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...
The work from home lifestyle is a dream for many and a reality for some. Sadly the space is targeted by scam artists who prey on the innocent looking for ways to make a little extra (or maybe a whole lot extra) from a home business. At workathomefiles.com we look at many ways to start on genuine work from home businesses. We tend to concentrate on those business activities that are based entirely at home or which are mainly based in and near the home and which do not require formal qualifications.
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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...
Using Article Directories and Sites for Traffic
If you’ve been following my last few posts on article writing you ‘ll already know about the potential for traffic from these types of sites, traffic that you can send to your own website or blog or straight to an affiliate link. You’ll see I named a few of the popular sites for doing this, with Ezine Articles being one of the biggest and most recommended. While those sites are not in any particular order I do tend to favour some more than others but this favouritism varies from user to user. Remember the reason we use them is...
Article Marketing Continued…
In my earlier post I talked about the basics of article marketing, the concept of using articles you write to spread links to your site or affiliate link around the article directories. The purpose being to draw surfers from the article directories to your link and to spread some links around so that the search engines will notice them and take them into account when working out when to list your site in search engine results. You may also see a third benefit if your articles are well written. This happens when other site owners looking for content take...
Affiliate Traffic Sources – Article Marketing
One excellent way to get traffic to your website or affiliate links is the totally free method of writing articles related to your offer and submitting them to article directories. So how does that get you traffic? Simple, include your links in the body of the article (where that is allowed) or in the resource box, which is the bit that allows you to tell the world about who you are. Article directory sites get lots of traffic themselves because of the sheer amount of content they hold, your goal is to attract the attention of that directory traffic...
Affiliate Marketing as a Work at Home Idea
Lots of people, myself included, make money through affiliate marketing. Its an extremely popular home business for that bit of extra money or even for lots of it. There are endless opportunities with seemingly more and more products becoming available to affiliates constantly. Its actually not that complicated either, in fact I’d go so far as to say just about anyone can do it. There are offline programs as well as online ones but for the purposes of this post lets just think about the online ones that are genuinely ‘work at home’ opportunities. To pick an example lets...
Candle Making – Another Work at Home Idea
I’ve just added candle making to the list of work at home ideas after seeing prices for candles at a homewares store! My dad used to make candles as a hobby interest once and no kidding the kind of stuff he produced at home surpassed the stuff I’ve seen selling at insane prices. If you are looking for a simple work at home idea with an arts and crafts feel to it then this might be worth considering. Get a copy of Jean Ann Herley’s ebook for people who already know how to make candles but are looking to...
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