INTERNET MONEY MAKING SECRET

The A-B-C's of Increasing Traffic to Your Blog! By: Samuel Adesoji

2008-09-05T01:40:00.000-07:00

A blog that just sits with zero comments and no user activity is dead and needs to be resuscitated. This can be achieved by increasing traffic to the blog and offering quality and highly informative content.

Cover topics and queries that the reader finds highly useful to increase traffic to your blog
Try to cover subjects and topics that need attention. From frequently asked questions to questions that have not yet received definitive response or answers should be included. Consider going beyond the generic and make the blog more versatile by including current stock market patterns, the current cost of a Nascar vehicle, the latest ingredients used in skincare products and much more. By offering quality content you are ensuring that in time, you would increase traffic to your blog.

Make use of the visitor tracking software
Analyze and compare which topics attract maximum attention and comments from visitors. This way you are empowering your blog with highly pertinent and hot topics that is sure to generate and increase traffic to your blog. This would give you an in-sight on the weak areas of your blog so could deploy or improve upon your current strategies. Also analyze the source of your traffic by adding action tracking on your blog.

Effective Archiving
Carefully categorize subjects and topics along with date ranges. It is a good idea to offer complete content of each and every post within a specific category on the archive pages. Linking to related posts is even a better idea in terms of usability. These user-friendly options are sure to increase traffic to your blog.

How you can Double your Affiliate Sales with one simple Tip

2008-09-02T05:35:00.000-07:00

Affiliate marketing is one of the biggest ways that website owners are making money on the internet today. Affiliate marketing is simply just taking another persons product and then promoting it an your website. Whenever somebody clicks on your affiliate link and then purchase your affiliate product, you get a percentage of the sale.

Affiliate marketing works very well but there is one very big problem that can really drive your sales down, and make it hard to sell anything. This problem is what I like to call cold marketing. The reason for this is that people are not willing to give their money to just anybody. They have to trust you first. Usually this is done by talking to the customer face to face and building a relationship with this person. However; on the internet you have no face, you have no personality, and it is much harder to build that trust relationship with your potential customer.

For this reason the technique of pre-selling was invented. This technique brings a face and personality to yourself online and helps to build that trust that will warm the customer up to buying from you. The idea behind pre-selling is to warm the customer up, and get them to trust you, this is done connecting with your customers, you have to write with personality and you have to relate to the customers that are on your website.

The best way I have found to do this is to write content that will identify a problem that your customer is having. Talk about this problem and tell them how it relates to you and really just try to give your customer a sense that you were just like them at one time. Show the customer that you are knowledgeable about the problem and the topic at hand. This helps to build trust with the customer.

Once you have achieved this you can then introduce your product into the mix and explain how your product is the best solution to their problem. Explain how it works, the benefits and features and what it did for you. The biggest thing to remember is that YOU are not selling the product you are merely warming the customer up and then sending them to your affiliate's sales page. This technique will help to warm your customers up so that they are more willing to buy.

Affiliate Marketing - How to Pick a Winning Product to Promote, by Samuel

2008-06-21T04:11:00.000-07:00

If you are going to be a successful affiliate marketer you are going to need to become an authority on your niche. Subscribers are after value, and how valuable are you if you know less than they do? Not to mention that passion for a topic speaks volumes. This means that you should pick a niche that you have a personal affinity for, and ideally you should start with a niche with which you already have some level of experience.

That being said, you should also be sure that there is a demand for your niche. You might love pumpernickel ice cream, you might have the best recipes for pumpernickel ice cream on the planet, but if no one is searching for pumpernickel ice cream, you will have no potential traffic and no potential income. It will be the equivalent of opening a retail store in the middle of the Sahara desert.

As for which PRODUCTS to promote, you have two basic choices; your own or someone else's. Creating your own product is somewhat self explanatory. The amount of work is greater but so to can be the reward. If you choose to sell someone else's product as an affiliate than you have an infinite number of options.

If you are just starting out than I recommend you look within the Clickbank network, the worlds largest affiliate network of digital goods. Whatever you choose to promote, be sure that it is a quality product, with a good sales page, and a good conversion rate, and most importantly, that the niche is large enough that you will have many other quality products to promote to your list down the line.