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		<title>How To Use Twitter To Get Free Targeted Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you doing&#8230;?
That is the slogan for Twitter, the hugely popular tool that keeps people connected. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it yet, time to get out of the cave and sign up for a Twitter account!
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a form of micro blogging that helps you stay connected with your friends and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What are you doing&#8230;?</strong></p>
<p>That is the slogan for Twitter, the hugely popular tool that keeps people connected. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it yet, time to get out of the cave and sign up for a <a href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a> account!<img class="alignright" title="Have You Twitter Yet?" src="http://pchaney.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/16/bird.gif" alt="" width="250" height="173" /></p>
<p><strong>What is Twitter?</strong></p>
<p>Twitter is a form of micro blogging that helps you stay connected with your friends and let them check out what are you doing right now. Likewise, you can also be following what others are doing, even on your mobile.</p>
<p>Although when Twitter was first introduce, not many people believe that it can be use as a form of marketing. But right now, not only highly prolific blogger are using it as a tool to stay connected with their readers, even president Obama has a Twitter account (one of the most followed Twittizen). It is definitely a tool that you want to <strong>leverage on to get free targeted traffic to your site</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>How To Twitter For Traffic</strong></p>
<p>Once you got your Twitter account up and running, the first step to get the ball rolling is to invite your friends to follow you. The cool thing about Twitter is it can be <strong>very viral</strong>&#8230; Not only are your friends following you, friends of theirs will also be able to see what you are doing and if your post are interesting enough, your list will gradually grow on its own.</p>
<p>Another way to build up a massive list of follower is to start mass following people. Although some might justify it as black hat method. Spend an hour or so to follow as many people as you can, you&#8217;ll be surprise by the amount of people who will return the favour by following back. With this method alone, I got close to <strong>700 more page view every single day</strong>. Talk about getting free targeted traffic! But to in order to keep this source of free targeted traffic flowing in,  you should always be adding value to your Twitter follower.</p>
<p><strong>Follow The Followed</strong></p>
<p>One other great way to get Twitter followers is to follow those who has a huge list of follower and you can &#8220;piggy back&#8221; on their traffic. You should also follow a high profile Twittizen in your niche and build relationship with them and their followers. And when you are constantly Tweeting information that they find helpful, naturally, they will start paying attention to what you are Twitting about. When a good relationship is established, you can then direct them to check out on your website. Both you and the followers stand to benefit something. They will gain information that they can use, and you will be driving <strong>free targeted traffic</strong> to your website.</p>
<p><strong>Building Relationship</strong></p>
<p>As previously mentioned, you can use Twitter to build up relationship with people. Ask them for comments on your site, post articles and ask for feed backs or post interesting question. An interesting question will get people to interact and engage more on your Tweets.</p>
<p>You should also try to build relationship with people that is in your niche. Start interacting with them. Following them, checking out their Tweets, exchange a few tips with them on your niche and slowly, you will make more new friends that share the same interest with you.</p>
<p>One more way to drive free targeted traffic is to follow the gurus Twitter. You can also establish a relationship with them. People who are following the guru will most probably be interested in what you have to post if you and the guru share the same niche. And the end result? More free targeted traffic to your site without you having to do much. And at the same time, you will be establishing a relationship with the gurus which can eventually help you along your way, or in your niche.</p>
<p><strong>What Other Great Twitter Tips Do You Know?</strong></p>
<p>Twitter can be a really powerful marketing tool if you know how exactly you can leverage it.  But use it not only as a source of free targeted traffic, but also to also add value to your followers.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m an expert with Twitter so, if you have any more great tips to get <strong>free targeted traffic</strong> with Twitter, you can share it with us on your comment. Share what you think and have fun twitting!</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Marvin</p>
<p>P.S: You can also join my <a href="http://twitter.com/kamarvin3" target="_blank">twitter here</a>!</p>
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		<title>Sky Rocket Your Traffic With These Ridiculously Easy Method!</title>
