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Saturday, 15 August 2009

Free Affiliate Marketing Tools

I found a great new FREE tutorial set for all affiliate newbies. These e-books are really gold! They are genuine well written e-books on everything you need to know in the network marketing industry. These free affiliate tools will help you to become a successful internet marketer. Feel free to share this link with your friends, but you are not allowed to give away your e-books to other people.

Download your free affiliate marketing tools directly here:

1. Google AdWords for the Beginner!

2. Traffic Exchanges for the Beginner!

3. Affiliate Programs for the Beginner!

4. Email Marketing for the Beginner!

5. Writing Headlines for the Beginner!

6. Writing Sales Letters for the Beginner!

7. Offline Marketing for the Beginner!

I not allowed to give you all these free from this blog. Just for good faith, I am going to give you the first one as a direct download form my blog, but don't tell anyone. You can however get them all completely FREE by clicking here ==> MY CASH EMPIRE

Just go to that link and click "Download Now", you will get all these completely FREE (in .pdf format). Its really great marketing tools and very well written, you won't find any free offer like this anywhere on the internet.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Proof that I made money with Clickbank!

Making money through affiliate marketing is impossible? I set out to prove this wrong and I did. Here are some checks that I received through Clickbank just weeks after I started working as an affiliate marketer.

And the best is thing is that I didn't even work at this full time. I only spent some time on it during my free time, which is only weekends, and some evenings after work. I only promoted other people's products online, as easy as that.

So, now that you have seen the proof and you know there is money to be made by working as an affiliate marketer, how did I do it? I used clickbank.com. You just register with them and then you go to the marketplace where you choose which products you want to promote. Choosing which products is very important. When you select a product you get a hoplink (link sending people to the product page) that you can use to promote the product with. You can use this link/banner on your websites, twitter, facebook, youtube videos etc. It's pretty easy once you know how.

How did I know how to start making big money with clickbank? After spending hours and hours researching and testing out different ways of promoting my clickbank links, I got nowhere and almost gave up. That is until I found out about Clickbank Affiliate Blueprints! This guide gives you everything you need to know on how to start and become successful with Clickbank. I am not going to elaborate on how great they are. You can go on their link and check them out. You won't be sorry.

Click here to find out more about Clickbank Affiliate Blueprints

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

25 ways to drive more visitors to your Blog or website

The questions is why do you want to drive more visitors to your blog? The answer is pretty obvious to most people. If you have a monotized site with ads on, the more traffic you get, the more money you get. Pretty simple really. And if you don't make money of your site, you will still gain prestige and fame as your traffic gets more. These 25 ways are really good if you start out with a money making system like, The SpiderWeb Marketing System, where you could potentially make houndreds of dollars just by promoting your affiliate link or site very well. I just joined the The SpiderWeb Marketing System and I use all these methods to get my traffic up. It works pretty well.

1. Trends

One of the easiest ways to drive quick traffic to your blog is to write something which appears in the Google Hot Trends. Andrew Wise offers some insights about this technique, I tested it and worked very well and as anticipated.
The type of traffic is very short-lived, but the visitors can be converted to returning visitors.
The revenue impact is very low.

2. Text Search engines

People use search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Live to find information on the web. Every blogger should submit his blog to the major search engines to get the most precious type of visitors. The traffic will be long-lived and the revenue impact high enough to support the hosting costs.

3. Natural linking

Post a lot of quality content and people will link to you naturally. The traffic will increase exponentially as more bloggers and websites link to your pages. Since the links on the remote websites will remain in place, the traffic is long-lived. The referred visitors don’t seem to like to support your website, thus the revenue impact is low.

4. Social bookmarking

Submit your own posts and offer the opportunity to your visitors to submit your posts in social bookmarking service like Digg and del.isio.us. While the traffic will be short-lived compared to the traffic referred by search engines, the revenue impact can be quite pleasing if the website is optimized for AdSense.

