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Roger Hall
www.BetterClix.com
Roger@betterclix.com
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This is NOT a free eBook
If you are interested in making money with this book, contact; Roger@BetterClix.com for
affiliate details
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Introduction
You don't want to waste time and money promoting Clickbank products that no one will
buy. This report contains tons of useful tips and tricks to help you save time, money and
heartache. We've eliminated filler here. And we've ensured that the information provided is
to the point and helpful to you as a ClickBank affiliate.
But let's face facts. Being a Clickbank affiliate isn't an easy thing. There's tons of
competition. What's more, Clickbank themselves can be merciless if you cross them (of if
they even think you've broken any of their rules). They will be judge, jury and executioner.
That's the reason why you need the odds stacked in your favor - if you're going to survive.
With that, let's get started!
CONTENTS
Secret 1. How to Consistently Track Powerful ClickBank Products
Offering You the Best Net Profit
Secret 2. Scouting-out the Best Traffic-building Opportunities
Secret 3. Detouring Web Traffic with your own "Pitch Page"
Secret 4. Quickly, Easily, Automate Your Affiliate Sales
Secret 5. Hush-hush Affiliate Marketing Techniques
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ClickBank Affiliate Secret #1
How to Consistently Track Powerful ClickBank
Products Offering You the Best Net Profit
Before we get started with how to track and monitor Clickbank products that offer you good
profit potential, let's ensure you've got the right, high-power ammunition you need to
convert traffic into high-dollar commissions.
You simply can't make a decent income marketing Clickbank products that just don't cut it.
And here's the thing; there are a very large number of products for sale on Clickbank that
are not worth investing your time and/or money in.
To be successful, you've got to have the necessary tools to help you accomplish your mission
of achieving heavy Clickbank profits.
Even with a killer sales letter, if the customer downloads that product and is unsatisfied after
reading it - as the affiliate, you're the one who's going to be the one hurt the most.
I'm serious.
The publisher isn't hurt much by refunds on digital products. You, as the hard-working
advertiser and affiliate are the one who's going to be out of pocket. Just try asking Google or
Yahoo for your click-costs back!
If you're seeing a large number of refunds hit your Clickbank account, then all of your work
will have been wasted. What's more, you'll be out of pocket for your advertising and
promotional expenses. Not to mention your time. How demoralizing!
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What Constitutes "Power Performance" for a Product?
Everyone defines success differently. You have to look at what your needs and wants are,
against how much time, effort and money you're willing to put into your Clickbank efforts.
You may settle for making $140 a day while others might prefer to shovel-in $400 or more a
day in Clickbank income.
You also have to assess how much traffic you're sending versus what the conversion rate is
for the Clickbank product. If you're sending 5,000 visitors a day to their site and only seeing
4-5 sales, then it's a dud.
In the final analysis, you must seek-out products with a 2% or higher
conversion rate. That means 2 out of every 100 people who land on the sales page, end up
buying the product.
You'll likely have your own rule of thumb for performance. Remember; you must also
calculate-in refund rates. Some sales pages are very good, but the product itself stinks. We
know of one Clickbank product that had one heck of a conversion rate but the refund rate
was almost as high! What good is making 100 sales a day going to do, if you're getting 90
refunds a day too?
You'll know, once you start promoting it, if it's going to hold as a permanent sale - or if it's
tanking when the readers glimpse the actual product.
Why does this happen to many Clickbank affiliates?
Essentially, it's nothing less than shoddy workmanship. Product owners will spend a small
fortune hiring a copywriter for their sales letter, but on the other hand hire someone who
can't put together a sentence to write the actual eBook. They're not saving money - they're
losing money for the long-term and showing disrespect for the customer and also to you as
an affiliate.
How to Pick and Choose Among the ClickBank Marketplace Competitors
When you first enter the Clickbank marketplace, you'll notice it has different categories and
niches you can choose from. I don't care which niche you choose just pick one that has
high potential for traffic. Every category will show you the same run-down of the product.
Let's say you want to promote a product about web 2.0. You can enter into the search box
"web 2.0" and you'll get a page filled with results.
Make sure you sort by High Gravity. Gravity tells you how many unique affiliates are earning
commissions from this vendor in the last eight weeks. It's a weighted sum, not an actual
figure. The results page will look like this:
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The top four products are listed above and in green text, you'll notice that each one has the
same formula. The individual components are described in Clickbank's own words below to
help you evaluate which product is worth your time promoting:
Clickbank's 100,000+ affiliates earn a percentage of every purchase made by every
customer they refer to any Clickbank product. These affiliates generate well over half
of the sales of our top selling products. The Clickbank Marketplace is where affiliates
go to select the products to which they will refer traffic.
Every product listed in the Clickbank Marketplace is associated with a sales
commission rate. Commission percentages range from 1% to 75%. On any one sale
the minimum commission is $0.25 and the maximum is $100.00.
In the Marketplace products are ranked by their "productivity score". To preserve
the integrity of the system we do not publish the formula for the score, or the score
itself, but we can say that it is a function of these four factors:
1. $Earned/Sale: Average net amount earned per affiliate per referred sale. Note
that this is the net earned per actual sale, and so it is impacted by refunds,
chargebacks, and sales taxes. Unfunded sales, such as returned checks, do
not impact this number.
2. Future $: Average total rebill revenue earned by the affiliate due to sales from
a site. Generally this equates to the average sum of all rebills.
3. Total $: The sum of all initial sales and rebills divided by the number of initial
sales. It is the average total $ per sale, including all rebills that may come from
that sale.
4. %Earned/Sale: Average percentage commission earned per affiliate per
referred sale. This number should only vary if the publisher has changed their
payout percentage over time.
5. %Referred: Fraction of publisher's total sales that are referred by affiliates.
6. Gravity: Number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a
paying customer to the publisher's products. This is a weighted sum and not
an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks we add an amount
between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher
the value added.
All factors are combined, and adjusted such that more recent sales activity is given
greater weight.
To improve their Marketplace ranking products must show a history of reliably
converting referred traffic to paying customers over the past 8 weeks. Products that
maintain a higher ranking naturally attract more affiliates, and make more sales
overall.
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The Clickbank website is quite poor when you're trying to select winning
products. The Clickbank website's presentation is not intuitive and is often quite confusing.
For a much better tool, with a much better interface try this;
http://www.cbdeluxe.com
The link above will take you to a killer tool that takes Clickbank data but then presents it in a
much improved manner.
Five Quick and Easy Tips for Finding Clickbank Products That Sell
1. Would you buy it?
Does the copy on the web page make you want to buy the product? If it does then you may
be onto a winner. If the text is tedious and turns you off, it'll do the same for your potential
customers. If so, return to Clickbank and see if there's another similar product but that has
better copy.
2. Gravity
Gravity is the measure that Clickbank use to tell you how popular a product is. The higher
the product, the more it has sold over the last few days.
Pick a product that has a gravity of between 20 and 70. Over 70 and there's a possibility that
the market is saturated so you'll have problems selling it. Under 20 and the product is either
new or doesn't sell well.
