Bill McRea

As an Internet marketer you already know about the importance of getting lots of high-quality, relevant backlinks to Your website. But if you’ve been around for longer than a week, you also know that getting backlinks can be a time-consuming, repetitive and tedious task. That’s all the more reason for you to start using some productivity software that will help you make the most of forum marketing without the need for dumping so much of your limited time into the task.

What is forum marketing?

Online forums, which began in the early days of the Internet as BBS or bulletin board systems, are micro-communities where people of like minds and common interests gather online to network, share ideas and resources, give and get support and generally make conversation about topics that interest them.

To get involved with forum marketing you do a search for the top forums for your topic or niche. Lurk around a few for awhile and see which ones are active and create a profile with a signature file that includes (where permitted) a link back to your website. Be sure to always read the terms and conditions and community guidelines before you start posting so that you don’t just dive in there and embarrass yourself. Each forum has its own personality and its own rules.

How does forum marketing benefit you?

You benefit by participating actively in forums because each time you post a message it creates another link to your site, however, you’d do better to approach forum marketing from the perspective of adding as much value as you can. Give first, and give often. Answer questions and point people to helpful resources that have nothing to do with your website or your affiliate programs. In this way you are establishing your reputation as a leader and as an expert in your topic area.

Because of the  focused nature of the content and the discussions, online forums can be a gold mine when it comes to getting relevant backlinks for your website, but when you factor in the amount of time that it takes to find these forums based on your keywords, create profiles and signature files, and then posting your value-added content for every forum in every niche it begins to become quite a drain on your time and energy.

Use time and effort saving software for forum marketing

There is forum posting software that can:

• Search the Internet and find public forums using your selected keywords

• Create custom user profiles

• Post a signature with your link to that profile

• Access to reporting tools to track your forum marketing

Another productivity tip is to outsource projects such as forum marketing. You can create a few, ‘how-to’ instructional videos about how you want them to post on your behalf, give them access to the software and then use the reporting tools to track where they have created profiles and posted content.

The main thing to keep in mind with forum marketing is to focus on adding value and becoming known as a leader and expert in your niche.

What if you could almost completely automate your forum marketing tasks? With ForumBot software you can streamline your work and create tons of quality backlinks to boost your website’s SEO. Visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog for tips and strategies for Internet marketing.

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The Amazon associated affiliate program is one of the biggest online affiliate programs online, and because of Amazon’s tremendous selection of products, and all of the banners, images and widgets available to affiliates, it’s pretty easy to start making money online as an Amazon affiliate.

Once you’ve got your blog setup and you have joined the Amazon associates program, the next thing you’ll want to do is to start adding your affiliate links to your website or blog. Let’s take a look at how easy it is to get started adding links.

How to customize and add links

The regular way to add links is to go to Amazon Associates Central and log in. Right on the home page you will see the option to ‘Quickly Add Links.’ You have the option to either search for a product or browse for a product. Type in the keyword in the search box, or browse until you find a product you like and click on the, ‘Get link’ button.

You will be brought to a page where you can customize your link and then grab the HTML code to add it to your website. You will be presented with the option of, Text and Image, Text only, Image only, or you can add the item to a widget. Then you’ll see your options for customizing the link and a live preview of the changes you are making as you customize it. When you are finished tinkering with the appearance, you can highlight the HTML code, which already has your Associates ID embedded in it, to your website.

Turn on Site Stripe

Site Stripe is a cool feature that allows you to create affiliate links from whatever page you happen to be on while browsing through Amazon.com without having to be inside of associates central. When you land on Amazon, make sure that you are logged in with your associate account credentials.

Here are some of the things that you can do using Site Stripe to create your affiliate links:

• Share a link on Twitter

You can quickly tweet out a link to a product that you find on Amazon using the ‘Share on Twitter’ button. You will be given the option to customize the message before you hit ‘send.’

• Add a product to a widget

Whether you are adding a product to an existing widget, or creating a new one, you can click on Site Stripe and add it quickly.