5. Online feed aggregators

I know that many would rather consider Technorati a search engine than a feed aggregator, but I think it is, since it’s working based on submitted feeds. Anyway, be sure you submit your blog in feed aggregators like Technorati or BlogBurst. Blogburst will display your posts on websites like CNN or The Times if you’re lucky.
While the traffic is extremely short-lived, it’s good for building a community. The referred visitors don’t tend to click ads.

6. Directories

Google recently removed this suggestion from its guidelines but links back to your site is always good as your visibility is increased. Submit your site to as many free directories as you can but Never pay for submission. If your site doesn’t appear in a directory where you submitted your blog, don’t get annoyed and don’t try again, it’s normal.
Visitors and revenue impact will be similar to search engine referred visitors.

7. Ad Networks

Advertise your blog either contextually or by placement. You can always advertise your blog with Google AdWords and your contextual ad can appear in the search results or your banner even on YouTube.
The traffic will depend on you budget and how much do you wish to pay per click or per thousand impressions. The earnings from adverts on your own blog will be incredibly high as the users who clicked one ad, will click one more with pleasure.

8. Commenting and signatures

If you visit a fellow blogger’s blog, always leave a useful comment. Under ‘useful’ I mean something other than “Great blog” or “nice post”. Always specify your website URL in the comment form and if you can include in the comment a link back to your site, even better. But never spam others blogs.
Also, if you participate in discussions on forums, always include in you signature your blog’s URL. The same applies to e-mail signatures. We write dozens of e-mails daily, sometimes for people who we do not know. Why not let them know about your blog?
The traffic impact can be high, depending how many users visit the page where you left a comment or posted a reply. These visitors doesn’t help you at all earning a penny.

9. Give Away

Gifts are awesome things and everybody likes them. If you offer something for your visitors, an e-book, a mug, a T-shirt or even a pen, let’s say for every 100 visitor, the news will spread rapidly on the net and people will come to your blog to get a gift.
These visitors are likely to click ads, but the traffic will end just after you stop giving things away.

10. Social gadgets

Every humans have to be part of a community, period. Blogs are not the most community focused web sites, in order to change this, bloggers can install gadgets like the from MyBlogLog in order to form a community around the blog.
To understand how does this affect your traffic: John Doe tells about a brand new community he just signed up to to all of his friends. The next day, Jane Doe who is John’s friend will visit this community.
The traffic grows exponentially if you can maintain the interest of your community. The revenue impact is mid ranged from new members and after they familiarize with your site’s structure, the impact is almost null.

11. Trackback

When you write about a subject you know another blogger already wrote about or you even took his content as source, be good and link back to the original post. This will make the blog software’s engine to place a so called trackback URL on the blog post you linked to. People will click that URL and arrive on your website.
The traffic depends on how popular the source post is. The revenue impact varies between mid and high.

12. E-Books

Why wouldn’t you compose an e-book including your best 20 posts and which you can then merchandise either as a give away for those who sign up top your blog or by making as torrent publishing it on a public bitTorrent tracker, for example? Just be sure you include links in the text many times.
You will get direct visits which is usually has very good impact on your earnings. The traffic lifetime will vary widely. If people will like your book, they will share with their friends or seed the torrent more, thus the lifetime will be longer.
Worth a try.

13. Get social

Create as many free profiles on as many different social networks as you can. Start with MySpace, end with Twitter, but be sure to not miss any. In your profile add a link back to your blog and you’re set. If you want higher traffic, make friends.
The traffic can be incredibly high if you manage to build a great social network. The revenue impact will not be too impressive.

14. Guest Writing

Ask other bloggers to write on your blog and if you’re counter invited, accept it. You will be let to place a link back to your blog in the body of your post on the remote blog. While you lost one hour of your life writing the post, you earned a link. The more links, the more traffic.
The traffic will depend on how many links did you place on the remote blogs and how popular those posts got.
Revenue impact can be quite attractive.