		<link>http://socialtrafficology.com/web-traffic-generation/sky-rocket-your-traffic-with-these-ridiculously-easy-method</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Traffic Generation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly&#8230;
Due to a vacation that stretch a little too long (Bali is the place if you are looking to relax!), I hope you guys haven’t been missing me or my tips too much? It was a total energy recharge, no laptop, no work and let your income run on autopilot type of vacation and therefore, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Firstly&#8230;</h3>
<p align="left">Due to a vacation that stretch a little too long (Bali is the place if you are looking to relax!), I hope you guys haven’t been missing me or my tips too much? It was a total energy recharge, no laptop, no work and let your income run on autopilot type of vacation and therefore, my apologies for not giving you guys any new updates for the past few months but I hope you guys have been keeping yourself busy and boy, I’m glad I’m back to business!</p>
<h3>Why simple is better?</h3>
<p align="left">If you have ever bought any products that claim to help you with your website traffic, you probably experience how hard it is to apply such a system due to its complexity. If you are a rookie at Internet marketing, I’m sure you probably had a hell of a hard time trying to put the puzzle together.</p>
<p>Most so called gurus fail to realize that people who are buying their products are those <em>who are still learning.</em> What a shame that they fail to recognize or address what most people are looking for.</p>
<p>I receive a couple of emails from you guys searching for solutions to <strong>simple methods</strong> that can bring you <strong>targeted traffics</strong>. Well, after some experimenting, I’m glad that I will <em>not be</em> letting your guys down.</p>
<h3>Get Free Targeted Traffic Easily (What The Gurus Might Not Even Know!)</h3>
<p align="left">Ok, so how can you get zounds of traffic to your site without having to use those complex, “make your head spin” system? Well, there is tons of website out there that Google or any search engine love.</p>
<p>You just have to <strong>piggy back</strong> on them and watch the <strong>traffic flood</strong> into your site.</p>
<p>One such website is CraigsList. If you haven&#8217;t heard of CraigsList yet, it is one of the biggest online classified and Google love CraigsList. It has more than a <strong>billion hit </strong>every single month and it is one of the most visited site on the Internet.</p>
<p>Placing an ad with a back link to your site would <strong>bring massive amount of traffic</strong> to you.</p>
<p>On top of that, placing an ad on CraigsList requires <em>no cost at all</em>.</p>
<p>Using CraigsList will also bring you <strong>high converting traffic</strong>. CraigsList is purely an online classified site and when someone goes to CraigsList, he or she is probably looking for a particular product or service. That signifies that anyone who clicks on your ad already has the intention to purchase something, which also means that if he or she comes to your site, they are more <strong>likely to convert</strong>.</p>
<p>Using CraigsList can bring you <strong>more traffic</strong> than most of the paid advertising out there. Go try it out and you will be <em>pleasantly surprise</em>.</p>
<p>When you are putting up your advertisement on CraigsList, I recommend that you to place your ad in the big cities like New York, Chicago or San Francisco. These big cities have higher population and also huge Internet usage. You will probably receive <strong>higher traffic </strong>from these major cities.</p>
<p>Besides CraigsList, there are many other free online classified that you can leverage on to drive traffic to your websites. Sites like BackPage, AdLandPro and UsFreeAds are all sites that can help bring enormous traffic to your sites for <strong>FREE</strong>. Why would you have to pay for traffic when you can use these great sites that can give you equally good or even better results?</p>
<h3>To sum it up…</h3>
<p align="left">There are tons of classified sites out there that you can fully utilize. If you do know of any similar site, you can put it down on the comment box and I’m sure fellow socialtrafficology reader would love you for sharing!</p>
<p><strong>Marvin Manson</strong></p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong> Glad to be speaking to you guys after so long. Stay tune as I will be brining you <strong>even more traffic tips</strong>. Oh and, let me know what you guys think about these <strong>easy traffic tips</strong>!</p>
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		<title>How to Effectively Use Forums to Increase Your Website Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Traffic Generation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most effective ways to increase your website traffic and also make a name for yourself in any niche is through Forums. For the past few years, Forums have been the major source of advertising for people who are doing online and even offline business. It has been used to gain the attention [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most effective ways to <strong>increase your website traffic</strong> and also make a name for yourself in any niche is through Forums. For the past few years, Forums have been the major source of advertising for people who are doing online and even offline business. It has been used to gain the attention of subjects for a considerably longer period of time. Thousands of post has been posted on popular forum each day and it&#8217;s common for people to spend hours on forum every day.</p>
