Finding An “Ideal Plan” For Affiliate Success
Truthfully, there is no “Ideal
Plan” for affiliate success because everyone is different and have varied
thoughts and perceptions about what success means to them...
Your individual, skills,
interests, and overall goals will affect how you decide to organize your network
of affiliate sites. The important
lessons to take away from this course will be how to produce and grow a network
of websites, how to make them viral, and how to promote them for search engine
rankings and traffic.
What this guide is not, is telling
you how to use your time, efforts and money.
This guide allows you to work at your own pace, and take it one step at a
time.
Only when you actually start the
process, and continue to work your own personalized plan, will be able to see
results!
Determining a personal plan of
action is the first step you should take.
Eventually, results will come that will allow you to stop working for
someone else and continue to grow your own business.
The “IDEAL PLAN” so to speak,
should be to FOCUS every action you take to making your Internet presence more
productive and therefore more valuable to YOU – not someone else.
The “Affiliate Compass” is not
intended to provide you a way for you to cheat or use “black hat” methods on
your visitors or the search engines. At
all times you should handle your business in an ethical manner.
A long-term business plan is the
simple and straight solution to starting a viral explosion of long term Internet
profits.
Plan your work and work your plan.
This is not a get rich quick
scheme. The ultimate goal here is to
show you how you can have your own network of sites growing for you each and
every month. Every time you take action, your network will grow.
If you’re wondering why this
information isn’t readily available in all the other “info-products”, it’s
because many of the so-called “gurus” or “experts” don’t think people will
actually put for the effort. It
takes action to fulfill the goal of having a successful affiliate or online
business. Many will talk the talk, but
few will put forth the real effort to grow something for themselves.
Yet, that is not the whole story.
Many “gurus” feel if you are willing to spend your dollars on a digital
download, why should they help or tell you what it really takes to start your
own network. Your success means you
will also be their competition. Very few
successful marketers want to reveal everything for fear you will become their
competition.
How hard are you willing to work
for your family and your future success?
Growing a network of sites, again,
takes determined effort and work. It
doesn’t take as much as you think, and you really can work at your own pace, but
you have to take action.
Did you know that most “affiliate
marketers” almost never make more than one or two sales?
That’s crazy, isn’t it?
There is no double that if you put
real effort into building your own business network of websites, that in time
your income WILL grow. Even if you
only put in an hour a week, you will be so much better off than you are right
now, and one step closer to your goal of financial independence.
Affiliate Compass
“To succeed at internet marketing
you need a growing network of websites. These sites will feed each other
traffic, pre-sell affiliate programs, generate pay-per-click (adsense) revenue,
and grow your opt-in e-mail lists.”
There are several ways for you to
do this, but they all require a basic skill set.
We will assume you know the basics of purchasing domain names, hosting,
and creating a website. If you have
no idea how to do any of this, it really isn’t that hard and there are numerous
avenues where you can learn the basics in a short while.
Our site is devoted to helping people
like you to find the correct tools and develop the mindset for continued
success.
Visit
http://www.dotcomsuccess.com to
learn more
We’ll be showing you some tools
later on that let you create websites and actually “SEE” what you are doing as
you do it. So don’t worry, IF you
are not quite sure how to put up your own website, get a hosting account and all
that other “scary stuff”, we’ll be there to help.
It is really quite easy, and you will learn about much of it further in
this guide...
Here are the basic steps to getting started:
1.
Get a good domain name
2.
Get a hosting or reseller account
3.
Make your first website
4.
Make your second website
5.
Develop a linking strategy
6.
Promote your websites
7.
Make another website
8.
Link them all together
9.
Promote, Promote, Promote
10.
REPEAT Steps 1 - 9
The Road Map – First Steps
Getting a Reseller or Bulk Hosting Account
The first step on your journey
should be getting your first website online.
Although your first site will be a learning experience for you, you
should also begin to set things up NOW so you have room to grow.
The benefit of a Reseller or Bulk
Hosting account is the cost. Why would you pay $20 to host a website when you
can host 50 websites for just a few dollars more?
There are many hosting companies
that offer Bulk hosting or Reseller accounts. HostGator,
TowerHost, DreamHost, and many, many others.
Many of them even have training videos to help you get started.
You will need to register a domain
name prior to ordering your reseller account.
Again if this is new to you, don’t worry.
Simply visit http://www.leepco.com/
and you will be walked through the few
easy steps of getting your very own domain name.
