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How to Quickly Add Affiliate Links, Banners & Widgets with the Amazon Affiliate Program

24. May, 2011 0 Comments

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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Keyword Research Tips for Affiliate Marketers

20. May, 2011 0 Comments

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As an affiliate marketer, keyword research is a vital activity because through keyword research and analysis, you discover the best keywords to build niche websites that are fairly simple, yet full of the information that will interest those who are searching on your topic.

In this article we will look at some of the various ways that affiliate marketers use keyword research, and some of the tools that can help them to save time and get better results.

How to use keywords on your affiliate blog or website

Keywords are one of the most critical components for your affiliate marketing website–or any website for that matter. SEO, or search engine optimization is made up of about 20-30% on-page factors such as:

Title tags
Meta tags
Meta descriptions
H1 tags
Body text/copy
Domain name
Page names
Anchor text

Keywords are the basic element in all of these items. Google ranks websites based on keywords, the density, and relevancy of the keywords on your site relative to other similar websites within your topic. Most importantly, keywords are used in the content of your website in the form of website copy, blog posts, navigation and inbound and outbound links.

Using Keyword Research tools to find ‘buyer keywords’

When someone is still in the initial discovery phase of making a purchase, they will use more general keywords such as, “sporting goods,” and then maybe, “bicycles.” As they learn more about exactly what they want, the keywords they use will become more specific or targeted such as, “Huffy,” or “Schwinn bicycles,” or “bicycle shop in <insert zip code>.”

Plugging your list of primary keywords into a keyword research tool will help you to find more, related keywords, long tail keywords, and those crucial buyer keywords.

If you are really serious about affiliate marketing, you should invest in a premium keyword research tool. The free, Google keyword tool is fine for when you are first getting started, but as your skills develop and you get more serious about affiliate marketing, you’ll want to investigate the most popular keyword research and analysis tools such as WordTracker, Market Samurai, MicroNiche Finder, and the new NicheFinder software by Brad Callan.

Keyword research is one of those critical tasks that online businesses people must do in order to keep their websites at the top of the search engines. It can be a confusing, challenging, time-consuming task if you don’t have access to the right tools for the job. The right premium keyword research tools will make online keyword research faster, easier and more effective.

Your goal with affiliate marketing is to provide value added information on the topic of the products that you are pre-selling. The right keywords will help you attract that targeted traffic that you need to keep your website at the top of the search engine results.

Now it’s time to discover how to do keyword research quickly and effectively with the world’s most powerful, new niche finding software. Visit, http://mcreasite.com/NicheFinder, to start uncovering those hidden niches with niche finder today.

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How to Use Affiliate Networks to Generate Biz-Op Leads

13. May, 2011 1 Comment

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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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How to Use Webinars to Sell Information Products

09. May, 2011 1 Comment

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Webinars are a popular way to sell information products for a good reason—they work. A webinar is simply a seminar that is held online. Participants register in advance and receive the special link to participate in the webinar through their email. All they have to do on the day and time for the webinar is click on the link to join the presentation.

Hosting a webinar is much easier than standing up in front of an audience at an event and speaking. You get to run the program from wherever you are while you are talking into a headset and mic. Your presentation is prepared in advance, so all you have to do is follow the script and you will be successful.

There are two ways to use webinars to make money:

1: Sell info products directly
With this first model, you the presenter are either the creator of the product you are selling or you are an affiliate who gets a commission on every product that you sell. You might be interviewing the product’s creator, or someone who is a celebrity or well-known subject matter expert in that particular niche. Basically, you want someone that will draw a large audience to participate in the webinar.

2: Create new products
The second model for making money with webinars is to create the product from the webinar content. You can interview an expert, or present what you know about a topic that is in demand by your audience. How do you find out what is in demand? Ask them. Create a short survey and ask your audience what they struggle with and what they would like to learn. Create a presentation and then invite your audience to attend. Allow participants to ask questions and incorporate those questions into the content of the presentation. When the webinar is over you can divide the recording up into segments and sell it as a video course, have the audio transcribed and sell it as an ebook, or training course.

Webinars are powerful because you are speaking directly to your audience and you are teaching them what they said they wanted to learn when they signed up. Hosting webinars helps to increase the know like and trust factor between you and your audience. After participating in a webinar with you for an hour they get the feeling that they know you better. You become more of a real human being to them, and if your presentation was successful, they think more highly of you than before the webinar.

Webinars are interactive, and if you take live calls, people enjoy getting their questions answered right there on the spot. You are teaching people new skills–turning the light on in their minds and they will remember who they learned that valuable information from thus improving customer loyalty.

There is so much more to say about the power of webinars, so if you want more, go ahead and visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, where you will get lots more information about the different ways that you can have fun making money online.

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What is the Difference between CPC, CPM and EPC?

27. Apr, 2011 0 Comments

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Anyone with more than a passing interest in Internet marketing quickly becomes familiar with the acronym, CPC, which means cost per click. CPC and CPM are the prevalent revenue models for media buying online, and EPC is related to the realm of affiliate marketing. For those who are new to these revenue models, we’ll take a basic look at each one describing What they mean and what the differences are between them within the online marketing space.

What is CPC?

CPC means cost per click, and this revenue model is used to price many of the PPC or pay per click advertising models such as Google’s AdWords or Bing and Yahoo!’s Microsoft Ad Network. As the name implies, advertisers place ads in search engine results pages, or within a content network, but they only pay when a visitor actually clicks on the ad.

When tracking and testing mechanisms are put into place, CPC marketing can yield lots of data that can help marketers choose the most effective keywords, and landing pages.

What is CPM?

CPM means cost per thousand (mille) impressions, which are page loads of an online advertisement. The CPM model is more advantageous when you are dealing with high traffic sites because you are banking on the fact that a certain number of people per thousand will click on your ad. On the right website with a steady flow of targeted traffic the CPM model can be quite effective.

What is EPC?

EPC which is short for average Earnings per 100 clicks, is a term used within the realm of affiliate marketing. It is used to measure the average earnings within a 7 day period that an affiliate can expect to earn for every 100 clicks that they are able to generate. This calculation can be helpful to affiliates when they are seeking out new products to promote.

Commission Junction, which is a popular affiliate network says the following about EPC: “EPC is an exclusive metric of the CJ Marketplace given for publishers, advertisers, and individual ads, and is a relative rating that illustrates the ability to convert clicks into commissions.”

CPC is the most effective pricing model for smaller advertisers looking to buy guaranteed traffic for their websites. EPC is a different kind of metric, that is actually limited to the world of online affiliate marketing .

At the end of the day, the most important metric in all of this is your website’s conversion rate, which can be expressed as its ability to convert visitors into customers, or getting visitors who land on your site to take a desired action such as subscribe to your email list or RSS feed. So the conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who take the action that you want them to take on your website.

When you are first starting out it is important to arm yourself with enough knowledge to get started taking forward action. Don’t wait until you feel like you know enough because that day will most likely never come due to the constantly changing nature of online marketing.

When you are ready to learn more about CPC, CPM, EPC and those other confusing acronyms related to Internet marketing, you should visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, and subscribe to our RSS feed. You’ll get a ton of information that you can use to make more money in less time and maybe even have some fun doing it.

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