Secrets of Affiliate Marketing

Secrets of Affiliate Marketing By Davion Wong Discover the Killer Secrets of Affiliate Marketing for Unstoppable Income www.Secrets-Of-AffiliateMarketing.com Copyright © All Rights Reserved Worldwide -1- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Notice: You Have Reprint & Redistribution Rights Worth $97! You may distribute this report as a free gift, sell it or package it with other products to be sold or as a bonus as long as the contents are unchanged and in its entirety. Disclaimer/Legal Notices The Publisher has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this report, notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet. The Publisher will not be responsible for any losses or damages of any kind incurred by the reader whether directly or indirectly arising from the use of the information found in this report. 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How To Pick The Right Keywords That Shoot Your Sales Up The Roof 4.1 Why Keyword Research Is Critical For Your Business 4.2 Targeting Long Tail Key Phrases 4.3 Secrets To Building Huge Keyword Lists 5. Sales Funnel Secrets Revealed 5.1 Direct Selling For “BUMS” 5.2 Using Product Reviews To Presell Your Visitors 5.3 How Mini Courses Can Triple Or Quadruple Your Income 5.4 Creating Free Reports – Your 24/7 Salespersons 6. Traffic Building Strategies And Secrets 6.1 Article Marketing – The “WRITE” Way For Massive Traffic 6.2 Web 2.0 Secrets That Pull In Hundreds Of Visitors On Demand 6.3 Pay-Per-Click Traffic – Where To Find Cheap Clicks 6.4 List Building For Repeated Sales 7. 7-Day Affiliate Marketing BluePrint - Putting Things Together 8. Final Thoughts 9. Recommended Resources Limited Bonus Package 4 4 5 6 6 8 10 10 11 13 13 13 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 31 -3- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 What Is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate marketing is basically in short, selling others’ products as an affiliate. An affiliate is like an independent salesperson that gets a commission on each completed sale. You can be an affiliate of many affiliate programs or just one. It’s your choice. And you can sell anything online from physical products like DVDs, vitamin supplements to digital products like ebooks and music MP3 files. Becoming an affiliate is not a difficult task on the internet. There are dozens of affiliate programs online that accepts almost everyone into their program. And registration is in most cases, free. The job of the affiliate is to expose the product to potential buyers. Making the sales however does require some work on your part as an affiliate. The whole marketing process can be an interesting one albeit challenging for some. When I first started on affiliate marketing, I too faced some difficulties in getting it right. But I soon learnt through ebooks, forums and from people who made it good. Affiliate marketing is one of the greatest opportunity and indeed easiest ways for anyone to make a fortune online. The Dot Com boom and increasing interest and usage of the internet as the main source for information has created many opportunities for products to be sold online. Anyone can get started and do it full time or part time. It does not matter what you are doing offline for a living. You can be a teacher, an engineer, a banker, a doctor (yes, there are doctors who switched to affiliate marketing as their new career), a retail sales assistant, a crane operator, a full-time mother or even a teen. Yes, there are some celebrity affiliate marketers who dropped out from college to pursue affiliate marketing. Surely, there must be something alluring? Ok, by now, your appetite must be whetted. The reason why I wrote this book is to show you the killer secrets of affiliate marketing for you to succeed and not struggle as an affiliate and hopefully become the next internet marketing guru! It is not what you know but applying what you learnt that makes you successful! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -4- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 1.2 Why You Would Love Affiliate Marketing I have dedicated this portion to talk about the benefits of affiliate marketing and why you should not let this opportunity of this decade to slip you by. Benefits of Affiliate Marketing: 1. You Do Not Need A Website To Sell The Product Majority of affiliate programs would provide you with a ready replicated website to promote their products. This is a bonus for all newbie affiliate marketers. 2. You Do Not Need To Create Your Own Product The product is already created by the product owner. You only need to market it. 3. You Do Not Need To Update Or Upgrade The Products The product owner takes care of all product updates and upgrades. You as an affiliate do not need to lift a finger to handle that. 4. You Do Not Need To Handle Customer Feedback And Backend Support Not everyone likes to or is good at dealing with customer feedback. All customer feedback and backend support is provided by the product owner. 5. You Do Not Need To Handle Transactions And Refunds All transactions from setting up the payment processor and so on are all taken care of by the product owner. Like it or not, there will always be people who request for refunds. All such refunds are also handled by the affiliate program. 6. Payment Is Simple And Quick Most affiliate programs pay you either via checks or direct payment to payment processors like Paypal. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -5- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 2. The Affiliate Marketer’s Killer Toolbox 2.1 Essential Must-Have Tools All successful affiliate marketers have some essential tools in their toolkit. We only have 24 hours a day and can only do this much. But using tools, more quality work can be done within the shortest time for more sales and income! • An email account – You want to appear as professional as possible. Do not use a free email account such as Yahoo or Hotmail as your business email account. Godaddy.com offers a free email account with every purchase of a domain name. Imagine having an email address contactme@yourname.com. Looks more professional isn’t it? An Autoresponder – An autoresponder is a web-based software that sends out a series of emails to people who sign up to your newsletter or email course. A good autoresponder will also give you the ability to send out broadcasts to your list. This means that you can keep in contact with your subscribers so that you can recommend any new product to them and make sales. You can start with a free autoresponder, such as that offered at GetResponse, but a paid service such as Aweber and GetResponse is recommended. • Keyword Research Tools – Keyword Research Tools are vital to finding the right keywords to target for pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization. Read this interesting blog about keyword research tools. Some Free keyword tools you can use are: 1. Google Keyword Research Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal 2. Good Keywords http://www.goodkeywords.com/ • Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -6- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 3. WordTracker (Free trial and Paid Versions) http://www.wordtracker.com/free-trial.html http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ - For 100 Related Keywords 4. Overture Keyword Tool http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ 5. The Dowser (Free and Paid Versions) http://www.thedowser.com/freeversion Paid Keyword Tools: 1. NicheBot www.NicheBot.com – one of the most detailed and powerful keyword research service. You get 100 free credits every month when you sign up for KeywordAvalanche.com. Each credit entitles you to a 1000 word list. 2. Keyword Elite www.KeywordElite.com – highly recommended leading keyword research tool with multiple functions for all keyword needs • A List of Useful Resources – You will need to gather a list of useful resources that includes a list of content writing and formatting tools, content submission software, website builder, directories of articles, ezines, PPC search engines and so on. Word Processor – Word processing software is essential. You will use it to write website and blog content, articles, sales letters, ads, and newsletters. Microsoft Word is recommended, Microsoft Word Pad will do if you don’t have Microsoft Word. Notepad is very useful as well. Try out Open Office – a free word processor • Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -7- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing • A Website and Domain for Each Niche or Market – Most affiliate programs will give you an affiliate website which looks the same for all affiliates. It would be better if you have your own customized website with a domain name ideally for each niche. This website would contain relevant content related to the niche with affiliate links planted. Remember to also put subscription boxes to capture the visitors’ names and email addresses so that you can follow up with them and build your lists. Website Builder – Website builders like DreamWeaver and Frontpage are great for building professional websites. Webhosting – All websites need to be hosted. HostGator offers some of the best deals and is highly recommended by professional affiliates. Commission and Campaign Tracking Software – Keeping up with affiliate products, affiliate links, commissions earned, commissions paid, advertising campaigns, and affiliate tracking report sites, logins, and passwords can easily become a full time job without software to organize all. Affiliate Organizer at www.affiliateorganizer.com is highly recommended. • • • 2.2 More Secret Weapons In The Arsenal All internet marketing gurus and super affiliates own powerful tools that either makes their business look more professional, drive more traffic and sales or simplify their work. Each tool has been proven to be worth many times its price. Article/Content Writing/Newsletter Solutions Instant Article Wizard – a nifty tool that creates a quality article in 8 minutes even if you know nothing about the topic you are writing Keyword Avalanche – a private membership forum that provides 300 articles together with matching thematic web templates and 100 free Nichebot keyword credits for 100,000 keywords monthly. Also includes free bonuses. Tip: My Free Website Builder – “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) website builder that does not require you to know HTML. Absolutely FREE to download and use! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -8- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Content Assistant – article writing tool that makes you an instant expert on any topic. Makes content research as easy as ABC and cuts writing time by 90%. Niche Content Packages - private label rights (PLR) content membership site where you buy credits to exchange for articles Secret Article Converter – an excellent tool to rewrite PLR articles and avoid duplicate content filters Instant Niche Newsletter Club – 52 private label newsletters in 3 hot niches per month. Professional squeeze pages and affiliate link rebrander included. Article Submission Solutions Article Post Robot – powerful article submission software that submits your article automatically to over 500 article directories bringing in instant traffic JetSpinner/JetSubmitter – a membership-based article submission service that submits your article to more than 470 article directories. Comes with article spinner for unique versions, submission scheduler etc. $1 Trial RSS Feeds Submission RSS Feeds Submit - Submit your blogs and RSS feeds to over 58 Top directories and search engine submission sites, automatically! Niche Blog Solution Niche Empire Generator – A complete niche blog solution that creates Social Bookmarking-friendly, SEO-optimized profitable niche blogs in 5 minutes. Powerful features include automatic content updating, modification of blog themes, promotion of blogs to RSS feeds directory and more. Search Engine Optimization SEO Tools SEO Elite – leading SEO tool that can get your website to rank for your targeted keywords in Top 10 in days. PS: Find Out More Recommended Resource And Bonuses On Page 28 Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package -9- Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 3. Choosing The Right Affiliate Program And Product To Promote 3.1 Why You Should Become a ClickBank Affiliate Now that you have the tools, where do you find the best affiliate programs for products to promote? Well, there are multiple places that you can start looking. Generally, there are two kinds of products to promote, one the physical goods, meaning goods that are delivered via a shipping company or postal mail. Another kind is downloadable products in digital format such as ebooks and software. ClickBank is one of the best places to find affiliate programs for downloadable information products. Many affiliates would agree that promoting downloadable products from ClickBank is the easiest and most profitable for several reasons: 1. People love instant gratification. To be able to pay and instantly download the product dramatically increases conversion rate, ie more visitors convert to buyers more readily. Buyers hate waiting for slow delivery. 2. Digital information products do not require inventories. This means that the commissions can be as high as 60 to 70% per sale. 3. There are 1,000s of products in various categories. Affiliates have many choices to pick their niches. 