They offer hosting services there as well.
Once you have your first website
hosted, you will want to start laying out the visual “look” of your site.
Website Layout
Once you have your hosting and
domain name situated, it’s time to start thinking about how your first site is
going to look. There are quite a
number of options in regards to how to find your own “look”.
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Join a template membership site - This is not a good idea unless you are
comfortable editing PHOTOSHOP files or HTML.
Many template sites are affordable and they do have a nice selection.
Unfortunately, the membership is almost worthless if you can’t edit the
templates or pay someone to do it for you.
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Get Xarawebstyle4 – Awesome idea with a low learning curve.
I sometimes still use this on a regular basis.
I also suggest getting Xarax when you buy webstyle4.
XaraX is about the easiest to use vector based graphic system out there -
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Get Dreamweaver or Frontpage – Frontpage
has a low learning curve, but Dreamweaver gives you a lot more room to
grow. If you have any students in
the household you can get the full Dreamweaver MX suite for about $199 by
purchasing the educational version.
Usually this version is no different that the full retail version costing much
more.
There are dozens of books and
on-line tutorials to help you learn it as well. Michael Worthington creates
great videos on Dreamweaver.
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Don’t want to spend the cash? Try NVU:
http://www.nvu.com/ it’s free!
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Get XsitePro – this is a
great “beginner” or “affiliate” site builder that has built-in templates and an
editor. This product is moderately
priced and can churn out so many OPTIMIZED pages that it’s worth the investment.
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If you just don’t have the time, energy, or skills to learn all that right now
and want to get started, you might want to consider joining a program that sells
Niche websites. Most Niche website
memberships give you completed products and ENTIRE websites every single month.
If you have an interest in purchasing ready made websites, you can visit
www.dotcomsuccess.com
to learn more about where to find these (or they come included in your
membership).
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You can also hire someone to make your website – although this will get VERY
expensive as you add more and more sites.
A ten page targeted keyword niche site is about 300 to 1000 dollars.
Services like
www.graphics.kellyifrah.com offer
affordable services, but can’t always meet demand – so you should probably have
a back up such as www.dotcomsuccess.com
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If you make sure your host has “FANTASTICO” (and many cpanel hosts do), you can
install with one click several content management scripts, blogs, and other
scripts to help with making a website.
One of the extra benefits of Fantastico is that you can keep your forums,
blog scripts, and contact forms updated to the latest version and you do NOT
have to use a programmer.
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Last and not least you can code the sites yourself.
It’s not that hard to learn HTML. There are literally thousands of
on-line tutorials. Using a wysiwyg
editor may be the easiest option for new learners.
If you are willing to get started, but don’t want to put the funds out
for expensive software, tools, or editors – go back up to the link to NVU and
download it. You will need to learn
a little, but NVU is a great alternative to hand coding a website.
The Simple and Easy Way To Get Started!
There are many ways you can get
started, you can set up your own website, create a viral e-book...and those are
all pretty easy, but still not the absolute easiest as they do take time to
research! These days, Private Label
Resell products are popular and give you a basis for your own e-book.
Probably the easiest and most
popular way to get started these days is to begin your own Blog.
Running a Blog that you can install via Fantastico is a new webmasters
dream. One click installation, and
then all you have to do is add content.
Wordpress is a great choice for a new blogger, but even if you can’t
afford to get hosting or domain names yet, you can still get started blogging
and Wordpress is free.
While you can do a search for free
Blogs, chances are you will end up wanting to use Blogger.com from Google – they
are free and the Blogs are quite nice and easy to set up with full instructions
on the site.
The best part about using most
Blogs is that they actually “ping” services to tell them that you have added new
content. Many of those places then
syndicate your content and that brings you back links and plenty of public
awareness. This can result in
additional traffic as well.
Blogging isn’t for everyone.
I know I struggle with it, because I don’t always like talking about what
I am doing – I would just rather DO IT.
But a Blog is a great way to both accomplish something and DO something
all at once. Give it a shot – remember
you can start an experimental Blog for free and advance as you see it necessary.
You will also want to add revenue
streams into your Blog by customizing and adding links to affiliate products.
Additionally, with blogger.com, you can apply to Google for an adsense
account and add that to your Blog as well.
Website Themes
Many experts on the subject of
Niche Sites will tell you that you have to pick high paying keywords and should
only base your website on those words.
There are so many searches on so many topics these days that you really
can get traffic and interest in just about ANY category or “sub” category you
want.
