Your keyword choices are critical to your success in nearly any online business model. Whether you’re pursuing PPC, blogging, VRE and AdSense, or any number of Internet marketing opportunities, the keywords you choose can make or break your success. Keywords are important for several reasons. First of all, there’s traffic. If you choose the wrong [...]
While there are many ways to build a business online, building your own eBook empire is one method that creates long-term residual income that’s truly an automated “set and forget” system. Of course eBooks provide many perks up front. You don’t have to stock any inventory. You can keep overhead costs low (no publisher and [...]
Social bookmarking is extremely popular with marketers in every niche. Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati allow users to add links to sites they like and other visitors can grab those links and add it to their own lists, making your URLs go viral. Social bookmarking sites can be great for getting [...]
Most visitors pass through one of two types of links. Text links are when you string together a word, phrase or sentence that’s hyperlinked to another domain. Image ads are things like banners, button, and pictures – graphical images that are hyperlinked with a URL. Both types of links have their benefits and drawbacks. Which [...]
Link cloaking is a very important part of affiliate marketing. In a nutshell, link cloaking is a way to protect your affiliate commissions from being stolen. It’s not totally foolproof. Smart individuals who are well-educated about the matter can still figure out how to keep you from getting your commission. Most people won’t go that [...]
Making affiliate links is very easy. First, you want to go to the site and register for a free affiliate (or associate) ID. On ClickBank, they call it a nickname. On Amazon, it’s an associate ID, and on PayDotCom, it’s your affiliate member username. On ClickBank.com, you’ll go to the marketplace, which is the link [...]
Whether you’re an affiliate marketer or a product owner, you get to choose how much you get paid to promote something. As a product owner, obviously you set the price. As an affiliate, you seek out products that have a good commission. Digital downloads usually have a much better payout than tangible goods. Of course, [...]
Tangibles are shunned by many Internet marketers who don’t want to deal with physical goods. It can be a nightmare if you factor in the nuisance of packaging and shipping, stocking of inventory, and suppliers. There are three ways you can deal in tangibles if you want to focus solely on those or supplement them [...]
Affiliate marketing is when you sign up to promote other people’s products (or services) for a share of the sale in the form of commissions. As an affiliate marketer, you usually don’t need any special training or start-up funding. Your tasks as an affiliate marketer will be to drum up traffic to the product owner’s [...]
Here’s another phrase you’ll grow sick of: The gold is in the list. You might get weary of hearing it, but it’s smacking you in the face for a reason – it’s the truth! First of all, let’s answer the question, “What is a list?” A list in Internet marketing terms is a database of [...]