Will Social Media Marketing Replace SEO?
Whether you’re a blogger, or internet marketer, getting more traffic is always on the back of your mind. It wasn’t to long ago when Social Media Marketing (SMM) was just beginning to blossom into the powerhouse it has turned into today, and what it will become in the near future. Many people are spreading rumors and posting articles about the death of search engine optimization (SEO), and talk about how Social Media is going to replace SEO completely. I think they are taking it a little to far, or are they just trying to start a little controversy??
I remember it was just a few years ago when I first got into Internet marketing, and everyone use to preach about search engine optimization should be my main priority, especially for getting quality traffic. No one really mentioned social media or using it as a way to get traffic to my mini niche sites.
The Power of Social Media has really swept over the world and internet, in a short amount of time. It’s always been around, but now it plays a major role for getting quality traffic to your sites, as much as SEO can. Social Media obviously is also a major factor in creating or continuing a successful business, online or offline.
Thanks to some Brilliant Minds like, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook creator) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter creator), everyone and there grandma loves social networking.
How Popular and how Fast is Social Media Growing?
Compete’s top 50 list for Dec. 2009 -Look at how many social networking sites are on the list, and their stats!!
Alexa’s Top 15 list again many of them are social media sites.
- Google.com
- Facebook.com
- Youtube.com
- Yahoo.com
- Live.com
- Wikipedia.org
- Blogger.com
- Baidu.com
- MSN.com
- QQ.com
- Yahoo.co.jp
- Twitter.com
- Google.co.in
- Myspace.com
- Google.cn
According to Emarketer, a survey was done on senior marketers Top Priorities for 2010. The results are shown below on the chart.
Their number one priority is social networks and applications, so even the top experienced marketers are changing gears over to social media marketing.
Why should you start putting more effort into social media marketing?
Social Media is Awesome because it spreads virally. It takes just one person to go to your site and spread the word about your great post or product, then all of a sudden you get a BLAST of traffic from just one person who started the viral effect. It’s one of the cheapest and most effective ways to get traffic to your websites. Just make sure you work on your Social Media Optimization (SMO) by making your websites compatible for social networking sites. Such as the type of content, adding functionality with rss and social bookmarking buttons.
I found that websites that have been around for a good while and have authority, get more traffic from search engines, rather than from social media. However, newer sites can easily get traffic quicker and faster, if you utilize social networking before the seo kicks in.
Now, to utilize social media to the fullest it takes time, a lot of effort continuously networking and giving value to others first.
Why does social media work so well for conversions?
You get to meet and network with like minds which can lead to connections, opportunities and more traffic.
People can easily learn more about you, build a relationship with you, which may lead to trust, and ultimately more money in the bank.
Word of mouth advertising, testimonies, trust and recommendations are some of the top reasons people make a purchase. We’ve all seen it used on infomercials, websites and other forms of advertisements, why? It’s a proven method of convincing someone to believe in your product or service and ultimately let their guard down and make a purchase.
Isn’t that what social media is all about, interacting and hearing what others have to say about things they’re interested in. I believe it’s human nature to naturally put up a barrier before we make a purchase or decide on something. We want to find the best value, and we don’t want to look like a fool because of past scams, phonies, and b.s. that we’ve seen or gone through before.When we see a testimony from someone who already tried something out, or hear a recommendation, then we tend to let our guard down and we believe in the product or service more.
Social Media allows people to hear feedback on just about anything, almost instantly. I know some Top Internet Marketers who create something valuable, whether it be a elaborate post or product. It takes just one person who finds it and spreads the word using social networking and they get so many visitors that they max out their servers within a few hours. Word of mouth works online, and the majority of us are just figuring this out.
Are you looking for More Loyal, Repeat visitors?
Ad network Chitika, did a study in which they analyzed their traffic for over 33 million unique visitors over the course of September 2009. Their study was to see out of their Big 6 Traffic sources who brings in the most “loyal visitors” – meaning a person who came back to the referred site 4 or more times in the same week. Even though the majority of their unique visitors come from Google, some of the social networking sites bring in more loyal users as you can see on their chart below, and Loyalty is a Great thing for us bloggers in so many ways. Facebook was #1 with over 20% of all visitors from Facebook visited the referred site 4 or more times in a week.