What I am saying is - don’t make
your sites about fishing – make them about “Walleye Fishing” instead.
A great free and easy way to find topics is Nichebot:
http://www.nichebot.com/
Just enter in a major keyword and it will
spit out some other suggestions that will give you additional ideas, as well as
help you find your competition.
Your first website should be about
something you enjoy if possible.
Writing just for the best Keywords isn’t much fun, so pick a topic you know
something about and then JUST DO IT.
Picking A Topic
There are many places to look for
a good topic for your site. My favorite, and the one I’ve subscribed to is the
Lycos Top 50.
It’s not the most popular search
engine, but the Top 50 list is a great way to find out what people are searching
for. They also keep archives.
Here is the URL:
http://50.lycos.com/
If you’re just starting out, you
will not going to be able to compete with the top 50 that are listed, but with a
little imagination, you can come up with sub topics based on what Lycos tells
you. If you keep looking long
enough, you might even find some patterns and be able to figure out some of the
future top searches and plan ahead for future site ideas.
Use a keyword service.
There are literally hundreds of software programs that help you pick
keywords. I like KeywordElite
and SeoElite both by Brad
Callen. These are proven products
and very popular with Affiliates and Marketers alike.
Both are a bit pricey but will server you
well for the long term and are updated regularly.
The support is also exceptional.
There are other services offering
keywords on particular niches for as low as $15 per month. I suggest shopping
around until you find one you are happy with and you can visit us at
www.dotcomsuccess.com to learn about
other good services.
If you really want to find out
what is popular – go find some of the high traffic Blogs on the Internet.
What are they writing about?
What do people comment about? If
people are taking the time to comment on someone else’s Blog – that’s a good
Blog and you can learn a lot on an active Blog.
Another means is to just write
about what you are interested in.
Passion will win out over substance every day of the week.
If you turn out ‘real’ content that serves a purpose the search engines
will eat you up and other sites will want to link to you.
You may have to leave the “internet marketing” field, to venture into
other areas, but the rewards are tremendous.
Go to Amazon.com and “browse top
sellers”. This is a great way to find out
what everyone is buying. In case you
haven’t figured it out yet – go to where the public interest is, and you will
find out what people want to learn more about.
Use “nichebot” -
http://www.nichebot.com/. It lets you
enter in keywords and it will return the top results.
Use it to find niches that have less competition.
Finding Good Content
Public Forums are filled with
people who know more about any given topic than you do.
While you can’t plagiarize what they are saying, you sure can learn a lot
from them. If you don’t understand
something there will be people there to help you and you can learn a lot in
various forums on a subject you are interested in.
When I come up with a new niche
idea, or concept for a content site, one of the first things I do is go to
Sitepoint.com. A few hours reading
through Sitepoint can be worth several thousand dollars in ideas.
There are also other great forums,
but when it comes to internet marketing there is none better than the “Warrior
Forum”
There are many places like
Nichetastic that
sell entire website packs, or that sell the “guts” of an idea, or other
freelancers who have article packs.
Also, if you are looking to get a
whole lot of content all at once or find resell rights items to sell with ready
made websites and articles, go to
Check out the full packages, as
there is a lot of great content and it is well worth every penny of the price of
the membership charge. The cost of
membership will be much less than spending on items separately.
Another place to get exactly what
you want written is in forums. Just ask for writers to give you bids on content
about “so and so”. You can also go
to places like www.Elance.com or
www.Scriptlance.com
and get 100’s of writers, programmers,
and editors bidding on your project.
Just BEWARE – you get what you pay
for. Many “low” bids will just be stolen work and could be considered ‘duplicate
content’ by the search engines. Make
sure you use Copyscape (www.copyscape.com)
on anything you buy to see if the work is stolen or is already online, BEFORE
you pay.
Realize that no one is an expert
on everything. There are thousands
of people that know more than I would about a million things.
When it’s time to write some new content on something I’m not very
familiar with, I start reading blogs, forums, and articles on the topic.
I take notes so I can refresh
myself on the topics. When I am done
learning about the topic I sit down with my notes and start writing.
I end up with an original piece of work, and my notes let me reference
any sources or links that I should.
Private Label Resell products are
another great source of content and can be easily customized with additional
research. This gives you your own
product as well.
Search Engine Optimization – A Must
As you create your websites you
need to keep several things in mind. One
of the most important parts of your site is in the area of Search Engine
Optimization. Making your
sites “search engine friendly” right off the bat will serve you well as you go
forward.