4. ClickBank pays their affiliates promptly after the 15th and last day of the month and handles all the transactions and refunds. There are also other directories of affiliate programs that could be useful to you. • AffiliatePrograms • Commission Junction • ClixGalore • Link Share • Share-A-Sale • MaxBounty Tip: To find other affiliate programs for a niche you are targeting, search “Product/Niche + Affiliate Program” in Google. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 10 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 3.2 The 3 Steps To Pick A Winner To Promote As a ClickBank affiliate, you want to select a product that sells well and has low competition ie not many competitors to share the profit pie with you. You have to be familiar with some numbers associated with each product. Once you have decided on the product category, say Business to Business, here are the 3 secret steps to pick a winner. Get these right and you have a top seller! Step 1: Look Out For Healthy ClickBank Statistics This is a screen shot of ClickBank Marketplace. See the numbers next to the blue arrow. • $/sale - Average net amount earned per affiliate per sale. Note that this is the net earned per actual sale, and so it is affected by refunds, chargebacks and so on Always go for a minimum of $20 per sale. Anything lower is barely profitable especially if you are using pay-per-click (PPC) to advertise. If the product costs $50, and the commission is set at 50%, by right, you should be getting around $23 – 25 per sale. However, if $/sale shows that it is only $16 or lesser than the set commission, it is a signal that there are many refunds, hence the low figure. • %/sale - Average percentage commission earned per affiliate per sale Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 11 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing • %refd - Fraction of product owner’s total sales that are referred by affiliates Target a product with at least 50% for %/sale & 70 – 90% for % refd. The numbers suggest that there are affiliates promoting and the commission is generous enough. • grav – “Gravity” is a measure of how many affiliates are currently promoting the product. Not the exact number of affiliates though A product with 50 – 100 for “grav” indicates that there are a handful of affiliates promoting the product but not competitive enough. This is a positive sign that the product is in demand and it will be profitable for you. However, for certain niches like music, even a high grav of 200 can still be profitable since the demand is huge but most niches do not behave in this way. Step 2: Professional Sales Page A professional sales page is crucial and determines whether you will make one or two sales only or make many sales. Visit the sales page and read it. Does it motivate you to buy? Some products are great. I have come across such products but the sales page look like a cheap $5 cookie cutter website. Step 3: Complete Affiliate Marketing Tools Affiliate marketing tools are critical to your marketing efforts. Most affiliates gloss over this but if you take it seriously, your income level will shoot to the roof. There should be a wide array of tools available for affiliates to use such as PPC keywords and ad copy, email ad copy, banners and so on. Go to the product website and check out the affiliates section. Browse through and see if they provide a comprehensive set of tools and if there is any support forthcoming. Tip: CBEngine makes it really easy for you to check out the statistics and details of each product. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 12 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 4. How To Pick The Right Keywords That Shoot Your Sales Up The Roof 4.1 Why Keyword Research Is Critical For Your Business Keyword research can make or break your affiliate marketing business. The correct keywords get you tons of targeted traffic and sales, while lousy ones waste your time, money and efforts. We will see how this is so. Marketing the product means driving traffic to your website and the sales page. You can buy the traffic or get it for free. The most common way to get instant targeted traffic to your website is to buy it through pay-per-click (PPC) search engines like Google Adwords. As for free traffic, the most laser targeted traffic is from the search engine results, or what we call organic search traffic. Both make use of the principle that people searching for the keyword terms are already presold on the product, ie they are a warm market that is looking for the product. Keyword research finds exactly what keywords these prospects are typing in the search engines and expose our product to them when the search results show up. 4.2 Targeting Long Tail Key Phrases Long-tail key phrases are important 4 to 5 word phrases containing the main keywords. For example, main key phrase may be “passive income”, and long-tail key phrase is “earn passive income for free”. Google Adwords provides the largest chunk of PPC traffic in the world. But it is not cheap to bid on common and popular keywords like “internet marketing” and “make money online”. One click can cost you few dollars. It makes sense then to target keywords that are less popular but still have sufficient searches each month (ideally at least 50 – 500 searches in Overture). The clicks are way cheaper and laser-targeted to specific customer needs at the same time. For example, “make money online on low marketing budget” is highly targeted and such keywords are proven to convert traffic into sales better. So if you have an ebook titled “How to Make Money Online On A ShoeString Budget”, voila! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 13 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Long-tail key phrases have low search counts naturally. So you need to target many of such long-tail key phrases for your PPC campaigns in order to drive enough traffic to your website and sales page. Another use for long-tail key phrases is for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. Build web pages on content with the long-tail key phrases. There is a good chance that these web pages would rank high in the search engines and prospects searching your targeted key phrases would find your website and sales page. Such traffic is the BEST you can get because it is laser-targeted and FREE! Here’s a free secret trick on how to find key phrases that enjoy a good amount of searches and yet not competitive enough so that your web page can reach top 10 in the Google search results. Repeat it until you have at least 10 – 20 key phrases. 