Internet Marketing

Getting traffic to your web site is the most important task for a web master. Though paying for traffic is one option, it might not be a profitable source, especially if the web site does not have a direct source of revenue via sale of products. In such cases getting free traffic to the web plays an important role. There are many different ways in which you can generate free traffic. Some of the methods that you can use, are listed below:

1. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories. Almost all article directories provide a form field to include you copyright notice and the resource box. You should use the resource box not just to talk about your self but also to entice readers looking for more information. The resource box for your articles should be used to offer a freebie e-book or a report or even an attention-grabbing headline to attract the readers to click the link and visit your web site.

You can also end the article with a question and link to your web site to find the answer. Since web masters looking for free content on their sites also use the articles you publish in article directories, it creates a viral affect with your site getting traffic from varied sources. You also gain credibility as an expert with articles. Your article displays your knowledge and shows readers how much you know, about a specific topic.

2. Creating and distributing a free report on a specific subject also helps to get free traffic without putting in much effort. You should include a link to your site or link to a squeeze page to capture readers name and email. Having a link to a squeeze page automatically builds your own list of readers who can be contacted later with affiliate programs in the related subject. You should send your paid traffic to download this free report and allow them to redistribute the report. Giving the report for free attracts readers, and by allowing them to distribute freely ensures that your web site gets free traffic, long after the report was distributed.

3. You should regularly post on forums related to your site. This is perhaps the easiest and quickest way to get free traffic. You should use these forums to make useful and interesting posts, and include a signature file that allows readers to click through to your site. If you are not an expert in any niche and are unable to have a discussion around a topic, you can always post questions. Asking for help will get your site noticed and get you some good incoming links.

4. Another option to explore for free traffic is to find link partners and exchange links. This will not only get you direct click-through traffic from other sites, but it will also get you search engine traffic once those sites are indexed and your site is given credit for the inbound links.

5. If you maintain a blog on your site, submitting your blog feed URL to various RSS sites also helps getting exposure to your site very soon. You should consider submitting feeds or sites to blog directories with a high PR to make sure you are getting quality incoming links. You should also not ignore submitting to sites with low PR in the later stages. If these web sites “make it big” you do not want to be left out. You should not submit to millions of web sites or directories using some software. Trying to submit your site to millions of other web sites may just work against your site.

6. You should look at submitting your web site to the social book marking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us etc. This helps in getting good exposure to your web site.

Whatever the way you choose to get the visitors to your site, you need to be careful to do it naturally and never stop your hard work on your web site. After all Patience really pays!!!

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Cody Moya

When it comes to creating a successful affiliate program, it is important to look at what others have done well, and not so well. In order for your affiliate program to be successful and profitable, you will need to learn from the mistakes that others have made, as well as emulate what the most successful affiliate programs are doing. This article is designed to provide some of the best tips we have gathered through the years.

Proper care and feeding of your best affiliates
The importance of taking care of your best affiliates is almost impossible to overstate. Your most profitable affiliates should be identified as early as possible in your program, and singled out for special care and attention. After all, these people are your best clients, and they should be treated with the attention they deserve.

Call your best affiliates and ask them if there is anything you can do to help them. You may want to offer them some sort of custom reporting, or offer to promote an upcoming special or product launch. Either way, it is important to let your best affiliates know that they are appreciated.

Most affiliate programs tend to operate according to the 80/20 rule, with eighty percent of the affiliates failing to deliver the goods, while the remaining 20 percent deliver the goods. For many affiliate programs, this percentage is even more skewed. No matter what the ratio of top performers to also rans, it is important to take good care of your best affiliates.

Ask your affiliate what they want
This tip sounds so simple it should not even need to be included, but you would be shocked at the number of affiliate program managers who fail to take the needs of their affiliates into account. Paying attention to what the affiliate needs from the relationship is the best way to make sure both parties get what they are looking for. Keeping the needs of the affiliate foremost in your mind will help the affiliate to realize more sales, and you to realize more click throughs, better conversion rates and fatter commission checks.

Market, market, market
Many affiliate program managers set up their program, market it aggressively, achieve the results they want and then forget about it. This is a big mistake, because the internet is an every changing, dynamic place. There is always a need to market your program, and to keep your name in front of the top affiliates.

Message boards are a great place to get your name out there, but only if you have something to say or contribute. Simply using message boards for advertising will leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth and get you all the wrong kinds of attention. Contributing useful, relevant information on trends in the affiliate world, however, will lead others to look to you for advice and wisdom.

