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Frank
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Is Google Going Too Far?
Google announced that they will be creating a service which essentially goes after markets dominated by social bookmarking sites like Squidoo and information sites like Wikipedia.
Here is an article about this fact:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/google-knol-a-step-too-far/
What do you think?
-Frank
Still Think You Can’t Make Money With PPC Marketing
I was amazed when reading this thread on SitePoint about a fellow who made $144K in 6 Days!
-Frank
Social Bookmarking - What is it?
Although you’ve heard the term so many times, you may not be entirely clear on what it is and it’s power. In this blog entry I will give you a quick run down of what the hype is about and hopefully clear things up for you so that you can take advantage of this powerful tool to create traffic for your site.
The idea of social bookmarking is very simple. You know the term bookmarking means saving your favorite website addresses in your “Favorites” or “Bookmarking”. Someone came up with the idea that rather that just storing them on your PC or browser that putting them on the web somewhere would be a good idea. After all, you’d be able to use to access them from any PC in the world and “share them with others”.
The “share them with others” feature is what makes the bookmarking “social”.
Ok. So, what’s the big deal? Why all the hype?
Well, it turns out that Google loves new content. It just eats it up and indexes like there’s no tomorrow. Internet Marketers noticed that there bookmarks were getting picked up by Google really fast and realized that it is a great tool to get organic traffic. Free traffic!
I’ll take it!
So, that’s the idea. By using as many of these Web 2.o sites, you can easily pick up some traffic and links to your site.
More traffic. More affiliate sales.
In my next article, I’ll get a little deeper into it and explain how you can corner a specific market on Google using social bookmarking.
So, if you haven’t already, subscribe to my Newsletter using the Newsletter link on the top or side menu and you’ll receive an email alert when the article is posted.
In the meantime, take a look at this great video that shows you how social bookmarking works.
Have a great day!
Frank Mamone
New to Affliate Marketing: Cloaking Links
Cloaking, or hiding the real link, is a technique so that your affiliate links
look clean and void of url parameters which might intentionally or not
be removed resulting in lost commissions for you.
For instance, and affiliate link may look something like this:
http://www.theproduct.com?aff_id=221100
The number on the end of the string represents your affiliate id. The vendor then knows that you referred the visitor to their website. If the person buys then, you get the commission.
Unfortunately, some unscrupulous web surfers like to remove the affiliate id at the end of the url and still purchase the product, but rob you of a commission.
To improve the chances of that happening and also to make your link look nice, we use cloaking. So, in our example, the link would look something like this:
http://www.mywebsite.com/recommendsXX/
That would take the person to the same place but look how cleaner it looks and
it also avoids displaying your affiliate id. Now, I’m not saying that if the person
really wants to he can’t do it anyways. But, if it doesn’t look like an affiliate link,
there’s less chances that they will do it.
To set this up is pretty easy too. It takes about 5 minutes.
Step 1. Log into your website and create a folder called “recommendsXX” without the quotes. Replace the XX with a unique identifier that refers to the name of the product
you are selling like “recommendsaweber”
Step 2. In that folder, create a file called htaccess.txt
Step 3. In the file add these lines:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/*.* http://producturl.com/info.php?&aff_id=xxxx
IndexIgnore *
Replace the “http:….” with your actual affiliate link.
Step 4. Rename the file to “.htaccess” without the quotes. Yes, that’s a dot before the htaccess.
Your done! To test your link navigate to your URL with /recommendsXX/ and it will redirect to the affiliate product site.
Pretty neat, eh? (I’m Canadian)
Personally, I have so many links and I like to use a tool that does it all for me. It manages all my links and tracks clicks and referrers. It’s quite sophisticated.
If you want to take a look go to the link below:
http://www.digitalstork.com/recommendGTT/
Now, go cloak your affiliate links!
Frank Mamone
New to AdWords Part 1: What is an Ad Group?
This is a beginning of a series that will shed some light on Adwords marketing concepts and misconceptions.
The Campaign, the Ad Group and the Keywords
Before we get to the Ad Group, let’s discuss the Campaign. A campaign is a collection of
of Ad Groups that are generally grouped together because of a common theme. For example, I choose to group my Campaigns by type. In my case, I have things like Physical Products, Pay Per Lead, Pay Per Action, Info Products, etc.
I find it easy to manage my ads this way. I know where to look for products by category of product.
Now, the often misunderstood Ad Group. The most common mistake Adwords newbies make is to take a keyword phrase list and stick it in an Ad Group.
Bad idea.
If you do it this way, it will be very difficult to determine which keyword phrases are converting and which ones are not. I cannot stress how important this is because it can save you thousands of dollars on spending money on Adgroups that don’t convert.
What you want to do is put each keyword phrase and very similar keyword phrases in the same Ad Group. This way when an AdGroup converts for you, you can expand it — the ones that don’t make sales you can adjust or just outright delete them.
For instance, let’s say our niche is organic gardening and you’ve selected a few keyword phrases you want to use:
organic gardening
organic gardening products
organic gardening guide
organic gardenics tools
Although you may be tempted to put all of these into the same Ad Group, what I’m suggesting here is that you put each on in its own Ad Group. In this example, although it is possible that someone searching for “organic gardening products” it is unlikely that the visitor is searching for a Organic Gardening Guide.