1. Go to Overture and search the main keyword for a list of related key phrases. For example, “make money online” 2. Target one of the long-tail key phrases (50 – 500 searches) 3. Find a keyword/key phrase in quotes with lower than 4000 to 5000 search results in Google. This measures the competitiveness of the keyword as all returned results would show web pages that contain the keyword/key phrase. Take the example of the key phrase, legitimate make money online ways, type in “legitimate make money online ways” in Google search. It shows 987 search results which is great! 4. Next, here is a secret weapon to test if you stand a chance to make it on top 10 in Google for that key phrase. Objective is to confirm there are no Page Rank (PR) 5 competitors in the top 10 search results. Tips: Go to Page Rank Search and type in your key phrase in quotes. If the top 10 are 3 – 4 PR web pages, the competition is weak! You may also download this free ebook worth $97 on SEO and pick up some secret SEO tips at this blog! Affiliate marketers use a secret weapon, Keyword Avalanche – a private membership forum gives you 100 free Nichebot credits for 100,000 keywords monthly. With the credits, you can easily locate profitable long tail keywords that are high in demand but little competition. Perfect for PPC and SEO! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 14 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 4.3 Secrets To Building Huge Keyword Lists Typically, a good Adwords campaign requires you to start with a huge keyword base of 300 – 2000 keywords at least to sieve out profitable ones by trial and error. Where are you going to find such huge product-related keyword lists? There are several ways making use of the keyword tools I mentioned on Page 6: 1. Go to Google’s keyword tool, under Keyword Variations, type in your keywords. It should give you a list which you can dig deeper. Using this method, you can build a list of 100s of keywords. 2. Another trick using Google’s keyword tool is to use Site-Related Keywords tab to find more keywords related to your product. Say you are promoting an ebook on acne home remedies, go to Google search and find the top 10 sites’ urls for “acne home remedies”. Search each of the url under the Site-Related Keywords tab and remember to check “Include other pages on my site linked from this URL”. This trick will reveal all the keywords your competitor is using on his/her website. You will be surprised to find keywords that you have not even thought of! 3. The most direct method is to use Overture, WordTracker or NicheBotClassic, start with the main keywords and dig deeper into each related keyword. 4. If you prefer using free software, try Good Keywords. 5. Find misspell words at http://tools.seobook.com/spelling/keywords-typos.cgi While these methods can get you a huge keyword list for you to market your product, the process is very time-consuming. Imagine doing this for a few or even many products! This is why many affiliate marketers including myself use automated tools like NicheBot and Keyword Elite to build huge profitable keyword lists. By the way, you get 100 free NicheBot credits every month when you sign up forKeywordAvalanche.com. Each credit gives you a 1000 word list. Tip: You can also download a free ebook worth $97 on how to win with Google Adwords and read some good keyword techniques at this blog. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 15 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 5. Sales Funnel Secrets Revealed This is an important chapter so please read carefully. All affiliate marketers need to understand the concept of a sales funnel. Identifying a good product to sell is one part of the equation. The other part is the sales funnel we have to create to presell and close the deal. Here’s a simple schematic diagram to illustrate this point. Traffic ie Visitors Sales Funnel Product Sales Page Sales There are several sales funnel that are highly popular and effective. They are: 1. 2. 3. 4. Direct Selling With BUM Marketing Product Reviews Mini Courses Free Viral Reports 5.1 Direct Selling For “BUMS” Who are “BUMs”? BUMs are affiliate marketers who make use of content marketing aka BUM Marketing to promote their products. The concept behind BUM marketing is simple, FREE and follows this blueprint. 1. Pick long tail keywords (see Pg 14). Gather about 10 to 20. 2. Write a content rich article around the keywords with 2 – 3 % keyword density. For every 100 words, repeat the keyword 2 or 3 times. 3. Submit the article to top article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles etc. 4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 and do so for 10 to 20 articles. 5. Wait for sales and affiliate cash to pour in! Tip: Web 2.0 pages like HubPages and Squidoo are very popular and it is easy to create a keyword optimized page that ranks high in the search engines! This is how my web pages rank in Top 10 at Google for many keywords within 7 Days! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 16 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 5.2 Using Product Reviews To Presell Your Visitors Product reviews are extremely powerful in preselling your visitors. I personally have review sites that convert at higher than 10% on average. This means 1 out of every 10 visitors would buy my product. Many affiliate marketers have reported even higher conversion rates but that really depends on the niche you are in. Product review sites are usually created as mini-sites consisting of a few pages. You do not need to create a huge site. In fact for each product you review one page is already enough. There are a few tricks to create a product review that gets people interested in buying your product. 1. Create a content rich web page that is optimized for the search engines. Trick is to optimize for the product name, for example, Project Black Mask. That way, your product review would get ranked high and receive a lot of attention. 2. Write useful content that is related to your niche, and embed your affiliate links into the content and explain how your product can solve a problem your readers have. This is a killer technique that is subtle in your preselling. 3. Create review blogs using free blogs like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. Google loves Blogger blogs. The blogs are simple to create and templates are optimized. See this sample niche blog. 4. Do a comparison of products. Review a few other similar products. Do a benefits and disadvantage analysis. Your potential customers like to know the differences between the products. Buy-in rate is much higher! 