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2 Marketing Strategies to Make Money Online With Affiliate Programs!
by Adam Beazley
The first strategy to make money online is building a list.
This strategy is the most important step to continue to make money long
term. If you do not already have some type of autoresponder system you need
to get one. Don't be cheap here either because your entire business will
hinge on this one piece of software.
You can build your list many different ways. You can buyl eads from
reputable list building companies and get them into your autoresponder. Most
good list building companies will have an option to send an email to your
autoresponder so you don't have to manually input the lead's information.
Another effective way of building your list is from the traffic that
visits your website. This step, which is probably the most effective, does
require you to have a website in order to implement an opt-in list form. Of
course if your Affiliate program does offer a list management service then
you can send traffic to the affiliate URL, but I don't recommend it as you
will usually not be able to email the entire list with special offers.
To make the most of your opt-in form and get the most signups, you should
place it in your sales page text. It should be strategically located in the
sales text after you present a problem. The title of your autoresponder
email series should address the problem by offering a solution. In the
example below we will assume that I am selling a hosting package and I want
opt-in subscribers to my email course for back-end sales.
Example: You can use the pre-built websites or build your own. Many
people think that building a website is hard, but I can show you how easy it
really is. Take my 10 day email course "Build a Website with Ease" [signup
form here].
The second strategy to make money online is driving traffic to your
website.
When I say traffic, I don't just mean any old traffic, I mean targeted
traffic, people who are motivated and ready to buy can and will make you
money. You can use programs and techniques such as Google Adwords, blogging,
article writing and linking to drive targeted traffic to your website.
Google Adwords is a resource offered by Google in which you can pay for your
site to be show when certain keywords are queried in their search engine.
The secret to using Adwords is not to bid high on popular keywords.
Instead, what you do is find similar keywords that still describe your
website, but are used much less frequent. These keywords will cost much less
to bid on and will allow you to spread your money out over many different
keywords, getting the most bang for your buck. You can use this handy little
tool to find similar keywords:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Blogging is another great way to drive targeted traffic to your website.
To get the most out of this technique the blog should be hosted on the same
website as the sales page witch links to your affiliate program. Once its
setup all you have to do is fill your blog with good quality content.
I recommend writing your own content which specifically relates to your
affiliate program and or products. Once you have some content you will need
to submit your RSS feed to the as many blog search engines as you can. This
will put your blog out there for other webmasters to use as content feeds on
their websites.
This win-win situation allows webmasters to have quality content on their
website, which increases the value of that website while driving targeted
traffic directly to you.
This is done by the URL link that you conveniently placed under your name
after the blog was written. That means that your link is on a blog feed that
is on thousands of websites. Not only do people click those links but Google
sees these links pointing back to you and thinks that you're popular and you
are rewarded with a higher page rank.
Article writing is basically the same as blogging except the information
in an article will need to have more useful content and be peppered with
keywords that the webmasters are looking for. After completing your article
you will submit (syndicate) it to content sites as opposed to blog search
engines.
Content sites are places where webmasters go to find specific content to
offer their readers. If you are a good writer you may at some point build up
a name for yourself and finagle a deal with a webmaster to write exclusives
for his site. His readers get great exclusive content and you get highly
motivated targeted traffic.
Linking is perhaps the most widely used form of increasing traffic and
page rank. However, if done incorrectly you could end up hurting your Google
page rank and ultimately losing potential buyers. You will need your own
website for this technique as you will need a 'links' page to place your
reciprocal links on.
Many people go and submit their URL links to link farms in an attempt to
trick Google into giving them a better page rank. This does NOT work; in
fact Google has been known to penalize websites for engaging in these
activities.
The secret to linking is to find websites in your niche market which have
a Google page rank of 4 or above and enticing the webmaster to list your
link on their website. You may think that you would be helping your
competition, well you would be. But your competition would be helping you as
well. It's better to send leaving traffic to a partner than just having them
close their browser window, and remember that works both ways.
The strategies listed in this article do work and they will increase you
sales and residuals it done correctly. Reciprocal linking, Blogging and
Article writing are great ways to bring massive amounts of high quality
targeted traffic to your website. Those strategies combined with an
effective sales page with an integrated opt-in email list can make your
business soar to new heights. You can and will make money with this system,
Guaranteed!
About the Author
Adam Beazley is an online business owner who has made a living providing,
strategies and techniques to other online marketers.
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