Table Of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1:
Be A “Bum”
Chapter 2:
Blog and Ping
Chapter 3:
E-Mailing
Chapter 4:
Utilize Squidoo and Hubpages
Chapter 5:
Utilize Social Media
Chapter 6:
Forums And Social Sites
Chapter 7:
Exchange Traffic
Foreword
Since I’ve been a successful affiliate marketer and have trained
many affiliates on how to be more successful, I thought it could be
helpful to provide some info about what I see that is needed for the
mindset of a super affiliate.
If you've played around with affiliate marketing but aren’t making a
bundle yet, then you might find that some of the things I mention in
this book are issues you need to resolve right away so you can get
there with less effort.
Super Affiliate Marketing Methods Exposed
How super affiliates make the most money with only 11% effort.
Chapter 1:
Be A “Bum”
Unless you’ve been hiding out under a rock for the last several
years, BUM marketing is the number one pick for a lot of
beginner and advanced affiliate marketers.
How To Be A “Bum”
Basically, the BUM marketing technique is about authoring articles
on your niche topic and posting them to article directories. These
articles get scooped up by the major search engines like Google high
in the search results related to your keyword choice.
The mystery to BUM marketing dwells in the keywords. Essentially,
you need to discover keywords or keyword phrases that a high
number of individuals are seeking on search engines which have
modest competition or a low number of pages in the search results.
Beneficial keyword phrases are ones that have approximately a
hundred searches monthly but less than 100,000 pages in the search
results on the search engines.
This is how a good BUM marketing affiliate marketing campaign
would go…..
Let’s suppose you’re into “World of Warcraft” and you would like to
sell a product about it. So you go to Clickbank to get hold of a product
to promote. A “World of Warcraft” guidebook. There are bunches of
these guides so it means individuals are purchasing them. (Naturally,
the niche and product you pick can be anything; I’m just utilizing this
one as an illustration.)
Next you go over to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com and feel
out what individuals are searching for on the search engines about
“World of Warcraft”. Note that “World of Warcraft” is a.k.a. “WOW”so include that in your tests also.A quick look will show that there are over 10000 searches for the
term “World of Warcraft” and I understand without looking that there
are going to be 1000000s of pages in the search results in the search
engines for that term.
So let’s go farther down the list. Remember, I want a keyword string
that bears approximately a hundred searches a month. So I discover
this one: “world of warcraft hacks” which has around 100 searches
per month.
Then go to Google and search for the term “world of warcraft hacks”
to ascertain how many pages turn up in the search results. These
other pages are your competitors so the smaller the better. There are
about 700,000 other pages listed for the term “world of warcraft
hacks”. Not bad.
But try “wow hacks”. Gets about 100 searches a month at the keyword
site. So go to Google again… The results, only about 400,000 pages.
Even better!
So we choose “wow hacks” as our keyword. It has the numbers we're
seeking and the term is absolutely related to what we want to sell, a
“World of Warcraft” guide. Now all you have to do is author material
containing your keywords “wow hacks” in the title and throughout the
body of the content and post them to article directories.
Don’t overuse the keywords (keyword spamming) as this will damage
your search engine rating and might get it rejected by the article sites.
Submit your articles to article directories. Your affiliate link goes in
the resource box at the finish of your article. Add a little bio
aboutyourself or your website and a link to your site. This can be your own
site or your affiliate link.
NOTE: ezinearticles.com doesn’t allow a direct affiliate link, but that
doesn’t matter. Continue reading the next few chapters about
blogging and hub pages etc. to see how to bypass this. Most other
article directories let you place a direct affiliate link in however make
certain to study their terms of service first.
Chapter 2:
Blog and Ping
You gotta love blogs! I’m not going to consume your time
telling you all the dandy things about blogs or why they're
beneficial or why you require one. All you need to recognize is
that you need one if you want to stand any chance ofattaining
income with affiliate marketing.
Blog It Ping It
These days, everybody has a blog. So, if you've been hiding out under
that rock again and don’t have yourself a blog so far, you had better
get going over to wordpress.com or blogger.com and get yourself a
free blog.
