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Hi,
This week we’re continuing our series of articles about
affiliate marketing, and cover affiliate marketing with
blogs. It’s not so difficult to start a blog, and they can
be a lot of fun. When you add in some plugins, they make an
excellent vehicle for your affiliate marketing campaigns.
You can find out more in our article below. The rest of
this last week has been a blur for us, and since the
television ads have started to include a christmas theme
already, all talk is of the impending holiday season, and
how we’re not ready for it. My wife, as organised as ever,
has already done a fair amount of present buying, me I would
have been out on Christmas Eve and cursed myself for leaving
it so late, but as she keeps reminding me, it’s only 7
weeks away now. Only? that’s almost a lifetime right?
What do you think should we all be buying our presents
starting in the January sales, or keep it traditional, and
do our present buying on Christmas Eve?
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Here is this weeks article written by me, which you may use
on a website or in an ezine as long as you keep the contact
info at the end intact.
Power Up Your Affiliate Marketing With Blogging
By Douglas Titchmarsh
Blogs are a great way of making sales for an affiliate
marketing campaign. Since they appeared, blogs have all but
taken over from static websites of old, a regularly updated
blog with quality content is a veritable magnet for search
engines and visitors alike.
There are several blog scripts and services you can use as
an affiliate marketer, simplest would be to use Blogger.com
as it’s just a matter of signing up for an account and then
start posting. Our recommended blogging tool is Wordpress
installed on your own site. You should consider using
WordPress as it’s usually in the Fantastico link in your
webhosting cpanel so is very easy to install to your site
in just 3 clicks, giving you control over your own blog.
There are also plenty of themes available to change the
look of your vlog whether you use WordPress or Blogger.
It’s worth looking for a theme which ties in with your
affiliate products you will be advertising.
As an affiliate marketer, you have to love blogs for their
ease of updating, you can just copy and paste new content
into the form, hit submit and a new page appears in
seconds, all nicely formatted, linked and if you do it
right categorised. Adding blog content regularly is a lot
simpler than updating a static html website, and recoding
all the links manually to add your new page.Just type or
copy and paste your text, and click publish and it’s all
done for you.
But there’s more to it than the simple adition of content
to your blog, you can setup an affiliate product link in
the main site template, and that will be shown on every
page you create. As soon as you post you have effectively
created another link to your affiliate product and another
way for people to be drawn to the site to find it. If you
don’t feel like digging around the code to add your
affiliate link, you can always add it each time you post
(or a different affiliate product each time). Even better,
with the addition of some simple to install plugins your
blog can become a sales powerhouse, and even add Adsense
for a second source of income.
Even better for us affiliate marketers these plugins can be
found for fre*e online ready to download and install to your
blog. If you are using WordPress, then a plugin called “WP
Text Link Ads” is our FRE*E plugin of choice. Google for it,
install it following the instructions and then add keywords
and your affiliate links to associate with them. Every time
you post, your chosen keywords will become links to your
affiliate products automatically. Set it up with several
affiliate programs and as your blog traffic increases so
will your bottom line.
So you have your blog set up, and start posting, how do you
get the traffic flowing and get your affiliate links out
there?
In my own experience, I have found that “Pinging” your
blog posts very quickly starts the traffic flowing. Pinging
is just the term for letting other sites know your blog is
being updated. For ease and simplicity, I recommend using
Pingoat.com where you can put in your details of your blog
after you post, choose the services to ping, and click go.
Here’s the kicker, afterwards Pingoat will give you the
option to bookmark the url so you can ping your site by
using the pingoat link in your favourites. You could
automate this by adding this (very long) url to the
autoping section of your blog settings, but you’ll have to
work that out for yourself.
Once you start blogging and pinging your posts, the search
engines will find your blog, and as we stated from the
start search engines love blogs especially if they are
being updated regularly. This is great for your affiliate
marketing campaign as search engines bring the best kind of
traffic, FRE*E. Hopefully some of the visitors from this FRE*E
traffic source will be interested enough to click on your
affiliate links and bu*y the products you are promoting.
This is just the start though. If you learn all you can
about blogging, and keep adding relevant and high quality
posts to your blog, then your affiliate marketing campaigns
can become your chief source of income. Blogging and
affiliate marketing really are a great pair to get to know.