I believe in order to be successful at just about anything, learning to adapt is crucial. Everything changes constantly online, seo and social media will continually evolve so we have to move with the times. It’s now time to focus more on social media marketing if you haven’t already, but continue with SEO just like before.
Another interesting tidbit that many people have reported is that social media traffic tends to bring in more long term users and buyers. While search engines bring in more short term users and clickers. You should plan ahead on what kind of traffic you are going after depending on what your site is about, and what form of monetizing you are doing. I believe social media plays a major role now for getting targeted traffic and to make or continue a successful business, but search engine optimization (SEO) will be around for a good while as the front runner for website traffic.
Grab Attention and Increase Click Through Rate
Does the banner grab your attention and spark your interest? Don’t stare at it to long or you might go into a trance, just playin.
Think outside the box, be creative, and you’ll probably Increase click through rate with your banners or links.
I saw this banner the other day, and I had to click it. I haven’t ever seen anything like it for a long time as for internet marketing and online businesses.
I saw this banner on this website, Facebookblaster.com and it reminded me to always be open minded. You should check the site out if you’re looking for any social media software to help manage your accounts.
There’s always more ways, even things that have never been done, or created before, that can increase click through rate, or increase conversions.
What makes me click a banner I see on a website or blog?
I usually click banners when it’s something that I’ve been searching for, grabs my attention, out of the ordinary, discounts, or the persons site really helped me out in some way and I want to give back via affiliate link. What makes you click a banner?
Make Money Online Without Selling Anything
I’ve had this idea for a long time actually for creating websites and blogs aimed at people who don’t or can’t make purchases online. You probably know who I’m talking about, the very conservative who still don’t trust putting their credit card number into any computer, the seniors who think there’s no use for the internet (let alone make a purchase online) and of course you can’t forget about the kids. Now what kind of site or blog am I talking about?
I am talking about sites or blogs specifically made for making money online from CPA – click per acquisition or action, CPC – cost per click, CPM – click per Mille, or 1,000 impressions and you make money by amount of impressions. They won’t have to make any purchases and it’s a great demographic for making money online just from clicks and impressions.
I know this isn’t a new concept or anything, but the whole reason I started thinking of creating sites for this was because I have a ton of family members/friends and I spend a lot of time with kids. I have a daughter, a ton of neices, nephews…..so I’ve seen there uses and skills on the computer, they blow me away sometimes.
In fact, some of them are constantly on their little netbooks and clicking on adds all day and night. One night I was thinking to myself, wow the sites aimed at youngsters make a killing from ads getting clicked on because a lot of it has to do with there age and knowledge. Older and more computer savvy adults click adds a lot less than a youngster who sees, let’s say Google Adsense adds all over.
Now we have the groups of seniors who still think the internet is useless to them or “evil”, but their age group is immensely growing every year for being online and the adults who still don’t trust purchasing anything online. Now these type of sites mentioned above work well for them as well for making money on the internet because they don’t mind clicking on helpful adds. Here was a interesting read about seniors online habits I read on Mashable.
Here are the three types of ad networks that work well for sites made for making some extra money from these demographics I’ve been talking about in this post.
CPA – click per acquisition or action, usually you need to just give the company a lead and they handle the rest and you make money.
CPC – cost per click, Here’s some of the popular one’s you might want to checkout to make money from clicks.
CPM – cost per milli or 1000 impressions, make money from impressions.
- BlueLithium
- Burst Media
- Value Click
- Advertising.com
- Tribal Fusion
- BannerConnect
A training program that you may be interested in that I am going to be joining very soon just so I can use the tools they provide is Blog Success. I was reading a section in their program the other day that actually taught you how to make blogs similar to this just spending minutes a day aimed at these type of demographics using some of their exclusive tools such as Utility Poster.
