Marketing tips and tricks for newbies

You have joined a few affiliate programs and now you wonder what to do…As a newbie you may have various options:

Article Marketing
Write great positive reviews of the products you are promoting, Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews. Post yours reviews on sites such as Goarticles.com or Ezinearticles.com

Blogging
Create a free blog using a blogging platform such as Blogger.com. Write posts (reviews) of the products you are promoting. Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews. Then ping your blog at a site such as Pingomatic.com. Your posts will be picked up quickly by search engines

If you want to host your own blog, read this: From Blogger to WordPress (tutorial for newbies): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8270241

Social Bookmarking
Welcome to the Web 2.0 era! In order to make it easy for your readers to save and share your content you may add social bookmark links to your blog - Link: SocialMarker.com

Forums
Join popular forums, go into your forum profile and edit your signature. Make a signature that includes your affiliate link(s), or links to your own reviews. Make frequent relevant contributions - Don’t spam! Depending on what you are promoting and the forums you are joining you will target direct sales or subaffiliates

Social Networking
Use social networking sites to promote your relevant reviews blog if any. Don’t spam with affiliate links!

PR
Once every few weeks you may post a press release at sites such as PRweb.com. Your press release will be a favorable review of the product you are promoting, alongwith your affiliate link

Email marketing
If you own a list of subscribers (people who have opted in to receive email offers from you), you may send them an email telling them about the products you are promoting and include your affiliate links in the email Once again, don’t spam!

Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
You may easily generate incomes with affiliate programs and PPC like Google Adwords You may also loose a lot of money before making your first sale. So be careful if you do use this way to drive traffic to your sales pages. Learn how it works before!
Learning centers: http://adwords.google.com + DP + PPCdiscussions.com

Make your own tools, write your own texts and try to think like a visitor or a potential buyer, study competitor tactics (use Google!), experiment, upgrade yourself all the time…It’s a matter of creativity, trial and errors, time and dedication

Link Exchange Tips

Establishing inbound links through reciprocal link exchanges is a very effective affiliate marketing promotional and advertising tool.If done correctly, building inbound links can improve your rankings in the search engines by raising your link popularity, increasing your website traffic, and providing a valuable resource for your website customers and visitors.

Here are 15 link exchange tips to get you started:


1. Exchange links with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and/or customers that will be interested in your affiliate products or services.

2. Keep your link title brief and free of long sentences.

3. Try to keep your link description (for your affiliate marketing site/blog) brief (aim for 200 characters or less).

4. Do not capitalize all letters in your link title or description.

5. Do not give the webmaster a deadline on when they should reciprocate. Webmasters are very busy people and it may take from 1 to 60 days or more. Be patient and in the long run you will receive more quality link partners!

6. Never remove a link partner from your site once they have agreed to exchange links with you and placed your link on their site.

7. Do not request link exchanges from sites that are unrelated to your website. For example, if you have a candle website, don’t exchange links with a pharmaceutical website. This will not benefit your customers or visitors and the search engines may penalize your website for this.

8. Let the webmaster know that you have indeed visited their site and explain to them why a reciprocal link exchange with your website would be beneficial.

9. Be sure that your link pages are search engine friendly. Link pages are easier indexed if they have no more than 25 links per page.

10. Complete your website before requesting reciprocal link exchanges. Most webmasters will not link to a site where most of the pages are “under construction”.

11. Do not give misleading information in your link exchange request. Most webmasters are not going to believe it and your request will most likely be ignored. For example, don’t claim that your site receives 100,000 unique visitors a day unless your site really receives that many.

12. It is best to categorize your link partners. For example, you might want to have a home and garden page, a home improvement page, a candles page, etc. This is a much better way or organizing your links for both your visitors and your link partners. If you just have one huge page of links in no order, most webmasters will not approve your link exchange request.

13. Make sure your links page is linked and visible from your affiliate marketing home page.

14. If your site is family friendly, do not add link partners that offer services or products that are not family friendly.

15. Be aware of free-for-all link programs and link farms. These are sites that basically offer nothing but unrelated links and end up collecting and sharing your email address, which results in a lot of unwanted SPAM in your inbox.

Free Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

One of the easiest ways to get more visitors is writing articles and blog posts frequently.

Whenever you post to your blog make sure you are pinging at least a dozen services. Any word press blog will let you add a ping listy. The free word press blogs automatically ping “Ping_O_Matic,” A service that in turns send out pings to other sites. For a free blog on blogger.com you can use “Ping_O_Matic,” or another ping service. There are quite a few of them out there so if one glitches on you, just find another one and use it.

Posting regular updates (once a day or even more often) to your blog will get you more visitors because people will get in the habit of regularly checking (either through visiting your blog or through their RSS reader) to see what’s new.

And posting to your bog is actually the easy writing you will ever do. You can be very informal and get away with it. You have to tighten up things a little when you write an article. Not much, but a little. After all, you want the article directories to accept your article to display on their sites and give you the exposure you want and the back links you are looking for

Posting to your blog can be a lot shorter, say 200 to 250 words. For an article you want to think 350 to 500 words.

Remember to link from within your blog posts to the sites you want the search engines to find a link to and so any visitors reading that particular blog entry will have that link right in front of them

So don’t think too much, just write. You want to get into the habit of spitting out a blog post in 5 minutes. Blog often and set up more than one blog if you want. To really establish a blog some ‘experts’ say you should post up to 5 times a day. But daily will get you some notice. You’ll want to spend your effort on other marketing strategies as part of a full business plan, right?

Make Money Online Ideas

My online colleague Scott Allen has written another interesting piece titled, Make Money Online (Without Spending a Dime). In it, Scott suggests some interesting online business opportunities that do pay cash. His main advice is outlined as such:

1) Help friends find better jobs.

2) Connect suppliers with buyers.

3) Provide business contact information.

4) Become a semi-pro reporter.

5) Write your own blog.

6) Advertise other people’s products.

I haven’t checked out most of the companies that Scott suggested. But, I’m interested to find out more, especially JobThread, InnerSell and Jigsaw.

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