3. Can make a profit?
This is important if you are selling via PPC. The general rule of thumb is on average you will
get one sale per 100 clicks. If your clicks are costing you 10c and you earn $10 per sale, you
will only break even if you get that sale. Internet Marketers (IM'ers) typically look for
products that pay over $20
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4. Pick a Product That's Going Up in the Rankings
The Clickbank marketplace doesn't show any sort of history of their products. A product
may have a gravity of 30 and earnings of $30 but you don't know whether the product has
been a best seller and is falling out of favour, or is a new product that's just taking off. CB-
Advantage.com is a website that shows you the history of all products in the Clickbank
marketplace.
5. Find Unique Key Phrases
Go to Google and search for a key phrase related to the product. If you find over 12
sponsored listings all selling the same thing the market may be too saturated, or your key
phrase is too general. Try and become a bit more specific. Say you're selling a sausage
making guide; instead of searching for 'sausage making,' try 'spicy sausage making guide'
Affiliate Commissions
Affiliate commissions range from a few percentage points of the product price, to as high as
75%. Look for products that have a high commission and a high retail price. It's better to get
50% of a $197 product than 75% of one that only costs $49.
You'll discover products available, listed according to their popularity - unless you sort them
out for other factors, including high or low gravity, $ earned/sale, % per sale, or % referred.
You want to watch for products that move up the ranks fast. Remember, they all set out
with no sales, so fast risers mean the product is converting well; not everyone has jumped
aboard just yet. That means if you get in the game early, you can ride it for the most
profitable early stages.
Clickbank Product rankings are updated every 24 hours. So if you're playing to win, you'll
want to beat your competitors to the punch. Monitor the activities of the products on
Clickbank to see how well they're performing. How many affiliates are competing against
you? Remember to ensure the refund rate is staying low.
Analysing an Affiliate's Toolbox
It's the product creator's duty, to a certain degree, to load you up with an arsenal of weapons
you can use to blow the competition out of the water. Here are some which will assist you in
achieving sales;
· Buttons, Banners and Other Graphics
When it comes to applying easy "Plug & Play" affiliate gear, graphics can be one of the best
options you come across. Your affiliate program owner should give you a assortment of
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sizes buttons, banners (both animated and non-animated) and graphics, such as the ebook' s
cover.
· Text Link Ads
You may want to post ads on other websites or in viral articles you're using. Text link ads are
those in which the product owner has seen a good conversion rate for the phrase or
sentence and he's giving it to you already formatted so you can just add your affiliate ID
code. Here's a link where you can get $100 in free text link ads, when you open an account.
It's quick and easy;
· Pay Per Click Ads
Your product owner should provide you with ads that meet the specs of Google AdWords
and other PPC campaign options. Remember, there's more than one pay per click option on
the net, so try the others as well as Google. Why?
Because clicks are often much less on the other services such as Yahoo! and Enhance
Interactive. Here are some links for free clicks when you open an account with these Google
alternatives;
$25 in Yahoo Ad Credits - 'Left-Click' Here
$50 in LookSmart Ad Credits - 'Left-Click' Here
$25 in Enhance Ad Credits - 'Left-Click' Here
$100 in Text Link Ads Credits - 'Left-Click Here'
· Pop Up, Pop-Under and Peel-Away Ads
Many affiliates no longer use these. However, some do - and they can be effective. If you're
an affiliate with your own website, you might wish to consider adding pop-ups and pop-
unders to your pages.
But keep in mind that pop-ups and pop-unders really don't work very well now. They are
blocked by many programs on people's computers. And Google does not approve of their
use. Instead, you should consider `Peel-Away ads, which are approved by both Google and
Yahoo;
http://www.betterclix.com/Google-Allows.htm
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· Rebrandable Reports
Many affiliate marketers today like to distribute freebies to their own list. Let's say you're
promoting an eBook on losing weight. Wouldn't it be nice to get a report re-branded with
your name and website URL on it so that you could fill it with your affiliate ID code and
drive traffic to products you like to promote? One good product is Viral PDF. Here's the
link;
http://www.ViralPDF.com
· Autoresponder Emails
Super affiliates have killer email lists. With a proper list, you need ready-made autoresponder
messages you can use to promote the affiliate product.
Instead of having to write up a series of seven or eight emails, the product creator hands
them over and you. And you just copy and paste them into your autoresponder delivery
system, such as ProSender.com;
http://www.prosender.com
· Product Reviews
A simple product review can be used on your website, in a blog entry, or on other web 2.0
social sites. You can also get others to perform a review for you, and this should be an
important piece of the arsenal the product owner or creator makes available to you.
· Keyword List
When given a comprehensive keyword list, you not only save many hours of research, but
you get to plug it into your PPC system and also develop content for your web 2.0 strategy.
Few product owners openly distribute their keyword list, so if you don't see it on the menu,
be sure to request it. Chances are they won't object to sharing with you.
· Viral Articles
Viral articles are a current craze. Submitting pieces to Ezine Articles, GoArticles, and other
online services can pay off quickly. How?
By obtaining traffic from publishers who need content to publish. What's more, you can
become qualified as an expert author, in the process. This can add to your stature in your
chosen market, and lead to further attention and sales.
When your product owner provides you with viral articles, it mustn't read like a `spammy'
sales letter. It should also provide opportunities for you to add your affiliate ID code.
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Ideally, the owner will have had the articles created with SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
in mind so they're keyword dense at 4 - 6% of the appropriate target market keywords.
If not made readily available, don't demand any of the tools listed above. If you ask nicely,
odds are the product creator will provide you with what you need. After all, they want to see
you succeed as very much like you do.
If the product's converting really well and you want to continue promoting it regardless of
the skimpy affiliate toolbox, then you might consider outsourcing the tasks of creation to
someone else and using the tools you create for your own promotions.
Keeping an Eye on Up-and-Coming Products with Potential
As remarked earlier, you'll need to stay up on what's new items are coming into the
Clickbank market. A good sleuth never follows the herd and popular products. Go off the
beaten path and find your own winners.
When you log into Clickbank, or even better, http://www.cbdeluxe.com
and choose a category, such as, `Money' and `Employment', you'll also be able to select a
sub-category. Under sub-categories, you can choose `New Products' and see what items were
just released in the market for affiliates to start boosting.
These items will probably have a low gravity since they're new. But you can still evaluate
them for success. What is the target audience? What about similar items?
Is the price point good? The sales copy? Do they offer any affiliate tools? Since they're new,
you might be able to convince them to produce tools for you. This might be better than if
you try to ask an established product owner who are not really going to care if they lose
you as an affiliate, as they have plenty of others avilable.
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ClickBank Affiliate Secret #2
Scouting-out the Best
Traffic-building Opportunities
Most Clickbank affiliates lose money and give up. It's true.
And starting out, 9 times out of 10, the affiliate trying to make money pushing product, goes
flat broke before the week is out. Why?
Because they don't know what they're doing. I don't want to see that happen to you.
So, here are a number of no-cost or low-cost ways to pull in profits before you start dabbling
in more high-priced advertising options. That way, you're not going to be too deep in red
ink, right off the bat.
Try to keep any investment in a new product down to $20 - $40 in
advertising, until you start getting sales. That way, you can cut your losses and move on to a
better-converting product if you need to.
