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The concept of article writing and marketing has become the order of the day. The articles are the one which decides the actual impact of a product. SO why not make sophisticated techniques to market the articles. Marketing the articles indirectly spells marketing the product. Let’s discover the secrets of article marketing here…

1. I had a friend of mine just make his web page come ahead of all others and stand at the top ten of the yahoo search engines. Not even a single buck was spent, but profit were flowing in!. The basic thing he did was that he posted his articles in all the free article marketing sites like isnare, ezine etc.

2. Make the articles in such a way that it brings out the advantages and uniqueness of it among other competitors. It should not be a textual praise of the product, which does not impress the readers.

3. Now, that was not the only thing that made the difference, the topic he wrote on was general but at the same time unique in the way it was dressed up. So always make your title a bit unique and also pack it in such a way it is commonly searched.

4. The Hyperlinks in between the texts more often proves nuisance to the readers. How many links you provide does not matter when what you provide is just overlooked! So make the links as less and as attractive as possible. Better to make it at the bio part alone as many article spreaders strip off the links in the text.

5. The way you package your article is very important because readers who see your article are not always productive ones… you have to make them so.

6. The Author bio part is the main part that determines the fate of your article and its effective marketing. Make it as efficient and clear as possible. Have the proper links and contacts in here, and the web site links may be linked with keywords if possible to make it more productive.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide‘

Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published eBooks.

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posted by Deron Dohanich \\ tags: Article Marketing

I’ve been an affiliate for a long time, trying different ways and many different sites to make money. When I first started there were many things I didn’t know and it seemed like I was banging my head against the wall just to make a few dollars… and sometimes just a few cents… but over time I learned a few tips and tricks.

1. One website isn’t enough. When I first became an affiliate, I had one website; a site for women that featured recipes, articles, a shopping section, and more. I put affiliate ads on every page, but the shopping section was exclusively affiliate advertising. I spent more than a year submitting this site EVERYWHERE, constantly. I never made more than 20 dollars a month. To profit from affiliate advertising, you need many websites. Do you think having multiple sites is too much to maintain? Once you get them set up and get the hang of it, you will only spend a few hours a day on them, especially if you use BLOGS instead of the standard html sites, as mentioned below in the next tip.

2. BLOG! There are some advantages to having blogs and using them for your affilate advertising. You don’t have to know html. Blogging has been made so easy that you just click here, copy and paste there, and you’re done. Blogging can be FREE. Many sites such as blogger.com offer you a free blog. Blog articles get picked up VERY quickly at Google and other search engines, especially if you allow people to comment to your posts. If you get a blog, add to it every day, and put your affiliate advertising right into your article. The more blogs you have the better. I have a blog for coupons and savings, one for personal articles, one for news articles, one for just jewelry, one for coupons, one with a punk theme, one for poker, and one for internet chat logs, and I’m always trying to think of new blog ideas. They all link to each other and they all have affiliate advertising on them. In fact, my friends and I are working on building a blog empire!

3. One affiliate company isn’t enough. In the beginning I was only signed up at linkshare.com. Sure, I was an affiliate at 100s of online stores through LinkShare, but I didn’t realize how much I was limiting myself. You need to also sign up at Commission Junction (cj.com) and ShareaSale.com, and maybe one or two more. Many merchants only use one affiliate site. For instance, if you want to be a Macy’s affiliate you’ll need to be a member of Linkshare, but if you want commissions from Liz Clayborne, it’s Commision Junction you’ll need. Don’t limit yourself!

4. Coupons and Sales. Many merchants offer coupon and promotional codes to their affiliates. Look for them and take advantage of them. Advertise the sales, too! People love saving money! Have you ever shopped online and then at the checkout you saw a box for coupon or promo code? Did you then open another browser and go try to find a coupon code for that site? I’ve done that a few times, as many people have. If you have a blog article entitled “Perfume.com coupon code” and then list the code as an affiliate link in the article with “click here to redeem”, someone shopping at perfume.com WILL find it. When they see the box at the checkout for coupon code, many people will go to Google, type in “perfume.com coupon code,” and find your article listed near the top. Like I said earlier, blog articles get into the search engines very quickly. Of course, my coupon blog, percentsavings.com, is filled with nothing but coupon codes and sales from 100s of online stores, and it’s all affilate advertising.

5. Don’t just add a link. Tell a little about the store/company and what they offer. If they were proudly founded in 1930, say so! If your link goes to their apparel section but they also offer bedding and kitchenware and dog collars, say so in your post! When you become an affiliate, you become a salesman. If you want commissions, make the merchant sound great!

6. Submitting isn’t just for search engines. In addition to the search engines, submit your blog to forums sites that list blogs. Every incoming link helps, no matter where it is! For the sites that list blogs (bloggerinity.com, technorati.com, bloglines.com, etc.) you’ll be required to link back to them, but that’s a good thing! You should spend at least an hour a day just finding new places to submit to.

7. Consider Pay-Per-Click. Not to your site, but to the merchant’s site, with your affiliate link as the URL. For instance, I use Google AdWords to advertise single sites I’m affiliated with, or even single products. Because of the Terms of Service I agreed to, I can’t use the word “ZALES” as one of my keywords. But when I was notified by the affiliate company that ZALES was having a sale on children’s jewelry, and I was given an affiliate link that landed on the sale page, I started a Google pay-per-click ad for it. I used the URL they gave me as the landing page so that it would have my affiliate tracking link in it, but I used “Zales.com” as the URL that shows up in the results, so that when it’s clicked on in Google it goes to Zales but I still get a commission if they purchase. My search terms were Children’s Jewelry, and Children’s Jewelry Sale. I set it to 5 cents per click, and my entire Adwords campaign stops each day after I’ve spent $1. I kept this ad running for the duration of the sale. With the small number of clicks the ad got, I only spent about $6, but one purchase of an expensive item of jewelry gave me a commission of $34. Keep in mind, I’m using affiliate advertising, in this case, without ever having the link on any of my websites or blogs.