Here are some tips and resources
to help you accomplish that properly.
1)
Pick keywords using a free service or a paid service like
keywordelite,
seoelite,
wordtracker,
or others. I can usually get by
using Nichebot.
2)
Make sure your pages all have meta-tags and a title.
Learn a little about meta-tags.
There are also numerous free resources for meta-tag makers out there.
3)
Make sure you link to your other sites using anchor text.
Anchor text
is the hyperlinked words on a web page - the words you click on when you click a
link.
4)
Learn to read your web stats and use something to track your traffic.
http://www.statcounter.com
is a good free service to use.
Chances are your site already has awstats in the control panel (c-panel) and
that will be all you need to really see how many visitors you have as well as
who is visiting your site and what keywords are bringing them there.
5)
Link all your pages back to your home page using Anchor Text Links.
This way, if someone wants to refer back to your homepage, they have an
easy way to get back without using the back button.
6)
Learn and understand the basic principles of Search Engine Optimization
(SEO). One of the best SEO books on
the market can be found
here.
One of the benefits of the
SEOBook is
that it is continually updated to keep up with constant changes.
Sites like www.sitepoint.com and
others can help also.
7)
BUILD LINKS using anchor text terms.
You can also join and participate in sites such with the popular “word
clouds” (www.500niches.com) or member
sites such as www.dotcomsuccess.com
that offer their members back links to their sites as part of the membership.
Make Your Sites Easy To Edit
NOTE:
Some of the parts in this section of the guide are a little technical, but once
again don’t worry if you don’t understand. This guide is more about all the
fundamentals than tech stuff anyways.
For advanced users on a Linux/Unix
server you should be using “includes” wherever you can. When you have 50
websites and you want to make changes it’s a nightmare to edit a few thousand
pages by hand. Includes allow you to edit
all of your sites with one change.
There are several ways to do
includes – both with PHP and with Server Side Includes (SSI) – do a search to
find the one that is right for you and learn more about how to use them.
Link To Other Sites You Own
You should be linking your sites
together on a regular basis. This
will make your sites viral – people will click from site to site so they don’t
have to go back and search from scratch.
You will want to be careful in
doing this as it is more favorable to the search engines if you link “like”
sites together. In other words, the
sites have a similar central theme to them.
Massive inter-linking to unrelated
sites could be considered SPAM by the search engines and could actually hurt
your site ranking.
Build More Sites With Little Additional Cost
Once you have your first site
complete you are actually already 80 percent completed on your next site.
Did you realize that you now own
the rights to the words you have written? You
can now copyright your site and lay claim to the original content you have
included in your website.
You don’t want to use duplicate
content if you can avoid it – so rewrite what you have written for the first
site. For just about 20 percent more
work you have two completed sites.
This can not only save you money, but most importantly, can save you valuable
time.
You should link all these sites
together for maximum effect. (see above)
Again, write in “themes” more than
going just for popular keywords. What you
are trying to build is an avalanche of traffic and repeat visitors – NOT just a
quick click on adsense. If you provide
some valuable information on your websites you will find that the Bookmark ratio
is greater and you’ll get repeat visitors and more “free” links back to all your
sites.
Speaking of adsense, Google is now
penalizing sites that contain duplicate content, or are “generated” with some of
the site generators on the market.
There is a pattern or “footprint” made with most generators and that “footprint”
left on your site will hurt your ranking or worse, get your site banned by the
search engines.
The most important thing all
search engines are seeking these days is content – good content.
If you build your sites with good content, they will serve you well for
years to come.
Prime Your Websites For Traffic
As may have already known, there
are more ways than one to get people to visit your websites. Here are the
easiest and most basic ways of accomplishing this task...
On-line Classifieds:
It’s been widely reported and many
believe that On-line Classified Ads are a complete waste of time.
This is true if you are trying to use them simply to promote a website.
However, using them for “free” links back to your websites isn’t a bad
idea.
This isn’t worth a whole lot of
your time – so don’t concentrate on it.
A few links in classifieds are a good idea to serve as links back to your
sites. Some paid services like
USFreeAds allow you to make whole pages
to promote your site/ad.
This is a great way to get a back
link with some highly targeted surrounding text.
The total benefit will be up to you though as there are other places to
do the same thing for free.