15. Interact with users

If your user ask you something or just comments something, never forget to give a friendly answer. While this has no direct relation with your traffic, if you are friendly, your users will invite others to your blog and this can be very precious, both your earning and your traffic can be boosted easily.

16. Interviews

Write an interview with somebody who has greater reputation on the internet than you. Is that Queen Elisabeth or John Doe from the Elm Street’s 6th corner, it doesn’t matter. People like to read interviews. If you hit a good subject, people will flow to your blog.

17. Article directories

Write articles about something interesting and you have knowledge about, then submit it to article directories, for example EZArticles. You are allowed to place a link back to your blog. When people finished reading your article will search for something to click. Yeah, nowadays when people finish reading wants to click something. And that will be the link back to your blog you just placed in the article.
The traffic will be constant and depending on the quality and popularity of the article, can be extremely high. Revenue impact will be also high.

18. Mispell

Yeah. Misspell words, but be sure to not more than 2 per post. Incredibly high number of people misspell words when searching on Google, incredible but true. That’s why Google invented the “Did you mean…” thing. If you misspell the correct words, you will get some nice traffic.
Example: Instead of Obama you write Obaam

19. Reviews

Ask other bloggers to write a review about your site then offer the same for them. A well written review can have extreme impact on your traffic, if the review appeared on a high traffic site.

20. Offline media promotion

If you have a car, place a sticker on its back advertising your blog. Wear T-shirts which promotes your blog. You’ll be amazed how nicely these can increase your traffic.

21. Events

If you have a lot of local traffic, host an event where you promote your blog. If you see that another blog hosts such an event and you have the opportunity, grab your girlfriend and get to the event. Don’t forget to talk with many people, always mention your blog, give everyone a business-card and wear a T-shirt which promotes your blog.
The traffic will be incredible.

22. Image search engines

Many doesn’t know, but image search engines can send huge amount of traffic to your blog. To get the images in the search engines, you will have to use some attributes properly. For example every image should have alt and title attribute set. For example:

When the image search engines will find your image and someone will search for the term “some image”, your image will be amongst the results.
You will get same amount of traffic and the revenue impact will also be the same like in the search engine’s case.

23.Testimonials

If you buy a product, if you sign up for a service and you like, ask the merchant to let you write a testimonial on their website. Both of you win. Just be sure you include a link back to your blog too.

24. CraigsList

Sounds stupid, I know. Write an ad and somehow include a link to your blog. Just be sure the editors will not consider the link spam.
If the readers click the link, you won. The experience is that this can confer you nice amount of traffic and users who will click on ads.

25. Video marketing

If you have the talent create videos and upload them to YouTube. People adore watching videos, and if you place either in the description or in the video a link back to your site, you won.

If you are interested in making money with affiliate programs like Self Bank Mobile and Direct Matches, or a integrated affiliate money making program like the honored, SpiderWeb Marketing System, you could really use these traffic improving ways. Good luck!

(Thanks to content from 25 ways to get more visitors to your blog)

Monday, 2 March 2009

Finished with your SpiderWeb Marketing System setup, now what?

As I have said in my previous blog post, I just started with SpiderWeb Marketing System. I am still fairly new to all this, but one thing that I have seen is that this system definately looks like it is what it boasts to be and I can see the potential in it.

Right, about 24 hours ago I got the The SpiderWeb Marketing System 100% free of course. Didn't have a lot of time though, so I just signed in, rambled through most of the step by step videos, but didn't really follow all their steps. I put a link on my Facebook profile and went to sleep, hoping that I would get time do more today.

Well, I locked in to my SpiderWeb account, and what did I see? I already have 8 leads, contact details of them and everything. The system is so cool that it actually displays this all and tells you until what step the lead actually watched the videos. Most of my leads didn't watch past step 3 or 4 so they wouldn't have had the chance to register for any of the great income generating affiliates like, Direct Matches, Self Bank Mobile and probably the affiliate the will make you the most money, Commission Junction, and of course GDI (You will need this if you want your own cheap website to promote with).