Douglas Titchmarsh writes the online newsletter at
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Guest Article
How To Use “Viral Marketing” To Generate More Traffic
BY Dan Lok
Copyright (c) 2006 Quick Turn Marketing International,
Ltd.
Have you ever visited a site, like what you see… and
then told your friends about it?
OR
Have your friends ever told you about an interesting
or useful site they’ve visited in the last 30 days?
I’ll bet this happens almost every day, or at least
weekly. Believe it or not there is actually a method
to this madness. These seemingly random acts of
“kindness” or referral may actually dramatically
impact your business.
OK Dan, so what are you talking about, right?
I am talking about Viral Marketing. Viral marketing is
key to your business. It is a simple and effective
tool you can use to drive traffic to your site,
without spending thousands of dollars implementing
more expensive marketing tools.
How can you take advantage of viral marketing?
The easiest to make your visitors tell their friends
and relatives about your site is by implementing a
“tell-a-frien*d” script.
If done correctly, a “tell-a-frien*d” script is one of
the most powerful traffic-generation strategies you’ll
ever use. And it’s FRE*E!
Here’s how it works…
You ask your visitors to enter the name and e-mail
address of friends and relatives they think will be
interested in your site. Then, the script
automatically sends a personalized e-mail promotion
your site to all their friends from the visitor.
Now how are you going to get your visitors to enter
the names of their friends and relatives that may have
an interest in your site? Simple… Give them an
incentive. Make them an offer. Tell them WHY they
should refer their friends.
You can’t just expect your visitors to enter
information. Remember they are giving up some of their
FRE*E time to refer other people to you. You have to
make it worth their while. You have to sell it.
If you want to watch the way I do it, go to:
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Don’t forget, you also have to provide your customers
with practical and useful content. You want
information on your site your visitors truly believe
will benefit their friends.
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neither do you! If you don’t provide good content, in
fact if you provide anything but the best, I don’t
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By doing this you can simply and easily virally grow
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A simple twist to this strategy is you can have a
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tell-a-frien*d contest that was extremely successful.
He increased his traffic by 5-fold in that week. How?
What he did was very simple, stating whoever referred
the most visitors to his site in that week would get a
FRE*E IPOD. Slack, eh?
Let me you another killer viral marketing strategy
that very few people use.
Giving away a FRE*E e-book is a pretty common strategy.
But what I want you to do is to create an e-book for
your AFFILIATES to give away to their lists.
Let’s say you have a 20-page e-book. Instead of asking
your subscribers to pass it along (which is not very
effective) you encourage your visitors to join your
affiliate program. Then you let them customize and
brand the e-book with their own affiliate links for
your products!
Now, they’re motivated to tell everyon*e about you. Now
they’re motivated to pass it along the e-book to every
single soul they know. Why? They are getting something
out of it!
That’s not all. The people who read the e-book might
also become your affiliates, they will go to your
sites, create more customized e-books and they too
will pass those e-books to more people.
Do you understand the power of this? That’s viral
marketing on steroid!
If you’re still a little confused, check out.
http://www.websiteconversionexpert.com/viralpdf.html
And see the various brandable e-books I offer my
affiliates.
And the people who read your e-books are much better
prospects because they’re pre-sold on your materials.
So they’re much more likely to bu*y from you when they
hit your sales page.
So What are you waiting for*?*?? Start cranking your
“viral marketing” machine today. You’ll see that your
traffic and sales will grow steadily with absolutely
no work on your part.
Like the infomercial guru Ron Popiel said, “Just set
it and forget it!”
Sincerely,
Dan Lok
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On The Lighter Side
More Bar Jokes
A man goes into a bar with a giraffe, they both get a
couple of rounds in. When they get up to leave they’re
extremely drunk and the giraffe passes out and falls over.
The man opens the door, about to leave by himself, when the
bartender stops him suddenly and says,
“Hey! You can’t leave that lyin’ there!”
The man turns around and slurs, “Don’t be silly, that’s
not a lion, that’s a giraffe!”
A piece of rope walks into a bar and the bartender
says,
“we don’t serve your kind.”
The rope goes outside, ties himself in a knot and frays one
end of himself. He walks back into the bar and the bartender
says,
“Weren’t you the piece of rope that was just in here?”
The rope replies, “No, I’m a frayed knot.”
A neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer. The
bartender sets the beer down and says,
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A woman goes into a bar and asks for a “double
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Thanks for your time
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