<p>I would not go into details about what a forum is. Let&#8217;s get straight into point.</p>
<p><strong>To increase your website traffic</strong> through forum, follow the steps below:</p>
<p>1. Find a few forums that are related to your niche using <a href="http://www.big-boards.com" target="_blank">http://www.big-boards.com</a>. Big Boards forum directory website that contains the largest directory of forums.</p>
<p>2. Find those appropriate forums, add them to list and create an account in each of the forums that you had added. Focus on those which has the most traffic, post, active and users.</p>
<p>3. Now, you need make a name for yourself in those forums. In order to build up your credibility and relationship with those forum users, you will need to post frequently to build up a high post count. Creating controversial and value added post are the best way to speed up this process.</p>
<p>4. Create a signature for creditability with you website url.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Important:</strong></p>
<p>Be sure that the forums you join are those that you agree with. Some forums appear to be good forums but individuals find it hard to blend into the community due to their own perspective of view and disagreement on most forum topics. This will lead them to become a very hostile user hence forum will not be a useful source for them to <strong>increase their website traffic</strong>.</p>
<p>An example of this would be if the forum were on training guard dogs and you ran a website on dog training and dog care. If the forum was for harsh and discipline training for dogs and your website was against this, then there could be hostilities involved in it. This could make you very uncomfortable to continue using the forum. So be sure to make the right decision.</p>
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		<title>Free Targeted Website Traffic with Wikipedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia is one of the best website to get information for almost everything. People from all around the world from experts to motivated newbie contribute their knowledge on any topic they know to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is known as a online encyclopedia with millions of visitors each day and with a high page rank of 9.
If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wikipedia is one of the best website to get information for almost everything. People from all around the world from experts to motivated newbie contribute their knowledge on any topic they know to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is known as a online encyclopedia with millions of visitors each day and with a high page rank of 9.<a href="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wikipedia.jpg"><img class="alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-154" style="float: right;" title="wikipedia" src="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wikipedia-300x287.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>If something that you search for could not be found or is incomplete, you can contribute your own information but make sure the information you contribute is relevant to the subject. In this case, we will assume that there is sufficient information on that subject; and we will just add bit and pieces of information there.</p>
<p>There is a column for you to edit and put links on every topic in Wikipedia. This is to maintain the information in Wikipedia updated and resourceful. Business owner can indirectly promote their businesses or organizations that have information related to the subject. Because of this, you can place a link to your blog or salespage on the appropriate pages</p>
<p>Can you imagine how much targeted website traffic you can get from there?</p>
<p>I’ll show you step by step to this process to increase your website traffic:</p>
<p>1.	Search for the encyclopedia entries related to your topic.<br />
a.	Do a search regarding to your topic in the main page of Wikipedia<br />
b.	Find the most relevant one in the search result page.</p>
<p>2.	Make sure that you read through the entire entry to ensure that that is the entry you want to edit.</p>
<p>3.	Add a comment in the comment box if you find the entry is appropriate</p>
<p>4.	Click on edit under the external link column and add your link in it.</p>
<p>This is one of the most effective way to get you free targeted traffic to your website. Kindly leave a comment if you find this post useful</p>
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		<title>Increase Your Site Traffic With Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, blogging has become an essential part of internet marketer for driving free targeted traffic. Part of it is because blogging allows you to communicate with each other building up relationship. There are numerous methods out there to drive free targeted traffic to your blog.

