I’m often asked how to pick affiliate products to promote and I tend to answer that I mainly use three ways. The first involves starting with the available traffic, the second is by seeing what products are hot and the third is by using some info I’ve come across somewhere. Let me explain a bit more on the first one: Starting with the Available Traffic This is simply looking at the type of traffic coming into my existing sites, articles, lenses etc, what keywords they are using, where they are from etc or looking at traffic I get from...
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Generate a Good Click Through from Articles
I said I’d post on how to generate a good click through rate from articles and perhaps the best way is through a little demonstration. Which of these footers is more likely to get people clicking through to your affiliate link or landing page: Joe Bloggs is based in Woop Woop where he writes articles for his website. He is into ping pong and good movies. Click Here to read more of his articles. OR Feel like an Overworked Slave? Earn your Salary in just One Month – Our Free Report Shows you How, Get it Now Before we...
Write an Article around a Target Phrase
Well I seem to be on a roll here so might as well keep it going… Lets suppose we decide to write an article to promote an ebook about making money from photography. Lets just say its the ebook “Starting a Photography Business” which we got our affiliate link for from Clickbank. Now we could go and try to write an article entitled “Photography Business” but when I enter that phrase into Google with quote marks around it I get over 1.1million results – I’d say thats going to be hard to rank for , wouldn’t you? Now if...
How to Pick Good Keywords for Article Marketing
Phew, long title for this little post. Notice I said how to pick good keywords for Article Marketing and not say eBay marketing? The approaches are entirely different! With eBay you can just put any keywords into your title that a searcher is likely to use when searching for what you are selling, even if those keywords are in random order. That is because eBay’s search engine is quite different to a SE like big G. With article marketing we want to target a specific phrase that a searcher is likely to type into a search engine. Not only...
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