Smart e-Zine Advertising
If you place an e-zine ad and
NEVER get a sale did you waste all your money? Not
if the e-zine you published your ad with actually has an on-line archive.
If archives exist, your link stays useful for as long as those archives
remain online.
Anytime your URL is active
somewhere it is usually a good thing.
Search for e-zines with affordable rates and advertise in them with your
“anchor text” terms.
If you’re still not sure what
anchor text is…you can learn more here:
http://seo-branding.info/anchor.htm
If you have never advertised in an
E-zine before and are a little hesitant you may want to check out
There are also other sites that
will lead you to numerous e-zines or niche specific e-zines.
There are also a few sites where you can actually BID on advertising
space.
Directory Listings
Directory Listings are a very
important part of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) game – and if you do it
right you can even generate extra traffic this way as well as be found by other
larger search engines. There are now
tons of free directories –
www.dotcomsuccess.com also allows its members to list their sites in their
directory.
Likewise, there are loads of paid
inclusion directories, such as www.yahoo.com
Many people think of Yahoo as a Search Engine, yet, they are actually
considered a directory.
Paid directory inclusions may be a
good idea if you can find a “niche” directory that is getting targeted traffic
to a topic related to your site.
Paid inclusion will be the only way you can count on getting some traffic in
return for the directory listings. If you
are able to obtain any traffic from the “free” listings it will be just through
shear luck for the most part.
The main reason you are submitting
to the directories is for a nice high PR back link.
Most directories carry a high PR (position ranking) and to obtain links
to your sites from high PR sites is a boost to your site and can increase
traffic as well.
Link Exchanges
It’s important to know how to do
link exchanges right – to make sure you aren’t being ripped off.
Link exchanges are a fast way to
brand your website. Usually you
can't do it through automation, you would need to write to other webmasters and
ask them to exchange links with you.
It will take time and I think it's
almost a waste of time unless you can automate the process.
Sure some people will argue that this is
an easy task, but I know how hard it really is.
SEOElite is again
an excellent tool to assist you in automating that task.
Additionally, it can confirm whether or not reciprocal links are still in
effect.
You can also go where other
webmasters are already searching for link exchanges
One such site is www.linkmetro.com
as an example.
There are 100's of webmaster
forums, marketing forums and more where other webmasters are working on their
branding...they will want to exchange links with you because it also benefits
them!
Right now I have posts on various
forums looking for link partners. I can
put them up in the morning and tonight I could have link exchanges completed.
You will be able to also see the increase in traffic and the search
engines will be better able to "find" one of your websites that it possibly
hadn't crawled yet.
By this time tomorrow you could
have new websites on their way to a profitable future and a higher search engine
ranking. It didn't take much time,
and the results are phenomenal.
I disagree with trading links just
for a Page Rank boost – if I am taking space up on my website I expect some
traffic in return. So make sure you
ask your linking partners if they are getting any traffic before you commit to
exchanging links with them.
Of course, if you are not getting
much traffic yet, it’s hard to be pushy on this topic. You are just going to
have to gamble on their site growing as yours does.
For the cost, SEOElite
will pay for itself over and over in time saved and the speed in updating your
linking partners. This is a heavy
duty multi-use product, so if your budget will allow, you will want to check
into the program further.
SEOElite and
KeywordElite’s Brad
Callen, is also the founder of the free
www.linkmetro.com mentioned earlier.
If the Callens know anything – they know linking and SEO site ranking.
Believe it or not exchanging links
can also be risky business and there are many ways for you to get cheated out of
your traffic and ranking EVEN WHEN YOU SEE YOUR LINK ON THEIR SITE!
Things To Be Aware Of In Linking
1) Robots.txt file
Did you know that in the root
directory of every website there is a robot.txt file that tells the search
engine spiders where to go or not go?
This file can tell search engine robots to not follow your link.
After a new link exchange wait a few days (and on a regular basis if your
suspicious), to check it out. Most of the time you can view it by going to
http://www.theirdomain.com/robots.txt and substituting “theirdomain.com” for
the actual domain name of their site.
You can also change your user
agent for your browser to be "Googlebot", and if you don't see your link on
their site, neither do the search engines.
This is a little complicated to do – so you should really do a search and
get some expert advice before you try it.
2) Hyperlinks
Your hyperlink was prevented from
being followed by the search engines.
This is pretty easy to check.
All you have to do is view the page source.
