Beginners Guide to Affiliate Success Are You on Google Page One Yet?

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1 Beginners Guide to Affiliate Success Are You on Google Page One Yet? 10 ways to bring buying traffic for free and how to use simple free videos to bring in floods of visitors Affiliates How to Drive FREE Traffic with SEO and Google, that is simple to do and gets you to page one Affiliate Marketing can be one of the simplest ways of making money online. If you are looking for a business to work from home with little investment to get started, it could be ideal. It is suitable for men and women of all ages, with out the need for a degree or great IT skills, as there is an abundance of easy training available. What is necessary is determination to follow through if you hit a problem along the way. Problems are opportunities to learn something in order to resolve the dilemma. All new projects hit snags. You must also be prepared to commit to regular time slots to grow your business. This isn t a Get Rich Scheme Don t expect too much immediately, if you aim for a hobby business initially you won t be disappointed by small returns in the beginning whilst you are learning the skills needed. Eventually a great income in possible, depending how much time and effort you put in. Later much of the process runs itself. Choosing a Niche To make money as an affiliate you will need to choose a niche, an topic you are passionate about, so that you will enjoy the hours that you will spend in research and promoting it. You will need a website, mailing list and products, more on these later. In time you will probably build many of these Satellite Projects. You need to know if there are enough people sharing your interests in your favourite topics. To test this my looking for magazines with similar interest, or books on Amazon. If there are books and magazines, it is probable people are searching for more information. Evergreen niches are always popular whereas up and coming trends may not last!

2 Make sure the niche you have chosen has potential customers to spend on your products. And that they would be happy to buy online. Students might be hungry buyers but may not have suitable funds! When Choosing your Program and Products.. There are a number of considerations when choosing your products. The % of the commission is obviously important to you, but so is finding a credible company in the niche you have chosen, or maybe a range of products with increasing prices that you can continue to offer your loyal customers over the months ahead. You may choose to look at Commission Junction, Linkshare and Pepperjam to help you in your search. Or you could go to Google and type in your niche followed by affiliate program and see what is offered. You may know the name of an expert in your chosen field for e.g. in Personal Development you could look up: Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra MD, Nightingale-Conant etc. If for instance you promote a program with reoccurring uptake for example a membership site or an auto responder, something billed monthly you would have a small regular payment from all your customers. You may be able to find several items that would appeal to the same group of customers. It is easier to retail happy customers with good service than continually search and convince new ones. It is therefore important to choose quality products and look after your customers. Domain Names You will probably need a domain name for every niche you choose. You can also create sub-domains. If you can find a domain name with a long tailed keyword (a searched for phrase) that fits your niche it will help with your SEO. It should be memorable and if possible.com but many of the best names have been taken already. Content Websites & Blogging Websites There are two types of websites Content websites full of information which is easily reached by a navigation bar, also very popular now Blog websites with regular entries of current bloggs. These show on the front page whilst earlier entries become harder to find. Traffic Paid for PPC and Free or Organic SEO is a term for search engine optimization, a way of gathering free traffic by using keywords which must be very relevant and match the content on your website for the Google searches to be interested.

3 There are other types of traffic, paid and free or organic traffic. Paid for traffic PPC is probably the quickest way to attract interest in your website and therefore sales, but it can be expensive. Organic traffic grows over time and is in fact like referrals in high street sales, people liking what they see and telling their friends. Other websites can also influence and bring visitors to your website. Ways of Attracting Free Traffic A way of attracting visitors to your website is to write articles on subjects related to your niche and submit them to other websites called article directories. A couple of well known directories are Ezine Articles and Go Articles but if you go to Google you will find more than you can possibly use! Some like Ezine like unique content. The directories are also good sources for ideas to write your articles about. Forums Forums are online communities of like minded people interested in a particular topic. They have hopes dreams and questions like yours, find some in your niche and go and meet the people, get to know how the particular forum works before you start posting and then ad a signature to your posts to advertise your website. Make the entries helpful and interesting not just a comment to get your website noted and then people will be intrigues and want to see your website. Also working alone at home can be lonely you may be pleased to make some new contacts with people sharing your interest. You will hopefully make some new loyal customers too! Reviewing Products You should get to know your products really well, and you can promote them by reviewing them. You should be honest about them, everything has a bit of a downside so point out the benefits first and then briefly mention any flaws. This way your followers will begin to trust your recommendations. Signatures & Follow-up s I personally hate piles of s, and I m not alone, so make your worth reading, with an intriguing catch phrase. Make them to the point unless they are stories and not immense ramblings. This may just be my preference but you website and s should all be in your style, so just be your true self and you will attract people who like who you are. Always be fair, honest and care about your followers and sales will take care of themselves. When ever you send out s it is one way to reach people who do not know of your new venture, if you ad a signature profile and website details you might be surprised to find some unexpected interest and you were sending the s anyway!