If you keep your risks low, you'll see a steady increase in income through the free
opportunities you've got available to you. It's easy to bungle your AdWords campaign or
another paid traffic option. But using a few of the options below, while they take longer and
are generally more labor intensive, getting it wrong won't hurt your pocketbook as badly.
Focus on your chosen advertising method, until you're "comfortable" with it and have
sufficient experience with it. Only then should you consider moving on to the next
technique (...trying to "master" and apply too many techniques at once will only lead to
frustration!).
You may find that one or two advertising methods are enough to supply you with all the
traffic your business needs if not, you can continue mastering and applying the techniques of
your choice one by one until you've reached your desired level of traffic and income.
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1. Ezine Advertising
If you have your own list of opt-in online newsletter (ezine) or mailing list subscribers, you
can write an informative ad or personal endorsement letter for the product or service you're
promoting (whether it be your own product, or an affiliate product), and blast it to your list.
You can double or even triple your results, by sending out your letter several times and using
a different subject line for each mailing. For example, I might send out an ad on Tuesday for
a particular product, and then follow up on Friday with the same ad and a subject line that
simply reads "[FIRSTNAME] did you get this?" Often times, my second and third mailings
outperform the first!
If you don't have your own list of subscribers, you can pay a small fee to advertise in other
people's publications...
Some ezine publishers post limits to the number of lines your solo ad can contain, but nearly
ALL of them will make exceptions for longer ads when you ask. Make sure to also request
first name personalization in the subject line and minimally the beginning of the ad body (ie
Dear [FIRSTNAME]...).
For more information about effective ezine advertising, I recommend you
visit www.DirectoryofEzines.com then scroll down the page, locate the free sign up form for
the Real World Tactics Ezine and subscribe. The free information you receive as a result
mayhelp you immensely.
2. Web-Site Advertising
Clearly, if you have a website related to an affiliate product you're promoting, you can post
an ad for that product in a prominent place on your site. You could write up a full page
product ad or endorsement and link to it from a main page...You could post an attractive
graphic accompanied by a catchy headline...Etc. (Of course, don't forget to customize the ad
with your unique affiliate/referral link!)
You could even create a multipart training course (follow up course), throughout which you
insert tasteful plugs for the affiliate product(s) you're promoting. Rather than sending
prospective customers directly to the affiliate site, you get them on *your* newsletter or
mailing list, and THEN introduce them to the affiliate product. In doing so, you potentially
produce critical repeat product exposure, which can mean a much higher conversion rate for
you!
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I highly recommend the above `two step' advertising approach regardless of
what type of advertising method(s) you use...Whenever possible, FIRST get people on your
list, and *then* promote to them.
3. Forums and Message Boards
An outstanding way to advertise your own website(s), and your top affiliate/referral links is
by participating in online message boards and forums...By both responding to posts, as well
as putting up posts of your own.
Most boards don't allow blatant advertising. However, MOST will allow you to include a few
bylines to promote whatever you wish which can generate a great deal of exposure and click-
throughs for you.
There are two main keys to message board promotion.
Key 1. Participate only in message boards that relate to whatever you wish to promote. For
example, if you're promoting an Internet marketing or online business related product, here
are several such boards that you can get started with right away:
http://www.ablake.net/forum
http://www.howtocorp.com/forum/
http://www.bizweb2000.com/wwwboard/
By posting to any of the boards above and asking people for recommendations on OTHER
popular Internet marketing boards and forums, you're sure to come away with another half
dozen or so boards that you'll want to add to your list. This question could be your first post!
Key 2. As mentioned above, the second key to message board promotion is participating
only in POPULAR boards (in terms of visitors and traffic). The more popular the board,
obviously the more exposure your posts will receive. For the most part, the popularity of a
board is common sense. If posts are up to date and numerous, chances are you've found a
popular board. But you can further determine board popularity (or the popularity of any site
for that matter) by searching it through Alexa.com.
The more time you spend participating in the forums, the more exposure you'll receive.
Certain topics and posts will generate more exposure than others. After a while you'll get a
feel for what topics attract the most attention.
Your signature file can consist of just about anything you wish, as long as you keep it fairly
brief.
Can I encourage you to study the "sig files" of other message board posters to get a feel for
how you can promote YOUR website(s) and affiliate/referral links?
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Remember, your signature file is really a mini advertisement so make it as powerful and
irresistible as you can in order to generate those all-important click-throughs!
4. Email Signature File
In the same way that you can use a signature file to promote your favorite websites and
affiliate products through message boards and forums, you can use similar (or the same) sig.
files in your daily outgoing email messages.
What you want to do is create a signature file in your email client. This should take you just a
couple minutes to set up!
IMPORTANT: In the same window, make sure that you have the "Add signatures to all
outgoing messages" option checked. And further, that you have the "Don't add signatures to
Replies and Forwards" unchecked.
And that's it! The text you added in the Edit Signature box will now be included in all
messages that you send out (unless you choose to delete it).
5. Article Submission
Write and submit short (450-600 word), targeted articles to ezine publishers (ezines related to
the product(s) you're promoting), with a "resource box" (including your website URL or
referral link) attached to the bottom of the article. This is a win-win situation as the ezine
editor receives informative content to send to their subscribers, and you receive exposure in
exchange. One article can go a long way using this technique.
In addition to submitting your articles to ezine publishers, there are a variety
of other resources and directories you can submit to. Perform a quick Google.com search on
the phrase "submit your article" (and similar phrases) for a list of options. Remember, if just
a few website owners post your article (along with your resource box), it can lead to YEARS
of free traffic and click-throughs.
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7. Instant Buzz Toolbar
· Instant Buzz
Install the Instant Buzz Bar
What is Instant Buzz? It's a toolbar that resides at the top of your browser that broadcasts
small, unobtrusive marketing messages to the viewer. This breakthrough new patent-pending
advertising technology will send targeted visitors to your site today. You can sign up for a
free account here. Then every time you surf, you'll be earning credits for free advertising to
the web page of your choosing. Also, for very reasonable cost per view, you can purchase
additional messages in batches of 10,000. Give it a try and test your response.
http://www.InstantBuzz.com
7. Co-registration (Pay-Per-Subscriber) Services
Utilizing co-registration services is truly one of the `ultimate weapons' in online advertising.
Many marketers routinely stress that capturing the contact information of your prospective
customers is your initial primary objective. Additionally, that "the money is the list" (i.e., your
opt-in list of ezine subscribers can benefit you financially).
Co-registration, also known as "pay-per-lead" or "pay-per-subscriber" services offer a
`guaranteed' way to build your opt-in list for a very reasonable fee. Here are a few current
co-registration services:
Search in Google for `co-registration' and you will see a larger number of methods and
resources to help you.
Now, the use of these services will not only enable you to build your op-tin list for future
promotions. You can also send each new signup your autoresponder series (training/follow-
up) course through which you tastefully promote affiliate offers, your own offer(s), your
affiliate program, or any combination of these.
With co-registration services, your advertising dollars can work exponentially. You're killing
quite a few birds with one stone here. You're also building your list, while potentially
advertising affiliate products, your own product(s), your affiliate program, etc.
