template-xbox, content-xbox, and bonus-headers xbox.
Here are some sample pics of these templates and what were in these folders.
muti-page wow:
This one was the single-template WoW
For the content-wow. This folder contained four more folders inside with all the content that I threw onto my site. Each of these folders were
-Articles. These were the 10 articles that I used on my website.
-Reviews. Total 3 reviews of the 3 products that I was promoting on the site.
-Auto-responder. This was a full week free newsletter that was being offered on the site that people can opt-in and get.
-Video-review. Mp4 format and I didn't end up using the video at the time.
As for the bonus-headers-wow folder, were 3 more folders header 1, header 2, and header 3. Each of these headers had a extra 3 more folders within them that contained 3 different headers in 3 different colors. So I was able to change the image at the very top with either of them.
Here is the muti-xbox:
muti-page xbox
Single-template xbox
This was pretty much everything I got which was all worth. Another feature about this purchased subscription is that these templates were professional written, with the pro graphics to match it all up. What I thought in the long run I knew would only just help me out more.
So what ended up being worse case scenario, all that was needed to be done on my part was plug and play everything in and edit some of the headings and word text throughout the web-page, and that's exactly what ended up being so.
All the files came in zip format so after extracting them onto my desktop, I needed a way to upload them onto my hosting provider servers. One of the fastest and easiest ways to do this is to get a ftp client - which is a program that's used to send or retrieve files from an FTP server. Their are free downloads that you can download right away online. Two of these free sites are FileZilla, this is the one I like to use, and Coffee Cup would be another good one that is free too.
After you download this you still need your login info to your ftp and you can get this from the cpanel or if not just ask your hosting providers. The info you will need will be something like your host, the user name, a password, and port number. After signing in all you need to do is gather all folders and files that involves your site and building it.
So for me this would be the files that I zipped onto my desktop. Now, I dragged them into the ftp client (FileZilla) in the folder which will be name public_html are something alike, I know public should be in there because this is one of the root folders of your domain that will allow you do display your site to everyone around the web. So now I uploaded all the folders, files it came with and named the files correctly so they correspond with each other property to prevent any future errors or problems that can happen while browsing and clicking throughout the website.
(If you need a little more help about FTP Clients and how to upload everything, I've posted a video on my blog so feel free just to check it out)
Okay, now I had a good feeling everything was pretty much done and so I wanted to give it a peak. I open up a new tab typed in my domain name that I was using for the site and at the time wasn't a full domain it was a sub-domain, pressed enter and the website ended up popping up exactly how I thought it would have.
Now from their the website is looking pretty, I got that there, now really left to do was just edit some of the text that was displaying on the site like the headings, tittles, subtitles, changed some of the text paragraphs mixed up the words to give not such the same look because there were other people who were going to use these same sites so changing up some of the text is a good idea.
One big thing that can help you out is your own unique content that can easily be created re-wording off valuable content that is already out there. Everything you write about needs to wrap around the niche you are in and can find yourself creating some good content easily, Google really does love unique content. I Then added my affiliate links throughout the site to make sure that if they clicked on it they were getting there from me and hopefully they were to buy or download the offer.
Another big tip to remember too which is something I wasn't even doing at the time along with not even creating my own unique content, TRACK everything with (Google Analytics), and to cloak your links! What cloaking your link would do for you is prevent and protect you from any sneaky people trying to get a little chunk of your revenue and will hide your affiliate link with another link it generates for it.
Okay now everything was pretty much all set and done that had to do with my website. At this point all I was doing was I kept browsing throughout the whole site, clicking everything making sure nothing was creating any type of errors and that my affiliate links were my own actual affiliate link. Then from here on out it was time to create a PPC campaign with Google AdWords that this single campaign led me to my first sale with affiliate marketing.
This came after I had to make my own PPC campaign which at the time was the first set of marketing that I learned online along with affiliate marketing. So when I finished up my website it ended up being a late night that I wasn't going to let myself not finish up the site. Once everything was done properly in place I was now finished for the night and really all I wanted to do is launch this before I went to bed to let the campaign run for the whole night and the whole next day. Ended up being a little bit on a late night, but I managed to get everything done and set before it got to late.
All on my part that was left to do is stack up the stats and see where this may take me and I wanted to let this night end already so that maybe I might have just 1 click are something the following day.
The next morning came, I was still pretty excited and so I jumped right on the computer when getting up. I open up ClickBank along with Google Analytics and wow their it was shown right there up on the daily sales snapshot right when I logged into ClickBank. It had the day, month, date and BAM $24.92 from a WoW guide :)
This sale came to me the same day I launched my website. Literally was in like less than 11 hours right after setting up the PPC campaign. From this point on, I figure it was smooth enough to let it ride on it's own.
