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Ways To Select A Good Product To Promote As An Affiliate

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

One of the most crucial mistakes new affiliates make is they select a product that folks don’t buy. That’s the actual reason where newbie affiliates get stuck with their affiliate internet marketing campaign. We will now discuss about Affiliate Kung Fu and how Affiliate Kung Fu can help marketers.

As you probably know, when you don’t see results for your attempts, you can get frustrated really fast, and stop trying doing what you do.

That is the reason why I have made a decision to show you how to use Affiliate Kung Fu, which chooses a good product to push, and the way to confirm the product you are choosing is going to be profit-making for you.

So the first thing you want to look for is a product that folks essentially need, and not desire. When a person is in need for the product you’re promoting, they are going to buy it no matter the quality of it, and often it is irrelevant what the ticket is. This is what is shown when using Affiliate Kung Fu.

Why they will buy it?

Because they are desperate for an answer to their problem, and you have it right there in your hands. That’s the reason why I like to recommend all my fellow affiliates to promote products that folks need, and that is the way to online fortune.

So how you can make sure that folk essentially need your product?

Choose products from the Health & Fitness class, for instance. Those people are desperate for a change in their life. Some of them are searching for a weight loss program that they can follow and get thin, while others are looking for a 6 pack abs to show off and get more girls.

Another category that you can go for is the Adware & Spyware software. In numerous cases, PCs are getting infected with spyware or Adware and they’re going to pay any amount of money simply to save their computer data.

Some have family pictures that they don’t want to loose and others have some important documents that they are going to pay a fortune to get rid of the spyware on their computer.

I am hoping you can see how selecting a product (such as Affiliate Kung Fu) that folks NEED will help you make more sales. You should go for the desperate buyers and not people who are looking to have fun with their product. If you will stick to this theory, you may see yourself eventually making some sales.

Affiliate Kung Fu will be a great compliment for your online search for driving sales to your affiliate products. It’s worth a look.

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Seo Spam

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Spam, in almost any form, is bad for your health. The vast majority of web users would agree with that statement and nobody would even think of the finely processed luncheon meat-product made by Hormel. Even the word itself is infectious in all the worst ways, being used to describe the dark-side and often deceptive side of everything from email marketing to abusive forum behaviour. In the search engine optimization field, spam is used to describe techniques and tactics thought to be banned by search engines or to be unethical business practices.

While writing copy for our soon to be revised website, the team put together a short list of the most outrageous forms of spam we had seen in the last year and a short explanation of the technique.

Please note, we do not encourage, endorse or suggest the use of any of the techniques listed here. We don’t use them and our clients’ sites continue to rank well at Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. Also, since Google has been the dominant search engine for almost five years, most of the spammy tricks evolved in order to game Google and might not apply to the other engines.

1. Cloaking
Also known as “stealth”, cloaking is a technique that involves serving one set of information to known search engine spiders while displaying a different set of information on documents viewed by clients. While there are unique situations in which the use of cloaking might be considered ethical in the day-to-day practice of SEO, cloaking is never required. This is especially true after the Jagger algorithm update at Google, which uses document and link histories as important ranking factors.

2. IP Delivery
IP delivery is a simple form of cloaking in which a unique set of information is served based on the IP number the info-query originated from. IP addresses known to be search engine based are served one set of information while unrecognized IP addresses, (assumed to be live-visitors) are served another.

3. Leader Pages
Leader pages are a series of similar documents each designed to meet requirements of different search engine algorithms. This is one of the original SEO tricks dating back to the earliest days of search when there were almost a dozen leading search engines sorting less than a billion documents. It is considered spam by the major search engines as they see multiple incidents of what is virtually the same document. Aside from that, the technique is no longer practical as search engines consider a far wider range of factors than the arrangement or density of keywords found in unique documents.