My suggestions for making a site or blog aimed at these demographics: children, seniors and adults who don’t make purchases online is to think like them, ask them what kind of sites they like and look at examples online for these kind of sites. For instance for kids, think games, cartoons etc…. Also think of things they look up online whether for information or entertainment. Always remember to blend your adds and experiment. UGRKV75VJWG4
Awesome Resources: 1. Ways to make money online with website
2. Top 10 advertising networks
11 Most Popular Dofollow Article Directories
As you may already know, dofollow article directories are essential for getting backlinks and traffic to your sites and blogs. In fact, many affiliate marketers solely rely on just article marketing alone as their main source of traffic. I recommend using as many methods as possible for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes and exposure, but, article directories is definitely one of the more important and powerful ways for helping in seo for your website.
There are a ton of great article directories out there, some are dofollow and some are nofollow. But find and experiment with as many as possible and track the results and traffic from each source. You need to figure out which ones are the most powerful or bring in the most targeted traffic, how well they rank and etc….
This is what I do. I usually only use a small handful of the article directories below. I submit only high quality, valuable and original content to couple of the most powerful directories for example Ezinearticles and a few others. I put one link to my site and another to a different article, lp or mini site in the resource box. Now, I may spin that article or rewrite it myself and then I submit those to weaker or less popular article directories. These articles will have links back to my original and high quality articles.
I don’t like submitting the same exact content anywhere, search engines dislike duplicate content and their links won’t have much potency for helping your sites anyways.
You’ll find that your high quality and original articles in the right directories, like ezines and isnare will rank easily and be on the front page of google for some impressive keywords even with a decent amount of competition. You can also do other things to increase those high quality articles ranking even more, like bookmarking them and submitting them to other directories. Don’t waste your time with the spun articles or less impressive articles. A few backlinks to them and they should be good.
I advise before joining any article directory to read their policies and tos before writing your first article. Every place may have different rules and guidelines. If not followed properly it may lead to getting banned or your articles not getting approved.
Another thing, it’s recommended you also submit quality articles to some of the nofollow article directories but the high traffic and powerful ones like “article base”, “search warp” and “article alley”. They may not give you pr juice but they will give some nice authority and targeted traffic. They also rank well in the search engines.
Here’s my list of 11 Dofollow Article Directories: they are not listed in any particular order.
- Ezinearticles.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.articlepool.com
- www.articledashboard.com
- www.easyarticles.com
- www.amazines.com
- www.articleteller.com
- www.articleonramp.com
- www.isnare.com
- www.articlecity.com
- www.articleblast.com
There you have it, a TRUE Dofollow article directory list, at least for now. A few of the good one’s like “article base” went nofollow and others seem to be following that trend. One other tip would be, if you write valuable and high quality content then others will be more likely to publish your articles or send traffic and links to them which will greatly improve traffic and pr juice to your sites.
Yaro Starak Membership Site Mastermind Report ~ Coaching Program
Do you want to Make Life Changing Money? I’m talking $100,000 plus for your first year. Owning your own Membership Site is the best way to accomplish this and to make Residual Income pretty much on Auto-Pilot once setup. Many people are interested in creating their own but it can be a little intimidating at the thought of such a project by yourself or they don’t know where to begin.
Many of those people probably don’t know about the Yaro Starak Membership Mastermind, which is a highly sought after Coaching Program that will guide and show you step by step how to create your first Successful Member ship site. If you haven’t done so already, you should grab his insightful FREE Membership site mastermind Report.
Having your own product or service is a must to make an Realistic Fortune Online and to help make a name for yourself. Make sales for yourself not for others and have an army of affiliates selling your own products/services instead of vice versa.
Now this program closes once he fills up and usually always sells out right away once Yaro Starak opens the doors for open enrollment. Who knows how long this program will continue to run.
I had just received a email from Yaro Starak that he is about to reopen for the next training session at the end of this month for just a few days of enrollment. You gotta optin to his newsletter thru one of the links and you’ll be notified when open enrollment is available.
A little bit about Yaro Starak. I have learned a lot from him and he is one of the few people in the internet marketing world who is trustworthy and very helpful. He doesn’t just tell you things that you already probably know, like many of the Top Gurus online…won’t mention any names. He’s always a straight shooter and shows exactly what he does to be successful with his ventures online.