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To discover more about how to run your own profitable online newsletter,
subscribe to, say, a half-dozen or more online newsletters related to your chosen topic of
business. Then study the publications, paying close attention to how they present their
material and run their ads, and apply what you learn to your own publication.
7. Joint Ventures
This strategy applies best if you have your own existing product(s), or if you're promoting
multi-tier affiliate or MLM programs.
Contact ezine publishers (20 a day is not too many!) and propose a joint venture. If the
proposed joint venture is based on your own product or website, set up an affiliate program
and (preferably) offer the publisher a "higher than normal" commission (over what you offer
your regular affiliates). Provide a readymade sales letter so that the editor can simply plug in
their affiliate link, copy and paste the letter, and broadcast it to their list make it as effortless
as possible for your prospective JV partners.
There are no set rules when it comes to arranging joint ventures. You can get as creative as
you want! The key is putting yourself in the shoes of your prospective joint venture partners
if YOU were them, how would YOU want to be approached, and what benefits or
incentives would convince YOU to participate?
Next to free publicity, joint venturing is widely regarding as the ultimate form of free online
advertising! Joint venturing takes persistence, and a willingness to accept being turned down
numerous times (before hearing your first `yes'), but the potential payoff is well worth the
effort!
Once things are working well as a Clickbank affiliate, consider joining other
programs and even create your own. You may want to make it available to ALL your
customers (and maybe even offer "free affiliate program participation" to anyone who visits
your website) in addition to your JV partners. Carefully study (and participate in) the large
number of other successful affiliate programs. And apply what you learn to your own
program. The experience you'll gain is well worth the effort.
8. Free Ezine Ads
Try a Google.com search for "free ezine ads", "free ad when you subscribe" (and similar
keyword phrases), and compile a list of ezines that offer a free ad in exchange for
subscribing. Submit your free ad to 510 ezines per day. This simple technique, if used
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consistently, can add up to $100's worth of free advertising for you each and every month.
9. Testimonial Submissions
Submit testimonials (with your name and website or affiliate link at the bottom) for products
or services that you've purchased in the past. Preferably products that relate to, or
compliment your own business or offer.
If you haven't purchased many products and therefore can't offer many testimonials,
subscribe to free ezines and offer testimonials for the ezines that you enjoy! With over
300,000 ezines online, you could be submitting testimonials endlessly...Try to submit at least
5 testimonials a day.
As the profits from your online business begin to come in, REINVEST them
in more advertising! Repeat this critical cycle (profit, reinvest 100% , profit, reinvest 100%...)
until your income has reached the level you desire. At that point you can begin dividing up
your profit into two categories: income & expenses (with your advertising budget accounting
for the majority of your expenses).
10. How NOT To Advertise Online!
Many people new to online business are afraid to spend money on advertising. They fear that
their advertising dollars will go to waste, which of course is perfectly natural.
...So many begin looking for free "miracle cure" (too good to be true) advertising strategies
and resources right off the bat.
And that's where the problem begins.
If you've been searching for ways to advertise your site online, you've most likely been
tempted by these types of advertising offers:
- FFA (Free For All Link sites)
- Ad Blasters
- Traffic Exchanges
- Online Classified Ad Placement
- Safelists
- "Guaranteed Traffic" programs
- Downline Builders
With 7 years experience to back it up, that 99.9% of the resources that fall into one or more
of the categories above DO NOT WORK. They are a waste of time, and TIME is your most
precious resource!
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Further, the scarce few that DO work require traffic from outside sources (it's a Catch 22,
where you NEED traffic to product more traffic).
If you're using the methods above to promote your own site, an affiliate site, an MLM
program, or some other type of online business opportunity, I can virtually guarantee that
you're not at all satisfied with your results. In fact, you're probably frustrated and
discouraged!
You've fallen into what I call the "Free Advertising Trap!"
But don't worry, by using the Advertising Methods listed above, not only will you likely
avoid this common pitfall. You'll also be a big step ahead of your competitors, and well on
your way to achieving the business and financial goals.
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ClickBank Affiliate Secret #3
Detouring Your Traffic with
A Pitch Page All Your Own
When you're doing all of the backbreaking work to send traffic to a publisher's site, you
should get more than an even 50/50 profit-sharing deal. A good marketer recognizes that
the real money comes from your email list.
But traditionally, affiliates were taught to just create an affiliate link ( in Clickbank, it's called
a hoplink), direct traffic to the sales letter, and be grateful you were getting a humongous
50% of the sale. Now we all know the reality affiliates have the upper hand in commanding
what they want in a promotion deal.
Super affiliates the guys making $100,000 or more each year, doing nothing more than
traffic generation won't work for a low 50% pittance some product owners like to
promote.
They require something more significant, so if they find a product worth marketing, they
detour the traffic away from the regular sales page, and drip them right into their own profit
funnel on a pitch page designed to capture the contact information and win over the
prospect by pre-selling them, with a convincing message.
Three Good Reasons You Need a Separate Landing Page (Pre-Sell Page)
Pitch pages can be used in at least two ways.
The first reason you need a separate landing page is so you can capture the customer's
contact information to help build your list for backend future sales. And you can do this
both before and after someone pays for the product.
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The second is because it's necessary to actually get the sale. Some marketers bypass the
product owner's site completely if the sales copy is atrocious, but the product is actually
quite good. Many ebooks are fantastic but the landing page couldn't convert even a single
visitor. Why?
Because sales copy and eBook writing are altogether different things.
The difference being the price of a page for an ebook is around $15-$20 and good sales copy
can run $600 or more per page.
A publisher might employ a master ghost-writer to write an ebook, then register a web
domain. All good. But then, they try to write their own sales page copy because it's too costly
to have it written by a professional.
As an affiliate marketer promoting information products through Clickbank, there's no
doubt you're going to encounter this. It's inevitable. But there's an easy solution that puts
more of the sales process under your control.
You can create a separate landing page yourself, send your traffic to your own pitch page,
and then use your order button to send the purchaser directly to the Clickbank order form
using your (cloaked) hoplink URL, so that the prospect never gets exposed to the unworthy
copy.
There's a very important third incentive to have a separate landing page from
the publisher. Many pay per click companies won't allow affiliate links. If several competitors
are working the same product, then Google will only show one ad per URL, so you might
get far less ad coverage than if you had your own landing page. With a different web address,
you won't have that problem.
Got it? Good. Let's move on to some additional cloak and dagger techniques to help you sell
more on Clickbank.
Capturing Data During a Pre-Sell
It often takes someone up to seven sales page encounters before they buy the product you
are promoting. As an affiliate, you might miss out on many sales because another affiliate
swoops in and replaces your cookie with their own. Then, you lose out on your rightful
commission even though you're the one that introduced them to the idea originally.
But if you're able to capture their email address and name the first time they visit your
website while they're still "above the fold," of your page, then you'll be able to continue
winning them over to buy this particular product. As well as other products you're
promoting.
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You can use your pitch page to build a list two ways placing a subscriber box right on your
sales page, or using pop-up ads. I prefer the former, because so many people click right out
of a pop-up ad without reading it.
A subscriber box, however, doesn't interrupt their reading flow and still comes out at them
because it's strategically associated with an irresistible offer. Either way, you choose which
way to go.