4. Mini-Site Networks
Designed to exploit a critical vulnerability in early versions of Google’s PageRank algorithm, mini-site networks were very much like leader pages except they tended to be much bigger. The establishment of a mini-site network involved the creation of several topic or product related sites all linking back to a central sales site. Each mini-site would have its own keyword enriched URL and be designed to meet specific requirements of each major search engine. Often they could be enlarged by adding information from leader pages. By weaving webs of links between mini-sites, an artificial link-density was created that could heavily influence Google’s perception of the importance of the main site.

In the summer of 2004, Google penalized several prominent SEO and SEM firms for using this technique by banning their entire client lists.

5. Link Farms
Link farms emerged as free-for-all link depositories when webmasters learned how heavily incoming links influenced Google. Google, in turn, quickly devalued and eventually eliminated the PR value it assigned to pages with an inordinate collection or number of links. Nevertheless, link farms persist as uninformed webmasters and unethical SEO firms continue to use them.

6. Blog and/or Forum spam
Blogs and forums are amazing and essential communication technologies, both of which are used heavily in the daily conduct of our business. As with other Internet based media, blogs and forum posts are easily and often proliferated. In some cases, blogs and certain forums also have established high PR values for their documents. These two factors make them targets of unethical SEOs looking for high-PR links back to their websites or those of their clients. Google in particular has clamped down on Blog and Forum abuse.

7. Keyword Stuffing
At one time, search engines were limited to sorting and ranking sites based on the number of keywords found on those documents. That limitation led webmasters to put keywords everywhere they possibly could. When Google emerged and incoming links became a factor, some even went as far as using keyword stuffing of anchor text.

The most common continuing example of keyword stuffing can be found near the bottom of far too many sites in circulation.

8. Hidden Text
It is amazing that some webmasters and SEOs continue to use hidden text as a technique but, as evidenced by the number of sites we find it on, a lot of folks still use it. They shouldn’t.

There are two types of hidden text. The first is text that is coloured the same shade as the background thus rendering it invisible to human visitors but not to search spiders. The second is text that is hidden behind images or under document layers. Search engines tend to dislike both forms and have been known to devalue documents containing incidents of hidden text.

9. Useless Meta Tags
Most meta tags are absolutely useless. The unethical part is that some SEO firms actually charge for the creation and insertion of meta tags. In some cases, there seems to be a meta tag for virtually every possible factor but for the most part are not considered by search spiders.

StepForth only uses the description and keywords meta tags (though we are dubious about the actual value of the keywords tag), along with relevant robots.txt files. All other identifying or clarifying information should be visible on a contact page or included in the footers of each page.

10. Misuse of Directories
Directories, unlike other search indexes, tend to be sorted by human hands. Search engines traditionally gave links from directories a bit of extra weight by considering them links from trusted authorities. A practice of spamming directories emerged as some SEOs and webmasters hunted for valuable links to improve their rankings. Search engines have since tended to devalue links from most directories. Some SEOs continue to charge directory submission fees.

11. Hidden Tags
There are a number of different sorts of tags used by search browsers or website designers to perform a variety of functions such as; comment tags, style tags, alt tags, noframes tags, and http-equiv tags. For example, the “alt tag” is used by site-readers for the blind to describe visual images. Inserting keywords into these tags was a technique used by a number SEOs in previous years. Though some continue to improperly use these tags, the practice overall appears to be receding.

12. Organic Site Submissions
One of the most unethical things a service-based business can do is to charge clients for a service they don’t really need. Charging for, or even claiming submissions to the major search engines are an example. Search engine spiders are so advanced they no longer require site submission to find information. Search engine spiders find new documents by following links. Site submission services or SEO firms that charge clients a single penny for submission to Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask Jeeves, are radically and unethically overcharging those clients.

13. Email spam
Placing a URL inside a “call-to-action” email continues to be a widely used type of search marketing spam. With the advent of desktop search appliances, email spam has actually increased. StepForth does not use email to promote your website in any way.

14. Redirect spam
There are several ways to use the redirect function to fool a search engine or even hijack traffic destined for another website! Whether the method used is a 301, a 302, a 402, a meta refresh or a java-script, the end result is search engine spam.