Ping your blog post to major blog directories, it’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">In recent years, blogging has become an essential part of internet marketer for driving free targeted traffic. Part of it is because blogging allows you to communicate with each other building up relationship. There are numerous methods out there to drive free targeted traffic to your blog.</p>
<ul>
<li>Ping your blog post to major blog directories, it’s all for SEO purposes</li>
<li>Commenting on other people’s blog gets you quite a fair bit of traffic depending on the ranking of the blog. The higher the rank, the more traffic you get.</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">These two ways are free and very effective for generating free targeted traffic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Commenting doesn’t mean the traffic is targeted unless you do it the right way. Firstly you will need to find blogs that is related to your niche. By searching on blog directories will do so, technorati is one of the site that has a blog directory. Search for keywords that describe your niche in the directory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The secret of getting free targeted traffic through comment lies here:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Be the first to comment </strong>(this is the most important key point to increase your site traffic) on popular post. It will defeat the purpose if you are not one of the first few to comment because readers will not read each and one of them. In fact, some of them do not read it. But if you’re the first, readers will definitely see your comment because it is smack right below the post.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next step will be giving value in the comment. Make the comment interesting and valuable, this will create a curiosity for people to check out your website.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always keep the comments relevant and make sure you are not out of point when you actually start commenting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I’m going to touch on commenting on social website. Sign up with some of the most popular web2.0 site like MySpace and facebook if you do not have one. Repeat the same steps above, the only difference is you are now commenting on web2.0 site, it will not only get you free traffic but build up relationship with the user. Remember to invite them as friend before commenting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a highly effective way of pointing one-way links towards your site and can drive a large number of free traffic to your website and it has a potential to increase your site’s SERPs (Search Engine Position). The key to this is to leverage on high traffic blog</p>
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		<title>The Important Points of Launching Viral Messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no limitations on how you can generate your vital campaigns. You’re only limited by your own imagination. Here are some additional ideas you can employ:

Offer free hosting. If you have a server, you can offer free, reliable hosting in exchange for the customer allowing your banner ads to run on the pages. If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">There are no limitations on how you can generate your vital campaigns. You’re only limited by your own imagination. Here are some additional ideas you can employ:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/whisperviralmarketing.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-148 alignleft" style="float: left;" title="whisperviralmarketing" src="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/whisperviralmarketing-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Offer free hosting</strong>. If you have a server, you can offer free, reliable hosting in exchange for the customer allowing your banner ads to run on the pages. If you do not have a server, check around to find a hosting company with resell rights where you get to place your banner on the site. Word of mouth for free hosting will spread rapidly, so be prepared for the onslaught.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Create a complimentary product</strong>. If you’re promoting an affiliate product on How to Get Pregnant, then a logical complementary product could be How to Stay Fit Before and During Your Pregnancy. This way, you’re not giving away the secrets of the original product, but adding value to its purchase.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Whatever You Do, Do It Right</strong>. Compilation can get messy. If you have a viral free report, don’t launch it in Word where everyone and their brother can alter its text. Secure it in PDF format. Remember that your freebie must be convenient, as well as valuable. If it’s a 1-hour video download or a report with 50MB, then someone on a dial-up connection may balk – even if it is free!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Don’t OD on the Marketing Mumbo-Jumbo</strong>. The recipients of your viral campaign don’t want to read, watch, or hear an infomercial. They want it to feel like they really did get something for nothing. Make sure you’re sparse with your links so the reader doesn’t get offended.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Put Your Domains to Good Use</strong>. Give viral freebies to anyone who opts into your newsletter or eZine. Think of it as a free gift for subscribing (to a free eZine).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Plant Teasers on the ‘Net for your Freebies</strong>. Some people won’t take something for free because they’re leery of it. So to entice them to viewing the entire freebie offer teasers to whey their appetite.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Let Your Sig File Do the Talking</strong>. Joining forums and groups on the ‘net and advertising your free offer will generate a good deal of free targeted traffic.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Every time you make a post, send an email, or launch another site you create an opportunity for the launch of another viral marketing campaign. It should be every bit as important as your product creation, sales letter copy, and customer service components are to the good of your business. <span> </span></p>
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		<title>Methods of Affiliate Marketing Mayhem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as when you have your own product, there are many  different ways of promoting products as an affiliate. Everyone has their  favorites, so we’ll over the methods that most people actually use when  starting out.