But before you thrust up just any old generic blog, consider your
purpose for it. Is it to market you? Is it to market a certain product? Is
it to provide info on one certain niche topic? Is it going to be a news
blog? A review blog? Pick your purpose 1st, then go and produce a
blog. The idea comes 1st, then the blog. The riskiest thing you can do
is hold a non-focused blog and barf up content in between all kinds of
ads and banners and blinking lights. Visitors will be out of there fast.
So, you’ve got your tightly targeted blog……now what? This is where
the merriment starts! Once you've selected your blog’s theme, the 1st
thing you want is beneficial relevant material for your blog.
Remember those articles you composed and submitted to article
directories? Place them on your blog. After that, you likely have a
bunch of PLR articles on your computers also. PLR articles are a
beneficial beginning point as you should re-script them as best you
are able to before posting them. The search engines will reward you
for unique material.
The chief thing is to add beneficial related content. Then you can add
your affiliate links throughout the material. Stick in your affiliate
links by hyper-linking some powerful key words as your anchor text.
As the visitor scans and likes what he/she is reading, they’ll naturallyclick on your links to recommended products/offers, etc.Use some words of your choice that become a clickable link. So rather
than a raw link, words will be clickable. Don't stress too much about
this as with the free Blogger and Wordpress blogs, you can easily stick
in hyperlinks in the material with a few clicks on the mouse with their
rich content editors.
You might also want to add banner ads to your blog. Banner ads are
just hyperlinked images. So when your visitor clicks on the image,
they're sent on automatically to the page that image links to, your
affiliate offer!
The best place to add your banners is higher up. That is, the very top
first part of your blog your visitor will see when they come to your
web site. The top is your “Income space”! More individuals will see
the top fold than any other place on your page.
Update your blog with new content regularly and ping it! In brief,
“pinging” is a way to tell other sites that your blog has been updated
with new material. You should try to update your blog with new
content at least weekly. The search engines love blogs with fresh
material. After you update it, ping it!
You can use free multiple ping services pingoat.com to send pings
Next is to submit your blogs fresh material to content sharing/voting
sites. The biggest one would have to be propeller.com. You can
submit news to but just make sure your material is quality or they
won’t admit it.
A different way to market your blog is to join and take part in
blogging communities like mybloglog.com. Posting beneficial
material on your blog, pinging it and joining blog communities
are
just a few ways to get traffic to your blog.
Chapter 3:
E-Mailing
Ok, utilizing e-mail marketing to market your affiliate links
goes without saying. E-mail goes way back and is still the most
beneficial way to promote any direct marketing offer, even
though it's getting harder to pull off successfully.
Mail It
Before we even look at writing emails, it's super important that you
do something with your “raw” affiliate links. Raw affiliate links look
atrocious in e-mails resulting in poor click-through rates. Long
affiliate links may also be broken up when wrapped in the e-mail
body. And, raw affiliate links can be hijacked to make you lose out on
commissions. You don’t want any of these things moving in the way of
your readers clicking on your link. Considering you don’t have a site
of your own, there are a lot of free online url abbreviating services. A
free, simple and quick one to use is tinyurl.com.
OK, now the 1st thing with authoring promo e-mails is the subject
line. This will make or break your e-mail crusade. The opening move
is to get the reader to open the e-mail, and that’s done with a thrilling
subject line. This is essential to a successful e-mail crusade. If you can
seize your prospect’s attention by the “you-know-what” and get them
to open your e-mail, you’ve got your foot in the door. It has to strike
them like nothing else…virtually. Your subject line has to be better
than the other’s in your prospects inbox for that day.
The most beneficial way it to tell your offer in your subject line the
way it is. Don’t try to pull a fast one on individuals. We aren’t
slow….right? After you have your friendly personal subject line in
place, it’s time to write your e-mail body.
You should utilize the prospects first name in the greeting, and then
begin to introduce your offer. One golden rule of direct marketing is
this. The prospect only thinks “What’s in it for me?” That means you
need to list advantages, benefits, advantages and more benefits inyour e-mail. Also, make certain to utilize the word “you” throughout
your email. Using “I” sparingly gives the reader a sense of personal
touch and humanness to the e-mail instead of sounding like a robot
wrote it.