Ensure they opt into your subscriber box - if nothing else and the subscriber box should
always open any new page in a fresh window. That way, they're still left on your original
pitch page to close the transaction later on.
What do you offer to convince someone into giving you, a stranger, his or her personal email
address and first name? It has to have certain measures almost any `net surfer' is drawn to:
value in both content and price.
The best thing to do is develop a free report that's complementary to the product you're
offering. For example, if you're touting an eBook on recipes, then a report on wine might be
appropriate. With the report you're reading now, I often give away another report on how to
win at Google AdWords, which is closely associated with winning in affiliate sales.
Or, you might come up with a monthly `healthy recipe' newsletter. Always ensure it's packed
with great tips and information.
You see, when they download your complimentary report and digest it; they're going to base
their next buying decisions on what they've read from you. Never put out, or promote an
inferior product. Your reputation will suffer if you do and people won't consider buying
from you again.
If you don't tout enough benefits and promise not to sell their name and email address, then
you won't convince the visitor that it's worth opting into your list, and they'll leave before
they even reach the publisher's pitch page.
Was your report truly worth giving up their contact information for? If you hand them fluff
and filler and no substance, they'll unsubscribe faster than you can imagine. And they'll never
buy anything from you in the future.
Your freebie doesn't have to be a full size eBook. It can be as simple as writing a killer 7-
page report. Or, perhaps giving them a free software tool they can use to develop their own
internet pages.
Creating a `Closer' Pitch Page
Before you sign on to promote a product, it pays to request an evaluation or "review" copy.
If the sales letter is horrendous, then the eBook better not be equally bad. Because, short of
rewriting it and launching your own info product, there's no quick cure for that.
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If your review of the ebook goes OK, and you just need to resuscitate the sales letter, then
you can either empower a copywriter, or do it yourself. If you have the funds, try to hire
someone who has proven they can produce winning sales copy.
You need a conversion rate over 2%. Meaning that out of every 100 visitors
you send, at least 2 convert into a sale. That's the lowest you want to go as it's hard to
survive on less.
Sales copy can convert like mad. Always split test every element; headlines, testimonials, and
other copy. Google's website optimizer tool is free and really gives you a powerful advantage
over other competing affiliates.
As an affiliate, you have no control over the price or guarantee because the product owner
sets the pricing. And Clickbank makes the rules for the guarantee. What's more, you've got
to be watchful of pricing because the owner might raise or lower the price regularly. And
your sales copy has to match, when the prospect hits the order button.
If you perform a complete rewrite of the sales page, and you're doing it yourself, you must
feel confident writing sales copy. Go back through the eBook from start to finish
and tout all the benefits of the product. Write it in your own 'voice', as It's better to write it
from scratch than it is to try to doctor up a hopeless sales page.
Consider this; some affiliates contact the site owner and offer to let them use the new sales
text.
It can be a good idea, because then your cookies will be stored if the visitor happens to clicks
out of the page, but later desires the product, remembers the product name and enters it in
their browser (which means they won't land on your revised sales page).
If you do let the product owner use it, other affiliates as well as the product owner will enjoy
the increased conversions that you worked very hard to create. Think hard before you do
that. It could pay off in a future relationship, but remember other affiliates aren't likely to be
interested in working together with you in the future towards mutual benefit. It's a cutthroat
world out there. And typically, other affiliates aren't interested in long-term relationships
with other affiliates.
Applying Pressure with a Pre-Sell Pitch Page
If you're lucky enough to find a Clickbank product that's solid in value and also brags a
strong sales letter, then you've struck gold. Now all you need to do is produce a landing page
where you squeeze the contact information out of the prospect and send them merrily on
their way for the sale.
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Most pre-sell pages are nothing more than reviews. But if you write a glowing review that
don't even bother to cloak your links, the prospect's likely to feel you're not being genuine
(even if you truly are)!
To be convincing about a product, your best bet is honesty. There's probably something you
really don't like about the product - or the topic or even the industry in general. You want to
start by empathizing with their reluctance and scepticism. For example, you might discuss
that you've always been disappointed with SEO ebooks because:
1.) They didn't give enough detail...
2.) The tips are outdated...
3.) They didn't work...
Understand that there's a formula involved.
And remember your pre-sell pitch page also needs a subscriber box or opt in form of some
kind so that you can market to the consumer for the long-term.
Give them, "reasons why" and get them nodding their head in agreement with what you're
saying. Then, start changing your tone a little.
For example, you might say "initially, this subject didn't strike me as particularly worthy of
my attention. But then someone sent me a link to ABC Guide. I almost hit the `Delete'
button, but something made me read it..."
I think you're getting the idea.
Go on to explain why you started reading the product and how it shattered all your previous
doubts about search engine optimization. As you stretch the review out, make sure you go
into specifics about how the product has helped you with whatever solution it provides, such
as:
1.) I shot to the top of the Yahoo! and Google Search pages
2.) My site got 7,000 hits from visitors in four days...
3.) My PageRank went from 0 to 5 in 30 days...
Your prospects want cold, hard facts from an independent source.
Although you're an affiliate, you've got to make them forget that especially as many of
them are likely to be savvy marketers themselves. You still want to act as if the product
didn't fully satisfy you it should not be a 5-star review. But that's where your opt-in offer
comes in handy. The diet eBook was great, but didn't address exercise at all? Lucky for them
your bonus report or freebie covers everything they need to know about the fitness part of
weight loss.
You really don't need to hard sell them on the pitch page unless you're bypassing the
product owner's page completely. Your pre-sell page should have a headline, a few
subheadings, story angles and images of the ebook. And of your bonus, too. Make sure you
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provide your contact details, so they reach you (instead of someone else) if they should have
any questions.
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ClickBank Affiliate Secret #4
Quickly, Easily,
Automate Your Affiliate Sales
One of the main reasons you want to start acting as an affiliate is so that you don't have to
do as much work as you'd have if you were a product creator.
Once you have steady profits going into your bank account from your affiliate campaigns,
you'll want to try some of the following, and automate your sales and commission processes
to boost your income.
Method 1: Become a product creator or owner. Then use your affiliate products as a
backend supply.
Consider hiring a ghost-writer, for example from www.elance.com .
Or, if you have the time to do the work yourself, you can boost your affiliate campaigns
using this cloak-and-dagger tactic. Here's what to do;
Step A: Have someone create an ebook for you to sell on Clickbank (or produce it yourself).
You want a product of about 40-50 pages in length and somewhat related to other products
you push as an affiliate. For example, if diet products are what you're promoting, then make
something in line with food or exercise.
Step B: Add links to your affiliate publisher page.
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You don't have to put these people into your opt-in list because you can do that at the time
of purchase. As an alternative, cut the number of steps they have to take to purchase, and
link them right to the publisher's page. Ensure you cloak your links! Instead of them seeing a
hoplink code, you'll want to use a short redirect script, to read;
www.[yourdomain].com/[affiliateproductname
If you fail to cloak your links, don't be surprised when your affiliate
commissions are hijacked.
Step C: Launch your product on Clickbank.
When you set up your own product on Clickbank, you're going to be eligible for hundreds or
thousands of affiliates to start promoting your own products for you. In the process, they'll
be promoting your very own affiliate links, too.