I just worked through all the videos accept Commission Junction's tutorial, and I can honestly say it looks like all these affiliates could make you good money. And it really is SO easy. Just follow all the steps in the videos exactly and I am sure you will be able to make money.

A few things hints that I could give you at this stage:

1. First fill in your details to request your own SpiderWeb Marketing System free.(Click here ----> The SpiderWeb Marketing System

2. Watch ALL the videos, do ALL the steps as the tutorial tells you to. ESPECIALLY 4,6,7,8, 9, 10. If you really don't have time to watch all the videos now, just make sure that you registered for every step's program like, GDI, Selfbank, Direct Matches, Commission junction etc. If you don't you won't have any income streams. (If you get stuck, you can always watch the videos again later. BUT make sure you register for all the sites, so that your leads can come streaming in.

3. Now, you can start promoting your stuff. Immediately go to every registered affiliate and mail the link to all your friends, send a message with your http://thespiderwebsystem.com/bertus SpiderWeb Address link to all your friends in Facebook, Myspace etc. Then you can start with your website, banners, links, advertising like adwords etc, while the leads come pouring in.

4. Remember to follow up all leads and mail them again to persuade them to pull through with all the steps, so that they can start making money, and you too.

Well, I will keep you updated on my findings, I am off now to continue my marketing of this brilliantly unique Money Generating tool.

If you havn't done so already, check this system out now, watch the videos and you won't be sorry.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System

Do you have your own world-wide-web yet?

Sunday, 1 March 2009

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We already discussed some very effective ways to start your own affiliate marketing web page. One of the best that I could recommend is Site Build It. They really have the best overall package for your website creating and affiliate marketing needs. Really helpful and probably one of the best out there.

One of the biggest affiliate networks are probably Clickbank. They have thousands of products that you could advertise and will have customers from almost any imaginable niche. This could be for you, especially if you have a good niche web site that you want to promote affiliate stuff with.

All of these are just some ways to make single income streams and also some of them you would have to invest quite a lot of money in to get started, but there is one way that you can make money money than with any other system out there!
The SpiderWeb Marketing System!!

This system is so effective that you won't believe it. You can generate not just one, but 22+ income streams all that are almost infinate levels deep and wide. The best is, it is 100% free, no hidden costs or anything. It guides you video by video and step by step how to get assossiated with almost an infinate number of affiliates and it guides you choosing the best. What makes The Spiderweb System unique is that it tracks ALL your affiliates and leads on it's page, all together and helps you market it with automated ways so that you don't have to do ANY selling!

This sounds almost to good to be true. Is The SpiderWeb Marketing system a scam? Well, there are already thousands of people making money with it for years! The only people that are not making money with it, are the people to lazy to
Check out The SpiderWeb System and go through their easy to follow step by step video tutorials set it up to make money. If you are serious about starting your own business from home and to become independent, working from home and using the internet to make money for you, stop reading this post now and check it out now!

The SpiderWeb Marketing System

If you are still not bought on this idea, I will continue to do more research about this system and blog about it regularly so that you could find out if this is the best way to make money with affiliate work online or not. I myself have just started with it and have seen good leads streaming in by itself. I would continue blogging about my personal experience of it as well.

Related posts:

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Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Make a fortune promoting other people's stuff online

I found a great book online that tells you the ins and outs of affiliate marketing online. It's called "Make a fortune promoting other people's stuff online" and I can really recommend it to everyone who wants to start out with an affiliate program, anyone who wants to start making money online, or anyone that is struggling making making money with their affiliate programs.

The definitive guide to planning and managing a successful online affiliate business!. .

Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online is your hands-on guide to starting your own profitable affiliate marketing business quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Leading affiliate marketing authority Rosalind Gardner gives you a proven five-step plan for identifying a niche with a huge market, choosing products to promote, and selling the benefits effectively. You'll see how to:. .

Navigate the different affiliate programs, from commissioned-based �click-through� programs to CPM impressions to flat-fee referral.

Identify the products and programs that are profitable-and the ones to avoid.
Ask the right questions before you join an affiliate program.
Research, understand, and sell to your niche market.
Negotiate for a higher percentage on your commission.
Stay on top of developments in the industry. .
Packed with time- and money-saving techniques-including twelve ways to drive traffic to your
website at no cost-this comprehensive guide is all you need to make big profits as an affiliate
marketer!. .

Rosalind Gardner is the creator of several successful online businesses and the author of the bestselling Super Affiliate Handbook. Her website is NetProfitsToday.com.

Reviews of this product:

A wonderful little book about how to sell product or services online!, October 20, 2007
By
Jeff Lippincott "www.Jlippin.com" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

A good little book about how to promote YOUR BUSINESS using your Web site, Internet search engines, and other marketing techniques. I'm a SCORE volunteer who counsels small business owners on how to improve their Web presence and make the Internet work for them in bringing in clients. Much of the material covered in this wonderful little book is exactly what I explain to my clients. As a SCORE counselor I discuss market research, competition research, Web site research, keyword research, profit research, how to design a winning Web site, how to build a winning Web site, and how to market the winning Web site. This book covers all of these things. If you are looking for advice on how to do these things, then look no further. You have found it when you get a copy of this book. About three years ago I did a bit of research on affiliate programs on the Net and how to build my own affiliate program and upload it onto the Net. There really wasn't a lot out there to read about the subject at the time. Still isn't. But I was able to figure out back then that affiliate programs were not worth the effort to get involved in or to put together. I learned that if you can do a great job selling through an affiliate program, then you can do just as good selling your own product and make all the profit on the sale instead of a silly commission. This book helps explain how to do a great job selling. So get it for that angle and not the affiliate program angle. I'm giving this book 4 stars because in my opinion the title is a little misleading. I don't know anyone who is or has made a fortune in affiliate programs. But if the title were changed to something like make a fortune selling your own stuff online and the content was reworked a little, then the star rating would go up.

Great book for learning and implementing affiliate marketing, August 20, 2007
By
Deborah Crawford "Writer, Trainer, Walker, Sm... (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews

I don't know anyone making a fortune with affiliate marketing, but I do believe it is possible, which is why I bought this book. If you are an affiliate marketer, you might find much of this book repetitive. But, if you are not making a fortune and want to, then this book is for you. Most of us know it takes a llloooooonnnnnngggg time to make any money from most affiliate programs, and Gardner doesn't tell you you can get rich overnight. I found her information to be true to what everyone else is saying--build a good website (or websites) with great content, find good paying companies to promote and run your affiliate business like---a business. What a concept! (I find many people throw up a few pages of content and a couple of links and then start waiting for the money. As if. . .) I like this book because there are actual "how-to's" in here--how to set up tracking tools and spreadsheets, how and when to create content, how to promote your business, how to get your website up, when to expand your business, what to do when an affiliate doesn't pay, how to find affiliates, and much more. If you are looking for get rich quick scams, look somewhere else. If you are looking for a guide to having your own successful affiliate business, get this book.

More books on Affiliate Marketing:

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Affiliate Tutorial - Tweak your site (Final Steps 16 - 18)

STEP 16: Tweak your site

To boost your conversion rate (your visitor-to-sales ratio), try little experiments, one thing at a time.
Try changing the heading on a page, the words, the colors, the placement of your links. With each change wait until about 1,000 visitors have seen the change, and monitor your affiliate commissions to see if they rise or fall.
You do this because you understand that if 1% of your visitors are buying and tiny changes boost your success rate to 2%, you'll DOUBLE your commissions.