You should end the e-mail with a firm call to action, i.e. “Go and
download this now and see an increase of ABC
immediately!”, and
add your affiliate link underneath.
Writing compelling e-mail copy is an art. It takes practice and
beneficial e-mail copy will help your affiliate marketing efforts many
times over poor email junky copy.
So where do you get a list of prospects to e-mail? You’ve probably
heard a million-fold “the money is in the list”. It’s true, list owners
can pretty much make income on tap when they mail out an offer to
their list. The lucky thing for you if you don’t have a list of your own,
is that you are able to borrow one!
What I’m discussing here is buying e-mail advertising. You can do a
search for “ezine advertising” in Google and consider a few. With
these services, you can send to a few thousand “make money”
interested readers with your offer. They can be expensive so you had
better establish sure your offer is going to convert and make you
earnings.
The other option is to acquire a list of your own for free. There are a
number of free downline/list building sites out there for “internet
marketers” that are free to join and utilize. You don’t need a site, asyou use their site to build your list.Some are:
YourLuckyList.com
ListBandit.com
ListDotCom.com
You can sign up for these sites free and begin referring other people
to the site with your referral link and they'll go in your downline.
You’ll be able to mail out to these members in your downline but only
in set time periods, e.g. once a week.
Clue: After you sign on for a free account with those sites, you’ll be
faced with a one time offering to upgrade. Upgrading will give you an
INSTANT list of thousands you can mail to with offers more often
than as a free member.
Chapter 4:
Utilize Squidoo and Hubpages
Squidoo and Hubpages are among the sites which helped me in
my early days of affiliate marketing and I still utilize it to this
day. They're among the original “user content generated” sites
that took the net by surprise a couple of years back.
Sites To Utilize
Many sites have followed this pattern but Squidoo is still the leader of
its sort so it’s one you mustn’t leave our of your affiliate marketing
armory.
Essentially, Squidoo lets you produce a webpage called a “lens” where
you are able to author about any topic you like. It’s a perfect place for
website-less affiliate marketers to load up material and exhibit their
offers. Anybody can join and utilize Squidoo for free. Once you've an
account you will be reminded to begin constructing a lens.
As with
constructing a blog, you need to have the theme for your lens
1st. After you get the Theme, you are able to go ahead and pick the
last part of url for your fresh lens. The 1st part will be
http://squidoo.com/ but after that you are able to decide on the
words.
This is a dandy feature because you are able to add your keywords in
the url. This will help your search engine rankings and pull in more
individuals. So take some time when choosing your lens URL as you
can’t change it once it’s complete.
Just like a blog, you would like to begin adding good relevant material
to your lens. With Squidoo, you construct your lens by selecting
modules to be appended. The best one for material is the
“WRITE/TEXT” module. For your affiliate links, you are able to add
them to the “WRITE/TEXT” module utilizing hyperlink code.
Graphics work in the “WRITE/TEXT” module likewise so you are able
to link to the images too.You decidedly want to add a “links list” module too where you are
able to add your affiliate links easily and fast. There are a gang of
modules to pick from but don’t go too overboard or your visitors will
be distracted.
A Squidoo lens isn't unlike a blog. You should update it on a steady
basis with new material. You can ping it after you update it (see the
RSS feed in the sidebar). And like a blog or your own site, you are able
to link from your ezine articles to your Squidoo lens.
Hubpages is very much like Squidoo. The SEs love it. It’s free to join
and make as many pages as you wish. The key to getting high SE
ranking with Hubpages is in the tags. When you make your hub page,
you are able to pick out your tags (related keywords). These get
picked up by the SEs so don’t miss them.
Add beneficial material on a steady basis, your affiliate links and
affiliate banners and so forth. And ping it! Yes, you’ll be doing a lot of
pinging so remember the multi-ping sites I
mentioned earlier.
Chapter 5:
Utilize Social Media
Video is raging! Youtube.com, the 2nd most visited site inthe
world. I don’t need to go on any further about video, just that
you must be uploading videos to lever some of this traffic!
Video Rules
Youtube.com is the number 1, but others include Google Video and
Daily Motion.