15. Misuse of Web 2.0 Formats (ie Wiki, social networking and social tagging)
An emerging form of SEO spam is found in the misuse of user-input media formats such as Wikipedia. Like blog comment spamming, the instant live-to-web nature of Web 2.0 formats provide an open range for SEO spam technicians. Many of these exploits might even find short-term success though it is only a matter of time before measures are taken to devalue the efforts.

Search engine optimization spam continues to be a problem for the SEO industry as it tries to move past the perceptions of mainstream advertisers. When under-ethical techniques are used, trust (the basis of all business) is abused and the efforts of the SEO/SEM industry are called into question. Fortunately, Google’s new algorithm appears to be on the cutting edge of SEO spam detection and prevention. Let’s hope 2006 is the year the entire SEO industry goes on a spam-free diet.

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EMail Follow Up System In 3 Easy Steps

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The most important asset a eBusiness owner has is…
A LIST

Actually the more lists you have the better off you are. BUT
the key isn’t just having several general lists, you want to have
as many targeted lists as you can.

What do I mean by that??

Well, ummm for all you health and nutritional product people
out there your targeted lists could be based around each of
the specific products you offer. Those in themselves make up
a “list.”

If you are selling information products, then the theme or
topic of each of your books/courses can make a sub or
targeted list.

Don’t look at your products/services as a group, break them
down (if you can) and think of them in terms of a targeted
group of people (or list). For each group you will send out
the initial information request and then your follow up will
involve specific information catering to that group.

That follow up is pretty straightforward. I mean if you
have a product that is based to help migraine suffers then
you wouldn’t later send a mailing to that list about a new
product that deals with asthma…they don’t relate or tie
in. You keep sending that list information relating to
suffering from migraines.

There is one other list that you could be building and
that is one that involves a one-time request for information.
For example; if you decided to create a list of 50 eZines
Directories, a person hits your autoresponder once to get
that list. Or how about the second part of your two-part
article - again a person that hits your autoresponder is
after that one-time request.

How on earth do you follow up with these people, when
they didn’t subscribe to receive regular mailings?

That is what we are going to go over today. A 3-step
follow up system which will turn these one-time requests
into yet another viable list for you ;o)

So, let’s get at it ;o)

Step 1 - First or Initial Contact

This is the information that you are firing out after
they have hit your autoresponder.

You have two ways you can go here. You can either:
let the person that you are going to send them future
information that is RELATED to the information they
have requested here. Or, you don’t say a thing at all.

Best course of action is to tell them upfront…be totally
open and honest from the get go. Remember people do
business with people they know, like and trust and if
you aren’t trusting…you’ve lost them.

Having said that, you still need to give them a chance
to opt-out of receiving more information…here is a
sample to give you something to look at and use.

SAMPLE…
Hi ~~NAME~~ (remember personalize)

Just wanted to send you out the information you requested
about the 55 no cost marketing resources. I have listed them
all below and I hope you find them useful.

In a few days I’ll be sending you over a special article
that I wrote “The Key to No Cost Marketing.” Look for that
to come in about three days.

I’ve spent a lot of time researching marketing tactics and
looking for good solid resources that work. I’ll be glad to
share this information with you, if you want me to.

If you don’t want to receive these additional strategies and
resources then you can click the REMOVE ME link below.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Look forward to sharing this information with you, take
care and good luck with your eBusiness.

Sincerely,
Denise Ryder

So what we have here is your prospect receiving the initial
information that they requested AND we have let them
know that there is more to come and if they don’t want to
receive it then, they can of course, opt out.

Most will stay because you have given them a good reason to
(remember it’s the WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME), a preview of
what’s to come.

Step 2 - Automate

You’re probably thinking, yup I know I need an autoresponder
in order to do this. Of course you do, that goes without saying.
But, you need to see the bigger picture here. You have a prospect
that has received the information and you have indicated that there
is more “to come.” That “more to come” is what I am referring to.
Make sure you have it already to go and uploaded into your
autoresponder.