Look for this type of code: <a href="http://www.yoursite.com"
rel=nofollow">Your site name</a>
Of course, “yoursite.com” and your
site name would be the link to your site. The "nofollow" part tells the search
engines NOT to follow your link to your site.
If this is included in the source code, you won't be able to get a PR
credit for that link.
3) Javascript
Usually javascript is not spidered
by Google (at the time of this writing). If
your link is inside java code you are probably wasting your time as your site
will not be “seen” by the search engine spiders.
4) Inline Frames
Inline frames are other websites
"nested" inside a website. You can
usually tell they are there because they have a scroll bar, although they don't
always. View the page source and look for
tell tale signs of an inline frame.
5) Link
Removal
The most common way of cheating,
of course, is to simply remove YOUR link off their page(s) a few weeks later.
An organized plan of keeping track of who is linking to you is in order
before you even start. Once again,
SEOElite is an excellent
tool to automate that process. You
can also collect the person you are exchanging links with, their name, email,
hyperlink url, and text. Also collect the
exact page they say they are listing your site on.
Doing Press Releases
A well written press release is a
great way to both boost page rank and get some immediate traffic – don’t expect
a flood though. I’m not going to teach
you to be a writer here, but every good press release has the basic laws of
Journalism...who, what, when, where, why and how.
A press release is NOT an ad and
shouldn’t be written as such. Your
press release should be announcing an event or delivering information.
Read a newspaper article and your press release should be the same or
similar format.
You need to have ALL the bugs are
worked out of your website before releasing your press release.
Prematurely using a press release before you site is operable will not
only be wasted time, but also hurt the reputation of the site.
You only have one chance to impress someone or entice them to return to
your site.
Using Forums To Attract Traffic
Spending 30 minutes a day in
forums can be time well spent. Why?
Because it can make you money and if you enjoy helping people, this is an
excellent place to share your knowledge.
Most forums allow you to post your
“signature” below your name (look for the place where you edit your profile in
the menu). This is not literally
your name signature, but should be active anchor text links to your site(s) in
order to obtain the maximum benefit.
Almost every single “helpful” post
you do could get you at least 3 or 4 click throughs to your sites – When you do
it! Over the “life” of the
post you can usually get hit (spidered) by the search engines if the forum is
SEO friendly, and then get several more clicks.
We did a test with one of our
sites a few months ago. We ONLY linked to
the site in forums and had it set up so the Search Engines would NOT index it
(via the robots.txt file).
After 30 days we had over 1700
unique visitors. Remember, this was
only spending about 30 minutes in forums a day.
It’s important that you spend that time participating instead of just
promoting though. Many forum owners,
while allowing your signature to be placed in your posts, frown upon direct
promotions unless they have a particular area set up specifically for
advertising.
One of the major benefits of the
traffic you receive from Forums is that actually helped someone and have
therefore already built a relationship with them, and they you.
Please don’t be one of those confrontational jerks.
If you’re genuinely helpful and do forum posting on a regular basis, it
really can be your main method of promotion and traffic generation.
If you’re not experienced in forum
posting, you might not be aware of some of the more popular forums or forums
that are search engine friendly. Here is a short list to get you started and
expose you to the different forum formats used:
Blogs
Should you be a “Blogger”?
In one word – YES!
Blogs are a great way to really
drive the Search Engines where you want them to go, plus they generate a ton of
traffic if you write well and update consistently.
If you can’t write well, well that
is what Private Label articles are for.
New PLR articles and additional content is available monthly at
http://www.dotcomsuccess.com
If you have Fantastico in your
webhosting control panel you can set up Wordpress in about 15 seconds.
Did you know that if you have a
Blog, other sites want to know (and link back to you) the moment you make a new
post? It’s called pinging and while
I could fill another 30 pages on this, there’s no need.
Just do this:
1)
Install Wordpress.
2)
Set it up the way you like it via the admin panel.
3)
Under “options” click the “writing” link.
4)
Scroll down until you see “Update Services”. There is probably a single
link in a box below then just add all of these to that box:
Every single URL there will be
‘notified’ (pinged) after you make a post on your Blog.
I use my Blogs (yes, I have more than one), to promote our products, tell
others what I am doing, goof off, generate passive adsense income, and of
course, obviously for the Search Engine benefits.
Google Site Map
Google has released the ability
for everyday webmasters like us to actually TELL them about our sites.
All you have to do is upload your sitemap to Google in an “XML COMPLIANT”
sitemap. They have a certain format
they want it in, and you can learn about it on their site.