Yaro is one of the top Internet Marketers in the world. He has one of the most popular blogs on the internet entrepreneurs journey and several successful websites, blogs and membership sites so he knows what he is doing but loves teaching and helping others succeed online. What other guru do you know that does that?
This coaching program will basically cover everything you need to do from scratch to finish. Including a ton of Bonuses, live coaching calls, interviews with membership site owners and technical aspects of creating your site. You will be able to see “Case Studies” of successful membership sites even from some of the previous members who were involved with the program, like Daniel Scocco who created a $10,000 a month membership site.
The program pretty much consists of 6 modules, which will cover a lot of topics in each one.
- Module 1 – Preeminence and Topic Selection
- Module 2 – Traffic Generation
- Module 3 – Technology and Human Resources
- Module 4 – Pricing and Content
- Module 5 – The Launching Process
- Module 6 – Post Launch
This is the best program I know of for getting your foot in the door and launching your first membership site, which is endorsed by many of the big wigs in the industry. You can optin to his newsletter or grab his Free membership mastermind report and he’ll notify you when open enrollment begins.
10 Proven Ways to Make Money Online – Beginner to Advanced
The 21st Century has opened the Doors Wide Open for entrepreneurs and marketers alike to make nice incomes from the comfort of their homes, online. But what about for the rest of the world who aren’t computer savvy?
With the widespread of internet users growing each year there never has been a better time to Earn Money Online and make money on the internet even without any Prior Training or Experience.
There are so many reasons why Making Money Online is becoming so ever popular from all walks of life. But mostly, it gives just about anyone a shot at becoming their own boss, making a nice side income, becoming a public figure, more free time, financial freedom or practically whatever you want to achieve from it.
If you have a little ambition, work ethic and imagination then you just may soon join the millions who already make money at home online.
I listed ten ways to make money on the computer by skill level 1 being the easiest and 10 the hardest
1. Online Surveys and Data Entry – This is probably one of the easiest and fastest ways to make some extra side income on the computer. Pretty much you’ll take surveys for companies, preview and try new products, shop, give opinions in focus groups and do data entry. Some people are making good money doing this but most just supplement their incomes with this method. CashCrate is (100% FREE to join) and quite easy to make money from, and here are two other similar places you may want to checkout as well Global Data Entry and Survey Scout, which charge a small amount for membership. All three companies provide you training, and all the resources you need to get started.
2. Writer – One thing all internet companies and marketers need is content. With the internet booming, makes it easy for writers (beginner – expert) to make easy money on the internet. Almost everyone with a established blog or website hires someone to help or write all their content.
Including; writing articles, press releases, content for their sites and etc…. You can also earn money online by writing for hubpages , eHow and squidoo. It’s really Simple, FREE, and Fun to do. All you do is write articles and get paid a small percentage from ads they put on them. If you were interested in freelance writing checkout these places Freelancewriting, digitalpoint and put up a ad or reply to one.
3. Google Adsense – Have you ever wondered what all those ads on some websites are or come from? You’ll usually see a “ads by Google” near them. You make money by placing these ads on your site or blog and when people click on them you will make a small amount for every click. All they need to do is click on them. NEVER click your own ads, you will be banned for life from Google. It’s really easy to start up.
If you are new to this then go here to pick a place to make a FREE website or blog and then join here Google Adsense, FREE to join as well, then just start writing about things you are interested in and correctly place the ads on your site. They should automatically match relevant ads to your content.
4. Social Media – This has grown immensely, just like the internet has in the past few years. It pretty much involves networking, helping/sharing info with others who are interested in the same thing. I will tell you right now, this method for making extra money at home will be more successful and more productive with experience, But there are many newbies in “social media marketing” SMM that are earning money daily.
If you don’t have experience then you should start off with Twitter. I believe it’s the easiest Social media platform to earn money online from. Getting twitter software like Tweet adder will greatly help you make money faster and grow an army of followers.