Before you skip over this section considering “I can’t make videos”,
guess again. It’s not as difficult as it seems. Begin with an idea
(even common ideas are often the best) and you’ll be making short
promotional videos you are able to upload very fast. Just
remember, you don’t need to be Spielberg.
There a couple of tools that makes video creation simple. The very
minimum/main tool you’ll need is a video editing/making
software. Windows XP comes with Windows Movie Maker. This is a
fine start but there's a plethora of movie making software out there
free of charge and for purchase. Most paid ones have a free trial so
try a few till you like one.
There are additional tools you’ll need depending upon the forms of
video you want to make. Here are a few thoughts of types of videos
you are able to make and the other tools you’ll need.
Web camera – You can simply talk straight to the camera.
Give a testimony, share a success story, and provide a review
about the product/service you want to market. Tools needed:
Web camera and mic.
Screen capture – You can utilize screen capture software and
give a walk through of the site you’re promoting. You can
show how to use software or a particular feature. Tools
needed: Screen capture software and mic.
Handy cam – Get your acquaintance or a camera stand to
film you as you do something silly (just a thought). Or go
outdoors where there’s a nice background and give your little
line of gab about the product you’re presenting. Tools
needed: Cam Recorder
Powerpoint – manufacture a bunch of screen shots with the
main points of your message and run them through Power
Point. You can add your own commentary over the top or
merely have music. Tools needed: Microsoft Powerpoint (free
trial download) and mic (optional).
Photo slideshow – Like a Powerpoint clip but much simpler.
Maybe the simplest technique of all. You don’t need to speak
if you don’t prefer to, you just upload a bunch of graphics and
music, press “make” and out comes a slideshow. Again there’s
a bunch of slideshow software available free of charge, but
you want one that lets you produce a movie file you can later
upload to the video sharing sites.
So you’re all revved up about constructing your videos, but how is it
going to get you traffic to your affiliate links? Here are a few points
of advice. 1st, when you create a video, you want your URL to
appear on the screen (if it's allowed at the sharing site).
1. You are able to do this by adding a watermark that’s constantly
displayed. Most good software lets you add this.
2. Have an introduction and outro shot of just text showing your
site URL/affiliate link with a subtle call to action.
3. Stick up a piece of card, paper or whiteboard, anything that you
have written your URL on. This is the inexpensive foul way to do it,
but it still works.
4. Say the name of your site or affiliate link in the video.
Next, when you upload your videos to Youtube
https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?
bta=522828&brand=fiverrlearn
https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=522828&brand=fb
and such, and when
typing the description, you want to type your URL (affiliate link) at
https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=522828&brand=fiverraffiliates
the outset of your description starting with the http:// This will
then become a clickable link (except in Google Video). Viewers will
see it and if they prefer to find out more, they’ll click and voila!
They’re considering your affiliate offer!
The hardest part earnestly is to come up with themes. The making
part is truly fun. Basic themes work well but if you are able to
produce something strange and cool, create a controversy, and then
your video will go mega viral, sending traffic through the roof.
Chapter 6:
Forums And Social Sites
Forum marketing is a golden oldie but still a goody. Online
forums are a place where you can encounter others with
similar interests and share your expertness on the subject.
Constructing trust and gaining social rank helpsindividuals
will trust you and your testimonials.
Be Social
Nearly every niche you are able to remember has an online forum full
of individuals with the same interest. If there's a niche without an
online forum, jump on it! You could be the 1st one on it and take all
the glory (and bucks). All jokes apart, forum marketing takes
diplomacy. You can’t just jump on any forum and shriek “BUY MY
EBOOK” or you’ll have a very curt stay there. Forums are satiated
with truehearted members who know when spammers have hit the
place.
Best thing is to begin as a regular person/member and begin meeting
other members and add valuable info to threads. Forums let you have
an individualized signature. This is a small section of webpage that
will come out at the bottom of every post you make. In your signature
you may have a message with your affiliate links and or banners with
it. This is a process to advertise your affiliate recommendations
without really screaming and giving the “hard sell”.
Frequently a forum will be run on PHPBB forum software. To add
your signature in phpBB code, you'll need to utilize this rather than
HTML.