Affiliate Programs And How They Work
Affiliate Marketing Plan.
With or without your affiliate marketing plan their is still honestly dozens of ways to make money with affiliate marketing programs also know as affilaite networks. Just thinking about these and getting creative, you can come up with lots of them. But for now in this post I rather cover some of the more common ways to make money online. A lot of these ways won't need you to bring out any money but require some bit of work on your part, and a couple of these ways will require a good amount of money for it.
Most of these affiliate programs out there will allow you to register and join free and upon there your affiliate program will have a line up of products that you can promote and make commissions from.
As an example of one of these affiliate programs that are out there, I'll talk about ClickBank. Really, ClickBank was where I made my first sale online ever and where many other people are currently making huge amounts of money from too. Its a fast and easy way in a legit form to make money online with digital products. It does not require a fortune to start up or to maintain anything really.
To get started quickly with ClickBank, well first lets make this point clean. When first trying to find any product to promote online as an affiliate. A big benefit can be, finding the right keywords and to know your market and by knowing your market you can genuine know it or you can do some easy market research around your whole niche.
The niche you choose can be critical to making big or if any profits at all. To get more in depth exact details about niches and how to choose them and doing keyword research (keyword research is one of the keys needed to know) you can find more info on my blog or a easy search on the web.
Now will talk more about getting started with ClickBank
Here is a simple screen shot of their website
If you've been learning all about Internet Marketing, you've might of heard about Clickbank. Clickbank is a affiliate network and payment processor and along with your Clickbank account, you are able to promote hundreds of digital information products collecting a commission based on the percentage which in most cases can be at 75% and is the highest payout within Clickbank. If you were to create your own digital product, you are also allowed to list it in Clickbank. And from there
the site takes care of paying all the affiliates along with receiving yours too.
When you break it all down, Clickbank affiliate marketing is really just a matter of securing all your traffic with the interest in the product or its niche and directing them with whats called a hoplink (which is your affiliate URL link) to the sales page/website. After you find the product you want to promote, you'll need to start driving all the traffic you can to the products sales page/website that can be created easily. If they buy you make commissions! Clickbank is just one of the many affiliate programs out there. Some other ones right off the top right now are..
-Commission Junction (CJ)
-paydotom
-shareAsale
-link share
Another huge thing I want to mention. "CPA Networks" - these are more affiliate networks that are free to join, but not only that. You may find it much more easier to make money with these forms of marketing. CPA stands for Cost Per Action. These ways of getting paid involve something little as a signup, a user entering in their email address, answering a couple of short questions, getting zips and telephone numbers. After they hit submit button with the right info you will be paid. These payout balances are a little different where as each of these form submits will vary from around .25 cents - to as great as $100.00 all coming from info submits, submit forms.
Some of these CPA networks are like
-Neverblue
-Clickbooth
-Maxbounty
-Fluxads
-Hydra network
-copeac
-azoogleads
-bluesky
The list can keep going on, really all the person has to do is fill out a detailed form, after the correct information is fully submitted, you will get paid whether or not the person actually joins there program or buys anything. This is your part done of finding a quality lead to them where they filled out a detailed form converting into payouts.
Another tip about these CPA networks. If you know about CPA and how to join these networks then you are fine. If not then some more inside tips will only benifit you. These networks will require bit more proper way to join and don't accept to many people without these ways. And I want you to understand that this isn't everything but a little brief about CPA marketing and are many more facts within this topic. I will be adding some more in depth details about more of these same topics in some later posts. There are some good CPA courses out right now that can help you out, or just doing a quick web search you'll find some quality info that might just work.
With or without your affiliate marketing plan their is still honestly dozens of ways to make money with affiliate marketing programs also know as affilaite networks. Just thinking about these and getting creative, you can come up with lots of them. But for now in this post I rather cover some of the more common ways to make money online. A lot of these ways won't need you to bring out any money but require some bit of work on your part, and a couple of these ways will require a good amount of money for it.
Most of these affiliate programs out there will allow you to register and join free and upon there your affiliate program will have a line up of products that you can promote and make commissions from.
As an example of one of these affiliate programs that are out there, I'll talk about ClickBank. Really, ClickBank was where I made my first sale online ever and where many other people are currently making huge amounts of money from too. Its a fast and easy way in a legit form to make money online with digital products. It does not require a fortune to start up or to maintain anything really.