5. Affiliate Marketer – Market other people’s/companies products or services and make money for your successful efforts. This is one of my favorite ways to earn money online. I also do everything else on this list or have done in the past as well. All you need to do is signup and join a program. You will be given a unique url which will track all visitors and sales that come from your special link/url. Why is affiliate marketing so popular?
You don’t have to worry about anything except making sales thru your unique affiliate link. That’s about it. Everything else will be handled through the owner or a third party for transactions. Beware of joining some programs that don’t pay you after you make sales. It’s happened to me before and I was “steamed” but here’s a few of my favorite programs that are reliable, trustworthy and have a ton of products More Niche, Clickbank affiliate program, Paydotcom and CJ.
6. Selling your Services and Freelancing – Do you have any skills or knowledge you could share and make money on the internet from? This could include but not limited to SEO services, coaching, writing, selling/making websites or just about anything people need help with. Easy way to startup a little independent business on the side or Full Time Income. This is pretty easy to start. All you really need to do is checkout some freelance sites and reply or post your service. You could use sites like craigslist, sitepoint, elance or “digital point” like mentioned in #2.
7. Blogging – According to the Wall Street Journal 1.7 Million “Americans make money blogging” and more are added to that number daily. This isn’t just a Hobby anymore and the cool thing about it, especially for newbies, there’s many good programs that help you earn money blogging. This isn’t as easy as it looks. Trust me, but with proper knowledge, experience and diligence you’ll be able to become successful. Here are two legit fast track programs FREE Blog Profits Blueprint and Make Money Blogging that will guide you along the right path.
8. Ebay – I think just about everyone has bought or sold something with Ebay. This was one of the first ways for me to make some extra money online. It takes some experimenting and research but pretty much self explanatory for getting started but making good profit will take some effort and having Good Products to sell. You can sell just about anything on ebay. My two tips would be, use good keywords for your ad, especially in the title and find good wholesale companies to find popular products. Here’s my favorite site to Find Hot Ebay Wholesale Products to make more money with Ebay.
9. Start your own Business/E-commerce site – since the boom of the internet, starting your own business online or having your own E-commerce site has given many people an opportunity to live the dream. You can pretty much have any kind of online business or E-commerce website. Many people start their own Ebook, SEO, graphic design businesses all the way to stay at home moms who own their online stores that sell t-shirts and crafts. With little overhead, a virtual store open 24/7 and entire world as your store front this is a great way to make money online. Here’s a great program SiteSell to help you create a successful internet business, all in one.
10. Internet Marketer – Pretty much combines all or any of the ways of marketing and making money on the internet. This field is highly competitive, always changing environment and very challenging. But not impossible, I know of Kids who Make More Money than their own parents ever dreamed of making and Grandparents who Make Money on auto-pilot Comfortably in their Homes. The risks can be great but the rewards may be far greater.
They now have actual college degrees you can get for internet marketing and there’s online programs that train and coach you but come with hefty price tags. You could also do what millions have done before and that is learn on their own from trial and error but most will give up within a few months from frustration or run out of money just from experimenting.
You could find an inexpensive fast track program that guarantee you results but most are full of B.S. and really don’t teach you much but here’s one of the few Internet Marketing Fast Track Programs that works and may just be right for you.
I hope you got some new ideas and insight about the ways you could earn money online. Just make sure you don’t try to take on to much at one time or it’s very easy to get overwhelmed. If you have the will and determination and know that this is what you want to do, then you should find success. The skills and knowledge will come later along your journey. I’m living proof of that. Do you have any other suggestions or ideas to Make money on the internet?
How to Make Money with clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 2 of 2)
You should have now already joined “Click Bank”, gotten familiar with their website and tools, picked out 1 or a couple products in their marketplace and today will be the day you’ll learn how to Make Extra Money at Home with Clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 2 of 2) . I hope you are excited and ready to Make Money on the Internet with CB and for some of you, today will be the day you start your very own Website and Business.
Missed Part One? …..Go Here—->> Make Money on the Internet with ClickBank Affiliate Program Part 1
Now you need to make a website or landing page for your products that you chose. This will have information or reviews about your clickbank products using your unique affiliate links. This will ultimately direct the visitor to the actual cb product where they will be able to purchase the product.