When you put these affiliate methods on autopilot, you'll start to see more money being
generated by less work. You want to repeat the procedures throughout this guide so that you
dominate the whole niche, before advancing to eradicate the competition in another niche.
Thereby bringing yourself up to a Super-Affiliate position.
Method 2: Outsource viral product production.
Instead of making your own products, consider hiring a ghost-writer or web designer to
make the viral products you intend to use. For example, you can hire a ghost-writer at
Elance.com to write a number of 5-page reports.
And it won't cost you over $300. You can get a decent writer for around $10 per page. Take
a close look at their prior work, to ensure they create a valuable report. Then enter your links
to your landing page. You can get, say, four different reports for four products and cross-
promote them as you're building your email list.
For example, say you want to promote Internet marketing products, you might have a ghost-
writer create reports on:
· Product Creation
· Sales Copy Tips
· Traffic Generation
· Affiliate Marketing
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By using ideas like these, you can increase your potential to send your reports viral.
For example, let's say you're promoting a product called Cats, Cat Care & Cat Training on
Clickbank. You might offer a free report on kitten care that leads them to opt in with you.
Once they buy that product, or even if they don't, you can use your other 3 reports as a viral
drip to your subscribers (allowing them to pass it along). This shows them value from you,
they'll appreciate being on your list, but it also gives you a number of additional
opportunities to push your other items.
For the affiliate marketing product, you could promote a related Clickbank product. If you
were marketing information products, then you could promote, say, a Push-button Sales
Letter Creation product on Clickbank and also an Information Product Creation Course as
well.
Or, you sell more than one product within your own viral reports. Ensure if you have a
ghost-writer create the viral reports, that you insert the links yourself. You want to avoid
mistakes and ensure that all the traffic you're entitled to, actually does go through to your
own opt-in page.
Method 3: Private Label Rights (PLR) Profits.
Private label rights are things such as articles and short ebooks sold cheap to many buyers.
It's a win-win situation for both the seller and the buyer. The buyer gets cheap information
and the seller is allowed sell the same product time and time again to multiple purchasers.
Ensure when you purchase PLR content, you vary the text somewhat. It's not essential in
many cases. However, you may hurt yourself if you don't. Because if you leave it as-is it may
be viewed as duplicate content by others.
Rather, choose a fresh title, add an introduction and conclusion, then alternate some of the
wording. You can download Word Flood [ www.wordflood.com ] to assist you. It's a
very good tool that keeps track of how much you've changed (aim for 25% as a minimum).
It's also quite a comprehensive Thesaurus. This makes altering the information more
comfortable and faster for you.
Seeking and finding PLR content is quite easy. Both membership sites and non-membership
sites exist. Some sites limit the quantity of items they sell. Some set no limits. You can find
sites that give PLR products in multiple niches. Or, you can explore specialty niche PLR
sites.
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Here's a list of PLR sites where you can find and download content and use it for your own
affiliate promotions;
· www.plrpro.com
· http://www.buy-niche-articles.com· http://www.EasyNicheProduct.com
· http://www.privaterights.com/Articles2
· http://webmasterpackage.info/
· http://www.niche-content-packages.com
· www.PLRMiniMart.com
· http://www.contentattack.com
· http://www.articlelightning.com/
· http://www.petcareplr.com
· www.empireniche.com
As you can see from the sites listed above, some are niche-specific (such as pet care) while
others are broad-based general PLR products. Some, like PLR Mini Mart, have no
membership fee. Others may charge you for monthly access.
If you choose a membership site, ensure they truly deliver content for niches you wish to
target monthly. If you only wish to cater to internet marketers, then a PLR delivery of cat
care articles and ebooks isn't going to give you much of a benefit.
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ClickBank Affiliate Secret #5
Hush-hush Affiliate Marketing Techniques
Pssst. Come closer. And listen hard.
This one tip I'm about to tell you will pay of hundreds and thousands of times over. It's so
simple, yet most Clickbank affiliates never think of using it.
Whenever you make a sale on Clickbank, you will have the buyer's email
address made available to you by Clickbank. Here's how to use that information to your
advantage, without being accused of spamming or sending unwanted email;
1. Once you have their email address, send them a short, simple email thanking them for the
purchase.
2. In the email, also tell them that you have a free and useful bonus for them, and give them
a link to an opt-in page.
3. At the simple opt-in page, they can enter their first name and email address in return for a
high-quality bonus report or "extra chapter." You'll find most buyers will opt-in. Then, you'll
have their email address you can then use to respectfully market to them. This is a killer
strategy and often very effective. And you can't be accused by Clickbank or the buyer of
spamming them.
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Cloaking Your Affiliate Links
Why cloak your affiliate links? If you want to receive every commission dollar you deserve
from your promotions, then you must protect them with an affiliate link-cloaker.
Do you know how easy it is for your prospects to take...
Your Clickbank commissions?
Your earnings from other Affiliate programs?
Your cash from promotions?
Money that's rightfully yours?
Don't think it happens? Think again! Most online stores rely on the seller to protect his
affiliates, and unfortunately most of them don't go to the trouble. How can you tell? If you
arrive on a product sales page after clicking on your affiliate link, and see your Clickbank ID
in the web address, then you are NOT protected!
Most affiliate managers are not even aware of how easy it is to bypass their referring affiliate.
Clickbank is probably one of the largest affiliate managers on the Internet and provides an
excellent service at a reasonable price.
Part of the appeal of Clickbank is that it is so easy to set up an affiliate program and so
simple to become an affiliate. In our opinion, Clickbank is an excellent affiliate solution for
most people and companies. It's so easy to manage affiliate payments.
But....this ease of use does not come without a price. It is easy to change most affiliate links
so that the affiliate who actually does the work to sell the product doesn't get the
commission, but someone else does.
Are you beginning to see why you need to consider protecting your links? Here's how: Say
you hear about a new ebook and click on the link; say it's;
http://hop.clickbank.net/?pwh42/salesguide
You like what the book has to offer and decide to buy it. But why should you pay full price
when you don't have to?
If you are signed up with Clickbank all you have to do is copy the address from your
browser. Paste it into Notepad. Change the Clickbank ID, (in this case pwh42, between the
question mark and the slash), to your own.
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Then copy the new URL. Paste it into your browser and voila; the affiliate loses his
commission again and you get the book for as little as half price.
Believe me, it takes longer to describe than it does to do it.
But isn't that stealing? We're not judges; it is not for us to say.
Some might view it that way. Others feel that they would likely have come across the website
anyway sooner or later and don't see why they should pay double the price when they don't
have to.
The fact is, it is being done, so you need to protect yourself. If you wish to cloak your links, I
suggest you explore this product, which is recommended by a number of professional
internet marketers; http://www.ClickbankGuard.com
Or, search in Google for the term "affiliate link cloaker" and you will see a number of
alternate products. The one above has a low price and is considered very effective.
Instead, you wish to redirect from your own website page to a product sales page, open
Google and search for the term and "redirect script."
The Power of Viral Marketing on the `Net
If you only relied on paid traffic techniques, you'd either go broke or cut into your profits
more than necessary. Even if you stayed in the black while buying traffic, you still know that
the money you put out to bring people in could have stayed in your bank account with the
right techniques.