Yup, ya got to think ahead…there is no room for “fly-by-the seat
of your pants” marketing here. Sit down and plan out a 7 message
follow up for this list and have it loaded and ready to go.

Leave some time between each mailing…something like between
7-10 days. Remember this isn’t your general list, this is a targeted
one with specific information and of course specific offers geared
to them.

Through these 7 messages your goal is to keep building upon the
information that they prospect originally requested. You know they
are interested because they hit your autoresponder in the first
place, right ;o)

So give them the good, solid content RELATING to the original
that they requested.

In our example above I would keep providing them with information
concerning no cost marketing resources. I would send the article
as I said I would and then the other 6 messages would perhaps
look at what to spot in a good no cost marketing resource, how
to test a resource, how to track the results, and how to use
the information they have gathered to make money. All the
while I mention that there is STILL MORE to come and of
course provide them with the opt-out option at all times.

I also can weave in my offers and because of the way I
have set my system up, these offers come in the form of
recommendations, there is no hard sell tactics happening
here.

Step 3 -Special Mailings

Ok, we have a sublist with a theme of no cost marketing
resources. As I release a new product (based on this theme)
or find more resources to share, then I will send out a
special mailing with this information.

The idea is that these are “special” so they are not to
be used as some form of “mass or blast” marketing tactic.
What we have done with these people is built a good solid
relationship with them. We have sent them fantastic info
that they can use and we keep building by providing them
with even more information and over-delivering. Why would
we want to then ruin all that by blasting them every week…
WE DON’T.

These special mailings should be limited to using them
twice a month. It stands to reason that some months you may
not use them at all. But in this case the idea is that it is special
so make it good. Keep the momentum of good solid information
and tie in a good offer.

A good rule of thumb is to think in these terms…

A good mailing is something that benefits the list member and
the list owner. It has to be a win/win for both or it just won’t
work.

When you are thinking in terms of lists, you have to realize that
a list can come from anywhere. It is just a matter of seeing it.
As I mentioned above, think of your products/services as little
individual lists. Break them down and build a sublist around
each products theme.

Do it right and you may find a little niche where you didn’t
realize it?now how cool is that!!

If you want to gain some further insight into a few more tactics
like this one, then read “How To Become Wildly Successful
Online.” This eBook will give you some great ideas.
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Keywords, How To Find Them Effectively

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

To be a successful affiliate marketer takes a ton of work. You probably know this by now. Really! I hear some of you say. You thought it was a piece of cake, mostly because you don’t have to worry about having your own product.

Ok, so no product costs, no shipping costs, no payment processor costs, and so on. So what is so hard about being a successful affiliate.

Glad you asked! Your first step should be to make a marketing plan, or as I call it, a ‘decision plan’. How many of us really make a complete marketing plan. (Not me!) I know we sh ould, but mine never completed. This is where you decide what niche, or specialtiy you want to ‘major’ in.

Why don’t I just be in ‘affiliate marketing’? you ask. Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot before you get off the ground. It’s TOO competitive, don’t you know! Also too general, maybe too vague, all over the map so to speak.

So how come it’s good enough for Best Affiliate Products but too much for you? Firstly, I must mention that I do have other niche markets, and some in both the planning and preparation stages. I do heed my own advise. Secondly, someone has to protect you and lead you down the best path to success. I don’t want you to experience all the pain I went through.

This is why it’s important to associate Affiliate Marketing with Niche Markets. By focusing on one topic, you magnify your chance of success many times over. Doesn’t matter if the niche is small or large, but you must align your thinking in this direction.

The niche can be huge, such as Auctions or EBay, and you will find a good market there. The EBay sales may be huge, but the competion for affiliate products is not excessive at all.

Take another huge Niche (specialty) such as Health. Now this competition is ferocious. Personally, I would not touch it, even though a lot of people do well with it. Why fight an uphill battle just to get started, when you can surely find ot her prospective niches.