STEP 17: The future

When you reach your goal of $300 a month, you wonder whether you should expand your site, perhaps adding a newsletter, an autoresponder course or two, a forum, RSS newsfeeds, a blog, a whitepaper, a report to sell ... and turn it into a portal. You dream big. Perhaps you even start dreaming of having your own affiliates promoting your reports for you...
Or perhaps you just research another little overlooked niche and start on your next simple little, low-maintenance money-generating site.

It can be done. The main ingredient needed is persistence. Been there, done that, and I have a very nice lifestyle to prove it.

The $300 a month target is very conservative. If that's all you earn, you've done something "wrong". You haven't chosen profitable keywords carefully enough, you haven't built enough attractive, keyword-rich pages, you haven't learned the basics of optimizing pages for search engines, or you haven't attracted enough good quality links to your site.
That's the wonderful thing about this business. You can make lots of mistakes and still earn useful money. Just don't make TOO many mistakes.

STEP 18: Take the first step

That's the one that matters most.
I suggest you go back and read through this affiliate program tutorial again.
Picture yourself owning a successful online business. Picture yourself opening letters and finding checks in them. Picture yourself going into your PayPal account and seeing the latest commissions you've been paid by affiliate merchants.
Imagine enjoying yourself spending the money, perhaps even giving up your day job so that you can concentrate on your own business.
Now take the first step.
And when you've quit your day job, please write and tell me. I love getting emails like that.

All 18 steps of Affiliate Program Tutorial:

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 1 - 3 ) - Set a Goal

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 4 - 5 ) - Research Affiliate Merchants

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 6 - 7 ) - Add Affiliate Links

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 8 - 10 ) - Good links to your site

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 11 - 13 ) - Place Articles on Websites

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 14 - 15 ) - See Affiliate Success!

Affiliate Tutorial (Step 16 - 18 ) - Tweak site to make even more money

Affiliate Tutorial - See affiliate success (Step 14 - 15)

STEP 14: Expect to see signs of success.

Eventually, because of all the links to your site on other sites, Google, Yahoo! and MSN will find your site and start sending you traffic.
Perhaps around the three-month or four-month stage you'll be receiving 100 visitors a day. Visitors will like what they see and some site owners will start linking to you and asking you to link to them.
Keep at it. You're just getting warmed up.

STEP 15: The payoff...

About six months down the road, after little expense but quite a lot of hard work and research, you hit your magical $300 a month mark, from affiliate sales and from AdSense ads on your site.
Depending on the niche you've chosen and the skills you've learned, you might earn considerably more than $300.

Perhaps after 12 months, you'll be earning $500 to $1,000 a month from your site.
The checks keep coming in, month after month, even when you take a little vacation. You start telling friends how easy affiliate marketing is, and are puzzled when they're not convinced.
Of course, it's not really easy. It just seems easy after you've done the hard work.
...or the NON-payoff

If you've merely scanned the instruction manual and jumped right in without doing any research and built a "Make Money on the Internet" site, you'll probably earn very little. A search on Google for "make money" displays more than 4 million pages. If one of those is yours, you have a LOT of competition.

If you did this and it isn't working for you, go back to step 1 and start again.

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Affiliate Tutorial - Place articles on websites (Step 11 - 13)

STEP 11: Place your articles on other websites

Write articles and distribute them to article directories (fairly easy) and try to persuade newsletters and other sites to publish them (more challenging.
This step isn't absolutely essential, but it helps enormously if you do it. Now you understand why it was so important that you chose a topic that was easy to write about.

STEP 12: Add more pages and get more links.

Keep adding useful, interesting, keyword-rich pages (you do research at Wordtracker for this) and keep encouraging more sites to link to your site.
Make friends with other web site owners, and more people will link to you...

STEP 13: Be patient.