4 Facebook Twitter etc. These are all sources of new visitors, either from your friends page or my building a fan page, especially for your business. Blogging Sites You can also approach bloggers in your niche and ask them to ad an article to their site. Sometimes they may be looking for good quality free material with a fresh viewpoint. This you can link back to your website. Blog Websites Blog sites are often used my affiliates, they are easy to set up. They are good ways to build relationships with potential customer and visitors and help you build your list because of the daily or weekly bloggs they get to know like and trust you. It is important you are passionate about your niche and knowledgeable or prepared and happy to learn more. To Sum Up & Points to Remember Find a niche you are passionate about and want to learn more. Find and research an affiliate program you feel passionate about. Built your List, with paid / unpaid traffic Gain the trust of your visitors, be fair and honest. Give more value than they expect. Don t waste yours or their time make articles interesting and useful. Don t hard sell. Honour all requests to unsubscribe Find other products, for your happy customers in the same Niche. When one Niche is working well, repeat with another Niche. Grow your business, small seeds develop into strong trees, use this as a model for your business. Best Wishes..

5 10 Tips for Free SEO Traffic SEO or search engine optimization, is a way of preparing your website content to obtain as much free traffic as possible from the search engines as they send crawlers out to inspect websites and their content. Why would you want to get onto Page One? The aim is to get your web pages on Google page one so that people searching will choose your website to view. If you are on page one of Google, the perceived feeling is that you are a reputable website. So having got there you are likely to get even more clicks. 1. Google likes titles to be relevant to the content of the article. The keyword should be at the beginning of the title and on the left hand side. 2. Pages should have relevant information and match to the keyword. 3. Content should be fresh and updated, with regular information added to the website, to encourage the crawlers to keep visiting and the webpage to remain high in the searches. 4. Links to and from high value sites. e.g. Craig s list, Amazon, Article Directories etc. 5. Google loves video, use keywords in video titles and picture tags. 6. Use Google Analytics. 7. Use Google Webmaster Tool and Sitemaps. 8. Use Meta Tags on web pages. 9. Use Meta Titles & Descriptions on all information pages. 10. Know your keywords and use carefully. 2-3 keywords per 100 words in the article. However write the articles to be read by people not specifically for SEO crawlers. They should be full of information interesting and to the point. Not rubbish articles with no useful content. If you have enjoyed this free report please take a look at our website where you will find more articles, tips and business ideas.

6 Learn How Easy It Is To Make Short Free Videos!! Short 30 second videos can be made simply, for free, using a few carefully chosen photos, interspersed with short to the point comments. After a few attempts you will be pleased with the results. Different Kinds and uses of video There are many products on the market to assist video making sound tracts etc. You can make videos to demonstrate workings on your laptop, videos talking into the camera to introduce a subject or technique, videos of people and animals, or places. They can be put on websites, face book, twitter, and other social media sites, you can link to and from them to bring traffic (visitors), to your website. They make your website more interesting and keep visitors on your website longer. Using Animoto.com So now for the easy way of producing videos go to Animoto.com and there you will find you can make 30 second videos for free including a sound track. You will need to play around for a while as there are several options even on the free version. If you find you need to make a longer video you can upgrade to the paid version which is amazingly well priced. So have fun and improve the flow of traffic to your website make it colourful and interesting for your visitors. You will need a few photos on your laptop, to download onto the Animoto site and a few pre-planed sentences re your niche, the rest is pretty much done for you with a few clicks. So have fun and get creative Best wishes Anne