Combine your talents
If you are like most affiliate program managers, you probably find yourself searching for content when it is time to put together your monthly newsletter. If this is the case, you may want to set up an exchange with another affiliate program. For instance, you can provide some content for their newsletter, along with a short ad in exchange. The next month, your partner will do the same. This is a great way to get fresh content and fresh ideas while doing some clever marketing at the same time.

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Cody Moya

SEO. Keywords. Metatags. Metadescriptions. Spiders. Robots.

Do you feel overwhelmed when you hear people talking about all these things? Most people do. Here’s a quick glossary, and then the reason you don’t have to worry about these words if you know a couple of web secrets.

• Metatags – Words embedded in your web page that tell viewers and search engine automatons about the content on your page.
• Metadescriptions – Same as metatags, but in sentence form, and with the possibility of being used on search engines as your site description.
• Keywords – The words you use in your metas and in the text on your page to describe your product or service.
• Spiders or Robots – miniprograms or automations sent out to automatically browse the Web by search engines, they catalog your site by keywords.
• SEO – Search Engine Optimization, this means your site has the appropriate keywords and structure to be properly cataloged by those spiders and robots.

Here’s why this information isn’t that important: it’s archaic. Metas were devised in the early days of the search engines, when they weren’t terribly powerful, so that your good content could be properly referenced by the engines. What they found was that unscrupulous webmasters loaded up the metas with keywords that were popular and would rank well, but that really had nothing to do with the content on the page. This is called search engine spam because it works the same way and is approximately as useful.

Spiders today don’t pay much attention to the metas. They look for keywords in your content, and the most cutting-edge ones look for grammatical structure as well. It won’t be long before they can tell whether your site is actually sensible. And they are looking for web pages that are frequently updated, not just static sites that contain the same information year in and year out.

Interestingly, your customers are looking for good content as well. One simple little trick can satisfy both of them inexpensively.

Good articles containing information about your product or service, rotated regularly.

Drive Traffic with Great Content

Not everyone can write well enough to fulfill this requirement. And not everyone has the time to sit and write these articles. For those who can’t, there are several options.

You can hire a professional writer to ghostwrite these articles for you. This is an expensive and time-consuming prospect. Most writers charge a minimum of $35 per hour, and web writers often charge much more. And you’ll have to sit with that writer, educate him or her on your product or service, and ensure they’re ready to tackle writing about it before they start.

You can copy someone else’s content with permission. This is an interesting idea. There are a number of online databases that provide pre-written articles optimized for your keywords, for free. The hitch: you must also display a resource box on your website referencing the original author of the article and providing a link back to his or her page. This makes them into the expert, not you.

You can purchase keyword-optimized articles from an article broker. This is the happy medium. You have good optimized articles, created for you by professional writers, published on your site with your name, and costing you minimal cash because they are mass-produced.

Using Article Directories for Your Purposes

But wait, there’s more!

After you purchase articles to publish on your website with your name, you can also buy extras to publish to article directories. Not everyone’s going to be as smart as you about how they put content on their site. Many will instead take the easy way, and download those free articles to publish, with resource boxes, to their own website.

If they download your articles, those resource boxes will point to your website. In essence, you can direct traffic from your competitors and from those who provide similar or complementary products and services to you, straight to your own website. And you can do it for free, after the cost of the article.

Some article directories online are:

• Go Articles: http://www.goarticles.com
• Ezine Articles: http://www.ezinearticles.com
• Idea Marketers: http://www.ideamarketers.com
• Marketing Seek: http://www.marketing-seek.com/index.php

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Cody Moya

MLMs are in the business of making money. They (with very few exceptions) could not care less if you succeed. In fact they want you to fail, it’s good for present and future business.

How can this be? Logic says that if they have more members, they make more money. Well, let’s look at how they operate.

The MLM makes money by keeping the difference between membership fees and the commissions paid out. The best member for the MLM is one that is signed up by the MLM itself. Because there are no commissions paid out. So the MLM does a lot of advertising for itself to get a huge top line where they don’t pay out any commissions.

The next thing they do is to make it difficult to qualify to earn commissions. Examples: your first two sales go to your sponsor (probably the MLM); you have to sponsor two new members every month to stay qualified; you have to sell a certain amount of product each month to stay qualified; you have to sponsor five members to start getting commissions.