Viral marketing is the best way to get more out of your advertising. You create a single
promotion and set it loose on the Internet so that it reaches as many eyes as possible.
The best way to make something viral? Make it free.
Viral marketing is when you create something and give it away, also allowing others to give it
away for you so that it spreads across the `net rapidly, always linking people back to your
domains.
Have you ever signed up for free hosting for a website? There's a catch with the free hosting
sites they advertise their hosting packages on your domain. This is one example of viral
marketing.
Every time someone visits your site, they see the ad and people can click on it, giving the
hosting company the opportunity to convert the traffic into a paying customer rather than
another freebie sign-up.
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Let's look at how you, as an affiliate can use the power of viral marketing. If the publisher
has a report in their affiliate toolbox that you can re-brand with your own affiliate ID, then
you can give that away to the prospects on the list you're building, and even allow them to
give it away as long as your links remain intact.
You may not be able to find this kind of item in the toolbox, so you'll need to create your
own. It can be a short 5-page report on a topic that complements the product you're
promoting.
Make sure it's valuable and worthy of passing along. You want the viral component to take
root, which means the person who originally downloaded the free report finds it so
impressive; he must share it with others, and so on.
Always make sure that at the end of the report, you give the reader a call to action reminding
him to pass along the information. You'll make it sound like you're doing him a favor, letting
him tell his own list about the free report.
Not only does this exponentially grow your exposure to people on the `net, but it helps you
develop influence in your niche circles because you're automatically being positioned as an
expert whose ideas are worth noting and sharing.
Assigning Yourself to Multiple Article Missions
Article marketing is one of the most powerful hands an affiliate can play in his strategy for
product promotion. It's free, it gets fantastic traffic results, and you can do it over and over
again, never exhausting your efforts.
Here's a 2-step plan to help you infiltrate the article-marketing scene and generate high levels
of targeted traffic to your landing pages.
Step A: Sign up for a free account at Ezine Articles.
Ezine Articles is one of the top article directories on the `net. To get an account, go to
http://www.ezinearticles.com and fill out the basic contact information to get your free
account.
In the beginning, you may have to wait a few days for the Ezine Articles approval process.
Until you've had 10 articles approved, you have to wait about a week for your articles to
show up.
After you've been approved at least 10 times, you move up to the next level, which means
your articles get faster approval. The good side to this is that publishers feel more confident
using these articles because of the more detailed approval process than some other sites.
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Step B: Submit an article for approval.
You have to go over the rules for Ezine Articles before submitting an article to them. Your
goal is to have as many articles approved as possible as an affiliate so that you're viewed at
the expert level, and have publisher subscribing to your RSS feed for notification every time
a new article is posted by you.
Here's an example (below) of how an author feed looks. Whenever a publisher likes what he
sees in your style and content, he'll click on the feed button and then they can choose how
he wants notification.
Here's how you submit an article for approval:
1st Choose the most targeted category for your article. Instead of just "Internet and
Business Online," choose "Internet and Business Online Social Networking," or whatever
topic your article will be about.
Each of these categories can be expanded.
2nd Give the article a short title (80 characters or less). The more interesting you make
your article, the more likely it'll be picked up by a publisher.
Let's say we choose Social Networking as our example category. Let's look at how a title
comes about. If I go to Clickbank and look up Social Networking, I find two products I can
use to promote in this article software for bookmarking and tagging and an ebook about
Social Networking on Squidoo.
On my landing page, where I'll be sending the traffic, I'll have an opt-in box for my
subscribers to help build my list. For the freebie, I can create a short special report that
combines these two concepts, giving me two products to promote in conjunction.
It can be called, "Tagging and Bookmarking on Squidoo." Now I've brought two products
together. I'll explain what Squidoo is, briefly, since I want them to buy the eBook, and then
I'll explain how tagging works on that particular site.
In the free report, I'll be using my hoplinks to both products, and hopefully the audience will
invest in both the eBook and software, which will give me a combined affiliate commission
of about $60.
Back to my article title. I can call it, "Bookmarking Secrets on Squidoo." The article will be
brief about 400 words. It will only touch on the concepts of how bookmarking is used on
social networking sites, and on Squidoo in particular.
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3rd Enter your keywords using 100 characters or less.
You want to use the best keywords for your article. Here's a list of examples you might use
for the article we're developing as our sample: social networking, squidoo, social
bookmarking, web2.0, tagging, bookmarking, seth godin, myspace, marketing.
You don't want to use spaces between the keywords and phrases. In this
example you would choose some words, such as Seth Godin (founder of Squidoo) and
MySpace (a rival to Squidoo), because someone might be searching for information about
those things and an article about Squidoo could pique their interest.
4th Give an abstract article summary to be used as your teaser copy.
Your article summary will be 2-5 sentences in length. This is your best shot at getting
attention so make it good. It has to be powerful enough to pull someone in, yet accurate in
describing what your article is all about.
For this example, we can use something like this:
"Social networking site like Squidoo can deliver highly targeted traffic to your domain using
tagging and bookmarking secrets to pinpoint your niche needs. With the PageRank carrying
lenses to the top of Google SERPs, marketers are quickly jumping on the web 2.0
bandwagon to immerse themselves in peer-to-peer promotions."
You don't want it to read like an advertisement. Publishers need valuable content, not spam
to give their audience. Your abstract should read like the beginning of an article.
5th Paste your article into the article body section.
Ezine Articles doesn't like the code that Microsoft Word automatically puts into the system,
so make sure you first transfer the content of your article into Notepad and then copy and
paste it into the Ezine Articles article body section.
Their system will tell you what your total word count is when you enter the article. Don't use
links in your main article. Ezine Articles is very strict on linking and you want to save your
links for your bio box so that you don't have link leakage (meaning the reader clicks out
before they get to your resource box).
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6th Create your Bio Box.
The Author Bio Sig Resource Box is THE most important part of your article
submission process! It's where you're allowed to link to other places. The bio box gives you
1101 characters to use. You should write it so that it says something like this:
"[Your Name] has been marketing on social network sites for years, and most recently
became interested in the power of Squidoo. For more information about his/her success
with social networking sites, and to pick up a free copy of Bookmarking Secrets on Squidoo,
visit his/her site at [your landing page URL]."
You can't link directly to the affiliate product, so if you use Ezine Articles in your article
marketing strategy, you MUST have a landing page. You need one, anyway because that's
how you're going to build a list with lifetime value.
7th Complete the Submission Process.
After creating your bio box, agree to the rules, spell check on preview, and then submit your
article for approval. You want to go ahead and submit as many articles as you can each day
because initially, your approval process will take longer. Initially, you're limited to 10
submissions. If the staff sees that your articles are valuable, they'll likely give you an upgrade
to a Basic Plus or Platinum level membership.
You'll get Basic plus if you had to modify your articles. You'll get an additional 25
submissions before getting another review for Platinum status. At Platinum status, which is
what you're shooting for, you'll get unlimited article submission allowances.
Your article will be pending until it's approved, which is when it will show as "live." If
there's a problem with it, it'll be tagged "problem article" until you modify it and resubmit it
for approval.