Doing this allows you to:
1. Track which markets are working for you and track which keywords work. (Look for a future post on tracking)
2. Write a different ad for each keyword phrase. Very powerful concept here. The closer the add resembles the keyword phrase searched, the more likely the searcher is going to click your ad as opposed to another no matter what position.
3. To prune your keyword phrases that are not selling and wasting your profits. Using this method it’s easy. You just delete the offending Ad Group.
Applying this method will save you money in non-converting clicks and makes it easy to manage your campaign.
Check out my other blog entry on using mis-spellings here.
Till next time,
Frank Mamone
How Is Your Online Credibility?
Your online credibility is what distinguishes you and your sites from sites that don’t
have the interest of their readers online. It is also the key to establishing relationships
with other sites with authority helping your credibility improve. Like it or not, it will
translate to your bottom line.
Take a look at this great video of research done on this topic.
http://www.slideshare.net/bjfogg/web-credibility-bj-fogg-stanford-university
Have a nice weekend!
Frank Mamone
Bad Spelling - Big Profits for PPC Marketers!
That’s right. We’re not all good at spelling. And we’re not all good at typing.
That being said when we search the web using our favorite search engine, we tend to make typo errors and spelling errors. When we do this, Google will usually make a suggestion to you, but it will still give you search results and Google ads will still appear on the right side.
How does Google know to display those ads even though you misspelled the search expression? That’s because believe it or not, advertisers are actually bidding on those misspelled words.
By doing this you end up finding buyers that you wouldn’t have before. You also get great positioning for less as less people bid on those misspelled words!
Affiliate marketers new to the PPC marketing game, usually just use a huge list of keywords using broad, exact and phrase matches, which of course are a must. However, they don’t include the possible mispellings.
For example, let say the niche you’re promoting is Organic Gardening. You may have some keyword phrases such as:
organic vegetable gardening
In Google Adwords you would enter:
“organic vegetable gardening”
[organic vegetable gardening]
organic vegetable gardening
That would cover the broad, exact and phrase matching. But how about:
oganic vegetable gardening (note missing letter)
organicvegetable gardening (note missing space)
organic vegetable gardenning (note double letter)
And even more, you still haven’t looked at swapped letters such as:
ogranic vegetable gardening
So, just for this phrase to cover more bases and get low cost hits you would have to do this:
“organic vegetable gardening”
[organic vegetable gardening]
organic vegetable gardening
[oganic vegetable gardening]
“oganic vegetable gardening”
oganic vegetable gardening
[organicvegetable gardening]
“organicvegetable gardening”
organicvegetable gardening
[organic vegetable gardenning]
“organic vegetable gardenning”
organic vegetable gardenning
Plus the swapped letters. You get the idea.
Do this for every keyword phrase to increase your profits!
By now you may be thinking, “Frank, I can’t possibly do this for every keyword! I literally have hundreds of keyword phrases I use for advertising”. That’s a good point.
On the other hand, why give up sales? I mean sales that cost you less and make you more profit. What if you increase your sales for every campaign you’re running?
Would the extra time to do this be worth it? What if you get an extra lead commission of $100 per week?
I know it’s time consuming to do this, and that’s why personally I use a tool that makes this task extremely easy. Like a few seconds for each keyword phrase I want to use!
By using this tool, it’s a one-two punch because you’ll be making more money without loss of productivity. What more can you ask for? Besides you’re competition is using it.
I urge you all to use this technique to increase your profits.
Here’s what I use. It’s called Keyword Transformer. Check out the video.
Till next time!
Frank Mamone
Affiliate Marketing - No Website Required!
Although I’ve been doing business online for a couple of years, this is the year that I started getting into Affiliate Marketing. Since you visited this site, you probably already know what that is. If you don’t, it’s all about selling other people’s products and making huge commissions.
The beauty of it is that you don’t even need your own website if you use the Pay-Per-Click method.
This is a technique that has been used by a lot of affiliate marketers and is now becoming very popular.
The idea here is rather than building your own website promoting your affiliate link, you send the traffic directly to the merchant by purchasing advertising on a PPC engine like Google Adwords. This means you can almost instantly test any market you chose without:
1. Registering a domain
2. Building a Website
Heck, you don’t even need a hosting account!
Does it work? Absoulutely!
There are people making millions doing this - and I’m not exaggerating.
For new affiliate marketers there is the legitimate concern that the risks of spending a lot of money and not getting any sales is a detterent towards using this method. And it’s true of course. If you’re advertising for a dud which does not convert, you will lose money.
But the idea here is to find products with web pages or websites that convert and give you the advertiser a huge ROI.
There are many techniques to find those niches and keywords and they will be the subject of this blog in the coming days.
So, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS newsfeed and follow along to learn the latest techniques on:
1. Testing Markets On the Cheap
2. Keyword Research and Analysis
3. Maximizing Your ROI
and much much more.
Thank you for reading today’s post. This is a new blog and I will be improving and adding content to help you become a better and more profitable Affiliate Marketer.
Frank Mamone