8. RSS. RSS feeds are becoming more and more popular. I subscribe to several blogs’ RSS feeds, myself. It’s just so much easier to get new articles to all my favorite blogs all in one place (I use Mozilla Thunderbird), and I know people who subscribe to RSS feeds appreciate seeing an RSS button on my site. It’s very easy to implement, too. Just add a link on your blog to “http://yourdomain.com/?feed=rss2″ and then anyone with an aggregator can subscribe to it. If you want to give them the option to subscribe to your blog’s comments as well, the url is “http://yourdomain.com/?feed=comments-rss2.” If you have a blog similar to my coupon site, RSS can really help you by sending your new items directly to a subscriber’s aggregator, without you having to do anything at all!

9. Email signatures. For your email signature, use links to all your sites that have affiliate advertising on them. Family, friends, clients… anyone can be enticed to click on your ads!

10. Don’t give up, and POST POST POST! It can become frustrating but NEVER give up! It takes time! Just keep working at it and you WILL start seeing some commissions eventually. My first blog was online for a few months and being added to daily before I started seeing commissions. Just be sure to post articles to your blogs constantly! Never miss a day!

by pete maughan

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posted by Deron Dohanich \\ tags: affiliate blogs money

I’m sure you’ve heard that one of the best ways to make money on the internet is to create your own product.

Probably the simplest and least expensive is the creation of an ebook.You may be thinking yeah right or I can’t do that. Perhaps you have an ebook started, but just aren’t motivated to finish it. I know, because I’m there myself.

Well check this out. This is a screen shot of what has to be one of the biggest selling self published ebooks to hit eBay.

It’s by a young guy named Kekoa who resides in Hawaii. Kekoa uses the eBay ID: kekoa64.

Now my intent is really not to review this book, but to give you (and me) inspiration and motivation to create an ebook and sell it on eBay.

If you look at the title “Learn How My Girlfriend and I Make $100/hr!” what does it make you think? Do you say to yourself yeah right? Does it peak your curiosity? What ever you think you have to admit the title does catch your attention.

That’s exactly what a good title is supposed to do. See my post “Headlines that Draw Readers to Your Blog“.

Now I said that I wasn’t going to review this book, but I am going to give you things to think about.

First I would like you to go to eBay and look at the feedback that Kekoa has obtained. Use this link here: Kekoa64 - Feedback.

Pretty impressive I would say! Over 7000 positive feedbacks and a handful of negative feedbacks. Hey you can’t please everyone.

This is just one ebook on techniques he uses to make money. On average it looks like he sells or at least gets about ten feedbacks a day. So let’s say he’s selling about ten books a day at $9.99. That’s $99.99 a day (not deducting the fees for eBay and Paypal).

Still the money he’s pulling in is basically all on autopilot. Then when you look at the profit he’s made its well up in the tens of thousands of dollars! Holy crap!

All he does is strategically place the book up for auction at different times and days, and leaves feedback when a purchase is made.

A true example of an income stream! Are you motivated now?

Ok now here are some things I want you to think about. Be it negative or positive you need to listen carefully.

First the title “Learn How My Girlfriend and I Make $100/hr!”. Do you think they make that every hour of the day? Do they make that eight hours a day for a full 40 hour work week?

I once sold a used car for 500 dollars. It took me 3 days to sell it, but the actual deal took less than an hour. Should I write an ebook on “How I make $500/hr”? I think you get my drift.

Next if you’re really curious to the contents of the book and you’re reluctant to crack open your wallet (not even for $9.99) then here’s a little trick.

Look at the feedbacks, especially the negative feedbacks. The really disappointed buyers basically tell you why they don’t like the ebook and reveal some of the techniques!

Special note here. At the time of this post Kekoa64 has been suspended on eBay. He claims it’s due to some sort of misunderstanding with eBay. I don’t know. Also, if you surf the web for kekoa64 you’ll see there has been some controversy on how this ebook was able to maintain such a long lasting, high impact on eBay’s Impulse page. But I’m not gonna go there.

Another thing you can pickup from the feedbacks is the terms of his refund policy. I understand the reason why he sets it up this way, but as always there are the pros and cons.

I will admit I was curious and did buy the ebook. Did I learn anything from it? Yes I did. Was it worth the $9.99? Let’s put it this way. Any product that I buy boosting how it will help me make money had better do just that.

So yes I have made a few bucks and did get some ideas from the book.

A good rule of thumb is to give the system(s) a fair chance. Put the product to work. If after an honest effort to make it work you don’t make at least double of what you paid for the product then you may want to consider getting your money back.

Always, always be sure you fully understand the return/money back policy. If you’re not sure then contact the seller for clarification. Anybody who is confident in their product will spell it out to you.

Now get your butt in gear, write that ebook and start making some extra spending cash!

Until next time. Keep searching, keep an open mind, do your research, feed your mind, and have fun!

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posted by Deron Dohanich \\ tags: make money on eBay