If your new site is typical, nothing much will seem to happen for the first couple of months or so, and you'll probably become frustrated and find it hard to believe that this is going to work.
You're likely to feel annoyed, cheated and ready to quit. You're likely to be a prime target for people selling get-rich-quick junk.
Many affiliates give up at this stage. Stick with it. If you're persistent and get the details right, the process I'm describing works beautifully.
Learn something new every day. Do something to improve your business every day. If you do this, success is inevitable. My Funny videos blog Oraclevid Funny Videos took a while to pick up and now it gets over 400 hits a day in just a few weeks.

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Affiliate Tutorial - Good links to your site (Step 8 - 10)

STEP 8: Get good quality links to your site

Without links to your site, your site won't be found in the search engines. So you MUST get links to your site, if possible from "authority" sites - ones that have lots of links to them.
First, link to other sites. Choose sites that have similar or related themes, and invite those sites to link to you.

This is hugely important. Search engines love sites that have many links to them - especially if those links come from sites which are themselves popular.
Now you see why I said build a useful, interesting site. If you do that, people are more likely to link to your site.
Here's an article I wrote describing how to get reciprocal links.
Reciprocal links should be only a small part of your marketing strategy - not your whole marketing strategy.
Even better than reciprocal links are one-way links. Here's an article describing how to get one-way links.
Some of these one-way links techniques are fairly advanced and require considerable work. Most of your competitors will be too lazy to do them, so you'll have a big advantage if you do. They can make the difference between a hobby site and a serious, very profitable business.

STEP 9: Anchor text

You'll also need to understand the importance of anchor text, the words you use to link to pages on your site, the words people use when they link to your site.
To search engines, anchor text is very important.

STEP 10: List your site in major directories and niche directories in your industry.

You probably already know about Yahoo! (good but expensive) and DMOZ (often takes months to get into).

Here are some more directories (some charge a fee):
Gimpsy
Skaffe
Joeant
Business.com
SevenSeek
ThisIsOurYear
Looksmart (probably too expensive)
BlueFind
WowDirectory
Best of the Web
GeniusFind

Guides to web directories
David Mahler has a Guide to Web Directories. It's a good list of recommended web directories.
Here's another list: http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

How to find niche directories:
Go to Search It! (It's a very handy free research tool.)
Scroll to the Search Category, "Specialty Hubs and Directories"
Choose one of the 4 options in STEP 2
Read the "Click Here for Information..." help before proceeding
Complete STEPS 3 and 4, and then click on Search It!
Read the tutorial. It tells you what to do with the search results
Get your search results. You should be able to find relevant, themed hub sites and directories which will list your site. Some charge a fee, some are free.

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Affiliate Tutorial - Affiliate links (Step 6-7)

STEP 6: Add affiliate links

As you write the articles for your site, weave affiliate links into them. Always have a typical visitor in mind as you write the articles. Speak to that visitor.
Your task as an affiliate is to help your visitor decide what to buy.
One successful technique is to gradually lead your visitor towards a purchase. Start by outlining a problem, discuss a good solution that has worked for you, and end the article with a link that is a call to action, such as a hyperlink that says, "Find out more here."
Your task as an affiliate is NOT to sell (that's the merchant's job) but to presell, to warm up your visitors. You want your visitors in a ready-to-buy frame of mind when they arrive at the merchant's site.

For superb advice on preselling, I strongly recommend you join Ken Evoy's 5 Pillar Affiliate Program. It's free to join.

Ken is an absolute whiz at preselling and he's renowned for working extremely hard to help his affiliates succeed. He has a superb program. It's been No.1 in my Top 10 for several years. I earn five-figure monthly commissions from this affiliate program.

STEP 7: Place AdSense ads on your site

If you have a good, popular site, it's remarkably easy to make good money with Google AdSense. AdSense is free to join.

Here's an excellent free Google Adsense Tutorial.