So you have to do a great selling job while competing, not only with other MLMs, but also with the MLM you joined!

Let’s look at the situation where you have to sponsor five members to receive commissions. Assume that the monthly membership is $50. You join and pay $50, and since you got in early, there is great enthusiasm for the MLM, so you sponsor 4 new members. That’s great for the MLM because they now have 5 members paying in $50, and NO commissions going out. In the second month there is still great enthusiasm so your downline sponsors 4 each, but that 5th one is really hard to get because you are now competing with your MLM, your own downline, and all the other MLMs out there, for a new member.

So, there’s you and your downline, 17 people strong, sending $850 per month to the MLM and getting nothing in return.

Now pretend that there are 100 like you that joined the MLM. Now the MLM is getting $85,000 per month and paying out $0 in commissions. It’s a license to print money.

Since you only need one more member to start earning commissions, you are likely to stay with it for another month, so the MLM makes more money. When you do quit, the MLMs make it your fault, which actually inspires you to try again with another MLM. After all, it’s a piece of cake to find just 5 people; especially with all the help the MLM gave you.

So you join another MLM, which is probably run by the same guy that ran the other one. So, you lose money again.

How do you stop the slide?

Find an MLM with a real product that is appealing to a lot of people.
Find an MLM with a product that you like and can get excited about.
Find an MLM that pays commission on EVERY sale that you make.
Find an MLM that provides true assistance in sales.
Find an MLM that pays out a large commission, 60-80%

And the best way to avoid wasting all your money on MLMs is to become an affiliate for products that you like and use. That’s right, the advice from this author is to avoid MLMs entirely.

The only way to make big money in an MLM is by being able to bring in a large following from your own lists. How to build that list, and getting people to trust you are best left to another article.

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Cody Moya

Selling audio books can be a great way to make an excellent living, both on the internet and in the brick and mortar world. Anyone who has been following the world of publishing has no doubt realized that audio books are a growing part of the publishing industry, and this trend is likely to only grow in the future.

While selling audio books can be a great way to make a real profit, it is vital to choose the right audio books to sell, and to market them as effectively as possible.

Let’s start with a look at how to find audio books that can be sold at a profit. When many people think about audio books they believe that the most cost effective solution is to create their own audio books from scratch. Many of these would be audio book creators believe that all it takes is a good microphone, a set of headphones and perhaps a software package or two.

While it certainly is possible to create your own audio books from scratch, most people who do so create their own audio books only for personal reasons, since it would be far too expensive to create audio books for commercial purposes. The break even point for commercially producing your own audio books is simply too high to be practical for most people

Another option is to have your own audio books commercially produced by an outside company. In many ways this is similar to having a record or a CD created and marketed, but this approach shares many of the same drawbacks as creating your own audio books. In most cases the break even point will still be very high, and in many cases the cost of this approach can be nearly as high as producing your own audio books with your own computer.

For those who are truly interested in making a real profit by selling audio books, by far the best and most effective way to go is to by prerecorded audio books and resell them from a profit. There are many places to buy such audio books, and it is important to choose the books that will both sell the best and bring you the highest percentage of profit. Choosing the right audio books to sell will not always be easy, but the rewards of finding the right mix of audio books and related products are very great.

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Cody Moya

Every web site owner knows how important it can be to have a good ranking with the major search engines, but this ranking can be difficult, and expensive, to obtain. There is a better way, however, to drive traffic to your site, and it does not rely on the search engines Tagging is a great way to drive traffic and find targeted visitors, and it relies not on search engines, but on the many new social networking sites that are changing the nature of the internet.

Using these kinds of bookmarking sites is a great way to maximize traffic, but it is important to know how to use these sites to their maximum benefit. If you simply tag blog posts without a strategy you will not be able to obtain the exposure and the targeted traffic you are aiming for, so it is important to carefully research the subject before getting started.

This research begins with a thorough understanding of how the Technorati site works, how the search engines work and a careful analysis of the results obtained in a couple of test blog posts. A thorough analysis will likely lead you to the conclusion that tagging is a powerful tool indeed.

In order to understand the power of tagging it is important to understand the concept of social bookmarking. Chances are you are already familiar with the concept, but if not, social bookmarking is simply a way for users to store a list of their bookmarks, or favorite site, online.