5. You may even use an article to do a product review. Write an honest and useful content-filled review and submit it to the article directories. This method is popular and very easy to implement. Where do you find the content for the review mini-sites? You can visit forums to read other peoples’ comments, search Google and Yahoo, or even pay a visit to the article directories to read the reviews there. Tip: You can even interview the product owner and put the Q & A on your website. But the most effective way is to buy the product so that you know exactly what is inside! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 17 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 5.3 How Mini Courses Can Triple Or Quadruple Your Income Mini courses are simply email courses you send to your subscribers. They are short and often contain only 5 – 10 emails. Marketing statistics have found that a prospect needs to be exposed to a product for 5 – 7 times before he/she buys the product. This is the reason why we use mini courses. For this, you would need an autoresponder. Both Aweber and GetResponse are top quality autoresponders that are available to anyone at affordable rates. If you are spending money to buy traffic, you want to make sure you can follow up with each visitor. Otherwise, the traffic is too expensive. In order to do so, you would need an subscriber sign-up form either on your website or a name squeeze page. What it does is capture the name and email address of your visitor. There are free squeeze page templates you can download at http://www.instantsqueezepagegenerator.com. Alternatively, you can purchase cheap but professional squeeze pages proven to convert visitors into subscribers at Dual Squeeze Pages or Squeeze Page Profit System. Those who are interested in building huge subscriber lists can try this powerful squeeze page system. There are a few ways to prepare the email courses. 1. Hire a ghostwriter or freelance writer from Scriptlance, RentACoder etc and pay about $5 for each email article. 2. Buy Private Label Rights (PLR) articles such as those from Niche Content Packages and modify them. 3. Write your own emails with material from the search engines. 4. Break up the chapters of PLR ebooks you have into individual email articles. But please make sure you read the terms of your PLR. The reason why mini-courses are so popular is because they are fast to set up and allows you to cross-sell other related products. Imagine you are targeting the internet marketing for newbies niche, other than selling Ewen Chia’s Newbie Cash Machine, you can promote just about any other product like “how to drive traffic to a new website”, “how to create a website” kind of ebooks. Tip: Instant Niche Newsletter Club offers 52 private label newsletters in 3 hot niches per month. Professional squeeze pages included! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 18 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 5.4 Creating Free Reports – Your 24/7 Salespersons Viral is the word when it comes to free reports. You basically create mini reports of about 5 to 10 pages on a niche topic to give away and let it spread around 24/7. Examples can be reports on how to drive traffic using traffic exchanges, how to choose what product to sell at eBay and so on. These free reports serve two purposes, one to build your list and the other to sell related products. Each free report would detail useful information with affiliate links embedded into the content. If readers buy the products, the author gets paid. But be sure to write quality and informative content that would be helpful for your readers. Products recommended should be good and tie closely to your niche as well in order not to shortchange your readers. But we have not come to the main purpose of free reports yet. The main purpose is to get subscribers to sign up for your newsletter so that you can build your subscriber list. With the list, you can then follow up with your prospects closely using your preset autoresponder email series. Your email course would be a course that is related to the free report you gave out. Occasionally, you can also broadcast interesting news or information and recommendations to ebooks and tools that would help your prospect. To make your free report a powerful viral tool, offer the giveaway and resale rights of your free mini-report to your readers. This would motivate them to list your report on their websites and to give it away as a bonus or sell it. See how the free mini report can spread around the whole internet creating a truly viral effect? Too lazy to write your free report? Did you know that there are now ready made rebrandable mini-reports that promote ClickBank products in the hottest niches? Check out Affiliate Income Machines that provides a complete suite of mini reports and professional squeeze pages to launch your lists and promote 21 different ClickBank products in 7 popular markets. You can also grab your free membership for PLR Wholesaler and download PLR and rebrandable ebooks and reports to start your viral report campaign! Tip: Give away this ebook you are reading now and use it to build your list. Hurry to do so since it is a new release and not many has it yet! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 19 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 6. Traffic Building Strategies And Secrets Web traffic or visitors is like the life force of an online business. Without targeted visitors, the business cannot survive and flourish. Finding quality traffic according to some experts, accounts for 80% of your success online. As an affiliate, there are some effective ways you can use to drive traffic which I will reveal later. Before you start to build traffic, consider using one of the powerful sales funnels covered earlier. Do not drive traffic directly to your affiliate product. Rather, drive it through your sales funnel to improve conversions. But some vouch that Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash method still works. Maybe for very rare niches, it still works but for more competitive ones, the application is limited. Google Cash method actually talks about direct affiliate linking and driving PPC traffic directly to the affiliate website to complete the sales. It is important to stay focused on just a few traffic building techniques. Once you find one that you are comfortable with, work at it until you become an expert. Many affiliates fail because they keep chasing after the next “In” thing on traffic generation which comes and goes. They end up wasting time with no results to show. Do not follow them. I have not covered all the effective traffic building strategies and secrets but what I list here are proven and time-tested techniques which would last long. 6.1 Article Marketing – The “WRITE” Way For Massive Traffic Article marketing is my pet topic. I work on article marketing quite a bit to drive free targeted traffic to my websites. The quality of traffic from article marketing is one of the best you can ever get other than PPC and conversion rates from the articles I have written are excellent. Sometimes, it can be as close as 5%. If you do not know what is article marketing, read Secret Article Profits. I highly recommend this ebook if you really want to learn the secrets behind successful article marketing and start earning fat Clickbank checks. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 20 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing There are several reasons why article marketing is so popular: 1. It is absolutely free. You do not need to pay a single cent. Article directories accept and publish your articles for free. All you need is to write the articles. 2. It drives FREE instant and targeted traffic to your websites. Within a short time, your article gets indexed in the search engines and rank well in Page 1 or 2 if it is optimized. Such traffic is your warm market. 3. Articles are great sales pages! If you write well enough to presell your customers, they would be ready to buy your products once they hit the sales page. 4. Articles get you high Page Rank one-way links. Imagine your article on a PR7 website with a link to your website? These boost your website ranking. How To Write To Create An Avalanche Of Traffic To Your Websites? 1. Do your research at the forums. Hear the voice of your prospects and know what they want. Find out the main theme, the underlying message of their topics. Perhaps they want to know how to write an article in the fastest way possible? 2. Target the right keywords. Read the earlier Paragraph 4.2 on “Targeting Long Tail Keywords”. This is the KEY! Most article marketers get it wrong!! 3. Include the keywords in your article title. Start with the keyword, avoid placing it towards the end and avoid unnecessary words. Search engine spiders read content from left to right. Too many irrelevant words can confuse them. 4. Include the targeted keywords in your article introduction, body content and conclusion. Go for 2 to 3 % keyword density. 5. Write Regularly. Try to write at least 1 or 2 articles a week on different keywords. You would realize that the traffic soon becomes consistent. Tip: Too lazy to write? This is why we turn to Instant Article Wizard and Content Assistant to create articles on demand! Save the trouble and cost of hiring ghostwriters or buy PLR articles. There are also Secret Weapons pro-affiliates use to get Maximum Exposure for their articles - Article Post Robot & JetSubmitter. Find out what it can do for your business from this article marketing blog. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 21 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 6.2 Web 2.0 Secrets That Pull In Hundreds Of Visitors On Demand Web 2.0 has become extremely popular nowadays. Basically, it is a second generation of web-based communities and services. You may have heard of social bookmarking and sites like Digg.com, Squidoo, Del.icio.us and wikis. Why Social Bookmark? Social bookmarking started first with the idea of bookmarking favorite websites that one can access from any part of the world. The bookmarks are saved on a web server rather than your computer. You can even share your bookmarks with others in the web community. Rather than let the search engine spiders and robots decide what content is relevant to a particular keyword, we can bookmark and tag each website with the relevant tags/keywords we deem is appropriate. A very helpful thought like this soon opened many possibilities to affiliate marketers. Rather than be at the mercy of Google’s ever changing search engine algorithm, why not we decide what is relevant and what is not? Everyday, millions of visitors get onto social bookmarking sites to search for information and there is a lot of money to be made through social bookmarking sites. Affiliates can bookmark their websites, blogs and etc for instant targeted traffic. What Are Some Secrets To Pull In Visitors On Demand? 1. Use outrageous headlines as a title for your bookmark. “How My Website Gets PR 5 Within 1 Month” would certainly attract tons of visitors. But please, no lies! 2. Check out the most popular tags at the home page of the social bookmarking site. Use these tags for your bookmark - a covert trick to get maximum traffic. 3. Ask your friends to bookmark your bookmark. The front page always shows the top bookmarks saved by the most number of people. Some even hire others to do so. This little trick can drive hundreds of visitors to your website within 1 day! Tip: Social bookmarking can be tedious if done manually. Fortunately, there are automated tools like Social Bookmarking Demon, Web2Submitter and Lazee Linkz that social bookmarks your affiliate websites on autopilot. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 22 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 6.3 Pay-Per-Click Traffic – Where To Find Cheap Clicks PPC offers the fastest way to drive targeted traffic to your websites. You can go to Google Adwords and register an account for as low as $5. Go for Standard Edition. Forget about Starter Edition which is too rudimentary. An ad campaign does not take more than 10 minutes to set up and traffic can start streaming in as fast as within the next 15 minutes. But PPC advertising can be really expensive! Google Adwords arguably still offers the best quality traffic. But you really need to apply some secret techniques to optimize your budget. 1. Target long tail keywords. Read Chapter 4. Long tail keywords are targeted and have fewer bidders. Hence, the clicks are much cheaper. Use either NicheBot or Keyword Elite to find a whole list of such keywords quickly. 2. If you are using Google Search and Search Network only, ie disable Content Network, it works well for long tail keywords but not for competitive terms. Using search only will also boost your CTR and bring down the PPC cost. 3. If you are using Google Search and Search Network only, always bid for the 4 – 6 position for each keyword. This ensures your ad appears on upper Page 1. 4. Bid 1 cent above your competitor. To find out how much you need to bid for each ad position, use Google’s keyword tool or Keyword Elite. 5. Content search has its place as well. Experiment with targeted long tail keywords and go for the lowest bids ie 5 cents and bid upwards. Then tweak your ads until you hit a high CTR. This is tedious but ensures that you get the most out of your advertising budget. 6. Go for cheaper but smaller PPC networks like Miva and GoClick. I have had some considerable success using GoClick. Tip: Want to stop wasting money on PPC testing and “copy” the profitable keywords and ad copies that are making sales for your competitors? Then you cannot miss GetAdSpyPro. Watch this video how this secret tool can pull out profitable keywords quickly for you! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 23 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 6.4 List Building For Repeated Sales List building has to be the most powerful traffic building strategy. Affiliate marketing gurus would vouch that the one main factor behind their successes is a list of subscribers that are ready to buy their product recommendations. In fact, statistically, each subscriber is worth $1 a month in terms of income. Building a list is not a short-term affair. If your goal is only to make a few hundred dollars online, then this method is not necessary. With the methods I have given you, you can easily achieve that kind of income. But if you intend to quit your day job and starting making serious income in the range of $1000s to 10,000s, then listen up! You need a LIST that keeps putting cash in your bank. I have talked in earlier chapters about the importance of following up with your subscribers using a professional autoresponder like Aweber and GetResponse. You also need an opt-in form or name squeeze page to capture the name and email address of your prospect. See how Dual Squeeze Pages or Squeeze Page Profit System can instantly give you professional templates to work on. Building a list allows you to keep in close contact with your subscribers. Give them useful information and build relationship with them. Recommend only the best resources that can help them and in the process make some solid income. The larger your list, the more repeated sales! Never worry about traffic anymore. What Are Some Of The Fastest Ways To Explode Your List? 1. Offer a valuable free gift. It can be a quality ebook, software or web templates. Do not give away trash! 2. Participate in giveaway events. Participating in giveaways is quick way to leverage on other marketers’ lists to build your list. 3. Sell a cheap ebook at $0.99 or $1.99 at eBay. Encourage your buyers to sign up for your newsletter for future updates and news. 4. Do a Joint Venture (JV) with other affiliates. Offer to cross promote each other’s products and newsletters to build up each other’s lists. Tip: Offer this ebook as a bonus or gift and use it to build your list quickly. Hurry to do so since it is a new release! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 24 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 7. 7-Day Affiliate Marketing BluePrint Putting Things Together I have put together a quick 7-day affiliate marketing blueprint so that you can get started to make anything from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month. Day 1 1. Perform keyword research to target 10 to 20 longtail keywords for a niche (more if you are using PPC). Use NicheBot or Keyword Elite if you can afford to. 2. Perform content research to create content for your mini-report, mini email course, articles and review site. Instant Article Wizard and Content Assistant can do it for you in a matter of minutes. 3. Write a 5-page mini-report yourself or use any method I revealed earlier or hire someone to do so. Day 2 1. Create the 5 – 7 part email course and load it onto the autoresponder. 150 to 200 words per email are enough. 2. Create a 1 or 2 page review site or blog. Optimize it for the keywords (SEO). Day 3 1. Set up your name squeeze page and download page for your 5-page report. 2. Write 4 – 6 articles using the longtail keywords, hire a ghost writer or use Instant Article Wizard and Content Assistant. 3. Post them to EzineArticles, GoArticles, HotLib, SearchWarp and ArticleCity manually or automatically using Article Post Robot or JetSubmitter to 400 over article directories for maximum exposure. Remember to include a link to your name squeeze page and the product affiliate link in your author resource box. Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 25 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Day 4 1. Write 4 – 6 articles using the longtail keywords, hire a ghost writer or use Instant Article Wizard and Content Assistant. 2. Post them to EzineArticles, GoArticles, HotLib, SearchWarp and ArticleCity manually or automatically using Article Post Robot or JetSubmitter to 400 over article directories for maximum exposure. Remember to include a link to your name squeeze page and a link to your review site in your author resource box. Day 5 1. Create a PPC campaign for your name squeeze page but you need to first compile a huge keyword list using Google’s keyword tool or Keyword Elite. (Note: To make sure you have the most profitable keywords to start earning money, use GetAdSpyPro to copy your successful competitors’ keywords and ad copies) 2. Go to the Social Bookmarking websites like Squidoo, Del.icio.us and Digg to post your links to your review site and name squeeze page. Day 6 1. Contact Ezine owners and webmasters in your niche and offer them your free mini-report for giveaway. 2. Go to free ebooks depository-type sites and list your mini-report for download. 3. Participate in a major giveaway like Lightning Giveaway if there is one. 4. Exchange links with webmasters in your niche for your review site. 5. Post comments with your signature link to your free ebook at 5 forums. Day 7 Take a REST and brainstorm for a new niche you want to target the next week. Tip: Sign up for my newsletter and get tons of useful marketing tips and secrets to create an ever-increasing affiliate marketing income! Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free! Also Check Out This Limited Bonus Package - 26 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 8. Final Thoughts Thank you for reading this ebook till this page. I hope you have found the information here useful. Did you sign up for my Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter? If you downloaded this ebook from www.Secrets-Of-AffiliateMarketing.com, then you are signed up for the newsletter. If not, I encourage you to do so if you received my ebook from other sources. This is so that I can continue to provide you with the latest secrets and information online to help you succeed as an affiliate. If you are willing to invest your time and efforts to master the techniques taught in this ebook, it would surely build you an ever-growing income online. Everyday, many affiliates come and go, chasing after programs and the latest marketing technique. This is why more than 95% affiliate marketers never make a real dime in the business. Stay focused and your efforts can pay off very quickly! The internet is the fastest place today to create instant millionaires and some are not even 30 years old. Will you be the next? Set your goals on the level of income you want - $500, $3000 or $10,000 