[url=http://someaffiliatelink.com?=IDsomenumbers123]YOUR
m/images/banner.jpg][/url]
A few popular forums for net marketers are warriorforum.com and
forums.digitalpoint.com. Warrior forum doesn’t allow for a direct
affiliate link, but hey, why not direct them to your article or blog or
Squidoo lens? For net forums in other niches, just search for your
topic and find one that attracts you. Like I said, there's likely to be a
forum on every niche out there and if not, why not be the 1st one to
begin one!
Social Networking sites like myspace and facebook are capital for
marketers in other niches besides the “make money online” group.
Treat them the same as you would a forum. The thing I like best about
social media sites is that I may show my personality more through
images, videos and my profile etcetera. I may likewise pick my friends
and make/join groups. That way everybody gets connected a bit
closer.
Want to begin your own social network group free of charge? Check
out ning.com. It’s free to join and use for as long as you like. It lets
you the user begin your own social group on the matter of your
choice. You can change the headers graphics and plug and play
to
build it to suit your application. Ning is decidedly one to bookmark!
The most crucial part about utilizing (or running) forums/social sites
is to remain active. Naturally you also need to be helpful to show your
expertness and be friendly too. Individuals will then know you are the
real deal when you are a frequent contributor and prefer to know
more about you and go snooping around your sites/blogs/affiliate
links.
Chapter 7:
Exchange Traffic
The lucky last way I’ll share with you today is traffic
exchanges. Once again, a golden oldie but still simple anda
good free way to promote your affiliate links none theless.
Trade It
Traffic exchanges are an easy concept of “I’ll view your site if you view
mine.” It works on a credit system. The more sites you “surf”, the
more credits you gain. The more credits you gain, the more times
your site will be revealed to other people who are surfing.
Traditionally, traffic exchanges are aimed at the “make income” type
of crowd. If you Attempt to promote anything else, although you’ll get
hits, you might be very frustrated that no-one buys your stuff. The
most beneficial types of offers to market in traffic exchanges are ones
that attract the “traffic exchange” crowd. They’re all about gratis, easy
traffic. They like simple things. Easy money, simple traffic, simple
life ;) You’ll have much more success marketing something that's
simple and catchy instead of an e-book store or some vitamin pills.
It’s simple to get rolling. You sign up for a gratis account, add your
sites urls (affiliate links) and banners and then you go “browsing”.
The site browsing system works on a timer. Commonly about 20-30
seconds. So you sit there and click through sites waiting for the timer
to go down and you gain credits. It can be humdrum and your
clicking
finger can get painful so consider other ways to earn credits.
Browsing isn't the sole way to gain credits. Many traffic exchanges
likewise have a mailing feature. Advertisers pay to send promotional
e-mails to the traffic exchange members and members can gain
credits when they open the email and click the link within. You are
able to also gain credits by referring other people to the traffic
exchange. When they sign up and begin browsing, some of the credits
they earn go to you. Likewise, if they upgrade or make a purchase,
you get a commission, so it’s a great deal! The other way to gain
credits is to become an upgraded member. Upgraded accounts
likewise add new members to your downline automatically. When
your downline members browse for credits, some of them go to you.
And when they make a purchase, you get paid a commission!
Aside from browsing and opening emails, some traffic exchanges have
a site banner exchange system you are able to utilize. You merely add
some code to YOUR site/blog which will display a banner ad. For
every time YOUR site/blog is viewed and the banner displayed, you
get credit for YOUR banner to be displayed on another person’s
site/blog who's added the code to THEIR site. It’s cool because your
site can gain credits while you're away from the main traffic exchange
site.
Traffic exchange traffic can be utilized really effectively, if you know
how to do it correctly. They’re great for instantaneous traffic when
you need it, but remember to pick an offer the traffic exchange crowd
will enjoy.
Wrapping Up
There you have it. The best ways to make the most money with only
11% effort. I know I shared a lot of info and some of it might have
gone over your head, but save this book in a safe place and refer to it
as often as you need.
Attempt as much as you are able to carry out the ideas and tips in this
book and you’ll have no excuse for not seeing good results with your
affiliate marketing for a long time to come and becoming a super
affiliate.