May

Step Two of Affiliate Marketing

Step 2 of Affiliate Marketing (BUM style)

Before you attempt step 2, ensure that you have completed step 1, your landing page or hub is up and running, and should be getting some hits from search engines (you can check this in your stats).

Have you socially bookmarked your page? try using social marker. This does take some time.

Now that you have your landing page and you know how to socially bookmark.. It’s time to write your articles. Using bum marketing techniques, you will need to search for low competition keywords or phrases. Search for these using google, and put your keywords in inverted commas, as so:

“internet marketing lifestyle”

This search returns 157,000 competition sites. If you write a seriously good article with the keywords sprinkled liberally throughout, you will probably end ranked in there somewhere… Better yet is to find a phrase with less than 500 competing sites.

Anyways… find a keyphrase that has low competition, and that people are actually searching for use Gtrends to find how many people search for your phrase. It doesnt matter if only 10 people search per day, so long as the competition is low, you will get hits.

The idea here is not to write 30 articles for the same phrase, but to write 30 articles for 30 different phrases, relating to your niche. That way, each article will get 5-10 hits per day x 30 articles. Some of the articles will get more, some less.

Why articles?

Articles are free! free to write and free to host. The article directories have good PR so you can get ranked easily in the search engines. Use your articles as a way to pre-sell the affiliate product you are marketing

Some directories will not allow you to put direct links to affiliates in your articles, and you will need to link to your landing page, with others you can link direct to the product. Use this to your advantage with review-articles and comparisons etc.
Posting the articles

Ezine articles is the biggest, with the highest PR, but it takes alot of time, and I have had a couple of articles rejected to random reasons, its taken a week to get 9 articles on ezinearticles, but it was instant to get 9 on goarticles.com

The hub page that i created was ranked pretty much instantly and has gotten a bunch of hits very quickly.

Use all of them. post 5 here, 5 there, 5 at the other place.

In my experience, I actually get more traffic from goarticles.com

TASK 1

Write your first article. It doesnt need to be amazing. Find inspiration from magazines, websites, other articles and gtrends.

TASK 2

Post your first article on goarticles or hubpages. Use these for now because your article will go live instantly. Use this to check your links, how it looks etc.

TASK 3

Socially bookmark your article.

TASK 4

Take your author RSS Feed from goarticles.com and post it onto your lens, hub or blog. Then submit it to the feed directories.

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May

Step One of Affiliate Marketing

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The truth is, it’s hard to get your head around where to start.

Write articles, create a lens, create a web page, blog, social bookmark it, whaat?? So here it is. How to Start an Affiliate Marketing EMPIRE step by step. In pictures. With words.

Step One

Step One:
Choose a niche and create a landing page

Forget everything you have read about choosing a niche. It’s not supposed to be hard. Choose something that either you enjoy doing yourself, or that you have some knowledge about…it could be something you are studying or want to learn more about.

For some reason everyone gets caught up choosing a niche. Don’t make it harder than it is! Just pick one, then pick another one… pick 5 for goodness sake, more important than the niche is that you can find a product that sells.

For example, I have a website, it gets hits and I make money from Adsense. For the life of me I can’t find a thing to sell. Does this mean I give it up? No! Of course not. It still gets hits, I have affiliate product links on it, but at the moment that particular niche is boring me to tears… So I am working on my other 4 niches In the meantime, that website is still ranked well by Google, it’s getting a consistent amount of hits… and when I feel the need I will write some more articles and increase revenue.

See what I’m getting at?

The bottom line is that if you have multiple niches, when one ‘ work, or fails to take off… another one will. Don’t give up, don’t put all your eggs in one basket and for goodness sake, don’t take a site down if it fails to convert on day 2!

Alright, back to the lesson.

For the niche(s) you pick, decide on 3-4 main keyword phrases. The buzzword is “long tail” this refers to keyword phrases that are 4 or more words long so instead of “guitars” choose “fender stratocaster guitar guide” (just an example).

Creating a landing page.

Your landing page is designed to a) get ranked in Google and b) pre-sell the affiliate product.

You can set up a landing page for free with squidoo.com or blogger.com; I personally like Squidoo for landing pages. The reason why we don’t use Wordpress is because WP doesn’t allow affiliate links. In fact, you will end up getting your page banned. That would be a bummer.

So, with Squidoo.com you can set up a page, put it in a category, and see how well it gets ranked within Squidoo. I like that I can see where my hits are coming from with a neat little pie graph, and can also see my ranking climb on Squidoo.

Go set up your landing page… ready…? NOW

Make your landing page content rich. Have loads of useful information, links, pictures, lists, etc etc etc. Make sure the links go to your affiliate’s page (with your code, of course).

Your keywords need to be in the title and the content too. Work them into the text neatly so it doesn’t look like you’ve just squeezed them in. The text still needs to appeal to human readers.

Once your landing page is active, use a program like socialmarker.com and list your landing page with a handful of social bookmarking sites. This blog gets most of its hits from Stumble, Digg and Twitter (I love my friends & followers).

Take the RSS feed from the landing page and submit that to:

www.feedmill.com

www.feedest.com

www.feedage.com

www.feedping.com

Finally, write some unique article snippets (a paragraph of ad) that you aren’t concerned about having plastered over the web.

Submit these ads to

3stepads.com

unique-article-database.com and

writers-block-unblocked.com

That’s it! Step one complete. A landing page socially bookmarked, and ready to be indexed.

Stay tuned for step two of affiliate marketing… later. And remember, it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.

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May

How Bum Marketing Works…

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You probably came here to learn a bit more about the Internet Marketing Business Plan.

This is the simplified version of how & why bum marketing works… The essence of why i use bum marketing techniques.

In order to get 1000 people coming to our site every day – so that we can send at least 250 people off to our affiliate / merchant site, and make your goal income per day, we need to market the landing page & therefore, our merchant.

What i did above was to show, simply, how you can use Ezinearticles, Usfreeads and a Squidoo lens to drive traffic through to your Merchant’s site.

put simply, if each of those inbound links brings you 5-10 hits per day, and you have 100 or so of them online, you’re going to be making the sales. Just ensure that each and every article or landing page you write is optimised for your key phrases.

Its almost too easy. Can you write 10 – 30 articles a day to get out of your day job? I’m pretty sure I can.

Stay tuned.

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