Get Free Targeted  Traffic with Articles, writing  articles is one of the best things that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just as when you have your own product, there are many  different ways of promoting products as an<a href="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/graph2.jpg"><img class="alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-146" style="float: right;" title="graph2" src="http://socialtrafficology.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/graph2-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="300" /></a> affiliate. Everyone has their  favorites, so we’ll over the methods that most people actually use when  starting out.</p>
<p><strong>Get Free Targeted  Traffic</strong> with Articles, writing  articles is one of the best things that you can do to start getting free web  traffic to your affiliate pages. You don’t have to be a Pulitzer Prize winner.</p>
<p>If you go to an article directory such as Ezinearticles.com  or GoArticles.com and submit 300-600 word articles around the topic of your  product, you will begin to see some web traffic.</p>
<p>You’ll get web traffic three ways using this method. A)  People are always looking for web content, so they’ll see your article and use  it on their website – leaving the resource box (where you put your URL)  attached, and people will click through.</p>
<p>B) the search engines, including Google, love the two  article directories I mentioned, so they’ll quickly index your article into  their search engine, if you’ve chosen the right keywords to base your article  around, and that’s a beautiful thing for you and your commissions.</p>
<p>And finally, C) People will run your article in the  newsletter or eZine, giving you little surges of traffic occasionally. One  quick word: Ezinearticles.com does not allow affiliate links in then resource  box.</p>
<p>What you can do then  is set up a little simple website either reviewing the product you’re  promoting, or using a form to capture a person’s email address to send them a  free report or mini-course.</p>
<p>This method will build you a list as well. This is a system  where it’s best to keep writing fresh articles, but it pays off. Hire someone –  a ghostwriter – to write articles for you if you don’t feel confident enough to  write them yourself.</p>
<p><strong>Get Instant Web Traffic</strong> with Google Adwords. Google Adwords  is the weapon of choice among many affiliates. The main reason being that it’s  fast, and also – if you do thing right – controlled. How many times would you  pay a dollar to make $2.00? All day, right?</p>
<p><strong>Use Your Competitors Traffic and Ezine Subscribers</strong>. What  you’re looking to do here is to find eZines and Newsletter in your niche, and  send out ads in their ezines, to their list.</p>
<p>You usually have a choice between sending out a classified,  sponsor, or solo ad. You’ll want tos tart from the beginning with a couple of  classifieds, see how those convert, and work your way up to a solo ad.</p>
<p>It will take a bit of practice to write a food one, but its  well worth your time. Always make sure to subscribe first to the eZine to get a  taste of what they offer.</p>
<p><strong>Get Sneaky Web Traffic</strong> with Free Reports. It’s not all that  sneaky. You’ll just write a free report (2-10 pages) and embed your affiliate  link within it in the content. Just find a good angle to go with involves the  product, write a report giving away some valuable free information (just don’t  give away the farm) and people will click the links inside, sending them to  your affiliate page.</p>
<p>Note: After you write the report you can give it away to  subscribers or submit it to eBook directories. This will create a viral effect.  It will get passed all around the Internet, giving you much more exposure for  your affiliate links.</p>
<p><strong>Answer Questions in Forums</strong>. In most online forums, you’ll be  allowed to see a signature file, and as long as you’re not deliberately  spamming the forum, you should have no problem.</p>
<p>You’ll want to ask and answer questions with as much  valuable information as possible. People will begin to see you as an authority on  your subject, and will click on the link in you sig. file to get further  information. This tactic works well. People have built their careers and their  fortunes by using Forum Marketing.</p>
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		<title>How To Have An Army of Affiliates Selling Your Own Products For You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it’s time to turn the tables a bit. I assume you know  how effective it is to be an affiliate for someone else’s product. Now imagine  if you had your own product, with a bunch of affiliates out there working on  your behalf.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now it’s time to turn the tables a bit. I assume you know  how effective it is to be an affiliate for someone else’s product. Now imagine  if you had your own product, with a bunch of affiliates out there working on  your behalf.</p>