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Affiliate Program Tutorial: (Step 4-5)

STEP: 4. Research affiliate merchants

Before you make a firm decision on a topic for your site, you'll need to do research to see if there are suitable affiliate products which match your topic.
You want affiliate merchants that have excellent products, excellent reputations and sites that look as though they're good at selling. You can search the AssociatePrograms.com affiliate directory for ideas.

Consider aiming for lifetime commissions.
If you're lucky, you'll manage to select a web site topic that has affiliate programs which pay lifetime commissions or residual commissions - the sort reviewed at LifetimeCommissions.com.
You'll earn repeat commissions when "your" customers make more purchases

STEP 5: Build a useful, interesting website on your niche

Here's an very important step. Many newcomer affiliates who fail do so because they have overlooked its importance.
Don't just build a website. Build a useful, interesting website on your niche.
One of the best ways is to build a site which solves people's problems. Useful sites also often help their visitors decide which products to buy.
Create a content rich, keyword-rich site, designed to be found in search engines.
Show your personality. Have a bit of fun. Be memorable. You need to connect with your visitors. Remember that people like buying from people they like.
There's no space in this affiliate program tutorial to describe how to build a website. For that, you'll need a good instruction manual.
If you're short of money, you can hunt for free information on sites such HTMLGoodies.
You'll save yourself an enormous amount of time and frustration if you take the plunge and buy a good instruction manual.

Here are the two best options:

(1.) For keen do-it-your-selfers, I recommend Rosalind Gardner's Super Affiliate Handbook.
Rosalind is a real been-there-done-that super affiliate.

Her instruction manual shows you how she builds very successful sites using web authoring software.
It starts right at the beginning, discussing topics such as myths about doing business online, mistakes to avoid, how to choose the best topic, how to choose the right domain name, etc.
The book, updated in May 2006, takes you step-by-step through the whole process.
One particularly useful feature is her explanation of how she achieves high conversion rates (visitor-to-sales ratios), achieving conversion rates of 4% or 6% while most affiliates are happy with 1%.

Another of the strengths of the book is her descriptions of a wide variety of ways to get traffic to your site. This is important - too many affiliates rely on just one or two traffic-generating methods. The more traffic-generating methods you have, the safer your business is.
Rosaland is genuinely successful, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Now she's also a very successful author, with sales of more $1 million from her book, which is excellent value.

When you learn from her, you're learning from a winner.
Learn more about Rosalind's Super Affiliate Handbook here.
If you choose to follow Rosalind's advice, you'll also need a website-building tool. A very popular choice among affiliates is XSitePro, which is designed for people who want to build small, niche sites. XSitePro, or the new version, XSitePro2, isn't suitable for every type of site, so make sure you read our XSitePro2 review before you decide.(2.)

(2.) For affiliates who want to simplify things as much as possible and automate the tedious techie stuff, I recommend Ken Evoy's Site Build It (SBI).

SBI is a site-building, site-hosting, site-promoting suite of tools, all in one place.
Once you have SBI, you don't have to go scurrying all over the Net adding more tools and software. You have almost all you need in one package, so you can concentrate on the fun part - creating useful, interesting content.

SBI comes with a newly updated, truly comprehensive instruction manual, a step-by-step Action Guide, and a truly superb private forum where SBI users share information and help each other.
SBI is the tool I give my assistants. Take the Free Video Tourand you'll understand why.

Ken Evoy's instruction manual is doing my work for me. First it taught Rupert and then Ros how to build a high quality, successful, revenue-generating site. Now it's being used by another assistant to whom I outsource website maintenance.
You could build a site without SBI, but using it saves you time and effort by simplifying the process. It provides a recipe for business success.
SBI teaches you how to optimize your web pages so they'll be found in search engines. After building a page, you click the "Analyze It" button and it tells you what you need to do to improve it.

The SBI technique really works. Two of the SBI sites that Rupert built are included in the case studies on the SBI site.
See the proof in the SBI case studies

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