For this tutorial, you will learn to Make a landing page – simple, usually one page website that will presell your CB products. It’s the first page people see when they find your website. They are quick and simple to make, but one of the most effective methods to make extra money at home with click bank affiliate program.
One of the ways you can see your competition once you choose a Clickbank offer is to just Google the name of the CB offer you chose and ad review at the end of it. This will also give you ideas on how to create a click bank landing page.
I wouldn’t ever copy another website or especially the content. Search engines especially Google, doesn’t like duplicate content. Original content that you wrote is always best and plus, usually all the sites will have copyright protection.
Tips on making your website:
As you saw there’s basically two popular ways to make your landing page that work well.
- One product review – You do a review or informational site on just one product.
- Multiple product review – Usually best with 3 different items but all in the same niche. Example: niche – make solar panels, then make a landin page with 3 different Click bank choices that teach how to make solar panels. Rate each product as best to worse like some of the example’s listed for you above.
- Your CB product should have affiliates resources for you to use like banners, links graphics and etc… it will usually look something like this found at the end of the description found in the marketplace: “www.yourCBproduct.com/affiliatesignup.html”
How to make a Effective landing page for your clickbank products:
Now there’s a few ways of doing this for free or with a little money. The thing about using these FREE Website Platforms below is that they own your site so you won’t have the same freedom as to having your own website. Meaning, you are using their hosting and they control your sites. I don’t mean they will go in and change your actual website but they can ban or close it if they don’t think it’s appropriate.
They control what is and isn’t allowed. For instance, like squidoo doesn’t allow many of the clickbank products and they will close your site or ban you from their service. Example of a banned site: http://www.squidoo.com/maverick-money-makers Squidoo and Hubpages are the most strict. The others listed below are more lenient. It’s so much easier to appear on the front pages of Google in the search engine results pages (serps) if you have your own domain and host anyways.
How to pick out Keywords
You need to spend some time picking your key-words or phrases, they will make you or break you. Go here to learn more about Keywords (exact words people enter in search engine) are very important and you will need to find and use the right ones. If you don’t, you’ll never make it on the front page of Google organically or without paying money. Only choose keywords with less than “75,000″ results with quotes around your key words. The lower the number the better until you are more experienced.
Put quotes around the keyword or phrase like this “your key-words” into google search engine. This will allow you to see your competition for those exact words. Take the Quotes off and redo it. A lot more results come up, right. Without them, you will get results for every site with similar words.
After you found a few good keywords or phrases (Make sure you use the best words in the title’s) now you will need to scatter these words you chose throughout your LP or site. A good ratio is 6% key words to regular words in your content. Also, put your main words in the beginning of your first paragraph.
How to Pick a Good Domain Name
Picking out a Good Domain name once you choose a website platform for your landing page. If you had looked at the example’s I showed you above then you probably noticed that all their domain names had the “Click bank product name” somewhere in it.
Example: “www.your-cb-product-reviews.com” If you put the name of your CB product in your domain then it will be easier to get on the first page of Google, so think about a good name before you make your final decision. Another alternative is to pick a name that will go with your niche or market.
Make a FREE website or blog below
I have listed the best places to make a Free website or blog. In order from the most powerful to the least. You gotta remember to pick a good domain name but if you are serious about making money on the internet then you should get your own hosting and domain.
For Serious Entrepreneurs and Internet Marketers Only!
Now if you are actually SERIOUS about Making Extra Money at Home and are looking to do this potentially as a Full Time Job or want to make the Most Sales Possible from Affiliate Programs like Clickbank then you need to have your own Domain Name and Hosting.
You will have 100% Full Control over your websites or home business. You don’t have to worry about being banned or what you write about. It’s not nearly as complicated as you may think.
You don’t have to be a Webmaster or know a lick of html. When I got my first hosting and my very own website, I didn’t know squat about html or making a website. With hostgator, it has been very easy to make websites and blogs with little or no html or website knowledge. Also, the older your domain is the more valuable it will be in the future. Earlier you start the faster you can become successful with a Legit Internet Business and you’ll be able to make extra money at home sooner than you thought.