a month? Work out a realistic plan with various milestones to measure your progress and to keep you on track. Celebrate when you successfully hit the first milestone be it your first sale or hitting $500 a month. This will push you to hit the next. Invest in continual learning. Do not scrimp on buying good ebooks. To me, as long as an ebook can teach me one good trick that would multiply my earnings, it is worth it. If you are a newbie, you may want to read Ewen Chia’s Newbie Cash Machine. Veterans may want to read ebooks like Untold Marketing Secrets, Ewen Chia’s Autopilot Profits, and Day Job Killer which would definitely boost your income to higher heights! Lastly, be willing to invest in good tools and outsource your tasks. We only have 24 hours a day. In order to automate your affiliate marketing business, buy tools that can perform your daily tasks like article submission, article writing, link building, website creation and so on. Such tools also bring in more traffic and sales. Always measure the return on your investment. If a tool costs $200 but can earn you $1000 every month, it is definitely worth the buy! I wish you all the best in your affiliate marketing endeavors! Remember to check out the Special Limited Bonus Package I got just for you. - 27 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing 9. Recommended Resources Recommended Reading Ewen Chia’s Newbie Cash Machine – Perfect for Newbies. Ewen Chia shows you how to set up cash-churning income machines even if you have never made a single sale online. Ewen Chia’s Autopilot Profits – Affiliate marketing explained in detailed step-bystep system. If you have some experience in affiliate marketing, this ebook will give you a refreshing touch and show you some tips and tricks to supercharge your income. Untold Marketing Secrets – Plug in 'Secret Marketing' Formulas, eliminate all bogus information and gluff, and tap into top marketers who have generated millions of dollars using the exact methods revealed in this ebook. Ideal if you intend to build an affiliate marketing empire. Day Job Killer – From Chris, the author of Affiliate Project X fame. Discover the super affiliate secrets, and break away from the failure and lies. Learn the most devestating Adwords techniques on the planet; the ones the top 1% use against you, affiliate marketing tricks that the six figure guys use - exposed in copyable step-by-step detail, and duplicate the exact blueprint a seven figure ClickBank dynamo just uncovered... Web Hosting HostGator offers some of the best deals and is highly recommended by professional affiliates. Baby Plan at $10/month hosts unlimited sites. AutoResponder Aweber and GetResponse are highly recommended and affordable. Word Processing Open Office – a free word processor Website Builder My Free Website Builder – Free “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) website builder that does not require you to know HTML. Click and point to create your websites. - 28 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Keyword Tools GetAdSpyPro – Perfect tool to spy on your competitors to grab profitable keywords & ad copies KeywordElite.com – highly recommended leading keyword research tool with multiple functions for all keyword needs Google Keyword Research Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Good Keywords http://www.goodkeywords.com/ WordTracker (Free trial and Paid Versions) http://www.wordtracker.com/free-trial.html For 100 Related Keywords http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ Overture Keyword Tool http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ The Dowser (Free and Paid Versions) http://www.thedowser.com/freeversion Private Label Rights/Content Solution Keyword Avalanche – a private membership forum run by Scot Standke and Jim Morris of NicheBot.com. This forum provides 300 PLR articles together with matching thematic web templates and 100 free Nichebot keyword credits for 100,000 keywords monthly. Also includes free bonuses. A perfect gathering place for affiliate marketers where powerful tips are shared and lively discussions take place. Guest speakers are invited to share their success secrets from time to time. Instant Article Wizard – a nifty tool that creates a quality article in 8 minutes even if you know nothing about the topic you are writing Content Assistant – article writing tool that makes you an instant expert on any topic. Makes content research as easy as ABC and cuts writing time by 90% Secret Article Converter – an excellent tool to rewrite PLR articles and avoid duplicate content filters - 29 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Instant Niche Newsletter Club – 52 private label newsletters in 3 hot niches per month. Professional squeeze pages and affiliate link rebrander included Excellent PLR sources Niche Content Packages - private label rights (PLR) content membership site where you buy credits to exchange for articles. List of PLR Sites www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=112232 PLR Newsletter: http://www.plnewsletter.com PLR Gold: http://www.privatelabelrightsgold.com PLR Pro: http://www.plrpro.com Article Submission Solutions Article Post Robot – powerful article submission software that submits your article automatically to over 500 article directories bringing in instant traffic JetSpinner/JetSubmitter – a membership-based article submission service that submits your article to more than 470 article directories. Comes with article spinner for unique versions, submission scheduler etc. $1 Trial RSS Feeds Submission RSS Feeds Submit - Submit your blogs and RSS feeds to over 58 Top directories and search engine submission sites, automatically! RSS Planter – Submit your RSS Feeds to 55 quality news/RSS directories for only $29.95 Niche Blog Solution Niche Empire Generator – A complete niche blog solution that creates Social Bookmarking-friendly, SEO-optimized profitable niche blogs in 5 minutes. - 30 - Secrets of Affiliate Marketing Powerful features include automatic content updating, modification of blog themes, promotion of blogs to RSS feeds directory and more. Search Engine Optimization SEO Tools SEO Elite – leading SEO tool that can get your website to rank for your targeted keywords in Top 10 in days. Web 2.0 Instant Link Building Tools Web2Submitter - Dramatically increase your traffic while saving long hours of time submitting manually. Get the powerful software that Web 2.0 marketers are using to syndicate their content. Social Bookmarking Demon – Social bookmarking software that submits to popular social bookmarking sites with one-click! Lazee Linkz – Another automatic social bookmarking software. Comes with Free "The Web 2.0 Effect" ebook. Grab Your Limited Bonus Package! - 31 -