<p>If you fished around in ClickBank at all, you no doubt saw  some products whose owners biggest source of income were from affiliate  referrals. (You Can see this shown after the % refd symbol)</p>
<p>There are the most brilliant product owners simply because  they have a virtually hands free source of income. They’ve created their  product, and put to use the techniques of acquiring affiliates that I’ll teach  you now, and watch the money flow into their bank account from the affiliates’  hard work, not their own.</p>
<p>This type of income is called passive residual income, and  frankly there is no better. The reason are simple:</p>
<p>You pay your affiliates only after they’ve made the sale –  No more wasted money on ads that might not work.</p>
<p>Advertising on Steroids – You’re putting the advertising  dollars of your affiliates to work instead of your own.</p>
<p>Higher Placement in the Search Engines – Every time an  affiliate links back to your site, this helps your placement in the search  engines.</p>
<p>Okay, you have your product, and you want to start your  affiliate program, what do you do first? There are basically two ways to go  about it. You can run your affiliate program on your own server, but this  requires that you have and know how to install the necessary scripts to run it,  plus have your own merchant account set up for accepting payment and sending  out the commission checks.</p>
<p>Your other option – which is much easier – is to have a  third party manager such as ClickBank, or other’s mentioned above run it for  you. For simplicity reasons, this is the way I recommend.</p>
<p>These companies will send out commission checks for you,  track the affiliate sales, and let your affiliates check their stats. The most  important predictor of success with your affiliate program revolves around the  happiness of your affiliates, bottom line.</p>
<p>Therefore you’ll want to do everything humanly possible to  make sure that they’re well taken care of. You have to count on them wanting  things to be as easy as possible – after all, you don’t want to work extra so  why would they?</p>
<p>Your success depends on their success – so you should do  everything you can to ensure it. You should keep this in mind from the  beginning when you set up your affiliate program.</p>
<p>Assuming that your product is an information product, I  would recommend using ClickBank as your affiliate network. This will let you  accept credit cards, they will run your affiliate program for you, plus give  over 60,000 affiliates the option to sell your products for you.</p>
<p>Basically, they will bill your customers – pay you – and pay  your affiliates their commission. They charge a one-time fee of $49.95 for  activation, and a $1 + 7.5% fee per sale. This leaves you with no monthly fees.  It’s a win/win situation and couldn’t get any easier.</p>
<p>Are you wondering how you’re going to get affiliates to want  to sell your products? That is where you’ll have to get busy, and make it so  beneficial for them that they feel like a fool not to.</p>
<p>In order to successfully pull in affiliates, you must sell  your affiliate program as hard, if not harder than you sell your products. You must  lay on the benefits of selling your program over your competition, which will  include providing them with many things such as marketing tools</p>
<p>Your affiliates will need as many ways as possible to get  people to their affiliate URL.</p>
<p>Some of these things include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Having professional looking banner ads (of  different colors and sizes);</li>
<li>Articles for them to use in their newsletters or  on their websites;</li>
<li>Special reports in downloadable format (PDF)  that they can be re-brand with their affiliate link and give away to  subscribers, or as a free gift for opting-in to a newsletter;</li>
<li>Sample Ads – classified and Adwords ads for them  to use;</li>
<li>Lists of popular keywords to get their brain  started, giving them a starting point to begin digging deeper;</li>
<li>Unlimited Email Support – This is a biggie –  people need to know that you’re there for them if they need you, and will  appreciate it when you show them that you are. Bad news regarding customer  service spreads very quickly.</li>
<li>A Private User Forum – where affiliates can ask  questions and bounce ideas back and forth, etc.</li>
<li>Audio and Video Tutorials.</li>
<li>And a Newsletter giving away the latest  breakthroughs and advice.</li>
</ul>
<p>All of this will go into your Sales Letter that you’ll  actually write out for prospective affiliates. Make sure you have the following  components in your affiliate sales letter:</p>
<ul>
<li>A Catchy Headline</li>
<li>An intro that will pull them in to your letter</li>
<li>Bullet points touching on each benefit that they’ll  experience when choosing to promote your product.</li>