The advantages of this technology are obvious from the user’s point of view. Instead of having their favorites limited to a file on their own personal computer, those favorites are available no matter where the user is, whether it is an internet café, a friend’s house, work, school or anywhere else. In addition, users are able to use tags to access their bookmarks, meaning that they are able to assign a single bookmark to several different categories.

In addition to these technological benefits, social bookmarking has a social aspect as well. Users are able to easily share their favorite sites, and other user are able to easily find those sites others have already determined to be the best. Instead of spending hours searching for the best movie site, the best business site or the best news site, users can look to social networks for a list of the best sites.

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Cody Moya

Marketing Your Blog

Every online publisher needs traffic to their site, but how do you get a steady increase of traffic each month? How do you even get traffic started coming to your site?

Blogs automatically get traffic coming as soon as you make your first post. With a good ping list, each time you make a post to your blog dozens of sites are notified and traffic starts coming in. Therefore the first step in getting traffic to your blog is to post regularly. Posting once or twice a day is fantastic.

Article Syndication

Writing articles and syndicating them to article directories is a powerful technique to grow your traffic. Try to write at least one article a week (or have a unique article written for you), post it to your site, wait a week for the search engines to index it, and then submit the article to article directories. For a nominal fee SubmitYourArticle.com will submit it to hundreds of article directories, saving you a lot of time and effort.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is another very powerful tool. It takes less than a minute to submit your article to OnlyWire.com. Once submitted they take it and submit it to about fifteen other social bookmarking sites.

Imagine if you bookmarked one article a day and submitted each to fifteen social bookmarking sites for one year. That would add up to over 15,000 backlinks for your one site! Incredible! But there’s even more you can do.

Pay Pay Click and More

Pay per click, email marketing, viral marketing, and commenting in forums are all great ways to get more traffic. For instance, Answers.Yahoo.com is a site where people post questions and wait for an answer.

For instance, if you have a site about dogs and someone asks about what to feed their puppy, you can post an answer and include your URL in the signature. As people read the question and your answer, some will click on your URL to see what else you might say about taking care of dogs.

Tracking and Statistics

Track the visitors to your site by using tools such as MyBlogLong.com, Google Analytics, and the tracking tools found in your site’s cpanel under Stats. Google Analytics is a plugin for Wordpress. It takes a minute to set up and gives you vital information to help you focus on what your visitors want.

By looking at your stats a few minutes a week you can see what articles are most popular, what topics are most popular, how long people are staying at the site, and what links they click on to leave the site. You can use this information to make changes to your site, increase the number of posts you make on popular topics, and anything else that will encourage people to stay longer and to come back.

It is not hard to get traffic to a blog. Set aside some time each day to write an article or to post to your blog, submit it to the social bookmarking sites, and submit your articles to article directories. Follow these basic tips and traffic to your site should increase significantly each month.

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Cody Moya

Smart web entrepreneurs have known about the incredible value of private label books and quality information for quite some time now, and smart owners of web based businesses have been able to take advantage of the thriving market for such information. In addition to sales to willing customers, however, this private label information has a great many other uses.

One of the best uses of this repackaged and reformatted public domain information is web site content. The right content can do a great deal to increase search engine rankings, gain the confidence of wary web users and of course keep customers happy and keep them coming back. Posting high quality information related to the subject of your web site will provide both new and existing customers with quality information, and generate more sales and greater visibility for your business.

Public domain information can also be used to create customized reports designed to help attract new customers, retain existing customers and provide real value to web site visitors. These reports are often top sellers, and web site owners have reported greatly increasing the number of subscribers to their newsletters and other publications simply by providing high quality private label reports. These custom designed reports can be used for a variety of purposes, such as bonuses for loyal customers, incentives to sign up for a newsletter or as a reward for new customers.

Web site owners have long known about the value of creating a customized newsletter, ezine or other publication, and repackaged public domain information can be the perfect way to create such publications on a shoestring budget. Having a quality list of ezine or newsletter subscribers can provide instant credibility for any web site owner, and can have a substantial impact on the profitability and success of any internet based business. Even after all these years, web site traffic is vital to the success of any online business, and using private label articles, books and other information can help draw visitors to the site, and keep them there long enough to see just what you have to offer.

Creating an ezine or newsletter is also a great way to boost affiliate income, gauge the reaction of customers to special promotions, and determine which type of advertising is working the best.