If you’re feeling adventurous, go
do a search for Google sitemap generator.
You can have a heck of a time trying to use many of the different ones
you find out there...
There are also sitemap generators
that you can purchase. You’ll want
to be sure you have some sort of support in case you run into problems or feel
the software isn’t working properly.
Testing shows that Google sitemaps
should be an integral part of your promotions.
Just one of our sites we have used the sitemap generator on now has over
750 pages listed in Google, all in less than a month.
Using Articles To Generate Traffic
If you can’t write an article you
should have a couple written for you by a decent writer.
These articles are a gold mine of traffic, Page Rank, and of course,
establishing yourself as an expert in your field.
We have written hundreds of articles under various pen names to point to
a multitude of our sites, and our client’s sites.
It’s getting harder to use the
article directories to generate traffic though, because unlike a few months ago
– all these directories are getting stripped by bots and scrapers for their
content use. This can create an
atmosphere of duplicate content, and can work against you in some cases.
You also have the right to have
your resource box intact whenever and wherever your article is published.
Do searches for your article titles and if you find they aren’t linking
back to you correctly contact them and ask them politely to add your resource
box correctly.
If they don’t fix their obvious
“oversight”, you do have the right to contact their host, and inform them that
they are publishing your work (which contains your copyright) without your
permission. The host can be held
liable if they don’t force the site to comply.
I’m not a lawyer, but you can also send a “cease and desist” order, and
several other things to force them to comply or remove your work.
A couple of favorite places to
submit articles are:
There are literally hundreds of
places to submit your articles. Make
sure you post in as many places as you have time for, or purchase one of the
“submitters” to do it automatically for you.
I recommend doing your homework on these though as many out there are
outdated.
The fact is you don’t need to
spend thousands getting secret software to get indexed.
You just need to write great articles.
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A great title – this is no different
than using something catchy in an advertising you would do.
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A Great TOPIC – if no one is interested in what you are writing about, why
should you expect anyone to publish it?
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A resource box to “close” the sale.
This contains a link back to your site or sites as well as a brief bio of you as
the author.
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Promote it! Submit your articles to
several directories. Link to it in
your forum signatures, link to it from your websites.
If you do this – it WILL get published. Then
it begins working for you in many different ways.
Don’t forget to proofread your
article – bad grammar and spelling can kill its effectiveness.
If English is not your first language, you should have someone go over
your articles to correct them where necessary.
Proof readers are plentiful on the internet or you can contact
www.infopublishers.com for
additional resources
Purchasing Links
There is nothing wrong with buying
links. If you were to purchase
Search Engine Optimization from a company this is what they would do – why would
you going to pay someone else to do it for you. Do
a search for sites for paid links
http://text-link-ads.com/ and other similar sites to purchase links.
The good news about purchased
links is you are not only buying Search Engine rankings, but in many cases you
are also buying immediate traffic. If you have set your network of sites up to
send traffic to itself, that’s even better.
Be careful to choose links from
sites that relate to yours in some way, or else this could possibly backfire on
you. Some search engines frown upon
“link farms”, whether paid or free.
FREE Keyword Rich Links
While directories, classifieds,
e-zine ads and other places all give you a way to get links back to your site –
how many places let you fill in the content and keywords for the pages your
links appear on?
Not many.
Several sites made by
Stmadeveloper allow free ads. One is
http://www.stmadvertising.com.
It’s ad free and you can make your own
keyword rich page that includes keywords, page title, and more.
Another ishttp://www.groupmarketingsolutions.com
they have a link in the members area to create a “product review”.
It is acceptable to make another search engine friendly page for your
website there.
Imagine if you did this for every
affiliate program you were involved in?
The potential is tremendous.
We’re telling you about many
“secret” places we’ve found for ourselves to get Search Engine Traffic from.
Hopefully, you will take advantage of these resources and use them for
your benefit.
Putting It All Together To Work
We do these things ourselves to
earn income EVERY DAY from Affiliate Programs as well as pay-per-click programs
such as Adsense or Yahoo. We’re
holding very little, if anything, back.
The only thing you really need to
learn to begin is how to register a domain name.
You can also get hosting there as well as great instructions to learn to
build a simple site. You may also want to
invest in XSitePro if
you do Affiliate Marketing, as this software was built specifically with the
affiliate marketer in mind.
If you already have many of these
skills you can put this plan into action today.
The first thing you will need to do is pick a topic.