<li>A story, if you have one, of how affiliate  marketing changed someone’s life</li>
<li>Testimonials of happy affiliates and hopefully  specifies on how much they were able to earn</li>
<li>A Call to Action that tells them where to click,  and what to do when they get to the sign up page.</li>
</ul>
<p>Basically, the more you have – the better, and the more  affiliates you’ll bring in. you have to think of your affiliates as your sales  force, and you’re sales manager. You want to help them in as many ways possible  so that you can keep your job.</p>
<p>You also want to close the sale for them, so make sure that  your sales letter for the product converts like crazy. Have a professional  copywriter write it if your budget allows – a good one will know the techniques  that get people to buy.</p>
<p>If you can’t do that, at least try to have someone critique  it and show you the weak points in your copy. One thing that will cause you to  lose affiliates very quickly is having a site that doesn’t pull in buyers.</p>
<p>If notice that they’ve sent you a few hundred visitors, and  nobody is biting, they’re going to move on rather quickly to another product.</p>
<p><strong>Pay Your Affiliate  Handsomely</strong></p>
<p>A lot of people struggle with the fact that you should pay  your affiliates at the very least 50% of the products price. On that note, you’ll  actually want to pay them much more than that.</p>
<p>The reason that you want to do this is for the same reasons I  stated above. You want to be able to easily get new affiliates, and keep them. You  can’t think of it as losing money, you have to think of it in terms of gaining  money.</p>
<p>If you’re making only $20 on your $60 ebook, but you have  200 good affiliates out there cranking out sales for you, then you should  absolutely to be happy about this. You’re doing nothing to make these sales except  pay the commission, while your affiliates are sweating it out in the trenches  promoting your product.</p>
<p>They’re probably paying for advertising, and spending a lot of  their most precious commodity, which is time. Pay them handsomely, and they  will continue to reward you handsomely in sheer volume of sales.</p>
<p>Affiliates can be very fair weathered friends, and there are  thousands of other products for them to choose from. You must do your best to  keep them on board, and keep them happy as much as possible.</p>
<p>Now that you know about marketing as an affiliate – where no  website of you own is required – I’m going to show you how to create your own  home on the ‘net. This gives you more control over your online business  efforts, and you won’t have to spend a small fortune to get started.</p>
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		<title>Content Counts For Natural Search Engine Position</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marvin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The success of your website depends mostly on you content.  This is the case both for your human visitors as well as the Google robots. You  want to have content that is relevant to keywords that people are searching  for. However, trying to smash 100 keywords onto one page doesn’t work.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The success of your website depends mostly on you content.  This is the case both for your human visitors as well as the Google robots. You  want to have content that is relevant to keywords that people are searching  for. However, trying to smash 100 keywords onto one page doesn’t work.</p>
<p>You must have many pages that revolve around only one  keyword each, using the keywords sprinkled nicely throughout your content in a  natural way. And don’t forget to add them in headlines (with the correct  &lt;h1&gt; tags), in the subheadings, and in bold italicized, and underlined  font.</p>
<p>Stop! With all this technical mumbo-jumbo that we’ve been  going over, you may be feeling overwhelmed and wondering if you can handle all  of this. The answer is an emphatic YES. You just need to take things in little  bite-sized chunks.</p>
<p>Through all of this, you may have lost sight on what you’re  trying to do. It’s very simple. You’re trying to get as much exposure as  possible to your product or service through your website.</p>
<p>You need human eyes.</p>
<p>This is called <em><strong>traffic</strong></em>. Much like if you had a store or  office on a main street of town you would get foot traffic. However, the web is  much different because now you’re not stuck on one corner, or worse sandwiched  between two competing stores.</p>
<p>You get to move around to exactly where the people are, and  put yourself (through your website) right in front of their face, and what’s  best…for FREE! So now, we must begin to think of keywords as our sales force.</p>
<p>The trick is to find out exactly what these people want by  their keywords. We then want to build as many pages as we can around all of  these different keywords, so that these pages have the chance of being placed  highly in the SERPs.</p>