To get started quickly with ClickBank, well first lets make this point clean. When first trying to find any product to promote online as an affiliate. A big benefit can be, finding the right keywords and to know your market and by knowing your market you can genuine know it or you can do some easy market research around your whole niche.
The niche you choose can be critical to making big or if any profits at all. To get more in depth exact details about niches and how to choose them and doing keyword research (keyword research is one of the keys needed to know) you can find more info on my blog or a easy search on the web.
Now will talk more about getting started with ClickBank
Here is a simple screen shot of their website
If you've been learning all about Internet Marketing, you've might of heard about Clickbank. Clickbank is a affiliate network and payment processor and along with your Clickbank account, you are able to promote hundreds of digital information products collecting a commission based on the percentage which in most cases can be at 75% and is the highest payout within Clickbank. If you were to create your own digital product, you are also allowed to list it in Clickbank. And from there
the site takes care of paying all the affiliates along with receiving yours too.
When you break it all down, Clickbank affiliate marketing is really just a matter of securing all your traffic with the interest in the product or its niche and directing them with whats called a hoplink (which is your affiliate URL link) to the sales page/website. After you find the product you want to promote, you'll need to start driving all the traffic you can to the products sales page/website that can be created easily. If they buy you make commissions! Clickbank is just one of the many affiliate programs out there. Some other ones right off the top right now are..
-Commission Junction (CJ)
-paydotom
-shareAsale
-link share
Another huge thing I want to mention. "CPA Networks" - these are more affiliate networks that are free to join, but not only that. You may find it much more easier to make money with these forms of marketing. CPA stands for Cost Per Action. These ways of getting paid involve something little as a signup, a user entering in their email address, answering a couple of short questions, getting zips and telephone numbers. After they hit submit button with the right info you will be paid. These payout balances are a little different where as each of these form submits will vary from around .25 cents - to as great as $100.00 all coming from info submits, submit forms.
Some of these CPA networks are like
-Neverblue
-Clickbooth
-Maxbounty
-Fluxads
-Hydra network
-copeac
-azoogleads
-bluesky
The list can keep going on, really all the person has to do is fill out a detailed form, after the correct information is fully submitted, you will get paid whether or not the person actually joins there program or buys anything. This is your part done of finding a quality lead to them where they filled out a detailed form converting into payouts.
Another tip about these CPA networks. If you know about CPA and how to join these networks then you are fine. If not then some more inside tips will only benifit you. These networks will require bit more proper way to join and don't accept to many people without these ways. And I want you to understand that this isn't everything but a little brief about CPA marketing and are many more facts within this topic. I will be adding some more in depth details about more of these same topics in some later posts. There are some good CPA courses out right now that can help you out, or just doing a quick web search you'll find some quality info that might just work.
1/23/10
What Affiliate Marketing Can Be To You - Create Your Affiliate Marketing Plan
Affiliate Marketing can be another source of generating some online money even only having very little to nothing to start everything all up. Having or creating your affiliate marketing plan, things can be simple or it can be hard. And if your thinking okay this sounds like you need some money, and literally you need no investment to start making some money online with affiliate marketing and are tons of free methods that many people are currently doing.
Now starting off with around $35-$200 can be more a bit more helpful and can allow you to manage everything easier. What it is, your money would go into buying your hosting and domains, and maybe just outsourcing a few things you feel is a little to hard or to much work for now.
Many of these online ways to making money would consist of you to have or create your own products which in most cases can be a lot of work, time-consuming and a bit just to hard and to much work if you're total new to online business.
As you will find out most online business methods require you to manage with customer service. This could be really difficult and very frustrating. Customers can become angry in a flash, will be demanding and even sometimes be abusive. You will soon find out that getting all the service to handle everything for you can be a big deal coming out of your pocket. And if your business is growing, everything may seem to overwhelm you as you try to handle it all on your own.
All of this can be for you maybe at a later reference, but one huge part from all of this, with affiliate marketing, and with your affiliate marketing plan you won't have to deal with none of these problems. You will continue to work behind the scenes, and you don't have to deal with anything too directly with customers. The company that you want to promote as a affiliate should handle everything from the start. You don't need to have any of your own products, no stock inventory, or have to bother with shipping and returns nor have to worry about supplies and none of this is to technical.
One extremely important task you do have to take care of and is all you should worry about is to send Traffic! Your always going to hear this over and over and it never will get old but having and getting the right targeted traffic will be critical to finding the real success with everything, and this can all be within your own affiliate marketing plan you feel best with.