• Link to the current page

You can create a link to the page that you are browsing on within Amazon. Share links to items that you discover on the fly.

• Add item to your aStore

If you’ve got an aStore and you see an item that you want to add to it, click on the, ‘Add to aStore’ link on Site Stripe and you will be presented with a list of your aStores so that you can choose which one to add that product to.

That’s how easy it is to add affiliate links from Amazon to your blog or website. There are lots of additional ways that you can generate passive income online with niche affiliate marketing. Check out, http://www.passivenicheprofits.com, to discover how you can generate passive income online today.

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Every business needs leads—qualified leads in order to stay in business. As an online business and information product publisher, you are looking for business opportunity or ‘biz-op’ leads, which are people who have expressed an interest in finding a business opportunity.

Lead generation is a very competitive space on the Internet right now. You know that this is true if you have ever been in the position of buying leads. In this article we are going to explore a strategy that you can use to generate your own biz-op leads using affiliate networks. This is a method that requires a few steps, but if you are willing to put in the effort you will reap the rewards.

What is an affiliate network?

An affiliate network is simply the matchmaker of sorts between affiliate marketers and merchants who offer affiliate programs. They help affiliate marketers find the best programs to promote to their audience, and they help the merchants find the best audience for their programs.

In an affiliate arrangement, the affiliate earns a specified percentage of the sales price of the product that the affiliate’s leads purchase using their link. CPA networks offer CPA, CPM and CPC-based marketing programs.

CPA works by affiliates generating leads. The affiliate attracts visitors to their website who are already searching for what they have to offer. The affiliate makes money when the visitor clicks on an offer that appeals to them and takes the desired action (the “A” in CPA). This action can be anything from putting in their name and email address, to signing up for a free trial membership.

Creating the offer

The first step is to create an offer for, “how to make money online,” and then pay your affiliates $1.50- $2.50 for each lead they send to you. You can market this offer using an affiliate network.

Here are some examples of affiliate networks:

• Clickbank
• Click2Sell
• Commission Junction
• Share a Sale
• ClickBooth

Creating a sales funnel

The next step is to create a sales funnel that will generate the income needed so you do not lose money on the incoming leads. This is called a “Self Liquidating” lead source. Self liquidating leads simply means that you generate leads that cost you some amount of money, but then you quickly turn around and turn an immediate profit from those leads.

Inside Tip:

Be aware that as with any other business model, there is the problem of fraud. There are less than scrupulous affiliates who try to cheat the networks by generating fake leads. There is a platform called Direct Track, which is an affiliate marketing and tracking platform that has a focus on affiliate fraud prevention.

In the end, your goal is to generate a sizzling hot list of people who are already searching for what you have to offer—information about how they can make money online—and keep them on your list so that you can create a community of biz-op seekers and present them with offers that provide them with what they are searching for and make you money.

Are you ready to learn more about generating biz-op leads and other online marketing topics? Visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, where you will find tons of tips and resources for making money online and having some fun in the process.

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Niche blogging has got to be one of the most fun ways to profit online. You get to write about topics that you are passionate about, and make money online at the same time. Your blog helps connect people to what they are searching for online, so you are providing a valuable service. If you are new to blogging, this article will walk you through the basic steps that you will follow to get a Niche profit blog set up online.

Finding your profitable niche

There are lots of ways to find profitable niches, however, it’s always a bonus when you can blog about something that you are passionate about. Make a list of the things in your life that you are passionate about. Include your favorite products, foods, hobbies, places to visit types of restaurants, etc. Next visit dummies.com and check out their lists of topics. Chances are, if they have put the resources into publishing a book on the topic, it’s worth considering for a blog.

To further narrow down your topic, type the main keyword into your favorite search engine and see what you get. Look to the right sidebar and see how many ads appear using those keywords. That will give you an idea of your competition. Next consult a ‘keyword difficulty’ tool, which can tell you how easy or difficult, on a scale form one to one hundred,  it would be to gain some traction online with your chosen keyword phrase.