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Cody Moya

Many ordinary internet users have wondered just how so many people make a living on the internet, and it is certainly true that many web site owners are using the content on their web sites to generate a great deal of income. In some cases this income provides a good part time income, while in other cases the money earned may even surpass the money those people could make working full time.

One of the most powerful ways to make money on the internet is known as Google AdSense, and this powerful program can be an important way to harness the content of your own web site to generate a very good income.

AdSense is a program which was started by Google, and it can be used to generate ad revenue while you work, and even while you are sleeping. Starting a Google AdSense business can be a great way to start a business on a part time basis, and many web based entrepreneurs have done just that.

This distinction is an important one, since many people do not have the time or desire to run a full time business on the internet. One of the most significant reasons people do not want to run a full time business is that they do not want to give up the security of a full time income.

Indeed, it can be very difficult to give up a guaranteed full time income to take a risk with a full time internet business. The beauty of a program such as Google AdSense is that it can be run on a part time basis, and then easily scaled up as you become accustomed with the program, how it works, and its power for generating ad revenue.

Another huge advantage of Google AdSense over other internet based businesses is that you do not actually have to store or sell any products yourself. You do not have to deal with customer complaints, process returns, process payments, etc. in other words, you can enjoy all the great things about running a business on the internet, without any of the hassles that would normally come with such a business.

In addition, when you run a Google AdSense program, you do not have to spend the many hours needed to contact potential partners, and you do not have to put up any money up front. This is also an important distinction, since it can take a significant amount of money to get a traditional internet based business up and running.

There are of course a number of great ways to start a business using Google AdSense, but one of the fastest and easiest ways to get that Google AdSense revenue rolling in fast is to create your own AdSense friendly web sites using AdSense templates.

The great thing about using these AdSense templates is that they can be used to quickly and easily create web sites which are already optimized for generating the greatest amount of AdSense revenue. Anyone who has been working with AdSense for awhile can tell you just how much time, work and effort goes into finding just the right format for AdSense ads, and the proper formatting and placement of AdSense ads can make the difference between success and failure.

Buying ready made AdSense templates, on the other hand, can provide you with a great way to optimize the sites you create, without the hassle, time and expense that can accompany designing your own web sites from scratch. In addition, when you use these AdSense templates, you can eliminate significant costs, such as hiring a web writer, hiring a graphic designer and hiring a web site consultant.

For more information on AdSense templates and how they can help you get that AdSense revenue rolling in, just visit www.adsensetemplates.com. This site can tell you more about the power of Google AdSense and how it can help you succeed beyond your wildest dreams.

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Cody Moya

When it comes to making money on the Internet there is no shortage of ways to do it. Of course if you have a product of your own that is the best place to start. What if you do not have a product of your own?

Here are a few ways you can sell stuff online with affiliate marketing to make money for yourself.

- Affiliate Programs. Getting paid to sell other people’s products is the quickest way to get going that I have found. Affiliate marketing has been around for over 10 years now and many people look at Amazon.com as one of the first companies to sell products this way.

You can make money selling clicks such as with Google Adsense. You can make money selling leads with affiliate programs like Max Bounty. You can make money selling products. One such way is to sell information products like you would find at ClickBank.

Another thing you can do is affiliate program directories like AssociatePrograms.com or Commissions Junction where they have compiled some of the best products to sell in one place.

One way to make money online is to sell memberships. This can be done through both affiliate marketing as well as network marketing. Getting paid over and over for making one sale is called residual income.

Certainly network marketing also offers some great residual income for repeat business on a monthly basis. Many MLM companies will set up your customers and distributors on auto-ship and the products they order go out like clock work every month. When they do you make a commission every month just like clockwork as well.

Back to paid memberships. Products that can be accessed online and offer value to your customer are great to sell. Paid memberships fit this description. Subscriptions on how to run a home business, personal development, paid newsletters on every subject imaginable, website hosting, autoresponders, and just about anything you can think of, offer you a chance to create residual income.

Two tier programs where you get paid on the sales of people you recruit work great for paid membership programs as well. Of course network marketing falls into this category and can even be better because you can make money every month on the sales of a large group of people.

The key with most paid subscription programs is you make a little bit of money on every sale. The first month this may not amount to much. The second month it can be more. In a year it can be quite a lot. Kind of like compound interest if you know how that works.

Your efforts and your sales compound themselves offering you a great chance to build an income that you could walk away from in a few years.

Can you say that about your current job?

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Cody Moya