The company your working with is where you send all the traffic to where most of them will require you to have a website to which you send all the traffic to, and after sending the traffic they will manage everything from there on. This can be your true way from affiliate marketing that will give you a hands off no hassle business, that can be bringing you money, income that your happy with days, weeks, months to come. This is one of thee absolute best you can expect with online and affiliate marketing. Being able to create a solid source of income that has the potential to bring you money you desire on a consistent level down that road, even if you take weeks or months off can be special.
Affiliate marketing can really be what they say auto-pilot, once you have all of your sites up and running and getting all your targeted traffic, you don't really have to much left to handle besides making sure your websites are still up and running, and maintain them the way you feel most comfortable at. This will turn out to all be on auto-pilot, where you will continue to receive money month after month. You always want to keep point of all your traffic techniques and be on all the new updates to give you the full potential in bringing in more traffic which can turn into more conversions (money!), and once you reach that level of income source you're truly happy with. All you want to do is just take it easy from there on out!
There are different ways to make money with affiliate programs and can create your own affiliate marketing plan(s). A Bit of advice is that, it would be best not to jump into this completely new all by yourself, many people fail this way! There are many methods that you can choose from to get started with and to follow up with.
On my blog you'll find out some of the most common ways to making money on the web, as well as how to choose the right affiliate programs to promote and how to get traffic and all around I try to put up some helpful content.
Once again, that HUGE thing to always think about along with your affiliate marketing plan is sending Traffic! This will be what makes and breaks your opportunity to making money online with affiliate marketing. Learning most of the traffic strategies that are out there right now can playback huge in your business, and so anything you find new about within traffic could always be a benefit. I hope I'm able to give you any fundamentals with this post along with my whole blog, and hope all the best to you.
Now starting off with around $35-$200 can be more a bit more helpful and can allow you to manage everything easier. What it is, your money would go into buying your hosting and domains, and maybe just outsourcing a few things you feel is a little to hard or to much work for now.
Many of these online ways to making money would consist of you to have or create your own products which in most cases can be a lot of work, time-consuming and a bit just to hard and to much work if you're total new to online business.
As you will find out most online business methods require you to manage with customer service. This could be really difficult and very frustrating. Customers can become angry in a flash, will be demanding and even sometimes be abusive. You will soon find out that getting all the service to handle everything for you can be a big deal coming out of your pocket. And if your business is growing, everything may seem to overwhelm you as you try to handle it all on your own.
All of this can be for you maybe at a later reference, but one huge part from all of this, with affiliate marketing, and with your affiliate marketing plan you won't have to deal with none of these problems. You will continue to work behind the scenes, and you don't have to deal with anything too directly with customers. The company that you want to promote as a affiliate should handle everything from the start. You don't need to have any of your own products, no stock inventory, or have to bother with shipping and returns nor have to worry about supplies and none of this is to technical.
One extremely important task you do have to take care of and is all you should worry about is to send Traffic! Your always going to hear this over and over and it never will get old but having and getting the right targeted traffic will be critical to finding the real success with everything, and this can all be within your own affiliate marketing plan you feel best with.
The company your working with is where you send all the traffic to where most of them will require you to have a website to which you send all the traffic to, and after sending the traffic they will manage everything from there on. This can be your true way from affiliate marketing that will give you a hands off no hassle business, that can be bringing you money, income that your happy with days, weeks, months to come. This is one of thee absolute best you can expect with online and affiliate marketing. Being able to create a solid source of income that has the potential to bring you money you desire on a consistent level down that road, even if you take weeks or months off can be special.
Affiliate marketing can really be what they say auto-pilot, once you have all of your sites up and running and getting all your targeted traffic, you don't really have to much left to handle besides making sure your websites are still up and running, and maintain them the way you feel most comfortable at. This will turn out to all be on auto-pilot, where you will continue to receive money month after month. You always want to keep point of all your traffic techniques and be on all the new updates to give you the full potential in bringing in more traffic which can turn into more conversions (money!), and once you reach that level of income source you're truly happy with. All you want to do is just take it easy from there on out!
There are different ways to make money with affiliate programs and can create your own affiliate marketing plan(s). A Bit of advice is that, it would be best not to jump into this completely new all by yourself, many people fail this way! There are many methods that you can choose from to get started with and to follow up with.
On my blog you'll find out some of the most common ways to making money on the web, as well as how to choose the right affiliate programs to promote and how to get traffic and all around I try to put up some helpful content.
Once again, that HUGE thing to always think about along with your affiliate marketing plan is sending Traffic! This will be what makes and breaks your opportunity to making money online with affiliate marketing. Learning most of the traffic strategies that are out there right now can playback huge in your business, and so anything you find new about within traffic could always be a benefit. I hope I'm able to give you any fundamentals with this post along with my whole blog, and hope all the best to you.
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