To see what kinds of affiliate programs there are for your chosen keywords, type the phrase, “affiliate program + your keyword phrase” into a search engine and see what you find.

The best way to find a digital product that you can promote with your niche profit blog is to visit Clickbank and find a product that fits with your keywords, and is selling well.

Keyword Research

The importance of good, thorough, keyword research cannot be over stated. The keywords that you choose to focus your niche profit blog around will spell the ultimate success or failure of your blog. Take the time to do your research to find the best buyer keywords for your niche topic. Invest in a good keyword research tool because if you plan to launch a network of niche blogs, keyword research is going to be an ongoing task for you.

Select a solid list of primary and secondary keywords that you will use for your blog. Your content will be centered on these keywords, as will your marketing efforts so choose wisely.

Purchase a domain name

Make the best effort to pick a domain name with your primary keywords in it. Clarity always trumps cleverness when it comes to domain names. For example, catherding.com will be far more effective than something such as, thecleverkitten.com. Your perspective customers who are looking for products related to herding cats will not be typing in the phrase, “the clever kitten,” to their favorite search engine. A domain name should be as short as possible, contain your primary keywords, be easy to say and spell out loud.

When you are paying for your domain name, buy as many years as you can afford. Your website looks more legitimate to the search engines when you have paid for several years in advance.

In Part II of this article we will look at: choosing a blogging platform, purchasing web hosting and setting up your blog. If you’d like even more tips and strategies for running a successful niche profit blog, you are welcome to visit, http://www.nicheprofitblogs.com, where you will discover everything you need to get started making money blogging today.

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Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to get started making money online, but the challenge remains finding the best keywords to focus your time and energy on. EBay.com and Amazon.com both have popular affiliate programs that you can join and use to make extra money. Using a powerful keyword analysis tool such as Micro Niche Finder can help you to sift through and select the most lucrative keywords that hold the best opportunities for you on these hugely popular websites.

What is an affiliate page?

Let’s clarify to start with that an affiliate page is just a website that is designed to market affiliate programs on a particular topic. Let’s say your niche is bird watching. You would create a series of pages on that topic that have content about bird watching and provide links to the hottest bird watching products on the market. When your visitors click on your affiliate links and land on the product page of either an eBay auction or an Amazon product page and make a purchase you earn an affiliate commission.

How to use MNF to uncover hot buyer niches

One of the prime secrets to success with affiliate marketing is choosing the best keywords to focus on. Micro Niche Finder can help you to select the best keywords that will attract the buyers who are already searching for specific products.

You might start by consulting the list of hot products of the moment. You can then begin to compile a list of those products and their keywords and start running them through Micro Niche Finder. This keyword research tool will help you to eliminate those keywords that hold far too much competition for you to even bother going after, and it will also help you to uncover those hidden gems of keywords that get a good amount of searches, but do not have a ton of competition yet.

Tips for setting up your affiliate pages

WordPress is the perfect platform for you to use for your affiliate sites. The software is free and it is dead simple to use. You can set up multiple blogs and manage them easily. There are even special affiliate marketing themes that make inserting your affiliate codes and customizing the sites simple and easy.

Create several articles using the keywords that you have selected and related keywords and post this content on your site and in the top article directories with a link back to your site. This will send you lots of traffic to your affiliate pages and get you some good exposure.

Write reviews of the products in the most unbiased way possible. People will appreciate it if you share your unvarnished opinion about a product and save them the hassle of buying something that they will not be happy with, rather than seeing a bunch of sugar-coated, glowing praise about a product that might have some problems.

Micro Niche Finder is a user-friendly tool that can help you narrow down which affiliate products to market so that you don’t waste your time trying to compete in a niche that is already overly saturated.

Creating affiliate pages is just one of the ways that you can use Micro Niche Finder to make money. Visit, http://mcreasite.com/MicroNiche, today to discover five free videos that will walk you through other fun ways to use this keyword research tool to improve your site’s SEO and increase your income.

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