Ezine Articles says the most common problems are:
· Making your article title in all capital letters
· Including a URL or font tag in your article summary
· Hard-selling too much in the body of your article
· Including hard line breaks
Since you'll ultimately want a Platinum level membership, steer clear of these mistakes. This
way you'll be allowed to promote all of your affiliate products on Ezine Articles.
Another reasonable article directory, that has a more lax list of guidelines, is Go Articles.
They lets you have affiliate links and also lets you insert them into the body of your article,
giving you more chances of selling.
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Like Ezine Articles, Go Articles has a list of categories for you to submit your articles to.
You want your affiliate articles highly targeted to your product promotion. They also have a
system where publishers can subscribe to an RSS feed by topic or by author, so you want to
create value to the publishing community so your affiliate articles are picked up routinely.
Signing up for Go Articles is very easy. Here's the sign- up process:
Here are the guidelines for the submission page:
· Article Title: maximum 150 characters.
· Article: maximum of 15,000 characters or roughly 2,500 words.
· Author Bio: 400 characters or roughly 60 words.
Here's a hint for better conversion into traffic for Go Articles: When you
write an article, they allow you to hyperlink in the body of the article but it won't show up
unless you make it bold.
The color difference for the hyperlink is very faint, so make sure you use the
bold tags so that your hyperlinks are picked up when the publisher grabs your
content.
Another reason Go Articles is good, is because you're not limited in submissions. What's
more, your articles get approved in 3 hours compared to a week with Ezine Articles.
However, because the affiliate links are allowed and the scrutinizing isn't as intense,
publishers know the quality and value may not be in these articles (since many people spam
the directory with ads), so make sure you set yourself apart from those people.
See the Further Reading section at the end of this report for additional article sites.
Utilize all of the article directories to get the most out of your viral marketing campaigns.
Releasing a Viral eBook Into the World Wide Web If viral articles are a powerful concept,
imagine the power an entire eBook can bring to your marketing campaign. You, as an
affiliate, want to get your link in front of as many people as possible.
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Put the Power of Squidoo to Work for You
Listen. I must tell you about a new and exciting method to boost your Google AdWords
campaigns. This secret will add solid income for you. What's more, it requires little work or
effort on your part (we could all use some of that, huh?).
Squidoo [ www.Squidoo.com ] is an internet marketing gem that really hasn't being
utilized to its fullest yet. Especially when it comes to boosting the power of your Google
AdWords campaigns...and that's the killer secret I'm going to reveal to you now.
I'm serious.
Today, there are over 120,000 Squidoo users. And this number will grow vastly in the next
year. Now is the time to jump on the bandwagon, while the site is still up and coming.
But how can you use Squidoo to boost your Google PPC campaigns?
The answer is simple. Studies prove that when a prospect sees both a Google AdWords ad,
AND a natural search result for the same site, they will respond much better than if they
were to see only one or the other. Why?
When a prospect sees your ad, along with a natural search result, it has the effect of giving
you and your site greater authority and impact.
Doesn't that make sense?
But why use Squidoo, rather than simply trying to get your site into a good natural search
position, through SEO (search engine optimization) and so on?
Here's the answer; I've seen marketers successfully create one page sales/review 'lenses' on
Squidoo that drive HUGE amounts of traffic from search engines that quickly ranks highly
for specific keywords on Google. And they don't have to pay for it.
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Here are three good reasons to believe what I say about the advantages of using Squidoo to
boost the effectiveness of your Google AdWords ads;
1. High Google Rankings -
A new Squidoo lens for a specific keyword will often rank in the first one to three pages of
Google. Google really loves Squidoo. And you should take advantage of this today.
2. Faster Indexing -
Your Squidoo lens, with its targeted keywords will be indexed on Google in as little as two to
three days. The time it takes to index your site's Squidoo page will vary. But you will find it
to be much faster than most other SEO avenues.
3. Simplicity -
One of the best parts about using Squidoo is its relative simplicity. Once you've set up your
account, you'll be up and running with a keyword targeted lens in as little as seven minutes.
This is with everything ready to go including R. S. S. feeds, and so on. What's more, you can
make an unlimited number of Squidoo lenses.
Here's what you need to understand about Squidoo;
The reason we're using Squidoo to get a good natural search result, is to boost the
effectiveness of your Google AdWords ads. And this works because you'll have both, a good
natural search result, and a killer Google AdWords ad. In this way, your Google ad will have
greater respect. And your site has more authority in the eyes of your prospect. This greater
effectiveness saves you real money.
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Further Reading and Research;
http://website101.com/Affiliate-Marketing/affiliate-income-clickbank.html
http://www.clickbankguide.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/clickbank-tips/
http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/0134.shtml
http://ezinearticles.com/?Tips-for-Finding-Profitable-Clickbank
Here's a comprehensive list of article directories that you can submit your articles to.
Each has different guidelines, but remember to adhere to the formula of delivering value to
the readers each time.
· http://www.goarticles.com
· http://www.ezinearticles.com/
· http://www.articlecity.com/
· http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
· http://www.amazines.com/
· http://www.articledashboard.com/
· http://www.article-directory.net/
· http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/
· http://www.magportal.com/
· http://www.isnare.com/
· http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/
· http://www.article-hangout.com/
· http://www.webarticles.com/
· http://www.articlecube.com/
· http://articles4content.com/
· http://www.article-buzz.com/
· http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
· http://www.newarticlesonline.com/
· http://www.articletogo.com/
· http://www.articleworld.net/
· http://www.impactarticles.com/
· http://www.articlealley.com/
· http://www.directorygold.com/
· http://dir.salon.com/
· http://www.articlefever.com/
· http://www.content-articles.com/
· http://www.softwaremarketingresource...directory.html
· http://www.niche-article-directory.com/
· http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm
· http://news.collectors.org/
· http://article-niche.com/
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· http://blogtelecast.com
· http://superpublisher.com/
· http://www.articlecentral.com
· http://www.article-directory.net
· http://www.article-emporium.com
· http://www.ebooksnbytes.com
· http://www.ideamarketers.com
· http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com
· http://www.site-reference.com
· http://www.stickysauce.com
· http://searchwarp.com/
· http://www.articleinsider.com/start.php
· http://www.articlesthatsell.com/submityourarticle.htm
· http://www.authorconnection.com/
· http://www.bpubs.com/cgi/add.cgi
· http://businessknowhow.com/newslette...guidelines.htm
· http://www.buzzle.com/secure/become-editor.asp
· http://www.compar.com/infopool/
· http://www.ezinecontent.com/
· http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/
· http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArticlePublisher/
· http://www.knowledgebed.com/
· http://www.learningfolder.com/SubmitArticle.aspx
· http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/index.shtml
· http://www.netterweb.com/artcls/
· http://www.rlrouse.com/submit-article.html
· http://sbinformation.about.com/library/blsubmission.htm
· http://www.simplysearch4it.com/
· http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
· http://www.vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
· http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html
· http://www.writingcareer.com/freearticles-submit.php
· http://www.xongoo.com/submit.html
· http://yagoweb.net/
· http://www.ultimatearticledirectory.com/
· http://www.pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/
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