It is also one step closer to becoming a successful internet marketer, to be successful in this field you gotta be All In 100% or it’s going to be a frustrating journey for you. You will eventually need to get your own hosting and domain so you can start branding yourself and company anyways. This will allow you to make multiple websites, landpages or even be able to start a blog, like this one.
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Resources that will help you make more money at home with clickbank
- Build a Successful Online Business
- Ultimate Website Builder
- cb-analiytics.com
- Easy html tutorials
- digitalpointforums
- Buy Professional images
- Ezine articles
- Free images
Landing Page Format and Key things to Have on it:
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Title –
Make sure you use Most Important Keywords here, eye catching and Gets attention
Introduction
Brief description of your site, what’s it about etc….use good keywords near the beginning and make it build up to your main points. This is where people will either stay on your site or leave and not come back.
Main Body
Make it Informational and detailed. This is where you will write about your product, service, solution to a problem and etc… Make sure you presell and show the benefits of what your product can do for them. Use pictures, graphics, charts and videos here also. Don’t forget about keywords. Also, Create a Sense of Urgency to “make them take action”
Closing
Brief summary of what you talked about and closing comments on your product. Add some keywords here also.
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You need to write articles about your Click Bank products leading them to your landing page. Make sure you use Ezines listed for you in the resources above. They are the most powerful and make sure you use keywords from your LP on your articles, especially in the title. Put a link back to your website at the bottom of your ezine article. Use Key-words for your link as well.
If you need to see examples just go to ezines and look at some articles. Now the more articles and backlinks to your web site, the better and more powerful it will be. Go here for Plenty of Resources and learn How to Get Backlinks to Your Site
For those of you who need more help with “How to Make an Effective Landing Page”, I will be writing a post very soon just on this subject. But experiment with and try out what I have written in the two posts “How to Make Money with Clickbank Affiliate Program”
Those of you who read and reread both of these posts, used the resources and my advice, then you are on your way to Make Extra Money at Home whenever you want to. Better yet, you now may have the opportunity to quit your day job or go part time in the near future and live the Dot Com Lifestyle.
Good Luck!
How to Make Money with Clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 1 of 2)
I have made money online in many ways and by using many different affiliate programs. If you are interested in the fastest and easiest way to make money online then this post is for you. Make money with clickbank affiliate program because I’ve made a lot of money with them, some of my easiest sales have come from them and Clickbank or CB is one of the first affiliate programs I and every other internet marketer started off with.
A little history on “Clickbank“. They were founded in 1998 which is a Huge feat in itself for surviving the dotcom crash a year or two later. They are the #1 site for online digital products or “ebooks”. Their website is one of top websites on the net for the most traffic and visitors daily.
What does Affiliate Mean? Simply means someone who markets other people’s/companies products, services or etc… and gets paid a percentage for their successful efforts.
Why use CB?………almost every country and anyone can join them within a few minutes, ebooks are the easiest to sale and the most demanding product on the internet. Information is the #1 reason why people use the internet. You get paid at least 50% – 75% per sale. I don’t know how much you know about business but that’s almost unheard of for a offline or online business. PROOF you’ll make money and get paid. They have paid out well over 1 Billion Dollars to their clients. A sale is made every 3 seconds and over 26,000 purchases a day.
You can choose how and when you want to be paid. Choose to get paid weekly, direct deposit by check or whatever you choose. There is over 12,000 products to choose from. Lastly you don’t have to worry about getting paid because they act as a third party for handling the transactions for all the products in the clickbank marketplace. You don’t have to rely on the actual owner of the websites to pay you.
Direct linking to the sales pages or CB products is allowed. This means you don’t even need a website but having one will increase your sales ten fold. There is really no other GOOD program online that allows direct linking.
Make sure you read their policies and tos when you join there are a few rules you’ll need to be familiar with. Main one people miss is the part for new CB affiliates before you get paid. Before you get your first check you gotta reach the requirements below
ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:
- Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers; and,
- Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.
