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Hello Folks!
Affiliate marketing is where most of Internet Marketing “entrants” look when first approaching the idea of making money online. But they hit the “hard” stuff and get discouraged.
What they want is “easy affiliate marketing.” Why “easy”?
The reason for this is clear.
An affiliate marketer doesn’t have to engage in the long, and painful process of developing a product to sell to a market. In fact, if you want to just do it the way I do, just go to Clickbank.
Once you are inside Clickbank (with your free account), look at the various “market segments” Clickbank divides it’s considerable marketing world into.
Now go ahead and make a list of the top three or four products in each segment.
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So there you are! That’s the list of what’s hot now.
If they weren’t they wouldn’t be in the top three! Don’t use the same list forever! Make a new list every month and, pretty soon, when you get your marketing plan together, you’ll hit a home run because because you are playing ball in the right park.
That doesn’t mean you can’t make money selling products that are not in the top three or four. You can.
But how to pick a product isn’t the only reason I am writing this article. I want to talk to you about HOW you are going to sell this product.
I have only had success in one way.
Before I go in to the steps for an affiliate site with FREE Google traffic I want to remind those of you who want reminding, that there is a formula for marketing online – a simple formula. Here it is…
Offer + Traffic = Sales.
That’s it, folks! Once you get the offer up on a page there is nothing more to do other than drive traffic to the page. That’s when we get into the traffic driving issues and techniques that you can do from home for FREE.
See how close you are at that point? You have an offer up online…now all you need is traffic! Because an Offer + Traffic = Sales.
First – I pick what looks to me like the best product at that time, and the product pretty much defines the buyer type and thus the niche.
Second – I make a sales page (very low key-most high powered internet marketers wouldn’t do this – but I am NOT a high-powered marketer) that presents the product in a good way.
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Third – I then put that page at a url that will help it get well ranked for a keyword at the beginning of the url and the keyword has to be VERY relevant to the product or market.
Fourth – I get a few links to the url by posting it out on the web at a few places. I like Stumbleupon and Digg and Reddit. I get some other links to that url by submitting my rss feeds to some “feed aggregators” like feedest.com and feedage.com
Fifth – I write a few articles (this is one!) about the topic “keyword” and put them at Ezine (at a minimum) and other article places if I can. Recently I enabled myself to place articles and hundreds of places (including EzineArticles) by paying for a mass submission outfit to…well…mass submit my articles to LOTS of places. It has real impact.
Sixth – This should be about the fourth day. Maybe fifth. At first, when you are slow at it. On this day I check to se if I am “indexed by Google.”
How easy is that? You take your entire URL and copy it. Now paste it into the Google search box. If you come up right at the top or near you are indexed! Google knows who you are!
A ton of half baked sites are out there, but no one knows it. They are NOT indexed and I can hear them complaining about low traffic now!
Seventh – What I do for this site…while I am looking to start another site, is go through a series of other things I can do to cause traffic to come to my site.
Like I will put a ‘pointer” post on 3StepAds. There are others, too.
In that post I will have links pointing to my site that, if I was selling fish oil it would look like this in the text body of the post. “There are many great benefits you get when you take 2 of these fish oil capsules in the morning.” The italicized keyword “fish oil capsules” would be a hyperlink to my “fish oil capsules” URL. Get it? Click on it! You’ll see.
The keyword “fish oil capsules” is one of Googles most important ranking factors. Google considers a “verifying text link” that is in context (where it belongs – and not just in some random place) an important “vote” for your site being good for “fish oil capsules.” They (google) then start to move you toward the first page for “fish oil capsules.”
On some keywords I have made it to the first page fast! Like a week. On others – never. But one thing RULES! You MUST have traffic to your site!
And Google Page One gets you TRAFFIC!
Here’s To Your Success,
Riley West – An Internet Marketer In The Making
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You make it sound and look very simple even for a person who is a newbie to say the least. It would appear that this is the way to go in order to step in the market place.
Jennifer is very generous and I am looking forward in ordering One Week Marketing very soon.
Great article Riley, easy steps to follow.