We’ve highlighted many parts of
the plan above and basically given you an outline of all the things you can use
to set this plan into action.
There are affiliate programs
almost everywhere you look these days, so finding a program in your area of
interest should not be that hard.
You can also create your own products and sell them on your site as an
additional income.
www.DotComSuccess.com is
specifically set up to assist affiliate marketers and publishers in getting
their businesses online and exhibiting success.
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Here are some tasks we use with
every site we make. Once you decide to TAKE ACTION, you will get into the swing
things, and these steps will become second nature to you in no time.
You will even want to add your own touches to personalize your plan of
action.
Let’s say, for example, your topic
is Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Frankly, I know I could never rank well for Search Engine Optimization.
The competition is just too fierce.
instead of trying to rank well for
SEO, we will go for “SEO branding” which still gets many searches, yet there’s a
lot less competition.
We would narrow down the terms
needed to rank well – but more importantly, would cross promote several other
sites. This would build up page rank and
pass through traffic as we go.
When traffic comes to the site,
they would either close the window and leave, sign up for our newsletter, click
an adsense ad, or follow through to one of our other sites.
We could have gone further and
added a newsletter, or other promotional materials.
It’s really best to keep your sites light so they are fast loading.
Once a site is up, it’s time to
start building links – go through and do everything listed above for each site
as you make it. It only takes a couple
hours and the return over the next couple of months is worth it.
The way you build your sites in the beginning will serve you well into
the future if you take the time to “do it right”.
The you can start another site –
either on a similar topic or totally off the wall…and keep going.
Work at this for about an hour a day, 5 days a week and before you know
it, you’ll have over 100 websites out there.
There is absolutely no reason you
couldn’t do this. Just take action
now.
Saving Time – And Money
If you’re crunched for time – and
who isn’t, right? Here are
some great ways to both reduce the amount of time needed to get your network of
websites off the ground AND save you money.
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Buy content outright. You
can find writers to outsource work to in almost any forum or at sites such as
www.elance.com.
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Buy completed websites.
Check out places like Sitepoint, Namepros, or NameWinner for websites for
sale.
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Have someone make your website. I
suggest going with a reputable company for this OR make sure you use Copyscape
on whatever you purchase. I’ve
redone many content sites that my clients paid someone else to make and they
later found themselves having stolen content.
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Join a service or membership
site like DotComSuccess that
provides you the websites, articles, products, and additional tools, materials
and software needed to start your own website network.
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Join a membership site like
Nichetastic that
just gives you the framework of a product or website. Or, buy the package from
sites such as InfoPublishers or
DotComSuccess.
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Join other sites that give content or articles as
part of their membership site.
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Buy content packs from the Warrior Forum Special
Offers section.
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Rewrite your own previous content to cut down on
time or use Private Label content as a basis for your own writing.
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Or if you’re just looking for speed and saving money –
just republish others articles and include the resource box.
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That should be enough to get you
started down the road to becoming your own webmaster of a powerful affiliate
network or advertising/product network.
Getting started is the hardest,
but MOST IMPORTANT part – get started now!
If you feel overwhelmed and know
you need help, I really suggest you join our membership site at
www.dotcomsuccess.com.
We can give video tutorials, articles, products, materials, tools and
software to help you automate and build full website content sites to get you
started.
In Summary
What we’ve given you a compass, a
basic plan, and a road map to affiliate success.
These steps can be duplicated over and over again until you have dozens
of websites all linked with one another providing you with a nice monthly
income...all from the comfort of your own home
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Remember the formula:
One hour a day, Five days a week…
Now, I’m sure you can set aside a
few hours a day or week to follow this road map to your own affiliate success.
Get started on your very first website in
the very near future, and before you know it, you too will have checks coming in
that will continue to grow as your business grows.
Before you do anything, let me say
this:
While the information given here
you can easily be used to make dozens of websites that generate thousands of
dollars a month of income...your first website will be the hardest one to make
simply because you may have very little experience.
It doesn’t have to be perfect.
Remember, you are just needing to get started.
Once you make your first website,
your next one will be MUCH easier and before you know it you’ll be pumping them
out as if you were some sort of website factory!
Don’t get discouraged!
Just because making your first website may not the easiest thing in the
world to do...it DOES get much easier as you go along!
Good Luck! We hope you’ve found these
tips helpful and motivating. We
would look forward to hearing about your success in the near future.
Contact us anytime via our Success building membership,
DotComSuccess.
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