<p>Google takes the number of pages that your site has into  consideration and basses some importance on that. They favor those sites that  have one hundred or more pages of solid content, optimized in the ways we  stated before.</p>
<p>You don’t want to ignore the phrases that are searched fewer  times because those could very well be your most profitable pages. The reason  being that other people will usually ignore these keywords going for the ones  with most searches.</p>
<p>This decreases your competition enormously for these words,  and these will rank higher in the SERPs bringing you consistent <em><strong>web traffic</strong></em>.  The power is in the numbers. Are you worried about writing? Not everyone is a  writer nor do they like to write.</p>
<p>If you do like to write, just start writing articles around  your keywords. They don’t have to be long articles or go into too much depth.  They only need to be around 300-400 words.</p>
<p>You do want to have some valuable tidbits of info for free  in your articles. Mostly however you’ll want to use the “problem, agitate, and  solution” formula that leads them to your product or service.</p>
<p>If writing just isn’t your thing then the best thing to do  is to have somebody else write for you. Hire a ghostwriter. This is someone who  will write all the content for you, giving you rights to take all credit for  it. This is someone who will write all the content for you, giving you rights  to take all credit for it. This makes you look like the expert in your field,  when really all you’re doing is sitting back and letting somebody else do the  work.</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.elance.com">Elance.com</a> or <a href="http://www.guru.com">Guru.com</a> and post a project stating that  you want “optimized article” written and you’ll very quickly get bids from  people eager to write your articles for you.</p>
<p>Another option you have is to use Articles Directories. The  better known is at <a href="http://www.ezinearticles.com">Ezinearticles</a> and <a href="http://www.goarticles.com">Goarticles</a> . You are free to use these articles  – however you must keep the authors resource box intact at the bottom.</p>
<p>This does create two problems that you must aware of,  however. It has the chance of getting your page penalized for having duplicate  content, and it leads the visitor away from your website from their resource  box. People who don’t like to write often use Public Domain material. This is  material whose copyright has</p>
<p>expired, and is therefore free to use without  crediting the author.</p>
<p>There are many laws that go along with this, and it’s best  to be cautious when using this content. However, many fortunes have been made  on and off the Internetby using Public Domain Material.</p>
<p>Having good navigation on your site is essential for high  placement in the SERPs. You want people to be able to get around your site with  ease, because once it becomes the slightest bit difficult or annoying, they  will leave in a blink of the eye.</p>
<p>Here’s something you should keep in mind: always count on  your secondary pages – pages other than your homepage – to be found first since  you’ve optimized each page successfully around relevant keywords.</p>
<p>You’ll want to make sure that it’s as easy to get to other  pages on your website from secondary pages as it is from your homepage. Your  homepage will likely be an overview of your site usually utilizing your main  keywords, which unfortunately are usually the competitive.</p>
<p>For this reason your secondary pages will likely rank higher  in the SERPs and therefore deliver you the most web traffic. Be excruciating  careful that you have a good navigational system or else you’ll lose a ton of  traffic that could have been directed to the pages that make you money.</p>
<p>What’s makes a good navigational system?</p>
<ul>
<li>One that is clear and easy to follow</li>
<li>The one that brings you directly to the page you want. You  don’t want your visitor to ever have to follow several links to get to the page  they want. Always think “One click away”.</li>
<li>One without broken links. You’ll lose visitors very quickly  by having dead links. Test them and test them often. Here’s a free tools that  will help you test broken links as well as other things on your site:  <a href="http://www.sitereportcard.com">sitereportcard.com</a></li>
</ul>
<p>So you now know that having good solid content, optimized by  placing your keywords strategically, is the key to successful SEO. You also  want to have as many pages available for your prospects to come across as  possible. Furthermore, you want them to be able to get from page to page of  your site, without any frustration.</p>
<p>Keeping customers in mind is paramount. You want to keep  them at your site for as long as possible – plus you want them to want to come  back often. This indeed will give you the best chance of profit from your site.</p>
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