The solution is to find smaller niches of “in demand” products. Here we go again, you say. More speeches on what to do, but HOW do we do this? And how do we do this successfully, when everyone else is also looking for the answer.

An awful lot of people feel just like you, and as a result, they never find niches, because they never look for them. There goes much of your potential competition. Good for us, OK.

The search for good, usable ‘keywords’ is the answer to locating a potentially profitable business. Using the right tools makes the task a lot easier, a lot faster, and less stressful from a decision making point of view.

I was just starting to prepare the list of tools to use, when I remembered that they are all listed in the gratis course I offer. The Niche Madness eCourse is 7 days of power packed info on Affiliate Marketing for Niche Markets. Go to
http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/nichecourse.html and sign up for the eCourse. Learn all there is to know, over a 12 day period, as the course is sent out every 2nd day.

But I also have to tell about a new tool I discovered. Every once in a while, a really great tool is created, and I believe that this is the case here.

It’s called Adwords Equalizer. It is so loaded with features that it is too much to list here. The easy and important way to see all the benefits is at my Best Products page at BestAffiliateProducts.com :
http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/affiliateproducts.html

This is a Product and a Half, as the saying goes. You may no longer need expensive services like Wordtracker, where you never stop paying. But the only way to see if it fits your needs, is to visit the site at the site above.

We are finding some good keywords to work with, so what comes next. Regretably, we’ve run out of time here, so you take the course. Again, it’s at:
http://www.bestaffiliateproducts.com/nichecourse.html

The answer is right there.
Happy Keyword hunting, and have fun with it.

Fred Farah copyright 2005

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Focus On The Right Goals With These Tips

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Sometimes setting goals alone is not the only problem that you must face. Sometimes, choosing the right goals to begin with is harder.

Basically, you can choose to work any goal that you feel is necessary for your health, stability and happiness. Goal setting is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. By setting goals on a routine basis you decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of these goals.

The process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on to do it. You also know what nothing more than a distraction is.

Goal setting is a standard technique used by professional athletes, successful business people and high achievers in all fields. It gives you long term vision and provides you with short term motivation.

It helps to focus your attention and knowledge which helps you to organize your resources. By setting sharp and clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless effort.

By setting goals, you will also raise your self confidence, as you recognize your and ability to meet the goals that you have set. The process of achieving goals and seeing this achievement gives you confidence that you will be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals later on.

Goals are set on a number of different levels. In the first place, you decide what you want to do with your life and what large scale goals you want to achieve.

Second, you break these down into the smaller aims that you must hit so that you reach your overall lifetime goals.

Finally, once you have your plan, you start working towards achieving it.

Beginning your goal setting plans
This section explains how to set personal goals. It starts with your lifetime goals, and then works through a series of lower level plans culminating in a daily to-do list.

By setting up this structure of plans you can break even the biggest life goal down into a number of small tasks that you need to do each day to reach the lifetime goals.

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting lifetime goals that gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making process.

To help give you a broad, and balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some or all of the following categories:

* Artistic:
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what is it? Do you want to write a book; paint a masterpiece, or write a song?

*Attitude:
Does your own mindset hold you back from making progress? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you for example, do you talk too much? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.

* Career:
What level do you want to reach in your career? Is it your goal to be the boss or own your own company someday, or do you want to be the president of someone else?s company?

* Education:
Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular or some area of study that you would like to pursue? What information and skills will you need to achieve these goals?

*Family:
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want your partner or family members to see you?

*Financial:
How much do you want to earn by what age in your life? What can you do to make that come about?

* Physical:
Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

* Pleasure:
How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that some of your life is geared toward making yourself happy for no reason other than being happy

*Service
Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If so, how?

Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to assign a priority to them if you want to succeed.

Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.

Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the goals that you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse, family, or employers want them to be.

Success only happens when you are working for your own well being because doing it for others will ensure that you sabotage your own success.

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