Don’t worry you’ll reach there criteria easier and faster than you think if you follow what I say and are serious about making money on the internet with Click Bank’s affiliate program.
You can choose to be an affiliate – selling other people’s products. There’s over 12,000 products to choose from so finding something for your niche or interest will be a cinch.
LEARN About becoming a Clickbank Vendor Here – meaning you can create your own digital product and have it included in the CB marketplace. You can make a TON of money quickly making your own product. You should check it out maybe it’ll be something you will be interested in doing in the near future. It’s not nearly unreachable as it may sound.
This will allow people to purchase your own products and also allows the CB affiliates (over 100,000) to sell it for you as well. I have seen a few almost newbies in internet marketing become millionaires from creating one GREAT product within a year or two of being in the internet marketing game.
Start your Journey to Make Money on the Internet with Click Bank
1. Join Clickbank Affiliate program first off if you haven’t joined already click the “Promote Products” Make sure you put some time into thinking of your affiliate ID or username because this will be what shows up in the url for your affiliate link. Choose something professional looking and blend in. People will be able to see your unique affiliate link or ID in the bottom left of their monitor and also will see it at the bottom of the salespage.
Don’t use your real name or something bogus or you will get less sales. A good username would be “secure1″ …… A bad username example would be “clown1″. Another good way to choose a user name is pick something that would make sense for your niche or market.
This is what your affiliate CB link will look like “http://Affiliate.vendor.hop.clickbank.net”
You see the red affiliate part that’s where your username or id will be seen and the vendor part will be for the product you choose. Now you probably understand why it’s important to pick a good nickname/username.
2. Checkout their “marketplace” to look at all the different products you can choose to sell on the internet. Okay now it’s time to get familiar with clickbank before you start to make money with their affiliate program. Once you are in the marketplace You need to think of a “niche” or category….electronics, health & fitness, green energy or etc…. that you want to start promoting or making money from. As a newbie I suggest you pick out a niche or category that you are into or know a lot about. After you choose a category now start looking at the products and you’ll notice a gray strip below each product that looks like this below:
[$/sale: $30.01 | Future $: - | Total $/sale: $30.01 | %/sale: 75.0% | %refd: 70.0% | grav: 250.01]
- 1st section means amount you make as an affiliate per sale
- 2nd I believe means the amount you’ll get paid for a recurring product….don’t pay attention to this right now most are all blank anyways
- 3rd again is total amount per sale you’ll make
- 4th means % amount of the product you’ll make per sale so like this example above you will make 75% percent
- 5th means % amount of sales made by other internet marketers not the owner
- 6th gravity means how many other click bank affiliates are selling that same product.
Now remember if you see high gravity that probably means it’s a HOT product and sales really well but this also means this is a very competitive product as well. I suggest doing this. Pick out just one or two products for now, your choice High gravity, low gravity or choose one in between. Anything below 40 for grav: is low and anything above that number is high.
Now before settling on this product you need to look at the sales page, thoroughly. Ask yourself these questions….. Does it look like a good salespage? Would you purchase this product if you saw this sales page? One note: you need to look at everything thru the eyes of the consumer not necessarily by what you think is good or like, just keep that in mind. I almost forgot choose something that pays good money. At least 25$ a sale I don’t really waste my time with low paying items.
Many gurus online tell clickbank newbies to start off with low gravity products but many of them are really crappy or hard to sell. The way I choose my products is by finding popular products for the moment. Example maybe a brand new product, what are people looking for “right now” like going green products etc…. or products I see or hear that are doing well.
I’ll give you some resources and forums on my next post about good places for CB affiliates to talk about things like that. Make sure you get familiar with clickbank’s affiliate program, their tools and their entire website and on my next post I will continue with “Make Extra Money at Home with Clickbank Affiliate Program Part 2“. You’ll learn about how to make a landing page or website to send traffic to with your click bank affiliate hop links or url and you’ll be one step closer to Make Extra Money on the Computer. I will also give you plenty of resources to get you going and many good places I use myself to get traffic and links.
